None of the shareholders of Menatep never had and have no accounts in Luxembourg, said the main owner of the investment group Leonid Nevzlin. “Arrests have nothing to do with us,” he added, Gazeta.ru reports Earlier, it was reported to freeze accounts for hundreds of millions of dollars belonging to Russian businessmen on accounts in the Luxembourg branch of the Israeli Bank Hapolaim.

Ukraine does not intend to violate the Russian-Ukrainian agreements on the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said, RIA Novosti reported. "Ukraine will not violate any agreements with Russia," said the prime minister, answering the question of whether Ukraine intends to review existing agreements on the Black Sea Fleet. “I want Russia to accept us as reliable partners,” Tymoshenko added.

The Extraordinary joint session of the Kyrgyzstan parliament late at night adopted the resignation of the country's prime minister and chose the overwhelming number of the votes of the acting head of government. According to Gazeta.Ru , he became the leader of the opposition, a deputy of the Legislative Chamber of the Parliament Kurmanbek Bakiev. This was reported by the Kyrgyz agency "Kabar".

**Additional dots on the "i"** The central topic of the federal media last week was V. Putin’s meeting with business representatives. In the Green Hall of the Kremlin, representatives of large entrepreneurs united in the RSPP, medium-sized ones - "Business Russia", and small ones - "OPORA" gathered.

In Luxembourg, as part of the investigation of the case of money laundering through the branch of the Israeli Bank, Hapoalim (Tel Aviv), accounts belonging to some of the Russian oligarchs are frozen. According to RBC today, citing the Tageblatt Luxembourg newspaper, we are talking, first of all, about investment accounts that were frozen at the request of the Israeli authorities. The amounts on these accounts amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Two chambers of the Kyrgyz parliament of the previous convocation are discussing the situation in the country related to emergency events that have occurred over the past day, RIA Novosti reports. The meeting of the lower house, which includes most of the leaders of the coordination council of the opposition, is held closed. As expected, the Provisional Government will be formed today.

The State Council of Tatarstan on Friday approved the candidacy of Mintimer Shaimiev for the presidency of the republic. It is reported by "Gazeta.Ru" . 89 deputies voted for the candidacy of Shaimiev, four spoke out against, one refrained.

The presidents of Russia and Armenia Vladimir Putin and Robert Kocharian will take part in Yerevan in the opening ceremony of the Year of Russia in Armenia. According to RIA Novosti , a source in the administration of the President of Russia, participation in this ceremony is the main goal of Putin’s trip to Yerevan. "This large -scale event corresponds to the traditional bonds of friendship, spiritual and cultural proximity of the two peoples.

Several hundred people are trying to go to the central square of Minsk - October to hold a rally there, but the police do not miss them. Participants in the action attempt to break through the police cordon, RIA Novosti reports. A loudspeaker is installed on the square, through which law enforcement officers turn to the audience demanding to disperse. Protesters require the release of political prisoners and change state policy regarding small and medium -sized businesses.

"The defense of Alexei Pichugin considers the verdict of the jury to the college of the jurors who found our client of the prosecution guilty of all the episodes of the prosecution. There are no evidence of the guilt of Alexei Pichugin in the materials of the criminal case," the lawyers of the former employee of the UKUS Security Service reported, the newspaper reports. ru .

Kurmanbek Bakiev, who today took the positions of the president and Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, almost immediately after his appointment urged Russia to assist the country. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . The decision on the transfer of two senior state posts in the hands of Bakiev was today the Council of People's Representatives - the Upper House of the Kyrgyz Parliament of the previous convocation.

For a month since the distribution of a letter with an appeal to recognize Mikhail Khodorkovsky, more than 330 people signed an appeal by the political prisoner. A letter sent to the largest international human rights organizations, in particular, Amnesty International, says: “Based on our observations of the progress of the trial, we conclude that Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s political nature of the persecution.

In the center of Moscow on Friday, a fire occurred in the apartment at Novorogozhskaya, house 10 Corps A. According to RIA Novosti , a source in the UGPS, the fire information was received by phone "01" at 6.00 Moscow time. According to preliminary information, as a result of the fire, the owner of the apartment was badly damaged. Two ambulance cars were sent to the scene. Eight fire calculations are engaged in the elimination of fire.

Over the past day, two attacks on foreigners were committed in the Moscow region, one of them was killed, sources in law enforcement reports. The day before, the RSN reports with reference to ITAR-TASS, a citizen of Nigeria, a student of the Russian University of Friendship of Peoples, said that in Moscow on a papernic street a man attacked him and, threatening with a knife, robbed, selecting not only all money and values, but also documents. The attacker could not be detained.

On the first night, after the violent revolutionary events in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek was attended by marauders. The crowd, armed with anything, robbed shops in the city center. First of all, shops belonging to Aydar Akayev, the son of the ousted president, were defeated. Then, on the central streets, the Moroders began to smash the rest of the establishments: TSUM, a branch of a local telecom operator, electronics stores.