The head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin considers the idea of ​​introducing a luxury tax, but does not know how to realize it. He stated this on March 2 in an interview with Rossiya Gazeta .

The “quiet” beginning of 2012, not marked by the next gas war with Ukraine, nevertheless revived the information tapes with another story, where the main characters are again a pipe and Ukraine. However, this time we will not talk about gas, but about a more poisonous substance - ammonia.

On March 2, Dmitry Medvedev signed a law according to which judges will be able to say drug trafficking for life imprisonment, RBC reports. The punishment will be tightened for those who are engaged in illegal production, sale and shipping of drugs and psychotropic substances in an especially large scale, as well as their smuggling, including precursors (substances used in the production, manufacture or processing of drugs).

The State Corporation "Rosatom" will not complete the 5th block of the Kursk NPP, as he is afraid of reputation costs due to the construction of the "Fukushim" type-RBMK. This was reported by the press service of the company. RBMC (high -power channel reactor) was also at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The construction of the fifth unit of the Kursk nuclear power plant with the RBMK-1000 reactor began in 1986, but was subsequently stopped.

The foreign policy program of the future President Putin did not excite the Western public at all. It is now more interesting to her domestic policy: rallies, corruption, falsification. And Putin can not answer her and only repeats previously voiced unprecedented formulas. On the eve of the election, presidential candidate Vladimir Putin considered it necessary to talk not only with his own voter or his proxies, but also to contact a foreign public.

Today, March 2, elections to Majlis - the country's parliament began in Iran. Polling stations will be open from 8 a.m. to 18 pm on local time (8:30 - 18:30 in Moscow). It is reported by Reuters . Representatives of the opposition, advocating liberal reforms, refused to participate in the elections. Because of this, the main struggle unfolds between conservative politicians.

Rostourism excluded Lanta-Tour Voyage from the federal register of tour operators. This was reported by Interfax from the words of the head of the legal department of the department of Arahamami. According to the official, the company did not provide information about the availability of financial support until March 1 and did not even notify such an intention. In such cases, Rosturism has the right to exclude tour operators from the registry, the lawyer recalled.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation forbade investigators of the TFR to interrogate the former first deputy prosecutor of the Moscow Region Alexander Ignatenko, accused of receiving bribes from owners of an illegal gambling business and awaiting extradition to Russia.

On Thursday, March 1, the secretary of the territorial election commission of the Losinoostrovsky district was beaten. This was reported by the press service of the prefecture of the North-East Administrative District. The police sent a request to initiate criminal proceedings upon beating. According to officials, the attack was committed in the TIC building on the street of Babushkina, house 1.

The Gigapedia electronic library, also known as Library.nu (LNU), lasted a total of about five years, after which it closed, to a large chagrin of its audience. The grief was caused, first of all, by the fact that there could be books that there were no books in other places (including in stores). In addition, it was a very large library (in official sources, the figures are mentioned about 400,000 books, in user comments - about 750,000).

Nigerian pirates who stole two Russian sailors want to transfer them to the militants from the “Movement for the Liberation of the Niger Delta” (MEND). This is written by the Upstream newspaper. The newspaper was at the disposal of the group’s statement, which reports that the abductors addressed them with a proposal to transfer Russians to one of the camps in the Nigerian state of Rivers.

The best works of photographers who shoot wild nature will be able to see Muscovites on the Golden Turtle photo exhibition, which will be held in the new arena from March 2 to 25. The exhibition was organized as part of the 6th Golden Turtle contest. According to the event website , visitors will be able to see the 192 best photos selected from 12,000 sent by participants to the competition.

The metropolitan operatives detained the actor Andrei Sokolov suspect in robbing the apartment. This was reported by the RIA Novosti website with reference to the Main Directorate of the Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The detainee was a 35-year-old recidivist, a member of the regional ethnic organized crime group. “The accused is completely exposed to commit this crime,” the investigators say.

From April 23 to April 24, 2012, one of the largest international events of the Venture Investments of the early Stages will be held in Moscow-the XII annual Congress of the European Association of Business Angels and the presentation of the VII annual award.

The achievement of an agreement with the DPRK on the observance of a moratorium on nuclear tests was not an exchange of food assistance for concessions in the nuclear sphere. This was stated by the representative of the US State Department Victoria Nuland, Interfax reports. “We do not bind these things,” said Nuland at a briefing in Washington.