The Vatican is categorically against the creation of Greek Catholic structures in Russia, Interfax reports. “There are Greek Catholics in Russia, and they, of course, have the right to pastoral nourishment, but bishops of the Latin rite should lead them. This is very important,” said Cardinal Walter Casper, who recently completed negotiations with representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, who recently in Moscow.

The Main Directorate of the Penitentiary of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region received a statement by some investigative insulators (pre-trial detention centers) and correctional colonies of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on February 24 of a hunger strike. 5088 prisoners, under investigation and convicts partially refused to eat food.

The Russian national team expeditions with the support of the Country Cleep Cleading Federation to climb the center of the northern wall of Everest. This largest expedition in case of success will become the third largest event in the history of domestic mountaineering - after climbing Everest in 1982 and Kanchenjangs in 1989.

In Dagestan, a militant was liquidated, who killed three policemen on February 13 and wounded three more. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, when trying to detain Bammatbekyurt Ramazan Istambulov, an armed resistance in the suburban village of Khasavyurt Bammatbekyurt and was killed, RIA Novosti, RIA Novosti , was trying to detain on Friday.

The victory of this match was needed by both team. And at Stuttgart? Both Chelsea did not stick things in national championships, and the Champions League is a great opportunity to recoup in front of the fans for these failures. However, both teams could not put their strongest compositions, since leading players were in the lists of injured both teams. From the very beginning of the meeting, the styles of both rivals were identified.

The famous picture of Che Guevara, which has become a symbol of rebellious youth, can cause the closure of the most famous association that protects the freedom of the press around the world is “reporters without borders”. The daughter of Alberto Corda , a photographer who took this famous picture, appealed to the Paris Court with a lawsuit of 1.1 million euros against the Association of Journalists.

Ajar leader Aslan Abashidze said on Wednesday in Batumi that "in Tbilisi they are preparing armed invasion of Adjara." The head of Adjara made this statement at a meeting with representatives of diasporas living in the Autonomous Republic. The report on this meeting was shown by Adjar television, Interfax reports.

Russia and Belarus brought up positions and generally agreed on the terms of the loan provided by the Belarusian side for the uninterrupted supply of gas to Belarus to the Russian Gazprom OJSC. According to the Ministry of Finance, the issues of granting a loan by the Belarusian side were agreed on negotiations between the First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev and Minister of Finance of Belarus Nikolai Korbut.

There was a brutal murder in Saransk. The 24-year-old security guard Boomerang Denis Latyshev, who lives in the Leninsky district, found in his own apartment a 26-year-old wife Elena in the arms of a 17-year-old resident of Yaroslavskaya Street Vladimir Kozlov. Seeing the wife of his mistress, Kozlov inflicted 13 stab wounds Latyshev, from whom the deceived husband died before the ambulance arrived.

A bus with passengers, which was on the eve of snow drifts in Kamchatka, in the Ust-Kamchatka district, safely reached the destination-the village of Ust-Kamchatsky. According to the operational duty department in the Civil Defense and Emergencies of the Kamchatka Region, there were 20 people in the bus, made on the basis of the Ural truck, none of them were injured during the many hours of snow captivity. The passenger bus hit the road the night before, but did not arrive at the destination.

The colorful parade of "Samba schools" in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro ended the most famous traditional carnival in the world. The final parade was held in pouring rain, but this did not prevent guests from enjoying the spectacle. This year, about 80 thousand foreign tourists arrived at the carnival. The jury on Wednesday will announce the winner of the procession, in which hundreds of people take part from each Samba school.

A participant in the British rock band The Darkness, the vocalist and guitarist Justin Hawkins contacted the police after receiving a letter, which contained deadly threats directed to him. The musician said that the first letter came to him when the group won three Brit Awards awards last week. The 29-year-old singer said that the letter was written by hand, which is undoubtedly strange. “It is very flattering that someone wants to kill me, but at the same time it is very scary,” Hawkins noted.

Irina Khakamada, who is running for the presidential election in the order of self -nomination, refused the intention to withdraw her candidacy . “Despite the fact that the elections after the decision of President Vladimir Putin about the resignation of the government become a plebiscite, I will still go to the end,” she said to ITAR -TASS. Hakamada admitted that an attempt to consolidate protest moods failed.

The Opportunity Mars Railway drilled the rock on the surface of Mars. This is stated in the report of the laboratory of reactive traffic in Pasaden (California), which leads the project. Opportunity drilled approximately 4 mm cliffs of McKittrick Middle Rat on the area of ​​the crater called El Capitan. It took him about 2 hours. After that, photographs and analysis of the breed were taken. Today, Opportunity woke up at about 11:30 local time.

In the center of Athens, an unknown man armed with a hunting rifle captured a passenger bus, ITAR-TASS reports. At the end station, the criminal allowed all passengers to get out of the bus. In hostages, he left the driver. After that, he demanded that he be a television, so that he could "tell about his problem." During the negotiations with the police attacker, he managed to convince him to surrender to the authorities and release the bus driver who was not injured.