The investigation into cases against former leaders of the Russian Pension Fund has been completed The Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs has completed the investigation of criminal cases against the former executive director of the Russian Pension Fund (PFR) Nikolai Cretu and the head of the legal department of the fund Zoya Selivanova.

The President of Abkhazia called not to interfere with Russia in negotiations with Georgia The day of the parliamentary elections in Georgia was overshadowed by several sad incidents, including on the actual border of Georgia with the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia. In the midst of voting, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, the Georgian television company Mze broadcast footage showing intense shooting around two passenger buses, apparently blown up.

A flare in the Lizard constellation “scared” even the orbital telescope The Swift research probe detected a powerful flare in the constellation Lizard at the end of last month. It “exploded” next door: the star EV Lizard, where the cosmic cataclysm occurred, is only 16 light years away. That is, about 16 years ago this star released a huge amount of energy into space.

The new Assembly (Parliament) of Serbia must convene for its first meeting no later than June 19. The Republican Election Commission yesterday announced the final results of the early parliamentary elections held on May 11. Now the eight parties that have entered the assembly have a month to complete negotiations on creating a parliamentary majority.

Allianz is in talks to sell Dresdner Bank Rumors that appeared a couple of months ago that the German insurance giant Allianz was seriously hatching plans in one form or another to get rid of its subsidiary Dresdner Bank turned out to be not at all exaggerated.

Ukraine wants to sail away by expelling the Russian fleet Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to prepare a bill within two months, that is, until July 20, to terminate international agreements on the temporary presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) in the country from 2017.

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Bazarevich reached the consciousness of the Dynamo Moscow players The capital's Dynamo equalized the score in the “bronze” confrontation with Ural Great, which will go until three victories of one of the teams. Yesterday, the “blue and white”, led since mid-April by Sergei Bazarevich, who replaced the fired Serb Svetislav Pesic on the coaching bridge, took revenge for the defeat in the first meeting in the Perm universal sports palace “Hammer” - 76:61.

The famous painting by the Norwegian expressionist will be shown to visitors of the Munch Museum tomorrow It took restorers almost two years to restore the famous paintings of the Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch “Madonna” and “The Scream”. The paintings, which were stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004 and discovered only in 2006, and in very poor condition, were returned yesterday to the hall where they were previously exhibited.

The Serbs played “Lysistrata” at the “Your Chance” festival The Belgrade University of Arts (course of Gordana Maric) brought the comedy of Aristophanes to Moscow, to the Theater Center on Strastnoy. In it, as you know, Athenian women force their husbands to stop the war with Sparta that is sick of them, and in a very simple way. The ladies agree that none of the soldiers will receive female affection until peace is concluded.

May 22 marks the 55th anniversary of the domestic system of military-technical cooperation (MTC) with foreign countries. Preparations for this date were carried out in accordance with a special instruction from the President of Russia.

Vladimir Putin appointed Igor Shuvalov first among equals Now all seven deputy prime ministers know exactly who is replacing whom. Yesterday it became known that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the distribution of responsibilities in the event of the temporary absence of top government officials , including himself. The vices were divided into pairs: Zubkov - Shuvalov, Zhukov - Kudrin, Ivanov - Sobyanin - in the absence of one, the other considers his questions.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially confirmed information about the resumption of indirect peace negotiations with Syria . Contacts are taking place through the mediation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Yesterday, the first meeting of political advisers to the leaders of Israel and Syria took place in Istanbul. The Syrians say they are discussing the prospect of fully returning the Golan Heights, occupied by the Israelis during the 1967 war.

The Lebanese parliament promises to elect army commander-in-chief 59-year-old Michel Suleiman as president by Monday. This is one of the points of the deal concluded yesterday in the presence of all Lebanese leaders following five days of negotiations in the Qatari capital Doha between the ruling majority and the Lebanese opposition.

The State Duma granted the Pension Fund the right to extrajudicial debt collection Avoiding contributions to the Russian Pension Fund (PFR) may soon become much more difficult. Pension Fund employees can surpass tax officials in terms of control powers.