The President of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko is sure that the head coach of the Russian national team Hus Hiddink will not sit in the Dutch prison. He expressed such an opinion on Wednesday in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, where the procedure for coordinating his candidacy for the position of representative of the administration of St. Petersburg in the Federation Council takes place.

The Ford Russian Automobile Action Plant stopped due to the strike of workers requiring increase in wages and improving working conditions, ITAR-TASS reports. According to experts, the protest of workers will cost the Russian Ford division 3-6 million dollars a day, the Kommersant newspaper writes. Theoretically, the strike can last up to one month. Ford assembly conveyor in Vsevolzhsk from 00:00 Wednesday stopped.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress began discussing the draft resolution condemning President George Bush to send American reinforcements of 21.5 thousand people to Iraq. "The American people have lost confidence in the course of President Bush in Iraq and requires a new direction," said the Democrat speaker Nancy Peloshi, opening the plenary meeting of the lower house.

The Ministry of Justice, together with the leadership of St. Petersburg, intends to translate the investigative insulator N1, better known as the "Crosses" in Kolpino. As the head of the Ministry of Justice, Vladimir Ustinov, reported to the President of Russia, fresh land under the prison has already been allocated.

The anti-terrorist units of the French police conducted an operation on Wednesday morning in the southwest of France and in the vicinity of Paris, as a result of which nine people were detained on suspicion of relations with al-Qaeda. As reported in the Communny of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France, the detentions were produced in Toulouse and the Parisian region, RIA Novosti reports.

All markets on the territory of Lilac Boulevard in Moscow will be closed no later than December 31, 2007, Interfax was told on Wednesday in the city administration. "The closure of markets on land plots provided under agreements with the Moscow Land Resources Department on the basis of long -term lease is necessary for the construction of new shopping centers as part of the construction of a citywide center in Izmailovo.

The Tomsk Regional Court sentenced a 69-year-old resident of the regional center to three years in a general regime colony, who was accused of preparing the murder of her own husband. As Interfax was told in the press service of the court, this was the second attempt to get rid of the hated husband, with whom she lived for about 20 years. The first attempt to eliminate the life partner occurred in August 2005, the second - a month later.

The draft law "On prohibited structures", the third reading of which should be held in parliament in the next Thursday, contradicts the provisions of the Estonian Constitution. Such an opinion of Estonia President Toomas Hendrick Ilves spread on Wednesday the press service of the head of state. "In the current text of the bill there are several visible contradictions with the constitution," Ilves said.

On Wednesday, the Swedish Foreign Minister Karl Bildt introduced the Government's report to the parliament of his country on foreign policy, in which the development of Russia was evaluated sharply negatively. At the same time, the report expresses the hope of the development of relations of the Russian Federation with the European Union. Speaking in parliament, Bildt said that in Russia the media and the political atmosphere as a whole have become less free.

The tenth of the decrees of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko does not comply with the constitution, and the parliamentary anti -crisis coalition intends to challenge these documents in the Constitutional Court. This was reported on Wednesday by the First Deputy Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Elena Lukash.

Director Sergei Solovyov completed work on the film adaptation of Lev Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, the director himself said in an interview with ITAR-TASS. The picture will be released in cinemas in October 2007. According to Solovyov, he shot the film in two versions: a full -length picture and television series, which will be shown on Russian television. This film adaptation is his long -standing creative dream, but he had to work for 14 years on its embodiment.

A two-day meeting of 38 leaders of the global family of Anglican churches opens on Wednesday in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam. The head of the Anglican Commonwealth, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who arrived the day before, was extremely restrained in his comments when representatives of the press met him at the airport.

The prosecution offered to pay a fine of 3 thousand rubles to the director of one of the Perm schools Alexander Ponosov, who accused of using the Windows unlicensed software. With such a proposal, the prosecution representative made on Wednesday the Vereshchaginsky District Court of the Perm Territory during the debate in the Ponosov case, the representative of the court told Interfax.

In the Kursk region, the court sentenced to 4 years 8 months in prison with a sentence in a penal colony of a general regime of 31-year-old Rustem Valiullin, accused of beating his own daughter. At the suit of the Ligs inter -district prosecutor, the convicted person is also deprived of parental rights, alimony for its maintenance and compensation for non -pecuniary damage in the amount of 20 thousand rubles were recovered from him.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered the Russian state to pay three thousand euros to seven mothers from Voronezh , who have not paid children's benefits for many years, the newspaper New Izvestia writes. The situation in which mothers in Voronezh fell is clearly familiar to the inhabitants of many regions of the country. For several years, the authorities did not pay them children's benefits. 235 thousand children of the region had the right to monthly social assistance.