Rescuers have not yet been able to contact Ukrainian climbers who got lost on Elbrus. The operational duty officer of the Elbrus high-mountain search and rescue service refutes the information that contact with all Ukrainian athletes lost on Elbrus has been established. of Ukraine previously announced that they got in touch The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations .

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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that diplomatic relations with Russia can be restored when Russian authorities recognize the sovereignty of Georgia within its former borders, Interfax reports . “Diplomatic relations with Russia were interrupted automatically after Russia ceased to recognize Georgia as a sovereign state. These relations will also automatically be restored after Russia again recognizes Georgia within its sovereign borders,” Saakashvili told reporters on Saturday.

Sport Okroshidze: Zenit's goalkeeper line is stronger than CSKA's Former Zenit and CSKA goalkeeper Yuri Okroshidze believes that if Revyakin plays in the army goal in the 33rd round match of the Russian Championship between CSKA and Zenit, then he has a good chance to prove himself. “I can’t say anything good or bad about Vyacheslav Isupov , because I know little about him. I saw Sergei Revyakin in the matches of the youth teams of Zenit and CSKA.

03 March 2012, 16:49 Sport Sekou Olise was not included in the squad for the match with Zenit due to plane delays The reason why midfielder Sekou Olise was not included in CSKA's squad for the match of the 33rd round of the Russian Championship with Zenit has become known. The fact is that due to the delay, the plane with the 21-year-old player on board only recently landed in Moscow, and Olise did not have time to arrive at Luzhniki, SE reports .

03 March 2012, 13:01 Park of Culture Participants of the “Citizen Poet” project presented their best performances in London Participants in the popular artistic and political project “Citizen Poet” presented the most popular numbers of their program on Friday evening in London, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports . , who has lived in the UK since 2008 The London concerts of “Citizen Poet” were organized with the support of businessman Evgeny Chichvarkin .

On Saturday in Moscow, near the Sportivnaya metro station, Pyotr Verzilov , ex-activist of the Voina art group and organizer of Antiseliger, was detained. This was reported by lawyer Violetta Volkova . Verzilov was detained on the territory police station of the Khamovniki . It is unknown where he was sent next. “I don’t know which department they took him to. The police told me: “Look for him yourself, as you wish,” Violetta Volkova told Gazeta.Ru.

Ministry told Interfax on Saturday Rescuers are unable to contact three Ukrainian climbers who got lost on Elbrus, the press service of the North Caucasus Regional Center of the Russian Emergency Situations . The operational duty officer of the Elbrus high-mountain search and rescue service refutes the information that contact with all Ukrainian athletes lost on Elbrus has been established.

03 March 2012, 19:59 Sport "Red Wings" beat BC "Nizhny Novgorod" The regular matches in the Professional Basketball League take place on Saturday. Samara "Red Wings" hosted BC Nizhny Novgorod on the home floor and won with a score of 79:73 (20:18, 26:9, 17:19, 16:27). Details of this and other matches, as well as the position of the teams in the standings, can be viewed on the Russian Basketball Championship page .

Two Russian tourists died as a result of an accident in the south of Thailand in Phanga province, the consular department of the embassy in Bangkok told Interfax. “A minibus carrying several foreign tourists got into an accident in the south of Thailand, about 1 thousand km from Bangkok. There were tourists returning from an excursion. It is not yet known whether there were other Russian tourists there,” the consulate said. The injured are in local hospitals.

03 March 2012, 08:54 Sport Petrescu: Zenit will still win the championship Kuban head coach Dan Petrescu commented on the selection activities of Premier League clubs. “Zenit will still win the championship, especially since on the last day of the pre-entry campaign it was strengthened by Arshavin,” he told SE . — The St. Petersburg team has everything to win gold. At the same time, Dynamo has strengthened more noticeably than the others this winter.

The United States will soon lose all influence in the Middle East, their place will be taken by Russia and China, says the Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), Ahmed Badr-ed-Din Hasun. “The Americans think only about themselves, about their economy and hegemony, and not about human interests... I think that the Americans will soon lose this region (the Middle East). And China and Russia will win,” he told RIA Novosti. “The United States wants to open its umbrella over the region.

A series of self-immolations by Tibetan monks have received praise from the Dalai Lama, Zhao Qizheng, spokesman for the 5th session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said on Saturday. “Before these accidents happened, someone announced the time and place in advance. Some took video cameras with them to film everything that happened. Someone even tried to interfere with the rescue operation,” Zhao Qizheng said at a press conference.

03 March 2012, 15:31 Society Tornado carried away children 28 people died from tornadoes in the US Elena Belova a prostitute According to the latest data, the number of victims has reached 28 people in the states of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. The heaviest blow fell on the state of Indiana. State Department of Homeland Security spokesman John Erickson said three people died in Jefferson County. This is the second series of tornadoes in the US this week.

The third matches of the 1/4 finals of the Western Conference of the Kontinental Hockey League take place on Saturday. Cherepovets Severstal hosted Atlant near Moscow on home ice and won in overtime with a score of 2:1 OT (1:1, 0:0, 0:0, 1:0). Pucks scored: 0-1. Niskala (Zubarev, Zakrisson), 06:52 1-1. Nurtdinov (Chudinov), 07:05 2-1. German, 68:54. The score in the series up to four wins became 2-1 in favor of Atlanta.