18:20 // 01.03.2009 The police detained 16 representatives of nationalist movements for an attempt to spend on Sunday the march in the center of Moscow, inconsistent with the authorities, said a representative of the information department of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

15:27 // 01.03.2009 In the future, Greece intends to purchase gas not only from Russia, but also from Azerbaijan, which corresponds to its strategy for diversification of energy sources, said on Sunday the head of the Greece Foreign Ministry, Dora Bakoyanni. Now Greece receives up to 80% of gas from Russia. “Despite the fact that we have established a strong relationship between strategic cooperation with Russia, we invest in the Azerbaijani pipeline,” Bakoyanni said.

16:42 // 01.03.2009 The date of consideration of the case on the parole of the former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina will become known in the coming days, Bakhmina Lawyer Roman Golovkin said on Sunday. The former Yukos lawyer was convicted in 2006 by six and a half years in prison for theft of Tomskneft's property.

19:43 // 03/01/2009 In the elections of the mayor of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the current head of the city Vladimir Mikhalev, candidate from the United Russia party, won by a large margin from competitors. According to preliminary data, more than 66% of voters voted for him, the chairman of the regional election commission Viktor Tsyrf said. The second place was taken by Stanislav Ershov - he was supported by only 10% of voters, ITAR -TASS reports.

18:28 // 03/01/2009 Russian Maxim Vylegzhanin won a silver medal in the 50 km race, in which the last set of the World Sports Championship in Czech Liberets was played. The fate of the Sunday marathon was decided at the last meters of the distance. The leader of male skiing Norwegian Peter Northug correctly distributed his strength and confidently finished first. Vyglezhanin gave him 0.7 seconds, the German Tobias Anger (+2.0) won bronze, RIA Novosti reports.

The prime minister met United Russia in Novo-Ogravo last Friday the prime minister and part-time leader of United Russia Vladimir Putin met with the leadership of the part of his part (albeit informally) by his party. On the eve of the April performance of the prime minister in the State Duma, as part of the annual report to the deputies, Friday communication of the head of government with United Russia can be considered a rehearsal.

The Rugby team leads in the European Nations Cup in the third round of the European Nations Ragbine Cup, the first full -time meeting of the favorites took place - teams of Romania and Russia played in Bucharest. Since the Georgian team, the third of the main applicants of the trophy, two weeks earlier, sensationally lost points in a home duel with the Portuguese, the winner of the Bucharest match went into the sole leaders of the Cup.

14:56 // 03/01/2009 The first experiment in an electronic survey of voters using mobile phones is held on Sunday at four polling stations in a closed city of Raduzhny, Vladimir Region during the elections to the regional legislative assembly, according to the website of the Central Election Commission of Russia. “If the voter agrees to take part in the experiment, the operator at the polling station loads software into a mobile phone using Bluetooth or cable.

In Krasnoyarsk, the business has proposed the priorities of investments in the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum recently been increasingly used by the authorities for certain signals to society and business. In February last year, at the fifth forum held under the motto "Russia 2008-2020. Growth Office", then presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev spoke then.

Vladimir Mirzoev again staged the play by Garold Pinter in the play “betrayal”, which on Friday, February 27, Vladimir Mirzoev presented a public at the Stanislavsky Theater, and a lot of components guaranteeing success were collected. The director turned to the drama of the Pinter, for which he more than once found unusual stage solutions.

15:06 // 03/01/2009 The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov left for Sharm-Esh-Sheikh (Egypt), where he will take part in a meeting of the Middle Eastern Quartet and the International Gaza restoration conference, which will be held on March 2.

The system of direct resolution of losses earned only on paper since yesterday, according to amendments to the Law on OSAGO in Russia, two new rules of compulsory auto insurance have entered into force - direct compensation for losses and a simplified procedure for calculating participants in minor accidents (the so -called Europrotocol).

12:28 // 01.03.2009 Seven garages burned on Sunday night in the north-east of Moscow in the Bibirevo area-one car was destroyed by fire, a representative of the press service of the Moscow Ministry of Emergencies said. According to him, a fire in garages located near house 102 on Altufevskoye Shosse occurred at 02.30, RIA Novosti reports. The fire managed to cope for one hour. Firefighters evacuated four cars from burning boxes.

The suspensions of trading on Russian exchanges will become more rare and predictable today by Russian RTS and MICEM exchanges will begin to work according to the new rules. Now the suspension of trading will take place only in trading mode on the basis of non -zero applications. The decision on this will be made on the basis of changes not by technical indices, as it was still, but the main indices of the RTS and MICEX.

13:06 // 01.03.2009 The Club of the National Basketball Association (NBA) "Utah Jazz" extended its victorious series to seven matches in the regular championship. On the eve of the "jazz" on their site we beat Sacramento - 102: 89. 26 points from the winners were scored by Mehmet Okur and Ronnie Briera, becoming the most effective players in both teams.