Representatives of various parties - parliamentary and non -parliamentary - experimentally tested the voting process using the future two -meter ballot during the "round table" at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Law and State Building. "Business game" - as the experiment called the head of the committee Vladimir Pligin. The participants in the discussion were also represented by a transparent urn.

On Thursday, the application to the La Stampa newspaper published an article, the author of which, analyzing the results of the Cathedral Bishop Cathedral and the celebration of the fourth anniversary of the intronization of Patriarch Kirill, concludes that with the return to the post of head of state Vladimir Putin, there is a strengthening of ties between the secular authorities and the church. "Patriarch Kirill celebrated his four -year -old Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

A fragment of the 16th century frescoes broke off during repair work in the Florentine Picture Gallery of Uffizi, RIA Novosti reports with reference to ANSA agency. A piece with a diameter of 30 centimeters, presumably, fell due to vibrations caused by repair work. Fortunately, the broken fragment in the fall did not hurt any of the many visitors to the art gallery. Currently, restorers are working on the spot, who restore the injured fresco, the agency notes.

The newly elected head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Feodor (Vorkodros), II made a sharp criticism of the Islamist government of Egypt and the Constitution. In an interview, the Coptic Patriarch said that the new constitution is discriminatory and Christians should not be considered as a minority.

The metropolitan police detained the head of one of the universities suspected of preparing a custom -made murder. The attacker was looking for a killer for the co -founder of this educational institution. The criminal case was instituted against the 73-year-old rector of the Institute of Management and Law Ivan Alexandrov, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the RF IC.

The Ostankino court of Moscow returned the criminal case of billionaire Alexander Lebedev to the prosecutor’s office, accused of hooliganism and beating to the entrepreneur Sergei Polonsky during the recording of the television program. The court made such a decision due to non -compliance with the formal requirement of the Code of Criminal Procedure - the prosecutor’s office officially did not notify the participants in the process that the case was sent to the court, said RAPSI .

The actress and co-founder of the “Give the Life” Children's Life Charity Fund Khamatova publicly turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to make an exception for those Russian orphans who have already met the adoptive parents from the United States, but because of the “anti-Magnetite” law adopted by the State Duma, they could not go to a new family.

The Japanese manufacturer of toys Takara Tomy introduced the Automee S miniature robot, designed to clean the mud and fat screens of smartphones and tablets, Vesti.ru reports with reference to The Verge. The device is a washer that will evenly move along the gadget screen, cleansing its surface with special rotating disks. The diameter of the puck -robot is 2.75 inches (about 7cm), its mass is 82 grams.

The Moscow authorities continue to reform the city taxi services. The upcoming introduction of uniform tariffs has already been reported, and new reform is on the way. According to BFM , it will be possible to obtain a taxi license to work in a taxi only on condition that a Russian -made car. In addition, taxi companies and legal private traders will have to repaint cars in the same color, equipped with unified devices (meters, GLONASS systems).

The man who abducted the second -grader from Naberezhnye Chelny Vasilisa Galitsyn raped the girl before killing. "Numerous abrasions, a knife wound in the scapula, traces of sexual violence were found on the child’s body," the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports. A 30-year-old native of Uzbekistan was detained on Tuesday, a suspect in the abduction and murder of a girl. The day before, he admitted to the crime.

Exactly a year later, Russia will first accept the Winter Olympic Games. In Sochi and administrative centers of eight federal districts of the country-Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Pyatigorsk and Khabarovsk-they launch the opening ceremony to the opening ceremony and hold festive celebrations.

The American human rights organization Freedom House has published a report on the state of civil society in Russia and countering, in their opinion, its development from the authorities. The United States is necessary, the authors of the document believe, to tighten the tone in communication with the Russian Federation. In particular, take a number of demonstrative steps. The same recommendation was given by the newly -minted image maker of Russian investment attractiveness.

Against the backdrop of news from the Kuril Islands, where soldiers and officers allegedly fed porridge with worms , the leadership of the Central Military District announced that military personnel in the CVO this summer would be able to test the novelty - cooled salads organized on the principle of the “Swedish table” with a wide selection of hot dishes and cold snacks.

In an accident, 57 km of the Oryol - Tambov highway, in the Pokrovsky district of the Oryol region, the head of the education and youth policy of the regional administration died. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Oryol region. "It was established that the Ford Focus driver, moving from the Lipetsk region to the eagle, allowed a collision with Kamaz standing on the sidelines.

Tunisia’s police used tear gas to disperse protesters near the Ministry of Internal Affairs building in the capital provoked by the murder of the leader of the left-democratic “Popular Front of Tunisia” Shocri Belaid, who was considered one of the opposition leaders, Reuters reported. As soon as the protesters approached the building of the Ministry of the Interior, law enforcement officers used tear gas.