Moscow authorities want to replace criminal action films, which are currently pervading Russian TV channels, with screen versions of literary classics.

      The programme of creating domestic television films for 2008 - 2010 will be worked up in the first half of this year.
      
      In the recent six years TV channels have broadcasted 55 feature and 12 documentary films and series produced at 35 Moscow film studios owing to the financing from Moscow budget.
      
      The year 2006 saw the completion of the TV film Besy (The Possessed) after the same name novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Obryv (The Precipice) after Ivan Goncharov's novel, Yunkera (Cadets) after Aleksander Kuprin's novel, and Sobytie (The Event) after Vladimir Nabokov's works, as well as biographical films about Mikhail Lermontov and Anton Chekhov.
      
      Presently specialists are working on TV films based on the prose works of Yury Trifonov and Chinghiz Aitmatov, and biographical films about Savva Mamontov, Anna Akhmatova and other celebrities.
      
      Source: izvestia.ru