Two assessors were taken from the jury in the course of the process in the case of officer Nikolai Zakharkin, who is accused of throwing two twin girls from the window of the eighth floor-the children of his roommate, the Echo of Moscow reports. The jury was seen in communication with Zakharkin’s lawyer Anatoly Verbitsky. The judge was replaced by spare ones. In addition, the case was returned to the stage of the trial. The officer himself does not plead guilty.

The accident at the Razdadskaya coal mine, where two powerful explosions occurred on the night of May at once, turned into a serious aggravation of the social and political situation in the region, and the media write. On May 14, several thousand local residents held a spontaneous rally in Mezhdurechensk demanding to significantly increase the salary of miners and improve their labor conditions. A little later, part of the protesters blocked the section of the Novokuznetsk-Abakan railway.

Rostekhnadzor should be strengthened, specialized mining supervision management will be created in its structure, and Rostekhnadzor itself will be transferred to the federal government. This was stated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the teleconference with Novokuznetsk, the live broadcast of which was conducted by the Russia 24 channel. The prime minister said that this decision was agreed on the eve of President Dmitry Medvedev.

The new film by Fedor Bondarchuk "Stalingrad" will be shot in 3D format. Such a statement was made by the producer, CEO of Art Pictures, Dmitry Rudovsky. In addition, according to Rudkovsky, the company is already negotiating cooperation with the chief operator of Avatar Vince Pseis and German actor Tille Schweiger (“reach for heaven”, “inglorious bastards”).

"I have seriously survived the destruction of my perfectly working company. But today it is in the past. Now it is generally recognized: the large -scale illegal removal of ownership in Russia (the so -called raiding) has started from the" Yukos case ". Now it is generally recognized: the ban on business to finance an independent opposition has started from the Yukos case.

At the end of April and early May, a mysterious story with water poisoning occurred in Kirov. According to officials, now everything is in order with the water, and the overseering bodies will understand until the end of the month who is to blame. Residents of the Kirovo-Chepetsk and the Kirov region have the right to know what is happening, however, there is reason to believe that the owners of large chemical production will do everything so that they do not know about it.

The number of officially registered unemployed in Russia over the past week decreased by 1.1%. Such data are given by the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia. Thus, the total number of unemployed citizens registered in the employment service bodies is 2 million 122.2 thousand people. In the same period in 2009, a decrease in unemployment was 0.3%. A decrease in the number of unemployed was noted in 72 subjects of the country.

On May 13, 2010, in pre-trial detention center No. 4 of the city of Moscow, Andrei Safronov, who was convicted by the Grandmother's district court for illegal drug trafficking, was discovered in an unconscious condition of the chambers, the press service of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation reports. Despite the timely medical care, the convicted person died. The preliminary cause of death is cardiac arrest.

Khitrovo and Gatwik London airports, like many other airports in the UK, are closed due to a cloud of volcanic ash coming from Iceland, BBC reports citing the National Aviation Service. Initially, the British civil aviation department forbade flights only over Northern Ireland, but then the airports in England and Scotland, as well as on the island of Maine, were closed.

The Embassy of Abkhazia in Russia opened in Moscow, RBC reports with reference to the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Registration of international organizations for monitoring elections to local authorities and elections of the mayor of Tbilisi will continue until May 23, local organizations - until May 20, reports News -Georgia . The elections themselves, recall, are scheduled for May 30.

From June 1, the export duty on Russian oil can increase from the current $ 292.1 dollars per ton, BBC reports with reference to the message of the Ministry of Finance. The average price of oil from April 15 to May 14 of this year amounted to $ 80.42149 per barrel - the maximum level of duty can amount to $ 292.175 per ton.

The Russian team acquired a new coach. As expected, they became Dutch specialist Dick Lawyer. The contract is designed for four years. The name of the new mentor of the national team was announced at a press conference in Rostov-on-Don by the President of the Russian Football Union Sergei Fursenko. On Sunday, he made a promise that the next day everyone would find out on whose hands the fate of the national team of our country is entitled.

The Moscow Meshchansky Court today sentenced the head of the housing consumer mortgage cooperative (PIK) "Common Cause" Nikolai Pishchikov to 9 years in prison for fraud. The court sentenced two other defendants in the case - company co-founder Irina Fedotova-Samarkina and Vegel Kopeikin - to 5.5 years in prison, Prime -TASS reports . \The defendants were found guilty of more than 300 counts of fraud, as well as a number of counts of money laundering.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Kirov Region Sergey Kornoukhov told his readers today that due to family circumstances he was forced to change the format of his work in the regional administration: now he will oversee the representative office of the Kirov region under the federal government. “The problem is,” the official writes, “that personal circumstances arose that made a constant stay in Kirov impossible. Now I need to be in the capital with my family.