Mikhail Khodorkovsky can receive another 22.5 years in colony in the second criminal case. This was stated by the lawyer of Khodorkovsky Yuri Schmidt. Also, the second person involved in this case Platon Lebedev can also receive a colony for 22.5 years.

The Prochrevsky movement "Young Guard" begins to lose personnel. On January 14, a member of the Political Council of the “Young Guard” Alexei Radov harshly criticized the activities of his comrades -in -arms and announced the exit from the organization. In particular, Radov expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that "instead of democratic values, authoritarian ideals are affirmed." “The practice of political repression continues in the country,” Radov said.

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** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** Events of the day The first forum of the civilization alliance is opened for launching pilot projects in the field of migration, education and the media. At the opening, the UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon will perform. The delegation of Russia is headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Yakovenko.

In Kamchatka today a flight minibus was found, which disappeared during the strongest snowstorm on the Ust-Kamchatsk-keys, news agencies report. According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kamchatka Territory, 12 people who were on the bus are alive and healthy. The minibus, owned by the IP Reshetnikov, left on January 14 at seven in the morning from Ust-Kamchatsk to the village of Klyuchi and disappeared.

The leader of the Labor Party of Georgia Shalva Natelashvili, one of the candidates for the president of the country, is treating in a hospital where he was delivered in a pre-infarction state, news-group reports with reference to the party’s press center. “Natelashvili’s health was affected by physical, political pressure, as well as information terror, an unworthy of the election campaign and total falsification of elections,” the party’s press center said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry received an official invitation from Tbilisi to the inauguration of the newly elected president Mikhail Saakashvili. This was stated by a source in the foreign policy, reports Echo of Moscow. Earlier today, the head of the Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, said that the Russian side has not yet received an invitation to the inauguration of Saakashvili. Recall that Saakashvili won the first round of the elections that took place on January 5th.

According to Zhenmin Zibao , on January 12, the Arctic scientific expedition of China set a brass statue at the highest point of Antarctic - an upper A (4093 meters above sea level). The statue was created by a young Chinese sculptor at Sihuan and is called Huasy Tsangu (Chinese sky). The height of the sculpture is 1.6 meters, weight - 180 kilograms.

Pakistan police identified the individuals of the terrorist attack on the motorcade Benazir Bhutto in Karachi in October last year. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Pakistan Hamid Navaz Khan, the newspaper reports. According to the minister, efforts are now being made to arrest these persons. The ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan and the popular leader of the opposition Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan from exile in October last year.

** Themes of the day ** The central press tells how the first meeting of President V. Putin with the government this year was held, during which the head of state listened to officials of officials - perhaps his future colleagues in the office of ministers. " Independent "The newspaper writes that V. Putin asked the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov, how the visit to Bulgaria is preparing to be prepared next week.

One person died as a result of an explosion on the basis of metal structures in Volgograd, Rosbalt reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. The explosion occurred today at 07:20 Moscow time at a metal depot in the village of Maxim Gorky Sovetsky District of Volgograd. As a result of the explosion, one person died, two more workers were injured, which were taken to the hospital with injuries of varying severity. The building of the metal depot is destroyed.

In the industrial region of Perm, the oil depot is on fire, reports Echo Perm with reference to the message of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Perm Territory. The fire at the oil depot began at 15.06 hours local time. Now fire departments from all areas of Perm are sent to the place of fire. 22 units of equipment participate in the extinguishing. The fire is assigned the third complexity number.

The number of victims in the explosion in a residential building in Novokuybyshevsk of the Samara region increased to 9 people, reports news agencies. Meanwhile, in the Center for Medicine Disasters of the Samara Region, it was reported that, according to the latest data, one person died as a result of the explosion and 19 more were injured of varying severity. Nine of them are currently hospitalized, ten are undergoing an outpatient course.

The lawyers of one of the members of the Yukos leadership, who are in custody, claim that their client may die in prison after Russian officials did not take any measures three times to fulfill the Decree of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), writes The Financial Times. The resolution says that Vasily Aleksanyan, a former vice president of a bankrupt Russian oil company, should immediately undergo treatment in a specialized clinic.

Russian Marat Safin successfully overcame the barrier of the first round of the Australian Open Tennis Championship. On Tuesday, our compatriot met with Latvian Ernest Gulbis from Latvia. In the starting batch, the advantage of the Russian tennis player was unconditional, and then the opponent began to resist. But it is Safin who won the Australian Open, who won with a score of 6: 0, 6: 4, 7: 6 (7: 2) continues. In the next circle, Marat will meet with Cypriot Marco Baghdatis.