The Pskov Regional Court refused to register the party list of the Union of Right Forces in the elections of deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly of the Fourth convocation, the Pskov news agency reports. Today, the next meeting of the Pskov Regional Court was held, at which a claim of the ATP was considered to refuse the regional election commission in registration Party.

The combined forces of the government of Somali and Ethiopia subjected the artillery shelling the Somali capital of Mogadisho, the Air Force reports. Before that, the Islamists fired at the Presidential Palace of mortars. At least 10 people died in shootouts. These are the most bloody clashes from the end of the last year, when the Ethiopian and government troops have broken the movement of the "Union of Islamic ships" from Mogadisho.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation revealed a number of violations in the implementation of supervisory functions by the Bank of Russia, reports RBC with reference to the first deputy prosecutor general Alexander Buksman. According to him, the audit conducted by the Prosecutor General showed that the Bank of Russia does not ensure the implementation of the functions assigned to it.

Russian President Vladimir Putinapo asked to evaluate the chances of Sochi in pursuit of the 2014 Olympics, but the head of our country refused to do this. True, as RIA Novosti conveys, he uttered the phrase “we have better”. “Sport is always a struggle, and there are always many surprises. I am sure that the Olympics will be interesting, and who will win - time will tell, ”said Vladimir Putin.

The acting director of the Federal Registration Service was appointed Zalina Tramova - Deputy Head of Rosregustration, reports Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax. Meanwhile, the official representatives of the Fed abstained from commenting without confirming, but without refuting this information. According to sources, the request for the resignation of Sergei Movchan was supported by the Minister of Justice of Russia Vladimir Ustinov.

Australia will be the first country in the world where the use of incandescent lamps to combat the atmosphere of carbon dioxide will be prohibited. This was announced on Tuesday by the government of the country, reports Reuters . According to the Minister of Environment and Water Resources Malcolm Ternbull, incandescent lamps that people have been using for 125 years will be replaced by more effective fluorescent lamps by 2009.

RAO UES has presented for public consideration an investment program that looks very, very impressive, if only because no one has done anything like this in our country over the past 15 years. We have all somehow forgotten the Soviet five-year plans and various kinds of “Main directions of the country’s socio-economic development up to ... year,” although at one time the entire press was filled with these plans and programs.

New details of the murder in the suburbs of the head of the metropolitan council of the Cheremushki, Sergey Burkotov district, reports Echo of Moscow, became known. As it was possible to find out, the official of the official was fired from a Kalashniki machine gun. Throwing a weapon at the crime scene, the attacker disappeared on the car waiting for him. The crime was committed at about 9 o’clock in the evening on the Butovo highway.

RAO "UES of Russia" completely redeemed shares from minority shareholders who did not support the reorganization of energy holding for 75.661 million rubles, reports AK & M , citing a message from the energy holding. The energy holding bought 0.01% of its shares from shareholders: 3967730 ordinary and 725628 privileged at the rate of 16.41 rubles. for 1 ordinary and 14.54 rub. for 1 privileged action.

In the Prioksky district of Nizhny Novgorod on the street 40 years of October, the roof of the Kopeyka store collapsed, two people were under the rubble. As Polit.ru already reported, the building where the collapse occurred is on the reconstruction. “The personalities of the victims have already been identified - this is Alexey Frolov and Viktor Volov,” said the representative of the Ministry of Emergencies in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to CNews with reference to Reuters, a group of scientists, engineers and American astronauts at the conference held in the San Francisco conference suggested taking responsibility for the development of systematic measures to prevent the threat out of the cosmos. Such a threat is currently seen, first of all, the clash of the Earth with large celestial bodies - asteroids, the orbits of which intersect with the earth.

A resident of Tatarstan Evgeny Vedenin sued a million rubles from the state for a judicial error, Echo Moscow reports. Vedenin was accused of killing the head of the Tatneft Security Service in 2001 and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He had already left for three years and nine months in a strict regime colony, after which it turned out that the verdict was unfair. Vedenin said that he considers compensation insufficient and will seek the payment of two more million rubles.

February 20, 2007, city of Novokuznetsk, (Kemerovo region). The Kemerovo Regional Court upheld the verdict against the employee of the Ordzhonikidze district department of the internal affairs, police sergeant Vasily Tur. From this moment, the verdict comes into force.

In the Krasnodar Territory, new cases of death from bird flu are not registered, therefore, the quarantine introduced due to outbreak of the virus was removed, RIA Novosti reports. The quarantine was introduced about a month ago in three regions of the Kuban - in the village of Luch (Prigoro Labinsk), the village of Stusty Labinsky district and the village of Borodinskaya Primorsko -Akhtarsky district, where the case of birds was registered.

On Tuesday, the hearings on the assessment of the head of RAO of the Russian RAO Anatoly Chubais will continue in the Moscow Regional Council on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reports. Judicial hearings are held with the participation of jury in closed mode. Three people are accused - former military personnel of the 45th Airborne Forces regiment Alexander Naydenov and Robert Yashin, as well as a former General Staff officer, Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov.