The Moscow City Court sentenced Leonid Nevzlin's lifelong sentence On Friday, the Moscow City Court sentenced Leonid Nevzlin to the lifelong conclusion of the former largest shareholder of Yukos. Everyone expected such a sentence. The fact that the guilt of Mr. Nevzlin will be recognized as fully proved and will not be manifested to it will not be evidenced by the course of his own process and all other trials in the Yukos case . This sentence, handed out in absentia, since Mr.

In Ingushetia, at the end of last week, the next series of attacks on law enforcement officials took place, as a result of which two were killed and eight people were injured. According to the regional department of the FSB, on Friday morning in Malgobek an operation was performed to detain criminals hiding in a private house.

Russia and France are ready to build nuclear power plants in Belarus By August 10, the Belarusian authorities will decide how the contractor for the construction of the nuclear power plant will be selected - through a tender or as a result of direct negotiations. Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko told Vremya Novostey about this. Minsk will have to choose from two companies - the French Areva and the Russian Rosatom.

The problem of emigration was tackled in July by two of the largest Russian sociological services - the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) and the Levada Center. During surveys, sociologists received conflicting data about the number of citizens dreaming of leaving their native lands in pursuit of the ghost of a sweet life abroad.

Today, 80 peacekeepers from the Russian air group, part of the mixed UN and African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) created in January of this year, are heading to Sudan. On July 31, 14 of the 15 members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, approved resolution 1828 to extend the mission’s mandate for one year and increase its size from 9.5 to 21 thousand troops. The United States abstained from voting.

In the future gambling zone "Yantarnaya" housing prices began to rise sharply The Government of the Russian Federation has officially ordered the creation of the Yantarnaya gambling zone in the Kaliningrad region . This order was signed by Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov on January 21. This document defines the boundaries of the gambling zone in accordance with the cadastral plans of land plots located in the Kaliningrad region.

On Saturday, August 2, a referendum was held in Latvia, in which citizens were asked whether they needed the right to demand the dissolution of parliament, which now only the president of the country has. The referendum failed due to insufficient turnout; instead of the required 50% (at least 747.8 thousand people), 40.14% of citizens (about 600 thousand) came to the polling stations. But those who came showed rare unanimity - more than 96% said “yes” to the people’s right to dissolve the Sejm.

Vladimir Putin will have to personally decide the fate of the controlling stake in SIBUR The haste with which SIBUR managers tried to carry out a deal to buy out a controlling stake in SIBUR Holding from Gazprombank turned out to be unnecessary. The deal, which was planned to be structured through the Cypriot offshore Hidron Holdings, was subject to the law restricting foreign investment in strategic industries that came into force on May 7.

The Red-Blues women's team withdrew from the Super League championship While all the efforts of the leaders and employees of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV) are devoted to solving various working nuances and current problems associated with the performance of our men's and women's teams at the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, they will suddenly have to face such a headache as a change in the calendar Women's Super League and the search for a replacement for CSKA, which refused to

The company is considering the possibility of concluding annual contracts for the supply of coal The Mechel mining and metallurgical group, which was subjected to sharp criticism from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and claims from the Federal Antimonopoly Service, is trying to find a way out of this situation.

St. Petersburg Ecologists conducted a public examination of coastal construction projects The Southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, according to experts, is on the verge of an environmental disaster. This was told to reporters by participants in the international ecological cycle conference "Our Bereg-2008".

In the signature sheets of candidate Kasyanov, the Central Election Commission found the names of the heroes of Saltykov-Shchedrin Phenomenal information openness was demonstrated yesterday by the Central Election Commission, which, apparently, will on Sunday deny ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov the right to run in the presidential elections on March 2.

July 5 -- August 1, 2008 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media.

Clubs Unearth. Massachusetts Metal-Khardkor-Kor-flint with the NEVER SAY DIE program at the Point , 20.00. Anastasia Glazkova (vocals). BBKING , 20.00. Viva Cuba. Salsa, Merengge, Cha-cha-cha, Mamba, Rumba. Caribbean dance evenings in the Club "Union of Composers" , 20.00. MOVIE “The Rolling Stones. May there be light ” (USA, 2007). Director Martin Skorzzhe. A documentary about the main rock band of all time and peoples, shot by a living classic of world cinema.

Russia and the United States unveil their defense strategies “The Concept for the Construction of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation until 2030” - a new document under this name has appeared in the Russian Ministry of Defense. The then President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spoke about its development in February of this year, when at a meeting of the State Council the concept of the country's development until 2020 was considered.