The film "Garpastum" is coming to the big screen "Garpastum" is certainly not an outstanding film, but it is just as certainly interesting and conscientious. A film made by a man who remembers and is grateful to the films of his childhood and worthily quotes them and builds on them. Another thing is that while Herman Jr.

15% of shares of the state energy monopoly will go to private investors The French government is moving towards partial privatization of the energy monopoly Electricite de France (EDF). This was announced yesterday at a special press conference by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, Finance Minister Thierry Breton and the head of the company itself, Pierre Gadonnet.

Lech Kaczynski became President of Poland “Mr Chairman! I report that the task has been completed,” Lech Kaczynski addressed his brother Jaroslaw, the leader of the center-right conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, after learning the first results of exit polls. They testified to Lech Kaczynski's five percent advantage over his rival, the chairman of the liberal Civic Platform (CP) Donald Tusk.

Ukrainian politicians and experts talk about the results of the privatization of Krivorozhstal Mykola KATERINCHUK, head of the executive committee of the People's Union Our Ukraine: -- The sale of Krivorozhstal is timely and very successful, given the global price situation for such objects. This enterprise needed reconstruction, which the state, given economic problems, could not carry out.

Ben Bernanke will replace Alan Greenspan as US Federal Reserve Chairman Yesterday afternoon, America learned the name of the man who will determine its economic course in the coming years. US President George W. Bush has decided to nominate Ben Bernanke as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve System (FRS), the American television channel CNN reported.

Gazexport is coming to the USA with a “secret weapon” Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, General Director of Gazexport Alexander Medvedev presented the export strategy for entering the US gas market. At the National Press Club in Washington, he spoke about the projects that the gas concern intends to offer to American consumers. According to him, Gazexport has a “secret weapon” with which it intends to conquer the most promising market in the world.

Norway strikes back The Russian trawler "Electron", which refused to obey Norwegian fish inspectors, has followers. On Monday, two more Russian fishing vessels - the trawler "Captain Gorbachev" and the refrigerator "Dmitry Pokramovich" - became involved in a conflict with ships of the Norwegian coast guard. The scandal occurred in the area of ​​Bear Island, which is located south of Spitsbergen, but is legally classified as part of this archipelago.

Forecast for the coming days The North Atlantic cyclone is heading towards the Urals, opening the way to cold northern winds that will drive Arctic air to moderate latitudes, and in the central regions last night the air temperature dropped to +3...-3°C. During the day the temperature will remain the same as at night, +3...-3оС. The colder temperatures will be accompanied by gusty winds and occasional light wet snow.

Cossacks are trying to solve their economic problems through politics The atamans of the All-Great Don Army reminded of themselves the other day with another batch of original initiatives. First, Cossack General Viktor Vodolatsky announced that the Cossacks were preparing a referendum on the unification of the Rostov and Volgograd regions.

Tusk was let down by political correctness The Poles put to shame sociologists who predicted that Donald Tusk would win the second round of the presidential election. Voters voted for Warsaw mayor Lech Kaczynski to win by a more than comfortable margin. Poland is now ruled by twin brothers: Lech and Jaroslaw, who heads the largest party in the Sejm, Law and Justice. There's nothing dramatic about Sunday's choice. Both Kaczynski and Tusk come from the same nest - Solidarity.

The Khabarovsk Territory suffocated in the smoke of forest fires A state of emergency was declared in Khabarovsk yesterday. On Monday morning, the regional center was covered in a thick veil of smoke from fires that were raging in the central and southern regions of the region and in the neighboring Chinese province of Heilongjiang.

Americans didn't have a name for a new destructive hurricane This year, hurricanes of all stripes literally lined up to finally blow away the remaining optimism from self-confident Americans. The impacts of the elements have so tired the inhabitants of the continent that they not only don’t have enough swear words, but they don’t even have letters in the alphabet left to describe what nature has been doing to them in the last few months.

At its meeting, the Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union decided to replay the first division championship match "Dynamo" (Makhachkala) - "Kuban" (Krasnodar). The replay will take place on October 30 at a neutral venue. The exact location of the match has not yet been determined. In its decision, the executive committee relied on a video recording made by the Kuban television company.

The RTS index is again heading towards 1000 The Mittal Steel group's expensive purchase of the Ukrainian Krivorozhstal provoked an increase in stock prices of Russian metallurgical companies yesterday. Analysts believe that this privatization will attract foreign investors into the metallurgical sector of the Russian market. The RTS index rose to 908.57 points (+2.33%), the MICEX index to 820.94 points (+2.88%).

Kamchatka and Koryakia voted for unification In 2007, another, third enlarged federal subject will appear on the map of Russia - the Kamchatka Territory. Yesterday, the preliminary results of the referendum on the unification of the Kamchatka region and the Koryak Autonomous Okrug, held on October 23, became known. As one would expect, no significant failures occurred in the combination carefully prepared by the federal center and local authorities.