The Pope Benedict XVI announced the year of faith in the Catholic Church to give a new impulse of its mission. The pontiff said during the Sunday Mass in the Vatican that the “Year of Faith” will begin on October 11, 2012, exactly half a century later from the date of the opening of the second Vatican Cathedral , and end on November 24, 2013, when the Catholic Church will celebrate the triumph of Christ - the king of the Universe, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Vatican radio.

A forty-year-old tourist from Germany Stefan Ramin, who made a trip around the yacht, was supposedly eaten by cannibals on the tropical island of Nuku-Khiva in French Polynesia, reports The Daily Mail . Business consultant Ramin disappeared several weeks ago. Later, burned human remains and clothes were found. This gave reason to believe that a tourist became a victim of cannibals.

The American Pepsico, which became the leader of the Russian dairy market after the purchase of the Vimm-Bill-Danna , proposes to change the mechanism of state support for dairy farming. According to the company, state subsidies should not go directly to milk producers, as it was before, but through intermediaries - processing plants, writes RBC Daily . The latter will control the quality and amount of milk, as well as send part of the funds to promote the product.

Minsk asks for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on loans from 3 to 7 billion dollars to stabilize the economy. The IMF approved the policy of Belarus to combat the financial crisis, but is not yet ready for negotiations on the provision of a loan, reports Reuters. The IMF mission worked in Belarus from October 5 to 17. "There is an urgent need to reduce inflation.

The Grand Prix of the International Documentary Film Film Flyurtian 2011 , which ended on Sunday in Perm, received the film "Outro" (Russia), ITAR-TASS reports. The figurine "Big Golden Nanuk" was awarded to the director Yulia Panasenko. Outro as such is a musical term meaning the completion of the work, in a philosophical sense - the sign of the end. The Panasenko tape tells about the last months of the life of a deadly sick young woman suffering from cancer.

The designers of the Swiss company NAU, having borrowed the idea of ​​a folding army knife, came up with a futuristic mini-wen for traveling, capable of turning into a two-story house that doubles its useful volume. The car looks completely divorced from reality, but at the same time evokes memories of similar design refinements, writes the newspaper Membrana . The topic of a folding knife begins even at the entrance to the car and continues in the interior, which is full of folding parts.

The Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg began work on making changes to the charter of the State Museum-Reserve Pavlovsk, whose director Nikolai Tretyakov was exempted from the post last week to introduce a new position-the president of the museum, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the press service of the City Committee on Culture. Last week, when it became known that Tretyakov was offered to leave their post, a number of museum staff wrote an open letter in defense of the leader.

The media wonders about the tasks that President Dmitry Medvedev set himself, having held a meeting with his supporters in the Digital October center last Saturday in Moscow. As journalists came to the conclusion, Medvedev, apparently, tried to remove the “cognitive dissonance” that arose from the people sympathizing with him after the announcement of the tandem about the castling . The Kommersant newspaper believes that the attempt to do this was a success to Medvedev only partially.

The Pope Benedict XVI called the "liberation from the yoke of hunger" the first and concrete demonstration "the right to life, more than once solemnly proclaimed, but still distant from embodiment." In a message on Monday, on Monday, on Monday, the week of food announced by the UN, pontiff, in particular, emphasizes that "food products cannot be considered ordinary goods and the subject of speculation." The appeal was directed to the General Director of the Food and Agricultural Organization of

In the Sumy region of Ukraine, the remains of a deputy of the district council were found, who was missing almost six months ago. It was established that the politician who has gone hunting died an non -violent death. Over the past time, the body of the people's chosen one was mummified, reports Comments.ua with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

A police car, moving with a flashing light on the light, shot down a cyclist and, leaving the scene, rammed a foreign car in the southeast of Moscow. As reported on Monday at the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the police sergeants were drunk in the service car. A check was scheduled for the accident, nine police officers, including major chiefs, are preparing for dismissal. A video appeared on the network from the scene of an accident.

The details of yesterday’s hooligan attack on the historical cruiser Aurora in St. Petersburg became known. In particular, it turned out that residents of different Russian cities, unemployed, participated in the action, Interfax reports. Earlier, these people took part in the "Marshals of the Disagnower", ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the statement of the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region Mikhail Sukhodolsky.

Over the past three years, the number of citizens who do not have bank accounts or cards and not planning to start them has declined in the survey conducted by the Levada Center sociologists, Interfax reports. In October, 35% of participants in the All-Russian survey reported that they did not have any bank accounts and, even more so bank cards (46%). According to sociologists' studies, the number of such respondents since 2009 has decreased by 12% and 15%, respectively.

More than half of Russians - buyers of online stores are divided in the process of buying with their confidential data, and about a third do not take any precautions. Such data, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta , were obtained during a survey of users of online stores conducted by Symantec Corporation together with the business social network Professionals.ru. The study was attended by more than 5 thousand people.

In Ingushetia, two of the alleged organizers of the fight between local residents and fans of the Makhachkala football club "Anji", which occurred on Sunday in the republic, was reported by ITAR-TASS Secretary of the Security Council Akhmed Kotiev. He noted that criminal cases under the articles "Hooliganism" and "Intentional destruction of property" were instituted against the detainees. Measures continue to establish and prosecute other participants in this incident, said Kotiev.