Female suicide bomber kills 1 policemen in Russia

Kyrgyz citizen detained for drug sale in Yekaterinburg, Russia

Kyrgyz citizen was detained for drugs trade in Yekaterinburg (Russia) as Russian mass media reported.

It is reported that 18.1 kilo of hashish was seized due to coordinated work of FSB and Main Department of Internal Affairs and Ural Operative Customs.

“Besides, 25 year old Andrei Tseplin, native of Yekaterinburg, was detained on February 8,” said the press-service of UFSB of Sverdlov region. “In his apartment investigators found 3.1 kilo of hashish, packed in 21 polyethylene packages.”

In few days examining of possible Andrei’s links led to 27 years old Kyrgyz citizen Hassan Kudayberdiev. He has been living in Yekaterinburg for at least two years. Officers of FSB detained him near railway station of Yekaterinburg and 15 kilo of hashish was found during personal search. Drugs allegedly were intended for further illegal distribution..

Criminal proceedings were instituted against Andrei Tseplin and Hassan Kudayberdiev according to the article “Illegal Acquisition, Storage, Transportation, Manufacturing, Processing of Drugs, Psychotropic Substances or their Analogues.” They can be imprisoned for the period up to 20 years, Russian mass media report.

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Sobyanin appoints three regional security department deputy heads

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15.02.2011, 10.53

MOSCOW, February 15 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has appointed three deputies of the city’s head of regional security department.

“Sobyanin inked an order to appoint Vasily Oleynik, Vladimir Popenkov and Sergei Dobrorodny,” a source in the city administration said on Tuesday.

The Mayor’s Office has a five-year contract with Oleynik and Dobrorodny, and a four-year contract with Popenkov.

In mid-January, the Department on Coordination of Activities in Security was restructured into the Department of Regional Security. Valery Kadatsky is the head of the new department. Earlier, Sobyanin explained the formation of the new department saying that “it is not just replacing the sign, it is necessary to improve qualitatively the situation in providing security and making the effective system of cooperation between the Moscow government and the federal security and law enforcement authorities.”

“This is the task Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev voiced in his order, which gives authority to the regions to organise public security mechanisms,” Sobyanin said.

The department should counteract the threats from organised crime, drug trade, terrorism, extremism, corruption, xenophobia, and illegal migration.

A chill blows through Moscow's snow-busting teams

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin is set to freeze out 25 officials who have failed to cope with the snowy winter Moscow is experiencing.

“Officers often live happily alongside contractors, with the one loving the other,” Sobyanin scoffed to Prime-Tass and assembled subordinates on Monday. “And at whose expense? At the expense of the city, at the expense of the quality of work, and at the expense of the citizens who suffer, break arms and legs and sit in traffic jams.”

 

Heads must roll

And he marked Valentine’s Day by declaring this intimacy could not be allowed to continue.

“This will not do,” he added. “Let them love one another somewhere else, not at work. You must therefore present before me orders for the dismissal of 25 of those executives, who perform these roles, and then select and appoint truly effective, honest people,” he told his staff.

And they must not wait until an inspection from on high tells them to get their act together before they start functioning properly, he warned.

They must keep their houses in order and hand down punishment to their own subordinates, if they are not performing effectively.

 

Crime and punishment

Punishing the underperforming is the key. At a meeting with Sobyanin, deputy mayor Peter Biryukov said that the area with the worst snow build up is down town.

“In order to sort out the situation the system of fines will continue. In those places where heavier fines are levied the situation is vastly better,” said Biryukov, Interfax reported. “The eastern and south western districts are examples of this.”

He added that in the city centre areas where snow clearance has been particularly negligent, around the Arbat and Presnya area, fines are minimal, being no more than 50 – 100 thousand roubles, as opposed to 500 thousand in the more effectively cleared areas.

 

Difficult conditions

Sobyanin did acknowledge that the bad weather has not made things easy. Heavy precipitation has increased contractors’ running costs.

This year snow ploughs have cleared 300 thousand cubic metres of snow, compared to 200 thousand cubic metres last year. Snow clearers can therefore look forward to a bigger slice of the budget, RIA Novosti reported.