The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril considers the last day of the parliamentary elections the beginning of a long journey, which will ultimately determine the fate of Russia. “Today, marked by the popular elections, in a sense, the beginning of the path, because our country has a lot to do. And we will do this or won’t do it or no less,” the Patriarch said, after the worship of the Moscow Monastery on the eve of the Don Monastery, the Interfax -religion portal reports.

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, on Monday, on Monday, protests "against the unfair elections" began. In the capital, in particular, the Communist Party invited its supporters to the Novopushkinsky square, the action was authorized. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, about four hundred people came there.

The social network Facebook is negotiating with experts, consultants and developers in the field of gambling about creating virtual venues for online casinos in the UK. This, according to Vesti.ru , wrote the British newspaper The Daily Mail with reference to informed sources in the edition of the gambling of Egaming Review. The first partners of Facebook in the new project can be the largest companies in the British gambling market - Gamesys, PokerStarts and 888 Holdings.

The American art dealer Glafira Rosalez is accused of selling 20 fake works of art, including Jackson Pollock and Mark Rotko, OpenSpace reports with reference to The New York Times . The first scandal erupted in 2007, when a fake was sold for 650 thousand dollars, Robert Mazerwell’s painting from the Elegy about the Spanish Republic.

The first meeting of Catholic priests and Islamic imams took place in Vienna. In the theological discussion and discussion of a wide range of social problems, 18 priests and 17 imams participated. According to the priest Martin Rupprecht, the initiator of the first Catholic and Islamic relations in Austria, the event was held "in the atmosphere of mutual respect, openness and honest dialogue," RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kai agency.

Photos from the first photo shoot of the legendary Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe were sold from the ICONS & IDOLS auction ("idols and idols") in California for $ 352 thousand, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AP. As the representative of the Juliens Actions Aupped Hall, Caroline Galloway, told reporters, in Sunday, the pictures taken in 1946 depicted a young Monroe, which was still bearing the real name Norm Jin Dogerty.

Tehran claims to be shot down by an American unmanned RQ170 reconnaissance aircraft, which violated Iran’s airspace, Interfax reports with reference to the Al Jazeera Mesarabsky television channel. "The drone has received minor damage. Now he is in the hands of the military," a source in the Iranian army said.

The high court of London allowed the founder of the WikiLeaks site Julian Assange to appeal to the UK Supreme Court to try to avoid his deportation to Sweden, reports Reuters. There he is accused of sexual crimes, but he himself insists that the Swedish authorities will transfer him to the United States - there, local investigators, accusing the Australian of espionage, are waiting for him there. Under American laws, Assange is facing a lifelong conclusion.

The Thirteenth International Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/Fiction, which completed work on Sunday in Moscow, has distinguished itself with good attendance and sales compared to the past and before last years, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the expert council, director of the Phanster project Boris Kupriyanov. According to the organizers, in five days of the fair work this year, more than 34 thousand people visited it, last year a little more than 20 thousand readers came to it.

On Saturday, Free parking for 800 cars, designed for visitors to the Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Gorky, earned on Pushkinskaya Embankment of Moscow on Saturday. As the Director of Gorky, Olga Zakharova, Director of the Central Party of Public Administration, was specially placed on the embankment so as not to create unnecessary congestion on the Garden Ring, near the main entrance to the park, Interfax reports. Previously, attractions were located at this place.

When Sergey Sobyanin came to the mayor’s post a little over a year ago, it turned out that the city budget was not enough 250 billion rubles. To cover the deficit, the capital decided to privatize a number of assets. The privatization program is the sale of Moscow lands, writes Kommersant Money .

The President of the Honda Motor Takanobu, in an interview with Bloomberg, had confirmed that the company intends to release an accord sedan in the series, but did not specify which power plant it can receive, reports Auto . Ved.ru. However, as reported by representatives of the Honda at the Tokyo Motor Show, the company has plans to produce two hybrids - in 2012 and 2013, and in both cases it was about the modifications of existing models.

In one Saturday morning in Moscow, citizens of Ukraine were twice victims of criminals. The first incident occurred on Saturday morning at about 10:30 near the entrance to the Glazier institution, located on the Bersenevskaya embankment. There, two young people from Ukraine rested in a club with familiar girls. One of them liked the other visitor, in appearance - the native of the North Caucasus, Life News reports, citing sources in law enforcement agencies.

In Uzbekistan, the woman committed suicide after the country's special services, according to unconfirmed information, tried to force her to kill key opposition, expelled from the country, reports the Air Force . According to special services, some of them were in Germany. The woman who studied in Germany was on vacation in Uzbekistan, where the agents interrogated her. In a dying note, she wrote that she would rather take her life than to kill other people.

Mozilla, the developer of the Mozilla browser, may lose most of its income, reports CNews.ru with reference to the ZDNET publication. According to the publication, in November, the period of the partnership of the agreement extended in 2008 expired, according to which the Google search is in Firefox browser by default search, and the Google.com website is the starting page. The contract has not yet been extended.