Magdi Christiano Allah, an Italian journalist who was baptized by Pope Benedict XVI on March 22, 2008, decided to leave the church into which he " no longer believes ." In a software article with an explanation of his step, he quite inaudibly wrote that "he believes in Christ, but does not see any more meaning in the church." What is the matter? Is the Catholic Church really does not answer the challenges of time?

To the already known methods of human identification, such as the study of fingerprints, scanning the rainbow shell of the eye or voice identification, can join another. Dr. Lior Shamir from the Lawrence Institute of Technology in Sautfield, Michigan offers the method based on magnetic resonance imaging. As an object by which identification will be performed, Shamir offers knee joints.

This year, for the first time between the cities participating in the “Hour of the Earth” around the world, a competition passed, during which 17 cities-finalists from six countries were selected. As a result, the first "capital of the World Earth Hour" was proclaimed Vancouver, reports WWF .

Alexey Muravyov Photo: Catholiclane.com Magdi Christiano Allah, an Italian journalist who was baptized by Pope Benedict XVI on March 22, 2008, decided to leave the church into which he " no longer believes ." In a software article with an explanation of his step, he quite inaudibly wrote that "he believes in Christ, but does not see any more meaning in the church." What is the matter? Is the Catholic Church really does not answer the challenges of time?

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs prevented the theft of assets from the Rostekhnology State Corporation for 350 million rubles, the official website of the department reports. The criminal case was instituted against the Major General of the Police of Kalinin under the articles “The abuse of authority” and “Deliberate bankruptcy”.

In the conflict between the owner and publisher of the Moscow Komsomolets, Pavel Gusev and representatives of the State Duma outlined a new turn. They talked that the sphere of relations between the publisher and journalist should be legally adjusted to protect journalists from participating in the "Information Wars", to which he can be forced by the owner or management of the publication.

Member of the Federation Council from the Republic of Buryatia Vitaly Malkin filed a resignation, RIA Novosti reports. At a meeting of the Committee on Regulations, Vadim Tyulpanov said that Malkin wrote a statement on March 25. He will be considered March 27. On March 25, the media reported that the Federation Council received documents that prove that Malkin is a citizen of two states - Russia and Israel.

On March 14, lawyer and oppositionist Alexei Navalny wrote on his blog that Senator Malkin is an Israeli citizen and is known in this country as Avihur Ben Bar. Russian parliamentarians, recall, the law prohibits the citizenship of other states. In evidence, Navalny published a number of documents in which there is a signature of the lawyer Malkin. Also, the senator was accused of relations with another country - Canada.

Peter is their own Ballet photo: Culturacolectiva.com Discussions around the attack on the artistic director of the ballet troupe of the Bolshoi Theater Sergey Filin leave the impression that this incident was only the result of some “long-term processes” taking place in the Russian ballet for some time. At least, many famous artists confidently declare this. The continuation of this story is already called an attempt to rob the apartment of the dancer Nikolai Tsiscaridze.

Andrey Levkin . The Cultural Initiative project established the Moscow Observer Prize. Polit.ru here is an information sponsor, but they usually give an announcement / report. But here the matter is specifically interesting, so the context should be added.

Ilya Karpyuk Photo: cdn.ientry.com The Central Bank registered the Russian “daughter” of the PayPal payment system as a non -bank credit institution. The license has not yet been issued, since PayPal has not yet paid for the authorized capital of 18 million rubles, but it has enough time for this. After passing all formalities, Russians will be able to not only pay money to their account in PayPal from credit cards, but also withdraw money from there to their accounts in Russian banks.

The new general director of the television and radio company of the Zvezda Ministry of Defense, Yuri Shalimov, was appointed NTV, told Izvestia Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov. Georgy Krichevsky, who has held this post since 2007, has been resigned. Shalimov, who for many years headed the Directorate of Social and Legal Broadcasting, will have to work on the content of the television channel, radio stations and the site.

The United Russia asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Moscow City Hall to check the legitimacy of the transfer of the building located on 1905, in which the editors of the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper is located. This was reported by Izvestia , referring to a deputy request. When the mayor Yuri Luzhkov transferred 49% of the building to the editorial office, according to deputies, the leadership of the newspaper leased a significant part of the premises.

Employees of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) demanded apologies from the Minister of Education and Science of Dmitry Livanov for incorrect expressions against the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the open letter of scientists. We are talking about an interview that Livanov gave on the Radio "Echo of Moscow" on March 24.

The petition against the registration law collected more than 100 thousand signatures by Monday evening, March 25. At the moment, the initiative website has collected more than 102 thousand signatures. On February 23, 20 thousand signatures were reported . At the beginning of 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill 200753-6 to the State Duma, which establishes criminal liability for violation of the registration rules.