One of the hierarchs of the Elladsky Orthodox Church, the Metropolitan of the Argolid Nektariy, has positively responded that the new Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras did not swear at the Holy Scriptures. “Take a swearing thing unacceptable,” said the Metropolitan Nectarium, emphasizing that he himself resolutely against taking an oath of the Bible, even in courts, reports the Sedmitsa.Ru portal. "Personally, I am against a religious oath.

The RBC agency calculated how food prices have changed and some household goods not in recent months, but a little more than a year - since the beginning of January 2014. In those days, no one had yet suggested neither Crimea, nor sanctions against Russia, nor response measures. The most elevated goods during this period turned out to be cabbage - its price on average in the country increased by 101% - from less than 19 rubles to 38 rubles.

The UK celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the famous British politician, Prime Minister of the country Winston Churchill. Memory events are held, in particular, in London, where the solemn laying of wreaths took place at the Churchill monument in the parliament building, as well as beyond, on the Parliament Square, where another statue of Churchill is located, The Daily Mail reports.

The new, first in seven years, the novel of the British writer, laureate of the Buker Prize Salman Rushdi will be released in September 2015. This was reported by its publishers. The name of the book - "Two years, eight months and 28 nights" (Two Years Eight Months and Twenty -Eight Nights) - refers to the collection of Arab fairy tales, known as "Arab Nights".

In the subject of the family and personal life of the President of the Russian Federation closed for Russians, another curtain may have opened: the media claim that the youngest daughter of Vladimir Putin was supposedly “found”, about which there was still little known. Journalist Oleg Kashin said in his blog that, according to him, the 28 -year -old daughter of the president and a consisting of the Moscow State University (Moscow State University) Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova is one person.

Rosalkogolregoling will receive powers to establish minimum prices for wine and champagne produced in Russia or imported into the country. The corresponding resolution, signed by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, was published on the Cabinet website. The initiator of the innovation was the Rosalkogolreguli itself. The department plans to install the minimum price by wines.

The Istanbul Administrative Court issued a decision providing for the restoration of property rights to a large plot of land that previously belonged to the fund affiliated with the Siro-Yakovitsky Church. The land, according to the Catholic agency Fides, was confiscated by the Turkish authorities in 1970.

In Chelyabinsk, former employees of the Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant, dissatisfied with the dismissal of staff reduction, could not hold the action agreed with the Chelyabinsk administration, since the police detained the organizers on suspicion of "transportation of drugs and atomic bombs". This was reported by Uralinformburo with reference to the chairman of the public movement "for the rights of workers" Marina Vorobyova.

A man with a gun burst into the Nos Dutch studio and demanded to provide him with airtime to talk about some supposedly important things. The incident occurred in the city of Hilversum at about 20:00 local time (22:00 in Moscow). People from the building were evacuated, and the broadcasting of the TV was interrupted, reports AP. NOS employees were launched to jobs after about an hour, while, according to unconfirmed information, the unknown was detained for 12 minutes. No one was injured.

“If you forget for a moment about the images of Ravshan and Dzhamshut, firmly entrenched in the Russian mass consciousness, and think about the question “Who are they, these Tajiks?”, then most Russians will have approximately the same answer. I’ll try to guess. Tajiks - These are immigrants from Tajikistan who work in Russia as migrant workers on construction sites, traders in stalls, posters posting advertisements, car mechanics in garages, janitors and minibus drivers.

The British singer Sarah Brightman, who plans to go on a ten -day flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in the fall of 2015, took place at the Cosmonauts training center for survival in the Russian forest, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Cosmonaut training center. "Sarah Brightman is trained, she underwent a training in the forest in survival, studies the Russian language and systems of the ship and the station," the agency’s source said.

Flights of the Air Force Air Force over the Russian Air Force over the La-Channel Strait consistent with international standards and cannot be considered as threatening or destabilizing, said the Russian ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, the British side. On Thursday, he was invited to the British Foreign Ministry.

The Ural Federal University (URFU) nominated the Yamal writer Anna Nerkagi for the Nobel Prize in literature, TASS reports with reference to Professor UrFU, the head of Russian-XXI centuries Leonid Bykov. “We had two reasons for such a step: firstly, the heroes of her books are nomads of the Russian North, it is said by the vice of the people, and the problems that she raises in her works concerns everyone in our changing, striving for globalization, more and more unified in the world.

The government proposed introducing the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov and Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev into the observation councils of state banks, Vedomosti told. Ulyukaev will go to VTB, Siluanov - to Sberbank. Since the government is not a shareholder of Sberbank, it cannot put forward candidates for his advice, but can negotiate with the Central Bank of the candidate to include the list so that the Central Bank subsequently put forward it.

Olympic champion Alexander Tretyakov became the second at the European Skeleton Championship, which is held these days in the French La-planes. According to the results of the first attempt, the Russian lost to the winner Latvian Martins Durak 0.40 seconds, and the third result was shown by another representative of Latvia - Thomas Dukurs (+0,87). The second attempt was canceled due to the poor state of ice on the highway - when the skeletonists were very shaking, when it passed.