MOSCOW - The court of the closed nuclear city of Ozersk issued a guilty verdict against a contractor used phony building contracts to completed several projects for the city - and was sentenced to pay less than one percent of the amount he bilked out of the city’s coffers as punishment.

MOSCOW- Sergei Mintrokhin, a Yabloko lawmaker with the Moscow City Duma and former parliamentarian, has demanded that Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov stop construction in the city and that the head of city construction for the capital, first vice-mayor Vladimir Resip, resign.

The Ecological Committee of the Russian State Duma held a Parliamentary hearing on the state of ecological safety in Russia, UCS-INFO reported.