The judicial investigation in the second case of the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev has been completed, the debate on the case is scheduled for October 14, RIA Novosti reports. On October 14, the state prosecution is to announce the punishment it considers just for Khodorkovsky and Lebedev. Recall that businessmen are accused of stealing 350 million tons of oil.

In the building of the Consulate General of Croatia in Düsseldorf on Wednesday afternoon, an unknown person threw two Molotov cocktails, Consul General Viekoslav Krizhanets was hospitalized with signs of carbon monoxide poisoning, RIA Novosti reports. He immediately left the hospital, nothing threatens his life. The hooligan was arrested while trying to escape. His motives are still unknown. The outbreak of fire was extinguished by the consulate staff and firefighters who arrived.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was re-elected President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) following a vote, RIA Novosti reports. Recall that Ilyumzhinov has already become the head of the federation in 1995, 2006. Recently, Ilyumzhinov lost his post as governor of Kalmykia. The voting procedure started at 14.00 local time. In total, 167 countries took part in the voting, representatives of Afghanistan were the first to vote.

Russia will consider raising export duties on unprocessed softwood timber, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced today by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, responding to the proposal of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Lev Kuznetsov to increase these duties. Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Yuri Trutnev told reporters after the meeting that, in his opinion, such an increase is quite possible.

A group of anarchists at noon seized the building of the Belarusian embassy on Bonch-Bruyevich Street in St. Petersburg, demanding the release of Belarusian comrades arrested over the past month, the website of the independent press center "Indymedia-Piter" reports. The anarchists announced their demands and refused to leave the territory of the embassy, ​​announcing its occupation until the government of Belarus releases the arrested anarchists.

Acting Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin accepted the resignation of Deputy Mayor of Moscow, Chairman of the Control Committee of the capital Alexander Ryabinin, against whom a criminal case was opened. The UPC reports that Ryabinin is suspected of abuse of power. According to investigators, the official forced the entrepreneur to give him a non-residential premises in the center of Moscow with an area of ​​200 square meters.

Acting Mayor Vladimir Resin has suspended the construction of the complex on Borovitskaya Square, which has been heavily criticized, RIA Novosti reports. Recall that the fence appeared opposite around the construction site on the site a week ago - on the day when it became known that the capital's mayor Yuri Luzhkov was going on a week-long vacation, from which he could return as a former mayor of Moscow.

The first three candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow will be presented next week, RIA Novosti reports, citing Elena Panina, secretary of the political council of the Moscow city branch of the United Russia party. However, she did not name specific names. Among the possible candidates are the first deputy mayor Resin, who is now temporarily acting as mayor. Experts dismiss his candidacy because of his venerable age - Vladimir Resin is 74 years old.

Former senator from Kalmykia Igor Provkin will be arrested on suspicion of sexual abuse of Moscow students, RAPSI reports citing Evgenia Pazukhina, press secretary of the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow. The court granted the petition of the investigation on Monday. The arrest will last two months, unless the former official appeals the arrest. 43-year-old Provkin faces Article 132 “Violent acts of a sexual nature”, the sanction of which provides for up to 20 years in prison.

75 people got into a fight on Tuesday night in the village of Elmwood Place (Ohio) on the birthday of a three-year-old girl, according to UPI. The incident took place at one in the morning at a local restaurant. Five people had to be hospitalized with various injuries - people fought with beer bottles and seriously injured each other. “It was just incredible. There were pools of blood and broken glass on the floor,” a police spokesman told the agency.

Acting Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin has started work in the building of the Moscow City Hall on Tverskaya Street, RIA Novosti reports. Recall that Resin replaced Luzhkov, who was dismissed by Dmitry Medvedev by his decree on Tuesday. It is reported that Resin's car drove into the courtyard of the capital city hall at 08.45.

Five managers of Moscow-based health supplements sales firm "Health from Nature" were hospitalized with leg fractures after they jumped out of an office window at 22 Malomoskovskoye Street during a search, RIA Novosti reported, citing an unnamed law enforcement source in the capital. The incident happened on Tuesday. The policemen quickly caught the jumpers, and then called an ambulance. Investigative actions in the Moscow firm continue.

The letter from the ex-mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev would not have influenced his decision to resign the mayor, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the president's press secretary, Natalia Timakova. Yesterday, Russian media reported that Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov had sent a letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev even before the head of state decided to dismiss Luzhkov. The media reported. that the letter was sent on Monday.

German programs to help victims of Nazism in Russia were ordered to live long, Sergey Trukhachev, head of the board of the Russian state-owned Fund for Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation, told Newsweek The leadership of the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" warned a month ago that due to the inactivity of the Russian government, several dozen humanitarian projects could be curtailed in the near future.

Luzhkov is a part of my life, a man of my karass. I'm scared to think that one day all these people will leave: Luzhkov will leave, Putin will leave, curly Nemtsov will go to the beach. There was Versailles - and there is no Versailles. It will be sad. If his picture of the world changes to an apiary, then the partial preservation of Baturina's empire is possible - partial, because they still pinch.