General Moltenskaya. Photo from the BBC News website The commander of the united grouping of troops in the North Caucasus, Vladimir Lalters, met in Chechnya with human rights activists and shared his thoughts about the war with them. The general spoke out against the termination of special operations. He approved the blockade of settlements in the daytime and commandant hour at night.

Islam Karimov. Photo Reuters The Uzbek government and the Pentagon are conducting secret negotiations on the creation of a permanent American military base at the Hanabad airfield (Kashkadarya region). Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, visiting Tashkent, tried to dissuade President Islam Karimov from such a sharp step in converging the United States, but, according to our sources in the Kremlin administration, he failed.

Mark Rudinshtein is a big person in every sense. A man who almost alone invented the “Kinotavr”, “Golden Aries” and “Faces of Love”. Having devoted such a large -scale work, trying to organize a new structure of the film process in Russia that it can be forgiven for a lot. In particular, the fact that his brainchild of "faces of love" is a very strange festival with a rather poorly designed concept. And even the fact that he gave the film festival such a monstrous name.