The destroyed capital of Haiti was at the mercy of looters and bandits Almost a week has passed since the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, and the death toll is still unknown. Apparently, many thousands of lifeless bodies still remain under the rubble of Port-au-Prince, the capital of a state that has been infernally unlucky for 200 years in a row.

The State Duma removed the barrier that prevented the reform of the European Court of Human Rights On Friday, the State Duma ratified the 14th Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which establishes new regulations for the work of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

A responsible employee of the SKP was suspected of extorting a record bribe The Basmanny District Court of Moscow on Saturday issued a warrant for the arrest of Andrei Grivtsov, an investigator for particularly important cases of the Main Investigation Department (GSU) of the SKP, accused of extorting an unprecedented bribe of $15 million. According to investigators, he demanded this money from the president of the Rosenergomash company, Vladimir Palikhata.

Russians have stopped expecting horrors from the crisis In the new year, the majority of Russians stopped fearing the possibility of strikes and labor conflicts. A study by sociologists from the Bashkirova and Partners company showed that many Russians are optimistic: they believe that there will be fewer labor conflicts in 2010 than in 2009.

Those accused of blowing up the Nevsky Express were not recognized as terrorists The Novgorod Regional Court on Friday announced the verdict in the case of the 2007 bombing of the Nevsky Express passenger train. The verdict turned out to be controversial and scandalous, as was the investigation into this case itself. On the one hand, the defendants - residents of Ingushetia Maksharip Khidriev and Salambek Dzakhkiev - were acquitted of the key charge of “terrorism”.