Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Lyubov Sliska on Wednesday made a proposal to re-elect "out of competition" and financially encourage deputies who do not miss parliamentary sessions. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow". Lyubov Sliska, opening the evening session of the chamber on Wednesday, drew attention to the fact that the meeting room was half empty. "I counted - there are no more than 40 people here," Interfax quoted Sliska as saying.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday criticized European countries that adopted resolutions recognizing and condemning the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. It is reported by Radio Liberty. Turkey does not consider those events a genocide and does not agree with the data on the number of victims given by the Armenian side - up to one and a half million dead.

AutoZavod. Photo from the site www.elitenn.ru By 2008, the need for Russians in cars will be 75 percent satisfied by production in Russia, forecasts the Ministry of Industry and Trade. According to RIA Novosti, a source in the government on the eve of the consideration of the concept of the development of the automotive industry in 2005-2008 reported this.

Khodorkovsky's verdict "confirms the fears" of PACE. This is stated in the statement of the Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe on the Khodorkovsky case, Sabina Leutheuser-Schnarrenberg, published on the website of the Mikhail Khodorkovsky press center. "Already on the first day, it became quite clear that the judges fully supported the indictment," the statement said. Meanwhile, recalls Ms.

Space games in hide and seek Most to a foreign planet Small (the size of a suitcase) Mostnik Most (Microvariabs & Oscillations of Stars - translates as "star microe and oscillation", its dimensions - 65x65x30 cm, weight - 60 kg, mirror diameter - only 15 cm) - the first space telescope of Canada ( derived to the near -Earth Orbit, by the way, with the help of the Russian rocket carrier "Rokot" from the Plesetsk cosmodrome) - managed to find out something new about the atmosphere and cloudiness

The Novosibirsk department of the FSB suspects two activists of the local branch of the National Bolshevik Party, Nikolai Baluev and Vyacheslav Rusakov, who were detained the day before, of preparing a series of terrorist attacks. It is reported by Kommersant. According to representatives of the FSB, on the eve of Victory Day, operatives discovered four hiding places in which there were boxes with artillery shells.

Acceleration of the picket in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Photo by Dmitry Borko especially for faces All supporters of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, detained on Tuesday near the Meshchansky court, were released in the evening of the same day. This was reported to Ekhu Moscow by the head of the Nord-Ost public organization Tatyana Karpova. According to her, there were 8 participants in the picket in the Alekseevsky police department, they stayed there for more than 5 hours.

The Supreme Court of Russia sent for a new consideration the complaint of the lawyers of the head of the MENATEP company, Platon Lebedev, against the actions of the Meshchansky Court, which on April 6, in their opinion, illegally extended the detention of their client. This was reported to RIA Novosti by Lebedev's lawyer Elena Liptser.

Sabrina Harman. Photo by ar The US Army reserve Sabrina Harman, who was captured in the images of bullying in the Iraqi prison of Abu-Graib, sentenced to 6 months of prison. It is reported by AR. The 27-year-old Sabrine Harman threatened a five-year term, the charge required three years. On the eve of the reservist was found guilty of six of the seven points of the prosecution.

On Wednesday, the Russian and Estonian Foreign Ministers signed agreements on the Russian-Estonian state border and the delimitation of maritime spaces in the Narva and Gulf of Finland, RIA Novosti reports. The documents practically fix the border in its current outline, repeating the former administrative border between the RSFSR and the Estonian SSR, with minor changes. Thus, Estonia is crossed by the "Saatse boot" - an area of ​​115.5 hectares, along which the Estonian highway passes.

The secret of the South Pole of Mars is revealed Scientists from NASA solved a long -standing riddle, finding out why the southern polar hat of Mars is shifted in relation to its geographical south pole. The reason, in their opinion, is the existence of two different polar climatic zones. The relevant article was published on May 12 in the journal Nature .

NASA specialists do not lose hope that the Opportunity rover, which on April 26, while moving on the surface of the Red Planet, got stuck with all six wheels on a sandy hill and has not been able to move normally since then, will eventually be able to get out of the sand captivity. Employees of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory located in Pasadena (USA, California), from where the rover is controlled, are making every effort to make the device continue its journey.

An agreement with Latvia on the state border can only be signed after Latvia disavows a declaration containing territorial claims against Russia. This, according to RIA "Novosti", said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko. "This declaration puts forward a number of territorial claims against Russia. We consider this approach to be wrong," Yakovenko said.

The State Duma intends to increase the responsibility of the media for disseminating false information, Gazeta.Ru reports citing Interfax. This was announced on Wednesday by the head of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Vladimir Pligin. On May 20, a bill will be considered, providing, in particular, that "verbatim reproduction in the media" of false materials from another publication does not relieve this media from liability.

The crash of the MiG-29 near Andreapol occurred through the fault of the pilot. This was reported to Granyam.Ru by a source in the apparatus of the Air Force Commander-in-Chief. The car crashed into the ground while pilot 1st class Major Valery Gusev was performing an aerobatics element - "barrel".