In the presidential election in Kyrgyzstan, the current head of state Kurmanbek Bakiev confidently leads, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the Ar. According to the results of the counting of 2% of the ballots, he gains about 91% of votes. This was announced by the Kyrgyz Central Economician. Earlier, the CEC said that the turnout in the election of the President of the Republic amounted to 74.6% of the total number of registered voters.

The popular Deviantart website on the Internet, uniting about a million professional artists and fans, as well as publishing on the network, announced the beginning of a new competition: participants are invited to create a logo and the design of album cover, WireD writes. 35 famous groups and musicians agreed to participate in the action: the work of the winners of the competition will become official logos of musicians, the covers will be printed, and the drawings will be printed on T -shirts.

About 300 thousand employees of the Indian region of the Indian region, North Bengal, announced an unlimited strike, reports Hindu. This region accounts for 25% of the total tea production in India. “This is a complete stop of the production process from collecting to processing,” said K. David, chairman of the Indian Tea Association.

On Monday, the Pechersk court of Kiev plans to consider the lawsuit of the ex-head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Igor Smeshko against the Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun for the protection of honor and dignity and compensation for moral damage. According to the News-Ukraine Agency, the initial consideration of the claim was scheduled for July 4, but it was postponed to July 11 due to failure to appear in the court of Svyatoslav Piskun for unclear circumstances.

One of the leaders of the revolution in Kyrgyzstan, and. O. President Kurmanbek Bakiev confidently won the election of the head of the republic on July 10. According to the results of processing, 98% of Bakiev’s ballots gained more than 88%, and new data will no longer be able to affect the final result. The gap with the rest of the five candidates is huge.

Most oil producing enterprises operating in the Gulf of Mexico interrupted their work due to Hurricane "Dennis". The element led to a temporary stop of oil production and processing of natural gas in this part of the United States, which accounts for up to 30% of national energy production. A 1.5 million barrels are produced daily on the territory settled by a hurricane. raw oil and 10 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

The case against ex -Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov was supposedly instituted under Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - “causing property damage by deception or by abuse of trust” - after an article by State Duma deputy Alexander Hinstein, published on July 4 at the Moscow Cosmiles .

Mikhail Kasyanov's press secretary Tatyana Razbash was unable to comment on the report that the Prosecutor General's Office had opened a criminal case against the former prime minister, reports the NTV television company . “I learned about the initiation of the case from the media and so far I cannot comment on these reports,” she said on Monday.

On Monday, the Tver court of Moscow will begin a hearing on the merits in the criminal case against 40 Limonovites accused of the seizure of the Presidential Help Administration. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the seven lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky. “On Monday, the prosecutor must read the indictment in this criminal case, after which the defendants will express their attitude to the charges, that is, they admit their guilt or not,” the lawyer said.

**English tolerance requires sacrifices** In the case of London, human and large. Terrorism continues its march across Europe, leaving bloody traces on the streets of capital cities and in their underground transport arteries. The topics that were supposed to be the main ones this week - the Olympic elections and the G8 summit - for the media turned into only accompanying coverage of the terrorist attacks that occurred on July 7 in the UK.

Tony Blair begins to prepare plans to withdraw troops from Iraq. The British newspaper "Mail on Sunday" publishes a report compiled by the Ministry of Defense, to reduce the British contingent in Iraq in the spring of 2006 by almost 3 thousand military personnel. While at the moment the British contingent has 8.5 thousand military personnel.

On July 14, on Thursday, the film " Dust " is released in the rental of Sergey Loban, the movie theater.doc website reports. The picture was shot by the creative association "Own 2000", which, in addition to the director S. Loban, includes the operator Dmitry Model and screenwriter Marina Potapova. The film represented Russia in the competition program "Prospects" at the XXVII Moscow International Film Festival and received a diploma of the jury of Russian film critics.

On July 12, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation will receive the next series of complaints about the unconstitutionality of the appointment of governors, prepared by the Political Party “Union of Right Forces”. According to the party’s press release today, the third series of complaints about the anti-constitutionality of the appointment of governors will be transferred to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation by representatives of regional branches of the ATP.

President Putin said that the federal budget for 2006 should become a “development budget”. “The budget should not be a“ squandering budget, ”the head of state said today at a meeting with members of the Government of the Russian Federation. The government and the State Duma should not resort to such forms of activity that would lead to “grave consequences for the whole country,” Putin noted, Prime -Tass reports.

Currently, Mikhail Kasyanov, as his spokeswoman Tatyana Podbash stated, is on vacation and it is impossible to contact him, Lenta.Ru reports. According to Poddabash, "over 25 years of public service, Kasyanov did not own the shares or securities of any company." “I am sure that Mikhail Mikhailovich did not commit illegal actions either as prime minister or after that,” said Dazbash.