Most Russian citizens are sure that Russia is respected in the world, consider it a rich and free country, but they are afraid. This is evidenced by studies of the sociologists of the Public Opinion Foundation, published on Friday in Moscow. Scientists made their conclusions on the basis of a May survey conducted in 100 settlements of 44 regions, edges and the Republic of the Russian Federation.

Bishop of Saratov and Volsky Longin expressed concern about the threat of preserving the architectural and historical appearance of Saratov. "The true face of every Russian city is its historical development. Together with the loss of architectural -historical originality, the continuity of generations, the interest of the townspeople in the history of their land, and means love for it.

The exhibition of photographs of the leader of the Aquarium group Boris Grebenshchikov from the Infra Petersburg series, dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the team, opened in Moscow. “The exhibition and the 35th anniversary were not thought at the same time. According to the theory of Karl Gustav Jung, this is the process of synchronism - everything that needs is happening simultaneously.

The Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospping) published data on the economic condition of the Russian media. Rospping notes the steady growth of the advertising market in Russia in 2006.

The brigade of the colorful workshop of the GM - AvtoVAZ plant in Togliatti (Samara region) on Thursday in the evening arranged a protest rally, refusing to work in the workshop, where the temperature reached 37 degrees Celsius. As Interfax told the deputy trade union committee of the colorful workshop Ilsyar Sharafutdinova, in the room where about 50 people work, unbearable heat holds for several days.

In the Moscow Regional Council, the collegium of jury pronounced an acquittal of the teenager accused in the case of the murder of Armenia, Arthur Sardaryan in the train near Moscow in the spring of 2006. According to ITAR-TASS in court, by a majority vote (10 out of 12), the jury considered the defendant not proved in the crime incriminated to him and issued an acquittal.

In the Moscow metro today the train-gallery begins to run. This will be the world's first underground mobile art exhibition. The composition was called "train-steering" and will follow daily along the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line of the metropolitan land from 12:00 to 15:00 Moscow time. Exhibits are the best work of the pupils of the Watercolor School Sergey Andriyaki, as well as paintings by the head of the art workshop - only 45 watercolors.

Rooshranulture seized five archival documents exhibited at the Moscow International Salon of Elegant Arts. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the deputy head of the Rosoculture Anatoly Vilkov. "When registering items imported to the Moscow International Salon of Extraordinary Arts, which opened on May 29 in the Manege, the service identified five archival documents stolen in 1992 from the Russian state archives.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported in the first reading of amendments to the law on the election of people's deputies, involving the introduction of a 50% barrier of the voter barrier to recognize the elections by the held. For the bill to amend the law on the election of people's deputies of Ukraine and some other legislative acts introduced by representatives of the parliamentary coalition, 251 out of 402 deputies voted, Interfax reports.

For more than four hours, negotiations next to Madrid between the Supreme Representative of the European Union on a single foreign policy and security policy, Javier Solanna and secretary of the National Security Council of Iran Ali Laridzhani. They discussed ways to overcome the crisis that arose around the Iranian atomic program, stating, following the results of the conversation, promotion on some topics. “We exchanged many ideas,” Solan told reporters.

On Friday, the Petrozavodsk City Court justified three supporters of Eduard Limonov, who were accused of disorganization of the robots of the district election commission, was told by Interfax in court. According to the investigation, "March 11, 2007, the three National Bolsheviks S. Kuritsyn, P. Kashkin and Y.

Mikhail Yuzhny and Nikolai Davydenko on Friday made their way to the 1/8 finals of the French open championship in tennis, which is held these days on the ground courts of Paris. South in the mast of the third circle beat the Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero with a score of 6: 7 (1: 7), 7: 6 (7: 1), 6: 2, 6: 2. The next rival of Mikhail will be the first racket of the world Swiss Roger Federer, who in the third round outplayed the Italian Potito Druch.

Despite the cooling of American-Russian relations recently and serious disagreements on a number of issues, US President George Bush considers Russia a friend of America. “Russia is not hostile to us. Russia is a friend for us,” he said in an interview with a group of European journalists in Washington before a trip to the Great Eight summit to Germany and visiting a number of European states.

The diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Detroit (Michigan) in connection with the upcoming early release from the Pathologist Jack Kevorkyan, who received the nickname, Dr. Death, turned to the media to not turn him into a celebrity. Kevorkyan is an active supporter of the legalization of euthanasia. Since 1990, Kevorkyan, by his own admission, has helped to part with the life of 130 patients. The pathologist was accused of killing his patient and sentenced to 25-year imprisonment.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II will perform today, on the 40th day after the death of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin, a panachid in the Novodevichy cemetery. On the memorial service will be attended by his widow - Naina Iosifovna, daughter with families, as well as close families of Yeltsins. As ITAR-TASS noted in the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate, the days of commemoration of the deceased occupy a special place in the Christian tradition.