The large cathedral of the Orthodox hierarchs, designed to decide the dispute about the fate of the Cyprus Orthodox Church, will be held in the city of Shambzi near the Swiss Geneva on May 17-18 next year. According to Blagovest-info with reference to the Cyprus Mail newspaper, such a decision was made yesterday in the Patriarchate of Constantinople (Ecumenical) .

The Moscow City Court rejected the statement of the representatives of the Homeland party, which demanded to withdraw from registration the election list of candidates from the United Russia party in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. This was announced on Friday RIA "Novosti" representative of the Homeland Alexander Bukov. “We filed a lawsuit in connection with the fact that a number of candidates from the United Russia party use the advantage of the official position,” he explained.

The state promises to distribute 70 billion rubles a year to businessmen. On the eve of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed a decision on the creation of an investment fund in the budget of next year. In 2007 and 2008, it will even grow somewhat. The decision states that projects worth at least 5 billion rubles can be financed from the fund, while a private investor must invest at least 25%.

The Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin on Wednesday has been performed for appendicitis, the press secretary of the Minister Gennady Yezhov said. According to him, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday after returning from a business trip to the Far East, the minister was recorded signs of appendicitis. "He was immediately hospitalized, because the case was quite severe, and on Wednesday they performed an operation in the Central Clinical Hospital.

Strange things are happening around the Beslan investigation. The third time repeatedly announced promises to publish the conclusions of the parliamentary commission of North Ossetia to investigate the terrorist attack in Beslan. At first, the report was supposed to take place in September, but this did not happen. “Roughly speaking, we went to meet some,” explained the head of the republican commission Stanislav Kesaev.

The administration of the YAG-14/10 colony in the city of Krasnokamensk, the Chita region, where Mikhail Khodorkovsky is serving a sentence, asks the Main Directorate of the Federal Registration Service in Moscow to deprive the advocate of the defender of the ex-head of the Yukos Albert Mkrtychev. According to MKRTICHEV in an interview with Interfax, the reason for this was the incident that occurred to him during a visit to the client in the colony on November 15.

World champions Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov are leading after the execution of compulsory dance at the fifth stage of the Grand Prix series - the Tournament "Cup of Russia", which started in the city on the Neva. The result of the leaders is 38.72 points. In second place, experienced Israelis Galit Chait and Sergey Sakhnovsky (35.03). The third - the owners of the ice Oksana Dominina and Maxim Shabalin (32.35). Russians Olga Orlova and Vitaly Novikov are still the eighth.

Harbin authorities, one of the largest Chinese cities, fear that hazardous substances will remain in the waters of the Sungari River until spring. In this regard, the city government plans to resort to a whole complex of measures to ensure the safety of citizens. “We are afraid that toxic substances will remain in the river, since now Sungari begins to freeze and the ice -formed ice may contain harmful substances.

It is unpleasant to think about how humanitarian disasters are reflected on our portfolios. But the professional duties of investment analysts include thinking about how to play at the growing, according to scientists, the risk of pandemia of "bird flu". Although its probability is small, it will not prevent investors from evaluating the risk. "If" bird flu "wraps in global pandemia, there will be something to think about, in addition to financial markets.

The descendants and heirs of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kalo open the line of high -quality alcohol - tequila, which will be called her name.

Suspicions of rape were removed from the English club “Manchester United”, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the British television channel Sky News. “The Royal Prosecutorial Service of Great Britain has informed today that it has not enough reasons to charge and initiate a criminal case,” a representative of Scotland Yard told reporters.

The Airport of Khabarovsk made an emergency landing by the Tu-204 passenger aircraft, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation said. "The plane, on board which was 131 passenger and 9 crew members, safely sat at Khabarovsk airport at 15:35 Moscow time. There are no victims," ​​the Ministry of Emergencies said. According to preliminary data, the aircraft was refused the front line of the chassis, RIA Novosti reports.

On the day when the Russian media should have celebrated a round date dedicated to the freedom of the press, a symptomatic event occurred indicating the actual level of freedom of speech in Russia. From the air of one of the Russian television channels, the leading final evening release of the news was removed. On November 24, it turned 100 since the day in Russia for the first time it became free.

On the eve of his thanksgiving day, which was celebrated in the United States on Thursday, the American won the competition for the fastest eating of the turkey. 37-year-old Sonya Thomas from the city of Alexandria (Virginia), which weighs only 47.5 kg, prevailed over her male rivals at the annual competition to the Flyksgiving Invitational. She managed with a 4.5-kilogram fried turkey in just 12 minutes.

The Federal Service for the Control of Drug Training (FSKN) opens against the creation of rehabilitation centers for drug addicts with non -traditional religious organizations. “We express serious concern in connection with the activities of totalitarian sects in the rehabilitation of drug addicts,” the head of the Department of Interdepartmental and Information Activities of the FSKN, Alexander Mikhailov, told the Interfax agency.