State Duma. The Russian State Duma on Wednesday refused to ratify the protocol #14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, aimed at improving the efficiency of the European Court of Human Rights. 27 deputies voted for the ratification bill with the required minimum of 226 votes, Interfax reports. Protocol number 14 increases the term of office of judges from 6 to 9 years.

Nalchik. Filming NTV (archive) In the manufacture of an explosive device in Nalchik, a student died. According to Interfax with reference to the Kabardino-Balkaria Ministry of Internal Affairs, at 17.30 Tuesday, an explosion occurred in one of the apartments of a multi-storey building along Kuliev Street. “As a result of the explosion, a 19 -year -old first -year student of the Kabardino -Balkarian State University, who lived in the apartment, died on the spot,” said the source.

Refine GRES. Photo from the site www.reftinsk.ru In the Sverdlovsk region, a fire occurred on Wednesday at the Refine State District House, as a result of which two power units were disconnected. According to preliminary information, there are no victims and victims, RBC reports. According to the press service of the RAO "UES of Russia", at present a fire, whose area has reached 400 square meters, is extinguished. It began at 04.55 local time (02.55 Moscow time).

Anatoly Chubais. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The Moscow Regional Council on Wednesday dismissed the jury college in the case of an attack on the chairman of the board of the RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais, ITAR-TASS reports. Thus, the petition of the state prosecutor was satisfied, who asked to dissolve the jury in connection with the information that appeared in the media that reveals the course of the closed trial.

Irina Khakamada and Mikhail Kasyanov. Photos of faces “The insurance pension system is actually turned into a distribution system. The insurance system cannot be implemented with an opaque economy and black salaries,” said Irina Khakamada, president of the Our Choice, during a round table according to the results and prospects of pension reform.

Dick Cheney. Photo from the site www.tvnewslies.org US Vice President Dick Cheney will be called to the court to testify in the case of information leak from the CIA, reports AP. He will witness protection at the process over his former assistant Lewis Libby. Libbi is accused of perjury and obstruction of the administration of justice in the case of declassifying the secret agent of the CIA Valerie Plyim.

A rally of Solovetsky stone. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru At Solovetsky stone on the Lubyanskaya Square of Moscow, human rights activists held a coordinated picket dedicated to the Chekist's Day. The purpose of the event is to call on special services to comply with constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens. According to the Grani.ru correspondent from the scene, about seventy people gathered in the square.

Photo by the Air Force The Libyan authorities said that they would not succumb to the international pressure regarding the death sentence of five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, the Air Force reports. On Tuesday, the Libyan court found five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor guilty of intentionally infection of HIV 426 children in the hospital of the Libyan city of Benghazi in 1998. According to Reuters, they are all sentenced to death. The verdict can be appealed.

Geologist. Photo from the OG.ru website Four people died under the rocks of the rock in the area of ​​the village of Kimkan of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Their bodies are already cured by rescuers, on Wednesday, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies. The body of the last geologist was extracted from the rubble at 16.28 local time (9.28 Moscow time). Emergencies and police officers participated in the work.

George Bush. Photo by Washington Post US President George Bush said he plans to increase the number of troops. He said in an interview with Washington Post, which he had already asked the new head of the Pentagon Robert Gates to prepare a plan for such an increase. "He is going to talk with his guys for some time and return with recommendations on how to promote this idea further," Bush said.

Sergey Lebedev. Photo from the site kp.ru The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Lebedev, rejected the possibility of involving his organization in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. He stated this interview published on Wednesday in Komsomolskaya Pravda. “Neither he has nothing to do with the SVR, nor we have nothing to do with him,” he said.

Alexander Tikhonov. Photo from the site peoples.ru The criminal case of attempted on the Kemerovo governor Aman Tuleyev was transferred to the Novosibirsk Regional Court, reports on Wednesday RIA Novosti with reference to the deputy chairman of the court Tamaru Indian. The organization of the attempt is accused of four -time Olympic biathlon champion Alexander Tikhonov. He also heads the Russian biathletes Union and is the first vice president of the International Biathlon Union.

Evgeny Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev. Photo 'newspapers' In the North Caucasus District Military Court, at a preliminary hearing in the Khudyakov case, the defendants of the murder of three peaceful Chechens officers of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev were taken into custody in the meeting room, Interfax reports.

J.-L. Jerome. "Pool in the harem." Reproduction from the site kultura-portal.ru On Wednesday, a call from an unknown man, who said that he was ready to convey the picture of Jean Leon Jerome in the harem, stolen from the Hermitage some time ago, received a call to the reception of the Communist Party of the Communist Party in the afternoon. This was reported by Gazeta.ru. Deputy Alexander Kulikov met with a calling at the Bolshoi Theater.

Henry Padva. Photo from the site www.old.echo.msk.ru The lawyer of Alexander Hofstein, Henry Padva, who was in Spain, told the faces that the date with his client was interrupted. According to the lawyer, during the meeting, the prison officers said that he was allowed to be mistaken for the client and asked to leave. Padva also said that Hofstein still has not been allocated by the translator.