Director Alexei German Marina Timasheva: The second international film forum is taking place in St. Petersburg. In his main program - two contests. In parallel with the forum, a school for young filmmakers - Kinoodrod '' Metropollis '' works. Says Tatyana Voltskaya. Tatyana Voltskaya: the St. Petersburg International Film Forum from the first steps tried to declare himself as an event claiming a place among the most prestigious film festivals of the world.

In Egypt, investigators believe that the former speaker of the upper house of parliament, with the overthrown President Hosni Mubaraka, organized an attack on demonstrators on horseback and camels. On February 2, when the protesters gathered in Tahrir Square, supporters of Mubarak wedged into their ranks and camels into their ranks. Investigators studying this episode argue that its organizer was the former speaker of Safvat al-Shrasif.

In Khabarovsk, a 45-year-old woman is judged, who, according to investigators, decided to get rid of her husband with the help of a hired killer. It is reported by "Interfax." The defendant promised her acquaintance 300 thousand rubles for the murder and handed him a gas gun and three thousand rubles to alteration of the pistol in military weapons. The man informed the police about the impending crime. By agreement with operational workers, he told the woman that he had completed her order.

The total number of unemployed in Russia, hoped according to the methodology of the International Labor Organization, has decreased by 1.2 million or more than 20% to 4.6 million people since the beginning of the year, and the unemployment rate from 7.8% to 6.1% of the economically active population, the government deputy prime minister Alexander Zhukov said.

The UN Security Council sharply condemned the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai on Wednesday evening, as a result of which 21 people died, over a hundred - wounded. US President Barack Obama proposed assistance in investigating explosions. Three strong explosions occurred almost simultaneously in busy quarters. No one has taken responsibility for what happened so far.

In Afghanistan, 1,462 civilians were killed in the country for the first 6 months of this year. According to the UN Humanitarian Mission, this is 15 percent more than in the same period in 2010. According to the same data, in 80 percent of cases, the Taliban is responsible for the death of civilians. 14 percent of the total number of victims died as a result of military operations of international forces under the command of NATO.

The US Department of Defense for the first time in history announced strategic plans for cooperation with the governments of the Union states in the field of protecting cybernetic systems from hackers. The Pentagon’s special document, dedicated to this problem, states that Washington will strive for effective international cooperation, which will reflect the joint interests of the allies in the field of cyberspace protecting.

Preparation for the opening of the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival Marina Timasheva: Today we are completing a review of different programs of the Moscow International Film Festival and recall that this year a documentary movie competition has been restored within its framework. About him - Olga Klyachin. Olga Klyachina: 7 paintings were shown in the competitive program of documentary cinema. Many of them are debuts, including the winning film '' to hell and back ''.

Press Conference Hillary Clinton and Sergey Lavrov The visit of the Russian Foreign Minister to Washington ended with the signing of several agreements on July 13. Before the press conference, Lavrov and Clinton signed a bilateral agreement on the adoption of children. The American side, in particular, undertakes to carry out psychological testing of future foster parents and form an adoption only through accredited organizations.

At least 90 percent of the circulation of the magazine "Power" of July 4 was seized in St. Petersburg. About this with reference to the letter and messages received by the newspaper Kommersant. The publication notes that the main theme of the number that was not on sale was the consent of the governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko to the proposal of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to head the Federation Council.

In the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) began an investigation in connection with suspicions of possible attempts by journalists of Corporation Rupert Murdok to take pictures of telephone conversations of victims of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. On Monday, there were reports in the British press that the journalists of News of the World newspaper offered a New York policeman money for receiving telephone conversations of victims of terrorist attacks.

Vladimir Milov Anna Kachkaeva: Today we have three topics, all relevant, they are connected with the quintessence of collective indifference and irresponsibility - the drama on the Volga that occurred with Bulgaria. Now there are already reports on the ribbons that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin laid flowers to the memorial to the Bulgaria who died as a result of the crash of the ship. That is, he arrived in Kazan and went to the river port.

The international (gold and foreign exchange) reserves of Russia for the period from July 1 to 8 decreased by $ 600 million or by about 0.1% to $ 526.1 billion, the Central Bank said. Great than Russia with gold and foreign exchange reserves today have two countries in the world - China and Japan. Today, their volume is more than 3 trillion and 1.1 trillion dollars, respectively.