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The court in Yekaterinburg today recognized the chief editor of the URA.ru portal Aksan Panov, guilty, Twitter of the publication Znak.com. The sentence will be sent later. Panov is accused of extorting money from entrepreneurs under the threat of the spread of defamatory information and abuse of power. According to investigators, she withdrew 12 million rubles from the portal’s accounts and spent her own needs.

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Daivani Hobragade, Vice Consul of India in New York, on Thursday, official charges of immigration fraud were brought on and granted the right to leave the country. This was reported by the New York correspondent of Radio Liberty. A few weeks ago, she was detained on charges of illegally receiving an American visa for her housekeeper, a citizen of India.

Stephen Hawking Hawking is considered one of the most outstanding physicists since Albert Einstein. Hawking is known in the scientific world with studies of black holes, the early universe and quantum gravity, and beyond its borders - brilliant popularizing activity. Hawking's book "Brief History of Time" has become a bestseller. At the age of 21, a young scientist was diagnosed with severe damage to the nervous system, as a result of which he was almost completely paralyzed.

Deputies of the European Parliament approved a proposal to hold a video conference with the participation of a former US special services contractor Edward Snowuden . The idea of the European Parliamentation from the UK Claude Moraz was supported by 36 members of the Committee on Civil Freedom, two voted against, another refrained. According to the BBC, a video conference may take place at the end of January. Now the deputies are trying to agree with Edward Snowden's lawyers.

A citizen of Ukraine Maxim Shinkarenko, accused of distributing children's pornography in the USA, pleaded guilty and agreed to a prison conclusion for a period of 30 years. This was reported by the Federal Prosecutor's Office in the state of New Jersey. The sentence will be announced in this state on April 15. Shinkarenko was arrested in Thailand in 2009, and then extradited in the USA, where in June last year he was charged with 32 points regarding the spread of children's pornography.

Mukhtar Ablyazov The human rights organization of Amnesty International urged France not to extradite the former Kazakhstan banker Mukhtar Ablyazov. Human rights activists believe that in Russia or Ukraine, Ablyazova is unlikely to expect a fair trial.

Oksana Panova in the courtroom The court in Yekaterinburg today sentenced the former chief editor of the URA.ru portal Aksan Panov to two years in prison and fines, finding it guilty of extortion and coercion to the deal. During this period, she is forbidden to work in the media. The accusations of abuse of authority were removed from the journalist, her guilt was not proven in this case.

Lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky specified that the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow on Thursday rejected the defense of the amnesty of all eight defendants in the case of riots in Bolotnaya Square, the process over which is in this court. According to Agranovsky, such an opportunity follows from the resolution of the State Duma about an amnesty dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Constitution of Russia.

Police are talking with a passerby on Sochi Street. December 30, 2013 After the shock caused by terrorist attacks in Volgograd, Russia took new measures to ensure the safety of participants and guests of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which has less than a month left. However, measures were taken not only by the organizing country, but also by the countries-participants in the games.

The Kazakh oligarch-opposition, Mukhtar Ablyazov will be extradited from France. Such a verdict announced on Thursday January 9, the Court of Appeal of the city of ex-en-provence (the region of Provence-the azure coast). A joint request for the issuance of Ablyazov, submitted by the authorities of Russia and Ukraine, was considered there. This was reported by Radio correspondent Freedom Natalya Kanevskaya.

Aksana Panova In Yekaterinburg, today the court must pronounce the verdict to the journalist Aksana Panova. The former chief editor of the URA.RU portal is accused of extorting money from entrepreneurs under the threat of the spread of defamatory information and abuse of power. According to investigators, she withdrew 12 million rubles from the portal’s accounts and spent her own needs. Earlier, at the request of the prosecutor's office with Panova, they removed the accusation of fraud.

Antares missile before launch at the Wallops Cosmodrome In the United States on Thursday, a private spacecraft was successfully launched, which is sent with a load to the international space station, the Washington Radio Liberty correspondent reports. The Antares missile with a Cygnus spacecraft starting from the Wallops cosmodrome in the state of Virginia on the east coast of the United States.

Anatoly Yakunin, the head of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ordered to create a special operational group to investigate the appearance of a video of the burn of the Quran on the Internet. The group employees are instructed to find the organizers of the action. The video appeared on the Internet on January 5, on it fans of the CSKA football club first burn the Qur'an, and then demand from the passenger the metro of non -Slavic appearance to renounce Allah.