According to RIA Novosti, the new director of the Venice Film Festival, Moritz de Hadeln, said that he “bet on Russian cinema.” “Over the past few years, there has been no proper contact between the Russian Ministry of Culture and the management of the Venice Film Festival,” said de Hadeln. “Now this unfortunate misunderstanding will be eliminated.” De Hadeln is a veteran of the festival movement, having directed the Berlin Film Festival for many years.

You can't intimidate the Spartak coach with a bottle The 11th round of the Russian Championship among Premier League teams contained plenty of events. In addition to the first defeat in the championship of the leader, Lokomotiv, two meetings with the participation of the Moscow teams CSKA and Spartak were marked by refereeing scandals. Leader.

The Israeli military remains to decide on the scale of the operation The Middle East spent the past weekend in tense anticipation of a new Israeli military operation, the target of which was to be Palestinian bases in the Gaza Strip. Statements by the Israeli leadership these days emphasized that the planned operation was frozen, and the reservists called up to carry it out would return home.

The former vice president still has to sit and sit Former vice-president of Kyrgyzstan Felix Kulov will spend not seven years in prison, as last year's court decided, but three years more - all ten years. This verdict was handed down on May 8 by the Pervomaisky District Court of Bishkek. The current trial in the case of a famous Kyrgyz politician is already the third in a row. The first court in August 2000 completely acquitted Mr.

The fire could spread to China A state of emergency due to severe forest fires has been declared throughout the Far Eastern Federal District since last week. All regional units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and air forest protection have been sent to fight the fire, which has already engulfed tens of thousands of hectares of forest.

Moscow agreed to help Washington with its “Star Wars” The current visit to the United States by the head of the Ministry of Atomic Energy, Alexander Rumyantsev, has created a sensation of a very serious caliber. Speaking in Washington at a press conference following negotiations with his American counterpart, US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, the Russian “nuclear minister” announced that the parties had reached a fundamentally new agreement in this sensitive area.

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Three people were killed as a result of a shell explosion at a tank training ground near the city of Yurga, Kemerovo region. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the remains of three men who illegally entered the territory of the tank training ground of the 74th separate motorized rifle brigade in a car were discovered on Saturday evening.

New entertainment for the establishment has appeared in Moscow Yesterday the 2002 racing season opened with full stands and lines for tickets at the Central Moscow Hippodrome. The organizers of the races claim that a visit to the hippodrome will soon become one of the most prestigious social events; for this purpose, in particular, the VIP zone for the most respected visitors has already been revived.

The international community is dividing Israelis and Palestinians The Middle East is balancing on the brink of war and peace. On the one hand, all mediators are showing a remarkable will for peace these days. In Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the trio of leaders from Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, having discussed ways to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, strongly condemned the violence.

The cause of a passenger train crash near London last Friday was a faulty switch. The investigation found that the nuts that secure the switch elements to the tracks were not in their places. This was announced by John Armitt, chief executive of the non-state company Railtrack, which owns all the UK's railways. The official promised “not to calm down” until he finds out how and where the ill-fated nuts disappeared.

The beer boom won't end until 2005 Many experts consider the Russian beer market to be one of the fastest growing markets in the world. Moreover, its growth rate is rapidly increasing: if last year it was 20%, then according to the results of the first three months of 2002, an increase of 25% has already been registered. And this is not the limit: a number of analysts believe that at least 2.5-3 years must pass for growth to slow down.

A major accident occurred yesterday at one of the facilities at the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At about 11.20 local time, three of the five floors of the installation and testing building at the 112th site suddenly collapsed. According to preliminary data, this happened just at the moment when a team of eight repairmen was working on the roof of the building, removing debris from the roof.

Jimmy Carter went to visit Fidel Castro Yesterday, former US President Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana for a six-day private visit. This event can rightfully claim historical status - after all, the last US president to visit Cuba of his own free will was Calvin Coolidge, and this happened back in 1928. After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, visits to the “island of freedom” by Americans of this rank became unthinkable.

Deputy Head of the Joint Venture Staff Sergei SHAKHRAI told the Vremya Novostei newspaper about the Accounts Chamber's vision of the system of state financial control. --What are the shortcomings of the current system of state financial control? -- There is no financial control system in Russia now. This is bad. But the good thing is that this problem is recognized.