Citizens of Uzbekistan choose the president of the republic on Sunday. In the morning, 8 thousand 266 polling stations for voting were opened, another 43 sites were formed abroad, RIA Novosti reports.

In the parliamentary elections in Thailand, the Party of the Power of the People (VN) leads. More than 90 percent of the ballots are calculated. According to preliminary results, she receives 228 out of 480 seats in parliament. The current elections, the former over the past 15 months, should marked the country's return to the democratic channel after a bloodless military coup in September 2006, when the Government of Taxin Chinavat was removed from power, ITAR-TASS reports.

The three-time Olympic champion Yulia Chepalova completed the performances at the Krasnogorskskiy Lyzhnya, taking in the 10 km race 44th place. The condition of the daughter and their own complex relations with the country's ski officials agency "All Sport" was commented by the father of Yulia Chepalova - Anatoly Chepalov. “Now we have a routine work, so we don’t have to pay attention to the places occupied by Julia,” said Anatoly Chepalov. “We would be satisfied with any result.

The governor of the Kamchatka Territory Alexei Kuzmitsky held an emergency meeting with participants in the fuel market on Sunday due to the rise in price of gasoline on the peninsula.

Residents of the Moscow District Mitino require the construction of a high-voltage power line of 110-220 kV, which will be held along Pyatnitsky highway, due to fears for their health. On both sides of Pyatnitsky highway there are approximately 50 people with posters of the “power lines”, “children's health are more important than money”, “we were sentenced”. According to the picket participants, the electromagnetic field of power lines will negatively affect people's lives.

For lovers of an active lifestyle, the Japanese company Nissan introduced a new version of the X-Trail SUV called "Arctix Sports Adventure". The car received a 2.0-liter DCI diesel engine with a capacity of 150 hp, as well as a variety of equipment, including, especially for ski, the machine is equipped with a hatch between the rear seats. Also in the new X-Trail, unique Arctix rugs, 17 inch wheels, a panoramic roof, a CD changer with 6 speakers, a Bluetooth system, rain and light sensors.

Resignation Major, former deputy head of the department for combating the banditry of the ATB of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the director of the Rosomakh security agency Konstantin Lionenko was shied on Saturday in Krasnoyarsk. According to Interfax agency in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the murder occurred in the Central District of Krasnoyarsk near the Kwant shopping center.

Presidential candidate, businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, who now lives abroad, believes that the Georgian authorities intend to eliminate him. “I was informed about 6-8 weeks ago that four people came from Georgia to London and stopped (at one of the Georgian citizens) in London. I was informed that these people were sent to do something about me,” said Patarkatsishvili in an interview with the British newspaper Sunday Times , published on Sunday.

The Turkish Air Force today inflicted a missile-bombing blow in the area of ​​the Kandil mountain range in the north of Iraq. The Anatolian agency notes this, said the representative of the Kurdish armed groups of Peshmerga, Jabbar Yaver. According to him, Turkish aviation bombed the district of Gora Larukh at 15:00 Moscow time. More accurate data about the operation have not yet been received. The Turkish General Staff has not yet commented on this information.

On the night of December 23, the Georgian military police detained three Russian peacekeepers in the city of Poti in the West of Georgia from the collective forces to maintain peace (KSPM) in the Zhino-Abkhaz conflict zone, news agency reports with reference to the country's Ministry of Defense. In addition, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia claims, at the time of the detention, the peacekeepers were dressed in civilian clothes and were drunk.

In the Maykop infectious diseases hospital, 20 children from among the pupils of the kindergarten 14 aged 3 to 6 years who have received in recent days are prepared for an extract. "On the evening of Saturday, 79 children who preliminarily diagnosed" SARS together with the intestinal syndrome. "It should be noted that 20 children are already ready for discharge," the Interfax agency was told in the Republican Rospotrebnadzor.

Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos, during his stay in the Madrid “Real”, twice working under the leadership of Fabio Capello, thinks that the Italian should restore David Beckham as captain of the English team. “What was between them last year in Real Madrid is not the fault of Capello and Beckham,” the Official website of the Sport TV channel reports. “I am sure Capello will call Beckham in the national team, where David will be captain.

Richard Williams, under the strict leadership of which his two daughters, vinus and Serena, became successful and popular tennis players, began to train an 8-year-old novice player, promising to make a world-class star. His name is Dzhancarlo Cavalro. He has already won 5 children's tournaments and is not going to stop there. According to Williams, Dzhancarlo is already having non -childish ambitiousness and a hardworking attitude to business: "He is a very capable boy with tennis talent.

Private detectives investigating the disappearance of little British Madel Madlen McCan in Portugal is investigating the version according to which the girl was abducted by British pedophiles, Sky News reports. According to the television channel, the law enforcement agencies of Great Britain transferred data on 52 pedophiles hired by the parents of the girl, who are subjects of the United Kingdom.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the move of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation to St. Petersburg on May 21, 2008. The president announced this at a meeting with the judges of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in the building of the Senate and the Synod, where the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation will have to move. As noted in the decree, the start date of the constitutional court of constitutional proceedings in the city of St.