The first meeting of the conference of ministers in France (Conférence DesPonsables de Culte En France) was held at the residence of the Protestant federation of France. The forum was attended by the head of the Assembly of the Orthodox Bishops of France, a representative of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Metropolitan Emmanuel (Adamakis).

The Association of Television and Film Producers prepared a response to the appeal of the largest Internet companies that do not agree to be responsible for illegal content posted on their servers. In her response, the association demanded from Internet companies to independently remove pirate content from its sites, RIA Novosti reports.

About two -thirds of the inhabitants of one of the Chinese villages may be descendants of ancient Roman soldiers. Genetic tests confirmed at least the European origin of 56% of the inhabitants, writes the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph . The village of Lyu is located in the north-west of China, on the edge of the Gobi desert.

The Russian authorities plan a number of new measures for the liberalization of the visa and migration regime for highly qualified foreigners who come to Russia to work, said Assistant President of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich. “The first is a simplification of the visa regime not only for the experts themselves, but also for their families. When people come to work, they still come with their family very often.

The policeman in the Ryazan region accidentally shot himself in the head of a service pistol, a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Friday. According to him, the night before, a police officer of the city of Kasimov, the Ryazan region, being in the police room of the local bus station, shot himself in his head as a result of careless handling of a service weapon.

The court at the request of the investigator seized the building of the European Park shopping complex on the Rublevo highway in Moscow. According to Interfax, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin, this decision was made as part of an investigation into a criminal case against State Duma deputy Ashot Egiazaryan.

On November 27, 2010, the united All -Russian rally of deceived equity holders will be held for the first time in Russia. This large -scale action will begin at 12:00 Moscow time and will take place simultaneously in all regions of the country. The purpose of the rallies is to attract the attention of the federal authorities to the problem of deceived equity holders, which adopted the size of a social catastrophe.

According to the current tradition, Entertainment Weekly published the annual ten best films of 2010 from the recognized horror master Stephen King, RIA Novosti reports. The best film of this year, according to King, was the remake of the Swedish film of the same name "Let me" (Let me in), telling about the boy, who is fascinating with the vampire girl.

The verdict of the Moscow City Court, issued in relation to the former district police officer Konstantin Kalashnikov, entered into force. The law enforcement officer was too lazy to look for the killer and hid a particularly serious crime from accounting. As a result, one of the most dangerous criminals - the Bittsev maniac Alexander Pichushkin - committed more than three dozen murders before he was caught.

The Moscow authorities plan to conduct an inventory of all investment contracts in construction in the near future. “Unfortunately, a muddy environment of investment contracts has been created in Moscow, which is an example of Russian corruption, bureaucratic lawlessness, and simply stupid,” said Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Friday at the Conference “Competition in Russia: how to create a favorable climate for business development”.

In the next round of the regular championship of the Continental Hockey League, CSKA hockey players lost to the metropolitan derby in the Megasport Arena, fellow countrymen from Dynamo with a score of 2: 3 and could not approach the playoff zone. By the 32nd minute, the Dynamo by the efforts of Konstantin Gorovikov, Denis Kokarev and Denis Tolpko created a handicap in three goals, which the army team at the rest of the time could not be eliminated.

On the Moscow International House of Music on January 9-23, 2011, the Christmas Festival of Spiritual Music will be held. "The forum dedicated to the celebration of the Nativity of Christ can become one of the important steps to introduce the public to the centuries-old traditions of Christian musical culture. Concerts will be held on the stage of the Svetlanovsky Hall," the Press Service of the House of Music said on Friday .

In the city of Gus-Khrustalny, the Vladimir region detained the first suspects of fraud, perhaps they are members of an organized criminal group . As Vesti.Ru reports with reference to the GTRK "Vladimir", the police continues to check the appeals of local entrepreneurs. Recall that local businessmen assure that a serious criminal group operates in their area. Its participants monthly take part of the profit from the merchants. Anyone who refuses to pay is losing his property.

In the Republic of Komi, police officers detained six suspects in the murder of a young man. This crime caused a great resonance with its cruelty, insolence and unmotivated. They dealt with the student in the city center, next to the Supreme Court in the so -called "police quarter", in front of numerous witnesses who did not interfere in the situation. The investigation was taken under control by the governor, noting the unprecedented nature of what happened.

The auction house Christie's could not sell at London auction on Thursday an authentic costume of one of the most famous movie heroes of all time - Darth Vader from the epic "Star Wars", RIA Novosti reports. The most expensive lot of the evening was the pneumatic pistol, with which Sean Connery starred for the official poster and advertising campaign of Bondiana’s film “From Russia with Love” in 1963.