Photo by Dmitry Borko. Finally, the official results of the elections to the State Duma are published by the Central Election Commission, and although the final formation of the personal composition of the lower house will take some time, the alignment of forces more or less determined.

The Ministry of Defense of Abkhazia made a decision to maintain an enhanced duty regime for the Eastern Group in the Georgian direction after the presidential elections in Georgia on January 4, PRIMA reports. Previously it was assumed that the enhanced regime announced in November in connection with the parliamentary elections in Georgia would be canceled after the election of the president.

The San Francisco Court of Appeals decided that one of the Guantanamo detainees was entitled to a hearing in a civil court in the United States and allowed him to use the services of a lawyer. reports . Washington post. The decision was made in the case of a citizen of Libya.

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma signed a decree on urgent measures to improve the protection and use of land in Crimea in order to stop fraud with land in the resorts of the peninsula. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. Law enforcement agencies have revealed numerous facts of illegal sale and lease of land in the coastal zone and in nature reserves, where any construction is prohibited. More than 100 hectares of such territories were seized by the Crimean Tatars this year.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly (Suglan) of the Evenk Autonomous Okrug canceled on Friday their decision to early terminate the powers of Nikolai Anisimov, former senator of the Federation Council from Evenkia, and appoint Vasily Shakhnovsky, head of the Yukos-Moscow company, to this position. This was reported to Interfax by Suglan's press secretary Zinaida Nelyubova. Thus, the deputies executed the decision of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court.

On the set of the New Year's program on MTV, the "brilliant" Ksyusha suddenly lost consciousness and fell to the floor, writes Life. A commotion began, they tried to provide first aid on their own. When the girl began to have convulsions, everyone realized that it was no longer possible to delay, and an ambulance was called. After helping Ksyusha was taken home. According to the publication, Ksyusha's misfortunes did not end there.

The plan to create an international repository for nuclear waste in Russia was developed in the United States several years ago. Such a statement was made on the air of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" by the co-chairman of the group "Ecodefense!" Vladimir Slivyak. According to him, "Ecodefence!" managed to obtain documents confirming this.

Anton Nosik. Photo from the site www.ludidla.ru By performing investigative actions in relation to the Grani.ru, the prosecutor’s office showed “professional and technological ignorance”, said the editor -in -chief of Lenta.ru Anton Nosik. Commenting on the sealing of the "faces" in an interview with Runet.ru, he recalled that in September the investigators already made a file with a video message of a stolen hostage of Nadezhda Pogosova in the editorial office.

A Turkish ship is in distress 40 miles from Sochi in the Black Sea. According to the Main Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of Sochi, the SOS signal was received from the Turkish ship at 1:30 Moscow time on Friday. The ship was rolled to starboard. To the place of the emergency signal sent tugboats, noted in the Main Directorate. According to preliminary data, there are victims on the ship.

In St. Petersburg, at the entrance of one of the houses on Khasanskaya Street, a 51-year-old financial director of the Senator business center was killed with two shots from a pistol, Rosbalt reports. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the body of a woman who was shot in the head was found by neighbors on the landing.

The name of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been removed from the list of descendants of the Prophet Mohammed, AFP reports. Al-Sherif Najen Muhammad Hassan Al-Faham Al-Aaraji, head of the Ashraf council responsible for compiling the list, said Hussein had falsified the lineage at the time. "Saddam got the experts to distort his family tree so that it led to Mohammed," he said.

Prosecutor General of Turkmenistan Kurbanbibi Atajanova was taken into custody right in the meeting room of the Cabinet of Ministers, Vremya Novostey writes. She is accused of organizing a large family drug business. According to the newspaper, the double life of the Prosecutor General in the country has long been known. Now the leadership of one of the special services, in whose affairs the Prosecutor General constantly interfered, decided to "deal with" Atajanova.

Ariel Sharon. Photo AFP. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday evening at a security conference in Herzli actually presented an ultimatum to the Palestinian authorities, reports Washington Post. According to him, for several months, Israel will stop negotiations with the Palestinians and unilaterally declare new borders of the state. This will happen if the Palestinian leadership cannot operate within the framework of the "road map" and prevent terrorist acts.

$160,000 was stolen from a private house in the Moscow region, Rosbalt reports with reference to the region's police department. On Thursday night, a 35-year-old resident of the village of Misoilovo contacted the Leninskoye police department, who said that the day before, six masked unknown men had entered a private house on Proletarskaya Street in the village, stole 160 thousand dollars at gunpoint and fled the scene.

Due to heavy snowfall in the mountainous regions of Dagestan, the search for a group of militants in the Tsuntinsky district is hampered, Anzhela Martirosova, a representative of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs, told RIA Novosti by telephone. "Most likely, due to unfavorable weather conditions today, aviation will not take part in a special operation to eliminate militants," she said.