The State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building recommended that the norm on the minimum threshold of voters at the elections of all levels from electoral legislation. Such a decision was made at a meeting of the committee on Thursday as part of the discussion of amendments received by the bill to amend the electoral legislation. At the same time, the Committee spoke in support of the amendment, which provides for the refusal to conduct early voting, Interfax reports.

The Moscow District Military Court (MOVS) on Thursday issued an acquittal on the basis of a jury verdict in the case of an FSB officer Roman Klovkin and other five defendants accused of abduction of a person and extortion. "The court is associated with the verdict of the jury, which previously justified Kokovkin and five more accused in the case, in connection with which an acquittal was sentenced today," Yevgeny Komissarov spokesman Yevgeny Komissarov told Interfax.

In Israel, the magistrate court of Tel Aviv found a 17-year-old repatriat from Ethiopia guilty of rape and murder, Miana Sapir, perfect in May 2005. The accused claimed that at the time of the crime he was in a state of alcohol and narcotic intoxication, as glue sniffed. The court rejected the statement of the defense that insisted that the teenager did not understand what he was doing during the crime.

The appointment of Robert Gates by the new US Minister of Defense is regarded as the readiness of the White House for a more pragmatic course in the field of military policy after losing the majority in Congress, Interfax reports. Representing Gates to journalists, US President George Bush called the new Pentagon head "a man of solid, sincere and sensible." "He knows that the task of ensuring the protection of our country is wider than the needs of any political party," Bush said.

In the Leningrad Region, a policeman has occurred. The prosecutor's office of the Priozersky district opened a criminal case on the fact of the injury of one police officer and the murder of another. According to the prosecutor's office, the night before, the police were called to the territory of the enterprise LLC Lespetsprom. On call, employees of the PPSM of the Sosnovsky police department of the Priozersky Internal Affairs Directorate came to the construction change house.

The French Armed Forces held on Thursday the first launch of the new M-51 strategic missile, which can carry nuclear warheads. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the country in a commander widespread today, ITAR-TASS reports. The project of the strategic missile of the M-51 underwater base, whose defeat zone reaches a radius of 8 thousand km, was launched in 1992 and approved by the president of the republic four years later.

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill "On the approval of an agreement on the delimitation of subjects of jurisdiction and powers between state authorities of the Russian Federation and state authorities of the Republic of Tatarstan." This is the first and, it seems, one of the only two republics that, after the revision of the relations of the center with the regions, will receive the right to special contractual relations with Moscow.

At the same time, two court decisions regarding the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were adopted on Wednesday. Santiago's appeal court decided to release him on bail in the amount of 500 thousand Chilean pesos (about a thousand dollars). At the same time, the court deprived him of inviolability in the case of the abduction and disappearance of the Spanish priest Antonio Llido in 1974. Pinochet has already lost inviolability in several cases of violations of human rights.

The pop star Michael Jackson will arrive in London next week to give the only concert in honor of the World Music Awards award. Jackson chose the “Thriller” - a show that turns 25 this year in the capital of Great Britain, BBC reports. According to the press release, the singer plans to create a new video during a performance at the World Music Awards ceremony.

Arbiter from Petrozavodsk Vladimir Pettai, who was judging the scandalous match of the 26th round of the Russian football championship between Moscow CSKA and St. Petersburg Zenit, admitted that there were mistakes in his actions on the field in this meeting. “I am now in such a state that I could not watch the video of the entire match yet, so I can’t give a full assessment of my actions.

According to a survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation , more than a quarter of Russians (27%) do not drink alcohol at all. They drink alcohol several times a year 3% of Russian citizens. The same was admitted that they drink every day. 14% of respondents drink alcohol several times a week. Among their favorite alcoholic drinks, residents of Russia most often call beer (37%) and vodka (36%).

Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov, after a meeting with representatives of the Russian construction industry, said: "The interest rate on a mortgage should be no more than 7%." At the same time, Mironov proposed to "forgive" a mortgage loan to young families in which more than two children will appear, Interfax reports.

In the temple of St. Alexander of the Nevsky Moldavian city of Unhean, clashes between the priests of the Moldavian Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the Bessarabian Metropolis of the Romanian Patriarchate broke out the day before. The reason is the intention of a group of clergymen of the Ungensky district to move from the Moldavian Metropolis to Bessarabskaya, ITAR -TASS reports.

The British press, commenting on the results of the elections in the United States , does not exclude that the loss of George Bush support among Americans, can further threaten the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who shared his policy in Iraq. This question is now worried about both the official London itself and many analysts on both sides of the ocean.

The control and disciplinary committee of the Russian Football Union forgave the opponent’s stake in the face of the opponent’s protruding Brazilian Brazilian Wagner. Instead of, according to the regulations of the championship of the country, to disqualify the striker of the Moscow army for a hooligan misconduct for 4 or 5 matches, members of the RFU Code of Council at a meeting on Thursday decided not to punish this legionnaire at all.