Preliminary lists of candidates for jurors are compiled by district governments based on personal data about voters included in the information resources of the State Automated System “Elections”. At the same time, citizens who by law cannot serve as jurors are eliminated.

Information wars do not stop around peaceful Chechnya The ongoing sabotage war in the Russian North Caucasus is still accompanied by an information war. True, compared to the mid-90s, when the Chechen separatists won first the information war and then the very real war, the roles and capabilities of the parties have changed somewhat.

United Russia took credit for the construction of a new Yekaterinburg metro station The eighth station of the Yekaterinburg metro has become the cause of a quarrel between representatives of three Russian parties, each of which wants to be the patron of the construction of an important facility. This happened at a meeting of the Sverdlovsk Regional Duma, which was introducing amendments to the regional budget for the current year.

Wimbledon tournament started with rain The start of this season's third Grand Slam tournament, the British Open, was delayed by more than an hour yesterday. Matches at the peripheral courts were supposed to start at noon local time, but due to light rain, spectators who had arrived in advance were forced to walk aimlessly along the alleys of the tennis stadium.

Yesterday, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Montenegro established diplomatic relations, guided, as the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, “by the desire to develop bilateral cooperation.” The exchange of notes from the foreign ministries of the two countries took place in Podgorica, the capital of the new Balkan state.

Minsk will freeze the accounts of the American leadership The head of the Belarusian Security Council, Viktor Sheiman, promised to freeze the accounts of the American leadership. “We will introduce adequate symmetrical measures against George Bush and Condoleezza Rice. We will freeze their accounts and seize their shares,” Sheiman promised in the “Spotlight” program on Belarusian state television.

“Court of the People” through the eyes of judges of the Moscow City Court Peter Shtunder: -- Trial by jury is guaranteed by the Constitution, so there is simply no point in discussing whether it is necessary or not. We accepted it and started working. I started with this institute back in Saratov, now I am considering cases here in the Moscow City Court. I have been familiar with this form of legal proceedings for 11 years now.

Valentin Ivanov entered the history of world championships Still, we achieved our goal. At the World Cup, where Russia is not playing, everyone talks only about it. Or rather, about one representative of our country - arbitrator Valentin Ivanov. The Russian referee, showing 12 yellow cards in the Portugal-Holland match and sending off four players from the field, set a world championship record.

“Crystal Turandot” statuettes were awarded for the fifteenth time There are now a lot of capital theater awards, and this is natural: handing out prizes to stars is a good reason for a show. There are, of course, specialized awards, for example for debuts or initiatives. And there are general ones, which are distinguished mainly by three parameters: who gives, what and how. Awards, where the most important thing is “who”, are awarded by theater professionals.

Deputy Prime Minister of Poland recognized as a secret agent The most high-profile victim of lustration in Poland recently became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Zita Gilewska. An economics professor and the government's most valued expert has come under pressure for covering up collaboration with intelligence agencies during socialist times. In the KGB registers she allegedly passed as a secret agent of “Beata”. Consequently, in 2001, Mrs.

Tehran wants compensation from Russia for the slow completion of the Bushehr nuclear power plant Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi added a note of dissonance to the idyllic cooperation between Moscow and Tehran in the field of peaceful nuclear energy. Yesterday in Tehran, he said that Russia is not fully fulfilling its obligations on the construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

In exchange for tanker Shalit, Palestinians demand the release of prisoners Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to prepare a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip in response to an attack by Palestinian extremists who captured 19-year-old Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit, who served as a tank gunner, on Sunday morning. As a result of the attack on the Israeli tank, two other crew members were killed and four more soldiers were hospitalized.

The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia celebrated its birthday in Volgograd Compared to the 1990s, the musical life of the Russian provinces has become much more diverse and eventful. One of them is a tour of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. The team performed in Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Saratov and Chelyabinsk.

Competition films from the first days of the Moscow International Film Festival talked about love and dislike Few people are interested in the competition of the Moscow festival - this is a fact that must be faced. There are no news programs on any TV channel with interviews with directors or actors who came to Moscow for a lot of money - and government money. That is why - and only why - new names do not appear in the domestic, hermetically sealed environment.

Acceptance of applications for the purchase of shares in a state-owned company has begun Russian citizens responded to Rosneft's call to purchase its shares during the IPO. Yesterday, Sberbank, appointed as the main agent for distributing securities among the population, began accepting applications from those wishing to receive a piece of the state holding. And although there was no rush demand on the first day, there is still interest from individuals.