The Jubilee, 30th Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) will be held in the Russian capital from June 18 to 27, the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography said, ITAR-TASS reports. The deadlines were determined at a meeting of the organizing committee of the festival, which took place in Roskulture.

The loss of the largest mortgage creditor Countrywide Financial in the United States, which suffered during the credit crisis, exceeded the bank’s own forecasts in the fourth quarter of 2007 due to an increase in the number of unpaid loans and the continuing fall in the housing market in the United States. The result of losses during the mortgage crisis was the purchase of Countrywide Financial by Bank of America for $ 4 billion in promotions.

The “freezing” of prices for a number of products will subsequently lead to their sharp growth, said Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov on Tuesday at the tenth conference of the Moscow Organization of the United Russia party. Leading manufacturers and food merchants agreed to extend the moratorium for another three months to increase prices for the main types of food, which expired on February 1, 2008.

Inflation in January 2008 will be 2.3-2.4%. Such a forecast on January 30 was made by the head of the Federal State Statistics Service Vladimir Sokolin. According to him, which leads RBC , the main factor that caused the growth of inflation was the growth of tariffs for housing and communal services, gas and electricity. A certain effect on the pace of inflation will also have an increase in food prices, including dairy products. Sokolin predicts February inflation at a level of less than 2%.

The newcomer of the Russian Football Premier League "Shinnik" issued relations with a number of players who were on viewing. Among the acquisitions of the Yaroslavls are Zdravko Lazarov, Damyan Garaviski, Yuris Lizans and Denis Boyarintsev. The former player of the Russian national team and Spartak, 29-year-old boyars, made a decision on the transition to Shinnik for a long time and signed a two-year contract, reports UEFA.com .

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov supports the teaching of religion at school. “I support this, spiritual and moral education should be present,” the interfax-religion portal R. Kadyrov, which gave an interview with the Radio of Echo of Moscow today. He said that he himself spoke with the initiative to teach Islam in Chechen schools.

The British company Aquavision has created a waterproof high-resolution LCD-TV. The novelty can be installed in bathrooms and even mounted in the wall, reports CNET . Aquavision AVF 57-4LCD screen diagonal - 57 inches (145 cm) with a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. There are also the necessary connectors: S-Video, component and SCART input.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko wants to change the image of Ukraine, turning it into a country that can strengthen the EU energy security, establishing the relationship of Kyiv with Moscow.

The Chinese State Administration of Radio, Cinema and Television (SARFT) ceased to spread the melodrama of Yu Lee “Lost in Beijing” in cinemas and on-line, and banned the producer Lee Fanu (he is a co-scenarist of the picture) and his Laurel Film company to make films for two years, the film company “Cinema without borders” reports.

The Embassy of Israel in London denied the report that the state was official apology to The Beatles for refusing to give permission to hold a concert in Jerusalem, reports Ar. The Beatles were supposed to perform in the capital of the Jewish state in 1965, but the government imposed a ban on the group of the group out of fear that their songs could damage the morality and morality of young Israelis.

The Ambassador of the Netherlands in Mexico was attacked by robbers near its residence in Mexico City. According to the France Press agency with reference to the press attaches of the Dutch embassy, ​​the incident occurred on Tuesday, when Cornelia Minderhuld ran in a coward near her house in the expensive quarter of the Mexican capital.

Mikhail Friedman leaves the post of chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank. According to Kommersant , this will be announced in the coming days. Leaving the place of a member of the Council, Mr. Friedman will focus on the general leadership of Alfa Group, and his first deputy Peter Schmida will be the head of the Board of Directors of the Bank.

An explosion occurred in the boiler room of kindergarten in the north of Moscow, the head of the press service of the Moscow Ministry of Emergencies Yevgeny Bobylev told ITAR-TASS. The signal of the incident in the two -story brick building of the kindergarten in the airport’s passage entered Wednesday at about 16:00, he said. "According to preliminary data, the explosion occurred in the boiler room. Its reasons are clarified," Bobylev said. According to him, there are no victims and victims.

The organization on food and agriculture of the UN expresses concern about the price level in the Caribbean states. Excessively high food prices led to the fact that the Haitians are preparing cakes from a mixture of dried yellow clay, water, salt and plant combi or margarine. The clay that is taken in the area of ​​the central plateau is first sieved, after which the cakes blocked from it are left in the sun.

The Ministry of Administrative Affairs and Communications of Japan intends to introduce a complete ban on mass mailing of advertisements by e -mail without the consent of the recipients. To this end, a whole series of new tough measures to combat “network garbage” will be included in the special bill, which will fall into the parliament during the current session of the parliament, the Nickei newspaper reports today.