Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov considers the possibility of buying the American basketball club New Jersey Nets. According to Prokhorov in his Internet journal, in response to the proposal to finance the construction of a new arena for the team, he put forward a number of conditions.

Sociologist Olga Miryasova does not share the optimism of the Ministry of Economic Development regarding the "Law on a polite official" The State Duma introduced the bill "On the General Principles of the provision of public services and the execution of state functions" , which some journalists call the "Law on a polite official." It is believed that he should make it easier and more pleasant than the procedure for communicating citizens with officials.

The St. Petersburg publishing house "Zvezda magazine" has released the book of Andrei Aryev "Life of George Ivanov: Documentary narration." Tom is part of the series of biographies of Russian poets of the twentieth century. It is difficult to write about George Ivanovo. It may be more difficult than coming from Russian poets.

Barack Obama proposed to the world an American plan of joint actions. Immediately after the speech of the US President Barack Obama at the Session of the UN General Assembly, the Radio Liberty correspondent in New York Yuri Zhigalkin went on the air of the Freedom Time-Final release program. The host of the program Andrei Sharry talked with him. - Some observers have already noticed that the performance of Barack Obama was similar to the performance of an idealist.

The leaders of the St. Petersburg "Yabloko" filed a statement to the court to recognize illegal decisions on the construction of the Okht Center. In their opinion, the decision of the city government does not comply with the law. On Tuesday, the St. Petersburg government allowed to change the high-altitude regulations during the construction of the four-hundred-meter skyscraper of the Okhta Center. According to the law, the permissible height of buildings in the building area is 100 meters.

The United Kingdom intends to reduce the number of submarines on which nuclear missiles are installed. It is expected that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at a special meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday, which will be devoted to the problems of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, is expected to announce this. Currently, the UK has four such submarines, there will be only three of them.

The Moscow City Court today with the participation of a jury begins to consider on the merits a criminal case on the murder of the governor of the Magadan region Valentina Tsvetkov. The day before, the court refused to satisfy the petition of lawyers to return the case to the prosecutor’s office in connection with violations of the rights of their clients. In the bench of the defendants, four are Russian citizens Arthur Anisimov, Martin Babakekhyan, Alexander Zakharov and Masis Akhunts.

The Russian Supreme Court today considers the cassation appeal against the verdict to the banker Alexei Frenkel, convicted of the murder of the first deputy head of the Central Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov. In November last year, the Moscow City Court sentenced Frenkel to 19 years in prison. The rest of the six defendants was sentenced from six years in prison to life imprisonment.