Mikhail Khodorkovsky The Supreme Court canceled the decision on the last extension of the arrest period for ex-owners of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. The Portal "Special letter" marked a video with a performance in the court of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This time, Mikhail Khodorkovsky participated in a court session. Turning to the judges, he said: -In the court, I thank you for satisfying my request for the possibility of attending this court session.

Irina Lagunina: Protection of the civilian population from their own governments and natural disasters has become an urgent task of the world community. The NATO operation in Libya again raised the question of the limits of outside interference under the flag of humanitarian intervention.

In Washington, today there are ministers of finance and the heads of central banks of the States of the “group of 20”. On the agenda - discussing the problems of the recovery period after the global crisis and the search for ways to prevent a global economic recession in the future. On the eve of China, a meeting of the leaders of the BRICS group - five large countries with rapidly developing economies was held.

Ante Gotavina The Hague Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today sentenced the Croatian General Ante Gotavin to 24 years in prison, finding him guilty of war crimes. Potavin, whom many in Croatia consider the national hero, is charged with participating in ethnic purges directed against Croatian Serbs in the mid-90s. Another defendant - Ivan Chermak, the retired general of the Croatian army - is justified.

Activists of the recently created Sakharov Movement came up with the initiative to assign the name of Andrei Sakharov one of the squares of the Skolkovo innovation center. On the movement site, the collection of signatures for this idea began. She was supported in the Sakharov Center, but some human rights activists doubt whether the Skolkovo center is worthy of the Skolkovo Center - a project that has not yet shown itself - to bear the name of Sakharov.

In the state of Burkina-Faso in the west of Africa, military personnel of the presidential guard rebelled. It is reported that on the night of Friday in the capital of Uagadug, soldiers, dissatisfied with the delay in premium payment, opened firing in the air, after which several institutions, including a state radio station, and shops were defeated. The victims are not reported. According to a number of messages, President Blaz Compaore left the capital, his whereabouts are unknown.

St. Petersburg Sosnor is compared with Muscovites Voznesensky and Yevtushenko Victor Sosnora became the laureate of the National Prize "Poet", established 6 years ago by critics of the Society for the Encouraging of Russian Poetry with the support of Anatoly Chubais. About the Patriarch of Russian poetry, which lives in St. Petersburg, the observer of the RS talked with critics-Petersburgers.

In one of the district ships of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a fire occurred today, the cause of which was self -immolation. In addition to suicides, another person became victims of the fire, somewhat received burns. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. According to available information, one of the visitors of the court in the village of Irbeyskoye by the name of Nikitin, whose exact data are installed, entered the building, doused himself with gasoline and settled.

In the capital of Yemen Sanya, mass demonstrations of opponents and supporters of President Ali Abdullah Salekh are again held again. Thousands of people took to the streets after Friday prayer. A group of famous religious scientists and elders of Yemen's tribes made a statement today, in which Salekh called on “immediately resign” and comply with other requirements of protest shares.

Corrupted prosecutors in Russia are dismissed to transfer to another job. The system is arranged so that it does not throw anyone out of itself - you just need to play according to the rules. By law - not necessary. We’ll talk about this in the program.

NPP "Fukushima - Dayichi" In Japan, Terso, responsible for the operation of the Fukushima -Dayichi emergency NPP, will pay compensation to evacuated residents of the districts adjacent to the power plant. As the representative of the Japanese government of Yukio Edano said today, each of the almost 50 thousand families forced to leave their homes due to radiation leakage will receive 1 million yen - about 12 thousand dollars. In the future, the payment of new, larger compensations is supposed.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev The Supreme Court of Russia canceled the decision on the extension of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in August last year. The decision made by the Khamovnichesky court of Moscow is recognized as unreasonable. The defense appealed as the illegal content of the former co-owners of the Yukos, serving the 8-year periods of imprisonment by the first sentence, not in the colony, but in the investigative insulator.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed that the former prosecutor of the Moscow Region Alexander Mokhov was appointed deputy Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor.