The mayor of a city with a population of one million was chosen by the population of one small block. This is the picture that emerges if we sum up the elections in Omsk, where, according to the latest census, 1.2 million people live. The turnout was 17.3%. The winner, United Russia member Vyacheslav Dvorakovsky, received 49.4% of the votes. In absolute figures, this is 77,815 voters. About 8.4% of their total number (6.5% of the entire population).

One of the favorite subjects of the Russian political scene is the demonization of the figure of Igor Sechin. The reverent horror that the name of the supposed chief oilman and arbiter of destinies inspires in numerous commentators is hardly comparable to anything.

Yesterday, the Tatarstan Transport Prosecutor's Office reported that a case had been opened against the IAC management for an administrative offence under Article 11.3.1, Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation for failure to comply with aviation security regulations. During a routine inspection, prosecutors discovered a fenced parking lot in the immediate vicinity of Terminal 2.

The applicant of the rally "For Fair Elections" on December 24, Sergei Parkhomenko, was summoned to a conversation with an investigator. The journalist and publisher's wife, Varvara Gornostaeva, published her husband's SMS message on Facebook: "An investigator for especially important cases from the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office [quoted verbatim, in fact, apparently, the Investigative Committee of Russia] just called.

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June 20, 2012, 15:57 / Business Intel announced at the forum a new status - a resident of Skolkovo Maria Buravtseva A subsidiary of Intel Corporation, Intel Software LLC, has received resident status of the Skolkovo Foundation , Conor Lenihan, Skolkovo vice president for working with international partners, announced at a joint press conference with Intel as part of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has started a microblog on Twitter, the republic's government reports. He has no relation to other social media pages in which he is mentioned as the author, the press service assured. So far, Kadyrov's microblog has only two posts. At the time of publication of the news, he had 1,344 followers.

The 2003 parliamentary election campaign was held without violating the Convention on Human Rights, which declares the right to free elections. This decision was made by the ECHR on the complaint of the CPRF, Yabloko and several voters who challenged the results of the 2003 parliamentary elections. The ECHR also found no violation of the right to an effective remedy in the ruling of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which rejected the oppositionists' complaint.

Bakanov was born on May 30, 1982 in Samara. In 2004 he graduated from Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University. In 2000 he began his career in Tauberbishofsheim (Germany) as a translator. Since 2004 he has been working at AZIMUT Hotels, having risen from the administrator of AZIMUT Hotel Samara to the managing director of AZIMUT Hotel Novyi Bereg (Moscow region).

RIA Novosti Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov turned 200 years old at an unusually opportune time. In 2012, the conversation about the relevance of his most bitter novels, An Ordinary Story and Oblomov, and to a lesser extent The Precipice, is not a tribute to official rhetoric or a stretch.

The Saint Petersburg City Court has sentenced two professors from the Ustinov Baltic State Technical University "Voenmekh" to real prison terms. They were found guilty of passing telemetry calculations for the launch of the Bulava sea-based missile to Chinese intelligence services. Yevgeny Afanasyev was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 12.5 years in a maximum security penal colony. Svyatoslav Bobyshev was found guilty of aiding and abetting treason and received six months less.

In the 21st century, gluttony has ceased to be a harmless habit and a personal matter. Mass obesity has an increasing impact on economic policy, energy, industry, prices for raw materials and food. There are currently almost a billion obese people on the planet, the World Health Organization states. And obese not in terms of model standards, but so obese that excess weight threatens serious health problems (when the body mass index is more than 25-30).

Sergei Shoigu "Citizens are outraged. If there is a need to issue a governor's decree so that not a single tree falls here again, I will do it." The Moscow Region Governor criticized the actions of the Zhukovsky authorities in connection with the felling of the Tsagovsky forest, and demands that those guilty of violating the law be punished.

CapMan Russia announced the acquisition of 25% of Vital Development Corporation in a disclosure on the LSE. The purpose of the deal is to expand the company's production capacity, develop new products and increase its market share, the statement said. Vital Development, by its own estimates, is the largest developer, manufacturer and supplier of reagents and analytical equipment for laboratories in Russia.

June 20, 2012, 13:47 / Finance / Technology China warns of depleting its own reserves of rare earth elements Natalya Raibman The Chinese government warns that the depletion of rare earth reserves has accelerated recently and blames overexploitation of deposits and illegal mining. According to the BBC, this is stated in a document published by Xinhua on June 20 and which China submitted to the WTO in defense of its right to restrict the export of rare earth metals.