On Wednesday, the first matches of the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup, the current owner of the UEFA Cup St. Petersburg Zenit began defending the title at this stage of the tournament with victory over the German "Stuttgart" in his native Petrovsky. The first attack of the hosts, held in the second minute of the game, ended with a goal. The burning combination was completed by the newcomers of Zenit - Igor Semshov and Sabolch Huty.

19:00 // 19.02.2009 The process in the second criminal case in relation to the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of the MFI Platon Lebedev will begin on March 3 in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva told RIA Novosti . According to her, preliminary hearings will be held on this day, which, according to the law, will be held closed. Source: gzt.ru

13:46 // 19.02.2009 Despite the crisis, in January-February 2009, 35% increased the catch of fish compared to the same period last year and reduced its imports by 20%, said the head of the Federal Reservoir Andrei Urals, who holds a meeting of the territorial bodies of the department in Tobolsk, RIA Novosti reports. "Import substitution has begun. The fishermen will be reoriented to cheaper fish.

16:31 // 19.02.2009 Rusaero assures that Sibir notified that the Moscow-Kazan will be a blind passenger, RIA Novosti reports. The refusal of the Siberia airline to let a disabled person on the board of the first group of Pavel Landuku caused a great resonance in society. Siberia stated that the ticket sales agent during booking did not notify the airline that the lads belongs to a special category of passengers.

The Central Bank will save Banks of EFK and Tarkhana, using additional dopemissions on Thursday, the Central Bank officially announced what scheme the EFK Bank (East European Financial Corporation) and the Penza provincial bank Tarkhana will be sanitized. The regulator decided to reduce their authorized capital to 1 ruble "in connection with the establishment of the negative value of the amount of the funds of the banks." Later, the capital of banks will be restored using the additional share.

The company's losses over the past year exceeded $ 1.4 billion. The automobile crisis dealt a crushing blow to the manufacturer of tires, components and electronics of Continental AG. As reported in the financial report of the company, published today, for 2008, Continental loss over the past year amounted to 1.12 billion euros (over $ 1.4 billion). A year earlier, that is, according to the results of 2007, the manufacturer received a profit of 1.02 billion euros (almost $ 1.3 billion).

The Supreme Commander -in -Chief was signed by the Decree on the formation of a military personnel reserve, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the creation of the federal personnel reserves of the Armed Forces, the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the civil defense troops and special construction. This list is included in the federal personnel reserve of managerial personnel formed the day before.

Polish clubs knock out favorites from the champions volleyball league almost determined the eight of the teams that will play this season the main prize of men's club volleyball - the Champions Cup. To the surprise, it was not the finalist of the previous draw - the Italian "Piacenza", nor the Moscow "Dynamo". Both of these clubs held return matches of the 1/8 finals in Poland, and both lost.

The coach of CSKA ZIKO in an interview with the newspaper Brazilian coach of the army, after the match, was modesty itself. Starting the answer to almost every question, he did not get tired of emphasizing the very circumstance that he had a chance to work in such an excellent club as CSKA and meet with such an interesting opponent as Aston Villa in such a wonderful tournament as the UEFA Cup. However, one sedimentary was not done. How did you like the Villa Park?

Trade unions propose to oblige bankrupt, first of all, to pay off debts to employees, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR) wants to achieve changes in legislation so that the bankrupt enterprises must first pay for debts with salaries, and only then for tax debt. "It is necessary to correct the legislation - both the Civil Code and the Law" On Insolvency (Bankruptcy).

13:05 // 19.02.2009 The Government of the Russian Federation plans to allocate up to 30 billion rubles for the development of transport infrastructure of the Magadan region until 2015. This was announced by ITAR-TASS Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin during a working trip to the Magadan region.

Government Chairman Vladimir Putin held a special meeting on Thursday dedicated to the events of the year of youth announced this year in Russia. One of the most noticeable innovations following the results of the meeting was voiced by the Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko. He proposed to send student construction detachments for the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi. “It will give a double effect - employment and education,” he assured.

16:12 // 19.02.2009 The International Committee for Control of Drugs (ICRS) of the UN considers biased data from Russian official statistics, indicating that Russia has only about 500 thousand drug addicts, the representative of Russia in this organization, director of the SSC Social and Judicial Psychiatry, said Tatyana Dmitrieva. "All statistics (about the number of drug addicts), represented by Russia, causes distrust of the ICD," Dmitrieva said at a press conference in RIA Novosti .

16:20 // 19.02.2009 The chairman of the Russian government at a meeting of the organizing committee on holding in the Russian Federation of the year youth asked to "submit proposals for improving legislation" in the field of youth policy, ITAR-TASS reports.

12:29 // 19.02.2009 The militants of the Taliban movement executed on Wednesday two students of the Lyceum in the Afghan Province of Vardak, accusing them of espionage in favor of the foreign military, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the Afghan radio station "Salam Vartar" with reference to the press secretary of the governor Adamkhan Seyrat.