Archimandrite John (peasant) passed away. He died at the age of ninety -five years on Sunday morning, when worships were performed in all the Orthodox churches of the country in honor of the "small Easter" - this is what Christians call every Sunday day, the prototype of which is the resurrection of Christ. Together with Father John, a whole era in the life of the Russian Orthodox Church has sunk into oblivion, it is noted in the necrologist who today was widespread by the Interfax agency.

The leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Alexander Moroz, believes that the reunification of the "orange team" to the parliamentary elections will not lead to the desired result. “I believe that there is no need to discuss any association before the elections - this is all ineffective and will not give a result,” Frost said at a briefing on Monday in Kyiv, answering the question of Interfax. “All agreements can be made after the elections.

The main military prosecutor’s office launched a criminal case against the head of the Chelyabinsk Tank School for concealing the fact of mockery of ordinary Andrei Sychev . This was announced at a meeting of the Committee on Judicial Law Issues of the Federation Council on Monday Chief Military Prosecutor Alexander Savenkov.

Retired Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, accused of attempted on the head of the ECU RAO Anatoly Chubais, announced a hunger strike. "Kvachkov announced a hunger strike on Friday until he was registered as a candidate for deputies," said Alevtin Moshansky, lawyer Kvachkova. On February 2, the District Electoral Commission of the Medvedkovsky District of Moscow refused to register Kvachkov as a candidate at the diode to the State Duma.

George Bush announced the upcoming closure of three hundred US military bases in foreign countries, RIA Novosti reports. As noted in the accompanying certificate to the project of the defense budget, introduced by the president to the US Congress on Monday, the closing of the bases will be carried out in accordance with the reduction plan for the American armed forces abroad.

Organized crime in Russia did not disappear: partially former gangsters turned into "respected" businessmen, partially - were removed from major affairs by officials, special services and police. Now it is precisely the representatives of the law enforcement agencies that offer what organized criminal groups used to propose: protection, debt collection and providing internal information.

On Monday, February 6, at about 11:30, a group of activists of the National Bolshevik Party captured the military enlistment office of the Savelovsky district of Moscow (Butyrsky Val, 7). This is stated in the NBP message, received by Newsru.com.

As a result of today's strike of the Israeli Air Force in the north of the Gaza Strip, two militants from the Palestinian radical group "Brigade of the Martyrs of Al-Aksa", calling themselves the war wry "Fath", were killed. According to ITAR-TASS, citing the Katar satellite television channel Al-Jazeera, in the Tel-USA area on the car in which the radicals were located, a rocket was released. Three people were injured.

To determine some physical properties of the so -called dark matter distributed in the Universe, for the first time in history, scientists from the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University have been able to. The authors of the study plan in the coming weeks to publish an article about their work, Interfax reports. It is believed that dark matter, which cannot be seen, according to some calculations, can be more than 95% of the mass of all matter in the universe.

In the Sverdlovsk region, a sentence of physical education was sentenced to who injured two students with a rake. According to the press service of the regional prosecutor's office, the Bogdanovichsky district court sentenced a high school physical education teacher to a fine of five thousand rubles.

On the fact of an attack in Vladikavkaz, three police officers were detained in the correspondent of Russian television Channel One Olga Kiri, Interfax told a source of North Ossetia on Monday. "The case was initiated under Article 263, part 3 of the Criminal Code (abuse of authority with the use of violence) and article 144, part 2 (obstruction of the official’s official activity) in relation to one of the police, which, based on testimony, Kiriya inflicted on it," the source said.

In the center of Moscow, a fire occurred in a four -story residential building at Maly Kokovinsky Lane, 1/8 house. According to RIA Novosti in the Main Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies of Moscow, 15 residents of the house were evacuated. The signal of the fire entered at 5:18. The fire was awarded the 2nd category of complexity on a 5-point scale. The fire began on the ground floor and spread through wooden floors to the second and third floors.

The acting head of the government of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov said that in connection with the scandal related to the publication of caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad , Danish organizations will no longer be allowed to Chechnya, Interfax reports. "As for the Danish organizations that we have, we will no longer allow (them) and precisely on this occasion (scandal with the publication of caricatures)," said Ramzan Kadyrov on Monday to journalists in Moscow.

In Togliatti, the editor of the crime department of the Togliatti Review newspaper Sergei Davydov beat the police officers. In addition, according to the victim, law enforcement officers stole 5 thousand rubles from him. Despite the fact that the journalist wrote statements about the attack in the prosecutor’s office and the RUVD of the Central District of the city, law enforcement officials refuse to comment.

Employees of law enforcement agencies in St. Petersburg revealed the murder of citizen Mali on the night of Sunday. As it became known, the murder of a citizen Mali Dembele Mamut was committed on household grounds. “The murder committed on Sunday night is a murder on household grounds from personal hostile motives that arose during a quarrel,” the official representative of the prosecutor's office told Interfax.