The capital's police officers recently conducted a search in the office of the International Committee for Combating Organized Crime, Terrorism and Corruption, headed by Roman Nasirov. Investigators became interested in this organization in connection with a criminal case being conducted by the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central District of Moscow.

The well-being of the Russian economy may be affected by the decline in oil prices and the excessive role of the state At first glance, it is much easier to summarize the economic results of the outgoing year than the results of a number of previous years. The socio-economic policy of the authorities has taken final shape. The voices of critics have become quieter and heard less often.

The Moscow City Duma approved additional guarantees for residents of the center It seems that the capital’s authorities hope to put an end to the long-term war between residents of the center of Moscow, who do not want to change their elite place of “registration” to the suburbs of Moscow, with officials and developers.

The winners of the national award “Golden Idea” have been announced The Golden Idea Award is an annual award, established six years ago by the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FS MTC) - for merits and achievements in the field of military-technical cooperation with foreign countries. It was then that it became clear that the arms trade had been revived and would continue to grow. And so it happened.

The new year 2007 in Russia will begin with radical market transformations .

The head of the Gazprom security service, Sergei Ushakov, returns to the FSO As Vremya Novostei learned, in recent days Sergei Ushakov, deputy chairman of the board and general director of the concern’s security service, has been working at Gazprom. In the new year, he will return to the position of first deputy head of the Federal Security Service.

The best foreign films of domestic film distribution 2006 Perhaps the current top ten films of domestic film distribution are the most subjective and controversial in many years. As usual, it is compiled based on the results of theatrical release from January to December - one-time festival screenings and video distribution do not count.

Parliament adopts a new constitution every month Tomorrow, consideration of a new draft constitution may be initiated in the Kyrgyz parliament, said deputy Kamchybek Tashiev. According to him, a group of 41 parliamentarians is ready to propose this project to replace the one that did not receive a constitutional majority of two-thirds of the Jogorku Kenesh (parliament) on December 25.

Chelsea unpleasantly surprised their fans The day after Christmas is the same day off in Great Britain as the great holiday itself. Moreover, there are traditionally plenty of events related to it here. At first glance, it is called unusually - Boxing Day (literally - Box Day), and, notably, the reason for the origin of this name is not known for certain.

Chronicle of sporting events Russian grandmaster Alexander Morozevich led the participants at the traditional, already 16th international tournament in the Spanish city of Pamplona. Morozevich, who has the highest rating among the eight contenders for the main prize, has 2.5 points to his name after three rounds. He achieved victories over a student of the Soviet chess school, Alexei Shirov, who competes under the Spanish flag, and over the Czech Viktor Laznicka, and drew another game.

In the north of Baghdad, unknown persons yesterday shot up the car of the commander of the border troops, Major General Imad Muhsen Jaafar, a Shiite Muslim. He died. In the southwest of the capital, in the Shiite district of Al-Baya, three car bombs killed at least 16 people and wounded 70. The terrorist attacks were carried out within a few minutes of each other, and among the victims were police officers and ambulance doctors.

Beslan attack participant cleared of terrorism charges Russia's Supreme Court yesterday upheld the sentence of the only surviving participant in the Beslan school attack in September 2004, Nurpasha Kulaev, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony. His punishment remained the same, but charges were included in the wording of the sentence. From the list of charges for which Kulaev was found guilty on May 16 of this year by the Supreme Court of North Ossetia, Art.

Iran offers LUKOIL a new oil field LUKOIL has every chance to gain a foothold in Iran. As Iranian media reported yesterday with reference to the managing director of the Iranian state oil company NIOC, Gholam-Hossein Nozari, Iran is negotiating with LUKOIL on the development of the North Azadegan oil field in the south of the country. “Negotiations are at an early stage. We are exchanging data on the field and hope that LUKOIL will soon propose a master development plan,” he told reporters.

Regional policy in Russia is not born even in pain In the past year, the reform of local self-government officially began in Russia, elections to regional authorities were held, the sluggish unification of some non-resisting regions continued, the list of the United Russia party was replenished with a couple dozen more governors, and regional policy was recognized as insufficiently effective at the highest level.

World premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Passenger The Moscow House of Music produced and presented the forgotten opera “The Passenger” by Mieczyslaw (Moses) Weinberg based on the play of the same name by Zofia Posmysz, prepared and performed in concert by the orchestra, choir and soloists of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater.