Russian Oscar committee has announced the list of fourteen films that can be nominated for the Oscar award in the category "The best film in a foreign language". The long-list includes all the noted film projects of the year, from The 9th Company by Fyodor Bondarchuk to The Island by Pavel Lungin.
      
      The long-list of the films competing for the Russian nomination is as follows:
      
      1. 9-ya rota/The 9th Company (2005) by Fyodor Bondarchuk
      2. 977 (2006) by Nikolay Khomeriki
      3. Dnevnoy dozor/Day Watch (2006) by Timur Bekmambetov
      4. Zhivoi/Alive! (2006) by Aleksandr Veledinsky
      5. Izobrazhaya zhertvu/Playing the Victim (2006) by Kirill Serebrennikov
      6. Mne ne bolno / It Doesn't Hurt (2006) by Aleksei Balabanov
      7. Mnogotochie/Ellipsis by Andrei Eshpaj
      8. Ostrov/ The Island Pavel Lungin
      9. Peregon / Transit (2006) by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
      10. Piter FM (2006) by Oksana Bychkova
      11. Svobodnoe Plavanie/Free Floating by Boris Khlebnikov
      12. Svyaz'/Relations by Avdotya Smirnova
      13. Tochka/ The Spot (2006) by Yuri Moroz
      14. Euphoria (2006) by Ivan Vyrypayev
      
      Source: lenta.ru