Photo from Newsru.com In conditions of controlled democracy, as the elections turn into a tool for legitimation, and not real selection, the authorities are concerned not so much by the substantive results of the will of voters as by the decorum. However, this decorum is increasingly problematic: the voter is losing interest in the elections, but is not yet ready to go to them for the sake of demonstrating his loyalty to the authorities.

In the city of Surovikino, Volgograd region, a man on the basis of jealousy burned his 22-year-old cohabitant and her one-year-old child. As RIA Novosti was told on Tuesday at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Volgograd Region, the 28-year-old jealous man set fire to the apartment in which the dead lived. The one-year-old child died on the spot, and the woman, without regaining consciousness, died in intensive care. The perpetrator has been arrested.

The funeral ceremony in memory of the deceased vice-president of Kenya Michael Wamalwa ended in a fight between relatives who could not share the clothes of the deceased. Among the items in question are shirts, jackets, shoes and mosquito nets. Michael Vamalva's family members accused his wife Yvonne of hiding things that belonged to him, and offered her to share everything fairly.

On Tuesday, a major accident occurred in South Korea. A bus with 40 tourists fell into a mountain gorge. As a result, at least 16 people died. Another 16 passengers were injured, most of them in critical condition. The bus fell into a mountain gorge from a height of 20 meters. The incident occurred near the town of Bongwa, located 170 kilometers southeast of Seoul.

At the parliamentary hearings held on Tuesday in the State Duma on the application of the Federal Law "On Burial and Funeral Business", the participants recommended a number of amendments to this document. Chairman of the Duma Committee for Veterans Affairs Viktor Kulikov noted the importance and necessity of improving this law. He, in particular, said that more than two million people die in Russia every year.

Anatoly Chubais does not rule out that the Yabloko and SPS parties may be merged in the future. "It seems to me that our parties are becoming more and more in common. I believe that we are on the path of ever greater rapprochement and full unification of the parties in the future," Chubais said at a press conference in Moscow. According to RIA Novosti, he congratulated the Yabloko party on its 10th anniversary. "Yabloko's 10th anniversary is a serious event.

On October 20, First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Biryukov spoke about the plans for an investigation into the case of Yukos Oil Company and top managers of this company. According to Kommersant, the Prosecutor General's Office plans to re-interrogate Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

On Tuesday in Moscow, the businessman himself managed to detain the killer who attempted to kill him. As RBC was told in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, the police department received information from the "02" service that at house # 13/2 on Partizanskaya Street. there is shooting. Arriving at the scene, a police squad found a Toyota Land Cruiser jeep with three bullet holes in the windshield. Near the car was the driver of the SUV Igor Dorofeev with a gunshot wound.

Yukos. Photo by ar Father John, the confessor of Alexei Pichugin, the head of the Department of Security of the company "Yukos", is today invited to "conversation" to interrogate the Prosecutor General. Recall that Pichugin became the first person involved in the "case of Yukos" - he was detained on June 19 and has since been detained in the investigative insulator.

According to United Press International , the sensational agreements were reached during a brief visit by Saudi Prince Abdullah to Pakistan. According to the agency, Abdullah held talks in Islamabad with President Musharraf, concluding an agreement on nuclear cooperation. According to UPI editor Arnaud de Borchgrave, in exchange for nuclear technology, Saudi Arabia will supply Pakistan with its oil for free or at extremely low prices.

In the Consistory of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II announced the names of 31 new cardinals and put on them cardinal caps, AP reports. Many of the "recruits" will participate in the election of a successor to John Paul II. In September, the pope nominated 30 new cardinals, and also announced that another archbishop, whose name was not disclosed, would be promoted to the dignity.

During the APEC summit, the United States proposed the creation of a fund to finance antiterrorist activities. RIA Novosti learned about this from a source close to the forum participants. "Recently, some APEC member countries have declared that they are politically ready to fight terrorism, but this is a very costly business," the source said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no reason to close any programs with Iran if Tehran fulfills all the conditions of the international community, RIA Novosti reports. "If Iran fulfills all the conditions of the international community, opens all its programs, signs an additional protocol on IAEA safeguards, there is no reason to limit cooperation with it, including in such a sensitive area as nuclear," the president said at a press conference in Bangkok.

Man who fell into Niagara Falls survives He didn't have any overalls on. How he got into the water is unknown. The Buffalo TV channel showed how the police lead away from the waterfall a man with a naked torso and handcuffs. The hero's face was covered with a blanket. His name is not reported. It is known that he was admitted to the hospital and his condition is stable, but no further details are reported.

Ahmed Zakayev. Photo by ar On Tuesday, the final debate of the parties in the case of extradition to Russia by the representative of Chechen separatists Ahmed Zakayev, in the London Magistar Court on Bow Street. The royal prosecutor James Lewis was the first to set out his arguments. According to the London correspondent of the faces, Mr.