Patriarch Kirill arrived in the western Ukrainian city of Rivne, which he could not visit on Sunday, Interfax reports . The head of the Russian Orthodox Church went to the Holy Resurrection Cathedral, having served in the Koritsky Monastery in the Rivne region. On the central square of the city, the patriarch was met by both his supporters and those protesting against his arrival.

Opposition single-mandate candidates are speaking: Roman Dobrokhotov (Solidarity), Ivan Starikov (RNDS, Solidarity), Konstantin Merzlikin (RNDS), Vladimir Milov (Solidarity). Photographed by Dmitry Borko.

New Times correspondent and head of Think Moldova organization Natalia Morari told Ekho Moskvy that she no longer wants to return to Russia. “Even if I had the opportunity to return now, I would not do it. I want to live in Moldova, to engage in social activities here, which I have already begun to do, I am gradually moving away from journalism. Now life has changed, and after the events in April, and in general. I want to live in my own country," Morari said.

Tashkent opposes the deployment of a new Russian military base in southern Kyrgyzstan and believes that its appearance could lead to destabilization of the situation in the region. According to RIA "Novosti", the official position of Uzbekistan is stated in the message of the "Jakhon" agency under the Uzbek Foreign Ministry.

In the capital, the deputy head of the department for interdepartmental cooperation in the field of prevention of the department of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia was arrested, Rosbalt reports. Together with the director of the commercial firm "Rezultat", he is suspected of fraud on an especially large scale.

Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov, commander of the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia, has written a letter of resignation, Interfax reports , citing an unnamed source. According to the agency, Solovtsov is currently on vacation, after which, most likely, he will be fired. The reason is that the Colonel General reached the service age limit: he turned 60 back in January, but then the term of work was extended for a year.

Russian woman Rimma Salonen, detained by the Finnish police in connection with the investigation into the kidnapping of her five-year-old son Anton, was released from custody today, ITAR-TASS reports. She is currently in the city of Tampere, where the district court is considering her case on Monday. Rimma's lawyer insisted on her release due to the fact that there was no danger that Rimma would avoid appearing in court.

Most of the employees of the 30th shipyard in the Danube village of the Primorsky Territory, who refused to go to work because of wage arrears, returned to their jobs on Monday, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Federation of Trade Unions of the Territory. According to the source of the agency, the employees of the plant were returned the debt for five months, as well as part of the June salary.

The Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office brought charges in the final version to the former vice-president of Euroset Boris Levin, Rosbalt reports. According to a source in the UPC, charges of robbery and false denunciation were added to the previously brought ones.

Businessman Oleg Tinkov decided to sell his restaurant business. He posted the announcement on his microblog on Twitter. The entrepreneur sells "his share of about 70 percent" as well as the brand. He explains his intention to sell the business by the fact that he was bored with it. Offers from buyers Tinkov accepts through this blog, through his blog in "LiveJournal" and by e-mail. Tinkoff was founded in 1998.

Chargé d'Affaires of Finland in Russia Arya Makkonen was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday, where she was told that the negative development of the situation around Rimma Salonen would affect bilateral relations, RIA Novosti reports. The day before, the Finnish side notified the Russian embassy in Helsinki about the detention of Salonen, who is accused of kidnapping her own child.

Judge Valery Musin, representing the Russian authorities in the Corporate case of Yukos in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, took a self -setting in connection with the election of the independent member of the Board of Directors of Gazprom, Kommersant reports. Musin rejected the doubts of the apparatus of the Strasbourg Court of impartiality, but followed the practice in court, when a judge who began to work in a state -owned company refuses to participate in the case.

In the Altai Territory, a family of 3 people died as a result of an accident, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the regional propaganda department of the traffic police. A five-year-old girl, who was also in the car, miraculously survived. According to the traffic police, the Toyota was driven by a woman born in 1963. She violated the speed limit, drove into the oncoming lane at 170 km of the M-52 highway, in the Talmensky district and collided with a Honda CR-V.

"United Russia" in the elections to the Moscow City Duma will lead the mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov, his deputy Lyudmila Shvetsova and State Duma deputy Vladimir Gruzdev. According to Ekho Moskvy, this was stated by State Duma deputy, one of the leaders of United Russia, Artur Chilingarov. The electoral list of the party must be finally approved at the conference of the Moscow branch of the party. Elections to the Moscow City Duma will be held on October 11.

Starting from September 1, Mail.ru raises the rates for advertising on the main page of the portal and in the "Mail" section by 40%. According to Vedomosti , advertisers have recovered from the crisis and may begin to increase spending on advertising on the Internet. Alexey Katkov, commercial director of Mail.ru, told the publication that the demand for advertising continues to grow even in the summer. In autumn, demand will be even higher, the manager assures.