The film by Alexei German Jr. Garpasto became the winner of the international competition of the 10th Sofia Film Festival "Sofia-Film Fest". He won a large prize "Stella Artois" (Stella Artois). The competition was attended by 13 films of the guide directors. The second prize was awarded to the Bosnian comedy “Heaven over the landscape”. The chairman of the international jury of the film festival was Russian film critic Andrei Plakhov.

In the Chechen city of Argun, on Monday, as a result of undermining the armored personnel carrier, accompanying the military column, two troops were killed. Four people were injured - the Radio Liberty correspondent reports. On the outskirts of the village of Shali on Monday morning, two military personnel who conducted sapper reconnaissance were blown up on a mine in the morning. With severe wounds, they were taken to the hospital.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The correspondent of Radio Liberty in Chelyabinsk Alexander Valiev takes part. Kirill Kobrin: Colonel General Alexei Maslov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, claims that there were no publishers from old-timers regarding ordinary Andrei Sychev. Maslov said this in an interview with the television program "Vesti Week", which was aired on Sunday evening.

The “Best Premier in the World” came to the court and Moscow (in the picture of Berlusconi with the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Igor Ivanov) On the stage of the Congress of Italian Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, who passed in Milan, lame and holding onto his back, unexpectedly a short man came out for the audience. It was Silvio Berlusconi, who specially flew here from Rome by helicopter.

In Madrid, a protest was manifested in connection with the third anniversary of the beginning of the anti -terrorist operation in Iraq, Viktor Cheretsky reports from Madrid. In the manifestation of 30 left and pacifist organizations, up to four thousand people took part in the initiative of 30 left and pacifist organizations.

In Cannes (France) ended the rally of the female volleyball Euroleague. In the decisive match, the local club "Cann" lost to the Italian "Peruga" - 1: 3. The third place was taken by another team from Italy - Bergamo, the winner of the previous Euroleague draw. She defeated the Turkish "Wakifbank" from Istanbul - 3: 0.

The public organization "Open Russia" stops financing all its programs and projects. On Monday, the lawyers of Open Russia received an official decision to arrest all its accounts in court - as part of the enforcement proceedings in the criminal case against Yukos. Open Russia was founded in 2001 and carries out projects in social, scientific, cultural and other areas. One of the creators of the Fund was the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

In Minsk, an opposition rally of opposition was held against the stamped, in her opinion, the results of the elections of the President of Belarus. Opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich called for new elections. According to the Radio Liberty correspondent, the manifestation was peacefully, there were no clashes with law enforcement agencies. The leaders of the opposition called on to hold new protests on Monday.

Directors - Pavel Labazov and Andrey Silvestrov The term “parallel cinema”, which arose in the distant 1920-30s, was successfully resuscled on Russian soil in the mid-80s. Parallel means: experimental-and such directors such as Evgeny Yufit and Peter Pospelov succeeded in this field. It is impossible not to mention the legendary ideologists of the “parallel cinema” of the brothers Gleb and Igor Aleinikov, publishers of the independent film magazine “Sine-Fanta”.

During the campaign, criminal cases for political reasons were instituted against 21 activists of the democratic movement Today, Alexander Lukashenko, announced by the Central Election Commission of the newly elected President of Belarus, gave a press conference for Belarusian and foreign journalists.

In the Chelyabinsk region, a soldier Ruslan Bulatov, who shot a colleague, was detained. The murder occurred the day before in the closed city of Trekhgornaya. The search for an armed soldier continued all night. Bulatov - the eldest son from a large family - was drafted into the army in Chelyabinsk last year.

Mikhail Sokolov: We are talking about elections in Belarus today. Together with me in the Moscow Studio Radio Liberty: a guest who came from Minsk, a deputy of the State Duma of Russia Vladimir Gruzdev, a representative of the United Russia faction, on the phone with us from Minsk will be the leader of the Union of Right Forces Nikita Belykh and the head of the Foundation for New Belarus, former Minister of Agriculture of Belarus Vasily Leonov will also join us.

The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow Marina Katys takes part. Kirill Kobrin: In Moscow, the first stage of the city operation "Provice-2006" ended.

President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, was declared the winner at the head of state, who passed on Sunday. According to preliminary data from the Central Election Commission of Belarus, Lukashenko scored over 82 percent of the vote, and 6 percent of the candidate of united opposition Alexander Milinkevich. The opposition will declare that the results are tapped. According to her estimates, Lukashenko has about 47 percent, Milinkevich has over 30.

The program is conducted by Oleg Vinokurov. The Radio Liberty correspondent Danila Halperovich takes part. Oleg Vinokurov: Our correspondent Danila Halperovich watched the election of the Belarusian president, and now he is on our air. We often talk about the elections on Mondays, but usually we are talking about preliminary results. As I understand it, now the situation is different, the results are already final, right? Danila Halperovich: Yes, absolutely true.