Sport Malkin went for 500 Pittsburgh forward Malkin scored three points in the match against Boston and crossed the 500-point mark in the NHL Anton Balakirev close 100% Evgeni Malkin surpasses 500 points in his NHL career Reuters Russian forward of Pittsburgh Evgeni Malkin exceeded the 500-point mark in the NHL and helped his team beat Boston in the regular season game day match.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service plans to check the tariff policy of airlines due to numerous complaints from passengers; the FAS expects to involve colleagues from the CIS countries and the European Union in its investigation , Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes in the Sunday issue .

Business Russian stock exchanges opened up more than 1.5% Russian stock markets opened with significant growth. In the first minutes of trading, the RTS index rose by 1.67% to 1,705.2 points. The MICEX increased by 1.52%, to 1596.91 points.

March 11, 2012, 12:08 a.m. Sport Crosby could be on the ice against the Rangers on Thursday Pittsburgh forward Sidney Crosby could take the ice for the first time since December 2011 in a match with the Rangers on Thursday, TSN reports . The club's management on Friday allowed the Canadian hockey player, who was forced to stop playing again late last year due to renewed symptoms of a concussion, to do strength training, but refused to let Crosby play in the match with Boston on Sunday.

March 11, 2012, 18:04 Cars Pedestrian hit by chase In St. Petersburg, a policeman, while chasing a violator, killed a pedestrian Nikita Zeya close 100% In St. Petersburg, a policeman, while chasing a violator, killed a pedestrian ITAR-TASS In St. Petersburg, investigators are preparing charges against a traffic police inspector who, in an official car, hit a 19-year-old student boarding a tram.

The Federal Migration Service (FMS) of Russia will fine the organizers of a concert at the Olimpiysky sports complex in Moscow, at which several foreign musicians performed without permission to work in the Russian Federation, official representative of the department Zalina Kornilova told RIA Novosti on Sunday . According to her, FMS employees conducted an inspection after the “Super Disco-90s” concert on March 9 and found that nine foreign artists did not have work permits.

The investigation has dropped the case against the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Buryatia, Viktor Syusyura , accused of smuggling, told the RAPSI agency on Sunday. his lawyer Konstantin Lagantsev “The case was dropped due to the decriminalization of Article 188 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (smuggling),” the lawyer said.

Prime Minister and President-elect of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin promised to allocate an additional 3 billion rubles for the reconstruction of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Tovstonogov in St. Petersburg. He stated this at a meeting with Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev.

In southern Australia, a group of paleontologists discovered an ancient animal with a skeleton, Compulenta reports, citing Geology . Coronacollina acula lived 560–550 million years ago in the Ediacaran, the last geological period of the Precambrian. It was followed by an era of unprecedented flowering of the diversity of life forms - the Cambrian (542–488 million years ago).

11 March 2012, 18:31 Society Millions on a tip Investigators are looking for a group of robbers who stole 19 million rubles from a Sberbank safe. Zhanna Ulyanova close 100% The police are looking for a gang of 3-4 people who stole 19 million rubles from the Moscow branch of Sberbank on Saturday night. According to one version, the robbers acted on a tip from a former or current bank employee.

Mexican authorities are investigating the discovery of a mass grave in the state of Chiapas containing 167 bodies that may have been buried 50 years ago, Reuters reports . Investigators are trying to determine the age, gender of the victims and the cause of death, an employee of the Chiapas state prosecutor's office told the agency. The stage of decomposition suggests that the bodies are at least 50 years old, and no obvious signs of violence have yet been discovered.

— Moscow is going to actively attract foreign investment, changing its structure (in 2011, out of 120 billion rubles of investments, only 4 billion rubles were direct investments). What options for cooperation with foreign investors are the city interested in? — We are very interested in transport infrastructure. We hope that when we have the project documentation fully ready, we will attract investors to the construction of the metro and transport interchange hubs (TPU).

Immediately after Vladimir Putin’s victory in the elections, the White House decided to move the May G8 summit to Camp David, which was supposed to take place in Chicago the day before the NATO summit , the Kommersant newspaper claims . “Perhaps the main reason for postponing the G8 summit was the White House’s desire to improve relations with Vladimir Putin.

Two more Chinese citizens who were injured in the explosion and fire in the Harbin restaurant on March 2 died in hospitals in St. Petersburg, Interfax reports . “Only three Chinese citizens injured in the gas explosion died from their injuries,” an official representative of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for St. Petersburg, Sergei Kapitonov, told the agency . On Tuesday this week, a Chinese cook , also injured in the explosion, died in hospital.

The Russian gas monopolist Gazprom and the Danish Dong Energy are planning joint investments in Europe. The companies have agreed on an action plan for cooperation in northwestern Europe “both on the basis of existing natural gas power plants and in the construction of a new modern combined cycle power plant,” the Russian concern said. Cooperation with Dong has “good prospects,” said Gazprom head Alexey Miller , confirming the gas monopoly’s interest in entering foreign electricity markets.