The preliminary results of the parliamentary elections were announced yesterday by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Kyrgyzstan Sulaiman Imanbaev. According to him, out of 75 deputies, 71 were elected, while 32 candidates won in the first round on February 27. In two districts, the second round will be held on March 20, and in two more, where the majority of voters voted against everyone, the election date will be determined later.

The government remained. The revolution did not take place. What's next? The “Orange Revolution” in Kyrgyzstan, the danger of which the president of this country Askar Akayev has spoken so much about in recent months, did not happen. In any case, two days after the second round of parliamentary elections, which took place on March 13.

The Grand Muftis argued for the right to speak on behalf of Muslims The recent call by the Council of Muftis of Russia to the authorities not to teach religion in secular schools turned into a loud scandal among clergy. Following the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, who is in charge of the SMR, was criticized by his longtime opponents from the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia (TSDUM) under the leadership of Talgat Tadzhuddin. They accused Mr.

The IOC Commission will be able to assess the unanimity of Muscovites An assessment commission of the International Olympic Committee has begun work in the Russian capital, the purpose of which is to study the possibilities of Moscow to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Over the course of four days, members of the IOC delegation will assess the city's readiness from a professional point of view.

The Ministry of Finance is trying to liberalize the tax assessment procedure The decision of the budget commission to freeze the value added tax rate for three years, taken at the initiative of the Ministry of Finance, caused a little confusion among entrepreneurs. On the one hand, this actually means that radical relaxations of the tax burden should not be expected in the near future.

Koryak official is ready to suffer punishment with the dismissed governor The Tigilsky District Court of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug is expected to announce the verdict tomorrow against the former vice-governor of the district, Mikhail Sokolovsky. He is accused of abuse of power, for which he faces up to seven years in prison. Moreover, if this period turns out to be conditional, the ex-official will be very lucky. After all, it is precisely through the fault of Mr.

Scammers did not allow AvtoVAZ cars to go abroad The Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has completed an investigation into a series of criminal cases involving large-scale scams involving AvtoVAZ cars. At one time, the plant, in order to promote the Zhiguli brand in the West, decided to sell them to foreign countries at cost.

Government House staff will be allowed to lead a monastic lifestyle Lent, as usual, divided Russian society into those who fasted and those who did not, and forced canteen cooks to provide special food to those who needed it. Strictly speaking, there is nothing surprising in the fact that catering prepares dishes without meat and oil even on days when there is no fasting. In many canteens and cafes, stewed vegetables or empty cabbage soup are available to vegetarians all year round.

But not an ambassador Rumors about the appointment of Saratov governor Dmitry Ayatskov as ambassador to Belarus have not yet been confirmed. A source in the Belarusian foreign ministry told VN: “We do not have information on this issue.

The presidential administration has determined the end point of the eastern oil pipeline The end point of the oil pipeline from Eastern Siberia to the Pacific coast may change. As Interfax reports, the head of the presidential administration, Dmitry Medvedev, sent a letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov asking him to consider the possibility of building an oil pipeline to the port of Nakhodka instead of Perevoznaya Bay, as previously planned. Mr.

Fyodor Sologub’s novel “The Little Demon” (1905) is one of the most important prose texts of early Russian modernism, second only to “Petersburg” by Andrei Bely.

The Russian women's volleyball team is headed by a coach from Bergamo At a meeting of the Presidium of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV) on Monday, a new head coach of the Russian women's team was approved. The place of the legendary mentor Nikolai Karpol, who worked continuously with our national team throughout the post-Soviet period, was taken by 42-year-old Italian specialist Giovanni Caprara, who heads the Foppapedretti club (Bergamo).

President Instructed the Russian government to provide tools to protect the interests of people and the environment from economic activity when implementing the new law on subsoil . Government On March 17, it plans to consider proposals from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade on the formation and expenditure of an investment fund. The proposals provide for the creation of a fund in the amount of 60 billion rubles already in 2005. for investing in large infrastructure projects.

Moscow needs written guarantees from Saakashvili No foreign military installations will appear on the site of the Russian bases to be withdrawn from Georgian territory, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said yesterday. He also promised to employ all residents of Akhalkalaki and Batumi who are currently serving at Russian bases. Now there are approximately two and a half thousand military personnel at the bases in Akhalkalaki and Batumi.

The airport is trying to block preparations for privatization Rosimushchestvo has ordered an assessment of the value of the assets of Sheremetyevo Airport and does not exclude its inclusion in the privatization plan for 2006. The federal agency itself reported this yesterday, adding that the administration of the airport, which is 100 percent state-owned, is in every possible way hindering the work of the appraisers. Sheremetyevo left this statement without comment.