Self-proclaimed Patriarch Filaret is ready to lead all Ukrainian Orthodoxy The “Orange Revolution” and the change of power in Ukraine seem to have inspired the self-proclaimed Kyiv Patriarch Filaret (Denisenko) to make another attempt to achieve international recognition in the Orthodox community.

The RTS index surpassed 700 points According to the results of trading on Friday, the RTS stock index surpassed the 700 point mark for the first time since April last year. At the time the site closed, its value was 701.35 points. The record level (785.52) recorded on April 12, 2003 is not so far away, considering that since January the RTS index has already risen from 614.11.

“Every sergeant major can be a teacher,” said Adolf Hitler. “It can’t be, but it must be,” some high-ranking representatives of Russian law enforcement agencies clarify.

Leonid Kuchma, the second president of independent Ukraine, is deprived of additional government benefits provided by the previous government. The document granting benefits was marked “for official use.” On Saturday, after a three-hour discussion, the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers considered the order of the previous government an “excess of authority.” From now on, Kuchma will not be entitled to a salary equal to the salary of the current president - about a thousand dollars with bonuses.

The peak of dissatisfaction with monetization is behind us Beneficiaries are gradually getting used to the materialization of benefits, and the protest fervor that swept the country in the first weeks of the new year is gradually fizzled out. In any case, this is what Russian sociologists say after analyzing the results of recent public opinion polls.

Resort authorities are ready to demolish the largest hotel Local leaders, who are hatching plans for a radical change in the architectural appearance of the resort, managed to create a real commotion among the residents of the central microdistricts of Sochi. The other day, a closed meeting was held in the city, at which development projects for the renovated Sochi were considered.

Report from the headquarters of a German software company Last week, SAP AG invited journalists from different countries to explain what the world economy should expect from further computerization. Waldorf, where SAP was founded in 1972 and where the company is headquartered, is very similar to Microsoft's Redmond campus. Also a small town. The same boxes are mostly low, three to five floors, office buildings. The same multi-level parking lots, clean sidewalks and pavements.

Yesterday Kyrgyzstan elected parliament A random person who happened to be a guest of the Kyrgyz capital yesterday would be very surprised to learn that parliamentary elections are being held in the country on that day. He would have been even more surprised if he had been told that Kyrgyzstan was expecting another episode of a blockbuster called “The Ghost of the Orange Revolution is Haunting the CIS.” Bishkek looked sleepy and sparsely populated yesterday.

Soldiers' mothers took up the task of pacifying Chechnya The delegation of the Russian Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers (USCM) was able to do what the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has been unable to do for many years - meet and talk with Maskhadov's representative in Europe, Akhmed Zakayev. The negotiations took place in London, in a building belonging to the European Parliament, and took two days: first, Mr.

The antimonopoly authority did not find the culprit for the rise in prices for air tickets The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) recognized the introduction of a “fuel surcharge” to the cost of tickets for Russian airlines at the end of last year as justified. The investigation that began then on suspicion of “airline collusion” was stopped.

CLUBS Big band of Igor Butman. Jazz. Le Club , 20.00. Oksana Mikhailovskaya (vocals). Jazz. "M-bar" , 21.00. Leonid Gurov (bass) and DJ Topor. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 22.00. Dmitry Chetvergov (guitar). Presentation of the new program. "B2" , 21.00. CONCERTS Big Symphony Orchestra named after. P.I. Tchaikovsky (artistic director - Vladimir Fedoseev), conductor Vladimir Verbitsky and soloist Dmitry Illarionov (guitar) will play works by Scarlatti, Giuliani and Respighi.

Russia fits into the world tour of the Vitebsk artist The exhibition-retrospective of Marc Chagall “Hello, Motherland!” opened at the Tretyakov Gallery on Lavrushinsky Lane. not the most comprehensive in composition and not the most enormous in costs. The name is borrowed from the late (1953), clearly not the best painting by Chagall, stored in the State Museum of Fine Arts.

He lost data on the accounts of officials and senators The third largest US bank, Bank of America, is at the center of another scandal. Over the weekend, the bank announced that digital tapes containing the account and credit card information of hundreds of thousands of U.S. officials, including several senators, were missing. According to a statement from Bank of America, the tapes are "believed to be lost" and observers have no doubt that this is a theft.

Russia and Iran signed an agreement on fuel supplies to the Bushehr nuclear power plant The long-awaited agreement on the return of spent nuclear fuel from the Bushehr nuclear power plant to Russia was signed yesterday in Tehran. And the signing of this document turned out to be not a protocol event at all - although the issue was, in principle, resolved during a recent meeting in Moscow between Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Hassan Rouhani and Vladimir Putin.

President Congratulated Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II on his Name Day. “Your many years of fruitful activity as Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church is an example of true asceticism, fidelity to your chosen path and pastoral duty,” the congratulation says.