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In Trinity Temple in the city of Tur, there well be soon the chief-bell Blagovest (church-going bell). The basic complete of the bells was bought by the temple in 2000, since that time the belfry has 6 bells. Though, to have the full complete, the temple had to buy a chief-bell, which was ordered to the Yekaterinburg factory Blagovest, specialized in creation bells of all Russia eparchies. Which is unusual for the factory, is that only believers work there. The order of the Evenk temple was financed by the fund Regions of Russia, while the price made about 200 thousand...

Sexual Strike in Sudan Former teacher of a Sudan university Samira Akhmed had decided to put an end to the 19-year civil war tearing the country to pieces and declared a sexual strike. “Women have decided they can make their husbands come to a peaceful agreement, if they deprive they of sex. And they were right,” – Samira Akhmed said. She explained which methods women from Upper Nile used to stop the war killing children. The title of the woman Al-Khair organization means in Arab “refusal from sex with men.” The movement was organized by 20 women who represented...

Spite all the troubles, Russian people remain optimists. Most of us still hope for the “bright future” which must come some time. If even that are not we who will live in this future, though that will be our offspring. In the Pestovo settlement, Novgorod Region, the first private museum of Iosif Stalin has been opened. The museum founder, A.Kuznetsov started to create his collection already in 1961 when the campaign for discrediting Stalin was at its height. At that time, monuments of Stalin were being actively annihilated. The main exhibit of the new museum is the collection of 17...

Everybody knows about UFOs. And what about UUOs? I mean, Unknown Underwater Objects? The Paseidon kingdom sometimes surprises sailors with fluorescent heads, devil circles and other miracles. Explorer Fedor Gard recorded evidence of sailors who had seen a strange phenomenon: “June 18, 1845, the vessel Viktoria crew saw in Mediterranean Sea three dazzling disks emerging. The disks seemed to be five times bigger than the Moon, and they were linked with each other with some thin fluorescent pivots.” Another piece of evidence originates from 1963: within four days sailors of the Wosp US aircraft-carrier and of five escort vessels saw...

PRAVDA.Ru presents a conversation with one of the most interesting representatives of Ukrainian science fiction Andrei Dashkov. While analysing his works, critics say about a “permanent shock”. Andrei Dashkov was born in Charkov, Ukraine, in 1965. He graduated from Charkov Aviation Institute and works in a research institute of electric apparatus building. He is the author of novels “The Apostate”, “The Deceived”, “The Disfigured”, “The Star of the Underworld” and of others. He is said to be the “most powerful Black Master of science fiction.” Andrei Dashkov works at the turn of many genres (black fantasy, horror, mystic thriller, psychedelic ...

In Moscow, there is now a real hunt for science, to be more exact for scientists' heads.Recently, the head of microbiology sub-faculty of Russian State Medical University (former Second Moscow Medical Institute), V. Korshunov was killed. The body of the killed professor with cranial injury was found on Friday, at 8.15 (Moscow time) in the entrance of the house in Academician Bakulev Street, in Southwest Administrative District, where the 56-year-old scientist lived.The police immediately arrived to the spot. Forensic medical experts found out that the scientist died 8 hours earlier. Afterwards, proceedings were instituted.It was already third death of a ...

Viktor Chernomyrdin got from grateful Ukrainians “Prometheus’ fire” and a mobile telephoneRussian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine, Viktor Chernomyrdin has become possessor of the international prize of Person 2001 Ukrainian National Programme. In ceremonial atmosphere, in Ukraine palace, vice-premier of Ukraine (and at the same time, chairman of supreme academic council of the programme) Vladimir Seminozhenko handed over to Viktor Chernomyrdin a figurine, symbolizing the fire stolen by Prometheus. From some unknown reasons, the figurine was matched with a Samsung mobile telephone, while this original set aimed for Person 2001 was added with flowers and presents from Brocard perfumery...

A citizen of Tikhoretsk has bitten off a piece of his boon companion's nose. Two friends decided to celebrate the weekend with vodka. They bought two bottles of vodka and one more, just to make sure. Though three bottles were not enough as usual. So, when one of the friends wanted to drink what he still had in his glass, the second attacked him. Though, while seeing the greed friend did not feel repentance of his greediness, the injured tipper grasped his companion's nose with his teeth. Happily, ambulance doctors appeared in time and rapidly sewed the lost organ.

On Saturday night, hundreds of citizens of Austria and Germany (mostly of Bavaria and Baden-Wuertnemberg) were deprived of their deserved rest. Some unidentified flying objects disturbed them, which looked like fire balls. As with any unexplained phenomenon, the fire balls caused the panic of the peaceful buergers. Austrian citizens even called the police and gendarmerie, asking them to take measures against the “sky disorders.” The police many times arrived to the spot, though there were no tracks of the UFO attack on Earth. Experts are having difficulty determining what it could have been. According to them, Austrian and German citizens...

Recently I sow What? Where? When? TV programme, whose participants should within one minute to find an answer to the question TV viewers ask them in their letters. I remembered that 20 years ago, the programme’s participants plaid on books, but not on money. While my son who also watched the programme noticed that now participants of our TV plays play even not on money, but on annihilating their opponents. Steven King forecasted this situation already in the 1980s. Let us remember at least his novel The Running Man and the film with the same title with Arnold Schwarzenegger as...

An after wit is everybody's wit. Let us take Moscow functionaries. They should have better beforehand analysed probable variants of the Sunday events. And there would have been no pogroms in Moscow, which the whole world saw June 9, thanks to TV workers. The Moscow police made conclusions from what had happened: now, the policemen have been turned to an intensified variant of performance of duties. Moscowites' quiet in the streets will be secured by more than 5 thousand policemen and servicemen of the internal troops. OMON (Special Police Units) workers will be equipped with bullet resistance vest, helmets, rubber...

A Buddhist monk has captured deputies of Thailand parliament as hostages. According to information agencies, the incident took place today at 8:30 (local time). The events developed as follows. 37-year-old Sayan Chitasuro, whose decent appearance could not cause any suspicions, entered the parliament. Then, he used a Kalashnikov submachine-gun, which for some unknown reasons turned out to be in his hands.Sayan Chitasuro, while wishing to frighten the police and probably to encourage himself, started to randomly fire into the air. As a result, 20 people, workers of the parliament, became refuges. After having committed this act, which conflicts with Buddhist...