On Tuesday evening, the investigators of the Prosecutor General’s Office interrogated the banker Alexei Frenkel in the Butyrsky investigative isolator, who was accused of organizing the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov. The interrogation lasted about three hours and was related to Frenkel’s statement about corruption in the Central Bank.

The decision of the court to leave Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the investigative isolator is connected with the task of conducting “the investigation, familiarization with the case materials, and the court in the most inaccessible place for the public, Russian and foreign journalists,” said Yuri Schmidt, lawyer Mikhail Khodorkovsky, reports Echo of Moscow .

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** The Middle East Spee In the Saudi city of Mecca, a meeting of the leaders of the Palestinian groups of Fath and Hamas on the issues of overcoming disagreements and the formation of the Government of National Unity will be held.

Introduction This report on the state of a civil company in the Russian Federation was prepared in accordance with Article 22 of the Federal Law “On the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation”. The principle that the Public Chamber followed in the preparation of the report is an unbiased, objective analysis based on actual data.

The UN and Lebanon signed an agreement on the establishment of the tribunal for the trial of the suspects in the murder of former Prime Minister Lebanon Rafik Hariri and other politicians. For the legality of this agreement, the approval of the Lebanese parliament is necessary. According to Reuters , the Lebanon parliament cannot resume his work due to the speaker’s refusal to call the session.

In 1973, Dmitry Shostakovich took a trip from Europe to America at the Mikhail Lermontov liner. Doctors in the clinic near Washington had to make his verdict about his strange illness, with which he fought unsuccessfully in recent years - a fear of the movement that took away from him not only to play, but also to write music. This journey through the ocean became unexpectedly the reason for the last creative take -off of Shostakovich.

In the near future, the administration of the President of the Russian Federation will consider the program of a significant increase in financing to solve the problems of forced immigrants. She was prepared by the working group under the leadership of the Presidential Presidential Representative to the Southern Federal District Kozak D.N. .. If this program is accepted, then three years later in our country not a single resettled compatriot will remain homeless.

In the Sakhalin Region ”, a tractor with a tank filled with gasoline has overturned on the bridge over the Black River. According to Duta.ru , 14 tons of gasoline resulted in a river in which fish spawn. About 8 tons of fuel are from the river. The scene is cordoned off, emergency rescue services work. It is assumed that the cause of the accident was the carelessness of the driver who transported the dangerous cargo.

On December 22-25, 2006, the analytical center of Yuri Levada (Levada-Center) conducted a representative survey of 1,600 Russians at the age of 18 years and older than 128 settlements of 46 regions of the country. The statistical error of such polls does not exceed 3.4%. How would you now evaluate your attitude towards Boris Yeltsin? In general, positive 8 Neutral 39 In general, negative 48 They found it difficult to answer 5 HOW DO YOU THINK ...

According to the latest surveys conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), today the electoral rating of United Russia amounted to 30%. Thus, if the elections took place on the next Sunday, the party would receive more than 50% of the vote, which is a record indicator. According to political scientists, the growth of the United Russia rating may be associated with several factors.

On Wednesday, the ministers of the transport of Azerbaijan and Turkey and the Minister of Economic Development of Georgia signed an agreement on the construction of the Karss-Akhakalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railway, Lenta.ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. As the President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili noted, “the construction of this highway is a modern version of the Great Silk Road,” as it will allow the Transcaucasian region and the Central Asian state with Europe.

A series of explosions shocked Great Britain was intended primarily for intimidation, the representative of the British police Anton Sitchell said, BBC reports. According to him, so far no one has taken responsibility for sending these letters. According to the British police, the seven envelopes with an unknown substance that exploded at their opening, did not contain standard explosives, but pyrotechnic agents.

Commenting on the adoption of the Law on the reform of the nuclear industry, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Federation, Alexander Torshin, said that this law opens up the possibility of developing the nuclear energy industry of Russia by creating a holding that provides the entire technological chain in the atomic energy from the extraction of uranium ore to the sale of electricity, from applied scientific research to the construction of new nuclear power plants both in Russia and

Russian actor Stanislav Sadalsky became a citizen of Georgia. He announced his desire to obtain citizenship of this country a few months ago. A document confirming Georgian citizenship was awarded to the Russian actor on Tuesday of Georgia Consul in the Russian Federation Zurab Pataradze. This was reported by the news " News-Georgia " with reference to the MZU television company.

The Lebanese Radical Shiite Movement “Hizballa” again received the Russian anti -tank missiles “Carnet”, according to the German edition of Die Welt with reference to its sources in the European special services (the translation of the article is not the website inopressa.ru ). On January 31 of this year, the newspaper writes, a Russian transport aircraft landed at Damascus Airport. He delivered 600 containers with Russian anti -tank weapons.