The Prosecutor General's Office on Friday brought further charges against YUKOS managers. After searches were carried out at the company's office, Svetlana Bakhmina, deputy head of the legal department of YUKOS-Moscow, was arrested. One of the YUKOS lawyers, Elena Agranovskaya, was given a written undertaking not to leave. In addition, Anton Zakharov, head of the YUKOS personnel policy department, was detained for two days on suspicion of laundering money obtained by criminal means.

"Christmas Euphoria" in "Roland" Especially for those who at the last Moscow Film Festival noticeably missed the seemingly traditional program prepared by film critic Andrei Plakhov, on the eve of Catholic Christmas at the Roland cinema, an analogue is offered, somewhat late in comparison with the film festival, but quite representative.

Latin American experience helped Western political strategists An analysis of the games played by Russian political strategists in Ukraine shows that they could not win. Explaining the reasons for the failure, Russian political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky proposed a version that has already become almost official: the enemy (by which we mean the United States and, to a lesser extent, the EU) acted more aggressively.

On Saturday, the former dictator of Chile, 89-year-old Augusto Pinochet, found himself in a hospital bed. In the morning, at breakfast, he felt ill and fainted. His wife Lucia Hiriart immediately called the army commander, General Juan Emilio Cheira, and called an ambulance. At 9.55 Augusto Pinochet was admitted to a military hospital. A few minutes later, Commander-in-Chief Cheire, his wife, children and a dozen grandchildren of Pinochet arrived there.

CLUBS Arkady Shilkloper (horn, alpine horn). The Blues of The Mountains program. Arkady Schilkloper will play in parallel with the demonstration of the film by Swiss director Cirill Schläpfer UR - Musig - a film about traditional Swiss folk music and the musicians who perform it. "Home" , 20.00. Big band of Igor Butman. Jazz. Le Club , 20.00. ARTS FESTIVAL “RUSSIAN WINTER” Program "Russian avant-garde and new academic space" .

American spammers face unprecedented fine A breakthrough has emerged in the fight against one of the scourges of the computer age - unauthorized distribution of advertising correspondence. Last Friday, Judge Charles Wall from the US state of Iowa issued an unprecedented verdict, according to which three companies that imposed information about themselves on unsuspecting Internet users will have to pay $1 billion 220 million.

Vremya Novostey columnist Arkady Dubnov spent several days in Israel at the height of the government crisis there that ended on Saturday. Meeting with various politicians, experts and political scientists, and ordinary Israelis, he tried to understand what awaits Israel after the departure of Yasser Arafat.

The bill “On Countering Terrorism” prohibited the head of state from participating in this process On Friday, the State Duma in the first reading adopted one of the main documents developed after the tragedy in Beslan and dedicated to anti-terrorism activities - the bill “On Countering Terrorism”.

Russia took the main prize at the December tournament The Russian team won the traditional December tournament, which this year was held for the first time as the ROSNO Cup and is still one of the stages of the Eurotour. The team, led by the coaching triumvirate - Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, Vladimir Yurzinov and Vladimir Plyushchev, won all three matches.

The Russian automobile market is developing largely at the expense of Western manufacturers, PricewaterhouseCoopers analysts came to this conclusion while trying to determine its prospects. Over the past two years, the volume of sales of domestic passenger cars on the domestic market has increased significantly. According to the PWC survey, total sales growth for 2003-2004 amounted to $7.2 billion - 67% compared to 2002. Moreover, more than 88% of this increase was provided by foreign brands.

One of the main hostage dealers was detained in Chechnya Representatives of the regional operational headquarters (ROH) for managing the counter-terrorism operation announced over the weekend the capture in Chechnya of one of the most prominent participants in the hostage business, Salavdin Abdurzakov. It was he who, in 1996-1999, was the intermediary in the transfer of ransoms to bandits for journalists from the television companies ORT, NTV, VID, foreign citizens and dozens of other captives.

The refusal of the Supreme Court to satisfy the claim of the “Committee-2008” and a number of other organizations that tried to challenge the results of the Duma elections a year ago became natural. Today, neither a court of general jurisdiction, nor an arbitration court, nor even a jury will make decisions against the supreme power. The whole question is the consequences of such a position.

Labor will join Sharon's government Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is completing the formation of a new coalition government. According to agreements reached on Friday between the leaders of the ruling Likud party and the opposition Labor Party (Avoda), representatives of the latter will receive eight portfolios.

The decision to organize the assembly of German cars in the Moscow region will be made within a month In January of the coming year, an agreement will be signed on the assembly of cars from the German concern Volkswagen in the town of Stupino near Moscow. Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development Andrei Sharonov said this while talking to reporters last Friday. He said: “There are only three large companies left that are not present on the Russian market.

The right has not given up on the idea of ​​re-educating humanity The other day, the secretary for ideology of the federal political council of the Union of Right Forces, Leonid Gozman, presented to experts a somewhat forgotten right-wing project, “Liberal Imperialism.” Realizing their true purpose, Russian political scientists decided to speculate at length about the fate of the post-Soviet space - for this it is planned to hold a series of discussions with the general topic “Projects for