This year the City of Novosibirsk has got known internationally with two loud criminal cases against researchers suspected of divulgence of a state secret. Oleg Korobeinichev, the chair of laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Kinetics...

The Kremlin is deciding about the bill On Fight Against Corruption. The bill was created by inter-agency working group headed by Assistant President Viktor Ivanov. It is expected that the document will be examined in the Security Council....

Ruslan Demelkhanov, a school teacher who gives physical education and information science at the settlement of Starye Otogi has sued to the court against a well-known Moscow newspaper. He affirms the newspaper has posed his life to threat....

Just one day before the incident, the meeting of anti-terrorist panel in Samara was held. The main question on the agenda was security issues in the region in view of the coming election. Panel members reassured local residents: “We won’t...

Last Thursday, second preliminary hearing was to be held on the case of attack made against Nalchik 13 Oct.2005. Proceedings are going to last for years – only printing of all the materials on the case took 40 tons of paper. It’s not the...

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has set about consideration the case on attack made against City of Nalchik 13 October 2005. This is a special case and a special hall for proceedings was built for it. 59 people are on the dock....

Nikolai Tokarev has been appointed the chair of Transneft. This company, controlled by the state, is in charge of all oil-trunk pipelines in Russia. Before this appointment Nikolai Tokarev was General Director of state oil company...

First personnel decision by the new premier Viktor Zubkov was appointment the new Chief of secretariat. Mikhail Sinelin, who had headed the institution since Mikhail Kasyanov’s times, was replaced with Yuri Chikhanchin. Yuri Chikhanchin,...

The expert opinion by the former secret service officers, interrogated by the Novaya, is that arrests of the Chief of Division of Operational Cover for Traffic Control Federal Service Alexander Bulbov and Deputy Chief of Division of Inner...

Local authorities reported that 26 Sept. the last tank containing caustic soda was removed from the territory of the plant named Krasnoyarskye volokna (fittingly Krasnoyarsk Fibers). Caustic soda is very corrosive. It erodes the glass and...

An officer of defense ministry and chief of an inspection of the Chamber of Accounts Yuri Gaidukov was arrested 6 Sept. for taking a bribe in the amount of € 1,000,000. At the beginning, everything was clear. Gaidukov was caught by FSB...

It was established that the companies had used the hydraulic hoses stolen from the plant named Gidravlika (fittingly, Hydraulics) situated in the City of Ufa. The Prosecutor’s Office reports that the hoses were resold by a Moscow firm that...

"This is a provocation". Such was the comment about events in Ingushetia by high rank officials from the three Caucasus Republics ­ the North Ossetia, Chechnya and Ingushetia. Two of the officials asked not to disclose their names....

Defense minister Anatoly Serdyukov has made ethically correct move applying for resignation due to his relation to new premier Viktor Zubkov. The measure looks very “resolute” considering that Serdyukov is not likely to get resigned. He...

The statement made before the cameras of the three main TV channels by the spokesperson for the Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva seems to have been given a special role. It was important not only what was communicated on the air, but also...