The premiere screening of Andrzej Wajda’s new film “Katyn” took place in Moscow. Wajda’s new film has not yet been released in Russia, and it is unknown whether it will be released at all. And yet, his two shows, held in Moscow, became a tangible event. “Katyn” is Andrzej Wajda’s first “serious” film in the last eight years. The director has been preparing for it since the late 80s.

Georgian airlines quarreled over Russia Russia and Georgia have taken a step towards each other - direct flights, interrupted on October 3, 2006, are being resumed on March 25 (see Vremya Novostei, March 12) . Two of the airlines that will operate on this line - Russia's S7 and Georgia's Airzena Georgian Airways - yesterday began selling tickets for future flights.

BP and TNK-BP came to the attention of the Federal Security Service FSB officers yesterday made mysterious visits to the offices of TNK-BP and the Moscow representative office of BP, company representatives said. The purpose of the visits is not reported. However, market sources do not rule out that such events may be associated with a new serious step towards the redistribution of property in large companies.

George Bush celebrated the Iraq Five-Year Plan Today marks five years since the US-led coalition invaded Iraq . Yesterday, President George W. Bush gave a 25-minute speech at the Pentagon to US military leaders, Iraq war veterans and foreign diplomats. The Iraqi Ambassador to Washington was among the guests of honor at the celebrations.

A plan to save an architectural masterpiece was presented in Moscow Prepared by the real estate agency MIAN, the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, the PR agency marka:ff, and the design firm Ostengruppe, the exhibition “Narkomfin House and its significance” is a good example of how not to make exhibitions on the topic of architecture in general, and avant-garde architecture in particular. But the intentions were good.

Atlantic cyclones do not leave European territory alone. For two days, the northwest and center of European Russia will be under the influence of the atmospheric fronts of the cyclone, which is heading to the northeast. By drawing cold air from the north into its circulation, it will lower the temperature in most of the European territory of Russia.

On the first day of the swimming competitions in the European Aquatics Championships program, four sets of awards were played out. The hosts of the tournament in Eindhoven, Dutch swimmers, set a new world record in the 4x100m freestyle relay. Inge Dekker, Ranomi Kromowidzhozho, Femke Heemskerk, Marlene Feldhus jointly dropped 1.60 seconds from the previous achievement of the German national team, dated July 2006, showing a result of 3:33.62.

Singapore Airlines launched a flight Singapore-Moscow-Houston Singapore Airlines today increases the frequency of flights to Moscow and opens a non-stop flight Moscow-Houston (USA). Yesterday the first Boeing 777-300ER aircraft took off along this route from Singapore; today it will land in Moscow, and tomorrow it will arrive in Houston and fly back.

Shareholders of Yuzhkuzbassugol and Raspadskaya refused to merge Evraz Group shareholders refused negotiations on the merger of its 100% subsidiary Yuzhkuzbassugol CJSC and the Raspadskaya coal company, which is 40% owned by the group. The shareholders of both companies felt that they could work separately, however, according to analysts, they simply did not agree on the price.

At the fifty-fifth year of his life, the head of the British Film Institute, the famous film director, screenwriter and producer Anthony Minghella, died in London. Coming from a family of famous Italian ice cream factory owners (there were two other brothers in the family), Minghella began as a playwright, winning the London Drama Critics' Award for Most Promising Author in 1984, and his play Made in Bangkok was awarded in 1986. .

The Prime Minister resigned for the sake of “new people” At the end of yesterday's government meeting, Moldovan Prime Minister Vasily Tarlev announced that he was resigning: “We have done a lot, but we need to give new people the opportunity to work for the good of the country.” His intention to make way for “new people” was not news to President Vladimir Voronin, who had arrived at the Government House by that time.

Low rates on deposits and high rates on loans have alienated clients of financial institutions Having learned the truth about the activities of banks, Russians began to use their services less often . This conclusion can be reached by reading the results of the study “Investment behavior of the population and the impact of the deposit insurance system on it in 2007” prepared by VTsIOM and the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA).

Sergei Ivanov promised a brilliant future for Russian nanotechnology Yesterday, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov spoke about the upcoming nanotechnological blossoming in the Russian economy , speaking during the government hour at a meeting of the Federation Council. In his speech, he reminded the senators that from April 1 (a symbolic date), the state nanotechnology corporation (Rosnanotech) created last year will begin considering investment projects.

The court did not believe the testimony of volunteer tax assistants in the fight against illegal wages The identification by tax authorities of “gray” salaries through voluntary witnesses from among former employees of companies in arbitration proceedings between enterprises and fiscal authorities is increasingly being recognized as illegal.

Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov were among the winners Russian figure skaters Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov won small bronze medals at the World Championships in Sweden . Starting this season, the leadership of the International Skating Union (ISU) decided to reward athletes not only based on performance results, but also after a short program. This practice was first tested at the recent European Championships in Zagreb and was continued at the current world championship.