“The attempts of some religious, and especially public figures, to justify the abolition of the death penalty with theological arguments do not find solid ground,” said Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad in an interview with the magazine “Russian Justice”, reports “Blagovest-info” According to him, in the Holy Scriptures, Holy Tradition and the historical heritage of the Orthodox Church, “we do not find a ban on the use of the death penalty.” Moreover, he noted, in Old

Employees of the Far Eastern operational customs, together with the FSB in the Primorsky Territory and colleagues from Japan, blocked the drug supply channel from Russia to Japan and arrested its organizer, Interfax reports. The captain of the Russian ship "Kigilyak" assigned to the port, Alexei Olkin, was detained by the Japanese police on suspicion of drug transportation in the port of Abasiri on the island of Hokkaido on September 1.

Today, the newspaper of the Supreme Council of Crimea "Crimean Izvestia" published a letter, which on August 28 the Turkish ambassador sent to the head of the parliament of autonomy. In a letter, referring to the speaker of the Crimea Parliament Leonid Rook, the diplomat expressed regret in connection with the speaker’s statements that Türkiye claims to be the territory of Crimea, before the student audience.

In Lipetsk, journalists of a non -state regional television company TKK barricaded in the editorial building. They require the execution of the decision of the Arbitration Court to restore the former head of the television channel Alexander Lykov and the removal from the post of the newly appointed head Dmitry Kolbasko. However, the private security, hired sausage, still remains in the editorial office and does not let the channel employees into the building.

A married pair of wealthy Americans √ the inhabitants of New York threatens the year of prison for inviting stripper to a party to the elder's son and his comrades. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . Vine family arranged a party about the end of the training season of the school football team. The neighbors, dissatisfied with too noisy celebration, called the police. The former law enforcement officers found a stripper for work on the terrace of the Vainov house.

The central theme in the media of America has recently become, of course, the confrontation of the four -time and double winner of the US Open. Their fundamental dispute has a long story. The outcome of the match was absolutely unpredictable. On the one hand, in this tournament, the Samples has not been lucky over the past three years, and Agassi went out the winner in their last three meetings.

In his last message with a proposal to pay the so -called “revolutionary tax” sent by the Basque businessmen and members of their families, ETA √ a group of Basque terrorists - indicated “modest” amounts from 30 to 60 thousand euros (approximately $ 26,600 - 53,000). Considering that the ETA has yet been calculated in Peseta, this document indicates that the Basque terrorists switched to the euro, the Vedomosti newspaper reports.

At the court hearing, which began on Thursday in the Novosibirsk Regional Court in the case of the younger brother of the Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov, Viktor Tikhonov, who was accused of organizing an assassination attempt on the Governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, a break was announced to Friday. The defendant declared poor well -being.

1880. Louis Antonio Vargas is young, beautiful and rich. He owns coffee plantations in Cuba. For complete happiness, he lacks only his wife. But it is not so easy for a young magnate to find a suitable bride, although many beauties dream of going to the altar with him. Louis Antonio is afraid that the beauties need him not he, but his millions. On the newspaper announcement, he meets American Julia. He decides to marry her, barely seeing a photo.

Nadezhda Petrovna Shalapinina, the mother of the Kursk submarine, Nekrasov submarine, today denied in an interview with Ytro.ru the information that she belonged to the words that the sailors were alive for two to three days after the accident at the nuclear power plant. Nadezhda Schalapina today said: "I can’t say for sure, since there is no investigation. Yes, among sailors there are statements that the guys died on the 15th.

Today, the second semifinal pair of the European basketball championship among men will be determined close to midnight. The first one was identified a day earlier. Germany outplayed the silver medalists of the Olympic Games in Sydney - the French (81:77), and Turkey in overtime Croatia (87:85), the Internet version of the newspaper Izvestia reports. The Turks for the first time in their history went to the semifinals of the European Championship and at the same time qualified for the World Cup.

The leadership of the Thai Navy, who had never had submarines in their history in its history, announced the possibility of the country's acquisition of supported submarines. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" . According to the commander of the Navy, Admiral P -Servesung, the problem has not yet been submitted for discussion of the government, but preparatory work is carried out. Experts study the market of submarines not older than 10-15 years.

The Australian, who won 2.5 million Australian dollars in the lottery on September 9, 2000, did not apply for a win for almost a year, reports News.com . All this time, the winning lottery ticket was in the bank safe. A forty -year -old winner works as a car mechanic and says that he did not seek a win, because he was enough for ordinary earnings.

The President of Russia instructed to urgently leave the special representative of the Russian Foreign Minister for the Middle Eastern settlement of Andrei Vdovin to the Middle East. According to the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, Vdovin will continue contacts with both Israeli and Palestinian sides, RIA Novosti reports.

The administration of George Bush said that the opposition in the Congress, opposing proposals for the deployment of a missile defense system, may interfere with the efforts to reach an agreement with Russia to terminate the agreement on the about 1972, publishes the article by the Financial Times newspaper Inopressa.ru .