The former chief artist of St. Petersburg, and now the director of the City Institute of Arts, Ivan Uralov, said that preserving the historical appearance of St. Petersburg demands a three-year-old moratorium to build new buildings in the city center. He stated that the historical center is rapidly built up with a violation of the basic principles of St. Petersburg architecture. “We have already ruined the city.

From next week, in the investigative insulators of Moscow, Sailor Silence and Butyrka, a cycle of classes on the study of Jewish tradition will begin. "The lessons will be held by the head of the Federation of the Jewish communities of Russia for interaction with the Armed Forces, the Ministry of Emergencies and law enforcement agencies Rabbi Aaron Gurevich and the employees of the main rabbis of the country," the Portalus-religion portal in the rabbi press service said on Friday.

The rain television channel managed to interview the detained in Italy Anvara Sharipov , whom local media initially mixed up with the brother of the militants of Doku Umarov. Then it turned out that Sharipov was really a brother, but not Umarov, but the suicide bomber Maryam Sharipova, who blew himself in the Moscow metro at the Lubyanka station.

Primorye investigative bodies opened a criminal case on the murder of a seven -year -old girl, a resident of Leszavodsk. “The statement about the child’s disappearance on February 2 was received from her mother. According to her, the girl left at that day at lunchtime and did not return home. Local law enforcement agencies organized the search,” the senior assistant to the head of the SCR of the SKR for Primorye Aurora Romana told the Interfax agency.

At the 84th year of his life in Munich, the Soviet writer and playwright Vladimir Kunin died, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Press-Attash of the Golden Generation charity foundation Julia Verbitskaya. According to her, Vladimir Vladimirovich died on Friday morning in Germany after a serious and prolonged illness. According to preliminary information, he will be buried in his native St. Petersburg.

In May of this year, the State Oil Company Rosneft plans to continue the proceedings in the courts of Great Britain with Yukos, follows the report of the Russian company, RIA Novosti reports.

Restorers engaged in the reconstruction of the UNESCO monument - the Preobrazhenskaya Church on the island of Kizhi - found that most logs seized from its log house for restoration were destroyed much more seriously than before the start of work in 2010, RIA Novosti reports. The unique 37-meter 22-head of the Preobrazhenskaya Church of the early 18th century, built without a single nail, is currently kept only due to the metal frame that supports it from the inside.

Over the past year, the pace of “wild” gold mining in Peru has grown due to the passivity of the authorities and the influx of adventurers who rob the subsoil with the support of private security forces and foreign capital, writes The Financial Times . The fifth of all gold exported to pen is metal mined by companies and persons who do not have a license.

The ex-mayor of Bratsk, Alexander Serov, accused of receiving a major bribe and extortion, was arrested for two months, until April 3. This decision was made by the Bratsk court, but the defense intends to protest the decision in the regional instance, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the lawyer Serov Valery Tolmachev.

The citizens of Russia arrested in Minsk, Artem Breus and Ivan Gaponov, was softened by the previously charged charge. They are no longer accused of organizing riots, but they are charged only with participation in the riots. Now they are not threateing for 15, but only from three to eight years in prison, Vadim Gusev, adviser to the Russian Embassy in Minsk, told Interfax .

By 2012, the Ministry of Regional Development of Russia hopes to solve the problems associated with deceived housing estates. The department has the task of solving this issue until mid -2012, “In order not to return to this problem,” said Konstantin Korolevsky, Deputy Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation on Thursday in Kirov during a meeting on “promoting the development of housing construction in the regions,” Interfax reports.

On Monday, VTB begins in Europe and the USA Road Show as part of the preparation for the sale of a ten percent package of its shares in the open market, writes the Kommersant newspaper with reference to a source close to one of the bank shareholders. According to him, the placement of a part of the state -owned Stocks of VTB shares should be completed until the end of February.

For the sake of savings in the distinctive small peoples, the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) proposes to take urgent measures to support them, together with the state.

On Friday, the ninth stage of the World Cup in skiing started in the Demino Center for Sports and Rest in Rybinsk. The winner of the male pursuit race of 20 km with a change of style (Duatlon) was Russian Ilya Chernousov. Thanks to the excellent finish line, he managed to get ahead of the French by Jean-Mark Gayar and Maurice Monifa for 0.4 and 3 seconds. In the top ten, another representative of Russia Alexander Perevkov, who showed the seventh result, hit.

The European Union for Protecting Human Rights (European Union For Fundamental Rights - FRA) conducted a survey dedicated to discrimination on ethnicity in different European countries. The organization interviewed 23,500 representatives of national minorities and emigrants in 27 EU countries. According to the survey, every fourth visiting in the European Union over the past year has encountered discrimination on two or more aspects.