The head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church and Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, called for avoiding the Soviet approach in state relations with religious communities.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin during a speech in the State Duma critically commented on the order of Dmitry Medvedev to return payments to social budget funds to the previous level. The head of the Ministry of Finance discovered the disadvantages of this initiative for pensioners and hinted that he would have to increase taxes, the “independent newspaper” notes. Kudrin did not make high -profile political statements, as was the case in Krasnoyarsk , NG notes.

The hotel complex will be built in the immediate vicinity of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the center of Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the city administration. "Such a decision was made by the city town planning and land commission and approved by the administrative document of the Moscow Government," the agency’s interlocutor said.

A close friend of US President Barack Obama was arrested in Hawaii on suspicion of using the services of a prostitute. Robert Titkomb was among the four men arrested on Monday in Gonolulo during a police operation, state law enforcement agencies report. He was later released on bail of $ 500, reports Associated Press. Robert Titkomb, who is now 49 years old, in the 1970s went with Obama to the same school. The future president released from there in 1979, a year earlier than his friend.

On Thursday morning, an armed criminal burst into one of the schools of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro and opened random shooting. The account of the victims exceeded three dozen people. The school was arranged by a graduate of the school, and Islamic terrorism could be an incentive motive. The tragedy played at the Tasso da Silveira school, located in the western part of the city. This is the area of ​​the slum. According to preliminary data, 12 people became victims of mass murder.

The client of the All -Russian Bank for the Development of Regions Alexei Alekseev requires the bank in court compensation for non -pecuniary damage. As the victim said in a statement of claim, the bank left it without a livelihood on vacation abroad, and now he intends to recover 500 thousand rubles from a credit institution. During the vacation abroad, Alekseev was faced with the fact that his "plastic" issued by the VBRR turned out to be blocked.

Police officers detained in the Leningrad Region the director of one of the St. Petersburg real estate agencies and his two alleged accomplices suspected of kidnapping a pensioner in the hope of taking possession of his apartment, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the city law enforcement agencies.

The symbol of Paris - the Eiffel Tower - will become a musical instrument. The New York composer Joseph Bertolossi received the corresponding permission from the company managing tower. Bertolozzi allowed to record the sounds that are obtained when using the Eiffel Tower as a percussion. Then a musical composition will be created from these sounds. The ultimate goal of Bertolozzi is the living performance of this essay on the tower, the Mayak reports.

A sensational statement in connection with the investigation of the loud murder of two schoolgirls in Sevastopol was made by the former head of the police headquarters. According to the former chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea, the police hide the true circumstances of the crime, and the evidence in the case is fabricated. In particular, the girls were raped by an unknown man, although a woman passes the main accused in the case.

Russian bloggers, discussing a series of hacker attacks at the popular website of Livejournal, came to the conclusion that the authorities could organize the authorities through the Prochrevsky movement "ours", and this was done in order to prevent Internet users from leading political discussions before the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, the Australian newspaper The Sydney newspaper writes Morning HERALD . The last DDOS attack on the largest blogging occurred last Wednesday.

The man, who introduced himself as the leader of the Chechen militants Dokurov Umarov, phoned the journalists of the Radio "Freedom" . In an interview with them, he denied all rumors about his death as a result of a major special operation . The report of the North Caucasian RFE/RL service says that they have no reliable evidence that its correspondents had communicated to Umarov, but they look like him. Audio recording in Chechen is distributed.

The site of the St. Petersburg football club Zenit began work after a hacker attack , which took place the day before. The main page of the site is already available, however, other pages are still posted photos of the governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko and the chairman of the Legislative Assembly Vadim Tulipanov, equipped with unpleasant statements, the Soviet Sports newspaper claims.

In different areas of Moscow, two cars with explosives were detained per day - in both cases, bombs were carried in Mercedes cars. Four visitors were detained, including from the Caucasus. One car came across on Kutuzovsky Prospekt near house 35, the other on Ryazansky Prospekt, the representative of the law enforcement agencies "Interfax" said. White Mercedes jeep with two young people and a girl was stopped on Kutuzovsky Prospekt at about 21:00 on April 6.

The Prochrevsky Youth Movement "Our" came up with its own way of combating corruption in Russia. The press secretary of the “Nashists” Christina Potter laid out in her blog an erotic calendar “Sex against corruption // Love against Evil,” the Russian News Service reports. Its pages depict the participants in the project "White aprons" in underwear and snow -white aprons.

The new president of Kosovo, as expected, became a woman. This is Yahyaga’s atiferate - Deputy General Director of the Police of a self -proclaimed republic. According to Reuters, her candidate in the election procedure was supported by parliamentary deputies. 80 deputies of parliament voted for Yahyagu, 10 voted for another candidate - Suzan Novobrdalia, and another 10 people abstained.