The Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region approved Maria Gaidar as Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Kirov Region. The politician herself announced this on her blog. Gaidar's appointment of vice-governors was supported by 42 deputies. Six MPs abstained. No one voted against the nomination. According to Gaidar, as deputy head of the region Nikita Belykh, she will continue to oversee health care, social protection and employment, "but without the prefix" acting ".

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has said that he does not intend to employ merchants from China who worked at the Cherkizovsky market before it closed, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, Luzhkov noted that the Moscow authorities are solving the issue of accommodating Russian sellers. In addition, he once again stressed that the Cherkizovsky market would no longer work.

Presidential elections are taking place in Kyrgyzstan. According to RIA Novosti, almost 2,300 polling stations in the country and 49 more located abroad have opened since 8 am. More than 2.7 million voters are eligible to take part in the elections.

Rosobrnadzor insists on reducing the list of categories of Russians eligible for benefits when entering universities, RIA Novosti reports. The head of the department, Lyubov Glebova, expressed her hope that the relevant bill would be considered by the State Duma in the fall. “From the point of view of Rosobrnadzor, there is an excess number of those categories that enjoy benefits when enrolling in universities,” Glebova said.

reports, citing The head of the territorial department of the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management in the Magadan Region, Yevgeny Antoshchenkov, was found guilty of abuse of office, Interfax a source in the investigation department of the Investigative Committee for the Magadan Region. By a court verdict, the official was sentenced to deprivation of the right to hold positions related to the exercise of the functions of a representative of power for a period of three years.

The meeting between US Vice President Joe Biden and Mikheil Saakashvili is taking place behind closed doors at the residence of the President of Georgia. According to BBC, with reference to Georgia's State Minister for European Integration Giorgi Baramidze, the main issue at the meeting is the problem of Georgia's security. Arriving in Tbilisi, Biden said the United States would stand by Georgia, which seeks more democratization.

Russia lost another Chechen case in Strasbourg. According to the court decision, 35 thousand euros must be paid to Zara Mutsaeva, who lives in Urus-Martan and has lost her son. This was reported to Granyam.Ru by the human rights center "Memorial", whose lawyers represented the interests of the victim. Mutsaeva's son Khizir Tepsurkaev was detained by representatives of the federal forces on August 27, 2001, when he was on his way to apply for a job.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus strongly recommends that fellow citizens when visiting Abkhazia and South Ossetia observe Georgian legislation. BelaPAN informs about it. The Foreign Ministry recalls that the laws of Georgia restrict the free movement of foreign citizens in these territories. "Entry of foreigners into Abkhazia and South Ossetia is allowed only from the directions of the Zugdidi and Gori municipalities.

A group of archaeologists, armed with sonar, discovered the intact remains of five ancient Roman ships that sank off the coast of the small Italian island of Ventotene, writes Compulenta , citing Reuters . Merchant ships (I century BC - V century AD) rest at a depth of more than a hundred meters. This is one of the deepest finds made by archaeologists in the Mediterranean in recent years. Ventotene is part of an archipelago located halfway from Rome to Naples.

Five residents of Yekaterinburg hospitalized with suspected influenza A / H1N1 have been previously confirmed this diagnosis, Interfax reports citing a statement from the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region. "To accurately confirm the diagnosis, blood tests were sent to a laboratory in Novosibirsk," the press service said. At the same time, the number of patients hospitalized in Yekaterinburg with suspected influenza A / H1N1 increased to ten people.

The head of the criminal investigation department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Mezhdurechensk in the south of Kuzbass is accused of banditry and abuse of power, Nadezhda Ananyeva, press secretary of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the region, told RIA Novosti.

47 articles of the Criminal Code of Russia can be supplemented by a provision on the application of an alternative punishment - compulsory community service. Previously, these offenses were punishable by fines or imprisonment. According to Vedomosti, a draft law amending the Criminal and Penitentiary Codes has been prepared by the Ministry of Justice.

In Kyrgyzstan, opposition presidential candidates are demanding a repeat election. According to Radio Liberty, ex-premier Almazbek Atambaev and Jenishbek Nazraliev made such a statement. Opposition members said they refuse to participate in "unprecedented dirty elections," reporting massive voter fraud. Atambayev and Nazraliev called on international observers to recognize the elections as illegitimate.

More than 32 billion rubles will be invested in the economy of Ingushetia in the coming years. According to "Kommersant", this was stated by the head of the Ministry of Regional Development Viktor Basargin. According to him, the program of socio-economic development of Ingushetia is at the approval stage, and its implementation will begin in 2010.

The bodies of a woman and a child were found under the rubble of a collapsed house in Astrakhan. As a representative of the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti, the bodies were pressed down with a slab. On Wednesday morning, the left side of a single-entrance five-story house completely collapsed.