The Volgograd, now living in Moscow, Oleg Ermolov in 2010 managed to star in at least 60 films. And in 2011, his filming schedule was painted for months in advance.

The finance ministers of the Eurozone countries approved the next round of stress tests of banks in the countries of the unified European currency. The assessment methodology will be ready in March, and the tests of banks will end by the end of May, Reuters reports. Pan-European banking tests were held in the summer of 2010. The 91 largest bank in Europe, which accounted for 65 assets of the European market, underwent tests.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated during the visit to the Middle East that began on Tuesday, that in order to resume direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, the Israel must stop settlement activity in the Palestinian territories. "We discussed the possible prospects for the resumption of dialogue.

The head of the Central Bank (Central Bank) Tunisa Tufi Bakkar was resigned. This decision was announced by a new government of the country, local news agencies report. The place of the head of the Central Bank will take Mustafa Kamel Kamel, the former chief economist of the Middle Eastern Branch of the World Bank, ITAR-TASS reports. Representatives of the government of popular unity do not give additional comments on the resignation of Bakkar.

In the East Rashtsky District of Tajikistan (180 km from Dushanbe), a special operation of power structures to neutralize the armed anti -government group of the field commander Kamol began. This was reported by local and regional media with reference to the head of the Rasht police, Mustafo Rustamov, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, in the Kamol detachment, according to some reports, up to 20 people are located.

The head of the correctional colony No. 2 in Tatarstan, Fargat Galyamov, refused the members of the public observation commission, which has the right to unhindered access to any closed institution of the republic, in a visit to the institution of strict regime, in which over a dozen convicts incorporated their cuts in protest . According to human rights activists, on the eve of the institution, a commission from the central apparatus of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia began to work.

The Moscow authorities reject accusations of falsifications on the official website of the city government. There were attacks on the Internet portal, said the press secretary of the mayor Gulnar Penkov. She said that now the survey would have to start a new one. Recall that the bloggers were outraged by the dynamics of the survey results (see below on the right, - ed.) On the mayor’s website on the reconstruction of the old areas of Moscow.

Nokia closes the musical service OVI Music Unlimited (Comes with Music), which allowed the owners of some models of the Finnish giant to download music for free during the year. Information about this, according to the Rformer , appeared on the pages of the Esphoneblog blog with reference to the Nokia internal document in Finnish. The service will close during 2011 in 27 countries. On December 31, Nokia stopped supplying phones to these countries with a subscription to the service.

The police became interested in video recordings, which shows how a young man who seems to the son of the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Mikhail Sukhodolsky drives by car with special signals on the counterclaim, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. Several videos made on a mobile phone appeared on the Internet. The bloggers calculated that it was the son of the deputy minister that was captured on them.

Several consistent cyber attacks are able to plunge the world into a state of "full -scale global shock" comparable to the pandemia of a deadly disease or with the collapse of the global financial system. Such a warning, as the British newspaper Daily Telegraph writes, is contained in the new report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Countries with a transition economy continue to move the growth of labor productivity in the world. As the report published by the Conference Board research organization shows, the largest and most dynamic economies in regard to labor productivity are China and India, where this indicator grew in 2010 by 8.7 and 5.4%, respectively, Prime-Tass reports.

In Belarus, a scandal is flared around the inauguration of the elected president of the Republic of Alexander Lukashenko. According to the Belarusian media, an event that will be held on January 21, according to unofficial information, will be held without journalists. According to the "Belarusian partisan" , only a direct broadcast on Belarusian television will be organized. The presence of other representatives of the press at the ceremony is not provided.

A resident of Madrid built a church out of garbage about 40 meters high on the outskirts of the city, RIA Novosti reports citing the BBC. From the material it follows that 85-year-old Justo Gallego built the building with his own hands, and began its construction more than half a century ago. "I did it just out of faith," the "builder" explained to the BBC. According to him, he had neither a building permit nor an architectural plan.

Russia may be interested in buying bonds of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFS), the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin told reporters on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reports. This year, EFS plans to place three issues of Eurobonds with a volume of three to five billion euros each, a period of circulation from five to ten years. The debut release may take place at the end of January, in general, in the first half of 2011, two issues can be posted.

The author of the new book about the adventures of the British Supershpion James Bond opened the veil of secrets surrounding the novel. The book "Cart Blanche", in which agent 007 will fight enemies in Dubai, will be published on May 26, 2011, RIA Novosti reports. Its author is the American writer Jeffrey Diver , the creator of many thrillers. In the UK, the book is published by the publishing house of Hodder and Stoughton, in the USA - Simon & Schuster.