The President introduced a bill on radical liberalization of criminal procedure legislation Yesterday, the State Duma received a bill to amend the Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation to “streamline” the relationship between business and law enforcement agencies, which President Medvedev announced on February 26 at a meeting with entrepreneurs.

The State Duma will try to protect HOAs from sabotage by officials Numerous complaints from homeowners' associations (HOA) about the impossibility of registering ownership of land plots under apartment buildings will force State Duma deputies to once again take up the task of amending housing legislation.

AvtoVAZ hopes for a bright future after the approval of a new business plan The board of directors of AvtoVAZ will consider the plant’s development program until 2020, company president Igor Komarov told reporters in Moscow yesterday. According to him, the document was discussed by the board on Friday, and on March 10 it should be approved by the company's main shareholders - Troika Dialog, Russian Technologies and Renault.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana arrived in France yesterday for a three-day state visit . For the first time, the Russian president chose the Ritz, one of the most famous Parisian hotels, as his official residence during his visit to Paris.

Slovak SPP demands compensation from Gazprom in international arbitration in Paris Dmitry Medvedev's state visit to France was marked by an international gas scandal.

The pilots of the Tu-134 that crashed at Samara airport have been sentenced The Samara Regional Court yesterday sentenced the pilots of the Tu-134 passenger plane that crashed at Samara Kurumoch International Airport three years ago. As a result of this accident, six people were killed and more than 30 were injured. Both pilots - crew commander Oleg Zubkov and co-pilot Andrei Lapanov - survived then, and are now recognized as the culprits of the emergency.

The number of female governors in Russia has doubled Yesterday Natalya Komarova officially took office as governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra. She became the second woman to head a region in Russia after the Governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko. In recent years, Ms. Komarova worked as chairman of the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Management. She was called one of Gazprom's main lobbyists in the lower house of parliament.

New mysteries in the history of Iran’s detention of a Kyrgyz plane The adventurous story of the capture of the leader of the Sunni terrorist group Jundallah (Warriors of Allah) Abdulmalik Rigi by Iranian intelligence services, which happened on February 23, is surrounded by mysterious omissions. On that day, several Iranian fighters (presumably MiG-29) forced a Boeing 737 passenger plane that appeared in Iranian airspace to land.

Both sides of the Dniester remember the 1992 war differently Today in Moldova for the first time they celebrate the Day of Remembrance of those who fell in the 1992 armed conflict for the territorial integrity and independence of this republic. The Moldovan government added a new date to the list of holidays and weekends at the end of February. And parliament declared March 2 a non-working day. Deputies from the ruling Alliance for European Integration voted for this decision.

Sidney Crosby puts an end to the Olympic Games program Canadian forward Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin's teammate in Pittsburgh, scored the most important goal of his career, bringing the team victory in overtime (3:2). Having spent the entire tournament in the shadows, he repeated the feat of Ilya Kovalchuk, who returned the world champion title to Russia in Quebec. Crosby excelled when needed.

Another single voting day was opened by deer The regional election campaign is entering its final phase. In the constituent entities of the federation, early voting has already begun for elections to regional parliaments, scheduled for March 14. So far, the expression of the will of citizens is proceeding as usual and the election commissions have not received any complaints.

It was an abnormal Olympics. For example, I realized that it could become like this a month ago, on the day of my arrival in Vancouver, when under the wing of a landing Boeing I saw green fields and flowering trees. Over the course of 17 Olympic days, Vancouver has more than justified its second name, Raincouver (from the English word rain), given to it by local residents, and the 2010 Games, which it said goodbye to last Sunday, can safely be called the Spring Olympic Games. games.

TNK-BP decreased net profit by almost 6% TNK-BP's net profit for 2009 according to US GAAP standards amounted to $5 billion, which is only 5.7% lower than in 2008. This was announced yesterday by the holding's chief operating officer, Bill Schrader. True, the company sacrificed its investment program, reducing it by almost a third.

The number of registered unemployed Russians is approaching a critical level Official unemployment in Russia continues to rise, despite confident statements from government officials that “the situation is under control.” According to the latest monitoring by the Federal Service for Labor and Employment (Rostrud), over the past week the number of unemployed Russians registered with employment services increased by 1%, reaching almost 2.3 million people.

Hillary Clinton will hold talks from March 1 to 5 in six Latin American countries - Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil and Guatemala. The US Secretary of State was tasked by President Barack Obama to improve the US image in the region and strengthen economic cooperation with it. With regional summits scheduled for the same days in Costa Rica and Guatemala, Clinton will meet there with nearly two dozen heads of state in the region.