The jury of the 64th Berlin Film Festival, which will be held from February 6 to 16 this year, was headed by the American screenwriter and producer James Shamus, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the view. The jury of the competition included French director Michelle Gondry, Hong Kong actor Tony Lyun, American actors Christoph Waltz and Greta Gerwig.

Russia and Hungary have entered into a number of important agreements on trade and economic cooperation. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who came to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin, promised to fulfill all obligations to build a part of the South Stream gas pipeline. Russia, on the other hand, agreed to provide Hungary for the construction of two power units for the PAKSh nuclear power plant.

In the first hour of the day Moscow time, a special board was sent from the capital's Airport, which will deliver the Great Christian shrine - the Gifts of the Magi - to St. Petersburg. The relic was brought to Moscow from Athos on January 6, in the northern capital, believers will be able to bow to her, starting from the evening of today, until January 17.

The world combined revenue of communication operators from the provision of SMS and MMS messages in 2013 decreased for the first time in history - almost 4% to about $ 104, after reaching the peak value in 2012, the Strategy Analytics report said. Moreover, the number of sent messages remained at the level of 2012. There are two causes of such dynamics. The first is the growth of competition between operators who seek to get subscribers, including through low tariffs for messages.

The United Russia faction introduced a bill to the Mosgordum on holding elections to the city parliament in 45 single -member districts. Experts and representatives of the public guess how the initiative of the United Russia will affect the voting results if, instead of the mixed system, majority is introduced.

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, suspects that the breakdown of the execution of some state orders in the Russian defense industry is due to the fact that foreign investors are intentionally evading their obligations. This became possible after mass privatization of domestic enterprises foreign companies. Now the problem can solve their return to the public sector, according to the head of the TFR.

The leadership of Cyprus decided to allow Russia to use the Andreas Papandreu military air base near the city of Paphos, as well as to open the Limasol port for the Russian Navy ships, Cyprus Weekly reports.

Airbus 319, which landed at Sochi Airport, was on the aircraft of the Donavia airline. As a result of the incident, no one was injured, the liner flying from Istanbul made a landing in the standard mode, reports the Live Kuban , referring to the message of the company's management airport. "Airbus 319 liner, on board of which there were 111 passengers, flew out of Istanbul in Sochi at 03:35 Moscow time.

The European Central Bank (ECB) said that the number of false banknotes withdrawn from circulation in the second half of 2013 has reached the maximum value over the past three years - about 353 thousand units, Vedomosti reports with reference to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Compared to 2012, the indicator grew by 26%.

In Saudi Arabia, unknown people fired at the car of the German Embassy. As a result, the car caught fire. Employees of the embassy were not injured, reports ITAR-TASS. The German Foreign Ministry confirms the information about the shelling in the east of Saudi Arabia of the car, in which there were two German diplomats, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the FRG foreign policy. The incident occurred in the city of Al-Avami.

UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon intends to discuss with members of the Security Council of the World Organization of the statement that Saudi Arabia has supported and finances terrorists operating in Iraq. He stated this at a press conference following negotiations with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Malika, as ITAR-TASS reports. "We discussed this at a meeting with the Prime Minister.

The Norwegian police examined the detainee on the eve of the discharge of the dead fish of the Russian ship Novoazovsk and hopes for the speedy completion of the case. The very next day after the inspection, which the captain got acquainted with the protocol, the ship will be able to return to the fishing guarantee, they say in Rosrybolovstvo. The police of Tromse RIA Novosti said that they are hoping for the speedy completion of all issues related to the Russian trailer Novoazovsk.

“I was interested in this news. I also wanted to help the affected Volgograd residents, I wrote to representatives of the Volgograd Regional Charitable Fund for Social Support of the Population (abbreviated as VOBFSPN) and asked what exactly the donations collected from the population were spent on.

The loud case of fraud, the defendant of which was the former deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture Alexei Bazhanov, collapsed, the newspaper Kommersant found out. According to the publication, before the New Year, Bazhanov and his two accomplices - the former top managers of the Masloproduk holding Roman Malov and Sergey Dudenkova - retrained the case for a softer article, freeing them from the guard under the recognizance not to leave.

Nissan presented a new generation of London taxi, built on the platform of the commercial model NV200, reports 110km.ru . The model was first presented as a new vision of the London taxi in August 2012, but received some comments from the city department of transport and other key organizations. A changed taxi design was developed at the Nissan European Center in London, where Qashqai and Juke models were also created.