17 February 2011, 19:07 Sports Bazhenov's hat-trick brought Tom victory over Dynamo Brest On Thursday, in a friendly match, Tom met with Dynamo Brest and won with a score of 4:0. Goals: Kanunnikov, 6; Bazhenov, 30, 75, 84-pen Tom: Botvinyev, Kharitonov (Golyshev, 58), Sosnovsky, Jokic (Stroev, 58), Bodor (Khatazhenkov, 58), Klimov (Gultyaev, 46), Sabitov, K. Kovalchuk (Nikitinsky, 58), Kim Nam Il, Bazhenov , Kanunnikov.

February 17, 2011, 19:59 Business Half a budget for the road to football The construction of high-speed railways promised by Russian Railways for the 2018 World Cup will cost 5.5 trillion rubles Gleb Klimentyev , Igor Bakharev The construction of high-speed railways promised by Russian Railways for the 2018 World Cup will cost 5.5 trillion rubles, the Ministry of Finance has calculated. This amount is unrealistic, the ministry believes.

February 18, 2011, 00:58 Sports Ananidze's goal brought Spartak victory over Basel in the Europa League The first matches of the 1/16 finals of the Europa League take place on Thursday. Swiss Basel hosted Moscow Spartak and lost with a score of 2:3. Goals: Fry 36; Streller, 41 - D. Kombarov, 61; Dziuba, 70; Ananidze, 90+2. Gazeta.Ru conducted an online broadcast of this match. The return match will take place on February 24.

NBA regular season matches took place overseas. “New York” beat “Atlanta” on their home floor - 102:90. Russian center Timofey Mozgov started the match in the starting five and, after spending almost 14 minutes on the floor, scored four points, made one rebound, once successfully assisted a partner and once blocked an opponent’s shot. Interestingly, the former Khimki player has been on the court for more than five minutes for the seventh meeting in a row.

February 17, 2011, 07:31 News A tourist ship sank in Vietnam; 12 people died A tourist ship sank in Vietnam on Thursday morning, killing at least six people, AP reports . According to Reuters , 12 people were found dead. The ship with 19 foreigners on board - the total number of passengers is unknown - sank around 05.00 local time (01.00 Moscow time) in Halong Bay, popular among tourists, in the northern part of the country. The nationalities of the victims are being established.

The first competition at the Rosa Khutor Olympic ski complex in Sochi has been postponed to Friday. The European Alpine Ski Cup in the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics was supposed to take place on Thursday, but the organizers decided to play it safe as heavy snowfall was expected in the evening. Thus, the downhill competition will be held on the same day as the giant slalom tournament.

February 17, 2011, 21:31 News A French journalist brought a metal toy gun to the European Parliament for a dispute The level of security of the European Union's institutions of power has again come into question after a correspondent for the French TV channel BFM entered the European Parliament building on a dare with a toy gun in his pocket, local media reported on Thursday. The metal toy was not detected by any of the security detectors.

The statue of Pharaoh Tutankhamun discovered today, February 17, in the Nile River turned out to be a copy of an exhibit stolen from the Cairo Museum on the night of January 29. Egypt's Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass and archaeologists who arrived to study the find came to the conclusion that it was not the original.

February 17, 2011, 21:46 Politics The unemployed have eclipsed the terrorists Medvedev will discuss unemployment with the leadership of parliamentary parties Elizaveta Surnacheva The leaders of parliamentary parties go to Dmitry Medvedev. At a meeting in Sochi on Saturday, the parties will worry about unemployment and the upcoming March elections in the regions. Party leaders will not discuss terrorist attacks and nationalism.

— 17.02.2011 16:06 — The Prosecutor General's Office completed an inspection on behalf of the head of state in connection with the loss of GLONASS satellites at the end of last year.

February 17, 2011, 15:56 Business Google has launched a subscription service for electronic media Google began providing subscriptions to electronic magazines and newspapers with a 10% commission just a day after a similar service became available to users of Apple devices . As the head of the Internet search engine Eric Schmidt said , the subscription fee will be charged through the One Touch service. At the same time, the remaining 90% of the proceeds will go to publishers.

February 17, 2011, 16:05 Sports Kudryashov moved to Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod has signed a contract with 27-year-old midfielder Dmitry Kudryashov. “Dmitry is a strong football player, whom a number of first division clubs wanted to see on their roster,” the quotes the club’s executive director Denis Maslov team’s press service as saying . — The fact that Kudryashov joined the ranks of Nizhny Novgorod speaks of the increased authority of the club.

17 February 2011, 14:03 Business About 600 victims of the air collapse will file a claim against Aeroflot at the end of December Today, February 17, representatives of passengers who suffered during the pre-New Year delays of Aeroflot airline flights, lawyer Sergei Litvintsev and lawyer Kristina Kameneva, will submit copies of collective claims uniting about 600 people to the company management, the initiative group reports.

Sport “Arshavin became a replacement player” Gazeta.Ru expert Alexander Panov about the matches of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League Alexander Panov Gazeta.Ru expert Alexander Panov noted the good performance of the London Arsenal team striker Andrei Arshavin in the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League with the Catalan Barcelona. In his opinion, the Spanish club underestimated the opponent. I think that London Arsenal striker Andrei Arshavin played well against Barcelona.

17 February 2011, 14:39 Sports Yuryeva: I plan to qualify for the World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk World champion Ekaterina Yuryeva will be present in Uvat at the final training camp of the Russian team before the World Championships. “Now the plan is this: I’m going to Uvat soon for a training camp, then we’ll see,” Yuryeva told Sports.ru . — There will be selection for the World Championship. Those who don’t get there go to other competitions.