Cyril, Metropolitan Smolensky and Kaliningrad. Photo from the site www.eparhia.ru The demographic problem in Russia should be solved at the level of consciousness of the indigenous people, and not through the assimilation of foreigners, according to the Moscow Patriarchate.

Mintimer Shaimiev. Photo from the site www.rt-online.ru The Regional Council of United Russia began the formation of the pre -election list of the Republic of Tatarstan, headed by the President of Tatarstan, the co -chair of the Party of the Party Mintimer Shaimiev, the chairman of the Political Council of the Party Farid Mukhametshin and the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Oleg Morozov.

Pushkin Square: Police in anticipation of manifestants. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov banned the construction of a shopping complex near Pushkinskaya Square. According to RBC, such a decision was made on Monday at a meeting of the Public Town Planning Council. “The shopping center is not needed at all in this place,” Luzhkov emphasized.

Kakha Kaladze. Photo from the site www.uasport.net The football player of Milan and the captain of the Georgian national team Kakha Kaladze after the end of his career will take care of political activities. According to ITAR-TASS, Kaladze reported this in an interview with the Tbilisi television company Rustavi-2.

Drunk behind the wheel. Photo from the site Lenta.ru The speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov opposes proposals to amend the current legislation, which will establish the maximum permissible level of alcohol content in the blood of the driver, RIA Novosti reports. According to Mironov, this "permits to drink." Mironov noted that the number of those killed on the roads in Russia for 2006 - 37 thousand - can be compared with the loss of the USSR in Afghanistan in ten years.

Gennady Zyuganov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru Participants in the XVIII report conference of the Novosibirsk Regional Department of the Communist Party supported the candidacy of Gennady Zyuganov for the post of president of Russia, RIA Novosti reports.

Headquarters Yukos. Photo by ar Rosneft announced the purchase of a number of assets from Prana LLC, previously owned by Yukos. According to RBC, these assets included Yukos-M Trading House LLC; Yukos Exploreshn and Production CJSC; Yukos Refining End Marketing CJSC; Yukos-M LLC-financial and Buhgalter Center; Yukos-Moscow LLC; Dubininskoye LLC. As previously reported, LLC "Dubininskoye" owns the central office of Yukos in Moscow.

The wreckage of the collapsed building. Photo from the site www.russianla.com In the city of Khatang, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, an entrance to a residential building fell, Interfax reports. The incident occurred on Sunday in a two-story 16-apartment building on Sovetskaya Street. There were four apartments in the collapsed entrance. There are no dead and victims as a result of the collapse. Ten people from damaged apartments were placed in a hotel.

Burning jeep at the Glasgow Airport terminal. Frame from CNN website The British police blew up another suspicious car near the Royal Alexandra clinic in the Scottish city of Pacily near Glasgow. It is reported by Sky News. The previous "controlled explosion" of a suspicious machine was produced the day before. Before that, a partial evacuation of visitors to the Royal Alexandra Hospital hospital was carried out, the territory was numb, and a car of sappers arrived there.

Yuri Schmidt. Photo from the site Lenta.ru The defense of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev filed an application to the Prosecutor General’s Office to initiate a criminal case against the investigator of the Prosecutor General of Salavat Karimov and Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin. This was stated on Monday at a press conference by the lawyer of Khodorkovsky Yuri Schmidt.

Ryazan Kremlin. Photo from the site rustur.ru Participants in the "march of disagreements" in Ryazan were beaten and tortured in the police, one of the organizers of the action Alexander Averin said on the air of the Echo of Moscow. The unauthorized rally of "disagreements" took place on the central square in Ryazan on Saturday. Several dozen people participated in it, 15 were detained. Oppositionists intend to protest the actions of the police in the prosecutor's office.

Bribe. Photo from the site Press.try.md In Moscow, when receiving a bribe of 1.5 million rubles, two senior heads of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade were detained. According to ITAR-TASS, this was reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Central Federal District. They clarified that the detainees are the leadership employees of the personnel of the ministry.

Boris Kuznetsov. Photo from the site www.bellona.ru Lawyer Boris Kuznetsov, who announced on Monday that he was suspected of disclosing GOSTaina, admitted that he photographed a secret memorandum regarding the case of a former Senator from Kalmykia Levona Chakhmyan, Interfaxm reports. According to the lawyer, the document was about listening to the law enforcement agencies of telephone conversations of his client.

Bribe. Photo from the site www.konkretno.ru An employee of Rospotrebnadzor refused to receive a bribe of 20 thousand rubles for the termination of the audit on the fact of mass food poisoning of foreign workers at Sheremetyevo Airport. A criminal case has been instituted against a citizen trying to give a bribe. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office.

Church shop. Photo from the site www.fotki.by From September 1, 2007, in the second and fifth grades of secondary schools of the Tver region, the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" will be introduced. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the governor of the region Dmitry Zelenin. “For four years, this discipline will be introduced in other classes,” he added.