Over the past nine years, the Chinese judicial system has found guilty of almost all six million defendants accused of criminal offenses, Reuters reports. In total, from January 1998 to September 2006, 41.038 people were justified - this is only 0.66 percent of the total number of 6.2 million criminal cases.

November 20 this year at 18.00. As part of the international program of the Institute of Public Planning “Russian Readings”, a lecture by Daniel Slater, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, will be held on the topic “Where strong states come from: an attempt to “reconcile” Asian and European traditions.” Daniel Slater is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

The other day, the “Statement of the Federal Cabinet on the German Presidency of the European Union” was published in Berlin, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes today. Germany will begin it for six months on January 1, 2007. But the document officially names in advance the goals of the upcoming German leadership of the community. Among them there is even “expanding partnership with the neighboring African continent,” but nothing is written about Russia.

Perm journalists demand the resignation of Governor Oleg Chirkunov. According to Echo of Moscow , media workers accuse him of systematic infringement of the rights and freedoms of citizens. According to Tatyana Sokolova, editor -in -chief of the Perm Observer newspaper, journalists wrote a letter to President Putin, and six thousand residents of the Perm Territory already signed under this letter.

For 15 years in a maximum security colony, the prosecutor asks for the accused in the case of the explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery Andrei Anokhin, the Echo of Moscow reports. An explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery at the grave of the former head of the Russian Fund for War Disabled in Afghanistan Mikhail Likhody, occurred on November 10, 96. As a result of the attack, 14 people were killed, about 30 were injured.

The metropolitan airport "Domodedovo" today accepted 22 flights redirected from the Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports due to heavy snowfall, RIA Novosti reports. According to the source at the airport, Domodedovo works normally, the visibility of more than 1000 meters, the weather does not affect the schedule.

The Nice Prosecutor's Office opened criminal cases against five people from Chechnya, RIA Novosti reports.

A group of researchers under the leadership of Diana O. Fisher from the National Australian University (Australian National University, Canberra) showed that polyandry (crossing the females with many males) sharply increases the viability of offspring in marsupial mice, reports Nature magazine. In Australian marsupial mice ( Antechinus Stuartii ), during the rut, each female mates with many males, and the male with many females, and each sexual intercourse lasts from 5 to 14 hours.

The Federal Subsoil Use Agency prepared an order to recall the license for two deposits at the Barents Sea - Admiralteyskaya and Pakhtusov Squares, which belong to Syntyronftegaz CJSC, which is part of the Synthesis group, Kommersant writes today. According to another information, the order was signed by the head of Rosnedr Anatoly Ledovsky on Wednesday and has already been registered.

British intelligence Mi-5 has information about at least 30 prepared conspiracies, reports the Air Force . According to the head of the department, Eliza Manningham Buller, there may be much more of them. Manningham-Buller said that in the UK there are about two hundred different groups, which include more than one and a half thousand people, British Muslims, which prefer attempts of various attacks.

The leader of the ATP Nikita Belykh is confident that the proposed amendments to the electoral legislation are absolutely meaningless for society, but has a very deep meaning for United Russia. As he said on the air of the City-FM radio station, United Russia is very effectively used by the administrative resource to bring certain categories of citizens, such as employees of the budget sphere, military personnel, people in investigative insulators and so on, to vote for themselves.

The Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation approved a number of amendments proposed by the "United Russia" that relate to elections in Russia. Many of these amendments, in particular, cancel the lower threshold of voters of 20%, cause many questions among observers and opposition deputies who speak of “political cleansing” and “trampling the political field”.

According to the decision of RAO "UES" the winner of the competitive selection of an investor for the implementation of the project for the modernization of OJSC "Experimental TPP" was recognized as the Estar Metallurgical Company LLC, according to a press release from the energy holding. The competitive selection of the investor was carried out by RAO UES of Russia on the basis of a decision of the board of directors of energy holding of June 23, 2006.

In the Irkutsk region, over the past two months, the victims of toxic hepatitis caused by poisoning by surrogate alcohol were 60 people, RIA Novosti reports. According to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, today, according to the Main Directorate of Health of the Irkutsk Region, the number of poisoned was 1685 people. Over the past day, 34 patients with signs of recovery have been discharged from hospitals, and at the same time 38 new patients were hospitalized.

Rososh security culture against the burned dome of the Trinity Cathedral, not to recreate not from wood, but from other materials, reports Fontanka.ru . According to the representatives of this department, the Council for the preservation of the cultural heritage, which decided yesterday not to restore the unique dome in the wooden version, was in a hurry. Moreover, the council performs only a consulting function.