Mass protests continue in Kyrgyzstan against violations committed in the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday, Svoboda reports. In the south, in the cities of Jalalabad and Osh, about 4,000 people took part in the demonstration. In the capital of Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek - about a thousand people took part in the protest. The opposition claims that the election results were rigged. The second round of elections in Kyrgyzstan is scheduled for March 13.

Fist. Photo from the site www.thewalls.ru The State Duma on Friday decided to send a parliamentary request to the head of government Mikhail Fradkov, related to the situation in Moldova. With the necessary 226 votes, 370 deputies voted for making a decision, there were no abstained against two, RIA Novosti reports.

Prosecutor of the Moscow region Sydoruk warned of incomplete official compliance. His deputies Shulga and Kuznetsov were severely reprimanded and reprimanded, respectively, RIA Novosti reports. According to the agency, on Friday a collegium of the Prosecutor General's Office was held, at which the results of a comprehensive audit of the organization of prosecutorial supervision and investigation in the prosecutor's office of the Moscow Region were discussed.

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv issued a warrant for the arrest of two previously detained police officers suspected of killing journalist Georgiy Gongadze. According to Channel 5, a written undertaking not to leave was taken from another suspect. According to Channel Five, one of the detainees is General Mykola Astion, the former head of the department for combating organized crime in Kyiv.

State Duma. Photo from the site www.logistic.ru The State Duma intends to develop recommendations to the government on Friday regarding the imposition of economic and political sanctions against Moldova. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow." Russian parliamentarians considered it necessary to respond to the course that the Moldovan authorities conduct in relation to Transnistria. According to deputies, the situation in this region has aggravated.

Boris Berezovsky. Photo by the Air Force Entrepreneur and politician Boris Berezovsky does not exclude that the leader of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky may agree to work in the government. Commenting on to the facials.ru, the assumption that in return for the refusal of Putin’s criticism Yavlinsky will be proposed to change Mikhail Zurabov, Berezovsky noted that Yavlinsky from the Yeltsin times seeks to maintain proximity to the government, being, in fact, a pseudo -democrat.

The passengers of the UAZ-462 car shot by deserters in the Pskov region were employees of RAO UES of Russia. It is reported by NTV. As previously reported, two border guards who deserted from one of the outposts of the Pskov border detachment and seized three machine guns with ammunition fired at a civilian car, killing three passengers. After the special operation, one of the deserters was killed, and the second was detained.

Yukos. Photo by ar A repeated refusal of the Texas court to consider the lawsuit "Yukos" gave the company the possibility of revising the case at a higher level. As reports with reference to Interfax Gazeta.ru, the deputy chairman of the board of the company Alexander Temerko announced this. "In order to submit to a higher court, we had to go through this appeal. We passed it quickly, while the judge retained jurisdiction and intake measures.

I riots in the center of Baku. Photo by ar On Wednesday evening, the famous Azerbaijani opposition journalist, editor -in -chief of Monitor magazine Elmar Huseynov was killed. The 38 -year -old journalist was shot at the threshold of his apartment in Baku, receiving seven bullets at the exit from the elevator, two of which in the heart. According to the police, they shot from a pistol of the Makarov system with a silencer.

The European Union allocates 870,000 euros in 2005 to support human rights projects in Russia. This was announced by the head of the European Commission in Russia, Mark Franco, speaking at a conference on human rights in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. The competition for grants for the implementation of mini-projects in the field of human rights activities will be held from March 10 to May 17, 2005.

Map of the South Sakhalin In the motorized rifle regiment, deployed in the city of Aniva in the south of Sakhalin, an ordinary military service committed suicide. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to Interfax. As the agency was told on Friday in the military prosecutor's office of the South Sakhalin garrison, a 25-year-old soldier hanged himself in one of the non-residential premises on the territory of the unit on the eve of the day-March 3.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the dock of the defendants of the Meshchansky court of Moscow. Image from the website of the press center Mikhail Khodor The Meshchansky court refused to attach to the materials of the criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev and Andrei Krainov expert opinion of specialists of the international audit company Ernst & Young.

Another verbal attack on the Gazelle minibuses was launched by the Russian Ministry of Transport. Minister Igor Levitin said that his department intends to tighten the requirements, for passenger transportation.

US Congress. Photo from the site correspondent. American senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman on Thursday introduced a draft "Law on Providing Democracy" to Congress. As reported on the official website of the Senate, the law will grant the government significantly wider powers in promoting democratic values ​​and freedoms abroad. “The promotion of democracy and freedom abroad is simply inseparable with the national security issues of the United States,” Senator McCain said in his speech.

On Friday, the Istra Court ruled to dismiss the civil case filed by the Istra city prosecutor's office against the wife of the Minister of Health and Social Development, Yulia Zurabova, Interfax reports, cited by Newsru.com. This decision was made in connection with the motion of prosecutor Svetlana Konkova to dismiss the case. The prosecutor motivated the petition by the fact that on February 7, the head of the administration of the Istra district decided to limit the use of these land plots.