Moscow police deny searching Bulgarian industry center.

MOSCOW, November 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow police said on Thursday its
search of the offices of the Millennium Company had nothing to do with the
Bulgarian Industry center and it had no information the building enjoyed a
diplomatic status.

"The search during which police looked for and found evidence of
Millennium Company involvement in counterfeit production had nothing to do
with the Bulgarian Industry Center," the press service of the Moscow
police for northeastern district told Tass.
It said investigation of piracy audio and video production revealed
several locations where it can be located, including 24, Krasny Mayak
Street.
"The Millennium Company is officially headquartered there. The search
confirmed its involvement in counterfeit production," the press service
said.
"Investigators have no information that the building possesses
diplomatic status of the embassy or consulate of the Republic of Bulgaria
and therefore there was no necessity to inform the embassy about the
search," it said, adding "the documents contained no information that the
Bulgarian Industry Center is located at the address."
The search caused a row with Bulgaria and Deputy Foreign Minister
Marin Raikov described it is "an unfriendly act".
He said Bulgarian ambassador to Russia was instructed to express
"strong concern".
Raikov added Bulgarian experts would analyze the work of the industry
Center in Moscow and of the companies that lease premises there.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said "secret services had no
right to enter the Center, however if there was a person who committed a
crime, then I would not be angry with Russian colleagues. If the crime is
confirmed I am by no means going to create problems for Russian
colleagues."
In Moscow Bulgarian embassy spokeswoman Vera Shatilova said the search
was stopped after the ambassador contacted the Russian foreign ministry.

.Death toll rises to 12 at US army base.

NEW YORK, November 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The death toll at the US Fort Hood
army base in Texas rose to 12 and 31 people were wounded, CNN reported on
Thursday identifying the initiator of the shooting rampage as Major Malik
Nadal Hasan.
His motives are unclear so far and CNN said Hasan had killed himself.
President Barack Obama called the mass shooting a "horrific outburst
of violence" and promised the government would get "answers to every
single question."
Obama said it is a tragedy to lose a soldier overseas and even more
horrifying when they come under fire at an Army base on American soil.
Obama also said his thoughts and prayers are with the wounded and families
of the fallen.

.Russian, Georgian patriarchs to meet in Baku.

BAKU, November 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Patriarch Kirill and his
Georgian counterpart Iliya the Second will meet in Baku on Friday as both
will participate in celebrations of the 60th birthday of head of the
Muslims of the Caucasus sheikh-ul-Islam Allakhshukyur Pasha-zade.
Foreign relations chief of the Moscow Patriarchate Archbishop Ilarion
said the meeting will be "extremely important", as relations between
secular authorities of the two countries disrupted after the armed
conflict in 2008.
"Relations between Russia and Georgia are very strained today, while
relations between the Churches shall always develop evenly, constructively
and fruitfully. I believe it is today important as never for the Churches
to add peacekeeping and reconciliatory spirit to the relations between the
peoples of Russia and Georgia," Ilarion said.
Patriarch Kirill, who together with Pasha-zade co-chairs the
Inter-religious Council of the CIS, will also meet Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev.

.Russian church eyes Internet for religious publications.

MOSCOW, November 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Patriarch Kirill called on
Thursday to better use Internet, which he said was "an efficient
instrument for distribution of Orthodox Church publications".
Addressing the council for the publication of Orthodox Church
Encyclopedia he called to widely represent the work in the world web.
"The electronic version of the encyclopedia from the point of view of
mass reader becomes more important than the printed version. Therefore, if
we can offer information about the Orthodox Church, our culture and
history, we have to support the electronic version regardless of financial
difficulties," the patriarch said.
The Orthodox Church Encyclopedia is a unique collection of data on all
walks of church life, general humanitarian notions, and matters of the
state, law, culture and history. The overall editing is done by the
patriarch and the work is going under the patronage of the Russian
president and the prime minister.
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