The Ministry of Culture of Russia expects a speedy offensive of peace in the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation. "For us, those who are interested in the development of the film industry, cinema as art, good is a unified friendly union of filmmakers. I would like court litigation to end faster, disassembly between various groups of members of the Union, and its work has passed into a normal channel, " Deputy Minister of Culture Alexander Golutny told Interfax .

US allies in NATO decided to additionally send about 5 thousand military personnel and instructors to Afghanistan to help hold the presidential elections in this country and support the new Afghan strategy of Barack Obama. This was announced at a press conference at the end of the anniversary of the Alliance summit in Strasbourg by his outgoing Secretary General of Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the Air Force reports. "As for Afghanistan, the summit brought a real result," he said.

In Moldova, on Sunday, the parliamentary elections are held. At 7 o’clock in local time (8:00 Moscow time), all 1977 polling stations opened, 33 of which - with diplomatic departments abroad and 10 - on the left bank of the Dniester for the Moldovan citizens of an unrecognized Transnistria, whose authorities were not allowed to organize voting on their territory, reporters in the CEC of the Republic told.

Activists of the youth movement "Russia Young" held in the center of Moscow a protest against the personnel policy of one of the large network wholesale companies, Interfax reports. “In connection with the economic crisis, large retail outlets began to reduce their costs by direct violation of Russian laws. They hire illegal immigrants to work,” Yevgeny Nason’s spokeswoman Yevgeny Nason told Interfax.

The investigation considers as the main “household” an attack on the head of one of the UFSB departments in Dagestan Colonel Kaidov, which occurred on Saturday evening in the center of Makhachkala, RIA Novosti told a source in the Republican SCP.

In Barnaul on April 18, a charity evening of memory of hockey player Alexei Cherepanov will take place. Aleksey’s teammates - hockey players of the Omsk Vanguard - will hold a master class for young Altai hockey players on the ice of the Barnaul Palace and Sports, and in the evening Omsk will meet in a friendly match with the Altai hockey club.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia and China Sergey Lavrov and Yang Zucchi discussed on Sunday by telephone a situation related to a message about the implementation of the DPRK launching an artificial Earth satellite.

The press conference of the head of the Dubai police, General Dahi Halfan Tamim on the investigation of the murder in the emirate of the ex-commander of the Vostok battalion, the Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, will be held on Sunday in Dubai (UAE ) , the general director of the Emirates agency Ibrahim al-Abed said on Saturday. Sulim Yamadaev was killed on March 28 in Dubai at the underground parking of the house, in which he lived for several months.

The lawyer of the post of mayor of Sochi Boris Nemtsov Alexander Glushenkov denied the statements of the city election commission on the illegality of the agitation materials detained on the night on Saturday. This was reported by Gazeta.Ru press secretary Olga Shorina Nemtsova. "This statement is unreasonable and does not correspond to the actual circumstances," Glushenkov said.

The DPRK state media announced the successful withdrawal of the North Korean artificial satellite, launched in the morning on Sunday, reports the Air Force . The artificial satellite of the Earth Kvanmnson -2 (bright star) was taken to orbit at 11:29 local time (6:29 Moscow time), the common report of the state news agency Tsak.

In the final match of the tournament in Miami, the Belarusian tennis player Victoria Azarenko defeated the first racket of the world to American Serena Williams in two sets with a score of 6: 3, 6: 1. The rivals had previously met twice (both times at the Australian open championship). In 2008, the American was stronger than 6: 3, 6: 4, and in this, Azarenko with a score of 3: 6, 4: 2 was forced to complete the meeting ahead of schedule due to the thermal blow, recalls Eurosport .

North Korea has a serious potential for creating a nuclear missile weapon, which once again demonstrated the last launch of the launch vehicle, RIA Novosti said on Sunday, the chief of the main headquarters of the strategic missile forces (RVSN) in 1991-1993 Colonel General Victor Yesin. “This is the unconditional success of North Korea in the development of space technology, it confirms the significantly serious potential of this country to create a nuclear missile weapon,” Esin said.

The candidate for the post of mayor of Sochi Boris Nemtsov on the illegal detention of his campaign material at the Magry automobile post near Sochi will be considered by the Belarm in the near future. "According to the Law" On Elections in the Krasnodar Territory, "the election room will conduct an audit and consider the complaint of Nemtsov’s candidate at a meeting of the working group in the media within five days," said the chairman of the election commission Yuri Rykov Interfax on Sunday.

In Prague, the EU summit ended today. The American President Barack Obama and the leaders of 27 member states of the European Union took part in his work. “The meeting symbolized a new level of European-American relations,” the Prime Minister, the presiding in the European Union of the Czech Republic, Mirek Toporak, told reporters, ITAR-TASS reports.

The mentor of Chelsea Gus Hiddink believes that Alan Shirer will be able to save Newcastle from departure from the Premier League, the official website of the London football club reports. Hiddink and his team the day before overshadowed the debut of the Shirer as the head coach Newcasl, having beaten the "forty" on their field with a score of 2: 0. Seven rounds before the end of the championship of England from the saving 17th place "Newcastle" separates three points.