At the December Congress of filmmakers, recognized as illegitimate, 5 million rubles were spent from the funds of the Union, Nikita Mikhalkov said at an extraordinary congress of the Cinematographers Union. According to him, the main achievement of his team at the head of the Union over the past 11 years is that "we have preserved, held our union as a holistic organization." As Mikhalkov noted, the UK for today is one of the two remaining creative unions in the country.

President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge admitted that he loves rugby very much, but this fact will not help in any way to introduce this sport into the program of the Summer Games, reports Sport -Express . Rogge competed in sailing at three Olympics, but also played for the Belgian rugby team. Sailing has never brought me as much pleasure as rugby,” Rogge said. - And my love for this game is still strong.

The candidate from the United Russia party Tatyana Evsikova was elected to the post of mayor of Anapa. She gained 93.3% of the vote, said the chairman of the Anapa Territorial Election Commission Sergey Starostin, this is final data. Evsikova, a former vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory, who in recent months has been the duties of the head of the resort city, Vesti.ru reported.

“In order to understand the overall picture of the information war unleashed against us, we turned to specialists, and this is what they answered us:“ At the request of the customer, we conducted an analysis of publications in the capital's newspapers and online publications, which allows us to talk about the fact of a pre-planned information war.

US President Barack Obama is the highest paid president on the planet. Its salary is approximately 292 thousand euros, which makes it the highest paid of the leaders of states or governments in the world, writes the British newspaper Financial Times. According to the publication, the annual income of the head of the Irish cabinet is 257 thousand euros, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy - 240 thousand, and the Chancellor of Germany Angels Merkel - 228 thousand euros.

On March 30, in Moscow, in the Gostiny Dvor, an extraordinary congress of Russian filmmakers opens an extraordinary Russian. Earlier, Izvestia published several replicas of filmmakers about the congress, now - people from the outside . Viceroy of the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov): I am very bitter - on both sides of the barricades were worthy and talented people. But the main question, in my opinion, is that there is such a figure as Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government, Alexander Zhukov, said that the peak of unemployment in Russia has passed. He stated this to reporters in Nizhny Novgorod on Monday, Vesti reports. “The peak of unemployment has passed,” Zhukov said. He noted that recently, the flow of people who have left for work is declining. At the same time, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that about 80% of the officially registered unemployed find a new place of work.

According to official figures for February this year, industrial production in Japan fell by 9.45%, so the country's industry does not demonstrate growth for a fifth consecutive month. However, the February data has slightly improved compared to January, when a record reduction in production at 10.2%was recorded. Japan has become one of the countries that most affected by the global financial crisis, BBC reports.

Andrey Kalikh On March 18, 2009, it could be a breakthrough date in the peaceful settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. On this day, the presidents of the Russian Federation, Moldova and Transnistria signed a statement, according to which Russia was no more, no less - refused its monopoly on a peacekeeping operation, which has lasted almost 20 years. This operation should, according to the statement, go to the international format - under the auspices of the OSCE.

March 18, 2009 could be the date of a breakthrough in the peaceful settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. On this day, the presidents of the Russian Federation, Moldova and Transnistria signed a statement according to which Russia, no more, no less, renounced its monopoly on the peacekeeping operation, which had lasted for the last almost 20 years. This operation should, according to the statement, move to an international format - under the auspices of the OSCE.

Russian politician and entrepreneur Alexander Lebedev announced his intention to sue Forbes magazine for publication, which states that in the course of the crisis, Lebedev lost 2.5 billion dollars, reports Lenta.ru With reference to Interfax. The businessman called this statement “complete nonsense” and stated that the “fabrications” of the media defeated his reputation. Recall, Alexander Lebedev, claims to be the mayor of Sochi. See also: Poor billionaires

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation withdrew licenses from two banks: LLC NPK-Bank KB and OJSC OJSC Federal Investment Bank (FIB). According to the Bank of Russia, license from banks have been recalled in connection with the failure to fulfill federal laws regulating banking activities and regulatory acts of the Bank of Russia.

In Dubai, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, an attempt was made on a native of Chechnya. Dubai police reported that on Saturday, on March 28, a certain 36-year-old Suleiman Madov was killed, in a parking lot near the house where he lived. However, later it turned out that it was the ex-commander of the Vostok special battalion, the Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, the brother of the ex-deputy of the State Duma Ruslan Yamadayev, who was killed last fall in the center of Moscow.

The Pakistani security forces are fighting with militants who captured the building of the police academy in a suburb of Lahore. According to updated data, at least 40 people died, 80 were injured, BBC reports. Earlier, representatives of the Pakistan authorities spoke of 11 dead and dozens of wounded. Fire near the Academy has not subsided for seven hours. It is assumed that from the building is still from 30 to 40 people.

The Canadian research company Information Warfare Monitor announced the discovery of a spy computer network belonging to China in the computers of official institutions of most countries of the world. A network called Ghostnet covers 1295 computers in 103 countries and is intended to collect information from computers of political parties, official institutions and major companies, RBC reports.