“Washington Capitals' since December 14 last year has been gaining at least a point in the regular season matches. This time, the metropolitan team won the finalist last season, as well as their rival in the division - 'Carolina Hurricanes' with an account - 4: 1. Already in the first period, two washers from Kip Miller and Mike Griera flew into the goal of Carolina. Having captured the advantage of 'Washington' brought the score to a large one.

A group of representatives of the Levoradical National Bolshevik Party held a rally on Saturday in Moscow by the Embassy of Ukraine with a demand to free their supporters arrested in this country. About 30 National Bolsheviks and several members of the Political Protection Committee participated in the action. "Several members of our party were arrested in Ukraine. They are accused of trying to acquire explosives, terrorism, illegal storage and acquisition of weapons.

In Troitsk, the Chelyabinsk region opened a criminal case against the torturer of animals. A certain punishment, a certain Oleg H. offended the animals. Everyone knew this in the local hostel where he lived. But the cup of patience of people was overwhelmed by the "public execution" of the cats that the flayer made. Several cats - the favorite of children - often rested in a pipe connecting the kitchen and bathroom. So, this H. scored the pipe with paper and set fire to.

On Friday, the two -time Olympic champion in ski races, Julia Chepalova, became a mother. The 26-year-old athlete had a girl, whom her parents called Olesya. It is interesting that this news was one of the first to learn in Norway, since it was in this country that Julia said that she was preparing to become a mother. Julia Chepalova is the most popular Russian ski on Norway.

What happened to Los Angeles Lakers at the beginning of the championship seemed a nightmare. Now the 'Lakers' woke up, and, gradually catching up with the rivals that have gone ahead. Yes, and the rivals themselves, apparently, are tired of pulling the burden of leadership, gradually slow down. This does not concern about the 'Dallas'. In the match of the next game day 'Lakers' won at Cleveland 115: 99.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov called today the European Union for the speedy negotiations on visa -free trips. "The freedom of movement inside the Schengen territory creates more and more difficulties for ordinary Russian citizens," he said. The action of the Schengen regime, Igor Ivanov believes, "comes into conflict with freedom of movement, free communication of people on the continent." “And these are already human rights,” the minister emphasized.

In Moscow, a sports commentator, a former footballer of Moscow Torpedo, Yuri Tishkov, was killed. His corpse was found on Saturday at about 2:30 in the morning with three gunshot wounds. In recent years, the former football player was the head of the Star League and was engaged in a business related to players transfers to various football clubs.

The President of the French Bordeaux, Jean-Louis Trio, said that he would not sell Russian Alexei Smertin, who wanted to buy English 'Newcastle'. According to the trio, he did not conduct any negotiations with Bobby Robson about this transfer. At the same time, the trio noticed that Simedin does not apply to the so -called, 'untouchable', that is, to those players who are the column of the club.

According to a senior employee of the North Korean Embassy in Austria, Song Moon San, who is responsible for relations with the International Atomic Energy /Magate /IAETE /, North Korea is ready to launch the atomic reactor at the experimental nuclear power plant in Yonben "not a few months later, but a few weeks later." This was reported by RIA "Novosti" Sources in the Magate Secretariat in Vienna. The leadership of the Magate has not yet commented on this statement by the DPRK diplomat.

As a result of a strong wind, the impulses of which reached last night to 20 m/s, 15 power lines were damaged in Rostov-on-Don. "Broken trees fell on two high-voltage power lines in the city. In this regard, electricity was disconnected in Rostov-on-Don," the operational duty officer of the Rostov electric networks told the Interfax agency on Saturday.

The new President of Lithuania Rolandas Paxas, elected for this post on January 5, intends to maintain good neighborly relations with Russia. He said this in an interview with the popular Lithuanian newspaper "Republic" published today.

In the South Kazakhstan region, as a result of the departure from the rails of wagons and tanks of the freight train, a fuel oil spill occurred, three sections of the railway were damaged. There are no victims and victims. This was reported to the Interfax agency on Saturday in the State Agency for Emergency Situations (ASF) of Kazakhstan. The accident occurred in the Saramsky district near the village of Pakhtakakar-2 on the Shymkent-Kzyl-Says on the day of the afternoon last Friday.

The signing by Dmitry Sychev a preliminary contract with Dynamo Kiev can cost the striker the French Olympic. A special commission will be created in FIFA, which will consider all the circumstances of Sychev’s signing with the Kievans and the receipt of money.

In Iran, female Boles are now allowed to watch the games of their favorite football teams directly from the stands of stadiums. Until now, women have been forbidden to attend football matches along with men because they often use non-normative vocabulary, responding to the game of athletes. Women in Iran for a long time fought for the right to attend the matches of their favorite teams.

The fragments of the passenger aircraft of the Peruvian state -owned company Tans Peru, which broke up on Thursday, January 9, were discovered. As expected, the catastrophe occurred in the mountain forest area of ​​the Amazon in the north of the country - about 700 km from Lima. The crash site was found by one of the helicopters participating in the rescue operation. There were 42 passengers and 4 crew members on board the aircraft. According to rescuers, they all died.