“Abroad, everyone around us unmistakably recognizes us as Russians, Russians. And we ourselves easily recognize our compatriots from the crowd. How does this happen? How do they do it? Firstly, for bad clothes. Our men adore the terrible Chinese consumer goods, washed out once black, and now gray, in combination with bath slippers and, of course, in the best traditions, with socks. With a hit rate of 146% it is Russian.

Vladimir Pozner, who on the air of his author’s program called the State Duma "State Duma", has more and more enemies. Following the deputies who thought about prohibiting foreigners to criticize Russia on TV, the leading was convicted by unknown people, stirring at the passing main place of work of Posner - the Ostankino television center - unpleasant posters. The action managed to attest to Life News , whose journalists were suspiciously in time at the place of a short action.

In Kazan, under the New Year, unusual slogans addressed to local Muslims appeared on the streets. Their authors indicate the pagan roots of the holiday and urge believers not to celebrate it so as not to become idolates, writes "Independent Gazeta" .

The adoption of the "anti -magnetic law", which was signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday, caused "deep regret" in the United States. According to Interfax , this was stated by the official representative of the State Department Patrick Ventrell. “We deeply regret that a law was adopted providing for the termination of adoptions between the United States and Russia,” Ventrell said, calling the adoption of the law “politically motivated”.

The competition of movie scenarios applying for state support will start in January 2013, said Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Ivan Demidov. “Starting from January, we will wait for literally two pages of applications. Then the expert council will gather, which will choose those 20 works that will receive money to write full scenarios,” Interfax quotes Demidov’s statement at a meeting with filmmakers.

LG requires a ban on sales of Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablets on the grounds that the manufacturer violates its three patents. The LG Display, included in the LG group, filed an application with the district court in Seoul for a court ban on sales of this Samsung model and demanded compensation in the amount of $ 933 for each day of violation of its rights, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Russian club, which offered the Catalan Barcelona of 250 million euros for the best football player in Lionel Messi, as expected, was the Makhachkala Anji . Despite the refusal of the Argentinean to move to Dagestan, the owner of the club Suleiman Kerimov leaves his proposal in force, says Sport-Express with reference to the publication of Mundo Deportivo.

The administration of St. Petersburg transfers the historical complex of the Theological Seminary to the ownership of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy (SPbDA), which has been located there in recent years. The official website of the Russian Orthodox Church distributed information about this on the eve. The spiritual school of the Northern capital is one of the largest educational theological centers in Russia. Her story has more than 200 years.

Singer Stas Mikhailov filed a lawsuit against NTV on compensation for 10 million rubles for a demonstration of his image, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press secretary of the Presnensky court of Moscow Nina Yurkova. "The court came to the court from Mikhailov to NTV, in which he states that without his consent in the" Central Television "program, his image was demonstrated," the agency’s interlocutor said.

In the UK, after an expiration under the law of a 30-year period of maintaining secrecy to the general public, documents of state importance related to the period of the 1980s were first presented. Basically, declassified materials relate to the Falkland War between Great Britain and Argentina. In the folder dedicated to the USSR, documents on intelligence activities are occupied by a significant place.

Hockey players of the US team, composed of players no over 20 years old, defeated peers from Germany at the Youth World in Ufa . The meeting of group B, in which the Russian team also acts, ended with a score of 8: 0 in favor of the "star striped". Red light behind the gates of the Bundestim on Ufa Arena was alternately included Sean Kurali (1 '), Jacob Trouob (9'), Alex Galchenyuk (10 '), Riley Barber (21'), Shein Gostisbeher (27 '), Ryan Hartman (28'), Jay-Ti Miller (49 ').

The initiative of the Ministry of Transport on the introduction of "irrevocable tickets" to flights in Russia, despite criticism , received a logical continuation. Now the department proposes to take similar measures on the railway, on long -distance trains, follows from the draft law published on Friday on the official website of the Ministry of Transport. The document provides for the introduction of relevant amendments to the Charter of Railway Transport.

Retired American General Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the international coalition forces during the Gulf of Persian in 1990-1991 and a veteran of the Vietnamese War, died on Thursday at the age of 78, CNN reports with reference to officials. The general died in the city of Tampa, Florida, where he lived after resigning from the post of head of the central command of the US Armed Forces.

The Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Pavel Astakhov, a hot and consistent supporter of the adopted "anti-Magnitic act" , forbidding the Americans to adopt Russian children, said that the regional authorities should control the fate of those orphans who have already found the American parents, but because of the new ban, children will be left without a family. "Such children are 52.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill spoke on Friday at the diocese meeting of Moscow, where he urged priests to abandon expensive cars so as not to provoke a negative public discussion and not discredit the clergy. “Let's think that we use vehicles that ill -wishers will not use as a reason for discrediting the clergy ...