The Pope John Pavel II called for the development of contacts between the Catholics of the Eastern rite and the Orthodox, RIA Novosti reports.

Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation German Gref advocates the privatization of Rosneft NK and Yuganskneftegaz OJSC. “I believe that both Rosneft and Yuganskneftegaz, if it becomes state, needs to be privatized,” the minister said in an interview with Kommersant . The head of the Ministry of Economic Development is confident that private property will allow companies to develop more efficiently.

The case of a policeman, who opened fire to a witness, was transferred to the court of the Kalinin district of Tyumen. According to the prosecutor's office, the police major is accused of attempting to kill and abuse of authority. On October 17, 2004, in Tyumen, the police of the Kalininsky Internal Affairs Directorate in the interrogation room fired six shots at the suspect . A man with various gunshot wounds was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the second city hospital.

Visitors to the Indian airport became involuntary witnesses of debauchery. On the night of January 10 to 11, all the airport monitors and televisions suddenly began to broadcast a hard porn movie. For 20 minutes, shocked Indians and guests of the country observed in color and on a large screen for hard sex. Porn went with sound, so that all the audience managed to hear Ahi, sighs and groans accompanying the action. The session was stopped at the request of indignant citizens.

In the center of the weakly lit bar in Kinshas, ​​the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a pot -of middle -aged man dance with a group of Congolese prostitutes. Ignoring people around, he turns off from reality under the influence of music and, then dousing, grabs the chest of one of the girls with his hands, writes the British The Independent (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday adopted a resolution, which contains an offer to the President of the country to immediately withdraw the Ukrainian military contingent from Iraq. For this decision, 308 deputies out of 416, registered in the hall, voted. The draft resolution was introduced by the leader of the Communist Party faction Petr Simonenko.

The turbogenerator was "stopped by the action of personnel due to an increase in the gas cooal temperature of the generator." The total load of the station has not changed and is 3 thousand 400 MW. The stop occurred with the redistribution of the load on other blocks, Rosbalt reports with reference to the atomic energy press center.

The vast majority of resort hotels in South and Southeast Asia do not intend to return money to Russian tour operators for unproven services. This was announced on Tuesday by the press secretary of the Russian Union of Trade of Trade Irina Tyurina. "As experts of the market suggested, the vast majority of resort hotels do not intend to return money to their Russian partners for unproven services. They do not deny the debt, but they offer to return it to all the same services," Tyurina said.

After several weeks, Laura Bush made his choice. She decided what to go to the inauguration of the US president on January 20. The evening outfit will be sewn by Oscar de la Renta - and in the near future this dress will discuss more than any other, writes The New York Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The XXII Arts of the Arts "Christmas Days of Orthodox Culture" takes place these days in Nizhny Novgorod. The correspondent of the Nizhny Novgorod Telegraph Agency was reported to the regional Ministry of Culture. The festival solemnly opened on the first day of the holiday of the Nativity of Christ at the Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theater with a performance of the combined male choir of the Nizhny Novgorod Seminary and the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory.

Neva gradually returns to his shores. The water level by the morning of Tuesday was 102 cm above the orderly. As reported in the special forecasts of the Hydrometeorological Center of St. Petersburg, in the next day a new dangerous increase in water level is not expected. Another Atlantic cyclone should approach the northern capital on January 14. But whether a native wave is formed as a result, capable of causing a new flood, weather forecasters are not yet taken to predict.

It is difficult to imagine Casanova or Rudolph Valentino sobbing after a break of a relationship with a woman, but, nevertheless, the myth of Italian-Machi continues to scatter. So, it was recently discovered that more Italian men than women consider their heart to be broken after a love relationship comes to an end, writes The Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The Pope John Paul II blessed the presidency of the head of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. This was announced today at a briefing by the head of the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Markiyan Lubkivsky, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, the pontiff passed the blessing on the on the eve of the traditional admission of the diplomatic corps, which was accredited under the Holy Thronage, on the eve of the vatican .

During the November visit of the Japanese military delegation to Khabarovsk, no military agreements were signed, largely because the dispute over the islands prevents Japan and Russia from signing a peace treaty that completes the Second World War. But although the problem of the islands occupies a central place, Japan and Russia are slowly creating the closest military and economic ties in their history.

The All -Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, as well as the College of the State Committee for Religious Affairs, today came to the initiative to provide for the responsibility for attracting religious institutions and clergymen to political agitation. This is stated in the joint statement by them, reports ITAR-TASS.