The tragedy with the Maxima store, which fell in Latvia, under the wreckage of which more than 50 people died, shocked the country. The government announced a three -day mourning. Public services, hospitals and ordinary citizens rallyed to help the victims and relatives of the dead. Meanwhile, builders and experts try to find out why the building collapsed.

A meeting of the Supreme Church Council was held in Moscow on Friday - the executive body of the Russian Orthodox Church. The council must accept a document regulating the role and place of Orthodox priests in the Armed Forces. Opening the meeting, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill emphasized that the priests in the army can reduce the amount of cruelty, which prevents the soldiers from fulfilling their duty.

The ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who was in prison, called the authorities a decision on the suspension of preparation for European integration and the creation of a tripartite commission with the participation of Russia to study economic issues to the Ukrainian GKChP. This is stated in Tymoshenko’s letter to the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, who was read out by her lawyer Sergey Vlasenko to reporters.

The Russian Constitution may include the idea of ​​the special role of Orthodoxy for the country. This issue was raised at a meeting of the interfactions deputy group in the State Duma in defense of Christian values, the Interfax-religion portal reports on Friday with reference to the information of the press service of the State Duma.

The Japanese Corporation Sony announced plans to cut by the end of March 2016 the budget of its Sony Pictures division, which owns the Columbia Pictures film studio for $ 250 million, RTT News reports. The reason for the tightening of budget policy was the recent losses of the company, which has recently lost the film market to other participants.

If most Internet users are “indecent” finds on the Google Earth satellite cards are amused and amusing, then the residents of the houses located inside these random finds are not always ridiculous, and sometimes quite a shame.

The ex-candidate of the mayor of Astrakhan from "Fair Russia" Oleg Shein, who received stab wounds in one of the capital's hostels, is recovering. “Shein’s condition is evaluated as moderate, but does not cause concern among attending doctors, he has a good positive dynamics, is recovering quickly,” Interfax told the Sklifosovsky Ambulance Research Institute. Upon maintaining the current dynamics of the recovery, Shein can be discharged in the near future, doctors emphasize.

“Despite the absence of state ideology, censorship and religion enshrined in the Constitution, our country definitely has problems with these three things. I would like to focus on religion and the mess that is brewing in the heads of some fellow citizens. On October 26-27, VTsIOM conducted a survey of citizens “Orthodoxy in Russia. Past and Present.” It follows from it that only 15% of the population believes that the Church and religion should interfere in politics and state affairs.

At the Moscow Metro station "Shabolovskaya" early in the morning on Friday, smoke occurred. Due to the emergency, the employees of the subway and rescuers had to urgently evacuate the first metro passengers. As a result of the incident, no one was injured, ITAR-TASS reports. "At 05:51, the service" 01 "received a message about smoking in the substation at the address: Shabolovka St., house 30.

In the Russian-language segment of the network, a specialized children's domain zone will work, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced on Friday during the presentation of the "Runet Prize" the head of the coordination center of the National Domain of the Internet Andrei Kolesnikov. According to him, the corresponding agreement with the ICANN corporation, which controls the targeted space of the Internet, was signed last Wednesday, November 20. “So we will have another Cyrillic domain.

The general director of Uralkali, Vladislav Bumgertner, on the eve of a reference to Moscow, officially charged with abuse of powers. According to the businessman’s lawyer, he does not find guilty and intends to cooperate with the investigation. Baumertner has so far been placed in one of the Moscow investigative insulators, the official website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports.

Residents of Kiev, outraged by the decision of the Ukrainian authorities to suspend preparations for the signing of an association agreement with the European Union, came on Friday night on Independence Square in Kiev. According to various sources, from 1000 to 2000 people gathered on the Maidan of Nebulia. With the submission of participants in the action and journalists, the main square of the Ukrainian capital was dubbed the Euromaidan.

Saudi religious police officers arrested two members of the Free Hugs movement. 21-year-old Abdurrahman al-Khayal, along with a friend, stood on one of the crowded trading streets of Er-Riyada. In their hands they had signs in English with a proposal to hug for free, reports The Independent . Religious police officers have the right to arrest people who, in their opinion, violate the traditions of Islam and do not observe the norms of Sharia established in Saudi Arabia.

The famous American director GAS Van Saint will bring to the VI VI International LGBT Kinofilia “BOK ON BOK” of his film “Harvi Milk” (Milk, 2008), about the life of a Gaevi Milka, the first US policy in the United States, who publicly declared his orientation and killed in 1978, reports the Guardian . The director will show a film awarded two Oscars - for the best male role and the best scenario - November 30 at the closure of the festival.

Norwegian Magnus Karlsen prematurely defeated the Indian of Vishvanatan Ananda in the match for the title of world chess champion , which was held in Chennai. In the tenth party, in which Carlsen played white, a draw was recorded on the 65th move. After that, Anand lost the chance to maintain the title of world champion, since the account in a match of 12 parties was 6.5-3.5 in favor of the applicant.