The arbitrary program ended in the competition of single skaters. Following the results of two roller cans, Vancouver is taken to South Korea athlete Kim EN A. New Olympic champion Kim Yong A Source: AFP By the sum of the performances, the skater received 228.56 points. By the way, the silver medalist - Japanese Mao Assad - is 23 points less. To the third step of the pedestal, Canadian Jeannie Roshet rose.

The Russian skater Evgeny Plushenko, who took second place in solid skiing at the Games in Vancouver, will still receive a gold medal. Only not from the Olympic Committee, but from their fans, who will gather to meet him at the airport. This was announced by one of the initiators of this idea, chairman of the Council of the St. Petersburg municipality "District Petrovsky" Dmitry Ilkovsky.

European journalists managed to find out how much the most famous Formula-1 highway will receive in the Mercedes team. According to the Swiss publication Blick , the salary of a seven -time world champion in 2010 will be 21 million euros. The amount of the contract between Michael Schumacher and the Mercedes was not disclosed, but at the end of 2009 it was assumed that over the coming season, the German racer would receive 7 million euros.

“The pressure on the biathlon team was maximum. Before the Olympics and during the Olympics. And now everyone says that Biathlon is drawing the entire national team. It was very difficult. The meetings were held minimally. Mostly individual conversations. After the second failure, in the PASUT, the athletes themselves turned off the Internet, ”said Kushchenko. The head of the SBR added that for him the game himself was a test. “I just burned myself, worrying.

In Russia, the least trusts insurers, banks and the media, and most of all - telecommunication companies and auto industry. In general, Russians trust their national business stronger than in the USA and the European Union, but less than they trust him in the largest developing countries. This is evidenced by the data of the report of Edelman Trust Barometer, which was published on Friday.

Separate scenes of the third film "Transformers" will be shot in Moscow. This was reported by the official website of the director Michael Bay. The shooting will also be held in Chicago. Where exactly the shooting will be held, the message is not specified. Which of the actors will come to Russia is also not indicated. It is only noted that these will be significant episodes. Filming of the picture should begin in May 2010.

The LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky opposes the ban on cloning people and offers to clone geniuses and himself. He added that his party will seek the abolition of this ban. “Scientists must work, we should not be afraid. Cloning is the salvation of mankind, the replacement of organs that failed. Let's grow people and take the organs from them to replace. It is necessary to clone smart people who are talented, there should be a database of cloned people.

Eternal fire so far only burns in the Alexander Garden in Moscow, another eternal flame can appear. The metropolitan mayor offers to light him on Poklonnaya Gora. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov at a meeting with veterans on Friday, February 26, said that the capital's authorities raised the question of that the eternal flame would be lit on Poklonnaya Gora. If Luzhkov’s idea succeeds, there will be two eternal lights in the capital - in the Alexander Garden and on Poklonnaya Gora.

A group for the development of financial measures to combat money laundering (FATF) and a regional group of Fatf in the region of the Middle East and North Africa (menafatf) celebrate a low level of struggle to launder in free trade zones.

Photo: Alexander Basalaev on Friday the Constitutional Court announced its decision on the general statement of three Russians - the inhabitants of Tambov, Taganrog and Rostov. All of them defended their rights not only in Russian courts, but also in the European Court of Human Rights of the ECHR . The KS decided that the verdicts of the ECHR is now a sufficient basis for revising the case in courts within Russia. Thus, the KS recognized the decisions of the European court mandatory for Russia.

The Russian government approved a list of 20 manufacturers of automobile and road construction equipment, from which state-owned orders will be carried out in 2010 for purchasing products for state needs, the government said on February 24. In particular, AvtoVAZ OJSC (Lada cars), KamAZ, ZIL, Automobile Plant Urals, Sollers (Cars of the UAZ, ISUZU, Fiat, Ssang Yong), Taganrog Evle Plant OJSC (Taganrog Marks Hyndai and Hyndai Marking Cars) were included in the list.

Law enforcement agencies detained on Friday the mayor of Smolensk Eduard Kachanovsky on suspicion of trying to receive a bribe. "The mayor of Smolensk was detained today in the afternoon on the suspicion of attempting to receive a bribe. Searches are currently being conducted in the city hall," RIA Novosti said by telephone an employee of the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation for the Smolensk region. Kachanovsky was elected head of Smolensk on March 1, 2009.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the government apparatus was abolished in connection with which the number of officials has been reduced, its structure has been changed, and the duties of the Presidential Administration of the President and the Government of the KCR were added to the post of head of the Presidential Administration.

The forward of the Russian hockey team, Alexander Ovechkin, after losing to Canadians, broke the video camera of the correspondent of the Russian news agency RIA Novosti. The incident occurred a day after the defeat of the Russian team at the Olympic Games in Vancouver, where the Russians in the quarter -finals lost to Canadians with a score of 3: 7. Fans from Russia called the defeat of the Russian team a real loss of the entire Olympics.

Vyacheslav Haustov, deputy chief of public security police of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, commander of OMON, in an online interview answers the questions: what tasks are assigned to the Moscow riot police? What are the main actions of OMON employees during rallies and processions in Moscow? What are the features of ensuring security during football matches? Vyacheslav Haustov has been serving in the internal affairs bodies since 1976.