Anti-corruption reform has placed the investigation above the court The absurd situation that has developed in recent days around new amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with the anti-corruption package of laws adopted on the eve of the New Year finally became clearer yesterday.

Practical training hours will be increased for future drivers The long-standing promise of officials to review driver training programs in driving schools is close to being realized. Already this summer, all driver training courses will have to switch to a new program prepared jointly by the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and the Ministry of Education and Science.

The court did not agree to fill in the gaps in the investigation in the “Politkovskaya case” At the trial of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead in Moscow on Lesnaya Street on October 7, 2006, at the Moscow District Military Court (MOVS), the interrogation of the accused continued yesterday. Testimony was given by Ibragim Makhmudov and Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who did not admit guilt.

Starting from 2010, the State Traffic Inspectorate will be deprived of the functions of conducting vehicle technical inspection (TO) and will be transferred to organizations created specifically for this purpose. “The situation is changing, before there were not so many cars, and the functions of passing maintenance were the responsibility of the State Traffic Inspectorate.

A third of Russians want to see Metropolitan Kirill as patriarch, the rest found it difficult to answer Our fellow citizens consider the most likely candidate for Patriarch of All Rus' to be the locum tenens of the throne, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad.