The head of the Central Election Commission, Alexander Veshnyakov, intends to deal with the scandalous situation that has developed around the Ryazan Governor Georgy Shpak, who won the election, on the spot. "This week I will be in Ryazan, however, on a different occasion, but I want to get to know the current situation more closely," the head of the CEC told reporters on Monday.

The Moldovan authorities warned that they could stop rebroadcasting the signal of the First Channel of Russian television, RIA Novosti reports.

The Kremlin is preparing a new youth project to replace the pro-Putin movement Marching Together. According to Kommersant on Monday, the organization does not yet have a name, but among themselves officials call it Nashi. Branches of the movement should be created in all major cities of Russia under the direct patronage of the Kremlin administration. At the end of last week, Vladislav Surkov, deputy head of the presidential administration, met with the St.

Opril. Image on the pallet of the candlestick of the XVII century The next Saturday, the Constituent Congress of the Eurasian Youth Union will be held in the Moscow Region Alexandrov. As Valery Korovin, a press secretary of the Union, told the faces.ru, the main goal of the movement is to prevent the repetition of the “Orange Revolution” in Russia.

Next week, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine will begin the transfer of units of the Internal Troops to those regions of the country where it is necessary to strengthen the fight against organized crime. This was announced by Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko on the air of the TV channel "Studio 1 + 1", reports Korrespondent. No. According to him, the first 12,000 troops will be sent to the Transcarpathian and Donetsk regions.

Car with flashing lights. Photo from the site www.novayagazeta.ru The highest command staff of the foreign intelligence service abandoned the increased allowance intended for him for the complexity and tension paid today as compensation for the deprivation of military personnel of the right of free travel. This was reported to the Parliamentary correspondent of the faces of the Grani.ru in the Duma Security Committee, which legally oversee the SVR.

Fragment of the Soviet poster from the site long ago.ru United Russia proposes to introduce seniority for parties that intend to participate in the parliamentary elections, and cancel the election funds limit. This was announced by the first deputy leader of United Russia Valery Bogomolov, speaking on Monday at a round table of party leaders and the leadership of the Central Election Commission. According to him, the "unicorns" are already preparing such amendments to the electoral legislation.

The withdrawal of Russian military bases from the territory of Georgia does not mean their automatic transformation into joint antiterrorist centers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on the air of Vesti Nedeli. "There is no automatism here," the minister answered the journalist's question. According to Lavrov, the need to create such centers does not depend on the resolution of the issue of bases. "It is even more urgent, this necessity," the minister stressed.

As a result of a large-scale operation to combat extremists launched by US troops and Iraqi police, 75 militants were detained in the city of Ramadi and its suburbs. According to the KUNA news agency, Hani al-Obeidi, one of the senior leaders of Iraq's former ruling Ba'ath Party, is among them, ITAR-TASS reports. After a night of skirmish with militants in Ramadi, US Marines blocked all roads and bridges leading to this city.

The losses of the Stabilization Fund's funds from inflation in 2004 amounted to about 23 billion rubles. This, according to RBC, is stated in an analytical note to the operational report of the Accounts Chamber on the implementation of the federal budget for the past year, approved by the board of the chamber. During 2004, no placement of the Stabilization Fund was carried out due to the fact that the necessary regulatory acts were not developed during this period.

'Integral'. Image from Integral.esa.int The European scientist with the help of the powerful space gamma-telescope Integral , launched on October 17, 2002 from Baikonur using the Russian missile carrier Proton, managed to detect the most rapidly-competing X-ray pulse. This object, designated as IGR J00291+5934, manages to make as many as 600 revolutions in one second.

The screensaver of the program 'The moment of truth' '. From the website of the TVC The program "Moment of Truth" on the TVC was censored. According to the program of the Echo of Moscow, the host of the program Andrei Karaulov, 4 minutes of the text were cut without his knowledge.

Another picket of Blagoveshchensk residents is taking place in Moscow. According to Ekho Moskvy, the protesters on Pushkin Square are five young people who, according to them, were subjected to brutal actions by the Blagoveshchensk police in December last year. The main requirement of the hungry is to provide them with documents on recognition as victims.

Ruud Lyubers. Photo from the Supreme Commissariat of the UN Rights of Refugees The Supreme Commissioner of the UN for refugees, Ruud Lyubers resigned. According to the Air Force, the reason was a scandal with allegedly sexual harassment. Lyubers denies the accusations, but declares that he leaves so as not to interfere with the work of the commissariat. The resignation has already been adopted by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Jay Rockefeller. Photo from the site www.umwa.org The deputy chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Jay Rockefeller said that it is still unknown which of the two countries threatens the world more - North Korea, who announced that it has nuclear weapons, or Russia, which has lost control of a significant part of its nuclear arsenal.