CLUBS Tudosok (Hungary). The Bad Taste association continues to supply all kinds of freaks to Moscow (before that there were The Tiger Lillies, The Flea Pit Orchestra, etc.). Again an endless carnival and unbridled drive. The themes of the lyrics are the same: losers, alcoholics, crazy old people and capricious children - only much darker. Tudosok's achievements include recording at the cult avant-garde club Knitting Factory (New York).

President Today I received members of the evaluation commission of the International Olympic Committee in the Kremlin. He promised that the Russian authorities will do everything to adequately organize the 2012 Olympics in Moscow, if such a decision is made.

The FBI is looking for the editor-in-chief's killers Foreign criminologists have joined the investigation into the murder of the editor-in-chief of the popular Azerbaijani magazine “Monitor” Elmar Huseynov. Eldar Majidov, senior prosecutor of the department for serious crimes of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan, told Vremya Novostey about this.

State Duma deputies softened the regime of detention in colonies Exemplary prisoners will be able to walk an hour longer than their neighbors who violated the routine. Yesterday, the State Duma adopted in the second and third readings amendments to the Criminal Executive Code concerning incentive measures for convicts. The deputies showed their humanism with an overwhelming majority of votes - 404 deputies voted for the project, there were none against, and one abstained.

The State Duma allowed Themis to serve until the age of 70 Russian judges will soon serve five years longer than they currently do. They were allowed to serve Themis faithfully until they reached the age of 70. The State Duma adopted the corresponding amendments proposed by the president yesterday in the third reading.

Coal generals of Kuzbass caught bribing officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources A major scandal is brewing in the coal industry of the Kemerovo region. Yesterday, the Department for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DBOPiT) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced the detention of two businessmen from Kuzbass who are suspected of attempting to give a bribe of $270 thousand to a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).

On Saturday, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will meet with the Russian President in Kyiv. On the eve of this meeting, the new Ukrainian leader told Vremya Novostey about what issues he planned to discuss with Vladimir Putin. —What will you talk about at the meeting with the President of Russia? — Even during my visit to Moscow (January 24. — Ed. ) Mr.

The Prosecutor General's Office was reminded of freedom of creativity Public tension in connection with the lawsuit against the organizers of the exhibition “Beware of Religion!” increases.

An attempt was made on the life of Anatoly Chubais The SAAB car, in which the unknown persons who fired at the motorcade of the head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais allegedly fled, was found in Moscow on Berezhkovskaya Embankment, near the Kievsky railway station. According to the source, the owner of the car has also been identified. This is a woman. An investigation is currently underway. “No one is touching the car, they are waiting for the arrival of the task force,” the source said.

Canadians are aiming for 100-seat planes The Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier has decided to join the narrow circle of companies producing hundred-seat passenger aircraft. Bombardier President Pierre Beaudoin announced during a global teleconference yesterday that his company intends to begin production of a new airliner with 110-130 seats and a flight range of more than 5,5 thousand kilometers.

The Russian Romashchenko sisters were released yesterday in Chisinau on their own recognizance. Employees of the Ryazan advertising agency Olga and Elena Romashchenko were detained here in mid-February as part of a group of citizens of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan accused of staying in Moldova without registration and illegal monitoring on the eve of the parliamentary elections on March 6.

Far Eastern plenipotentiary hopes to defeat terrorism with the help of the Cossacks It was decided yesterday in Khabarovsk at a meeting of the Council on Cossack Issues under the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District to recreate the Amur Military Cossack Army. The army will unite the disparate Cossack societies of the Khabarovsk Territory, the Amur Region and the Jewish Autonomous Region.

Will Russia's interests be harmed? EU leaders are increasingly speaking out in favor of lifting the 1989 arms embargo on China. The head of the British Foreign Ministry, the most loyal European ally of the United States, joined this chorus. Now only Washington and Tokyo remain among the open opponents of lifting the embargo. Naturally, China itself is in favor of lifting the embargo.

Russia is beginning to replace elected mayors with hired ones Just a month after the change in the system for electing governors, municipal authorities are also beginning to actively refuse to participate in popular elections. Following the capital of the Mari Republic, Yoshkar-Ola, and all the cities of the Kaluga region (except Obninsk), Tyumen decided to radically change the city management system.

According to intelligence services, he may be preparing new terrorist attacks in Moscow The capital's special services are looking for a person suspected of preparing terrorist attacks in the capital's metro. This is a certain Ruslan Ibragimov, who, according to operatives, was at one time Aslan Maskhadov’s liaison officer. It has already been established that back in February 2005, Ibragimov, along with five militants, went to Moscow to commit a series of sabotage.