Political Cuisine of Russia The State Duma saves on delicious food. Why and why? The Russian parliament is a strange place. Deprived of the normal status and character of the institution of the legislative system, which is an appendage of the executive power - a voting machine, it, nevertheless, now and then gives out some independent actions. Most of the time they are suspicious.

On Monday in Novosibirsk, on the square in front of the State Public Library for Science and Technology Library, the most massive rally against monetization since its inception was held. As a REGNUM correspondent reports from the scene, despite the mass character, the rally passed without incidents such as blocking roads and detaining young radicals by law enforcement forces.

A campaign for the election of deputies of the City Council has started in Novosibirsk. As the chairman of the City Electoral Committee Yury Petukhov told news agency REGNUM, today from the moment of publication in the newspaper "Evening Novosibirsk" of the resolution of the City Council on the appointment of elections for April 3, the term for nominating candidates for deputies began.

In the elections to the District Duma of the Taimyr / Dolgano-Nenets / Autonomous Okrug, United Russia won a landslide victory. As the correspondent reported today. ITAR-TASS head of the press service of the administration of the Autonomous Okrug Dmitry Pertsev, according to the preliminary results of the vote count, the regional branch of "United Russia" received the support of 31.16 percent of the voters who participated in the vote.

The court acquitted Vyacheslav Yadaganov, head of the administration of the Ulagansky district of the Republic of Altai, accused of abuse of power. The court refused to recognize that the head of the area affected by the earthquake in 2003, concluded an unreasonably expensive contract with one of the Novosibirsk organizations to eliminate the consequences of a natural disaster and made an inefficient use of budget funds in the amount of 100 thousand rubles.

Due to a 44-degree frost today, classes have been canceled in all secondary schools in the capital of Tuva, where a third of the population of the republic lives. More than 18 thousand schoolchildren are forced to stay at home today. According to weather forecasters, a drop in air temperature to 40 degrees in the morning was registered almost throughout the entire territory of the republic.

In Buryatia, it was decided not to cancel the holiday in honor of the New Year according to the lunar calendar, which now falls on February 9th. This was reported today to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the government of Buryatia. The holiday was given state status in 1991 by a decree of the Supreme Council of the Republic.

The regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations took control of the situation with the provision of heat in the city of Yarovoye and seven other districts of the Altai Territory. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, it got colder up to 15-18 degrees Celsius in the heated premises of Yarovoye.

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation revealed the inefficient use of federal budget funds allocated to the Republic of Khakassia in 2002-2003.

Protests against the monetization of benefits continue in the city of Biysk, Altai Territory. Today the city administration building is picketed by more than 50 students. They are protesting against the increase in the cost of transport tickets. The students said that with a scholarship of 160 rubles, they do not have the opportunity to buy a ticket for 180 for one type of public transport.

The hunger strike in the city of Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk Region, was ended today by four deputies of the local Duma. Following the hospitalized Lyudmila Bragina, on the urgent recommendation of doctors, three more people's deputies stopped their hunger strike on Sunday. Nevertheless, as reported today in the administration of the municipality, the action continues. The three remaining participants of the action were joined by four employees of the public sector of the city.

For two years instead of five Elections to the District Duma were held yesterday in the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug. The chairman of the district electoral committee, Pyotr Zaitsev, told Kommersant that "the elections were held calmly, no serious violations were recorded." The term of office of the deputies is five years, but in the event of the unification of Taimyr with the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Evenkia, the current composition of the district parliament will be dissolved on January 1, 2007.

On Monday in Novosibirsk, on the square in front of the State Public Library for Science and Technology Library, the most massive rally against monetization since its inception was held. As a REGNUM correspondent reports from the scene, despite the mass character, the rally passed without incidents such as blocking roads and detaining young radicals by law enforcement forces. You can read the report from the rally here.

“... we will talk about everything and nothing specifically ...” “…who is not a Russian citizen is an investor!..” “... Alexander Gennadievich, let me correct you: not at the same time, but at the same time and immediately! ..” “... we will use this specialist of yours and use it ...” “... A citizen can be sucked and sucked, in the end he will die, and the employer will die with him, because he is not a worker. So, it is also reasonable to suck him, this citizen! ... " "...

Residents of the Irkutsk region, defending their rights, threaten to block the Trans-Siberian The authorities of the Irkutsk region are making every effort to prevent public protests about the monetization of benefits. For several days meticulously, but unsuccessfully, the organizers of a spontaneous rally in Angarsk, which gathered more than 2,000 excited pensioners in front of the city hall, were searched for.