The head of the diocese of the Khaldo-Catholic Church in Aleppo, Bishop-Jesit Antoine Audo, said in an interview with the Catholic information agency Fides that the main motive for the actions of those criminals who recently abducted Christian hierarchs in Syria were money, not religion. He called the priests of the clergy "insincere fanatics who use religion, but have the only goal - to make money," the Sedemitsa.Ru portal reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a direct line touched the topic of receiving Gerard Depardieu Russian citizenship . He said that in addition to the French actor, other figures are expressed to obtain citizenship of the Russian Federation, while he did not call the names, noting that "many did not want this to acquire some scandalous character," RIA Novosti reports. He called the Department of impulsive, who formulated his desire publicly throughout the world. “Well, what should we do?

In Murmansk, at all-Russian youth competitions in Biathlon for the prizes of honored masters of sports Valery Kiriyenko and Anna Bogali-Titian, where future stars of world sports close the season, a scandal broke out. The 16-year-old daughter of the three-time Olympic champion Anfisa Reztsova Christina went to the last race in her underwear. “In fact, the idea arose much earlier - even at the Spartakiad, and quite unexpectedly for me,” Christine admitted to the Eurosport television channel.

The head of the North-Evensky district of the Magadan region, Mikhail Akhnazarov (member of the United Russia party), received a prison term for spent more than 1.5 million rubles to lay the road to the cars stuck in the snow, some of which brought the products to the store of his wife, on Thursday in the district administration reported.

The first year of the third presidential period of Vladimir Putin is nearing the end: this date will be summarized by the results of the government’s work in the execution of instructions of the head of state, given a year ago. Putin himself believes that in general, everything is good in this matter - the president said this during a direct line . However, experts believe that the results are still disappointing.

“Here it is - the illusion of success. How easily people adapt to it. After the castling, but even before the elections to the Duma, not realizing the full extent of dissatisfaction with his return and not realizing that everything had changed, Putin came out and simply declared stagnation. Which will be just like Brezhnevsky, but a little better in direct text - in an interview with TV channel directors in October 2011: “They say that Brezhnev’s stagnant times will soon return.

The situation around North Korea from the threatening grew into a mysterious one. A halo from threats about the launch of nuclear missiles on the military bases of neighboring countries was replaced by a mysterious haze surrounding the military objects of the state. Suddenly, in the Korean People's Democratic Republic, a military parade was canceled annually in honor of the creation of the DPRK army.

On April 23, the Board of Directors of Gazprom discussed the company's strategy in the field of LNG. A significant increase in export supplies of LNG from the USA and Canada to Gazprom was perceived as the main factor that affects the activities of the monopolist in the coming years.

At the mine "Novo-Kalinskaya" in the Sverdlovsk region there was a fire. All miners are evacuated, none of them were injured. The fire arose at 00:10 Moscow time in the perforator workshop of the mine of the North Ural Boxing Mine, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Russian Ministry of Emergencies. "As of 01:40 Moscow time, 122 people were withdrawn from the mine. This is all who was underground," the Ministry of Emergencies explained. Workers are located in the administrative building.

In the Moscow region, the police and the special services conducted the detention of the leader of the gang of robbers and killers, a 28-year-old native of Azerbaijan, who is known in the criminal environment under the nickname Ramin Ganzhinsky. The detainee, who lived in Russia illegally, was taken into custody.

The Syrian metropolitans, missing on April 22 , could be captured by the Terrorist Chechens. This was told by the agency AP the brother of one of the stolen - Metropolitan of Aleppo Pavel Yaziji. Bishop of Damascus Anthony Yaziji said that the clergy were abducted by Chechen extremists fighting in the ranks of the “Ang Nusra Front”-the local wing of the al-Qaeda terrorist group. The same information was confirmed by AFP sources in the Greek Orthodox Church.

Experts predict problems at the International Space Station due to the unsuccessful antenna of the M-19M progress cargo ship, which started the day before from the Baikonur cosmodrome and is currently flying to the ISS. The Navigation antenna of the “course” system will not interfere with the docking of the ship, but they may not allow the ship with the gateway compartment until complete tightness, a source in the space industry told Interfax .

Actor Mikhail Boyarsky became the leader of the smokers' rights movement. Thus, a kind of public campaign began against the anti -tobacco law , recently signed by President Vladimir Putin. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the executive director of the Kurilshchikov rights movement, Andrei Loskutov, the organization will begin a mass action to collect signatures in order to attract the attention of the authorities to the problems of violation of the rights of smokers.

The Russian stock market showed on April 24 the largest day growth in six months: the MMEVB index grew by 2.7% to 1377 points, and the RTS - by 3.1% to 1375 points. Trading by most blue chips closed with significant growth. The most noticeable leap was made by the electric power industry: the quotes "RusHydro", "IDC Holding" and the FSK UES flew by about 10% each. Gazprom and Lukoil added more than 3.5%, Rosneft - 2.1%.

Soluto, known for its "cloudy" service, which finds software that causes problems in the computer’s operation, analyzed with its help several new models of laptops of well -known manufacturers with Windows. The winner following the test was the MacBook Pro 13 of the release of the middle of last year, bypassing portable computers, originally focused on this operational system. The second place in the ranking was taken by the Aspire E1-571 from Acer, and the third - XPS 13 from Dell.