The Russian Orthodox Church is proposed to regard the current failure of the national team, which did not fall into the 2010 World Cup, as an additional occasion to harden the "national character", including athletes and fans. “Failures, not only in sports, can also conceal positive phenomena - composure, patience, accumulation of strength, humility and hope not only for yourself and for good luck, but also for God.

The premieres of Ukraine and Russia Yulia Tymoshenko and Vladimir Putin during his meeting on Thursday in Yalta will discuss the situation in the gas field. This was stated by the deputy head of the apparatus of the Government of the Russian Federation Yuri Ushakov. According to him, on Thursday, Putin, together with Tymoshenko, will hold a meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian committee on economic cooperation, reports Newsru.ua with reference to the Ukrainian Pravda .

Lawyer Igor Trunov, who represents the interests of Major Denis Evsyukov, who suffered from the actions of Major, who at the end of April arranged a massacre in the metropolitan supermarket, believes that high -ranking persons may appear in the case, reports gzt.ru. According to the lawyer, investigators in every possible way avoid the publication of some facts.

The chairman of the Presidium of the Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UC RAS) Academician Marat Yunusov is suspected of excess of official powers. According to investigators of the Office of the SCP in Bashkortostan, a world -famous scientist actually appropriated his official apartment, which was owned by the state. The reason for initiating a criminal case under Part 1 of Art.

In Moscow, the rector of the Church of St. Thomas Daniil Sysoev was killed, his assistant Vladimir Strelbitsky received a gunshot wound. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The tragedy occurred in the Southern Administrative District of the capital, on Moskvorechye Street in the Nagatinsky district, at the house 4. Unknown shot at the rector of the temple and his assistant at about 23:10 - 23:20, in the church court.

The Portuguese art critic Hugo Javier found out that the Queen of Spain Isabella II in 1855 deliberately presented the pope for the Roman Pius fake for the picture from his collection, reports The Art Newspaper . The fact that the painting "Mystical betrothal of St. Catherine" Bartolome Esteban Murillo from the Assembly of the Vatican is actually a fake of the 19th century, written on an old canvas, became known back in 1958 during restoration.

Barack Obama admitted that he had lost a little and turned gray during his stay on the post of president of the United States since January this year. “This year is exceptional, and not so much for me as for the American people: two wars, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,” said the American leader in an interview with NBC television company.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko hopes that the result of his appeal to the President of Russia on the revision of gas agreements will be immediate consultations on this issue. “I hope that this appeal will be heard, and immediate consultations will be held so that in 2010 both Ukraine and Russia meet its new relations,” Yushchenko said in Kyiv at a joint press conference with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who is in Ukraine with a two -day visit.

The European Union elected the first president in its history - it became Herman van Rompey . The high representative of foreign policy and security (in fact, the head of the Foreign Ministry) became Katherine Ashton (Baroness from the UK). This, as ITAR-TASS reports, said the prime minister of the presiding in the EU of Sweden Fredrick Reinfeldt at the final press conference of the summit. Sweden nominated both candidates.

The position of the Russian language, in a significant part of the former Soviet republics, is “difficult”, they recognize the Russian Foreign Ministry. In addition to the Russian Federation, Russian as a state language is used only in Belarus, and as official - in Kyrgyzstan, said the director of the Department for working with compatriots abroad, Alexander Chepurin in an interview with Interfax agency. At the same time, Russian is oppressed in Ukraine, in the Baltic countries, in Tajikistan.

Now Moscow motorists will have more time to exchange their driver's licenses. In the registration departments of the traffic police of the capital, additional reception hours are being introduced on this issue.

The director of the Federal Service for the Control of Drug Training (FSKN) Viktor Ivanov at a press conference on Thursday said that in order to combat drug addiction in Russia, it was necessary to stop the intake of drugs in the country. According to Ivanov, in order to solve this problem, you need to equip the border.

The leader of the Palestinian Tanzim Tanzim terrorist organization Maruan Barguti, who is serving five lifelong conclusions in an Israeli prison, calls on the Palestinians to combine "dialogue, resistance, political, diplomatic and folk actions." According to Newsru Israel , in an interview with Reuters, Barguti called for a struggle against Jewish settlements.

TNK -BP shareholders, the British oil company BP and the Russian Consortium Alpha Group/Access/Renova (AAR), announced the appointment of the new chief manager of the company Maxim Barsky, according to a joint press release from BP and AAR, Interfax reports. Earlier, a number of foreign publications announced this appointment.

Portugal police arrested an unlucky Romanian migrant worker who committed an awkward attempt to theft. The attacker was stuck in the store window, remaining in his underpants, and for several hours he amused the audience with his appearance. In the West, the criminal "floundered" as long as 11 hours before the police rescued him, the FOX TV channel reports. It is characteristic that all this time cruel Europeans did not even try to help the thief, but only made fun of him at a distance.