It is expected that Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, will meet with one of the most controversial figures of the US Bishopal Church: Gene Robinson, the bishop of the American diocese of New Hampshire will visit London for the first time next month. From the point of view of the correspondent of the British newspaper The Guardian, Williams did not express obvious discontent in connection with the upcoming meeting with the bishop.

On Friday October 21, in Moscow, in one of the halls of the Russian Academy of Sciences, they said goodbye to the famous Russian politician and public figure Alexander Yakovlev, who died last Tuesday . The hall where farewell passed could not accommodate everyone at the same time. Both his associates and political figures of the modern generation, representatives of the authorities and business came to say goodbye to Yakovlev.

Relatives of a resident of Vladikavkaz Vitaly Kaloev, accused of killing a Skyguide Swiss air traffic controller, intend to seek his extradition to Russia. Currently, a Russian citizen Kaloev is in prison in Switzerland in anticipation of the court, which is appointed on October 25. “Whatever the verdict, we intend to achieve the extraction of Vitaly from Switzerland to Russia.

In Germany, 12 stadiums were built for the World Cup, which will be held in this country in the summer of next year. To modernize sports facilities in the capital, the Berlin government office allocated 195.8 million euros, in Leipzig - 51.1 million euros. This was announced today at a press conference in the press and information department of the federal government, dedicated to preparation for the World Cup-2006.

Mikhail Kasyanov gave explanations on the Chief of the British newspaper The Guardian and the statements that the “fair” oil price should not exceed $ 25, and told how to spend superpowabenens from oil exports. The price of $ 20-25 per barrel of the Urals mixture is “this is positive simultaneously for the economies of manufacturers and consumer countries,” Kasyanov said in an interview with EJ.ru Internet magazine. "The funds of super $ 25 are not earned by people.

The entire livestock of poultry in the village of Yandovka of the Tula region died and was clogged in connection with the disease of the Bird flu. "The total number of poultry in Yandowka was 2236 heads. The entire livestock of birds was killed, stabbed and disposed of during anti -epizootic measures," the representative of the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies said on Friday Interfax.

The recently resigned, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine led a fierce offensive by President Viktor Yushchenko, accusing the leader of the Orange Revolution of an attempt to illegally stop the investigation of his wife Yekaterina Yushchenko-Chumachenko, writes The Independent on Friday.

The Gazprom Finance BV, registered in the Netherlands, 100 percent subsidiary of Gazprom, became the owner of 72.66% of the shares of Sibneft, the oil company said. At about 17:00, Gazprom also reported about the same in his press release. The corresponding receipt in the register of Sibneft shareholders was made on October 20. Thus, the gas monopolist officially completed the purchase of Sibneft, summarizes Interfax.

OJSC Gazprom Thursday completed the transaction to buy a control package of shares of Sibneft, transferring 13.1 billion $ 13.1 billion, Roman Abramovich Millhouse Capital, the newspaper The Moscow Times claims, referring to a source close to Gazprom. “All the transaction calculations are held today, all 100%. The transaction will be announced tomorrow,” the source told MT late in the evening on Thursday. Gazprom could not comment on the publication’s information, Interfax reports.

The Latvian special services were instructed to find a leak in the Security Council of Latvia, thanks to which Russian entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky found out in advance that the country's authorities intend to include him in the “black list”. This was announced on Friday in an interview with the Latvian radio Prime Minister of Latvia Aigar Kalvitis.

In the USA, a student who came to school in an inflatable suit depicting a penis was removed from classes. 14-year-old James Watkis from the city of Stailakun in Washington bought a suit last week, and a few days later he came to the dancing at his school, Kirotv.com reports. The parents of the young man say that their son is an excellent student, an athlete and just “good small”, who simply made a mistake.

The US administration announced the adoption of strict measures to prevent and suppress fraud in distributing assistance to the population who recently suffered from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “Fraud will not remain unpunished,” said US Minister of Justice Alberto Gonzalez, reporting the creation of a special center to combat this phenomenon. This center will include, in particular, FBI agents, tax service staff and representatives of the authorities of the most affected states.

The border police on Thursday interrogated a man arrested when trying to smuggling across the Kenyan border in Uganda a human head packed in a paper bag. The police threatened Ugandan with a shooting after he tried to escape at the time of his detention in the border city of Busia, writes The Daily Telegraph (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

For the prevention of "bird flu", the Shanghai authorities intend to disinfect the shoes of all those who come to the city from abroad. The new rules will act in relation to all those arriving in the city by water, land or by air, regardless of the country where the person came from, Interfax reports with reference to the RTHK-3 Hong Kong Kong.

The chief rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar called on the deputy chairman of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky to take measures in connection with the actions of a member of the LDPR party Nikolai Kuryanovich. Earlier on the Internet, a video of Nikolai Kuryanovich’s speech appeared , in which he “publicly supports violence on national grounds and completes his speech, throwing his right hand in a Nazi greeting,” the LDPR leader, widespread by the rabbis, said in a letter to Lazar, Interfax reports.