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По сообщениям информагентств и собственной информации
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Officially
By his decree he appointed arbitration judges in a number of constituent entities of Russia. Lyudmila Tonkikh and Sergey Melnik were appointed respectively as deputy chairmen of the arbitration courts of the Lipetsk and Omsk regions for a six-year term of office. Ivan Limonov was appointed judge of the Federal Arbitration Court of the Ural District; judges of the 13th Arbitration Court of Appeal - Irina Lopato, Lyudmila Marchenko and Irina Masenkova. Emil Sibgatullin was appointed judge of the Federal Arbitration Court of the Volga District, Vasily Melnik of the North Caucasus District, Andrei Kangin of the Ural District were appointed for a three-year term of office.
Submitted to the State Duma for ratification the Treaty on Cooperation in the Protection of the External Borders of Member States of the Eurasian Economic Community. The law was signed in Moscow on February 21, 2003. The head of state, by his order, also appointed the first deputy director - head of the border service of the FSB of Russia, Vladimir Pronichev, as the official representative of the president when the chambers of the Federal Assembly considered the issue of ratifying the treaty.
State Duma
On Friday it adopted amendments to the law “On Military Duty and Military Service” in three readings at once, aimed at increasing the material support of citizens called up for military training. With the required 226 votes, the deputies voted unanimously for the adoption of the document - 406 votes.
The relevant State Duma Committee on Economic Policy recommended adopting a bill limiting advertising of the gambling business in the second and third readings at once before the end of the spring session. In accordance with the bill, it will be possible to advertise the gambling business in radio and television programs from 10 pm to 7 am. As Vladimir Medinsky, deputy chairman of the committee, noted, in this part, advertising “the gambling business is equivalent to advertising beer.”
Regions
Chairman of the Government of Chechnya Sergei Abramov said at the opening of an exhibition of small enterprises in the republic that those responsible for the situation in Borozdinovskaya must bear personal responsibility. “I think there should be such responsibility,” he noted. - Since there is a law, the Constitution of Russia. We all have equal rights and equal responsibilities. Therefore, the perpetrators must definitely be punished, and there can be no other opinion here.” “As for the situation in Borozdinovskaya,” the prime minister continued, “thanks to a coordinated position, primarily the actions of First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, this situation was normalized - people returned.”