Hollywood star Jean-Claude Van Damm came to Kyiv to shoot his new film, the American-Ukrainian action movie "Tower". The script of the future blockbuster has already been written in the United States, but Ukrainian actors, operators and the crew will be attracted to work, UNIAN reports. The actor himself will act as a director and as a leading role.

In the Republic of Adygea, a harsh sentence was sentenced to a man who jokingly tied two shoemakers with adhesive tape to "bring them to life." The court considered the incident a serious crime and sent a "peacekeeper" for three years in jail.

On Friday, Russian communists will lay flowers to the grave of Joseph Stalin, whose death is 57 years old. Representatives of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Moscow branch of the party, deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and Moscow City Duma will come to the Kremlin wall. By tradition, they put a wreath and flowers to the grave.

The court sentenced the former chiefs of the local Grovd and the deputy commander of the OMON company, who organized a special operation in Bashkir Blagoveshchensk, during which more than 300 people were sentenced to conditional terms. As the senior assistant to the prosecutor of Bashkiria Larisa Kuchina said on Friday, all three defendants were found guilty under Art. 286 of the Criminal Code (abuse of authority). Meanwhile, the prosecution asked for accused real imprisonment.

The deputy minister will appear in the Ministry of Examination of the Russian Federation, responsible for preparing the national team for the Olympics in Sochi, Yuri Nagornye from Moskomport will be appointed to this position, the head of the Ministry of Examination Vitaly Mutko said at a briefing following a meeting with the Prime Minister.

The Italian police are investigating the brutal murder of the famous art critic and connoisseur of painting Giovanni Schubert. His colleague is captured as a suspect, writes Il Giornale . On Thursday evening, the police and divers took from the bottom of one of the water channels on the outskirts of Milan five polyethylene bags with the remains of the elderly art critic Giovanni Schubert, who was the owner of the widely known gallery Arte Borgogna.

The Arabs-Muslims on the temple mountain in the old city of Jerusalem arranged riots. According to Newsru Israel , the young people threw the stones of Israeli police and Jews, who completed the prayer near the wall of crying. The police were forced to apply special equipment to restore order on the temple mountain. It is known that several instigators of riots are detained. At least 20 police officers received mild injuries, six of them were delivered to hospitals.

In the Moscow region, the head of the investigative insulator (pre -trial detention center) was removed from office, in which the criminal authority of Vova Petersburg sits. A senior overseer was caught on the territory of the pre -trial detention center along with the wife of Vova of St. Petersburg and the Party of Drugs, Prime Krime reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

Bicycles are consistently conquer Berlin. On some streets there are even more than cars. Over the past year, compared to 2008, the number of bicycles has increased by 6%. In the municipality, it is noted that the growth trend of the number of Berliners, pedaling, has been observed for 15 years. The share of cyclists in the road traffic is now about 15%.

In a high -profile case, an accident with the Lukoil machine finally appeared a video from the surveillance cameras installed in the area of ​​Gagarin Square - its presence was recognized in the metropolitan traffic police. Earlier, the media reported that it was lost, and in law enforcement agencies they even said that they went to a person involved in its disappearance.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demands to make the work of sports federations more transparent and open, and the issues of distributing funds for the training of athletes are to check. He stated this on Friday, March 5, at a meeting dedicated to the results of the team’s performance at the Olympics in the Vancouver and measures to prepare for the Sochi Olympics.

A number of decisions on the church administration and personnel permits within the Russian Orthodox Church were adopted at the first meeting of the Holy Synod in St. Petersburg that has been held today. "It was decided to create a new synodal department for prison service. He will deal with issues related to service in correctional institutions," the head of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church Vladimir Legoyda told reporters, Interfax reports.

The metropolitan police were forbidden to ride personal transport in service form The corresponding order was sent the other day to all the capital's ATS. In accordance with the new requirements, the morning of an ordinary guard of order should look like this: dressed in civilian clothes, turned the uniform into a bag, got behind the wheel, drove to work, changed into state linen. And only after that - forward, to protect the law and order.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is looking for the "clairvoyant" Sean David Morton, who gained $ 6 million from investors and promised 117% in six months, Vedomosti reports. As it turned out, Morton invested only half of this money, and not very successfully, but spent the second.

The film with good fees in cinemas loses due to pirates from 0.5 million to 1.2 million dollars or more. Such calculations were presented by the program "Cinema Industry", published on the TV channel "Russia 24". For example, the transformer blockbuster could collect an additional 1.3 million dollars, or almost 8% of the cash desk. "Ice Age: The Dinosaurs Era", which was at the box office last summer, was illegally downloaded on the network by Russian users 408 000 times.