The painting "Faust" of the Russian director Alexander Sokurov entered the main program of the 68th Venice Film Festival, which will be held from August 31 to September 10. This was reported on July 28 on the official website of the film forum. Faust completes the historical movie tide, which includes Moloch, Taurus and the Sun. The plot of the film is based on the first part of the poetic drama of Goethe Faust.

Nuclear energy will continue to develop throughout the world, despite the crisis at the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant, says IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano. He stated this during a trip to Japan, during which Amano held talks with Prime Minister Naoto Kan and visited the emergency nuclear power plant. “It is absolutely certain that the number of nuclear reactors will grow, although not so quickly.

Alexander Markov The book has recently been published (Becomping Historians / Ed. By Banner James M. Jr., Gillis John R. - Chicago; L.: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. - XVI, 290 p.), Containing the stories of historians, immigrants from colonies or poorly developed countries who received those who received those who received Education during the period of decolonization and continuing to perceive and transmit post -clonial experience at the current respectable age.

The premiere of a documentary in the cinema "Chinese Theater of Grauman" in Los Angeles ended in riots. It is reported on Thursday, July 28, Variety . The film Electric Daisy Carnival Experience talks about the Electronic Daisy Carnival Electronic Music Festival. Shortly before the premiere of the DJ Kaskade, one of the heroes of the film, should be played in front of the cinema.

In the Sverdlovsk region, five more suspects in the attack on residents of the village of Sagra near Yekaterinburg were detained. This is Ruslan Zakirov, Evgeny Bakharev, Ivan Akimov, Vugar Gadyev and Shokhin Zaripov, the website of the Investigative Committee reports. In the near future, investigators plan to charge them and resolve the issue of choosing a preventive measure.

In Makhachkala, the head of the press service of the President of Dagestan Garun Kurbanov was killed, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the city Internal Affairs Directorate. Together with Kurbanov, his driver died. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the incident occurred about 08.15 in Moscow time on Montashev Street. The criminals shot Kurbanov when he left the house and headed for his Toyota Camry car. As a result of the shooting, the driver of Kurbanov also died.

The Norwegian police completed the search for the victims of the terrorist Anders Breivik on the territory of the island of Utoya, where he attacked the youth camp of the ruling working party last week. It is reported by Sky News . Norway law enforcement agencies, however, did not stop the search in coastal waters around the island.

The last days have been marked by the next exacerbation of rhetoric around the Nagorno -Karabakh. This happened shortly after the period of “artificial optimism”, which was actively supported on the eve of the summit organized by Russia in Kazan. The current situation around the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, at first glance, does not look fundamentally different from the state of affairs that existed a year or two ago.

Schoolchildren from Russia took first place in the 10th World Cup, held by National Geographic magazine. The competition was held within the walls of Google Corporation in California, which was a sponsor of the event this year. Canada, who took first place last year, won a silver medal, and schoolchildren from Taiwan - bronze. This was reported by the news feed of the site National Geographic.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to conduct a comprehensive check of the work of investigators of Blagoveshchensk, RIA Novosti reports. He gave such an assignment after law enforcement officers of the Amur Region released the alleged pedophile, and this case received wide lighting in the media.

Seteko CJSC ahead of schedule paid for an “anti -crisis” loan issued under the guarantee of the state by the Bank of VTB in 2009. This week, the company transferred the bank about 870 million rubles. Earlier it was reported that initially the repayment of obligations on this loan was determined for February 2013.

The Rostov-on-Don court fined 1,5 thousand rubles of a local resident who, being drunk, shot from the windows of his apartment from traumatics on passers-by. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition, the court confiscated the criminal with a traumatic gun with caliber nine millimeters and cartridges for him, and also canceled the license for traumatic weapons.

The chairman of the State Duma, Boris Gryzlov, said that under the baptism of the country, the foundations of the spiritual development of society were laid. The speaker said that the memory of the baptism of Rus' is the preservation of the continuity of a thousand -year history. And therefore, in 2010, in accordance with the State Duma adopted by the State Duma, the Baptism Day of Rus' was included in the list of commemorative dates of Russia.

In the first match of the third qualification round of the Europa League, football players of the Vladikavkaz Alania in their field tied with Aktobe with a score of 1: 1. In the course of this meeting, the Russian club had to recoup-in the 11th minute, Alania missed a goal from Malik Mane. An hour after the starting whistle, the Vladikavkazians recouped - the ball into the gate of Aktobe flew after the blow performed by ACAMAZ BURAEV.

One of the rivals of the governor Valentina Matvienko in the municipal elections may be the ex-participant of the TV show "Dom-2" Maria Belousova, reports St. Petersburg.ru . In the village of Aleksandrovskaya near St. Petersburg, where on the eve of the acceptance of applications for participation in the municipal elections began, campaigns with its image have already appeared. Belousova invites residents of the village to jump with a parachute, walking with her in a movie and quit smoking.