The Ministry of Natural Resources proposes to significantly increase the percentage of forests permitted to the wheelhouse by canceling a number of excess restrictions, Yuri Trutnev, Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation at a meeting of the Government, said on Thursday at a meeting of the Government. According to the minister, at present in Russia only 42% of forests are allowed to cut, while in Finland - about 90%.

Time payment on home phone conversations may become a reality at the beginning of next year. Svyazinvest OJSC, which controls almost 90% of the Russian wiring market through its subsidiaries, plans to start introducing tariff plans for subscribers since February 2006.

The goalkeeper of the Russian national team and the Moscow Lokomotiv Sergey Ovchinnikov will spend the next two seasons in the Dynamo Moscow. A 35-year-old goalkeeper signed a contract with the club as a free agent, according to UEFA.com with reference to a source in the snow-white camp. For Ovchinnikov, the transition to Dynamo is a return to the origins. He graduated from the football school of this particular club in 1988, after which he was invited to Dynamo’s duplicate composition.

If you believe the Italian Neuove Parole neologisms-2006, which was released this week in the publishing house Speerling and Kupfer, 14 new words appeared in Italian, the root of which is associated with the name of the prime minister, writes the British newspaper Daily Telegraph (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). Neologism is a recently formed word or phrase, often denoting a new phenomenon or concept.

On one of the Internet sites of Islamic terrorists, a threat to the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi and other leaders of Western countries again appeared. "You will be decapitated soon!" - The message says. Its reliability is still impossible to check. According to Italian television, the threat has been signed as follows: "Rakan Ben Willyamaz, the secret soldier of Al-Qaeda, Italy, Vatican", RIA Novosti reports.

In Kamchatka, two teenagers were detained on suspicion of murder with particular cruelty. A woman appealed to the police with a statement about the loss of her son. A student of vocational school number 10 in the village of Sosnovka, Elizovsky district, Alexander Samartsev, disappeared on November 3, when he went to the city to his mother. Initially, the search for results did not give.

Cruel treatment with captives and torture are widespread in Iraq prisons, BBC British television and radio corporation reports from the Center for the Contents of Prisoners, which journalists were admitted. One of the captives said that he was whipped with a wire, and the resulting wounds sprinkled with salt. Another said that people captured him tried to tear out their legs on their feet, Interfax reports.

Boris Titov, Chairman of the Business Russia Association of Entrepreneurs, proposed to introduce mandatory tests for people entering large companies and higher educational institutions. "People who use drugs should understand that the path for work in the best companies and educational institutions is closed," Titov said at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.

The American company is trying through the court to prove its right to use photographs and the name of Maria Sharapova in a documentary dedicated to the stars of Russian female tennis. As the American media reported on Wednesday, a corresponding lawsuit, designed to confirm the legitimacy of using the photo and named after the winner of the Wimbledon tournament in 2004, was filed in the district court in the city of Fort Lleoddale (Florida).

The Tyumen Regional Duma endowed on Thursday the mayor of Tyumen, Vladimir Yakushev, the authority of the governor of the region. The deputies voted unanimously for his candidacy, Interfax reports. “Today is my appointment is a big advance,” Vladimir Yakushev said in a brief performance. “We have to continue what has begun in the Tyumen region, and a lot has begun.

In Moscow, unknown criminals robbed the apartment rented by the attache of the Embassy of Switzerland. According to RIA Novosti in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, on Wednesday, unknown people broke the door of the diplomat’s apartment and stole $ 200, clothes and jewelry. According to the victim, the damage from theft amounted to more than 500 thousand rubles. An investigation has begun on this fact.

German brewers offer women a "healthy beer", which, as they say, is capable of everything - from reassuring nerves to the prevention of cancer. While some brewers are trying to get rid of a specific image of beer, which is associated with a “beer belly”, mixing beer with fruit juice or dietary, others went even further, saying that their beer can change their life for the better, writes Daily Telegraph (translation on the website of Inopressa ).

Teacher Michelle McCasquer was fired from the Catholic school in New York after her leadership found out that she was pregnant. However, the immediate reason for such a decision was the fact that the woman, expecting a child, did not plan to get married, reports Interfax-religion . In her complaint, she stated that “she does not understand how a religion, which is proud of himself, professing the forgiveness and value of life,” can fire a person for deciding to have a child.

In St. Petersburg on Thursday in the Frunze district there was an accident involving a minibus. The minibus crashed into a containers. According to preliminary data, up to seven people suffered, two of them are in serious condition. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg, the accident occurred at about 12:20 Moscow time on Bucharest Street.

In the north of Moscow, unknown people caused stab wounds to two girls, one of them died. "On Thursday, at about 20:00 Moscow time, two unknown young people attacked two girls and inflicted stab wounds on them," RIA Novosti was told in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. According to the interlocutor of the agency, one of the girls was able to reach her house on the street Lokomotive passage and died near him from the injuries.