Alexey Pichugin's lawyers fear deprivation of his status In the case of former YUKOS security officer Alexei Pichugin, accused of organizing several murders and attempts, a new scandalous twist emerged yesterday. His defenders - Ksenia Kostromina, Georgy Kaganer and Mikhail Zhidkov - announced that the Chairman of the Moscow City Court Olga Egorova wants to deprive them of the status of lawyers.

Russians know nothing about social reforms and do not believe in their success Russian citizens are poorly familiar with the content of ongoing and future social reforms, but are dissatisfied with them in advance. Sociologists from the Yuri Levada Analytical Center came to this conclusion. In January, the center conducted a series of surveys on the socio-economic situation in the country and current socio-political issues.

Sergei Ivanov gently chided NATO Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov is on a five-day trip to France and Germany. At a meeting with the heads of defense departments of a number of countries, he intends to discuss the problems of combating terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the interoperability of the troops of Russia and NATO countries. Even before Mr.

Semyon Levin's studio "Teleatelier" has been receiving prestigious awards for several years at the OMNI Intermedia Awards competition - a show with the participation of the leaders of world media graphics (DreamWorks, Worner Bros., Discovery channel, Animal Planet, MTV). Previous awards were given to the design of the NTV channel, the information and analytical block of RTR, and TV-6 programs.

Multimillionaires are offered to spend at least a million dollars The first cross-marketing project Vladenie for multimillionaires has launched in Russia - now, when buying a house, a wealthy client will be offered to purchase in addition an airplane, a yacht, and then a collectible car. The cost of each purchase, according to the terms of the project, must be at least $1 million.

"Night snipers" in a Japanese context Our unlimited love for Japan and Japanese culture does not wane. At the Gorky Moscow Art Theater, Diana Arbenina and her group “Night Snipers” presented to the public a joint program with Kazufumi Miyazawa, a Japanese pop or rock musician (opinions may vary here).

Boris Fedorov is verbally ready to resign from the board of directors of Gazprom in order to remain on it Gazprom board member Boris Fedorov began a preparatory campaign for elections to the new board. Yesterday in London, in an interview with Bloomberg, he presented himself as a fighter for the liberalization of the gas concern's share market, promising to leave if liberalization does not take place before the Gazprom shareholders meeting on June 24. Given that much, if not the majority, of Mr.

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles' wedding is scheduled for April Britain's most famous and scandalous novel is approaching its logical conclusion. The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, intends to finally marry his longtime lover Camilla Parker-Bowles. This was announced yesterday by the press service of Clarence House, the official residence of the prince.

Directors of the new generation do not want to be considered a “generation” Mindaugas Karbauskis, Elena Nevezhina, Kirill Serebrennikov, Olga Subbotina, Nina Chusova (as well as Vladimir Epifantsev, Nikolai Roshchin, Vasily Senin, i.e. supporting figures) cannot stand it when their names are written separated by commas, in alphabetical order. They've already eaten.

Gazexport and VNG will discuss the development of cooperation in East Germany Today, Gazexport will host negotiations between the head of Gazprom's export subsidiary, Alexander Medvedev, and the chairman of the board of the East German gas company Verbundnetz Gas AG (VNG), Klaus Ewald Holst. As Mr. Holst said yesterday at a press conference in Moscow, he will not go to the meeting empty-handed, but with a package of proposals to expand cooperation.

The offenders of the Russians lost to the Irish On Wednesday in Europe, the national teams played only four official matches and many friendlies. But even in those four there was a place for a small sensation, and the defeat of an outsider, and games that influenced the balance of power in the group. The Andorran national team created a sensation. The "Dwarves" again made people talk about themselves, achieving a draw in the away match with the Macedonian team.

The Georgian president told deputies about the successes Yesterday, Mikheil Saakashvili addressed parliament with a message for the first time since his election as president on January 4, 2004. After which the president officially nominated Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli for the post of prime minister instead of the deceased Zurab Zhvania.

The number of cases lost by Russia in Strasbourg will grow Russia took first place in the number of complaints filed against it with the European Court of Human Rights, but at the same time, the authorities of our country do not seem to be ready to change the existing punitive judicial practice. Since 1998, about 22 thousand complaints have been filed against Moscow (the lion's share of them have not yet been considered), in which Russia lost 22 cases.

Metallurg defeated Severstal with a unique score Events unfolded yesterday on the ice of the Romazan Sports Palace in Magnitogorsk in the most surprising way. The spectators expected a tense meeting - after all, a strong Severstal team came to visit Metallurg, which in the last round was able to interrupt the winning streak of nine matches of the Togliatti Lada. However, there was no struggle. The first puck flew into the goal of the Cherepovets team already in the first minute, and off we went.

After the explosion at Esaulskaya, the prosecutor's office intends to check all the mines in the Kemerovo region At the Esaulskaya mine in Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo region), where a methane explosion occurred on the morning of February 9, search and rescue work continued all day yesterday. However, by evening, rescuers were still unable to find the three miners who disappeared in the accident zone.