Patriarch Kirill, who was on a visit to Cyprus, presented the islands of 20 Russian shrines to the monasteries. The solemn ceremony took place in the temple of the Apostle Barnabas on the day of his memory. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church noted that the shrines are transmitted at the request of the Orthodox Cypriots, according to the agreement reached in 2008 between Patriarch Alexy II and the Archbishop of Chrysostom.

The government must approve the action plan for 2012 - a preliminary schedule for the acceptance of the budget, strategies and state programs. As Izvestia found out, the Ministry of Economic Development was preparing a plan, but it was not possible to coordinate it with the Ministry of Finance. The departments dispersed the views on the management of budget flows.

The head of the information department of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vladimir Legoyda, commented on the bill according to which sites containing child pornography, promoting drugs or calling for suicide, can be closed without a court decision. The initiator of this document was the "Safe Internet League". According to Legoyda, the situation with the dangerous contents of Internet sites requires operational actions.

Football fan Alexei Usachev, who suffered in a fight with Caucasian students at the European shopping center, was discharged from resuscitation and is being corrected. Meanwhile, the visitors, students at the same university with participants in Strazhchina, were strongly recommended for a while to leave the capital so as not to aggravate the situation threatening to result in interethnic conflict. Several dozens of young Chechens decided to expose the “expulsion” to the small homeland.

The abolition of the entrance fee to the Moscow Planetarium, which again opened for visitors a year ago, led on June 12 to the appearance of a huge line and toll. Several people from the heat and stuffiness lost consciousness, and a minor girl from the Moscow region needed hospitalization. In the morning, people lined up in a line stretching 300 meters: from the planetarium building on Sadovo-Kudrinskaya Street to the Barrikadnaya metro station.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that the Federal Migration Service (FMS) work out the issue of introducing criminal liability for gross violations of the registration rules, RIA Novosti reports. The head of state gave the relevant order to the director of the FMS Konstantin Romodanovsky.

The condition of the overthrown President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is stable, he, contrary to the statements of lawyers, did not fall into a coma, Interfax reports with reference to the Al-Masari-al-Yaum newspaper. Earlier reports were reported that the state of the ex-president of Egypt worsened sharply, and he fell into a coma.

In the Primorsky Territory, a criminal case has been instituted in connection with the murder of a retired senior official who became a businessman. The victim of the killer was Sergey Krivorotov, who previously headed the Department of Urban Planning of the Primorsky Territory. Recently, the murdered person was the general director of LLC SK Vlastrazakazchik, writes the newspaper Izvestia .

The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trading Session of the Interbank currency exchanges as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the dollar course has grown by 14.70 kopecks and amounted to 32.7332 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" by 11:30 increased by 9.95 kopecks - up to 40.9645 rubles.

The An-2 light-engine aircraft , which disappeared on Monday evening from a small airfield located under the city of Serov, has not yet been found. The area of ​​the possible fall of the "corner" - and even the relatives of passengers are almost no doubt in this outcome - rescuers comb. Law enforcement agencies, meanwhile, opened a criminal case and said that there were colleagues on board.

The head of the Department of Socio-Political Studies of the Levada Center, Boris Dubin, deputy editor-in-chief of the Vestnik Public Opinion magazine, presented a report “The image of an Orthodox believer in modern Russia” on the eve of a seminar in the Moscow Center of Carnegh, the Blagovers-Info reports. “From the very beginning, I did not believe in the religious revival of Russia and for 20 years did not believe it.

The investigation in the criminal case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, perhaps on Thursday, will continue the authenticity of bills seized from journalist Ksenia Sobchak . About this, as Interfax reports, said the official representative of the RF IC Vladimir Markin. "The inspection of funds withdrawn at the place of residence of Ksenia Sobchak and Ilya Yashin.

The Deputy Chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, the head of the Border Guard Service Nurzhan Myrzaliev, resigned two weeks after the news of the mass murder of border guards at the Kazakh borderpost Arkankergen, Interfax reports with reference to the main military prosecutor of the country, Ergali Purzadinov. "The leadership of the Shygys regional department of the Usharal border detachment was dismissed from their posts.

Mercer has published the next rating of the cost of life for foreign specialists in leading cities in the world. The most expensive for visitors was the Japanese metropolis Tokyo, in which about $ 150 will have to pay for ordinary jeans, and a movie ticket will cost $ 22. The capital of Angola Luanda, who last year occupied the first line of the Mercer rating, fell to the second position.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied the information of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday that Moscow supplies military helicopters to the Syrian authorities, ITAR-TASS reports. It should be noted that this is the first reaction of the Russian Foreign Ministry per day that went with the accusation of Russia with deliveries.