On this photo Kvachkov looks very much like a Hollywood character: Dr. Hannibal Lecktor    Colonel of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), Vladimir Kvachkov, who was recently acquitted of charges with an assassination attempt on Anatoly Chibais, announced last Friday that he resumes his “military and political work”, as Russian media …

Bank of Russia would like to find out how the Russian population will react if the 1-kopeck and 5-kopeck coins get withdrawn from the circulation, as Director of Department of Cash Circulation of Russia’s Central Bank, Alexander Yurov, said at the conference entitled “Circulation of Cash Currency: Models, Standards, Trends”.

The New York Times writes that Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev said during his meeting with the foreign journalists the other day that the United States is now in “deep crisis” and the US has no right to give any advises to other countries on how to conduct their policies.