On Friday, the women's sprint took place in the Czech town of Nove Mesto. The first Russian woman to start, number eight, was Svetlana Sleptsova . Our team leader Olga Zaitseva started the race 13th, Olga Vilukhina - 15th, Anna Bogaliy-Titovets - 31st, Ekaterina Glazyrina - 55th, and Ekaterina Shumilova - 94th. Unfortunately, when Sleptsova, who was walking in a group of three, approached the prone area, a strong snowstorm began - the wind reached 11 m/s.

Philadelphia goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovsky was named the best player of the match against the Islanders. Our goalkeeper stopped 33 shots, missing only two. The goal of the team from New York was defended by another Russian goalkeeper - Evgeniy Nabokov . He made 22 saves. Largely thanks to Bobrovsky, Philadelphia was able to beat the Islanders for the 26th time in the last 28 matches. Matchday matches Nashville - Colorado - 3:2 OT (0:2, 1:0, 1:0, 1:0) 0-1. O'Reilly, 6:09 0-2.

January 13, 2012, 11:09 Sports Andreev lost in Australian Open qualifying Russian tennis player Igor Andreev failed to make it into the main draw of the Australian Open, losing in the second round of qualifying to the Dutchman Igor Seisling with a score of 6:7 (6), 3:6. Statistics and results of other matches can be found on the tennis page .

The main awards from American critics went to the film “The Artist” and the actors of the films “The Descendants” and “The Help.” The film “The Artist” by French director Michel Hazanavicius was named the best film of 2011 by the Association of Film Critics working on television, radio and online publications. Hazanavicius won the award for directing from this largest critics' association in the United States and Canada.

Former assistant to the President of Russia Dzhakhan Pollyeva has been appointed head of the State Duma , deputy head of the State Duma apparatus and head of the department for public relations and interaction with the media, told apparatus, Yuri Shuvalov agency the Intrefax . “Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin signed a corresponding order,” Shuvalov said.

On Friday night, regular season matches were played in the NHL. Calgary defeated Anaheim at home in overtime with a score of 1:0 (0:0, 0:0, 0:0, 1:0). Threw the puck: 1-0. Jones (Giordano, Stempniak), 61:51 Goalkeepers: Kiprusoff (23/23) — Hiller (18/19). Ours: Babchuk (19:45, +1, ) penalty minutes, 2 shots) - no. More news and results of NHL matches can be found here .

The head of the Accounts Chamber, Sergei Stepashin , admitted that until 2011, his department did little to deal with the problem of financial irregularities in public procurement, but when inspections in this area intensified, it turned out that public procurement raises the greatest number of questions for the control agency. “Now we have reached the figure of 700 billion.

January 13, 2012, 01:14 Sports Anderlecht striker Suarez named Belgium's best footballer of 2011 Argentine forward of Anderlecht Matias Suarez was recognized as the best footballer of 2011 in Belgium. “I didn’t expect to win the Golden Boot.” The Belgian league is full of good, strong players, so this is a great honor for me. I hope to one day play for the Argentina national team, and this prize is a step towards this,” the UEFA official website reports the words of the 23-year-old forward .

January 13, 2012, 18:47 Society Let's beat the Kalash into logs A resident of Udmurtia found 80 machine guns in wooden boxes purchased to light a stove. Daria Zagvozdina close 100% A resident of Udmurtia found almost 80 Kalashnikov assault rifles in wooden boxes that he bought for firewood on occasion. The prosecutor's office began an inspection of Izhmash, from which the boxes were removed. The weapon was returned to the factory.

Sport CSKA forward Ryzhov is loaned to Khimki Forward Dmitry Ryzhov , whose rights belong to CSKA Moscow, will continue his career with Khimki. The 22-year-old footballer will play for the Moscow region club on loan. Last year, the striker also played on loan for Ural Yekaterinburg.

The United States will withdraw up to 7 thousand troops from Europe, said Pentagon head Leon Panetta . The troop reduction will take place as part of the US administration's planned reduction in the military budget and the planned reorganization of the country's armed forces, reports Deutsche Welle . According to Panetta, it is planned to withdraw two of the four brigades of ground forces stationed in Europe, the number of personnel of each of them is 3.5 thousand people.

January 13, 2012, 01:37 Sports Summanen: we didn’t manage to play well and toughly in the first period Avangard head coach Raimo Summanen commented on the defeat from Salavat Yulaev (0:3) in the KHL championship. “We didn’t manage to play well and toughly in the first period,” the official website of the Ufa team reports his words. - Although we tried. If you give Ufa the opportunity to take the lead, it will be very difficult to beat this team.

January 13, 2012, 19:29 Politics Iran agreed to discuss nuclear program "Gazeta.Ru" Iran's leadership has agreed to discuss allegations that the Islamic Republic was conducting secret work on creating nuclear weapons, this will happen at negotiations scheduled for January 28, the Associated Press quoted a diplomatic source as saying .

January 13, 2012, 21:15 Sports HC "Lev" has changed its owner There have been changes in the structure of Lev. The owner of the Slovak club has become the Hockey Club Lev Praha (HCLP), reports Sport.cz . The company's management assured that the change of owners will not affect the team's future prospects in the KHL. According to HCLP representatives, the point of this action is that next season it will be much easier for them to manage the club.

The Ministry of Economic Development has posted on its website a proposal to change standards that will help exclude stolen and “gray” mobile phones from reuse. It is assumed that the telecom operator must enter into an agreement with the subscriber in which the SIM card is “tied” to a specific mobile phone; if it is lost or stolen, no one will be able to use the mobile phone, since the operator can block the phone, Rossiyskaya Gazeta wrote on Friday .