The left opposition will bring victims of housing scams onto the streets The coming Saturday, January 26, will become an extraordinary “red day of the calendar.” Trade unions, associations of deceived co-investors and opponents of compact development, as well as communists who have joined them, intend to hold a series of protests in Moscow and 22 other cities of Russia - from Kaliningrad to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

FMS proposes to review quotas for guest workers twice a year The limit set at the end of last year on the attraction of guest workers by Russian employers in 2008, as expected, turned out to be too small. Yesterday, the head of the Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, admitted that “the quota can and should be increased.” According to him, the FMS is already making relevant calculations and preparing proposals to the Russian government to create a “more flexible” quota system.

The state will take the sturgeon business by the gills Every animal in Russia, apparently, needs its own law, every bee, every fish. The government decided that sturgeon was a very special fish. At first there was talk that sturgeon should be regulated by law only for their benefit, so that they would not disappear, but would be restored.

Investigators have lost the head of the Pushkinsky district Employees of the Investigation Department (ID) at the prosecutor's office for the Moscow region, as Vremya Novostey learned, yesterday tried to bring charges against the head of the Pushkinsky district, Vladimir Bashkirtsev, who has recently been often mentioned in the media in connection with a number of scandals. He was involved in a criminal case initiated in November last year for abuse of power and misappropriation or embezzlement.

Its owner Vladimir Nekrasov and respected businessman Semyon Mogilevich were arrested The Ostankino court in Moscow last night issued an arrest order for the owner of one of the largest chains of perfume and cosmetics stores, Arbat Prestige, Vladimir Nekrasov. The entrepreneur was detained on Wednesday evening when he was returning from negotiations with business partners. At first, this was the main reason for discussion in business circles.

The person accused of murdering the deputy head of the Central Bank was sent to court through a punishment cell The General Prosecutor's Office yesterday announced that it had sent to the Moscow City Court a criminal case regarding the murder of First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Andrei Kozlov , who was shot dead on September 13, 2006 at the exit from the Spartak sports complex in Sokolniki. Eight people are accused of committing a high-profile crime.

Scientists promise to identify the remains of Tsarevich Alexei and Princess Anastasia on the 90th anniversary of the execution of the royal family This year, the Russian Orthodox Church will face a difficult question: whether or not to recognize the remains found near Yekaterinburg as those of the family of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II.