The week of Russian cinema will be held in Hong Kong from March 18 to March 25, 2015 as part of the festival of Russian culture, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Kinofest Production Center - the organizer of the event. The ceremony of the opening of the week of Russian cinema and film screenings will be held in the archive of the Hong Kong movie.

The St. Petersburg football club Zenit in its field confidently beat the Italian Torino in the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Europa League. The meeting held on Thursday in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 2: 0. The Belgian midfielder Petitsev Axel Witsel (38 ') opened an account after Igor Smolnikov struck the goalkeeper, and the Italian defender Domenico Krisito (53') doubled him after a shot in the performed by the Brazilian Halk.

The Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Sergey Morozov proposed to ban free abortion services. With his initiative, the head of the region spoke on March 12 at a meeting of the Council on Family and Demographic Policy of the Regional Government. According to Morozov, the abortion trend is poorly reflected in the demographic indicators of the country and regions in particular.

The DPRK leader Kim Jong -un took with him on a service trip to the island of Sindo in the Yellow Sea his younger sister Kim Yo Zhon. In the publication, which was published in the first lane of the central newspaper Nodon Sinmun , the visit to Kim Jong -un of the military unit among the escort of the North Korean leader is mentioned only by his sister, who is currently holding the position of deputy department of the Central Committee of the Korea Labor Party.

The State Duma Committee on Security and Countering Corruption today recommended the lower house of the Russian parliament to adopt in the second and third readings a government bill on the right of prisoners to communicate with priests. “We ask you to adopt a bill in the second and third readings at once,” said Alexander Hinshtein, deputy chairman of the committee, noting that the line of amendments will be supplemented, TASS reports.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg terminated the criminal prosecution against Sergei Gerliman, who was accused of illegally cashing 145 million rubles, stolen in the construction of Zenit-Arena. The decision was made at the request of the lawyer and due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The petition was supported by the state prosecution. At the same time, Gerliman himself pleaded guilty, reports Fontanka .

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against the retired US Army General Robert Skils, who on March 10 on the air of the Fox News television channel stated that the fighting in eastern Ukraine could be stopped if Russian soldiers were killed. This was reported by the press service of the department.

Moscow State University (Moscow State University) named after Lomonosov took 25th place in the Reputation Rankings university reputation rating, which is Times Higher Education. The second Russian university - St. Petersburg State University for the first time entered the hundred best. The list includes 100 universities in the world with the best reputation. More than 10 thousand scientists in 140 countries of the world were interviewed to compile the rating.

The State Hermitage plans in 2018 to open its own satellite center in Moscow in the territory of the former ZIL automobile plant. The agreement on the creation of the Center was signed on Wednesday in St. Petersburg between the museum directorate and the LSR group, which will engage in the development of this territory in Moscow, TASS reports.

In Kaliningrad on Saturday, March 15, the Forum of the World Russian People’s Cathedral (VRNS) will be held, which will be performed by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill.

The American director Richard Glazer, who, in particular, shot the Oscar -winning drama "Still Alice", died at the age of 63, the Russian BBC service reports. The main character of the film is a professor of linguistics suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Glazer himself was also sick with degenerative disease - lateral amyotrophic sclerosis (bass). This is an incurable and slowly progressive disease that affects the central nervous system and leads to paralysis and subsequent muscle atrophy.

Singer Polina Gagarina was chosen by a Russian representative at the anniversary, 60th, music competition "Eurovision 2015", which will be held in Vienna. The first channel officially announced this in the evening issue of news. Producer Gagarina Konstantin Meladze said that the composition of A Million Voices, with whom the singer will speak at the competition, will be a “message of the world”, and the vocalist herself will appear in a romantic image, TASS reports.

To the loud murder of a pair of Irkutsk pensioners - the 87 -year -old veteran of the Great Patriotic War Mikhail Vologda and his wife, who was completely in Irkutsk on March 5 in the house on Zverev Street, was involved in the whole family of their distant relatives - grandmother, mother, daughter, as well as her cohabitant. And as the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee in the region found out, this was far from the first such crime.

In Germany, the International Leipzig Book Exhibition-Fair, which is one of the most prestigious and large views of this kind in the world, began work. She collected more than 2.2 thousand publishers, firms, organizations and departments from almost 40 countries, including from Russia. The fair, the country - the honorary guest of which this year is Indonesia, will last until March 15, TASS reports.

“It’s obvious that sabotage, that is, a crime, has been going on for almost two weeks now. The European Parliament demanded an international investigation into the circumstances of the death of Boris Nemtsov. The US Congress should demand the same. What should happen if the sabotage does not stop? A public commission should be formed, under the patronage of the European Parliament and the US Congress, and expanded to international status."