Employees of the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet) reported yesterday that the day before they arrested two residents of the Palestinian city of Nablus who were planning a mass poisoning of Israelis. The twenty-year-old Palestinians worked at the Grill Express meat restaurant in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan, adjacent to Tel Aviv.

The Supreme Arbitration Court limited the right of the Federal Tax Service to seize the property of defendant companies The tax authorities have actually taken away one of the means of influencing “offending” businessmen. Previously, the Federal Tax Service could sue a company suspected of not paying or underpaying taxes on some transaction, and demand that all property under this transaction be transferred to the state.

The Supreme Court allowed soldiers to desert once due to hazing Deserters can be acquitted if they left the military unit in which they served “due to a combination of difficult circumstances.” This wording appears in the resolution adopted last Wednesday by the plenum of the Supreme Court of Russia.

LUKOIL sells several dozen gas stations in the USA with the condition of maintaining the brand and fuel supplier LUKOIL, in its financial statements for last year according to GAAP standards , reported that in May it would sell 162 gas stations in America for $138 million - this is almost a tenth of all the company's stations in the United States.

CLUBS Oleg Garkusha, Sergey Letov. Justo BanDouche , April 11, 23.00. Evgeniy Grishkovets and “Curlers” , also Reinars Kaupers (Brainstorm). A little over a year ago, the presentation of the album “Second” took place in “Orange”, where Reynaers collaborated with Grishkovets and “Bigudi” for the first time. This time they recorded the song “At Dawn” together, a cover version of the famous song by the Alliance group.

One of the leaders of the international terrorist network Al-Qaeda, Egyptian Abu Ubeidi al-Misri (not to be confused with his namesake and fellow countryman operating in Iraq), died “near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan” from illness. “There is reason to believe that this major leadership figure is dead,” a US counterterrorism source told reporters, explaining that the terrorist, who was in his fifth decade, most likely died of hepatitis.

The scandalous case of furniture smuggling was returned to Naro-Fominsk The scandalous criminal case of large-scale smuggling of luxury furniture , sold through the trading houses “Three Whales” and “Grand”, will still be considered in the court of the Moscow region city of Naro-Fominsk.

Rosnedvizhimost may be merged with the Geodesy and Cartography Agency On the eve of the emergence of a new government in Russia (this will happen in May), versions of changes in its structure, merger or division of certain departments arise. One of these changes could be the creation of a state committee that is fundamentally new for the country.

An apologist for the election of members of the Federation Council comes to the presidential administration Yuri Sharandin, who previously held the position of head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation, was appointed deputy head of the presidential administration department for domestic policy (and we are clearly talking about the administration of Dmitry Medvedev).

The Kaliningrad region is trying to achieve a preferential visa regime for itself in the new agreement between Russia and the EU The Russian Foreign Ministry has nothing against including a separate section on the issues of the Kaliningrad region in the new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the Russian Federation and the EU . Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Tsyganov told a Vremya Novostey correspondent about this.

IOC President admits the crisis of the Olympic movement It seems that it has become impossible to deny the connection between the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and big politics. On April 10, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge publicly admitted for the first time that the Olympic movement was in crisis. And the European Parliament voted on the same day to boycott the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

The Development Bank will increase the investment attractiveness of the country The Development Bank (Vnesheconombank) is not going to limit itself only to the functions of a credit institution. An insurer for export credits, a state manager of pension funds, responsible for the investment image of Russia - all these responsibilities and tools for their implementation are spelled out in the bank's new development strategy, which was approved by the supervisory board last week .

VTB reported for 2007 VTB Group's financial performance for 2007 was better than analysts expected, but not so good as to force investors to buy its shares. Yesterday, VTB quotes were declining - after the publication of the data, investors who were expecting good results and had been buying securities all last week began to sell them, taking profits. This is VTB's first reporting as a public company.

German RWE plans to buy British Energy The German energy concern RWE has taken a decisive step in the process of taking over the British Energy Group (BEG), which operates nuclear power plants. As London's The Financial Times reported yesterday, citing its own sources, the Germans made an indicative purchase offer, valuing a BEG share at 7 pounds sterling, and the entire company at 11 billion pounds (or 14 billion euros).

"Eagles", "elephants" and "lions" enter the fight for the African Cup The African Cup kicks off this coming weekend, a tournament that has long been a bone in the throat of European clubs. For twenty days, from January 20 to February 10, Chelsea, Barcelona, ​​Lyon, Real Madrid and a number of other smaller teams will be forced to do without their African foreign players while they repay their debts to their homeland.