The Russian biathlete Olga Zaitseva stopped a step away from the podium at the start of the last before the Olympics of the World Cup. She never waited for help from commanding friends. The fact is that our team performed in an individual race in the Italian Antholz with a strongly cut -off composition. But the German women did not skate, taking all three prizes. Run or not to run?

Source: Getty Images Carlos Tevez, striker "Manchester City" Italian coach Roberto Mancini made the first attempt to become a new hero of English football. His first significant victory at Manchester City came to the most important match of the team. Roberto Mancini Gus Hiddink At the end of last year, The Guardian suggested that the next steering team of the Russian national football team will be the former steering “Fiorentina”, “Lazio” and the Milan “Inter” Roberto Mancini.

Russian Evgeny Plushenko took first place following the results of performances in a short program at the European Figure Skating Championship in Tallinn. The Russian skater scored 91.30 points, which became a world record. The second and third places - the representatives of France Brian Zhuber (88.55 points) and Yannik Ponsero, who scored 82.40 points.

The chairman of the Board of Directors of the Genser Group of Companies, Igor Ponomarev, died the day before at the 45th year of his life after a serious illness. He was one of the founders and co -owners of the Genser group - a large car holding, which is the official dealer of Nissan, Ford, Chevrolet, Opel, Mazda, Cadillac, Hummer, Saab, Infiniti.

The leading Russian media, signed by the chief editors and leaders, sent an open letter to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Rashid Nurgaliev, in which they ask the minister to protect Russian society from the arbitrariness of order subordinate to him.

Nepal authorities hope to save the national economy at the expense of homosexual tourists. A travel agency appeared in a country that soon legalizes same -sex marriages that offers people with non -traditional sexual orientation to hold a wedding ceremony on Everest. A travel agency appeared in Nepal, offering its customers an unusual service called the Pink Mountain. The proposal provides for a “fairy -tale wedding ceremony” and the honeymoon in one of the secluded corners on Everest.

Evgeny Korolev for the first time in his career entered the third circle of the Bolshoi helmet tournament. The 21-year-old Muscovite, who agreed to represent Kazakhstan, defeated the Czech of Tomash Berdykh in the second round of three sets-6: 4, 6: 4, 7: 5 The match was held in an approximately equal struggle, but Eugene owned a small advantage when playing at the reception, reports by Gotennis.ru .

The Russian team will hold a friendly match planned for March 3 against the football team of Hungary. According to RIA Novosti , the meeting will be held in the Austrian city of Graz. If Russia and Hungary following the drawing of the draw on February 7 on the qualifying tournament for Euro 2012 will be in the same group, then the meeting will be canceled. Officially, this information is not confirmed.

Yesterday in Moscow, traffic police officers frightened two armed people. About 14 hours at the beginning of the 4th Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, the patrolmen drew attention to a suspicious Lexus with tinted glasses. The driver did not respond to the demand for police officers to stop. Inspectors rushed after him in pursuit. At the intersection of the 4th Tverskaya-Yamskaya street and Chayanov Street, the pursued car fell into the cork.

Source: ITAR-TASS The house, built on the foundation, Dacha Muromtsev, after the fire, literally froze in the ice. On New Year's holidays in Tsaritsyn, the cottage Muromtsev, but the hut built in its place, said, said the mayor of Moscow. The defenders of the building believe that the authorities are still obliged to maintain this place intact. The cottage of Sergei Muromtsev, the chairman of the first State Duma, was long demolished, and therefore she could not burn.

The anti-crisis calculated-fundamental center (Artz), the last “brainchild” of the first Russian millionaire German Sterligov, will soon be declared bankrupt. This is evidenced by the materials of the Moscow Arbitration Court. Both the plaintiff and the defendant in the bankruptcy case are the center itself. Thus, the recent assurances of its founder, that the company will not be ruined, are refuted.

On Wednesday, Russian customs officers seized the Nazi machine gun from the Alma-Ata-Moscow train. This was announced by the representative of the press service of the Orenburg customs. “The unusual cargo was discovered by the employees of the customs post of the Iletsk-1 GIFPP“ Orenburg customs (in the city of Sol-Iletsk) on January 18.

Source: Photo by ITAR-TASS Before the visiting meeting of the modernization commission, Dmitry Medvedev was visited by the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant and the enterprise of a special economic zone (in the photo - with the chairman of the board of directors of NLMK Vladimir Lisin), the president at the exit meeting in Lipetsk instructed to prepare the law on labor safety and labor protection standards.

The authority of the greatest Pole of the 20th century will remain unshakable, despite the possible fluctuations of the national currency photo: ar to restore the economy of Eastern Europe, leaders have been outlined Goldman Sachs experts recognized the economies of Poland and the Czech Republic by the least affected by the crisis in Eastern Europe.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation began to invest in the country's international reserves in the Canadian dollar. This was announced on Wednesday by the first deputy chairman of the bank Alexei Ulyukaev. “These will be deposits and securities, but the Canadian financial market is not very capacious, so we can invest in deposits in a significant volume, and the market of papers is limited,” RIA Novosti reports the words of Ulyukaev.