Work on the disclosure of the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya is close to completion. This was stated by the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Shutov, Interfax reports. According to Shutov, in the case of the murder of Politkovskaya "there were positive shifts." “There are no unsolved crimes. Anyone who violates the law always leaves traces.

The leader of the environmental movement in the defense of the Khimkinsky forest, Yevgenia Chirikova, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize - one of the world's largest premiums, which is awarded to environmental defenders, Ridus.ru said on April 16.

The Supreme Court of Russia recognized as legal a sentence to the teenager Sergei Harutyunyan, who was appointed 6 years of correctional colony for minors for attempting to kill four classmates. It is reported by Interfax . The incident occurred on April 11, 2011. The ninth -grader of school No. 356 celebrated his birthday in the circle of peers at home in Izmailovo, about ten people were invited. Parents were not at home. During the celebration, a fight started, which went into stabbing.

In the car, which exploded on the morning of April 16 in Makhachkala, the UFSB Dagestan and his wife rode. This was stated by a source in law enforcement agencies, the website of RIA Novosti reports. “The woman died, a man with injuries is hospitalized,” the source explained. As it turned out, the victim is headed by the Khunzakh inter -district department of the FSB in Dagestan. The explosion under the bottom of the Ford Focus car thundered about 09.00 in Moscow on Akushinsky Avenue.

Ex-Senator Vladimir Slutsker, now living in Israel, filed a lawsuit in the London court on recognition by slanderous statements of his journalist Olga Romanova and her convicted wife Alexei Kozlov. It is reported by Interfax from the words of Slutskir's secretary Ekaterina Shatalina. The journalist and her spouse were sent an official notification that the lawsuit against the London Court on charges of slander will be filed on May 7.

In St. Petersburg on Sunday, April 15, a policeman in a personal car knocked his mother with a child to death. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the city department of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to rescuers, an accident in which two cars collided, occurred on Sunday evening at about 22:00 on Rustaveli Street. As the picture of Fontanka specifies, Opel Cadet specifies to skip people at a pedestrian crossing. However, the white Honda Chord rushing behind him did not stop.

On April 10, 2012, the first cosmocenter in Russia, where students and schoolchildren will be able to try themselves in the role of ship commander, sorcerer or specialist in the space industry, were solemnly opened at the Gagarin Cosmonets Center.

On April 10, 2012, the first cosmocenter in Russia, where students and schoolchildren will be able to try themselves in the role of ship commander, sorcerer or specialist in the space industry, were solemnly opened at the Gagarin Cosmonets Center.

The cause of the accident in the Moscow metro, according to preliminary data, was violations committed during the planned repair of the escalator. This was reported by the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee in Moscow, reports the website of RIA "Novosti" . Repair of the escalator at the Komsomolskaya station of the ring line was carried out for three months and was completed on March 29.

In the CEC, it is read that if there were violations in the elections of the mayor of Astrakhan, then no more than five polling stations, Interfax reports. In Astrakhan there are only 20 2 polling stations. As explained by the deputy chairman of the cycs Leonid Ivlev, the ARISION, when counting the votes, were recorded in four areas, and the fifth refused to issue protocols. According to him, on five episodes, violation protocols were drawn up.

The investigation considers it inappropriate to talk about the deadlines for completing the investigation of the case of the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya. This was stated by the representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin, the website of RIA Novosti reports.

The former governor of the Tver region Vladimir Platov died at the age of 65. This was reported by the press service of the regional government. The causes of the death of the former governor are not specified. Platov headed the Tver region from 1995 to 2003. In November 2005, he was condemned for five years in prison for abuse of authority, which caused the regions of damage in the amount of 475 million rubles. The court later reduced the sentence to three years conditionally.

The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, which will be held in 2014, can be created a line of retro vehicles with well-known symbols of the Olympiad-80 . According to RBC Daily , the Organizing Committee of Sochi-2014 did not limit himself to registration of rights to trademarks related to the upcoming games, and also issued the symbols of the Moscow Olympics. The organizing committee submitted relevant applications in October last year, and on April 10, Rospatent satisfied them.

The European Court of Human Rights recognized that Russia violated the third article of the European Human Rights Convention prohibiting inhuman appeal, since relatives of the executed under Katynya remained in the ignorance of their fate, Interfax reports on Monday.

Nationalist Vyacheslav Datsik, also known, also nicknamed “Red Tarzan”, who is accused of robbery and arson of the Church, delivered to Moscow for examination at the Serbian Institute, where he was appointed a repeated psychological and psychiatric forensic examination. This was reported by the website of RIA "Novosti" . The next meeting in the Datsik case is scheduled for May 28. He faces up to ten years in prison.