Oleg Gordievsky stated this in an interview with the Times newspaper. According to him, Litvinenko was poisoned by his former friend and colleague, who was secretly recruited by the FSB in prison. And an Italian named Mario, whom Litvinenko met and who told...

The last meeting, which took place on November 7 this year, was postponed due to the incomplete attendance of witnesses. In the dock are Murat Shavaev, an ex-employee of the Ministry of Justice, as well as Maxim Panaryin and Tambiy Khubiev. According to investigators, they made an explosion ...

"Today is a doubly important date for us: we have not only signed a protocol with the United States, our most important partner, but this is also the last protocol that completes bilateral negotiations," German Gref told reporters. According to Gref, the signing...

"Representatives of an international human rights organization recorded serious administrative and procedural errors, as well as significant legal errors, which made a fair sentence impossible," the Human...

Finland, in its presidency of the European Union, has so far remained silent on the proposals Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen made to his Polish counterpart Jarosław Kaczynski on Friday. The proposals concerned overcoming ...

According to the press service of the Siberian Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the accident in heating networks was caused by a steam pipeline break in the turbine shop of the Krasnoyarsk CHPP-1, as a result of which the pressure and temperature of the water in the networks were lowered. From the highway...

The protest action of employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations took place near the office building, in which on January 16, 2006 there was a strong fire. Then nine people died, 17 people received various injuries. The material damage from the incident was estimated at 26 million ...

The tragedy occurred in the city of Dachang in the eastern province of Jiangxi. At the end of independent evening classes last Saturday, students of the first grades of a secondary school (corresponding to the fourth grade of Russian schools) staged a crush on ...

In the Myshkinsky district of the Yaroslavl region, a center for training folk crafts "City of Masters" will open next spring, said Vasily Terkin, director of the Myshkin development center, head of the House of Crafts. "A wooden fortress on the square ...

The first team of Russia consisting of Nikolai Pankratov, Vasily Rochev, Alexander Legkov and Evgeny Dementyev won silver in the 4x10 km relay at the second stage of the World Cup in cross-country skiing in Gällivar, Sweden. In the second stage, he entered...

The London 2012 Olympics could cost £8bn (€12bn, $15bn), according to The Observer. The newspaper managed to obtain this data from various sources, in ...

"Secret Santa", who for the past 26 years, every Christmas handed out money to passers-by on the streets of Kansas, decided to declassify. During his anonymous charity, he, now known as Larry Stewart, gave people ...

The composer of the films "Mimino" and "Passport" was given too cold a reception As soon as the border control officers at the Rostov airport saw the Georgian passports, they immediately called the FSB officers. The famous composer and his wife, who arrived from Antwerp for the contemporary music festival, were escorted to... As soon as the border control officers at the Rostov airport saw the Georgian passports, they immediately called the FSB officers.

And in children, a new domestic vaccine caused an allergic shock With a severe allergic reaction - Quincke's edema - three boys from seven to eleven years old were taken to the intensive care unit of the children's city hospital of Stavropol, who had just been vaccinated against influenza at school. Kids immediately...

The history of the writer's correspondence with the prototype of the hero of her novel I became interested in the Khodorkovsky case about a year and a half ago and became so carried away that I began to read all the literature on the topic. Then I conceived a new novel, and it occurred to me that Mikhail Borisovich would be an excellent prototype for one ...