The producers of the film "Hotel" Grand Budapest "sent a congratulatory telegram to the staff of the State Academic Russian People's Ensemble" Russia "Lyudmila Zykina. So the creators of the tape thanked the ensemble for participation in the recording of the soundtrack, which was recognized by the American film Academy for 2014, the Russian News Service reported with reference to Producer of the musical team Elena Klimova.

The Victory Airline, created by Aeroflot at the end of last year, instead of the Dobroleta EU sanctions? He will not fly to Crimea. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, said the general director of Aeroflot Vitaly Savelyev. “No,“ Aeroflot will not fly to the Crimea in Crimea, ”Savelyev told reporters on the sidelines of the Ministry of Transport on Wednesday, answering the question of whether the“ victory ”will make such flights in the spring -summer schedule.

The other day, the Naro-Fominsky garrison military court sentenced the 27-year-old native of Kamensk-Uralsky Anatoly Radkov. He was found guilty of the murder of an ordinary who disappeared without a trace and was declared a deserter. By a court decision, Radkov will spend 10 years in a maximum security penal colony. In addition, he will pay 500 thousand rubles to the father of the deceased soldier, writes the Moscow Komsomolets .

The head coach of the Russian national football team Fabio Capello, in an interview with representatives of the leading media, said that the national team should have a friendly meeting with the current world champion - the German team. At the same time, an Italian specialist noted that the date of the meeting has not yet been determined.

The Council for the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of St. Petersburg on Tuesday declared unacceptable the adaptation of the unique architectural complex of the 18th-19th centuries, the Stable Department, with imperial stables and an arena next to the Champs of Mars, into elite residential apartments. However, the revision of the scandalous project is hampered by permits previously issued by Smolny for its implementation. Kommersant writes about this.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree on the appointment of early presidential elections on April 26, 2015. He stated this in the official appeal to the citizens of Kazakhstan, published on the website of the administration of the Kazakh chapter.

Moscow calls on the organization on security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) urgently give instructions for a special mission in Ukraine to monitor the withdrawal of heavy weapons in the Donbass. This was stated on Wednesday by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with the head of the Senate of France Gerard Larsche, TASS reports. “We discussed the role of the OSCE in Paris.

The head of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol, Sergei Walter, for two years as suspended from the performance of the mayor's duties in connection with criminal prosecution, was found dead in a loop in his own house on the morning of February 25 - a couple of hours before the start of the next criminal case against him about corruption and organizing a criminal group, UNIAN reports.

Residents of the Perm Territory decided to perpetuate the name of the current Russian President Vladimir Putin by renaming the city of Krasnokamsk to Putin. The relevant application was registered on the website of Russian public initiatives. At the same time, the authors of the initiative indicate that they intend to achieve not only the preservation of the memory of the head of state, "which did a lot for the country and for the city in particular," but also to solve their own interests.

The Committee on Religions of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Kazakhstan expressed concern that students of secondary schools of the Kyzylorda region (in the south of the republic) miss the lessons on Fridays due to the fact that they go to the mosque to Juma-Namaz-Friday prayer.

In the Tagan court of Moscow, the first hearing was held on the claim of the niece of the People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Zykina, who died in 2009, Ekaterina Zykina to her brother due to the jewelry of their famous aunt. According to the plaintiff, her brother Sergei Zykin put up the singer’s diamonds for sale, and took all the revenue to himself. In this regard, the applicant filed a lawsuit in court to recover part of the money from jewelry sold from a hammer, RIA Novosti .

At the invitation of State Duma deputies, a delegation of representatives of the Shiite movement "Ansarulla" and the friendly political parties, together who had seized power in Yemen, recognized Moscow, recognized the newspaper "Kommersant" .

The 30-year-old citizen of Russia Vera Kusakova died under an avalanche in the Ak-Suysky district of the Issyk-Kul region located in the northeast of Kyrgyzstan. This happened on February 25 near the village of Zhyrgalan.

Sochi residents continue to summarize last year's Olympics. Among them is an incomplete and now abandoned construction with several high -rise buildings at the picturesque lakes near the village of Razdolnoye, which is part of the city district of Sochi. These artificial lakes were created for watering greenhouses in the Khostinsky district in 1973.

Moscow can excommunicate Ukraine from Russian gas. Russian President Vladimir Putin denied the information of the Ukrainian company Naftogaz about Moscow violations of a gas contract concluded with Kiev, and indicated that if Ukraine does not transfer Gazprom an advance payment, then it should not wait for any supplies. Putin pointed out that Russia had previously put a full amount of gas to Ukraine as part of an advance payment.