Municipalities seriously took up citizens who did not pay for housing and communal services. Several dozens of debtors have already been evicted, and in 2007 hundreds of non -payers can lose apartments. The threat of eviction will force citizens to pay for the services of housing and communal services in time, and the reduction of the debt will increase the profitability of the sector, officials hope.

In Moscow, robbers, hiding from the scene of the crime, had an accident, one of them died. As Interfax was told on Tuesday in the law enforcement agencies of Moscow, on Monday night, unknown criminals near the house of Marshal Biryuzov Street through the open door of the Mazda car stole a handbag from a 20-year-old unemployed Muscovite. Documents and a mobile phone were in the bag. The cost of the stolen amounted to about 20 thousand rubles.

The proposal of President Putin before January 1, 2009 to bring all the casinos to the special zones is impossible, and can destroy the gambling business, so the deputies will try to mitigate the law after the first reading, the Kommersant newspaper writes. According to the publication, the government will be allowed at its discretion to extend the transition. In addition, lobbyists will not allow destroying the bookmaker business and the industrial of gambling on the Internet.

The Vatican on the eve of the pope of the Roman Benedict XVI and President of Cyprus Tassos Papadopulos, the Patriarchy.ru website reports with reference to the information of the Zenit agency. Reminding the pontiff that the church was founded in Cyprus in 38 BC.

The chairman of the Palestinian National Administration (PNU) Mahmoud Abbas refused to approve the candidacy of the new head of the government proposed by Hamas. This was announced by Athalla Harey - the Palestinian ambassador to Amman, reports ITAR -TASS.

In Israel, the court rejected the appeal of the Russian nanny Galina Goryachkina and sentenced her to 1.5 years in prison for mockery of children who were in her care. As the investigation established, the accused shook and beat two infants, threw them onto the sofa and gave slap in the face. The Supreme Court upheld the sentence of the previous instance - 18 months of prison.

The picture of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya "Children in the two-wheeled cart" (Ninos en El Carreton) was stolen in the United States during the transportation from the Museum of Arts in the city of Toledo (Ohio) to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. For information about the abduction, the FBI offers a reward of 50 thousand dollars.

On Sakhalin, due to a powerful cyclone, four settlements are left without electricity, a port is de-energized, and a roof of almost 60 houses are damaged. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, there are accidents on cable lines. The Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies has distributed an operational warning about the likely emergency on the territory of the Khabarovsk Territory in connection with the weather worsening.

The Azerbaijan Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case on the fact of publication in the Senet newspaper, articles containing statements insulting the Prophet Muhammad , first deputy prosecutor general Rustam Usubov told reporters. "We invited Samir Sedaghetoglu to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the editor -in -chief of the Senet newspaper and the author of the article, an employee of the Rafy Tagi newspaper.

As part of the investigation of the mass abduction committed in Baghdad, the employees of the Iraq Ministry of Higher Education detained five high -ranking police officers. According to representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, among them - the head of the police of the capital's quarter of Carrad, where the incident occurred. According to the agency, seven people from among the stolen have already been released.

The former bodyguard of Adolf Hitler Rosos Misha told the deputy of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) to Avshal Wilan about the last day of the Fuhrer. This happened last week in Berlin. He spoke about his accidental meeting with Misha already in Israel, reports Newsru Israel with reference to the Maariv newspaper. Vilan walked in the center of Berlin and his attention was attracted by four elderly Germans, standing at the place where there was once the entrance to Hitler's bunker.

The authorities of the Central African Republic of Chad announced a state of emergency in the country, after about 200 people died as a result of clashes on ethnic grounds in the three eastern regions of the country. The government is concerned that the conflict in Darfur , the region of neighboring Sudan, may spread to the child, reports AP .

In the western part of the Moscow region, on Tuesday evening, an energy -starting occurred, entailing a disconnection of the five power transmission lines with a voltage of 110 square meters, the RAO UES of Russia reported. The movement of electric trains from Moscow in the Smolensk and Kiev directions was temporarily interrupted.

The leader of the Opposition Labor Party of Georgia, Shalva Natelashvili, sent a question to the General Secretary of NATO whether the personality of the new Minister of Defense of the country David Kzerashvili complies with the standards of the North Atlantic Alliance, Interfax reports.

In Afghanistan, one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda was arrested, who last year escaped from the Americans from a special "regime" prison for terrorists in Bagram, known for hard measures to protect and maintain prisoners. Abu Nasir al-Koktani was among six people arrested last Monday during a raid of the coalition forces and the Afghan military in the Khost city, CNN reports.