The most high-profile trials-2013 The posthumous cause of Magnitsky. Tver court of Moscow. March 11, 2013 Budanov's murder case The defendant: Yusup Temerkhanov. Judge: Andrey Korotkov, Moscow City Court. Accusation: murder based on political, ideological, national hatred or enmity. Process: the case was considered with the participation of jury. In February 2013, one of the witnesses, Ruslan Fataliev, was abducted and greatly beaten.

Assets acquired by Putin's friends in 2013 The cell operator "Tele2" was controlled by the Kovalchuk brothers. The communication salon "Tele2" in Kaliningrad. February 2013 Rotenbergs invest in the construction of the F selemetyevo terminal and claim to be controlled by the airport Yuri and Mikhail Kovalchuki In 2013, structures controlled by the Kovalchuk brothers were actively bought by media assets. In April, the National Media Group (NMG) consolidated 73.2 % of the Izvestia newspaper .

Interview with the author and actor of the film "Me, again Me and Mom" One of the first premieres of the Russian film distribution of 2014 will be the French comedy “I, I am Mom again”. The author of the film Guillaume Galienne is the leading artist Comedy Frances, his debut as a film director became a sensation in France. The world premiere took place at last year's Cannes festival, in Russia the film “Me, Me and Mom” presented the first spectators festival “French cinema today”.

What did not happen in Russia in the past year Superior Court of Arbitration *Cm. The New Times No. 22 of June 24 and No.

On December 29, an explosion thundered at the railway station in Volgograd. 16 people died Frame from the scene of December 29, 2013 The explosion occurred on the second floor of the Volgograd-1 station. The police were reported to him at 12:45. According to preliminary data, the bomb was blown up by a suicide bomb, who did not manage to go through metal detectors.

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What nuts did the State Duma twisted in 2013 Direct election of governors The initiator of the law: a group of State Duma deputies (United Russia faction, Communist Party, Fair Russia and the LDPR). Entrance: April 2, 2013. The bottom line: the constituent entities of the Russian Federation have the right to abandon direct elections of the heads of regions in favor of their election by local deputies.

About the vector of the movement of the Russian authorities in 2013 and why this is the way to a dead end "Parade under Paul I." Alexander Benois, 1907 I would appreciate the political situation as a whole as a sharp increase in Putin’s power and at the same time its dramatic degradation.

Seven not happening sensations of the year Prokhorov - Mayor of Moscow If awards were given a rewards in the heading, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov would have received two at once - for this year and over the past. In 2012, he unexpectedly went to the president, and in 2013 he was determined to become the mayor of Moscow.

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"Dissernet" One of the discoveries of the year was the Dissernet project - the network community of scientists and civilian activists, who search and release the facts of plagiarism in the dissertations of officials, deputies, judges and other famous people. Since the founding of Dissernet in January of this year, the list of his “victims”, in particular, were Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Governor of St.

Newsmakers who have gone into the shadow Benedict XVI On February 11, the Pope Benedict XVI announced a voluntary renunciation of the throne - a decision that has not been analogues for the past 600 years. The intronization of Benedict XVI took place on April 24, 2005. For eight years, when Joseph Ratzinger occupied the throne of St. Peter, the Roman Catholic Church did not stop shaking scandals. In 2009, a report was published in Ireland in which 46 Catholic priests were accused of pedophilia.

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