same time. Gaida said that according to one of two variants under discussion, the gubernatorial elections may be moved from September 2003 to December 2003, when elections to the State Duma and for the mayor's office in Yekaterinburg will be held. Another variant being considered would combine the gubernatorial elections with Russian presidential elections. The final decision will be made by a vote in the oblast's Legislative Assembly.

Serviceman Convicted Of Beating FellowThe Nizhnii Tagil garrison military court sentenced Dmitrii Azyapov, a private in the local military unit, to three years in prison for beating fellow soldier Artem Tarasov, "Novyi Region" reported on 7 May. Tarasov had to have his spleen removed because of the beating and was subsequently discharged from the military. Azyapov was initially threatened with aanother aspect of the invention, a safety output chute for a cushioning conversion machine includes a chute having an input end and an output end, the input end including an opening for receiving a cushioning product from an outlet of the cushioning conversion machine, and a sensor for sensing the presence of a foreign object in the output chute and generating a signal for communication to the cushioning conversion machine in accordance with such sensing.
In accordance with a further aspect of the invention, a safety output chute for a cushioning conversion machine includes a chute having an input end and an output end, the input end including an opening for receiving a cushioning product from an outlet of the cushioning conversion machine, a shield disposed within the chute