The famous American singer Whitney Houston will meet in Moscow with the pop star Dmitry Malikov, but this time their duet will not take place. Malikov received an invitation from Houston for lunch and intends to demonstrate several of his songs to her. According to the press secretary of the singer Natalia Klyuyeva, "Houston in her interview stated that she was open to cooperation with Russian musicians and called the name of Dima.

Italian nuns go to the streets of cities at night to spiritually help foreign prostitutes working in Italy. The nuns dressed in their vestments teach women instructions and offer help in getting rid of a shameful profession. The action takes place with the participation of the US Embassy under the Holy Thron , the International Organization for Migration and the Italian Union of Rectors of Monastic Orders as part of a more general program to combat the slave trade, Blagovet-Info reports.

The State Duma leadership will be transported to the BMW of the 7th and 5th episodes. About this today, speaking at the training seminar for the newly elected parliamentarians in the boarding house "Bor", said the head of the department of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kozhin.

The subject of the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" can be introduced in schools only optionally, only by the Council of the School, only with the consent of the parents, "the Minister of Education Vladimir Filippov said on the air of the Echo of Education radio station. According to him, "the region does not have the right to order to introduce the foundations of Orthodox culture for all schools of the country." "The school itself decides.

The day of memory of the great Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is celebrated on Tuesday throughout the country. According to tradition, on the day of the death of the poet, flowers were laid on his grave in the Svyatogorsky monastery in the Pskov region, the monks of the monastery served a requiem. In Moscow in the Cathedral of the Epiphany, where the poet was baptized, a memorial service will also be held.

Since mid -January, Sweden has been monitoring the development of a story that sheds light on one of the Protestant “free churches”. The French newspaper Liberation talks about it today (the translation of the material is published on the website inopressa.ru ). The main character in this story is a small Pentecostal community of the village of Knutbu, 80 km north of Stockholm - a kind of focus of puritanism in the country, which is considered one of the most secularized countries in the world.

At the station "Begovaya" of the Krasnopresnenskaya line of the metro metro on Tuesday morning, a man fell on the rails. He died. According to the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies of Moscow, the tragedy occurred at 09:50 Moscow time. According to MK-Novosti in the UVD of the metro, the man, slipping on the platform, fell under the train arriving. The man died of injuries.

In 2003, 243 cases of seizure of fake banknotes of a unified European currency were registered in the Russian Federation. This was reported on Tuesday in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Fighting of Economic Crime of the Federal Service for Economic and Tax Crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The total amount of the seized fakes amounted to 28 thousand 246 euros, or 1.2% of the total number of fakes of foreign currency, Interfax reports.

Amendments to the law on taxation, which entered into force since the beginning of 2004, “strangled all social initiative of the Church,” is convinced by the secretary of the relationship between the Church and the Society of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Mikhail Dudko.

The Opportunity Mars Road continues its journey along the surface of the planet. On Monday, the Mark Road went to the crest crest, where he landed, and shot a photograph, which finally shows that he was outside the crater. The photo published by NASA shows that Opportunity landed on an absolutely smooth plain. It is also evident with the bored parachute and the protective "cocoon", which defended Opportunity when entering the atmosphere of Mars.

In the capital's hospitals there are 102 victims of the attack in the subway, three people were able to return home today. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Department of Health of Moscow.

On Tuesday, when the 167th anniversary of the tragic death of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was celebrated , it became known that fans of the work of the great Russian poet raised the question of finding the guilty in this tragedy. So, according to the former member of the Moscow Society of Pushkinists, Raisa Ivanova, representatives of the authorities were to stop the murder of the great poet.

The German police arrested two men - Greek and Germans who bought a tank in Greece and tried to sell through the Internet within the country. One of the "businessmen", a 36-year-old Greek, bought a tank as an extra and unnecessary military vehicle. He asked his friend, also a 36-year-old German, to try to sell a tank at an online auction. According to Ananova.com , the German police was very concerned about this commercial operation.

Relations between Russia and Georgia are at an unacceptable level, and there is no alternative to improve them. This was stated by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Tuesday in Moscow, speaking to students and teachers of MGIMO. Saakashvili for the first time in Russia as the President of Georgia. "Our relationship requires a radical revision, they are at an unacceptable level," he said. At the same time, Saakashvili noted that he did not expect any breakthrough from his visit.

In Yemen, a citizen of Russia died, according to Tuesday, the Saudi newspaper Al-Jazeera. According to the publication, the woman - the wife of the Yemenian doctor - died when she bathed in the Arabian Sea off the shore of the city of Aden. According to the publication, at high speed a motor boat crashed into a Russian woman, as a result of which the woman received serious injuries and died, RIA Novosti reports.