14 February 2012, 01:51 Sports Odemwings: this is my second hat-trick in my entire career West Bromwich striker Peter Odemwingie spoke about his hat-trick in the 25th round match of the English Championship against Wolverhampton ( 5:1 ). “This is the second hat-trick in my entire career,” Odemwingie told Soviet Sport . — I scored three times in a match back in France, when my Lille defeated Lens in the derby. The game with Wolverhampton, as it turned out, is also a derby. Main match.

February 14, 2012, 00:14 Sports Galatasaray refused to sell Elmander to Zenit for €6 million Zenit tried to acquire Galatasaray footballer Johan Elmander. According to Vatan , the St. Petersburg club offered €6 million for the Swedish national team forward, but the Turks are ready to sell the 30-year-old player for no less than €15 million. Negotiations between the clubs could resume in the summer of 2012.

The head of the meeting of European finance ministers, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said that he canceled a meeting on saving the Greek economy, scheduled for Wednesday, because Athens did not fulfill its obligations, the Associated Press reports . Juncker said that the Greek authorities have not provided the EU with guarantees that it will fulfill its commitments on austerity measures.

Russian tennis player Valeria Savinykh beat Frenchwoman Mathilde Johansson (6) in the first round of the WTA tournament in Bogota (Colombia) with a score of 7:6 (2), 3:6, 7:5. For reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament, Savinykh will compete with either Spaniard Estrela Cabeza-Candela or the winner of the qualification. You can view statistics and results of other matches on the tennis page .

In Libya, over the past two days, at least 17 people have been killed and another 22 injured during fighting between two tribes, al-Zuaya and Tabu, in the city of Kufra in the southeast of the country, Radio Liberty reports . The representative of the National Transitional Council, Mohammed al-Harizi, confirmed the fact of clashes between the tribes and said that the parties are currently trying to resolve the conflict peacefully.

During the court debate on Tuesday, the state prosecution asked to impose a sentence of four and a half years in prison on former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko , a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom. “Given the gravity of the crime committed by Lutsenko, I ask that the defendant be found guilty and sentenced to four years and six months in prison,” said state prosecutor Dmitry Loban, speaking during the debate.

The “marine” hypothesis of the origin of life remained popular, as oceanographers constantly found oases of life in the depths of the ocean, fueled by underwater volcanic activity. Bacteria live there in almost impossible conditions, feeding on toxic minerals released into the water during underwater volcanic eruptions. It was assumed that the first cells arose in a similar way and in the same environment: volcanism on the young Earth was much more active than now.

14 February 2012, 22:15 Business Navalny was presented with bills The Central Bank inspectorate checks the accounts of lawyer Alexei Navalny Gleb Klimentyev close 100% The Central Bank became interested in the accounts of lawyer Alexei Navalny and the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh in Vyatka Bank.

The Working Group on Information Disputes under the Central Election Commission did not recognize the films “Bridge over the Abyss” and “Getting into the Five,” which were shown in January on Channel One and NTV , as a form of propaganda . “The working group came to the conclusion that the authors of the films considered a historical retrospective, from the 90s to the present.

The head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov , decided to complain about Novaya Gazeta to the Prosecutor General’s Office because of the article “Why the opposition needs Putin’s victory in the first round.” On the morning before the meeting of the Central Election Commission, without uttering the name of the media, he cited an excerpt from the publication, which, in his opinion, “calls for massive fraud in the presidential elections.” “I will immediately send the corresponding

February 14, 2012, 20:40 Society There are almost no reasons left for abortion The Ministry of Health and Social Development has reduced the list of social indications for terminating an unwanted pregnancy Varvara Petrenko close 100% Now only victims of violence will be able to legally have a late-term abortion. Thinkstock/Fotobank.ru The Ministry of Health and Social Development has reduced the list of social indications for terminating an unwanted pregnancy.

14 February 2012, 01:09 Sports Lin and Westbrook are NBA Players of the Week New York guard Jeremy Lin was named the best player of the week in the Eastern Conference, the NBA press service reports . On average, over four matches, the American with Asian roots scored 27.3 points per performance, made 4 rebounds and 6.8 assists.

American Apple Inc. is working on creating a Tablet PC with a screen smaller than the popular iPad, The Wall Street Journal writes , citing informed sources. Apple, which is looking to expand its product line to maintain leadership in the increasingly competitive mobile market, has already shown its Asian suppliers a design for a device with a screen measuring around 8 inches diagonally, sources said. For comparison, the screen of the iPad 2, launched last year, has a diagonal of 9.7 inches.

14 February 2012, 22:25 Business Can't keep up with Putin The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development did not have time to prepare proposals for the tax maneuver Olga Tanas close 100% The platform for tax maneuver is not ready. The Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance do not have time to prepare proposals for tax reform by February 15. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insisted on this deadline.

Saudi Arabia's religious police have arrested 144 people for celebrating Valentine's Day, the BBC Russian service reports . The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said on Twitter that its staff had punished those arrested and that arrests were continuing. The organization also confiscated all red roses from stores, claiming they were inciting people to celebrate Valentine's Day.