The Moscow City Court recognized as legal the sentence of Latvian citizen Grigoris Chubrevichs, who fired at the car of blogger Dmitry Ternovsky in July last year, Interfax reports .

Primary school pupils in the UK will study in barns and abandoned buildings, as the country will soon simply run out of schools, writes the Telegraph . The publication explains this by the fact that there are more and more children of primary school age in the country, by 2015 there will be more than 450,000 people - due to high birth rates and constant immigration. Already, in some regions of the UK there is an acute problem of an “oversupply” of primary school children in schools.

February 20, 2012, 18:33 Society The court ordered the prosecutor's office to apologize to ex-GRU Colonel Anatoly Kvachkov for unfounded prosecution On Monday, the Moscow Regional Court ordered the prosecutor's office to apologize in due form to retired GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov for unfounded criminal prosecution on charges of attempted murder against the former head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais, a RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom.

Vladimir Putin published his sixth pre-election program article in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Its title is “Be strong: guarantees of Russia’s national security.” In it, he writes about the need to create a “smart” defense system, re-equip the armed forces and their qualitative changes. — 20.02.12 11:30 —

Sport An impossible task CSKA without Akinfeev will play at home with Real Madrid Ruslan Aliev close You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos On Tuesday, in the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, CSKA Moscow will play at home with Real Madrid. The main goalkeeper of the army team and the Russian national team, Igor Akinfeev, will not be able to help the club.

February 20, 2012, 04:25 Sports Belyaev: I’m sure I won’t catch star fever Lokomotiv defender Maxim Belyaev , who made his debut in European competition on Thursday in the Europa League 1/16 final match with the Spanish Athletic (2:1), said that he is not in danger of star fever. “I’m sure that I won’t catch star fever,” Belyaev told SE . - I'm an ordinary guy. There was a time when there wasn’t really enough money even for food; it was difficult to buy bread.

February 20, 2012, 01:42 Sports Palermo beat Lazio The 24th round of the Italian Football Championship takes place on Sunday. "Palermo" - "Lazio" - 5:1. Goals: Barreto 10; Donati, 20; Silvestre, 42; Budan, 47; Miccoli, 51 - Kozak, 85 "Udinese" - "Cagliari" - 0:0. Details of this and other matches, as well as the position of the teams in the standings, can be viewed on the Italian Championship page.

Foxconn, whose factories in China produce Apple devices , said it had raised wages for its workers by 25%. The decision comes after the company came under regulatory scrutiny last year over a spate of suicides and reports of hundreds of thousands of employees working long hours. As the publication notes, this is the second salary increase in less than two years. Foxconn employs about 1.2 million people.

February 20, 2012, 19:32 News The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office has not closed the case against "War", the Investigative Committee is looking for witnesses to the "Palace Coup" The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office refused to confirm the investigators' decision to close the case against the Voina art group and returned it to the Investigative Committee , the activists' lawyer Dmitry Dinze said on Twitter.

February 20, 2012, 03:53 Sports Mortensson: in the match with Spartak we looked simply ugly SKA forward Tony Mortensson commented on the team’s performance in the KHL championship match against Spartak ( 2:4 ). “We just looked ugly today,” Mortensson told SE . - Therefore, it is better to forget about such games immediately after they are over. From the very beginning it was clear that we were in the wrong mood for the match. And, of course, we must pay tribute to Spartak.

Sport Lin beat the champions New York beat Dallas Dmitry Anzulis , Andrey Kartashov close 100% Jeremy Lin continues to bring victories to New York reuters Jeremy Lin's double-double helped New York beat Dallas, whose top scorer was Dirk Nowitzki, who scored 34 points. “Miami” beat “Orlando” on their home floor. Timofey Mozgov scored six points, but Denver lost to Oklahoma in overtime. Kevin Durant scored 51 points, Russell Westbrook - 40.

Sport Kovel signed a contract with Minsk On Monday, former Saturn striker Leonid Kovel signed a one-year contract with Minsk, Football.by reports. In the coming days, the footballer will join the team, which on Sunday flew to Turkey for its second training camp. For the last year, the 25-year-old footballer has been playing for Dynamo Minsk.

February 20, 2012, 05:14 Sports Medvedev: legally Fetisov remains the chairman of the board of directors of the KHL and performs his functions KHL President Alexander Medvedev noted that he continues to communicate with Vyacheslav Fetisov after his announcement of resignation from the post of Chairman of the KHL Board of Directors and President of HC CSKA . “Of course we communicate,” Medvedev told Soviet Sport .

Sport That's what Detroit loves Detroit beat San Jose at home Oleg Koshelev close 100% Thanks to success in the meeting with San Jose, Detroit extended its home winning streak to 23 matches. Evgeni Malkin's pass did not save Pittsburgh from defeat in the match with Buffalo. Chicago beat St. Louis and continues to get out of the crisis. Detroit beat San Jose on their ice and extended their home winning streak to 23 matches.

Sport Povetkin went after Hook Povetkin ready for fight with Hook Anton Balakirev close 100% WBA world heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin has completed preparations for his fight with German Marco Huck, which will take place in Stuttgart on February 25. Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin has completed sparring before the fight with the holder of the WBO heavyweight championship belt, German Marco Huck, Povetkin’s manager Vladimir Khryunov said.