The Fellowship of the Ring's journey comes to an end The final part of Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the film "The Return of the King", whose worldwide box office receipts have already exceeded half a billion dollars, has made another leap towards Oscar triumph, which none of the analysts seems to doubt. It was awarded the prestigious American Film Critics' Choice Award in four categories, including best film of the year.

An exhibition of Nikita Alekseev opened at Gallery XL In the painful discrepancy between the Gregorian and Julian calendars, fine art survives with difficulty - the physical existence of artists leaves very little opportunity for creative exploits. That’s why there are very few exhibitions. And good things are not expected from them - only illustrations of how hard it is to live in this world. As it turned out, it was completely in vain.

The Italian energy concern Eni, the Spanish and Saudi state-owned company Saudi Aramco signed a contract for the exploration and production of gas in block C in the gas-bearing province of Rub al-Khali in Saudi Arabia. According to the Eni press service, all work within the project will be carried out by a consortium in which the Italian concern - the operator of the work - will own 50%, Repsol - 30% and Saudi Aramco - 20%.

European central banks agreed to increase gold sales Fifteen European central banks agreed on Monday to increase the amount of gold sold annually on the open market from 400 to 500 tons. And yesterday, Barclays Capital experts said that gold prices have already reached their maximum and in the medium term may drop to $350 per troy ounce.

The weapons of the Primorye security forces flew through a hole in the ceiling Yesterday it became known about a large theft of weapons in one of the military units of Vladivostok. 17 machine guns, 61 Kalashnikov assault rifles and an SVD sniper rifle disappeared from the warehouse where service small arms belonging to the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are stored.

Vladimir Putin legalized the “shadow” government Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin made the most of the administrative resource available to him.

Ulyana Lopatkina danced "Swan Lake" A neat corps de ballet, a deftly spinning jester (Andrei Ivanov), a solid pas de trois - this is how they danced at the Mariinsky Theater fifty years ago, and fifty years later they will dance this way. “Swan Lake”, edited by Konstantin Sergeev, is measured, a little boring.

Voronezh Aircraft Plant sold two aircraft Krasnoyarsk Airlines (KrasAir) will today enter into a leasing agreement for the purchase of two Il-96-300 passenger airliners. The supplier of the aircraft will be the Voronezh Joint-Stock Aircraft Company (VASO), a plant that mass-produces these long-haul aircraft. The financing of the transaction was undertaken by the leasing company Ilyushin-finance (IFK).

Of all the candidate museums vying to host the collection of Easter gifts from the imperial family by Carl Faberge, recently purchased in the United States by Russian entrepreneur Viktor Vekselberg, the Kremlin is closer to the goal. As you would expect. Director of the Moscow Kremlin State Museum Elena Gagarina said that on May 18 the collection will be exhibited in the museum under her jurisdiction.

The main heroine of the World Indoor Athletics Championships that ended in Budapest was the Russian jumper Tatyana Lebedeva. Journalists called her sensational performance “an ordinary miracle.” Lebedeva not only won two golds in the long jump and triple jump, but also improved the world record twice.

Deputy Director of Severstaltrans became Minister of Transport and Communications Yesterday, President Vladimir Putin shocked the entire transport community of Russia and especially the staff of Severstaltrans JSC, by appointing the deputy general director of this company, Igor Levitin, as Minister of Transport and Communications. At the CJSC, Mr.

Watch from March 11 on Moscow screens “29 Palms” (France, 2003, Bruno Dumont). It seems like a couple in love (Ekaterina Golubeva, remembered by film buffs for Leos Carax’s “Field X,” and David Wissack, hardly memorable for his role as Mr. Zed in Kashman Kushan’s film “Surviving in Paradise”) drives through the Californian desert, almost without speaking at all for a while from time to time trying to have sex.

Forecast for the coming days In the central regions of European Russia, the anticyclone maintains high atmospheric pressure, the weather has become spring-like, sunny and with a large daily variation in temperature: at night the air is frozen, and during the day the temperature rises to positive values. In the next 24 hours, one fine anticyclone will move to more southern regions, and a new one, originating over Scandinavia, is already in a hurry to replace it.

The Russian team won the Winter World Athletics Championships The World Indoor Athletics Championships, which took place in Budapest, ended with a convincing victory for the Russian team in the team event. Our athletes won eight gold, six silver and five bronze medals. Russian women have set three world records.

The old personnel remain in the Ministry of Industry and Energy, and the new ones remain in the Ministry of Natural Resources The energy bloc in the new government is represented by two ministries - the Ministry of Industry and Energy and the separate Ministry of Natural Resources, which German Gref had plans for.