Volgograd officials and deputies who returned from Italy called the “excitement” around their trip “someone’s order, ” Interfax reports .

The prestigious Montague youth team tournament ended in France on Monday. The Russian team (players born in 1996) took second place. In the final of the competition, our players lost to the Portuguese. The main time of the match ended in a draw. The winner of the match was determined in a penalty shootout. “We set ourselves the task of winning the tournament,” says senior coach of the Russian team Dmitry Khomukha . “But, alas, we were not able to do this.” Well, a penalty shootout is a lottery.

Sport Gate killed a teenager 14-year-old teenager crushed to death by football goal Zakhar Dmitriev In the Primorsky Territory, a criminal case has been opened into the death of a 14-year-old teenager who was crushed by a football goal. “The case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Art.

The police in the Polish city of Lodz said that on the eve of Euro 2012 they are teaching women self-defense techniques. Two months before the start of the tournament, seminars on the topic “Stronger Sex” are in full swing. “The seminars are part of security plans in the Lodz region during the championship,” RAR reports the words of city police spokeswoman Joanna Kask.

April 10, 2012, 14:56 News Ministry of Internal Affairs: Putin’s public reception was attacked in Astrakhan In Astrakhan, they are looking for the attackers who attacked the public reception of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday night , a law enforcement source told Interfax-South. “Unknown people tore out flags, broke flagpoles and smashed signs on the reception building,” the source said. Interfax does not yet have official confirmation of this information.

EASTERN CONFERENCE New York Rangers (1) – Ottawa Senators (8) Ours: Artem Anisimov - Sergey Gonchar Schedule: April 12, 14, 16, 18, 21*, 23*, 26*. Meetings in the season: 1-3 (4:5 B, 3:2, 0:3, 1:4). * – if necessary . Rangers have had one of their best seasons in years. New Yorkers almost won the President's Cup, losing the trophy in the last match to Vancouver.

Rosneft will exchange energy assets for a stake in the capital of the state-owned IDGC Holding. On April 4, the board of directors of the energy company instructed representatives of the holding to vote for the acquisition of blocking stakes in Kubanenergo and Tomsk Distribution Company, which do not belong to Neft-Aktiv (a Rosneft structure). The purchase will take place through a 100% subsidiary of IDGC Tyumenenergo.

The largest Russian service for selling discount coupons Biglion acquired the Belarusian discount service Bongo.by, told the Kommersant newspaper Biglion development director Oleg Savtsov . The amount of the deal is not disclosed, but, according to experts, it does not exceed $1 million. Biglion wanted to consolidate the service last year, but the deal had to be postponed due to the economic crisis in Belarus.

Members of the group “Buranovskie Babushki” from Udmurtia plan to learn several phrases and a popular song in the Azerbaijani language to greet the audience and participants of the Eurovision 2012 contest in Baku. “Grandmothers are going to learn words of greeting and gratitude, they say: “What is it like to come to Baku and not thank the audience in their native language, not be able to say hello, say goodbye?” This is important to them.

April 10, 2012, 18:06 From the editor Mahatma Shein Ignoring the multi-day hunger strike against unfair elections in Astrakhan, the authorities turned a regional scandal into a federal one "Gazeta.Ru" close 100% ITAR-TASS The events taking place around the Astrakhan elections are important not because we are talking about power in a particular region.

In the state of Maryland, the owner of one of three tickets claiming the largest Mega Millions lottery jackpot in US history in the amount of $656 million has appeared, CNN reports . The ticket holder came to claim his winnings on Monday but chose to remain anonymous. State officials have scheduled a news conference for Tuesday. However, "winners will not be featured," said Maryland Mega Millions spokeswoman Carol Everett. No details about the lucky man from Maryland have been released yet.

According to preliminary forecasts of weather forecasters, temperatures up to +19 are expected in Moscow over the weekend. The Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the region reports that warming will continue in Moscow in the coming days. So, on Wednesday in Moscow the air temperature will already warm up to +9, on Thursday to +12, and on the weekend - to +19. On Tuesday, the air temperature in Moscow will rise to +4–6 degrees, in the Moscow region +3–8 degrees.

Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum announced his refusal to participate in the Republican primaries for the right to be nominated as a candidate in the November US presidential election, reports Reuters . Santorum's views are marked by conservatism, manifested in polemics about the rights of sexual minorities and the war in Iraq. His main rival was considered to be the more moderate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney .

Sport Barça is on the heels of Real Madrid Barcelona defeated Getafe Ilya Andreev close Alexis Sanchez scored a double in the match against Getafe Lionel Messi, as always, led Barcelona in attack Pedro's goal completed the beating of Getafe Pedro scored with a beautiful header Now Barcelona is just a stone's throw from Real Madrid You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos Barcelona defeated Getafe in the Spanish Championship and reduced the gap to Real Madrid to one point.

— 10.04.2012 15:19 — Roscosmos will repeat the mission to deliver soil samples to Earth from the Mars satellite Phobos, Interfax reports , citing Lev Zeleny, director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “The Russian Academy of Sciences believes that Phobos-Ground should be repeated. This is our clear position, and Roscosmos accepts it,” Zeleny said.