For the sake of joining the WTO, Russia may refuse to increase export duties on unprocessed timber “Regarding our possible accession to the WTO in 2011, I believe that this is possible. We'd like to see this happen. In general, there are practically no unresolved issues left,” Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at the end of last week following negotiations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

CONCERT Alexey Aigi and 4'33 . "16 tons" , 20.00. Innokenty Ivanov (vibraphone) and the band. Club Igor Butman , 20.30. CLASSIC Great instrumental concert . V.-A. Mozart, M. Bruch, D. Shostakovich. Soloist A. Baeva (violin), A. Knyazev (cello). GASO of Russia E.F. Svetlanova p/u M. Gorenstein. Conductor A. Sladkovsky. Concert hall named after Tchaikovsky , 19.00. NFOR . S. Prokofiev, P.I. Tchaikovsky. Soloist A. Gavrilyuk (piano). Conductor V. Spivakov. House music , 19.00.

The time for major optimization is coming for the Ministry of Internal Affairs Tomorrow will be a very important day for the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the decree of President Dmitry Medvedev, signed in February of this year as part of the police reform, a provision on an almost twofold reduction in the number of the central apparatus of the department should come into force on December 1.

South Korea's Army's Overconfidence May Cause Conflict On the day the next exercise between South Korea and the United States began, November 28, a remarkable incident occurred in the area of ​​the demilitarized zone. According to South Korean media reports, an artillery unit located in the border city of Pazhu accidentally fired a 155-mm howitzer towards the DPRK. After flying 12 km, the shell exploded on the southern side of the demilitarized zone. There were no casualties or destruction.

Published documents threaten to embroil the United States with the whole world The main world sensation yesterday was the publication of confidential documents of American diplomacy on the WikiLeaks website. US ties with almost all significant players in the international arena have come under attack. The fact of a large-scale leak made us think about how viable diplomacy is in general in the era of the information society.

Two scientists blown up in Tehran Iranian nuclear physicist Professor Majid Shahriari was killed and laser physicist Fereidoun Abbasi was seriously injured in two separate attacks on them in Tehran yesterday morning. The scientists' wives, who were in the cars with their spouses, were also injured. In the hospital, the wounded were visited by the Vice President of Iran and the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi.

Whether there are Russians in Russia, how they can continue to live in peace with each other and whether it is worth changing the scheme of the territorial division of the country, Professor Leokadia DROBIZHEVA, director of the Center for the Study of Interethnic Relations at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Vremya Novostei columnist Ivan SUKHOV. — Leokadia Mikhailovna, technologically the census results have not been calculated.

The conflict in Zelenokumsk is presented as pure crime The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation reported yesterday that, as a result of a recent clash in Zelenokumsk (Stavropol Territory), a criminal case was opened against one of the participants in the events, a native of the Chechen Republic, in connection with attempted rape.

Exhibitions of conceptualist classics at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art All the most interesting and important things in the unofficial art of the former USSR happened in a certain place. In cramped small apartments, in communal kitchens. The apartment landscape as the birthplace of great plastic themes and cultural meanings was played by various artists, from Rabin to Kabakov. The emphasis was varied. A score of emotions: from subtle existential drama to categorical escapism.

On November 30, 2010, the ceremony of reading out the Address to the Federal Assembly took place in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. For the third time, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev presented in his Address his position on the main directions of domestic and foreign policy for the near future. Work on the text of the Presidential Address this year took longer than usual.

The OSCE summit begins tomorrow in Astana Kazakhstan has already started celebrating the New Year. President Nursultan Nazarbayev, lighting the country's main Christmas tree in Astana on November 25, remarked: “This year we are doing it earlier.” “There is still a month and five days left until the New Year, there will be many holidays and joy,” the head of state told his compatriots.

Gazprom, Naftogaz and RosUkrEnergo signed 12.1 billion cubic meters of gas and $2.5 billion in debt Two days after the meeting of the interstate commission of Russia and Ukraine chaired by Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovych, Gazprom, Naftogaz and RosUkrEnergo signed a package of agreements that will resolve the problem of returning 12.1 billion cubic meters of gas to the Swiss trader.

The Constitutional Court protected the secrecy of correspondence between defendants and lawyers The administration of pre-trial detention centers has the right to censor correspondence between prisoners and their lawyers, but only in exceptional cases and in the presence of the mail senders themselves.

Lieberman was offered to become Havivi A member of the Israeli parliament from the opposition Kadima party, 57-year-old Ronit Tirosh, approached her colleagues with a proposal to translate their first and last names into Hebrew. The deputy wants to revive the tradition of Hebrewizing the names of the country's leaders, which was adopted in the early years of Israel's existence.

The Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights is fighting charges for servicing water meters Consumer rights advocates drew the attention of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Federal Antimonopoly Service to the “intrusive service” that Muscovites who use water meters have to face.