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Woody Harrelson will star alongside Samantha Morton and Ben Kingsley in director Brad Anderson's Trans-Siberian. According to the plot of the film, an American couple (Harrelson-Morton) travels from Vladivostok to Moscow along the famous highway. On the train they meet two compatriots, played by Kate Mara and Spanish actor Eduardo Noriega.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov proposed delimiting areas of responsibility between NATO members and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to respond to crisis situations in the world. According to RIA Novosti , he stated this in Moscow at the first forum of national media of the CIS and Baltic countries. According to Ivanov, all the prerequisites exist for creating a mechanism of interaction between the CSTO and NATO.

Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko announced the winner of the competition for projects of the Gazprom City business center, Fontanka reports . It was a project by the English architectural bureau RMJM London Limited, which looks like an ear of corn. The winners believe that the new form of the building brings dynamics and movement. The stained glass window of a high-rise building consists of layers of transparent, reflective and dichroic glass.

Several Milan players, including long-time captain Paolo Maldini, do not want Ukrainian forward Andriy Shevchenko to return to the team from Chelsea. The management of the Milanese club began to make attempts to rent the player after Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho announced his claims to Shevchenko. Let us recall that the May transfer of the football player from Milan to Roman Abramovich’s club provoked a mixed reaction among many fans and players of the Italian club.

Mikhail Achkasov, the former head of the administration of the city of Achinsk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, was sentenced by the Achinsk city court on Friday, December 1, to two years of suspended imprisonment, RIA Novosti reports . In addition, Achkasov was deprived of the right to hold leadership positions for a period of three years. The sentence will come into force in ten days.

President of Tajikistan Emmali Rakhmonov appointed new members of the cabinet of ministers, Fergana.Ru news agency reports .

01.12.2006, 18:05:03 version Print | PDA/PDA Collage Lenta.ru Fighting black sheep Yanukovych got rid of almost all “orange” ministers Guided by the rule that says that in every herd there is a black sheep, the head of the Ukrainian government, Viktor Yanukovych , almost from the very first day of heading the Cabinet, waged a fight against dissidents in the institution of state power entrusted to him.

On Friday, at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (O'Hare), a FedEx plane skidded off the runway and got stuck in the mud, France Presse reports . The incident occurred due to persistent snowfall in several states in the western United States. The weather reportedly led to the cancellation of more than 400 flights at the Chicago airport and about 200 at the Dallas airport, and almost all flights at Lambert-St. Louis Airport in Missouri.

The British airline British Airways delayed for a day the message that traces of a radioactive substance were found on its planes, The Guardian writes. The air carrier's management received information about the dangerous find on November 28, but it was made public only the next day. According to the publication's source, this happened due to a dispute between British Airways and the UK Home Office about who should convey this message to passengers and crew of the aircraft.

The Russian government has equalized the rights of Gazprom Neft and Rosneft with independent gas producing companies. The government has made changes to the regulations on the Federal Tariff Service (FTS), which removes from state regulation gas produced by companies that are not the owners of the regional gas supply system. reports this AK&M . Thus, prices for gas produced by gas producers independent of the organizations that own gas supply systems are no longer subject to state regulation.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine agreed to the dismissal of Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk and Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko . According to ProUA , 247 parliamentarians voted for the first decision, and 248 for the second. The proposal to remove Tarasyuk from office was introduced to the Rada by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych , who was dissatisfied with the work of the minister.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed indignation at a bill submitted to the Estonian parliament banning the use and distribution of Soviet symbols equated to Nazi symbols in public places. This was stated on Thursday evening by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Kamynin.

On Thursday, the US government warned of possible attacks on American Internet sites belonging to banking systems and stock exchanges by the terrorist organization Al Qaeda. According to Reuters, the threat extends throughout December, starting on Friday. The alleged source of the threat is a group called "ANHIAR al-Dollar", associated with Al-Qaeda.

The capital's prosecutor's office seized documents from the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development (Roszdrav). The raid was carried out on Thursday, but it became known only on Friday. As Vremya Novostei writes , the investigative event took place as part of a criminal case about violations in the purchase of medical equipment within the framework of the Health national project.