The court found Tamara Rokhlina guilty of murdering her husband and released her Tamara Rokhlina received a suspended sentence of four years with a probationary period of 2.5 years. Yesterday, the Naro-Fominsk City Court found her guilty for the second time of the murder of her husband, State Duma deputy General Lev Rokhlin. Thus, the version of a political murder on the part of some mysterious masked intelligence officers, in whose way the general allegedly stood, collapsed once again. Ms.

Khabarovsk authorities took control of artesian wells Yesterday in Khabarovsk, Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Oleg Mitvol summed up the results of his four-day working trip to the Khabarovsk Territory. Mr. Mitvol believes that poisoning of Amur water from the products of an accident at a chemical plant in the Chinese province of Jilin cannot be avoided.

The government agrees to pay Nazi collaborators Croatia is ready to pay back the accomplices of the Nazi occupiers. Recently, the government of Ivo Sanader announced that it had initialed an agreement with Austria allowing its citizens who lost property in Croatia to demand its return or monetary compensation.

Visa also wants to participate in GDP growth Electronic payments can provide Russia with annual savings of 1% of GDP, or 165 billion rubles. However, the focus of the domestic Russian economy on cash not only does not allow reducing costs, but also reduces the ability of banks to act as financial intermediaries, and also fuels the “gray” economy.

Chechen refugees leave Georgia An interdepartmental group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Federal Migration Service of Russia and the government of Chechnya is completing its two-week work in Georgia. In the coming days, 81 Chechen refugees will return to their homeland. 187 applications for return have already been submitted. The documents of 106 applicants will be additionally checked to confirm Russian citizenship.

In Russia, protest sentiments are growing among military pensioners. The fact is that when calculating their pensions, it is not the real cost of food rations that is taken into account, as required by existing legislation, but only compensation for this very ration. As a result, the state owes each of the military pensioners about 2 thousand dollars in recent years and is not going to pay it back.

The current Ukrainian leaders came to power with promises to restore violated justice and reverse the results of the privatization of enterprises cheaply sold into private hands by their predecessors. But times have changed. Yesterday, President Viktor Yushchenko again assured businessmen that the country's leadership abandoned the idea of ​​​​reviewing the results of privatization and recognized property rights.

Our biathletes missed victory in the relay races Yesterday, according to approximately similar scenarios, the men's and women's relay races took place in the program of the first stage of the Biathlon World Cup on the track in the Swedish town of Östersund. The fate of first place in the final, fourth stages of the race was decided in a dispute between Russian and Norwegian biathletes. Alas, in both cases our team had to give victory to the opponent.

Three Israeli teams came to Russia at once The calendars of two European Cup tournaments presented our basketball fans with an amazing coincidence. Three Israeli clubs with the same name “Hapoel” were simultaneously invited to the Russian capital and the Moscow region to hold the next matches of the group stages of the ULEB Cup and the European Cup. Capital Dynamo hosted basketball players from Jerusalem as part of the fourth round of Group B of the ULEB Cup.

In Russian companies it is mainly the bosses who steal, in European companies it is the subordinates who steal. Economic crime within companies - or, more simply put, theft - is not only thriving, but also trending upward around the world. That's one of the findings of the PricewaterhouseCoopers World Economic Crime Survey, presented to reporters yesterday.

The price of the precious metal reached $500 per ounce Yesterday, on world trading floors, the price per ounce of gold crossed the coveted mark of $500. In the morning in Asia, gold quotes on the spot market reached $502.30 per troy ounce. However, in London, gold was already trading at $497.20, dropping during trading to $495.9. When the New York Stock Exchange opened, the spot price fell by $2.5 compared to the previous day’s value, to $495.80.

The head of RAO UES calls for a “new energy policy” At the end of November, Anatoly Chubais traditionally makes sensational statements regarding the development of the Russian electric power industry.

Hockey. NBA. Regular season. “Florida” – “Toronto” – 1:2, “Los Angeles” – “Detroit” – 2:5. Detroit forward Pavel Datsyuk scored one assist. In the match between the leaders of the Western Conference, the Russian's teammate, Swedish defenseman Niklas Lidström, spent more than half the playing time of the match on the ice - 30 minutes. 38 sec. Interestingly, Los Angeles has not been able to beat Detroit for four years.

The rector of Moscow State University is looking for alternative methods of admission to the university The question of the future of the unified state exam in Russia has apparently already been finally resolved. Yesterday at parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council on the Unified State Exam, the conversation was mainly around the details of this experiment, the purpose of which is to unify the grading system at school and university.

The president's former comrade-in-arms "shot himself through a pad" On December 4, presidential elections will be held in Kazakhstan. But not only this event is in the center of public attention in the country today. On November 12, a famous politician, at one time a close ally of President Nazarbayev, former mayor of Almaty and the Alma-Ata region Zamanbek Nurkadilov, died tragically. He was found in his home with three gunshot wounds: two to the chest and one to the head.