The People’s Assembly (lower house of parliament) of the Chechen Republic on Wednesday made its first decision - to turn to the Russian leadership with a request to rename the city of Grozny in honor of the deceased president of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov. "The fortress of Grozny, founded on the site of the current capital of Chechnya in the 19th century, did not give anything good to the Chechen people.

Yuri Zavarzin will remain as president of the Russian Football Premier League (Premier League) at least until the New Year. According to Zavarzin, at the general meeting of members of the Premier League, which took place on Wednesday, the re -election of the head of the organization did not take place. “This issue was not considered, because for starters we decided to change the charter. According to the old charter, the candidate had to gain two -thirds of the votes.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad on Wednesday again called the Holocaust a myth and proposed to create an Israeli state in Europe, the USA, Canada or Alaska. Earlier, the Iranian leader has already urged to erase the Jewish state from the face of the earth or "transfer" it to Austria or Germany .

The battle between the main shareholders of the Russian mobile communications operator Vimpelcom broke out with renewed vigor: three directors of the company said they can block the company's budget in Ukraine, writes The Wall Street Journal (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Japan announced 2005 the year of the Hieroglyph "Love" - ​​after a decade, in which "disaster", "collapse", "poison" and other symbols of longing and fear prevailed, the British newspaper Daily Telegraph writes on Wednesday. During the survey, who studied the mood of the Japanese, “love” made a jump from last year’s 12th place, ahead of “reform” and became a word, best determining the essence of this year. In 2004, a “disaster” won by a wide margin.

A real sexual revolution began in China, scientists say. Since the bedroom is the only place that the government cannot control, the youth extracts benefits from this. They not only have much more sex than their parents, they begin much earlier. The study of Lee Inhe, the only Chinese woman-sexologist, shows that 70% of the Beijes have premarital sex, while in 1989 there were 15.5% of them.

The Federation Council at a meeting on Wednesday adopted amendments to Article 15 of the Federal Law "On Gas Supply", aimed at canceling restrictions on the possession of non -residents of the shares of Gazprom OJSC. “For the” adoption of the law, 119 senators voted, “against” - 6, “abstained” - 4 senators. The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted these amendments immediately in the second and third readings on December 9.

Four British were taken to the hospital because of the fallen ramp at the airport of the city of Rovaniemi in the north of Finland. According to the local police, the aircraft of the FIRST Choice Airways airline, flying from Bristol, sat at the Rovaniemi airport, the ladder was adjusted to it. But when the passengers began to leave the plane, he suddenly began to move back, and the ladder adjusted to the liner fell along with the passengers descending along it.

Divers lifted to the surface the body of the third member of the crew of the Mi-8 helicopter, which broke on December 6 in the area of ​​Nikolaevsk-on-Amur of the Khabarovsk Territory. As the transport prosecutor of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur Vladimir Ushakov said on Wednesday, the body of the pilot Anatoly Grishchukov was discovered by divers at the bottom of the Amur River, where the helicopter fell.

According to updated data, as a result of a gas explosion in a residential building in the city of Bergenfield (New Jersey), five people were injured. This was reported by local media with reference to the representative of the police of Captain Rick Mcarril, who is at the scene. Earlier, six victims were reported. Three victims, including a critical woman with burns of the second and third degrees, were taken to the Hackensack University Medical Center.

A public investigation of a series of disappearance of passengers of luxurious cruise liners was opened on Tuesday in the US Congress. The decisive action of the members of the Congress Committee was prompted by the work of George Allen Smith IV, whose disappearance from the liner on July 5 has all the attributes of the agate of Christie. The Committee will listen to the testimony of 13 people who have disappeared from ships over the past 5 years.

Two employees of the Russian special services convicted by the Katari court on charges of murder of the former leader of Chechen separatists Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, and transferred to Russia to serve his sentence, are in places of imprisonment. “These persons are where they should be located,” said Saak Karapetyan, director of the Department of International Law and Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, commenting on rumors about the liberation of two Russians.

Matches of the 5th, the final round of the group stage of the UEFA Cup in groups E, F, G and H. took place on Wednesday. The attention of Russian fans, of course, was riveted to matches in group F , where the rivals of the Moscow CSKA were held by their last fights, since, in an intricate situation, the ex-holder of the UEFA Cup could still be in the 1/16 finals of the tournament. In both of these matches, everything was extremely successful for the army.

The Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation at a meeting on Wednesday approved the draft federal law "On a parliamentary investigation". Earlier on December 7, in the last, third reading, the State Duma approved him. Now the president should sign it.

Four Palestinians were killed and four more were injured as a result of a special operation conducted by the Air Force of the Israeli Defense Army in Gaza. The missile was released by Subaru, which was following the Karni checkpoint (eastern border of the Gaza sector). It is reported by Newsru Israel .