On the six-way negotiations held last week in Beijing, the United States Korean Peninsula of the Korean Peninsula demanded from the DPRK for one and a half to two months to take specific steps to turn its nuclear program. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to diplomatic sources in Tokyo.

The Orthodox parish in the name of the Holy Apostle Thomas in New Delis was admitted to the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. On the eve of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, according to the results of this month, the chairman of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), Metropolitan of Smolensky and Kaliningrad Cyril in India, made this decision.

New quotas for meat imports in 2007, set by the mayors, will lead to an increase in beef prices, the Kommersant newspaper writes. 74% of beef in the framework of the quota can be introduced from Europe, which itself at the end of 2006 began to import meat. The quota for the remaining countries will be enough for only 11 days, the rest of the time you will have to import beef over quota at an increased rate.

Roger Federer in the new season is not going to give in to anyone else's tennis throne and finally win, at the French open championship, the only tournament of the Big Slam, which has not yet submitted to the Great Swiss. “If I win the Roland Garros, this will be the embodiment of a dream,” said Federer, who in 2006 reached Paris to the finals, where he lost to Nadal. “But the first in my list of priorities will always be a wimbledon.

In Germany, future mothers are trying to delay childbirth in order to receive a monetary reward for the baby who will be born in the new year. Thus, pregnant women hope to get into the new financial scheme, which was proposed by the German government in the framework of the struggle to increase the demographic situation. According to the Air Force , this scheme is unusually generous: the parents of children who were born, starting from January 1, will be paid a reward.

The Council of the Federation rejected the law on the move of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation from Moscow to St. Petersburg at the last meeting in 2006, which began on Wednesday, ITAR-TASS reports. Now the bill will be discussed by the conciliation commission, because the Duma longed for the judges to work only in St. Petersburg, cannot bypass the veto of the constitutional law.

The Federal Tax Service, accusing the audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers of actually hid the public about the public tax crimes allowed by Yukos, believes that the PWC “covered” the company's illegal activity not only in 2002, but also two years later. At the same time, despite the fact that the auditors knew about violations back in 2002, they continued to issue positive conclusions on the reporting of Yukos in 2003 and 2004.

The decree aimed at reducing the bureaucratic apparatus of federal executive bodies was signed by President Vladimir Putin. About this, as ITAR-TASS reports, he himself stated, opening a meeting on economic issues. Another decree, the president raised to 500 rubles to paying disabled care. By his decision, Putin wants to achieve a more effective distribution of money that goes to the employees of these federal bodies.

In five districts of the Voronezh region, outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome were registered, 46 people were hospitalized, Mikhail Chubirko, head of the territorial department of Rospotrebnadzor for the region of Rospotrebnadzor, said on Wednesday. According to him, the most difficult situation developed in the Verkhnekhavsky district, where 27 cases were registered. Four of them are schoolchildren.

At the age of 88, one of the most famous authors of the French songs Pierre Delainoe, author of the hitter "Champs Elysees") died. His heart stopped on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. This was announced by his longtime friend and assistant Claude Lemesi, adding that the poet was "tired and sick." For his long creative life, he wrote texts about 5 thousand songs, at least 500 of which became real world “hits”, Interfax reports.

The French research satellite Corot, designed to search for small exoplanets, entered the target orbit by the Russian Rocket Rocket (PH) "Soyuz-2". "At 18:13 Moscow time, the satellite was brought to the target polar stubborn orbit with a height of about 900 km," ITAR -TASS reports with reference to the French space agency KNES, which is the owner and developer of the unique probe. The Corot satellite was developed by the KNES with the participation of the European Space Agency (ECA).

President Fide Kirsan Ilyumzhinov begins the reform of the chess kingdom, or rather tries to streamline the struggle for the crown in order to avoid revolutions and attract the attention of sponsors. He offers to simplify the fighting system for the title of world champion, which is currently quite confusing.

Workers' deficiency and low quality of training of specialists have become the general problem of the economy of the Volgograd region. Industrialists blame educational institutions in unwillingness to teach a techie due to high cost, and the governor, like Peter I, is forced to send young people for knowledge abroad (to Belarus).

Russia and Moldova on Wednesday in Moscow signed a protocol on the completion of bilateral negotiations on the accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO . On the Russian side, the protocol was signed by the Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref, and Igor Dodon from Moldavian - Minister of Economics and Trade.

In Moscow on Wednesday evening, again, as in previous New Year days , serious congestion and traffic jams were formed on many roads in the city center and MKAD. The longest cork was formed on the MKAD section from Volgogradsky Prospekt to the bridge across the Moscow River on the inside of the road. The length of this cork is about eight kilometers.