Colonel Alexander Trushkin was appointed to the post of head of the MUR. Prior to that, Trushkin served as head of the Department of Internal Security (USB) of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow and received the unspoken nickname "Thug" for "cleansing" corrupt policemen Colonel Alexander Trushkin was appointed to the post of head of the MUR.

A group of "false bankers" under the guise of a GSU investigator successfully deprived Muscovites of apartments and threatened them with prison On Monday, September 3, the police conducted a search and seizure of documents in the Moscow branch of Smolensky Bank OJSC.

The European Commission suspected OAO Gazprom of abusing its dominant position in Central and Eastern Europe and launched an antimonopoly investigation against the corporation. It is reported today by RBC with reference to the message of the EC. The European Commission is going to investigate three possible cases of violation of competition in Central and Eastern Europe. According to the EC, Gazprom, presumably, could: - divide the gas market, hindering free supplies to the EU member states.

The European Union has achieved the important goal of Russia's accession to the WTO in its relations with Russia and will now focus on work on a new EU-Russia framework agreement and a modernization agenda, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday. “With Russia, we achieved an important common goal, which was the entry of this country into the WTO.

In the Gudkov case, United Russia members demonstrate their complete legal illiteracy In the Gudkov case, United Russia members demonstrate their complete legal illiteracy Who, for what and by what procedure can deprive a deputy of his mandate? I will make a reservation right away - I will not dwell on the situation when a court has passed a guilty verdict against a deputy. This is another topic.

In the center of the capital on Raushskaya embankment near house number 20, a shell from the times of the Great Patriotic War was found, a told Interfax law enforcement source . According to him, this is a rusty shell of 120 mm caliber. However, the sappers found that the ammunition was equipped with a fuse and could be dangerous.

Deputy Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party, head of the Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy Andrei Isaev proposed to ban close relatives from being State Duma deputies and senators. He submitted the relevant bill to the State Duma today. This is reported by Interfax . This law may apply to: Deputy of the State Duma from "Fair Russia" Gennady Gudkov and his son, also a member of the SR, Dmitry.

Tonight it became known that the Moscow mayor's office refused to approve the action on September 15 to the organizing committee of protest actions, Sergey Udaltsov, coordinator of the Left Front, told Novaya Gazeta about this. Recall that the application was submitted to the city hall exactly 15 days before the chosen date, on the morning of August 31, immediately after the opening of the corresponding window.

Grozny has documents confirming that some regions of Ingushetia belong to the republic. This was stated today by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. “The time has come to clearly mark the boundary line in accordance with the law. We know our territory and under no circumstances will we leave it outside the administrative boundary. But we will not encroach on a single meter of someone else's territory," Kadyrov said at today's government meeting.

Until 2015, Russia's budget will not allow "effective reform" and development of education, healthcare and science, told RIA Novosti Andrei Klepach, head of the Ministry of Economic Development, . He also said that if the Russian budget for 2013-2015 is adopted in its current form, then the next three years we should not expect an increase in the salaries of state employees.

Today, on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow, the solemn opening ceremony of the Arc de Triomphe after restoration took place, Interfax reports . The ceremony was attended by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. Repair and restoration work on the arch began in December 2011. Today, in honor of the 200th anniversary of Russia's victory in the Patriotic War of 1812, the arch was opened.

The Ozero cooperative is aging - the law on the age limit for a civil servant is being changed for it Vladimir Putin submitted an amendment to the law on civil service to the Duma, according to which, with his permission, officials whose working age limit is currently 60 years old will be able to remain in their seats until they are 70 years old. There is no doubt: people in the age cohort from 60 to 70 can be effective and valuable employees, including in the civil service.

About 80 flights at 20 Russian airports had to be delayed today due to a failure in the booking system. Writes about this "Gazeta.Ru" . The reason for the collapse was a failure (at about 7 am Moscow time) in the operation of the Astra passenger check-in system of the Sirena-Travel company. The technical service of operation recorded a lack of communication via incoming Internet channels providing access to the Astra resource at 7.50 am, Sirena-Travel specified.

On the night of September 1-2, Nikolai Fedyashev, a former hockey player of the CSK VVS and Lada, was killed in a Samara nightclub, reports Sovetsky Sport . On Sunday night, Fedyashchev, along with his friend Nikolai Koshelev, was relaxing in a nightclub. Between them there was a conflict with people of Caucasian nationality. During the scuffle, the man took out a knife and hit Fedyashev in the throat with it, he also attacked a fellow hockey player with a knife.

Residents of the Omsk region, who warm themselves in the winter from stoves, wrote a statement to the Investigative Department of the TFR for the Muromtsevsky District.