The Patriarchal press service commented on a collective letter addressed to Patriarch Kirill, in which the authors urge the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church to contact representatives of state power with a request to have pardoning the members of the Pussy Riot group. Perplexity there caused an attempt to turn to the Patriarch into a public space. Recall that the text of the appeal to the Patriarch was placed on the eve on a specially created page in the "Live Journal".

The leader of the Greek Right-Procedure Party "New Democracy" Antonis Samaras on Wednesday officially took office as Prime Minister of the country, RIA Novosti reports. Samaras in the presence of the Orthodox archbishop of Athenian and the whole of Heronym's Allad swed the Holy Trinity to observe the Constitution and the laws of the country and serve the interests of the Greek people.

The Credit Mediterranee registered in Switzerland, owned by the President of the International Chess Federation Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, acquired 52.5% of the Bulgarian Petrol Holding, a monopolist in the local oil products market. Denis Ershov businessmen (47.5%) and Alexander Melnik (5%) sold shares of the holding, reports Kommersant .

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov started his microblog on Twitter - @rkadyrov . "To the rest of the pages on social networks, in which the author mentioned the head of the Chechen Republic, R. Kadyrov has nothing to do," says Wednesday on the website of the head and government of the republic. It is reported that during the first hour about 200 people became readers of the microblog. And by 9 o’clock in the evening of readers, there are already about 3 thousand.

Rest in Turkey for two Russian tourists almost ended in tragedy. The man, trying to keep his daughter, falling from the balcony, fell down himself. As a result, the child was saved, but the girl’s father was seriously injured. The incident occurred several days ago in Antalya, in the resort of the village of Beldibi in the cognac district, the local edition of Haber Vitrini reports.

On June 20, the Pulkovo-3 business terminal opens at St. Petersburg Airport. They built him with the money of a businessman and an old acquaintance Vladimir Putin Nikolai Shamalov, as well as Vitaly Vantsev’s “Vnukovo-Invest”, wrote Vedomosti . The construction of the terminal cost partners of 2 billion rubles. Rosaviainvest owns this business terminal. 60% in it belongs to Vantsev’s aviation project, and 40% - “Invest Veraitas” Shamalov.

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, addressed the State Duma with a request for the possibility of removing the inviolability and initiation of a criminal case against a member of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Vladimir Bessonov, although only the Prosecutor General is entitled to pose such a question, the newspaper Kommersant writes.

Hunters for scrap metal was cut and stole a water tower in the Bobruisk district of the Mogilev region of Belarus, the website of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate reports. According to him, previously convicted of theft, a resident of the village of Vishnevka, along with a non -thoughtful comrade, arrived on a minibus to the village of Domanovo, where they had previously noticed a invalid metal water tower.

Mikhail Solomatin “In order for the citizen of Russia to feel his immense insignificance, the state conducts double propaganda: firstly, they directly or indirectly praise the military genius of Stalin-Zhukov, and secondly, they show films that degorize the victorious people. The first plot shows the viewer how he is petty and insignificant, the second is the same.

Work called "The Picture (Blue Star)" of the Heana Miro abstractionist "left the hammer at the London auction Sotheby's on Tuesday for 23.6 million pounds, setting a new price record for the artist’s work, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the message of the auction house. The canvas exceeded the upper east of the east of 20 million pounds.

The idea belonging to Alexei Navalny is to smash the banknotes with a stamp, which disgrace the ruling party, aroused interest not only among the supporters of the opposition, but also among his opponents. According to Navalny, the banknotes laeled with a stamp are not considered spoiled: they are accepted in stores, machine guns, they are tested for authenticity. This is confirmed on his Twitter Sergey Anokhin. “The second day is stamped.

During the investigation of the case of the illegal distribution of Vatican confidential documents, twenty -three people testified. This was reported on Tuesday of the Vatican radio with reference to the press secretary of the Holy See Priest Federico Lombardi. Among the interrogated are the leadership and employees of the Vatican institutions, clergy and laity who work in them.

The recently discovered Flame computer virus, which collected information from computers in the Middle East region, was created about five years ago by American and Israeli programmers to counter the Iranian nuclear program, the American newspaper The Washington Post reports, citing “officials aware of this work.” .

The South Korean company SsangYong announced the start of sales of an updated version of the Actyon Sports diesel pickup truck on the Russian market, reports Kolesa.ru . The car will be available in three trim levels: Original, Comfort and Elegance. As standard, the Original Actyon Sports has a new two-liter diesel engine producing 149 hp.

The social network Facebook actually refuses to promote the unified Virtual currency Facebook Credits as a mandatory use in applications. By the end of the year, the company will transfer payments in currency applications used in the country of residence of the user, and all games and applications selling virtual goods will be required to transfer the cost of these goods into local money, RIA Novosti reports.