Until the end of 2007, 50% of foreign production films released in the film distribution in Ukraine should be duplicated, voiced or subtitles. According to the memorandum, signed on Monday in Kyiv between the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, 13 local distribution and rolling companies, this process will begin on February 1. The memorandum also notes that by the end of the year 100% of films for foreign children should be duplicated.

The leadership of the Sverdlovsk region on Monday decided to transfer money as material assistance to the family of priest Oleg Stupichkin, who was killed on the night of January 7 in the village of Neivo-Shaytansky, Interfax reports. "Today, those who abandoned their children, old people, those who do not pay taxes, stealing trifles from the enterprise - all of them do not hide their eyes from shame and live calmly because they do not meet any public censure.

In the parliamentary elections in Serbia, the law-approval Serbian radical party leads, which gained 27.06% of the vote. These are the preliminary official results of the vote held on Sunday, published today by the Republican Election Commission of the country. They are calculated after processing 21.45% of the ballots. In second place is the ruling Democratic Party with 22.59% of the vote, ITAR -TASS reports.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft Code of Parliamentary Ethics, according to which deputies may lose their salary for absenteeism in plenary meetings. The document, to which the parliamentarians themselves are ambiguous, can be adopted in the current spring session. But to work in accordance with this code will already be a new convocation of deputies. Periodic fights and sharp statements of deputies have already become a tradition of Russian parliamentarism.

American President George Bush will perform on Tuesday with a traditional appeal to Congress of the country. According to observers, this year a particularly difficult task is faced with Bush: for the first time during the years of his presidency, Congress was controlled by Republicans, and democrats. The media in America is building forecasts regarding how Bush and Congress’s relations will unfold.

On Monday, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg interrogated witnesses from the museum in the case of the theft of exhibits from the State Hermitage. Recall that the consideration of a criminal case against Nikolai Zavadsky Sr., accused of abduction and marketing of objects from the Hermitage and pleading guilty, the court began on January 10 . “At the beginning of the meeting, the court interrogated five witnesses from the Hermitage.

The British trading network H&M presented mascara released specifically for men. The new brand was the last squeak of European fashion, where the place of brutal Macho took Dandy. In this regard, the industry of male hygiene and body care is growing , and the last confirmation of this is the appearance of a male carcass, exhibited in a prominent place in the male supermarket department next to sweaters with a V -neck and shirts of Polo. Its price is 3.99 pounds (about $ 8), writes The Guardian .

In the Novgorod region, due to a drill on the federal road Moscow-Sank-Petersburg, multi-kilometer "traffic jams" arose, RIA Novosti was told on Monday at the Novgorod traffic police department. According to the traffic police, several significant accumulations of cars were formed on a 80-kilometer hill section of the highway from the city of Valdai to the village of Zaitsevo. The length of one of the "traffic jams" in the Krestetsk region of the region was about 15 kilometers.

In the building of the Employment Center of Partizansk, Primorsky Territory, a journalist of the local newspaper Vesti Tamara Golovanova is beaten. According to Oleg Zinchenko, Deputy editor of the newspaper Oleg Zinchenko on Monday, Golovanov was beaten on January 19 when performing an editorial assignment in the building of the Employment Center.

In Los Angeles, the nominees of the 27th Golden Raspberry Prize are announced, which is given for the most dubious achievements in the film industry. The leader in the number of nominations, among which the "worst film", was the tape "Basic Instinct-2", the main role in which is played by Sharon Stone, Reuters reports. By the way, Stone herself was nominated as the worst actress. In addition, the film was criticized for the worst directing, the worst actor, the worst script and a sequel.

Cuban intelligence services for a long time prepare an operation to leave the family of Fidel Castro in the case of an "emergency" in Cuba. This was reported on Sunday by the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio with reference to the statements of the former Cuban intelligence agent Otto, whose real name Dolphin Fernandez. The former Cuban intelligence agent said that he personally took part in the preparation of conditions for the urgent departure of family members of Castro abroad, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Novosibirsk, police officers finally returned to the famous singer Philip Kirkorov a Breguet watch worth 98 thousand euros, stolen at the end of last year during a tour in Novosibirsk. This was reported to ITAR-TASS on Monday in the press service of the regional police department. As it became known, the singer is currently abroad, and the administrator - Konstantin Matyushov arrived in Novosibirsk at his clock.

Rospotrebnadzor announced on Tuesday, citing data from the World Health Organization, that the epidemic threshold of incidence of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections (SARS) among residents of all ages was exceeded in six Russian cities. At the same time, in 18 cities, epidemios among babies under two years old were exceeded, in 15 cities - among children 3-6 years old, in 14 cities the epidemiological porn was exceeded among schoolchildren.

Pope Benedict XVI will soon send a letter to all Catholics of China. This was announced on January 20 by the press service of the Holy See, which published the commander of the two-day meeting of Catholic hierarchs on the problem of relations with China.

In anticipation of the memorable date - the birthday of an outstanding actor, poet and singer Vladimir Vysotsky (1938-1980) on Monday will be a traditional presentation of the "Road" award. The solemn ceremony will be held for the 10th time in the Ostankino television center, and not as earlier in theatrical and concert halls, ITAR-TASS reports.