Thanks to gold in short track and skeleton Over the course of the past weekend, the Russian team entered the top three in terms of awards won. This happened thanks to the gold medals won by Alexander Tretyakov in skeleton and Viktor Ahn in short track. However, yesterday our team left the top three, but is very close to it.

The walk around Sochi is over, the Games continue Moscow cluster Nikolay Focht Photo: Gennady Gulyaev, Kommersant Special correspondent of the "Russian Pioneer" NIKOLAI FOHTA is triumphantly greeted in Moscow. He himself is glad that he returned: great Olympic happiness is better visible from a distance.

100 years ago, Ogonyok dedicated an entire issue to the production of the play “King of the Jews” by Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov 100 years ago, “Ogonyok” released a special issue, almost entirely dedicated to the main premiere of the year - the Imperial Hermitage Theater staged the play “The King of the Jews,” written by His August Highness Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov. Or just K.R.

Nikita Aronov - about volunteers of retirement age In Russia, for some reason, volunteering is considered the work of young people, although abroad more than a third of volunteers are aged. However, the first domestic volunteer center for the elderly in St. Petersburg showed: we also benefit from active pensioners no less Volunteers of the “Silver Age”.

The 1/8 finals in men's snowboard cross at the Olympic Games in Sochi have been postponed again due to fog, ITAR-TASS reports. The new start time for athletes is 14:45 Moscow time. On February 17, the qualifying rounds have already been cancelled, so the athletes will begin the competition from the 1/8 finals stage.

Andrei Voskresensky: “Before creating Eve, God remarked: “It’s bad when a person is alone.” But now many people have a completely different opinion on this matter.” Eric Kleinenberg's book is dedicated to the phenomenon of loneliness. We just need to immediately note that we mean loneliness in the literal, biblical sense: the loneliness of Adam, living without Eve, at least one permanent Eve. However, I used the word “phenomenon” incorrectly.

57 1 min. ... The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) has introduced an enhanced laboratory control regime for the supply of chilled beef from the Ukrainian enterprise Agroprodukt due to the initial detection of harmful bacteria, the service said in an order dated February 13. In particular, mesophilic aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms were found in the company's products.

Belarusian freestyle skier Anton Kushnir won a gold medal in ski acrobatics at the Sochi Olympics. Australia's David Morris won silver, while China's Jia Zongyang took bronze. Ukrainian Alexander Abramenko reached the second final round, the eight strongest athletes, taking the final 6th place. In turn, Nikolai Puzderko stopped in the qualifying round, not making it into the top 12 athletes.

The new Minister of Food and Agriculture of Germany will be the Parliamentary Secretary of State at the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Christian Schmidt (Christian Social Union - CSU). He will replace his party member Hans Peter Friedrich in this post, who was forced to resign due to a scandal caused by suspicions of disclosing confidential information, ITAR-TASS reports.

As Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said, the unopened snowflake at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which was supposed to become the fifth Olympic ring, will be played at the closing ceremony. “We will correct this mistake at the closing ceremony,” Mr. Kozak said during a visit to the Olympic television complex created to cover the Olympics in Sochi.

The Orthodox TV channel Spas may lose its place in the mandatory digital package due to a lack of funds to ensure broadcasting. At the same time, the channel should not count on financial assistance from the state, experts are sure. Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin, Kommersant / buy photo The Spas TV channel did not have enough money to broadcast. Previously, the Orthodox channel won the competition and took a place in the digital package. This format will become available to Russians in a month.

No Russians were injured as a result of the terrorist attack in the Egyptian city of Taba on the Sinai Peninsula, according to the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In Taba on February 16, a suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying South Korean tourists. Four people were killed, including the Egyptian driver, and many South Korean citizens were injured.

Album 1972 Forty-two years ago, Ogonyok talked about the triumph of the Soviet skier Galina Kulakova at the Olympics in Sapporo and her sports career. “In 1964, four years before the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, there was a rumor among ski champions about a milkmaid from Udmurtia who did not know what fatigue was.

The Fifteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal recognized as lawful the decision of the Rostov OFAS Russia to bring Sberbank of Russia OJSC to administrative liability in the form of a fine in the amount of 475 thousand rubles, the department’s press service reported.

Ahead are world champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White and Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir Silver medalists of the European Championship Elena Ilinykh - Nikita Katsalapov took third in the short dance in the individual dancers' tournament, which started on Sunday at the Iceberg Arena.