The Museum of Sigmund Freud in Vienna can be closed, RIA-News reports. Closing is due to the fact that the museum needs repairs, the funds for which the Austrian government has not yet allocated. The director of the Museum Inge Sholz-Strasser shared anxiety with the press. In 2006, the 150th anniversary of Freud’s birthday will be celebrated around the world, and until that time the museum should have been repaired, says Scholz-Strasser.

Today in Moscow a festival - a panorama of documentary cinema countries of the European Union. 39 films from 23 countries of the European Union will take part in it. "The authors of the films included in the panorama of European documentaries are considering documentary cinema, unconditionally, as art. They make the so -called Creative Documentaries," creative documentary ", for which the image created by texture is more significant and more reliable than the very texture.

In the course of interethnic clashes in the south-west of Iran, about 200 people were arrested, Gazeta.Ru reports. This was announced by the Minister of Intelligence Ali Yunes. In his words, in the brawls between the Arabs and the Persians in the province of Khuzestan, one person died. The crowd burned police cars, banks and state institutions.

If Putin is allowed to take the post of chairman of the “big eight”, then there is a risk that trust will be blown up by both G8 and the Bush administration, which promised to promote the development of democracy in the world, the American journal Newsweek writes today According to the publication, Russia does not move along with the G8 towards society, more open in political and economic terms. Putin appropriated almost absolute control over politics in his huge country.

The fundamental issue that will decisively determine the future of Russia is the struggle for the rule of law Russians have no reason to be naively credulous about the policies of the ruling class. The collapse of the Russian Empire, the collapse of the USSR and the deep troubles of post-Soviet Russia objectively indicate the extremely low quality of strategic national government, which is completely natural given the current level of corruption in government structures.

In the elections in the 75-seater parliament of the Basque country, the ruling moderate nationalist Basque party won, RIA Novosti reports. The party will be represented by 29 deputies. In the parliament of the previous composition, the party had 33 deputy places. The NBP advocates a greater autonomy for the Basque Country, but fights for this purely political means, condemning this terrorists.

Unknown attackers robbed the apartment of the former acting director. Prosecutor General of Russia, and now deputy head of the property department of the Moscow government, Alexei Ilyushenko, reports Newspaper .Ru with reference to Interfax. Ilyushenko contacted the police and said that he had been absent from home for about a day. During this time, the criminals entered his apartment, located at 1 Alexander Nevsky Street, and took away valuables worth a significant amount.

A scandal around the appointment of the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs in the North-Western Federal District is unfolding. REGNUM.RU reports that the member of the Security Committee on the State Duma of the Russian Federation Nikolai Kuryanovich (LDPR faction) sent a request to the General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov regarding the probable appointment of Colonel Vyacheslav Krasavin to this post.

On Monday, the Chisinau district court extended the detention of the adviser to the head of the RAO UES of Russia Valeria Pasat for another 25 days, RIA Novosti reports. According to the representative of the Prosecutor General of the Moldova, Ruslan Tom, this period will be enough to end the investigative actions on charges of the ex-director of the information and security service, the former Minister of Defense of Moldova of the theft of State Property in especially large sizes.

The Russian government allowed the Ministry of Defense to use military complexes and the personnel of military units to launch foreign satellites from the Baikonur cosmodrome. According to Gazeta.Ru, the relevant orders, Signed Mikhail Fradkov. In particular, permission was given for launching the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle by the American telecommunications satellite Galaxy-14, as well as to launch MiaSat-3 and ANIK F1R satellites on Proton-M.

April 18, Monday - in the club "Pies on Nikolskaya" as part of the Book Cycle at 19:00, Oleg Zayonchkovsky will begin. April 19, Tuesday - in the theater "School of Dramatic Art" will be shows for two video records of performances of the famous French director Patris Sherro - "another loneliness" and "Fedra". Start at 18:00 April 20, Wednesday - in the bookstore of the Bilingua club, the literary and artistic magazine "Youth", the collections "Prologue" and "New Writers" will be presented.

In Bishkek on Monday, a few rally took place with a demand for the resignation of the speaker of the parliament of Omurbek Teebaev, reports Gazeta.ru . The audience opposed the negotiations of the new authorities of the country with former President Askar Akayev and against the participation of his two children in the work of the parliament, whose deputies they became as a result of recent elections.

Before the Conclave, which will begin today, the Italian bookmakers decided to earn money on the voting of the cardinals and began to actively call the audience to bet on candidates claiming the post of head of the Holy See, RIA Novosti reports.

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines prohibited the transportation of lighters on flights in the United States, Aeroflot press service said on Monday. According to a common message, this decision was made after the US authorities in order to strengthen measures aimed at ensuring flight safety, from April 14, 2005, they introduced a ban on the transport of lighters on all flights heading to this country.

Elena Smolina This "nickname" was expected. The intrigues around the battles in the Union of Cinematographers are interesting even to those who are not interested in cinema in principle. Reporting from the meetings of the Union is increasingly reminiscent of inclusions from the State Duma: filmmakers do not hide each other for the hair, but bad words are already used by the opponents and actively recruit supporters from the camp of the enemy camp.