A Just Russia chairman Nikolai Levichev is today receiving a delegation of Right Cause members who want to leave this party, Gazeta.Ru reports , citing a source in the Just Russia party. “There is a crowd of people in Levichev's waiting room. I decided to find out who it was, and they told me that a delegation of people who wanted to leave Right Cause came to Levichev, ”said the source of the publication. According to him, about 20 people gathered in the waiting room.

Russia's Gazprom, Italy's Eni, France's EdF and Germany's Wintershall today signed an agreement between shareholders of South Stream Transport to implement the South Stream gas pipeline project, which is supposed to run from Russia to Europe along the Black Sea. It is reported by RIA Novosti . The document was signed as part of an investment forum in Sochi in the presence of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The law on public procurement will either be radically altered, or a new one will be adopted instead, RIA Novosti reports . This statement was made today by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who in March of this year called the law satisfactory. Today at the international investment forum in Sochi, he admitted that in some industries it is simply impossible to use the tools of the public procurement law.

Ex-leader of Right Cause Mikhail Prokhorov may be indebted to a party of money, RIA Novosti reports . Andrey Dunaev, acting chairman of the party, told the agency that a financial check of documents revealed unpaid debts. Earlier, Dunaev said he was ready to return 800 million rubles to Prokhorov, which the businessman invested in the party. “We don’t need someone else. The only thing that we have now discovered is that it turns out to be a huge mass of unpaid bills, unpaid wages and so on.

As it became known to Novaya Gazeta, the information that the investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya had decided on Boris Berezovsky's candidacy for the role of the customer of the crime is not true. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta in a personal conversation by the head of the investigation team, senior investigator for particularly important cases Petros Gharibyan.

“The fight of Lebedev P.L. with unjust decisions “legalizing” abuses of power, is its inalienable constitutional right and cannot serve as a reason for refusing parole. The above-described state of justice in cases against employees of NK "YUKOS" excludes the possibility of any repentance for Lebedev, as a sane person with self-esteem.

Next week, on September 24, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych intends to meet in Moscow with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. This publication "Kommersant-Ukraine" said a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. According to the newspaper, “On September 14, the two presidents talked on the phone (Yanukovych called his Russian colleague to congratulate him on his birthday).

The Chinese police have arrested about 2.2 thousand people in the fight against organized crime, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to UPI. The fight against the triads (Chinese mafia) has recently become a particularly important task for the Chinese authorities. Since the beginning of the month, operations to eliminate criminal organizations have been carried out in 11 provinces. As a result, about 300 groups were eliminated.

The judges of the Arkhangelsk regional court have just announced the legality of Lebedev's refusal to be released on parole by the judge of the Velsky court, Raspopov. “The decision of the court is left unchanged, the complaints of the defense are not satisfied,” the judges read out. The judges once again agreed with the arguments of the prosecutor's office, and considered all the arguments of the defense and Lebedev himself "unfounded".

Blue Bucket Society activist Ivan Kuznetsov, who was attacked by a BMW driver with special signals, was found guilty of violating traffic rules, he was fined for not providing an advantage to a car with a special signal, Gazeta.ru reports . Previously, Novaya wrote about this incident. On September 9, on the Moscow Ring Road, the driver of a BMW-525 with the number A068MR97 cut off Kuznetsov, who was driving a Renault, after which he came out and began to insult him.

A law has come into force in Paris, according to which it is now forbidden to hold prayers on the streets, The Associated Press reports today . The country's Interior Ministry has warned that the police have the right to use force if Muslims or representatives of any other religion do not comply with the new law. “I will personally see to it that the letter of the law is respected in this matter,” said Claude Guéant, French interior minister.

Mikhail Dvorkovich, president of the Novoe Delo business association, said he wanted to propose to the ex-head of Right Cause Mikhail Prokhorov to create a new party together in the fall, the businessman himself stated this in an interview with Russian News Service .

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia within the framework of the program "Creating an accessible environment for people with disabilities for 2011-2015" can employ almost 25 thousand people with disabilities, including dispatchers in service 01, a representative of the department told RIA Novosti . According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, there are currently about 13 million disabled people in Russia, which is 8.8% of the total population of the country.

In Algeria, about 100 people attacked and set fire to the printing houses of two leading private newspapers, EL khabar and El Watan, ITAR-TASS reports . According to South African television, they threw Molotov cocktails at the printers and tried to break into them. “There we kept a three-month supply of paper. Everything would have burned down if not for the dedication of the employees who managed to put out the fire,” said Al Watan director Omar Belyuche.

The Moscow City Court has recovered about 20 million rubles in favor of Euroset vice-president Boris Levin for unlawful prosecution on charges of kidnapping, RAPSI reports . Thus, the court satisfied his claim for rehabilitation and compensation for harm. The funds must be paid by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Recall that in 2003, law enforcement agencies began an investigation into the kidnapping of Andrey Vlaskin, a former Euroset freight forwarder.