Belarusian police. Photo AFP The Supreme Court of Belarus announced the sentence in the criminal case against the former company commander of the Grodno district department of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Alexander Sergeychik. According to Belarusian News, an exceptional penalty - the death penalty, as well as the confiscation of property and the deprivation of the title of "Senior Lieutenant of the Police", was chosen against it.

Nursultan Nazarbayev accepts the presidential oath. Frame 1 channel President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed amendments to the Constitution of the republic, allowing him an unlimited number of times to be elected to the post of head of state. The bill also reduces the term of presidential powers from seven to five years, RIA Novosti reports. The norm on the unlimited presidency concerns only the first president of the country.

Evgeny Roizman. Photo from a personal site The State Duma received two ideas of the Prosecutor General’s Office on the deprivation of deputy inviolability of Evgeny Roizman and Pavel Anokhin. According to Echo of Moscow, the speaker of the chamber Boris Gryzlov said this on Tuesday. He said that the relevant documents are now in the Duma Commission on Manda issues and issues of deputy ethics, which should consider the available materials.

George Bush. Photo from the site Yahoonews US President George Bush expressed doubts that Russia was moving towards democracy. He said this in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday. Bush also noted serious tension in the relations of Russia and the West. "I want to tell Vladimir Putin that there is the best way to democracy and that his interests lie in the West," Bush said. “He thinks that Russia is moving towards democracy.

Andrey Lugovoi. Frame NTV Entrepreneur Andrei Lugovoi promised to make several sensational statements in the Litvinenko case in the near future. According to RIA Novosti, he told reporters on Tuesday.

Sergey Mavrodi in the courtroom. Frame NTV The founder of the financial pyramid of OJSC MMM Sergey Mavrodi was released. According to Gazeta.ru, having left the prison building, Mavrodi did not give any comments - the guards led him through the crowd of journalists and put him in the car.

Court. Photo from the site nr2.ru. The Suzdal District Court convicted the woman who killed her newborn child. According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the regional court, the court sentenced it to deprivation of liberty for a period of 2 years and 6 months conditionally with a trial period of 2 years.

The apartment building of the beginning of the 20th century in St. Petersburg. Photo from the site www.enlight.ru Within the framework of the National Project "Affordable Housing" it is proposed to build "profitable houses in Russia" with a total area of ​​3 million square meters and rent apartments for 300-400 dollars a month for a one-room apartment.

Abubekir Kurdzhiev. Photo by ITAR-TASS The Stavropol Regional Court sentenced the 24-year-old Roman Kuyushev to 20 years in prison for the murder of Imam Kislovodsk Abubekir Kurdzhiev. The court found that the crime was committed on the basis of religious hatred, according to the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The execution of Polish officers in Katyn. Photo from the site user.tninet.se The Moscow City Court refused to consider the request of human rights defenders on the rehabilitation of the victims of the Katyn tragedy. This was stated in an interview with "Echo of Moscow" the head of the Polish commission of the Memorial Society Alexander Guryanov.

Russian army. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru From January 1, 2008, in the Russian Armed Forces, 70% of the positions of junior commanders and ordinary people will be occupied by contractors and only 30 percent will be in military service. This was in an interview with the newspaper "Red Star" by the First Deputy Minister of Defense, Army General Alexander Belousov.

Igor Sutyan. Frame NTV Military analyst and scientist Igor Sutyan, serving a 15-year term in a maximum security colony for the disclosure of state secrets, asked the President of Russia for pardon. The text of his letter to the president was published on Tuesday in "New Izvestia".

Alexander Khloponin. Photo from the site ntvru.com Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed the candidacy of Alexander Khloponin for the post of governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Kremlin press service. Khloponin became the first governor, whose candidacy was proposed by the political party - United Russia. His powers should expire in the fall of this year.

Another Russia. Image from altweb.ru Should "another Russia" put forward a single candidate in the 2008 presidential election? If so, how to build a promotion procedure? Read the opinions of political scientists and politicians - Dmitry Oreshkin, Nikolai Petrov, George Satarov and Irina Khakamada.

Eduard Limonov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The sixth "march of disagreements" took place in the city of Samara on May 18. In the morning at 8.30, Harry Kasparov and I were detained at Sheremetyevo-1 airport at the time of registration of tickets. As a group of 25 people accompanying us was detained with us: our employees, guards and foreign journalists.