Progress cargo ship carries equipment & census papers to ISS.

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MOSCOW, September 12 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian cargo ship 'Progress'
will on Sunday deliver more than 2.5 tons of cargoes to orbit. The cargo
includes new equipment for scientific experiments, as well as chocolate,
fresh fruit and parcels for the Russian-American ISS crew.
"The seventh spacecraft with digital control systems 'Progress M-07M'
that took off from Baikonur on September is to automatically dock with the
ISS at 15:58 Moscow time," Valery Ladynin, an official spokesperson of the
Mission Control Centre near Moscow, told Itar-Tass.
In case of technical failure in the automatic system, the ISS-24
commander Alexander Skvortsov and onboard engineer Mikhail Korniyenko will
assume control and will dock the spacecraft to the station in manual mode.
The Progress cargo ship is carrying food, drinking water, fuel,
equipment, clothes and sanitary-hygienic means as well as oxygen and air
flasks. In addition to standard cargoes, the ship will deliver to orbit a
biological reactor, cases with bacteria and fungi, two new root modules
for the onboard mini conservatory as well as census papers for the
cosmonauts who will take part in the Russian National Census in October
this year.
Psychologists have sent Alexei Tolstoi's novel; "Peter the First" to
the ISS at the request of cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin. Besides, nine new
DVD disks with feature films, documentaries and animated cartoons will
complete the ISS video library.

. Russia restores its holy sites - Kirill.

TOLGA, the Yaroslavl region, September 12 (Itar-Tass) - Patriarch of
Moscow and All Russia Kirill said on Saturday that Russia was restoring
its holy sites better than their founders had conceived them.
"Russia is rising higher and higher. It's becoming stronger and
stronger, and we can afford restoring our holy sites to look better than
their founders originally conceived them," the patriarch said at a night
service at the Tolga Women's Convent.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church decorated the Russian
transport minister, Igor Levitin, and four entrepreneurs with awards for
the renovation and restoration of the Tolga Women's Convent located on the
bank of the Volga near Yaroslavl.
"I would like to thank the people who worked to make the boldest of
thoughts come true. Today, we see a wonderful convent with churches and a
wonder-making icon," Patriarch Kirill emphasized.
The Tolga Women's Convent is one of the biggest in the Russian
Orthodox Church. It has 160 nuns. The nunnery was one of the first to be
returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. It happened in December 1987
under the Soviet rule. At that time, the convent was lying in ruins.
Today, its architecture, a cedar grove and two ponds have been restored.
A lot of fruit, including lemons, can be found in the nunnery's
greenhouse. Beds of roses, asters and golden daisies decorate the
territory.
The nunnery's history started with the ancient Icon of the Mother of
God of Tolga. In 2003, a museum returned it to the Convent. The icon is
kept in a special icon-case.
The relicts of Saint Ignatiy Bryachaninov, who lived in the 19th
century, rest in the Convent. His grandniece, who lives in Australia, was
present at Patriarch Kirill's night service in the Convent on Saturday.

. Films from CIS & Baltic States to be presented at Kinoshok-2010.

ANAPA, the Krasnodar territory, September 12 (Itar-Tass) - The Black
Sea town of Anapa will host the 19th festival of films from the CIS
countries and the Baltic States. The weeklong cinema show, which is better
known as "Kinoshok-2010", is opening on Sunday.
Five contests, including a contest of full-length films, will be held
during the forthcoming week. Russia will be represented by the film
"Silent Souls" ("Ovsyanki" in the Russian version) by director Alexei
Fedorchenko and "Elizium" by Andrei Eshpai.
Films from Lithuania, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Armenia,
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia and Ukraine will also
compete for the main award.
The opening ceremony will start with a parade of cinema stars. Dressed
in dinner jackets and evening dresses, the participants and guests of the
festival will parade along Anapa's main embankment. Thousands of fans will
accompany them all way long from the city administration building to
Theatrical Square. In addition to that, huge TV screen installed in the
city's crowded places will broadcast the parade and the opening ceremony
live.
"For the past 19 years the festival has been one of the most
important, respected and representative cinema forums in the post-Soviet
territory. It opens new names in modern cinema industry and offer a good
chance to see the new works by world's famous film directors," playwright
and director Viktor Merezhko, the festival's director, told Itar-Tass.
The juries of contest programs include leading filmmakers from Russia,
the CIS and the Baltic States. Producer Pavel Kaplevich will head the jury
in the full-length films category this year.

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