Actress Olga Sutulova in an interview with the newspaper on Russian screens is released the first film by Igor Voloshin "Nirvana". Awarded at the “Kinotavre 2008” in the “Best Debut” nomination, the film nevertheless provoked hot disputes: the aggressive directing of “nirvana” delighted some, pushed others away.

The ECB raised the base rate in accordance with the market expectations on Thursday, the European Central Bank raised its base interest rate by 0.25% to 4.25%. Comments of the bank representatives before the meeting made it clear that the regulator was ready to continue the tightening of monetary policy, even to the detriment of economic growth in the eurozone. The change in the rate occurred for the first time since June last year.

The fourth week of the action “Particularly dangerous!” Completely, which is conducted by Pepsico during this week, participants who have found unique code on Adrenaline Rush with symbols of the share, sent it using SMS to 4131 or recorded it on the website www.adrenalinerush.ru and received a chance to win a smart mp3 “Bullet”, as well as a chance to win a superpise following the results of the action - a trip to Hollywood to “Universal Studios Hollywood”.

Russian and foreign bankers see the main threat to business in the same bankers around the world most afraid of liquidity problems. This is evidenced by the results of the studies presented yesterday, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, together with the British Center for the Study of Financial Innovation. It is worth noting that this year the Russian representative office in the study turned out to be more high than ever. In the survey, 25 banks participated.

At the Grand Eight Summit, Japan will offer to complete the anthropogenic wars for the first Russian President of Russia, the Great Eight, which will gather at Hokkaido on July 7-9, may work out successfully. Firstly, Western countries are not approaching the summit in its best form, Russia still gives itself as a “island of stability”, and Dmitry Medvedev is ready to share the experience in managing the national economy.

Most often, more than 40% of products sold in Moscow, according to Rospotrebnadzor, are falsified and smuggled. This was announced today, speaking at the first scientific and practical conference "Problems of quality and safety of goods in the food market of the city of Moscow", deputy head of the capital’s department of the consumer market and services Anatoly Kochetkov.

The OSCE recognized the fact of the Holodomor, but did not consider it genocide the parliamentary assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday during the 17th session in Astana (Kazakhstan) adopted a resolution on hunger in Ukraine of 1931-1933.

17:48 // 03/03/2008 The discoverer of the DNA structure, the Nobel laureate of the 80-year-old James Watson was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of Moscow State University (Moscow State University) named after Lomonosov, the university’s press service told RIA Novosti . Watson received a diploma and memorable medal of the professor of the most prestigious Russian university from the hands of the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy.

12:39 // 03/03/2008 The murder of the police colonel of the unrecognized South Ossetia Nodar Bibilov was planned in nature, RIA Novosti was told by the assistant commander of the mixed forces to maintain peace in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, Vladimir Ivanov. According to him, on Thursday, a group of military observers of the SSPM from three sides with the representative of the OSCE mission conducted monitoring on the fact of the explosion in the village of Damensi.

Roman Abramovich no longer the chief of Chukotka, President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed a decree on the resignation from the post of governor Chukotka Roman Abramovich at his own request. Chukotka is orphaned. Over the eight years of reign, Abramovich invested about $ 1.6 billion personal savings into the local budget. Another $ 1 billion was attracted at the expense of sponsorship capital. Roman Abramovich decided to become the head of Chukotka himself.

12:17 // 03/03/2008 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticized the organizers of the Olympic Games in Sochi for low-quality training of placing a number of objects. "Due to the inconsistency of the actions, failures were allowed by the main criterion - the quality that includes not only the quality of construction, but all that surrounds it," said the head of government at a meeting on compliance with environmental requirements in the preparation of the 2014 Olympics. Source: gzt.ru

Defender of the Russian national football team Sergei Ignashevich, in an interview with the newspaper, Sergey Ignashevich, was the main player in the Russian national football team, the entire qualifying cycle of the European Championship, but in friendly matches before the start of the tournament, unexpectedly sat on a bench.

Disorders of traffic rules abroad will be found and punished in their homeland soon Russian motorists will become much less in the CIS countries: a fine from the cordon will find the offender at the place of residence, and not by mail, but with the bailiff. And in order to protest him in court, you will have to go again to where you scored.

The Supreme Court rejected the complaint of the ATP of the Supreme Court, chaired by Vladimir Zaitsev on Thursday, defended the lawsuit of the Union of Right Forces (ATP) against the Central Election Commission. The party was represented by Nikita Belykh, Vadim Prokhorov and Sergey Kazakov, and the CEC - Inna Solomonidina and three more lawyers. The motivating part of the solution will be published next week.

17:23 // 03/03/2008 In the center of Moscow, unknown people wounded a businessman from the traumatic pistol and took away about five million rubles from him, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti . According to him, an attack on the Dodge car, in which the entrepreneur was performed by unknown people around 14.00 in the Novokrymsky passage.