The Moscow City Court sentenced the employee of the Institute of the United States and Canada Igor Sutyagin to 15 years in prison for state treason in the form of espionage. Earlier, on April 5, 12 jury unanimously found Sutyagin guilty of transferring information to the foreign company Alternative Future. Most of the votes - eight jury - was decided that the scientist does not deserve condescension. The state prosecutor demanded to be sentenced to the scientist to 17 years of maximum security.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin ... I held a working meeting with Prime Minister M. Fradkov . The prime minister informed the president of preparation for consideration at the next meeting of the government of the package of bills in the tax sphere. It was also about the provision of support to the leadership of Ingushetia in solving the overgrown socio-economic problems of the republic. ...

On October 13, a presentation of the book “Basmanny Justice” took place at the House of Journalists. The book was written based on the results of monitoring the activities of the Basmanny Intermunicipal Court during the week from October 13 to 17, which was carried out by employees of the Center for International Protection. During this period, the court was hearing the issue of the release from custody of Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin.

** Themes of the day ** The most lively responses in today's issue of the central media were caused by the scientific conference "Competitiveness and modernization of the economy" , which was held on the eve, at which key figures that were responsible for the economy in the Kremlin and the White House gathered. This event, conceived as the next protocol discussion of the presidential assignment to double the GDP in ten years, could have gone smoothly if the Minister of Economic Development G.

The lawyer of the former head of the Yukos Tax Code Mikhail Khodorkovsky Anton Drill today apologized to the administration of the Sailor Silence pre -trial detention center for publishing an article signed by his client in the Vedomosti newspaper, the Monitor reports. This was announced today by Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Yuri Kalinin.

One of the most famous construction companies in Moscow - Don -Stroy - cannot pay not only for salary, but also for heating, the newspaper writes. According to Mosenergo OJSC, the debt of builders of elite houses for heat now reaches 13 million rubles. The last time the Don-Stroy paid for December last year.

The government proposes to cross out from the system of pension savings of Russians over 37 years old, the Izvestia newspaper writes. Thus, upon reaching retirement age, they will only have to rely on the basic pension and their own accumulations. One of the main components of the tax reform should be the reform of the Unified Social Tax rate. Since 2005, the tax can be reduced from 35.6% to 26%.

Olga Malerychuk was appointed deputy chairman of the Chechnya government, who previously held the post of head of the Optimization and Development of Sales Sales Sales Company Said Primpelcom, Monitor reports. Olga Malerychuk will be responsible for the economic development of the republic.

Two explosions thundered yesterday in Dagestan. As Interfax was told in the law enforcement agencies of the republic, the first explosive device was acted unknown at about 19:20 in Khasavyurt, on the roof of a one -story brick house belonging to the city department of the internal affairs. The roof collapsed, glass flew out in several neighboring houses. There are no victims and victims. And in Makhachkala, a jeep belonging to a local resident was blown up.

Rolandas Paxas shifted yesterday from the post of President of Lithuania, in the evening on Tuesday ended in the hospital. About this with reference to local newspapers reports Interfax. After the announcement of the impeachment of impeachment in the Sejm, the 47-year-old Paxas arranged a farewell dinner to his employees, after which he ended up in cardiological resuscitation.

Investigators took prints from fingers found at the site of the attempt on the president of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov. This was announced at a press conference in Volgograd by the plenipotentiary representative of the president in the Southern Federal District Vladimir Yakovlev. It is planned to establish the identity of the terrorist on them. Earlier, Interfax reported that the remains of the suicide bomber will be sent for examination to Moscow.

The Chairman of the Board of RAO Gazprom Alexei Miller discussed the possibility of further attracting Western investments with the chairman of the board of the German "Kommers-Bank AG" K.-P. Muller. According to the Finnmarket , the investment will be needed to implement Gazprom large projects. Kommers -Bank is one of Gazprom's main partners in the field of project financing and a participant in a number of bank consortiums that provided large loans for Gazprom projects.

The head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev was elected President of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV) at an extraordinary conference, which was held at the Golitsyno Training and Methodological Center, writes News Time . Former President of the UFV Valentin Zhukov became the first vice president, and the post of vice president was received by the chairman of the VGTRK Oleg Dobryev. The term of powers of Patrushev is until 2008.

The World Bank experts (WB) believe that a group of giant corporations prevail in the Russian economy, less effective compared to other private sector companies. This was reported in the VB report on the Russian economy. Based on a detailed study of more than 1.3 thousand WB companies, it concludes that the 23 largest business groups control more than a third of the industry of Russia and at least one sixth of the entire labor force in the country.

The story with the bill "On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets" was not so disgusting as it could. Citizens who want to organize joint political actions will not have to gather in deaf uninhabited places: gateways, forest parks, wastelands - anywhere, not in the conditions of the urban environment, which suggests publicity of public life. The public defended its constitutional rights, proper amendments will be made to the bill. Everything is fine? I would not say.