Today, a new continuation of the conflict between Russia and the Swiss company Noga received a new continuation. At the request of a company that is trying to receive about 700 million dollars of debt from Moscow, a collection of valuable paintings that were exhibited in Switzerland was arrested. Russia has all the necessary documents that allow you to calmly relate to the situation with the detention of paintings from the meeting of theowers to them.

A collection of paintings by French artists from the Pushkin Museum with an insurance value of more than $ 1 billion was arrested by the Swiss police and customs as part of the trial with the company "Noga". Sources in the Swiss police said that, as far as is known, the decision to arrest was sent by the bailiff of Canton Vale. At the moment, six trucks were arrested, one in Geneva, three in Basel and two in Martini.

The Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry announced that he was ready to apply “any legal actions” to stop the “anti -Kazakh tricks” of the British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen. The British uses the image of the “Kazakh TV reporter Borat Sagdyev” for draws in his show and acts in his “Mask” as the host, as was the case in Lisbon during the Mutv Europe Music Awards musical prizes.

The human rights organization Amnesty International has sent hundreds of appeals to the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, expressing extreme concern about gross violations of human rights in the country. Among those who signed the petition are famous Russian rock musicians - Boris Grebenshchikov (group "Aquarium"), Sergey Chigrakov ("Chizh and Co"), Evgeny Fedorov (Tequilajazzz), Alexander F. Sklyar ("Va-Bank").

Until the end of the week, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation should give an opinion on a package of documents on liberalization of the Gazprom shares market, said the deputy head of the Russian Federation, Andrei Sharonov, today's deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to him, a package of documents is agreed with all departments and is now in the Ministry of Justice, who promises to give a conclusion before the end of the week.

Pravda.ru stated that yesterday this media for the first time in its entire history was refused accreditation and did not allow representatives of the "United Democrats" who are preparing for the elections to the Moscow City Duma, under the Zabloko banner. Representatives of Pravda.ru give an explanation of the press secretary of Grigory Yavlinsky Dillendorf.

The Turkish trade union accused Coca-Cola and its Turkish unit Coca-Cola icecek of violation of human rights. The corresponding lawsuit was filed in the Manhattan court. The plaintiffs claim that Coca-Cola managers “set” special units of the Turkish police at the working companies who protested against dismissal for joining the trade union. The incident occurred in July this year.

With a severe feeling, the average (especially young) viewer in the movie “On Govorukhin” comes. A meeting with art, the purpose of which the director believes the search for social justice, portends nothing good. And Stanislav Govorukhin recently, alas, has been engaged in this kind of art: “Bless the woman”, before that, “Voroshilovsky shooter” (this is already at all - in any gate). It would seem that the deputy chair today is much more suitable for Stanislav Sergeyevich than the directorial.

Two peaceful Afghans died as a result of an explosion that occurred on Wednesday in the Afghan city of Kandahar. Two more passers -by and four American soldiers were injured, Interfax reports. The governor of the province of the same name by Assadulla Haled said that the suicide bomber, who was driving a mined car, sent it to the column of American and Afghan soldiers. The suicide bomber also died. According to RIA Novosti, one Afghan was killed, two more were injured.

On Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, someone hung strange posters with the inscription "In the city of the killer" at night. On Wednesday morning, 15 such posters appeared on the avenue, RIA Novosti reports.

Paintings from the collection of the Pushkin Museum, seized in Switzerland at the request of the Noga company and now in trucks, may be damaged. According to Irina Antonov, director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Swiss authorities took away the keys from truck drivers who are equipped with special climate control units. "They took the keys from the drivers.

The Hermitage will not participate in foreign exhibitions if the situation around the Russian paintings arrested in Switzerland will not be finally resolved, RIA Novosti reports the Director of the Museum of Mikhail Piotrovsky.

Yesterday in Moscow, the first third of the Public Chamber, appointed by the presidential decree, chose the second. 200 candidates, representatives of all -Russian public organizations claimed 42 places, today writes " News Time ". At the time of signing the number, the vote did not end.

On Monday, a special representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Ashikbaev, speaking at a traditional briefing in Astana, answered the questions of journalists who are interested in the attitude of the foreign policy to the image of Borat Sagdyev: “We regard the behavior of Cohen at the presentation of the awards of the MTV Europekak, as an abscerely and a set of vulgarities, incompatible with the norms of ethics and generally accepted rules of conduct in the modern

France began to expel foreign citizens convicted by a special tribunal for participating in city riots, Echo of Moscow reports. "The time of hesitation has passed, the time has also passed for inaction," said the Minister of Internal Affairs Nicolas Sarkozi, reporting on the decision to start sending foreign citizens. “We are now waging an uncompromising struggle,” he emphasized.