In the state complex "Konstantinovsky Palace", located in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, Strelna, on Wednesday, there will be a presentation of four picturesque canvases entered the collection of the complex from the collection of the Charlotenburg (Berlin) collection under the program for the return of cultural values.

Metropolitan Smolensky and Kaliningrad Kirill expressed solidarity with the mayor of Jerusalem Uri Lupolyansky, who forbade the holding in the holy city of the gay parade, for which he was fined by the local court. " The Russian Orthodox Church supports your efforts aimed at protecting sincere believers from actions that violate their religious feelings.

Three suspects of the murder of an employee of the regional prosecutor’s office Sergei Kazimirov were detained in Irkutsk. Currently, the detainees are giving a confession. According to preliminary data, the purpose of the attack was a robbery. As the investigation established, the robbers hit the victim on the head, after which they abducted a video camera and a cell phone, reports REGNUM .

The head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Shvydka, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to the Minister of Culture and Mass Communications Alexander Sokolov. According to Interfax Schwydky Pavel Astakhov, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of the agency. In addition, as the lawyer noted, Mikhail Shvydka refused to intention to demand material compensation from the minister.

In June, a decrease in the level of population trust in Vladimir Putin and in general to his team continued. New data is given by the analytical center of Yuri Levada (Levada Center). The rating of the Russian president in June amounted to 38%, which is 3% less than the previous historical minimum recorded in February 2005.

The Moscow City Court upheld the conviction against the director of the Sakharov Museum Yuri Samodurov and his employee Lyudmila Vasilovskaya, convicted of inciting religious enmity, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the cassation complaints to the adovocates of the defendants, who asked to cancel the conviction and stop the case for the lack of a crime in the action of the museum workers.

On Wednesday, the Russian and foreign press comments on the on the eve of the demand of the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to establish the deadlines for the withdrawal of the US military bases from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

Two tropical storms at once are approaching the territory of the United States. One of them - Cindy - by Tuesday evening or by the morning of the midst of local time can reach the coast of Louisian, the other - Dennis - is far away, but can cause trouble to residents of Florida closer to the end of the current week.

According to a survey conducted by Viacom Outdoors, 42% of women in the metro think about sex, while only 22% of men come underground with such thoughts. The results show that although, according to general conviction, men think about sex constantly, they think less in the subway, BBC News reports. The study was conducted on the basis of surveys, observations of passengers, as well as their reviews.

In the Kaliningrad region, nine cars collided on the road smoky from burning grass, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies Hatalya Ivanov. According to her, the traffic accident occurred on the 20th km of the Kaliningrad-Gvardeisk highway, where grass burned along the roadsides and in the fields.

The capital of the Philippines Manila, with a total area of ​​three thousand square kilometers, sags an average of 5 centimeters a year. The reason for this “fault” of the city is the rapid pumping of groundwater, as experts of the Institute of Geological Sciences at the University of Philippine Kelvin Rodolfo and Fernando Sirintan during the study over the past eight years, RIA Novosti reports.

In New Delhi, the police used rubber batons, vodnettes and tear gas to disperse a protest against a terrorist attack in Aydhia in Uttar-Pradesh, which occurred the day before. According to local media, thousands of people gathered on Parliamentary Street, where the demonstration was held, demanded the immediate resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Shivaja Patil, as well as the chief minister of Uttar-Pradesh Mulayama Singh Yadava, RIA Novosti reports.

In September, the ex-champion of the world in boxing among professionals Konstantin Tszyu plans a large tour in Russia. Tszyu plans to visit Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Yugorsk and Moscow. It is also possible that his path will lie through Ufa and Nizhny Tagil. In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Tszyu is expected to visit at the match meeting of Primorye-Ukrainian, which is scheduled for September 4th. However, the details of the stay there are not yet known.

In New York, during the negotiations of the League and the Player Trade Union, radical changes were approved in the rules for conducting overtime, which, in fact, will turn an additional five-minute into the show. There is still no new collective agreement between the NHL and the trade union of players, which is the Basic Law of the League, despite the intensive negotiations of interested parties that are held these days in New York.

Russian woman Elena Isinbaeva set the 14th world record in jumping with a sixth in her sports career. At the tournament of the Super Grand Prix of the IAAF in the Swiss Lausanne, she overcame the bar at an altitude of 4 meters 93 centimeters, which is a centimeter above her previous achievement, established by the 23-year-old Olympic champion and multiple record holder of the world in Brussels in September last year. “This is just fantasy,” said a happy athlete.