The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill sent a congratulation on the occasion of his birthday to President Vladimir Putin. It is published on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church. “For many decades, you work selflessly and fruitfully in high positions, including the post of head of state, and your activity has already become an integral part of Russian history.

One of the Moscow drawing teachers, Pavel Shevelev, said on his Facebook about how the caretakers of the Tretyakov Gallery called the police and led him out of the museum for talking about the paintings to his students.

Investigators became interested in the issue of weak equipment of the Ukrainian army , deciding to establish specific guilty in the decline of the country's armed forces. The investigation has begun in relation to eight former defense ministers of Ukraine, UNIAN reports.

The militants of the "Islamic state" continue to fight the Kurds in Syria. Islamists practically captured the city of Kobani , which is located in the north of the country on the border with Turkey and is considered the capital of the Kurdish autonomy.

The state for three years - from 2011 to 2013 - spent 719 billion rubles (more than $ 20 billion) for the purchase of pharmaceutical products. State orders - only 677.13 thousand contracts - received 14.487 thousand companies, but more than a third of the state order (37.1% in rubles) divided ten private organizations among themselves.

Serbia should not begin to build a "southern flow" until the agreement is consistent with the EU standards. This is stated in an annual report on the policy of expanding the EU, on the text of which euobserver . "Serbia should not begin to work on the construction of the" South Stream "until this transaction is brought into line with the legal system of the EU," the document says.

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of "Tomorrow" accounts at the Moscow Exchange Trades fell by 24.03 kopecks and amounted to 39,7417 rubles. The weighted average of the euro with the period of “Tomorrow” calculations increased by 15.34 kopecks compared to the level that formed during the previous bidding and amounted to 50.2133 rubles.

In Tokyo on October 8, "glasses for kisses" will go on sale - they fully justify this name, since obviously they are no longer suitable for anything else. These simple bilateral glasses, which consist of one pair of lenses and four arcs - therefore, two people can be put on at once. They were clearly invented as a joke, and about how to use them, a funny advertising video was released in May.

On the wall of Pavlov’s house on Ligovsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, to the birthday of President Vladimir Putin, enthusiasts applied a patriotic drawing with a huge letter "P". As it turned out, the work in was carried out without the necessary approvals, but whether the drawing will be painted - it is still unclear. The site "Canon" tells about the graffiti scandal in the president’s hometown. According to the St.

Somalia and the African Union soldiers occupied the last major bastion of the Ash Shabab militants - Port Barava, reports EURONEWS . The city was the actual capital and the center of trade in extremists: new militants and weapons arrived here, and from here they sent charcoal for sale, which, according to the Somali government, brought Ash Shabab millions of dollars. “The lamb became a massacre for many people, it was the Al -Qaeda Center and foreign militants who came from Asia and Africa.

Fans of the Bomzha, nicknamed the compote, who became the "Star of Utuub" after the video on the Internet with his participation, was disappointed in the man after a new video appeared on the Web. In the new video, a man who gained fame after a brawl with a young bully, pestering passers -by, while drunk, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda . The inhabitants of Kemerovo, who defended the "compote" in the incident with a fight, now state that their "hero" is not as worthy of sympathy as it might seem.

Oksana Trufanova “Indeed, there are problems - they concern, first of all, not even Caucasians or Asians, but quite blond and light-skinned Ukrainian refugees! Here the level of tension is already off the charts. The indigenous South Urals are dissatisfied with the influx of people fleeing the war.

The cost of a civil liability insurance policy of vehicles (OSAGO) is now calculated according to the new rules established by the Central Bank from October 1, 2014. In accordance with them, the basic tariff of OSAGO is increased by at least 23.2%, and the maximum by 30%. In this "corridor" insurance companies will calculate the cost of the policy in each case. If earlier the basic tariff amounted to 1980 rubles, now its minimum size is set at 2440 rubles, the maximum is 2574 rubles.

Approved by the Federation Council, but not yet a signed bill that limits the share of foreign capital in the Russian media, will affect not only media holdings, but also commercial companies that registered their sites as the media to inform customers. Among them - a number of Russian cellular operators, non -state pension funds, VBT25 and Norkel, Kommersant found out. The site "Vimpelcom" was registered by Roskomnadzor as the media back in 2005, MegaFon - in 2006, Tele2 - in 2009.

The Catholic Order of the Franciscans, who has a representative office in Vilnius, invited the believers last Sunday to come to the church along with animals, over which the rank of consecration was committed. So in the Lithuanian capital celebrated World Animal Protection Day.