**All my own** The appointment of a new cabinet of ministers, as has become customary in recent years, took place in the style of a KGB special operation. No one (the media claim that the ministers themselves too) had any idea which of them would sit in their chairs and which would resign until the moment President Vladimir Putin spoke at the White House and announced the composition of the new government.

On the evening of Monday, in the city of Neftekumsk, the Stavropol Territory, employees of the local FSB department began a special operation to neutralize several participants in illegal armed groups, RIA Novosti reports. According to the city police department, the "large -scale special operation" began about 19 hours Moscow time on Kozlov Street. There are heard "automatic queues and grenade ruptures", the agency’s interlocutor said.

According to Space.com , graduate student of Sebastian Honig from the German Institute of Radio Astronomy Max Plank (Max-Planck-Ino-Intimate for Radioastronomy) opened a new periodic comet. The object called P/2007 R5 (SOHO) was discovered using the SOHO orbital observatory (Solar and Heliosphereic Observatory) - it was seen in September 1999, and then in September 2003. Hyling suggested that this is the same object that is a periodic coma.

According to preliminary data, the Party of Regions and the Blok Yulia Tymoshenko gained an almost equal number of votes in the early elections of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. And if in the morning and the whole first half of the day the processing of the ballots showed the almost three percent lag of the regionals from Bet, then by the evening the gap was reduced, and the main competitors began to go to the nostril in the nostril.

The Moscow City Court recognized Boris Zemtsov, deputy chief editor of the Independent Gazeta, the deputy editor of the independent newspaper , RIA Novosti reports . The complaint of the defense that asked him to change the measure of restraint was thus rejected. Relatives of a journalist accused of extortion announced their readiness to make a deposit, but they were refused. The meeting of the Moscow City Court was held without the participation of Zemtsov and his lawyers.

According to preliminary data, the Party of Regions and the Blok Yulia Tymoshenko gained an almost equal number of votes in the early elections of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. And if in the morning and the whole first half of the day the processing of the ballots showed the almost three percent lag of the regionals from Bet, then by the evening the gap was reduced, and the main competitors began to go to the nostril in the nostril.

The Volgograd prosecutor's office appealed to the court of the Central District with a request to authorize the arrest of the president of the Diamant Group of Companies, the leader of the Local branch of the Just Russia party, Oleg Mikheev, who was suspected of accompligence of tax evasion, the Echo of Moscow radio station reports. The prosecutor Vasily Goshchuk told the court that Oleg Mikheev, remaining free, could escape or prevent the investigation in his case.

** All of your own ** The appointment of a new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers, as has become familiar in recent years, took place in the style of a Chekist special operation. No one (the media claim that the ministers themselves are also) had no idea about which of them will strengthen in their seats, and who would resign before President Vladimir Putin spoke in the White House and declared the composition of the new government.

The ex-Minister of Defense of Georgia, Irakli Okhaashvili, expected to arrest, but believed that this would happen "much later." So he stated in an interview with the Georgian television company Imady a few hours before the arrest, RIA Novosti reports . Last night, the television company published an interview with Okartashvili.

The shareholders of the KM Invest Foundation entered into an agreement and amended the constituent documents of the company and its subsidiaries in order to determine the procedure for managing assets in joint ownership of Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov. According to the press service of the ONEXIM group and the company Interros, the shareholders formed the board of directors of the company where representatives of both investors were elected in equal shares.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** Elections in Ukraine The CEC of Ukraine summarizes the preliminary results of voting in early parliamentary elections Press conference of the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine Vladimir Shapoval. Elections to the State Duma The pre -election congress of the United Russia party. The Army is a call In Russia, a call for military service begins, the term of which will be the last one and a half years.

Over the next three weeks, a “package” decision may be made, which assumes larger personnel permutations in Gazprom. Resignations and appointments to Gazprom may begin with the deputy chairman of the Gazprom board Alexander Ananenkov - he can leave his post today, leading business publications wrote today. In question-the careers of five more top managers of Gazprom, which the company’s board of directors last week approved the extension of powers for five years, Kommersant believes.

The collection of Russian art of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya will be exhibited in the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, near St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports . This decision was made by its owner, entrepreneur Alisher Usmanov, taking into account the wishes of the previous owner of the collection - Galina Vishnevskaya. Earlier, assumptions were made that the collection will be divided and exhibited in several Russian museums. “I came into the conclusion that in St.

In the UK, a law entered into force, which significantly expands the authorities to control the residents of the country. 795 different organizations gained access to information about the telephone conversations of the British, previously considered confidential. The new law obliges telephone companies to record and store information about the numbers with which a separate citizen, names, surnames and addresses of subscribers, their whereabouts, if we are talking about a mobile phone.

After processing one fourth protocols from polling stations in the Verkhovna Rada elections, the championship is preserved by the Blok Yulia Tymoshenko (BYUT), which gained 33, 38 percent of the vote. In second place is the Party of Regions with 29, 99% of the vote, in the third “Our Ukraine - People’s Self -Defense” with 16.1 percent of the vote, RIA Novosti reports.