The budget for Gareth Edwards' film "Monsters" was $15,000. In the film, both main roles were played by actors whose names you almost certainly have not heard. The sets for the film were not built at all - they were filmed against the backdrop of what was there. Nevertheless, "Monsters" after its premiere in Russia entered the top five box office leaders. It's quite difficult to understand how this happened.

The Russian Orthodox Church will present its own channel on YouTube on October 11, 2010. This was reported in materials distributed by Google, which includes a popular video service. A press conference dedicated to the official opening of the channel will be held at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow as part of the IV International Festival of Orthodox Media "Faith and Word".

Goalkeeper of the NHL club Phoenix Coyotes Ilya Bryzgalov said that he expected more from Dynamo Riga, with whom Phoenix played a friendly match on October 6. The Coyotes won with a score of 3:1, but Bryzgalov believes that his team should have scored ten goals into the opponent’s goal, Telegraf.lv reports . According to the Russian goalkeeper, throughout all three periods the game was one-sided. “I don’t think that the opponent had no desire. There was a desire.

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 was the Peruvian prose writer, playwright, essayist, and politician Mario Vargas Llosa.

An ancient Roman helmet found by a British amateur archaeologist sold at Christie's on October 7 for $3.6 million (£2.3 million), Agence France-Presse reports . The final price turned out to be eight times more than the amount at which the helmet was estimated before the auction. A well-preserved bronze helmet dates back to the end of the 1st - beginning of the 2nd century AD.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he would make changes to the upcoming pension reform, which has caused public outrage due to the increase in the retirement age provided for in it. reported this on October 7 Agence France-Presse . Sarkozy's intention to "soften" the controversial bill was confirmed by Labor Minister Eric Werth . According to him, amendments have already been developed that provide relief for mothers of many children and parents of children with disabilities.

The Kazakh state oil and gas company Kazmunaigas has abandoned the idea of ​​an IPO. To finance its activities, it plans to issue Eurobonds and borrow funds on the domestic market, Reuters reports citing the company’s president, Kairgeldy Kabyldin. According to Kabyldin, the refusal to IPO is due to the fact that in a crisis the company will not be “normally valued.” Let us recall that the subsidiary of the Kazakh monopoly, Exploration Production Kazmunaigas, held an IPO in 2006.

07.10.2010, 16:47:56 version Print | PDA/PDA Soldiers of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army against the background of the Mi-8. Photo ©AFP Got into trouble Russian pilots spent two months in Sudanese captivity On October 6, South Sudanese authorities released the crew of a Mi-8 transport helicopter captured in early August. Although such episodes are not uncommon in Sudan, the current incident is different from other similar cases.

The volume of Russia's international reserves from January to September of this year increased by $50.649 billion, or 11.5 percent. This is stated in the official materials of the Bank of Russia. If on January 1 the country’s reserves amounted to $439.45 billion, then by October 1 this figure reached 490.099 billion. Moreover, over the last week, from September 24 to October 1, the volume of reserves increased by $6.7 billion - from 487.7 to 494.4 billion, the Central Bank notes .

The Moscow City Hall is discussing the issue of continuing to return historical names to the streets of the capital. this on October 7 The Vesti FM radio station reported , citing its own sources.

Russian Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev approved the idea of ​​locating the depository of the Moscow Kremlin museums in the Provision Warehouses building on Zubovsky Boulevard, previously expressed by architectural critic Grigory Revzin. reports this RIA Novosti . Avdeev noted that the idea is good, but it needs to be thought through.

The Moscow City Court rejected the claim of Yabloko party leader Sergei Mitrokhin, who demanded that the General Plan for the Development of Moscow until 2025 be declared illegal. This was reported by the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information (RAPSI). It was previously reported that the defendants in Mitrokhin’s lawsuit, filed in the summer, are the Moscow City Duma and former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

Sberbank, the largest financial institution in Russia, has launched the “Queues.net” program, according to which by the beginning of 2012, the waiting time in queues for bank clients should be reduced to 10-15 minutes. newspaper writes about this The Vedomosti with reference to Alexey Chernikov, director of the department for organizing retail services and sales of Sberbank. The new program was launched by order of Sberbank President German Gref .

The thirteenth test launch of the Bulava sea-based intercontinental ballistic missile, carried out on October 7, 2010 from the nuclear submarine Dmitry Donskoy, was successful. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the missile was launched from an underwater position in the White Sea at the Kura training ground in Kamchatka. All missile warheads hit simulated targets at the test site.

A classic of modern architecture, Dutchman Rem Koolhaas will transform the Venetian palazzo Fondaco dei Tedeschi into a shopping center, reports The Art Newspaper. The 16th-century building, located on the Grand Canal next to the Rialto Bridge, was previously sold to Benetton for approximately 50 million euros. The work of the Koolhaas architectural agency will cost another 20 million. The building will have escalators - the first in Venice - and elevators.