On the recommendation of the Ukrainian authorities, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia changed the route of his trip to Ukraine and refused to visit the city Rivne in Western Ukraine, the chairman of the Synodal Information Department of the Moscow Patriarchate Vladimir Leegaida told RIA Novosti . "There were changes in the route of the Holiness Patriarch Kirill.

What kind of tricks are the immigrants do not go to deceive the border guards and to bypass the law to penetrate the UK. One of the most original ways was reported by the British newspaper Daily Mail . Imaginal, whose nationality is not reported, managed to squeeze into a small space between the chassis and the gas tank of the bus, which followed from the French town of Kokel through the tunnel near La-Channel to the British Duvre.

The head of the Duma Security Committee Vladimir Vasiliev believes that the corruption of law enforcement agencies is hindering the fight against corruption in Russia. "Law enforcement agencies cannot fight corruption, as they themselves are amazed at it," said Vasiliev, communicating with the participants of the All -Russian Forum "Seliger 2009" on Sunday. During the conversation, he paid great attention to the problems of corruption in the country.

The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich held the title of the owner of the largest yacht in the world according to the 2009 Forbes version, which is published on Saturday. His eclipse yacht ("eclipse") is 557 feet long (169 meters), which came off the slipways of the German shipyard Blohm & Voss, turned out to be unsurpassed in its scope.

In the All-Russian Children's Center "Eaglet" today has passed the day of tolerance, reports ITAR-TASS. The main difference between this day of tolerance is that it is based on a project to develop tolerance in Russia, which was developed by the Youth Eight, Andrei Fursenko, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, said at the opening of the day. "Many provisions of this project are of a specific, easily implemented nature.

The irreconcilable rival of President Iran Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad, the former head of the Iranian executive branch Ali Akbar Khamhey-Rafsanjani, left Tehran this morning in an unknown direction. " This was reported by the Fars news agency. According to him, in the assertion of the approval of Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad, who was chosen on Monday, who was chosen in June for a second term by the President of IRI, Khachemi-Rafsanjani will not participate.

The rarest Buddhist treasures, which disappeared for more than 70 years, were buried in the Gobi desert, the British television and radio broadcasting corporation of the Air Force reports on Sunday. Historical artifacts were hidden in the 1930s, when the communist authorities began to destroy and ruin monasteries. Among the treasures found are sculptures, other art objects, manuscripts and personal belongings of the famous rector of one of the Buddhist monasteries of the 19th century.

The Finnish police gave the Russians Rimma Salonen (Kazakova) guarantee that she would not be arrested if she arrives in Finland, Interfax said Salonen Johan Bekman on Sunday. In this regard, he does not exclude that Rimm Salonen - the mother of the child, who in the spring of this year was illegally from Russia to his own father - was lured into Finland with a fraud.

Havana is ready for a respectful dialogue with Washington throughout the spectrum of issues, however, the state system of the country cannot be the subject of negotiations, said on Saturday the chairman of the State Council and the Council of Ministers Raul Castro, speaking at the National Assembly of People's Power (Cuba Parliament). "I want to use this opportunity in order to declare the readiness of Cuba to conduct respectful dialogue with the United States.

"A nuclear bomb in Myanmar exists and is already ticking", an article in today's issue of an influential Thai newspaper Bangkok Post was released under such a headline.

Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiev, elected on July 23 for a second term, officially took office on Sunday, Interfax reports. The inauguration of the head of state took place in the House of the Government of the Republic in the presence of deputies of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan, members of the government and representatives of the diplomatic corps.

The Moscow police have not yet recorded incidents involving the "blue berets", celebrating the day of the airborne troops on Sunday, the representative of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate told RIA Novosti . "At present, most paratroopers who took part in celebrations in the center of Moscow (on Vasilyevsky Descent, Krasnaya and Manezhnaya Squares and in the Alexander Garden) are gradually moving to the capital's parks," the agency’s interlocutor said.

Georgia is not going to start a new war for Abkhazia and South Ossetia, said Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in an interview with Reuters. According to him, Tbilisi has no plans to restore territorial integrity by force. “The question is whether anyone in the world of a new war with the participation of Russia wants, and the answer is obvious -“ no, ”Saakashvili said, adding that Georgia shares this position with the United States, RBC reports.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin met with the famous writer Valentin Rasputin, who lives and working in Irkutsk on Sunday morning. Recently, Rasputin gives a lot of forces of social and journalistic activities, in particular, Rasputin is one of the deep researchers of Lake Baikal, the defender of the surrounding nature, RIA Novosti reports.

Former Iranian President Mohammed Hatam condemns the trial of the opposition activists arrested after the June unrest that followed the presidential election. In a statement published on his personal website, he calls the huts the lawsuit that began on Saturday on Saturday and the malicious spectacle and a violation of the Iranian constitution, which will further undermine the trust of the people, the British television and broadcasting corporation of the Air Force .