Five new feature films will fight for the Golden Eagle national film award. The main applicants for the prestigious film aid were named on Thursday in Moscow. The solemn ceremony of the awarding of the laureates will take place for the fifth time on January 27 next year in the first pavilion of the Mosfilm film studio, ITAR-TASS reports.

Informed French political sources told the Ash Shark Al-Ausat newspaper that confidential contacts with the Libyan leadership are currently being held, aimed at resolving the problem. These sources are convinced that Tripoli “will not sacrifice the potential for normalizing relations with Europe and the USA accumulated in recent years” and will not go to execute the sentence, ITAR-TASS reports.

On the New Year and Christmas holidays, border guards of the Kharkov region of Ukraine organize a simplified intersection of the Ukrainian-Russian border. According to Interfax on Thursday, citing the press service of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers, in the points “Goptivka”, “Blackmark”, “Chugunovka”, “Sands” all lanes will be opened for the design of vehicles.

Within the framework of six -way negotiations on the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula on Thursday, the US delegation and the DPRK held a bilateral meeting at which they tried to narrow existing disagreements. However, as expected, she did not bring tangible results. North Korea did not approve the project proposed by the American side to the DPRK gradual refusal of nuclear programs.

63% of the US residents are of the opinion that unnecessary New Year and Christmas gifts are best presented to someone else. After the survey, the Zogby International service came to such an unexpected conclusion. At the same time, 10% of respondents said that during the current holidays they would be given the gifts that they were awarded last year. By the way, among women to get rid of unnecessary gifts more than among men, ITAR-TASS reports.

On Thursday, the International Group of Companies of the ITER on Thursday, December 21, one after another, turned six regions in the east of Georgia from the gas supply. According to the company, the supply of fuel will not be resumed until the issue of payments is settled. Perhaps the “Iter”, once close to Gazprom, is used as a weapon of pressure on the Georgian side, which delays the decision on Russian gas.

Perhaps this is not the most intriguing secret of Hollywood, but the truth is why, in the 1956 classic film “Love me,” the bangs of Elvis change her color from the light to coal-black, finally opened. Elvis was allowed to do a hairstyle himself, writes The Guardian (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

Representatives of the Hamas Islamist movement, exercising the executive power in the Palestinian autonomy, will now not be able to import monetary cash into the gas sector. According to ITAR-TASS, citing the Egyptian media, the agreement on this was concluded by Egypt, the mission of observers of the European Union on the Palestinian-Egyptian border in Rafakh, Israel and the Palestinian administration.

In connection with the death of President Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, opposition movements are hoped to return to the country. This was independently reported by some of their leaders. According to the leader of the united democratic opposition of Turkmenistan Abda Kuliev, who is quoted by RIA Novosti , the opposition is actively negotiating among themselves. “We now have complete unity, despite the fact that we are holding different views and points of view,” Kuliev said.

The author of the book about Harry Potter Joan Rowling said that she already dreamed of strange dreams as if she herself was Harry Potter. It is not surprising, because Rowling is already finishing the seventh book about Potter, which may be the last, reports AFP. The writer revealed her name.

The government approved a plan for the Dopamy of VTB shares proposed by the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Herman Gref. The state will reduce its share in two stages. The first additional ministry will be placed already in May 2007 in the amount of 90-120 billion rubles, the second - in 2010 - another 210-250 rubles. According to Gref, up to half of all papers will be posted in Russia, Interfax reports.

The British military man, the corporal of the Ground Forces of Great Britain Daniel James was charged with espionage in favor of Iran, The Times reported on Thursday. According to the newspaper, James is charged with the transfer of the Iranian side of secret information about the military operation of the British troops in Afghanistan (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

In Moscow, operatives of the Office for Combating the Economic Crimes of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation searched in the branch of the Central State Inspectorate of Assumption Supervision located on the territory of the closed enterprise in the FSUE "Moscow Plant for Special Alloy" on Voruchev Street.

On Wednesday, the Russian Culture Fund (RFR) hosted the evening of memory of the founder and first chairman of the Academician Dmitry Likhachev Foundation, RIA Novosti reports. At the memorable evening, fragments of a documentary about the life and work of Likhachev “My Joy” directed by Elena Kvaskova were shown. The presentation of the book "Unknown Likhachev" was also held, which contains unpublished materials from the archive of the Russian Federation.

In Philadelphia, the premiere of the film "Rocky VI" - the sixth and final part of the film review about the life of the life boxer Rocky Balboa. Hundreds of people gathered at the Prince Music cinema to welcome Stallone and other actors who played in the tape. At the beginning of the new film about Rocky, the hero does not think about the ring, but life will make him return to professional boxing again. He will accept the champion of Mason Dixon, played by the famous boxer Antonio Tarver.