The Georgian Patriarch Elijah the Second considers his five -day visit to Moscow “historical” and “successful”, he stated this upon arrival in Tbilisi on Saturday evening. During his visit to Moscow, Patriarch Elijah, the second, performed worship with the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, and also met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to whom he handed over from the Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, RIA Novosti reports.

Officials demand from the inhabitants of Krymsk to return the humanitarian aid allocated to restore dwellings after flood. The Ministry of Social Development of the Krasnodar Territory reported that the commission for the damage from the flood was mistaken in calculations, and now it is necessary to return "extra" money. "Some need to return hundreds of thousands of rubles, and, as officials insist, within three days.

The aircraft of the French Air Force struck the house of the leader of the Mali Islamists in the city of Kidal in the northeast of Mali, the building was destroyed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. It is not reported whether at that moment the leader was in the house close to Al-Qaeda Group Ansar ad-Din, Iyad Agali.

The United States decided to significantly expand France’s assistance in the fight against militants in Mali: the Pentagon gave the go -ahead to refuel French combat aircraft, as well as to help in the transportation of military personnel from other African states. "The French requested the appropriate help from us, and we considered it important to carry out its implementation," said the representative of the American military department.

The mourning ceremony was held in St. Petersburg at the Piskarevsky cemetery on Sunday, on the 69th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade. According to the Smolny press service, wreaths to the foot of the monument of the mother-rod were brought by the plenipotentiary of the president in the North-Western Federal District Nikolai Vinnichenko, Governor of St.

The guild of America’s producers at a closed ceremony at the Beverly Hilton hotel called Ben Affleck the Argo Operation (Argo), ITAR-TASS. The prestigious nomination also presented the "Beasts of the Southern Wild)," Django Unchained), "rejected" (Les Miserables), "Life of Pi" (Life of Pi), "Lincoln" (Lincoln), "The Kingdom of Linge Complete moon "(Moonrise Kingdom)," My boyfriend - Crazy "(Silver Linings PlayBook) and" target number one "(Zero Dark Thirty).

Former Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka moves to Turin Juventus as a lease until the end of the season. The services of the 33-year-old Frenchman were also interested in West Ham and Kuins Park Rangers, but the Grand of Series A won the struggle for an experienced striker. Last summer, Anelka concluded a contract for two years with Shanghai Shenhua. But soon the press spoke that Nicolas was disappointed with life in China and wants to return to Europe as soon as possible.

The UN began an investigation of the powers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a number of countries of the world. Ben Emmerson, human rights activist and expert on issues related to the fight against terror will lead the investigation, Newsru Israel reports. Emmerson said that the expanded use of UAVs for point liquidations drops a serious challenge to the international law system.

All Port Said went to the funeral of people who died the day before as a result of riots in this Egyptian city. Tens of thousands of people were filled with streets, shops, institutions were closed. According to conflicting information coming from Port Said, the police tried to disperse a mourning procession, leading random firing into the air, including from military weapons, and spraying tearful gas.

The Government of the Russian Federation sent for refinement a draft law on strengthening responsibility for insulting religious feelings of citizens of the Russian Federation, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers said on Sunday. The White House indicated: some norms proposed in the bill are already spelled out in other articles of the Criminal Code, and more specific formulations are needed.

The term of up to seven years of imprisonment will threaten the player, judge or coach involved in the "contract" match - of course, provided that his guilt will be proven. This and many other proposals are prepared to submit to the discussion of the State Duma in the Premier League as part of the discussion of a special law.

In the Krasnodar Territory, due to strong winds with wet snow, eight settlements with a population of more than nine thousand people were left without power supply last night. ITAR-TASS, citing the Office of the Ministry of Emergencies in the region, reports: “At night from the Kubanenergo dispatcher, information was received that due to adverse weather conditions, electricity was disconnected in the Kushchevsky and Shcherbinovsky districts,” the operational duty officer said.

On the eve of the Massage detentions, in Nevninnomi (Stavropol Territory), the gathering “Stavropol - not the Caucasus” prohibited by the authorities turned. 87 people took the police, while at least two detainees disappeared - citizens of Ukraine, Rosbalt reports. Residents wanted to demand from the authorities the investigation of the murder of a local resident who occurred on December 6 last year at the Zodiac Bar. On suspicion of committing a crime, a resident of Chechnya is wanted.

For an arbitrary program at the Continent championship, Adelin Sotnikova received 126.38 points from judges and failed to hold the lead, which she captured by the results of a short program, scoring in the amount of 193.99 points. The pupil of Alexei Mishin Elizaveta Tuktamysheva became the third with the result of 188.85 points, and the representative of Italy Karolina Costner won the competition, who scored 194.71 points.

In a night club in the south of Brazil, a fire broke out during a pyrotechnic show. The number of victims, according to the latest clarified official data, is 233 people. Among them are 120 men and 113 women. Most of the dead are 16 to 20 years old. At least 80 of them are students of the Federal University of Santa Maria, CNN reports. Earlier it was reported that 245 people were killed. At first, such data announced the state of Rio-Grandi-Du-Sul, where the tragedy occurred.