To reconcile with each other, to forgive the grievances, mutual hostility called on the forgiven Sunday, preceding the beginning of Great Lent , the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II , ITAR-TASS reports. On this day, he performed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior Vespers with the rank of forgiveness, during which the clergy and believers, according to Christian custom, ask each other for forgiveness.

In Spain, for the first time at the auction on the Internet, a picture of Pablo Picasso "still life", written in 1914, was exhibited. The starting price of this collage of the period of "synthetic cubism" in the artist’s work is 125 thousand euros.

In the capital of the Netherlands on Tuesday, the opening ceremony of the branch of the State Hermitage will be held. From the Russian side, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydka, director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, will take part in the ceremony. "Hermitage. Amsterdam" (or "Hermitage on Amstel") will be located in a building built in the 17th century (Amstelhof) and restored to a branch of the famous Russian museum.

Tobacco -smoking daily takes the lives of about 700 Russians. This figure was called at a press conference on Tuesday in Moscow a special representative of the general director of WHO (World Health Organization) in Russia Mikko Shynonen. "The prevalence of smoking in Russia is two times higher than the average in the world. So, the prevalence of smoking among youth aged 15 to 18 is about 30 percent with a slight tendency to growth," Shynonen said.

The Mexican millionaire Jorge Vergar announced his intention to buy the Russian football club Spartak. The owner of Omnilife for the production of various food additives (for athletes, for losing weight, for the elderly, etc.), sold mainly in America, already owns two football clubs - the Mexican Guadalahara and Costa Rican "Sapasissa", and also successfully acts as a producer of films, reports "Soviet Sport" .

The total overdue debt on wages in the Russian Federation in January increased by 11.3% compared to the previous month and amounted to 27.2 billion rubles. Compared to the same period last year, this indicator decreased by 18.1%. At the same time, salary debts arising due to the fault of budgets of all levels increased by 21% in January and amounted to 2.7 billion rubles, reports AK&M with reference to the Goskomstat of Russia.

In the United States, the robber was sentenced to clean 100 prison toilets after a robbery raid to the house and the hooligan act of defecation on the floor. By decision of the judge of the Sagino district, thus the criminal must pay for the stealing weapons from the house in the town of Richland (Michigan) and hooliganism. Now the sentenced will take up the improvement of the sanitary conditions of the Sagino district prison, Ananova.com reports.

Israeli authorities lifted the restrictions on visiting by foreign pilgrims of the holy places of Judea and Samaria, located on the territory of the Palestinian autonomy, Blagovet-Info reports with reference to the ASIANEWS news agency. As the agency of the Israeli ambassador to Italy Ewood Gol, tourists arriving at Tel Aviv Airport, stated, stopped issuing booklets with a list of places whose visits are prohibited without written permission of the authorities.

President of the Italian football club Roma Franco Sensi confirmed the information that negotiations are currently underway to buy his team with a Russian company, RIA Novosti reports. “It is true that we are negotiating,” said the 77 -year -old Boss of the club, which now owns 63.77 percent of the club’s shares.

In Moscow, theft from the office of Invest-Nasta CJSC was committed. The damage amounted to 15 million rubles. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, on the night of Monday, five unknown in masks picked up the code for the front door to the room on Volgogradsky Prospekt, which is rented by this company. Entering inside, the criminals began to threaten two guards with a gun.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the resignation of the Russian government of 46-year-old Mikhail Kasyanov . He stated this on Tuesday in his emergency television, which was broadcast by the Rossiya television channel and the first television channel. The acting prime minister was appointed 46-year-old Viktor Khristenko . According to the President of Russia, such a decision was made by him in accordance with Article 117 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

A new BizEx virus has appeared on the network, which caused the first global epidemic among users of the ICQ Internet pike. The report of the Kaspersky Lab said that the virus brings the ICQ-message victim to the computer, in which it offers to visit the Jokeworld.biz hacker website. For masking, the user shows cartoons from the popular series "Joecartoon", and in the meantime, the Java Virus quietly penetrates the system.

In the north of Morocco, a strong earthquake occurred on Tuesday morning, as a result of which, according to the latest data, 226 people died, more than 120 were injured. This is the official data that AFP transfers with reference to the MAP Moroccan State Information Agency. However, according to local authorities, the number of victims of the element may exceed 300 people.

The lawyers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexei Pichugin and Platon Lebedev announced difficult conditions for detention of their clients, the Radio station "Echo of Moscow" reports. Lawyer Robert Amsterdam said that torture was used in relation to Pichugin. Lawyer Tatyana Akimtseva said that she herself saw traces of injections and filed a complaint with the court that psychotropic drugs were applied to her client.

Shipping on the Mississippi River in the New Orleans area is completely paralyzed. The reason is a clash on Saturday due to a thick fog of two ships, one of which sank, ITAR-TASS reports. Part of the crew managed to save, but five people are still missing. The incident occurred in the place through which the only deep -sea fairway passes for large -capacity vessels included in the Mexican of the Gulf of Mexico or the following in the opposite direction.