The Secretary General of the UN Pan Hi Moon exceeded the powers, proceeding to the reconfiguration of the UN mission in Kosovo without the mandate of the Security Council. This was stated by the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaliy Churkin from the rostrum of the UN Security Council, RIA Novosti reports. “In this situation, the Secretary General exceeded his powers, invading the UN Substantus's authorized prerogatives,” Churkin noted.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II upon arrival this afternoon from Moscow to Kiev urged Russians and Ukrainians to maintain the unity of the Orthodox faith. “We are here in order for consent and unity to be among us,” Alexy II said at the exit from an airplane at the Kiev airport Borispol. He urged all the Orthodox believers to “appreciate this great good of unity, to cherish the unity between our fraternal Slavic peoples,” Interfax reports.

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and representatives of the Orthodox churches of the world committed a memorial service for those who died in Ukraine from hunger in 1932-1933. According to Interfax , the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko was present at the Panchid in the Kiev Mikhailovsky Cathedral.

The prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow sent a notification to the Chairman of the Board of TNK-VR Management, which calls it on Monday, July 28, to consider the issue of administrative violations in TNK-VR Management, the letter of the prosecutor Vladimir Kutovoi, a copy of the oil information agency, said.

Iraq is still one of the most important topics in the political debates of applicants for the post of US President. The Republican Party candidate John McCain on Friday again criticized his opponent Democrat Barack Obama, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Friday, July 25, the Adler of the World Court made a decision on the administrative arrest of Dmitry Trofichev, the head of the Old Believers' community living in the Imeretinsky lowland in the Adler district of Sochi, relatives of the convict told REGNUM . Dmitry Drofichev was charged with counteraction to representatives of the authorities in the performance of their duties. The counteraction was that on July 22, Drofichev did not let the number into the territory of his house?

The setting of the sign of equality between German Nazism and Soviet communism in a statement by US President George Bush is offensive to Russian participants in the war and veterans of the countries of the anti -Hitler coalition, including American ones, the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

In Estonia, in the town of Sinimaye near the Estonian-Russian border on Saturday, the rally and meeting of veterans of the 20th Estonian SS division were held on Saturday. Veterans were welcomed by the parliament deputy Trivimi Vellist and the elder of Vaivaraska Volost Vaikko Luhalaid.

One person fell into a coma and two more were injured today as a result of the collapse of the TB-10 sports aircraft near the Japanese city of Omur (Nagasaki Prefecture). The plane collapsed into the sea about 300 meters from the airport, local media reported. The incident occurred at 17:23 local time (12:23 Moscow time), i.e. Two minutes after the plane flew into the Saga Airport 40 kilometers. Immediately after taking off, the pilot suddenly asked for landing.

The Mi-8 helicopter flew out on Saturday from the village of Terskol to Nalchik to take on board the rescuers and then go to the Shaurt Glacier area, where three Ukrainian tourists were killed on Thursday, when RIA Novosti, a representative of the press service of the southern regional center of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies told RIA Novosti . According to him, the helicopter will take the survivors and bodies of dead tourists.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II flew today to Kiev to participate in celebrations dedicated to the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia. Upon arrival in Kiev, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church will visit the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, where he will bow to the relics of the holy saints in the Lavra cave. After that, the ceremony of presenting the patriarch of the diploma of the honorary doctor at the Kiev Theological Academy is planned, Interfax reports.

The new branch of the St. Petersburg metro - the Frunze radius - will accept the first passengers this year. The Volkovskaya station is planned to be put into operation in December with a partition from Sennaya Square. The General Director of Metrostroy Vadim Aleksandrov at a meeting with the governor Valentina Matvienko reported on the timing of the construction of the Frunze radius stations today.

In the event of the victory of the Democrat of Barack Obama, in the US election, it will be possible to talk about the beginning of the era of strategic partnership between the European Union and the USA. Most British analysts converge in this opinion, summing up the senator’s visit to Europe and the Middle East. The agenda of the senator changed daily.

The Governor of the Orenburg Region Alexei Chernyshev signed a decree on the creation of a special commission for the elimination of the focus of the disease of African plague in the region, from which about 200 animals had already fallen, the representative of the regional government press service said on the Saturday of RIA Novosti .

The head of the UK government, Gordon Brown, was faced with a coup attempt in his own office of ministers, writes London Times . With reference to his own sources, the newspaper writes that most of the key ministers of his government prepared an ultimatum to the Prime Minister.