The Directorate of the International Film Festival "Tikho-2012 Meridians", which will be held in Vladivostok in September, included 11 new films in the competition program "Cinema Russia", RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Directorate.

Members of the Saratov branch of the "All -Russian Parental Assembly" made an open appeal to the governor of the Saratov region Valery Radaev and the head of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergey Arenin, in which they demanded to "send" the Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the last days outside the region of the Church of Jesus Christ.

Andrey Kuraev “If the description of the incident by the elderly women and their relatives is correct (we have not yet heard the other side), then the church canons clearly speak of the consequences: “For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward, not insolent, not angry, not a drunkard, not a murderer, not a covetous man, but a lover of hospitable interests, loving goodness, chaste, just, pious, self-controlled, holding to the true word, consistent with teaching, so that he may be able to

Foreign Ministers of Italy and France declare the need to provide large -scale humanitarian assistance and reconstruction of Syria after the inevitable fall of the Assad regime. According to Inopressa.ru , the Italian newspaper La Stampa became known about a letter that Laurent Fabius Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and the head of the Italian Foreign Department of Julio Terment sent Lady Ashton to his European colleague.

Almost half of the inhabitants of Georgia sees in Russia a real threat to his country, showed a public opinion poll conducted by the American non-governmental organization National Democratic Institute (NDI). It is noteworthy that this sociological study was conducted more than a month ago - from July 31 to August 12, but for some reason its results were presented in Tbilisi only on September 5.

The Dutch director Neurun Wolf took off his faces of a hundred people aged "from 0 to 100 years" in order to clearly demonstrate the aging process. As a result, for volunteers who fell into the plot lasting 150 seconds, you can see what changes occur in the appearance of a person as they approach old age. Wolf stopped people on the streets of Amsterdam and asked them to look at the camera and name their age, according to the British newspaper The Daily Mail .

The correspondent of Kommersant visited the joint raid of the FSB and the traffic police: service employees caught drivers in the center of Moscow with illegal special services and certificates that give the right to road privileges. The detained violators were hidden by connections in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defense and the government of Moscow. Some tried to escape, and one of the violators found a gun.

An exhibition of picturesque and graphic works of Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Suetin, Ilya Chashnik opened today in the State Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean Val. The review is called "... there will be three of us ..." and will work for the general public from September 6, ITAR-TASS reports. As the deputy general director for the exposition and exhibition work of the gallery Andrei Vorobyov told the agency, it is precisely this exhibition by the GTG that opens his new exhibition season.

In the Novosibirsk region, law enforcement officers detained their colleague suspected of brutal murder of a young woman. The victim of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was one of the girls with whom he rode intoxicated form on a friend's car. Trying to rape the passenger, the policeman caused her a through head injury.

The Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economy Andrei Klepach commented on the seriously running process of federal budget layout for 2013-2015 at a meeting of the round table about new economic growth models in the Public Chamber, where the Deputy Minister acted as an expert. According to Kommersant , the words of the main author of the macroeconomic forecast, on the basis of which a budget draft is drawn up, otherwise you can’t call a “riot on the ship”.

In the central office of Rosavtobank, searches are being held on Zoological Street in Moscow, Interfax reports. According to the press service of the metropolitan Ministry of Internal Affairs, searches are conducted in connection with the case of illegal banking. "The measures are carried out as part of an investigation of a criminal case instituted in July of this year under Article 172 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal banking)," said an employee of the press service.

The new Russian tank based on the Armata heavy combat platform , which is developed by the Nizhny Tagil Uralvagonzavod, will go into service on time, that is, in 2015. The first sample of the car will be ready within the next year, the designers and the military assure. By 2020, thousands are preparing such tanks. “For our troops, an accelerated tank is now being created on the basis of the unified combat module of Armata. The first prototype is expected to be released already in 2013.

The Government of Japan was able to agree with the private owner of the Senkaku Islands in the East Chinese Sea on the purchase of three out of five islands of the archipelago - Wutsurijim, Kitakojima and Minomacjima - for 2.05 billion yen (about $ 26.1 million), says Jomiuri Simbun . The contract of sale itself has not yet been drawn up, however, according to the reports of the Japanese media, the Japanese government intends to complete the transaction during this month, RIA Novosti emphasizes.

The weighted average US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trade Session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the official rate is set the next day, grew by 26.13 kopecks and amounted to 32,4608 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "Tomorrow" by 11:30 increased by 5.11 kopecks and amounted to 40.675 rubles.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on Wednesday took the next interrogation of the opposition blogger Alexei Navalny, who is accused in the Kirovles case and a witness in the criminal case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, Interfax reports. “He came to the SK on the next call,” the oppositionist reported on Twitter . “And one of the investigators in the“ swamp business ”came and solemnly returned to me 10,000 rubles, seized in a search in an apartment.