Sergey Mirzoev On the day of the start of the recently elected parliament of Tajikistan, we publish an analysis of a series of elections in the CIS of recent times from the point of view of the method of assessing democratic procedures in countries in which democratic institutions are young, and elected traditions are weak.

The attempt on the head of the RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais, according to one version, could be committed by a military pensioner - a specialist in sabotage operations. Currently, the suspect has been detained, and he is interrogated, the newspaper reports. ru , citing Interfax. It is reported that the operatives set the number of the Saab car, on which the criminals, who allegedly attacked Chubais, disappeared from the scene.

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Boris Nemtsov, a member of the Political Council of the Union of Right Forces party, believes that the attempt on Anatoly Chubais is political in nature and is not connected with his activities as chairman of the RAO UES of Russia, Echo of Moscow reports.

The representative of Brokerkreditsyvis told Polit.ru that the shares of RAO UES did not respond to the message about the attempt on the head of the company Anatoly Chubais. “Trading opened at the level just below the closing level, and now they are traded just higher,” the representative of the financial company said.

A powerful snow cyclone from the water area of ​​the Sea is approaching the Kamchatka coast, Gazeta.Ru reports. According to Thursday in the Kamchatka hydrometeorological center, the atmospheric vortex will begin to influence the peninsula on the night of Saturday. Cyclone will bring abundant precipitation, a blizzard in a storm wind up to 25-28 meters per second in Ust-Bolshertsky, Elizovsky district and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

The Vice Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Pekhtin believes that the attempt on Anatoly Chubais is related to his professional activities , RIA Novosti reports. "I think that the attempt on Chubais is associated with his professional activity. I do not see a political aspect here," Pekhtin said. Pekhtin admitted that there is forces who do not like the reform of the electric power industry conducted by Chubais.

The website of the Japanese Foreign Ministry is disabled by a hacker attack, the Echo of Moscow reports. The representative of the department said that the Internet resource was overloaded with excess information from the outside, and this led to the cessation of access. The server has not yet been fully restored. Last month, the site of Prime Minister Koizumi was faced with similar difficulties. Then the responsibility for cyber attacks was assigned to Chinese hackers.

In the case of an attempt on Anatoly Chubais, we are talking about a media-political artifact. Such an opinion in an interview with Polit.ru was expressed by the chairman of the Effective Policy Fund Gleb Pavlovsky. “I think that having said“ economy ”or“ politics ”, we will cover all the options (the reasons for the attempt -“ Polit.ru ”), except for the personal revenge of a woman who has a heart, which is unlikely,” he said.

When the events from the actual turn into historical, subject to calm reflection, and not instant boiling of feelings and followed by instinctively rising in the excitement of the chest and the declaration of light transparent moisture running from the eye along the hollows of the face - Tatars, 1812, 1945? More recently, we lived, so to speak, in eternity, when the same combustible tear cried over the death of the unfortunate Pushkin and the recent death of his mother.

On the day of the opening of the newly elected parliament of Tajikistan, we are publishing an analysis of the recent series of elections in the CIS from the point of view of the way to assess democratic procedures in countries where democratic institutions are young and electoral traditions are weak. Usually in such situations we tend to trust observers from Europe rather than from Russia or the CIS, since it is Europe and the United States that have the tradition and models of democracy.

The American Senate 51 votes against 49 allowed oil production on the territory of the Arctic Reserve in Alaska, the newspaper reports. Ru , citing Associated Press. Oil development in these territories will begin next year. This decision is Bush’s serious victory over the "green", which defended the inviolability of Alaska for several decades.

The state must tighten the punishment for the dissemination of illegal information on the Internet, RIA Novosti reports the opinion of the Minister of Information and Communications Leonid Reiman. "The state must solve this problem by tightening the punishment for illegal actions on the network," the minister said, noting that now civil law is practically not in the network. At the same time, Reiman again spoke out against the regulation of the Internet.

Both "black boxes" of the An-24 Autonomous Okrug, which were crashed the day before, were discovered. It is reported by "Gazeta.Ru" with reference to the Minister of Transport Igor Levitin. The An-24 aircraft suffered a disaster on Wednesday in the area of ​​the village of Varandey when landing. He executed a charter flight from Ufa, transporting the watch of one of the oil producing enterprises.

“The murder of Maskhadov was an instrument to prevent the second Khasavyurt,” said Nikolai Silaev at a round table of experts and public figures “Chechnya after the death of Maskhadov”, conducted by Polit.ru and the project “Reconstruction of Chechnya” today in “Bilingual”. The subject of discussion was, in particular, whether the course on the “leaky” of the conflict will continue.