In Belgrade on Friday, the grand opening of the annual international film festival "Fest" will be held. The right to open the current film, which is held for the 33rd time, is granted to the French movie star, Katrin Denev. Together with Gerard Depardieu, she plays the main role in the film "Times change", which will be shown at the opening of the film forum. The world premiere of this tape recently took place in Berlin.

The police in the Indian state of Andra-Pradesh began to pay a monthly amount of a certain amount for the presence of a mustache. The police management believes that the mustache give their owners solidity, which is important for the policeman, writes Daily Telegraph (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

On Friday, diamonds and jewelry worth several million euros were stolen at the Amsterdam International International Airport "Schiphol", the royal gendarmerie said. Jewelry were in an armored car, which brought them to an airplane that flew to the Belgian city of Antwerp.

On the administrative border of Chechnya and Dagestan, in the area of ​​the Mountain Pass, Amir-Kort, the unit of the federal forces destroyed on Thursday a group of terrorists of three people, which was heading to Azerbaijan to commit a terrorist attack. This was announced on Friday by the head of the interim press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the North Caucasus, Lieutenant Colonel Boris Proshkin, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the Meshchansky court of the capital on Friday, the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky is planned. At the hearing on Tuesday, lawyers Khodorkovsky and Lebedev said that they were completed by the presentation of additional evidence. Lawyer Henry Padva, representing the interests of Khodorkovsky, added that the defense is ready for interrogation of the client. "We have finished the presentation of additional evidence and are ready for interrogation," Padva said.

The Supreme Court of Serbia canceled the decision of the court of first instance on the confiscation of Villa Slobodan Milosevich, located in the prestigious Belgrade district of Dedin. “We did not even consider the question of how reasonably this decision is in the legal aspect. Our decision was made solely due to the fact that the accused is currently in prison and cannot provide protection (in the case of this villa),” the Serbian newspaper in the Supreme Court of Serbia told.

The last days of winter in the Moscow region will be frosty, according to Friday in Roshydromet. In the morning hours of the inhabitants of the capital and the Moscow Region, about 15-18 degrees awaits, in some areas of the region the thermometer will drop to minus 24 degrees. This afternoon in Moscow it will be about 6-8 degrees below zero, in the region - from 6 to 11 degrees of frost. Variable cloudy, mainly without precipitation, the wind is weak.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, unknown people shot the patrol of the UN peacekeepers, at least 9 people died, 11 people were injured. The peacekeepers were ambushed on Friday in the morning, when they were in a patrol in the province of Ituri in the east of the country, the newspaper Tribune de Geneve writes. "Unknown armed people attacked several peacekeepers who were patrolling in Ituri province," said the representative of the UN mission in the Congo Mamada Bach.

In the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the most complete exposition of the work of the outstanding artist Mark Shagal is opening. About 200 works from the museum and private collections of Russia, France, Switzerland belong to all periods of Shagal's work. As the director of the gallery, Valentin Rodionov, said on the eve of the opening of the exhibition, visitors will be able to see the well -known canvases of the master, including the first time brought to Moscow.

The law enforcement agencies fell into the hands of the interception of negotiations between the most dangerous terrorist Abu Musaab Az-Zarkavi and the former security guard Ben Laden, 29-year-old Jordan, Shadi Abdullah. It follows from the film that in Az-Zarkavi and Abdullah Roman, says La Stampa (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). Shady Abdalla: - I miss you . Az -Zarkavi: - I miss you too . Shadi Abdallah: - I ask you all the time . Az -Zarkavi: - And I am even more often! .

Swedish experts have begun unique tests of HIV vaccine on healthy people. Until now, such experiments have been carried out only on mice. The vaccination is tested by the Swedish Institute for Control over Infectious Diseases on 40 Sweden volunteers. One of them is Thomas Agnemo, who worked for two years in Africa through the Swedish public and state organizations. It will be vaccinated three times - each time in various combinations of component substances.

In the Australian state of Victoria, a teacher, who had sexual relations with two adolescence students at once, received seven years of imprisonment. Peter Donald Karn was a teacher of English when he began an affair with a 16-year-old student. After Karn began sexual relations with one girl, the 45-year-old father of the three children and his young mistress organized a love triangle with another schoolgirl-15-year-old.

The Bashkir police are searching for a five -month -old child, stolen by unknown parents from the apartment. According to ITAR-TASS on Friday in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the crime was committed the day before in the city of Salavat. Two women called the police officers called the apartment. The 80-year-old pensioner, who was in the apartment, opened the door, after which the criminals broke into the room and took away the five-month great-grandson of the hostess.

Russian entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky, against whom the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case and who is on the international wanted list along the interpol, arrived on Friday in Riga. Berezovsky crossed the Latvian border with a British passport addressed to Plato Elenin. "The Latvian authorities did not know anything about my arrival. I arrived on English certificates. At the same time, I did not ask any additional guarantees from the Latvian government.

The day before, the Presidential Administration (Moscow, Ilyinka St., 23) was transferred an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin from the parents of the National Bolsheviks who took part in the protest in the reception of the Presidential Administration on December 14, 2004 . The initiators of writing an open letter were relatives of 8 Nizhny Novgorod National Bolsheviks who took part in the action on December 14 and are now in Moscow prisons.