The killer of Alexander Litvinenko was recognized by sight Scotland Yard is close to announcing the results of its investigation into the Litvinenko case . This was leaked to the British press this weekend. Investigators have finally identified the actual killer. According to the Times newspaper, Scotland Yard even has a photograph of this man.

Tax officials got burned by perfumes A new corruption scandal has broken out in the department of the Federal Tax Service (UFTS) in Moscow. It is expected that today the Zamoskvoretsky court will issue sanctions for the arrest of the head of the department for control in the sphere of turnover and production of alcohol and tobacco products of the Federal Tax Service, Elena Svetashova, and her subordinate Alfiya Sayfutdinova.

The universal introduction of the Unified State Examination will begin in 2009 At the end of last week, Russian parliamentarians summed up the results of the most controversial project of the education modernization program in recent years. The bill on the unified state exam was approved by the majority of State Duma deputies. And now we can confidently say that the Unified State Exam will become mandatory for schoolchildren and higher educational institutions from 2009.