CLT-Ufa, part-owned by Bertelsmann, and Kirch, the German media mogul, on the grounds that this would lead to too few players in the German pay-television business.
Industry figures such as Wolf Bauer, head of Ufa, Germany's largest film and television production company, believe film makers have finally stepped out of the shadows left by the directors of the late 1960s.
The UNESCO Moscow Office has initiated a high level round table "Creation of the system of open and universal access to public information in Bashkortostan" in Ufa, the capital of the Republic, 26 - 27th October 2006.