The defense of businessman Alexei Kozlov, convicted by the Presnensky court for five years in the colony, appealed the verdict in the Moscow City Court. The convict’s lawyer Yuri Kostanov told Interfax about this. The lawyer noted that in the complaint the defense asks to recognize the verdict of the Presnensky court of Moscow illegal, cancel it and stop the criminal prosecution of Kozlov for the lack of corpus delicti. Recall, on March 15, the Presnensky court sentenced Kozlov.

President Dmitry Medvedev ordered to endow the Central Bank with the right to punish banks based on a motivated judgment. The order to make appropriate amendments appeared yesterday on the Kremlin website. Excerpts from the document, which the Central Bank sent to the departments, is given by the newspaper Vedomosti in the article "Night Supervision" (No. 52, dated March 23). A motivated judgment in the project is called professional.

The problem of the growing deficit of the pension system leads the government to a difficult dilemma. It is necessary to either reduce the costs of the state by retirement, or increase taxes. Raising taxes - a blow to the economy. Reducing costs is fraught with mass protests. There is a great risk of politics "to leave everything as it is." What to do with pensions? This issue does not give rest to the government.

The Ministry of Finance submitted for discussion to the government an proposal to create individual investment accounts (IIS) for additional pension savings of Russians, Izvestia writes on Friday, March 23. The Ministry of Finance is confident that the creation of IIS will allow citizens to independently take care of their pension, and not trust this issue to the Pension Fund of Russia or other management companies.

Rescuers got the Bell 407 helicopter from the water, which fell on March 22 to the Volga in Nizhny Novgorod, the RIA Novosti website reports. EMERCOM employees managed to raise the car with a Mi-8 helicopter using a special network. Initially, rescuers tried to get a collapsed helicopter using a wheel tractor and cables, but the rope burst and this attempt ended in failure.

Anatoly Kucheren, a member of the Russian Public Chamber, demanded the resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, asgat Safarov, who in his book actually substantiated the need to apply torture to the suspects, Interfax reports. According to the human rights activist, if media reports with excerpts from this book are true, then such an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, especially occupying a leading position, is not a place in the police.

On March 23, OJSC “Rossiyskaya Venturenaya Company” announced the rebranding and change of the name-from now on it will be called OJSC RVK, according to a press release posted on the updated website of the company . “For the RVK, a new stage of development has come, the reference point of which was its rebranding,” the report said.

The European Space Agency ( ESA ) launched Ariane 5 missile from the Cosmodrome in French Guiana on Friday in the morning, The Washington Post reports . The purpose of the mission is to replenish the reserves of the International Space Station. The rocket will bring to orbit an automatic ATV-3 cargo ship “Edoardo Amaldi”, which is named after the Italian physicist, considered one of the “fathers” of the European space industry.

Journalist Olga Romanova, wife of a convicted businessman Alexei Kozlova was detained on March 23 in the building of the Presnensky court. According to RIA Novosti , the bailiffs detained Romanov and lawyer Yuri Kostanov for the “non -fulfillment of the order of the judge” to leave the reception of the chairman of the court. Romanova wrote on her Facebook page that she and Kostanov came to the Presnensky court on Friday to file cassation complaints in the Kozlov case, but were detained.

Lithuania again announced the unsafe project of the Belarusian nuclear power plant.

The EU countries on Friday agreed to expand sanctions against Belarus, adding another 12 people and several companies to the “black list”, Reuters said with reference to European diplomatic sources. Earlier, President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, said that he had already begun to respond to the sanctions of the EU authorities, which closed entry into Europe for a number of Belarusian officials. According to him, Minsk creates a list of "non -traveling" local opposition.

Police and traffic police officers detained a man and a woman - the alleged accomplices of the prisoner who attempted to flee by helicopter from the Vologda colony. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Valery Gribakin, Interfax reports. On Friday, a man and a woman were detained, both born in 1980. They have taken a backpack with products, air cards and personal things.

The strongest inorganic poison - potassium cyanide - can get into the Black Sea from the destroyed Georgian factory, says the leader of the "Party of Green" Georgia Georgy Gachechiladze. According to him, which is given by Interfax , a building located between Kutaisi and Zestafoni (Western Georgia) factory, where hundreds of kilograms of cyanista potassium were stored, destroyed snow. As a result, the dangerous substance located there was under the rubble.

In the prefectures of the city, public hearings on land plots selected for the implementation of the I and II queues of the construction program for 200 Orthodox churches in Moscow were completed. Most of them were approved by Muscovites, the Construction World reports.

Karelian ecologists published on the Internet a public map-scheme of tenants of the forest fund of the republic, which has no analogues in Russia, RIA Novosti reports. Now any network user can freely receive information about who leased forest areas in a particular corner of Karelia. “On the territory of the Russian Federation, this, in principle, is the first public map of the forest fund tenants.