The prosecution demanded 10 years in prison for Khodorkovsky and Lebedev The former head of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the head of the Mentatep MFO, Platon Lebedev, each deserve 10 years in a general regime colony. This opinion was expressed yesterday by state prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin, who spoke at the debate in the Meshchansky District Court of the capital.

The head of the Bashkir police did not find a place in the criminal case Deputy Prosecutor General in the Volga Federal District Sergei Gerasimov said at a press conference in Nizhny Novgorod yesterday that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkortostan, Rafael Divaev, should be brought to “strict liability” for “massive violations of the law in Blagoveshchensk and the violation of the constitutional rights and freedoms of hundreds of citizens.” As Mr.

A presidential aide at a conference for investors admitted that there could have been another company in place of YUKOS Russian Presidential Aide Igor Shuvalov admitted yesterday that the Yukos trial is of a demonstrative nature. It is noteworthy that the presidential aide made these statements at the annual conference “The Economic Situation and Investment Climate in Russia,” organized by the American Chamber of Commerce.

Leaders will change in many qualifying groups Today in Tallinn, after the Russian national team's match with the Estonians, it can be decided whether Georgy Yartsev's team will continue to fight for a ticket to the final part of the 2006 World Cup. And if so, under whose leadership. However, in fairness it is worth noting that even a defeat in the match with Estonia leaves the Russian team with a chance to take second place in the group, which entitles them to the play-offs.

Another series of exhibitions opened at Art Strelka The star of the March Art Strelka was Elena Kovylina. Her Live concert was composed exclusively of natural ingredients: a black piano, a pianist in a bowtie, classical music and a naked lady on the piano - completely motionless and beautiful. Unlike other masterpieces known to us, she breathed, reviving in the memory of the assembled odalisques, machs, danae and other naked beauties glorified by the great artists of the past.

An African was detained for violating the passport and visa regime after his photo appeared in newspapers Law enforcement officers in the Voronezh region recently detained the most famous homeless person in the region and an illegal migrant rolled into one. Rwandan citizen Joseph Habiman, who was taken to the police station for violating the passport and visa regime, was the only black inhabitant of the Voronezh outback, and, naturally, could not go unnoticed by the local media.

More than half of Russians support the appointment of regional heads, although they do not believe in the effectiveness of the appointed governors The reform of Russia's political system, initiated by President Putin after the events in Beslan and causing lively discussions in the expert community, is gaining momentum.

The new leaders are ready to consider Akaev president so that he can resign Askar Akayev, who has turned up in Russia, considers himself a legally elected president and “sees no reason to resign” from the post of president of Kyrgyzstan. He stated this yesterday in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station. At the same time, Mr. Akayev made several other important statements, in particular that he would not return to Kyrgyzstan until he felt safe.

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Moscow begins an offensive against the urban planning initiatives of the Ministry of Economic Development The city authorities, who previously never missed an opportunity to criticize the new Urban Planning Code of Russia, seem to have decided to move from words to deeds and build a layered defense around Moscow against the initiatives of the Ministry of Economic Development.

Police officers will be recording applications from citizens on video. The leaders of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs seem to have finally become convinced that departmental instructions alone cannot force ordinary police officers to carefully respond to every statement and complaint of citizens. The number of crimes and offenses that are not registered by internal affairs bodies today, so as not to spoil the detection rate statistics, apparently remains high.

Viktor Vekselberg is going to build a holding in Ukraine Entrepreneur Viktor Vekselberg intends to create a vertically integrated titanium holding in Ukraine. He announced this recently in an interview with the Ukrainian online publication Zerkalo Nedeli.

The Supreme Arbitration Court "blocks" officials Russian reformers from the Ministry of Economic Development have a new opponent - the Supreme Arbitration Court, which yesterday entered into an open conflict with the department of German Gref. The reason for the dispute was the draft program for the socio-economic development of Russia for the medium term (2003-2008) prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the government action plan for its implementation in 2005.

Al-Walid's "pioneer printers" sentenced The Moscow City Court has completed its consideration of the scandalous investigation of the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation into the release and injection of tens of millions of counterfeit dollars into the Russian market.

The earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December 2004 will be studied by experts for a long time both as one of the most striking seismic events and as one of the most monstrous disasters of the last century. Scientists differ in their assessments of yesterday's earthquake: some believe that strong tremors near the coast of Indonesia were predictable, others call them completely unexpected.