BEIJING Dames Air Force 1 Hoog Rood Kopen , April 20 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing 5th Beijing International Film Festival has generated over 13.8 billion yuan (about 2.2 billion U.S. dollars) in contracts.
The figure is a 32 percent increase year on year, and is more than any other film festival in Asia, according to the organizing committee.
On Monday, a ceremony was held for 36 major projects, including creation, production Air Force 1 Laag Heren Zwart Wit Kopen , release and marketing, the committee said.
The projects included an animated film, "Beast of Burden", which will be co-produced by China Film Animation Ltd. and New Zealand-based Huhu Studios. It is an adventure story about how thoriphants, animals living an arduous life under oppressive masters, find love and learn to walk upright.
Chairman Trevor Yaxley of Huhu Studios said both production teams believe this story could bring joy and tears to the global audience.
In the first four annual festivals Air Force 1 Laag Wit Rood Kopen , 80 projects were signed with a total transactions of more than 27 billion yuan.
The festival will run until April 23.
From a Western perspective, Vladimir Putin's days as president of Russia should be numbered: The ruble has lost more than half its value, the economy is in crisis and his aggression in Ukraine has turned the country into an international pariah.
And yet most Russians see Putin not as the cause, but as the solution.
The situation as seen from a Russian point of view is starkly different from that painted in the West, and it is driven largely by state television's carefully constructed version of reality and the Kremlin's methodical dismantling of every credible political alternative.
As Putin prepares to face his public in a much-anticipated televised news conference, an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Thursday found that about 80 percent of Russians still support him.
But it also showed that confidence in the economy is slipping. This is particularly true in Moscow Heren Air Force 1 07 Laag Goud Wit Kopen , where people have become accustomed to imported goods and foreign travel, now once again off-limits for many because of the fall of the ruble and Western sanctions over Ukraine.
The poll was conducted between Nov. 22 and Dec. 7, when the ruble was steadily declining. But this week's catastrophic collapse is likely to have a much greater effect on consumer prices and the standard of living.
For Putin, the question is whether he will be able to convince Russians to tighten their belts, and not just for a few months but possibly for years to come.
"The Russian people have a sense that they are under sanctions, they are a fortress under siege Dames Air Force 1 Laag Grijs Wit Kopen ," said Maria Lipman, an independent analyst. "This kind of mentality is disseminated consistently and steadily by Russian television: Who else is there to rely on except Putin? Putin is seen as the savior of the nation, and I think he sees himself in this fashion."
Putin will address his countrymen's concerns over the course of three or four hours at Thursday's news conference. He seems all but certain to send the message that he is in charge and all is fine.
An advertisement for the news conference running on state television shows Putin surrounded by Sochi Olympic athletes, petting a baby tiger and greeting cosmonauts. "We are absolutely capable of doing everything ourselves," he promises the audience.
How Russians view Putin is associated with how they get their news, the poll showed. Those who identified state television as their main source of news are more likely to approve of Putin (84 percent) than those who have other sources (73 percent) Heren Air Force 1 Laag Groen Kopen , while those who tune into the news often also have a more favorable opinion of him.
After becoming president in 2000, Putin benefited from high prices for oil, the mainstay of Russia's economy. In the past decade, Russians saw their living standards rise faster than at any other point in modern history, transforming many average citizens into car owners and globe-trotters for the first time ever.
The suppression of opposition politicians and independent media, widely criticized by outside observers Heren Air Force 1 Laag Grijs Kopen , was tacitly accepted by many as a compromise worth making for economic stability after the roller coaster years of the 1990s.
"I very much support Putin — who else is there to support?" said Valentina Roshupkina, a 79-year-old resident of Gryaz, a town several hours' drive south of Moscow. "The country is moving in the right direction, I believe, because he lifted up the army, he made the government stronger. People started to be a little bit afraid of us."
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Poll respondents were asked whether they would be willing to speak with an AP reporter, and Roshupkina was among the many who agreed.
With the Russian economy buffeted by Western sanctions and the fall in oil prices, Putin has relied even more on his image as a tough leader capable of standing up to the West. He appears to be betting that this will help him weather the economic storm.
So far he's been right: The presidency and the military are the country's most trusted institutions Dames Air Force 1 Hoog Blauw Kopen , according to the poll, with three out of four Russians saying they trust the presidency and two out of three expressing faith in the military.
"We've revived the army and that's very important," said Ivan Savenko, a 50-year-old driver in the southern city of Stavropol who also took part in the poll. "For us, the most important thing is the army and then everything else. It's important for us that our country is a power. If we are not a power, we do not exist."
Of those surveyed Heren Air Force 1 Laag Blauw Kopen , 81 percent said they strongly or somewhat approve of the way Putin is handling his job, a dramatic increase of more than 20 percentage points from an AP-GfK poll conducted in 2012.
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