The Walt Disney Co. intends to re-release its animated masterpiece “Beauty and the Beast” in 3D format, AP reports, citing an official press release. The original film's producer Don Hahn, as well as directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, intend to use existing computer images for subsequent rendering . It is expected that this process will take about 10 months, and the film will be released in 2010.

The leader of the American rock band The Doors, who would have turned 65 on December 8, will celebrate his anniversary with a party at Barney's Beanery, Undercover reports. This bar, located in Hollywood, was one of the musician’s favorite places. Radio station KLOS will broadcast a program highlighting the event, which will feature Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek.

Amendments to the law “On Mortgages (Pledge of Real Estate)”, clarifying the procedure for transferring rights under mortgages, were adopted in the second reading at a State Duma meeting on Wednesday. agency reports this The RIA Novosti .

Former player of the Ukrainian national football team Andrey Gusin was summoned to the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine to testify, Kommersant.Ukraine reports . He was interrogated in the case of the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko . According to the publication, two more football players have been summoned for questioning: Italian Milan players Andrei Shevchenko and Kakha Kaladze. David Zhvania, during dinner Tsintsabadze was watching football in the next room.

Eli Broad, billionaire, philanthropist and one of the most influential American collectors, will build his own museum of contemporary art in Los Angeles. The New York Times notes that as recently as February 2008, Broad opened a new wing of the city's LACMA Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, bearing his name. Broad serves on LACMA's board of trustees and regularly donates significant funds to the museum. Brod's collection includes about two thousand works.

Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse turned 80 on Tuesday, AFP reports . On November 18, 1928, the premiere of the cartoon “Steamboat Willie” took place in the United States, in which the central character was Mickey Mouse. Another Mickey Mouse cartoon, the six-minute film Plane Crazy, was filmed several months earlier than Steamboat Willie, but premiered later. The cartoon lasted seven minutes and was Walt Disney's first work to use synchronized sound technology.

The NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which includes parliamentarians from member countries, has called for a resumption of the alliance's cooperation with Russia, which was largely curtailed after the August conflict in the Caucasus. This is stated on the organization's website. The parliamentarians' statement, however, points to the need to limit contacts with the Russian parliament.

More than three-quarters of UK residents are unable to name the three parts that make up their island, Sky News reports . According to a nationwide survey, only 22 percent of respondents recalled that the island of Great Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales. In addition, the Britons surveyed had problems identifying their own cities on the map. Thus, more than two thousand adult respondents could not find Leeds and Sheffield.

A list of members of the far-right British National Party, which only accepts white people into its ranks, has become publicly available on the Internet. reports this BBC News . The list contains the names, addresses, professions and telephone numbers of approximately 10 thousand people. Although British police officers have been banned from being members of the BNP since 2004, the list, dating back to 2007, includes the names of both former and current police officers.

Today, only about 10 banks are engaged in mortgage lending in Russia. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to a market survey conducted by Fosborne Home. According to the company, demand for mortgage loans during October exceeded the level of demand in August by more than twice the number of mortgage loans issued in the country. But today banks satisfy only 40 percent of loan applications submitted.

On November 19, the Indo Defense 2008 Expo&Forum exhibition of weapons and military equipment opened in the capital of Indonesia. More than 500 manufacturers from 40 countries present their products at the largest regional forum in Jakarta. For comparison, in 2006, 400 enterprises from 37 countries took part in it.

Exactly half of Russians support the initiative to extend the term of office of the country's president to 6 years, while a quarter of the population opposes this innovation. This is evidenced by the results of a survey by Levada Center, cited by the Interfax agency . The research results have not yet been published on the website of the analytical center itself.

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has introduced a new rule limiting the access of the country's financial institutions to deposit auctions, writes the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper . Now only banks whose authorized capital exceeds 500 million hryvnia ($85 million) can count on refinancing in the event of an outflow of deposits. Currently, only 16 out of 181 operating banks in the country meet the new requirement.

The world's oldest polar bear has died at the zoo in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, AFP reported on November 18. Veterinarians had to euthanize 42-year-old bear Debbie after they diagnosed the animal with multiple organ failure. Zoo staff note that until recent months, Debbie maintained a playful disposition and led a very active lifestyle.

The telecommunications company Comstar-UTS raised a loan of nine billion rubles from MGTS, in which it owns 56 percent of the shares. newspaper writes about this The Kommersant . The loan will be allocated to Comstar for a period of two years at 11.3 percent per annum. The publication writes that Comstar needed the funds to pay for the redemption of 11.06 percent of its own shares from Leonard Blavatnik’s Access Telecommunications Cooperatief UA.