Another Il-76 plane from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived in the capital of Libya on Sunday to evacuate the Russian citizens remaining there. The plane landed at Tripoli airport at 18:10 Moscow time, the information department of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. It is planned that this flight from Tripoli will evacuate Russians and citizens of other states who, for various reasons, were unable or did not have time to leave Libya earlier.

27 February 2011, 22:29 Sports Petrov scored the oldest hat-trick of Russian championships Atlanta forward Oleg Petrov scored the oldest hat-trick in the history of Russian championships. In the fourth match of the 1/8 finals of the KHL playoffs with Severstal (8:1) , Petrov, who will turn 40 in three months, scored three goals in three minutes.

Sport “It’s impossible to play in Sokolniki” KHL President Alexander Medvedev about the new arena for Spartak Andrey Kartashov KHL President Alexander Medvedev promised to do everything possible to ensure that Spartak and CSKA acquire new arenas as soon as possible. He also called it fair for SKA to reach the semi-finals of the Western Conference. Acting head coach of the red and white Andrei Yakovenko spoke about the reasons for the failure in the series with the army team.

Armed protesters opposing the rule of Muammar Gaddafi took control of the city of Zawiya, located 50 km from Tripoli. This was reported by a Reuters journalist. According to the journalist, demonstrators hoisted a flag with red, green and yellow stripes, considered anti-government, on one of the buildings in the center of Zawiyah. Several hundred people gathered near the building. They chant the slogan: “This is our revolution.”

February 27, 2011, 00:54 Sports Bordeaux beat Auxerre Matches of the 25th round of the French Championship take place on Saturday. Bordeaux beat Auxerre at home with a score of 3:0. Goals: Diarra 12; Modeste, 53-pen; Plashil, 79. Details of this and other matches, as well as the position of the teams in the standings, can be viewed on the French Championship page .

Sport “It’s unusual in the spring without the Euroleague” John-Robert Holden about CSKA's performance Andrey Kartashov CSKA basketball leader John Robert Holden, in an exclusive interview with Gazeta.Ru, spoke about the habit of playing in the Euroleague in the spring and the end of the army team’s three-game losing streak. CSKA basketball leader John Robert Holden did not take part in the match against Triumph. He watched the game from behind the ring, in the company of his daughter.

— 27.02.2011 14:52 — Police use rubber bullets against demonstrators in Oman; two dead In Oman, police used rubber bullets against demonstrators demanding political reforms in the country. Two people died as a result of the clashes, eyewitnesses said. Demonstrators threw stones at police. “The police started shooting rubber bullets at the crowd. Two died,” said an eyewitness to the incident. Reuters SMI2 News Media2

The head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Anatoly Serdyukov , is confident in the quality of the new military uniform, including its heat protection. Serdyukov emphasized that Russian couturier Valentin Yudashkin has virtually nothing to do with this form. According to the minister, Yudashkin was invited as a consultant. However, then, to a greater extent, the uniform was developed by specialists from the Ministry of Defense. “I have no doubts about the quality of the new uniform.

February 27, 2011, 12:20 Sports Wenger: I don't want to win the League Cup if the team stops playing afterwards The head coach of London's Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, on the eve of the English League Cup final match with Birmingham, spoke about what he expects from his team this season. “I will feel satisfaction if I know that my guys gave it their all and took the highest possible place in each of the tournaments in which we participate,” the club’s press service quotes Wenger as saying .

Chelsea defender Ashley Cole wounded a Chelsea trainee with a shot from an air rifle, writes News of the World . The incident occurred when Cole was playing with a .22-caliber rifle in the locker room and, unaware that it was loaded, shot 21-year-old Tom Cowan, who was doing an internship at a London club. Tom was only five meters away from Cole. The wounded man was immediately provided with medical assistance. About ten club employees witnessed the incident.

US President Barack Obama called on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to resign. “When the only way for the leader of a state is to use violence against his own people, he loses his legitimacy. Such a leader must make the right choice and resign,” the White House press service quotes Obama as saying . Reuters notes that this statement, made by Obama in a conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel , is the first where a US president calls on Gaddafi to resign.

During a special services operation in the Dagestan city of Kizilyurt, a militant who was a member of a criminal group that supplied weapons to the gangster underground was killed. (NAC) Nikolai Sintsov said on Sunday As official representative of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee , the identity of the killed bandit has been established; he is Ruslan Ataev, born in 1976, a native of the village of Chontaul, Kizilyurt district.

The biathlete from the city of Raduzhny, in the Tyumen region, laid the foundation for success the day before. “In the sprint, I was aiming to get into the top ten,” the official SBR website quotes the words of the pursuit champion. – The illness, due to which I missed the relay, affected my condition.

— 27.02.2011 04:28 — The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Saturday imposing international sanctions against the Libyan leadership. Earlier, Gazeta.Ru reported that the resolution contained a proposal to introduce a military embargo against Tripoli, as well as to freeze the assets of representatives of the country's leadership and introduce bans on their travel abroad.

— 27.02.2011 12:36 — In the Sochi 2014 mascot competition, Medvedev “rooted” for the bear, Mironov for the dolphin, and Belykh went to bed before summing up the results Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov spoke about the preferences of President Dmitry Medvedev regarding the symbols of the 2014 Olympics, which, according to the results of the final vote, were a leopard, a bear and a bunny .