Elections 2003 - what surprised Russians? ELECTIONS After the elections to the State Duma took place, respondents were asked whether the voting results were unexpected for them. 20% answered affirmatively, 69% responded negatively.

The former head of the oil company Yukos still arrived in the Basmanny Court of Moscow, where a hearing in the case of its further detention will be held, Gazeta.ru said.

The Lithuanian parliament approved the composition of a special commission, which will investigate the activities of the President of Lithuania Rolandas Paxas, reports Echo of Moscow . The commission must establish whether there is reason to begin the impeachment procedure. The commission includes six parliamentarians and the same number of independent lawyers. The impeachment procedure can last from two to six months.

The current president of Bashkiria Murtaza Rakhimov, according to preliminary data, won a convincing victory in the second round of voting on the election of the head of the republic. According to the Central Election Commission of Bashkiria on Monday morning, 78.01% of voters that voted last Sunday cast votes for Murtase Rakhimov. His opponent entrepreneur Sergey Veremeenko gained 15.85% of the vote. The turnout of the voters in the plots amounted to 69.94%.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky will be delivered to the Basmanny Court for the next hour, the lawyer of the former head of the Yukos NK Henry Padva told reporters. According to Padva, the judge apologized to the defenders of the arrested and said that "information about the presence of a threat to participants in the process is not true," RIA Novosti reports.

The North Caucasus District Military Court justified Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Kudyakov, convicted in the case of the Mi-26 helicopter shot down in August 2002, Interfax reports. In November of this year, Kudyakov was sentenced to three years in prison by the Rostov garrison military court under Article 293 of Part 2 of the Criminal Code ("Official negligence, which caused grave consequences"), but at the same time was exempted from amnesty liability.

Anna Petrova Elections of 2003 -What surprised the Russians? : Difficult choice : “There is no faith to anyone” : what will be the new Duma? : "More for the people" : the secrets of love for "homeland" Elections of 2003-What surprised Russians? ELECTIONS After the elections to the State Duma took place, the respondents were asked if the voting results were unexpected for them. 20%, 69% of the respondents answered affirmatively.

The General Prosecutor's Office denied information about the petition of the prosecutor in the case of the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky to postpone a court hearing on the extension of the detention of the Sailor Silence of the Sailor Sailor.

This week, the results of the elections of the President of Bashkiria, the governors of the Tver, Kirov and Sakhalin Region, as well as the mayor of Yekaterinburg, will be summed up on Sunday. Forecasts for the heads of the regions made by Polit.ru a week ago come true: the authorities seem to be preserved by Murtaza Rakhimov (Bashkiria) and Ivan Malakhov (Sakhalin), and Zelenin and Shakelein will be acquired.

Khodorkovsky will be left in jail only tomorrow, his defender wants to deprive his lawyer status, and Berezovsky wants to give money to the future president, but not to Putin The Basmanny court failed today to consider the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office to extend the term of maintenance of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in custody. It will be considered tomorrow after 12 in the afternoon.

According to Interfax, the Moscow Arbitration Court recognized the competition for the 6th meter channel, which belongs to the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (MNVK). The Competition was held by the Ministry of Public Propagation after the cessation of TV-6 broadcasting was won, and now the Sports TV channel broadcasts on the channel.

"There will be as much alcohol as necessary" The metropolitan trade for the New Year is ready. New Year's trade, compared to autumn months, increases the turnover by 45%. "December feeds the year" - says the old merchant wisdom. “We have one task: to sell as much as possible,” the head of the capital's department of the consumer market and services, Vladimir Malyshkov, admitted yesterday (on Monday).

The mayor of Moscow, as he promised during his inauguration , began the personnel permissions in the Moscow government reports Newsru.com . Today, the Moscow mayor resigned three prefects of the administrative districts of the capital. Gennady Degtev (famous for the intention of demolishing half of residential buildings on Tverskaya), the West - Vladimir Kiryushin - and the east - Boris Ulyanov lost their posts.

Vitaly Leibin Our policy has outlined a very nasty state of affairs. A thing, perhaps, is even stronger than the National Socialist Revenge, about which the right were told before the elections, and Polit.ru at the beginning of the hunt for oligarchs. The main political conquest of the last 15 years has been questioned - free elections as the only source of legitimate power in Russia. Yesterday's statements of Yabloko solve some problems and put new, even more cool ones.

With the president of Iraq, trouble - he was allegedly detained not in December, but two months earlier. This is stated in the plot of RTR. Photos of dates who accidentally hit the frame give as evidence. Usually they are removed in September-October. True, the correspondent notes, if they do not remove them, they will sag until December. Just about such reports, Posner spoke out: all this is no more than envy of America. However, the rating of Bush rose by 6% and reached 58%.