About two -thirds of the inhabitants of France claim that they are Catholics, according to a poll published on the eve of a survey of the French Institute of Public Opinion. The survey showed that Catholics make up 64% of the population, but only 4.5% of them go to church every Sunday. Parisian media notes that the "attendance" of Messes in France is the lowest of all Catholic countries. For example, 75% of the Spaniards are Catholics.

Ukraine without noise and dust chose its representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. This spring, a certain Vasily Lazarovich will go to Oslo, who, with his lyrical bass baritone, promises to leave the competition as much as possible. The decision on the participation of Lazarovich was almost unanimously adopted by the Artistic Council of the National Television Company of Ukraine.

The US authorities warn about the possibility of new terrorist attacks in India and recommend that their compatriots observe increased security measures there. This is stated in the published notification of the State Department. “The State Department warns the stills of concern about security in India,” the document says.

In the Saratov region, police detained their colleagues, who are suspected of street robbery and beating a passerby. Two employees of the Department of Needhedering of the Volga district of Saratov were detained on suspicion of applying a man and embezzlement of funds from his credit card, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda writes.

The young priest from the Catholic parish of St. Michael in Carden City (South Carolina) Andrew Trapp took part in the poker tournament. Sitting at the gaming table in Sutan, he won 100 thousand dollars, reports inopressa.ru with reference to the publication in the French newspaper Le Figaro . Andrew did not receive the main prize, but he still reached the semifinals. The priest introduced a win to the fund for the construction of a new temple for his arrival.

Sberbank, State Corporation "Bank for the Development of Foreign Economic Activities" (VEB), Gazprombank and Alfa-Bank provided to the Ministry of Finance of Belarus of Belarusian loan in the amount of 6 billion rubles. The loan term is more than 1 year. This is stated in the message of Sberbank, who received at the disposal of Newsru.com. The loan agent was appointed Sberbank of Russia, the report said. Note that scandalous situations have recently arose with the loans of Belarus.

The investigating authorities of St. Petersburg transfer to court a criminal case instituted against the artist-designer who is accused of a series of rape of children. For the special handwriting of the maniac’s crimes, they called the “elevator” . Investigators have already approved the indictment in the criminal case of 37-year-old designer Kirill Resin, accused of sexual crimes.

The former head of the oil company Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky will not be able to celebrate the coming New Year, Interfax reports. In the pre -trial detention center, where it is contained, at 22:00 already hollow. The exception will not be made for December 31. “They will not even let them watch the TV,” Natalya Terekhova, Khodorkovsky’s lawyer, told the agency.

Two Mi-8T helicopters, which received serious injuries as a result of emergency landing , will be evacuated to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and were placed in a regional hospital. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Government of the Kamchatka Territory, the state of the pilots allows for their transportation, doctors say.

The presidential elections in Ukraine were financed by only a third, out of 225 district elections, only 17 fully fulfilled their obligations to prepare for voting. Such data were brought on Wednesday by a member of the CEC of the country Mikhail Okendovsky, recalling that the missing funds should come from the state -owned leapness until noon on December 31. The financial year is closed, and therefore the account is no longer on the days, but to the clock, it brings his words UNIAN .

Suspects in the attack on the famous restorer Alexander Zhuravlev, who later died in the hospital, were detained in St. Petersburg. Recall that Zhuravlev led the restoration of the famous amber room. "Thanks to the professionally carried out set of investigative actions and operational -search measures on December 30, 2009, repeatedly convicted, unemployed Vasily Lyadov and Vitaly Belenkov," the SCP of the Russian Federation, which is referred by Interfax , said.

Today, October 30, there is a movement in the first auxiliary sections of the future fourth transport ring from the enthusiasts highway to the Izmailovsky highway in the east of Moscow. This is stated in the message of the press service of the Eastern Administrative District.

The company "Miel" predicts the increase in demand for metropolitan new buildings next year by 10-15%. At the same time, the number of new buildings on sale, which has already been reduced this year by 8.7%, will decrease even more significant next year. As a result, potential buyers may come close to the problem of choice, writes gzt.ru.

The Investigative Department (SU) of the SCP of the Russian Federation for the Sakhalin Region on Tuesday opened a criminal case against three drug police in the fact of excess of official powers (paragraphs "A", "b" part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the SPSC of the SCP of the Russian Federation.

US President Barack Obama is sure that the “systemic failure” in the work of the special services allowed the Nigerian terrorist Umaru Faruk Abdulmutlab to get access to the aircraft, which he tried to blow up. Intelligence had information about the terrorist a few weeks before the attempt of the explosion, but the passengers eventually had to neutralize him.