The court of Oslo sentenced the Norwegian who threw snowballs to the US Embassy building, to a fine of 576 euros. The incident occurred in mid -February. Approaching the American embassy, ​​a passerby began to throw snowballs first in the building, and then in the guards of the diplomatic mission. When an unknown thrower tried to climb over the embassy fence, he was detained by the police, RIA Novosti reports.

The goal of the Moscow Lokomotiv midfielder Marat Izmailov was recognized as the best in the first quarter -final matches of the Champions League in the gates of the French “Monaco”, the official website of the railway workers reports. For the goal of Marat voted 27.35 percent of the survey participants conducted on the website of the Union of European Football Associations.

In the capital, the building of the Moscow Arbitration Court is on fire. RIA Novosti was reported in law enforcement agencies of the city. “The fire is assigned the third complexity number. Currently, the combustion area is about 700 square meters,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, there was no information about the victims. Five people were evacuated. The Moscow Arbitration Court is located in house number 10 on New Basmann Street. A strong smoke is observed in the fire area.

The English "Manchester United" headed the list of the richest football clubs in Europe. According to studies conducted by the British audit company Deloitte, the Mankunians earned 167.83 million pounds over the past year. This is 22 million more than that of the closest pursuer of Manchester - the Italian Juventus, which earned 145.75 million pounds in 2003.

The famous Italian music festival in San Remo started on Tuesday along with the “counter-festival” in the city of Mantuya , whose participants want to reproach the main pop show of the country for “arrogance and insolvency”. A five-day song marathon in San Remo opened a performance of a popularity among the youth, who took the stage pseudonym of DJ Francesco.

In Russia, there will be no formations such as a French foreign legion, in which only foreigners serve. This was announced in an interview with journalists today by the acting Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov, commenting on the possibility of the contract service of the CIS citizens in the Russian army.

The Perm "Ural Great" won the Hapoel (Nacharia) in the first match of the 1/4 finals of the Fiba Basketball Euroleague. The match in Perm ended with a score of 96:91 in favor of the hosts. “Firstly, I am satisfied with the fact that we won,” the head coach Permyakov Sergey Belov said after the match. “The victory in the first series of the series is psychologically important - at least, we leave the last word for ourselves. Secondly, I am unhappy with our mistakes and unkilled goals.

Negotiations on the acquisition of the Italian football club "Roma" by the Russian company NAFTA-Moscow may resume until the end of the week, but, of course, on another basis, reports Corriere Della Sera . According to the source, previous contacts fell due to the fact that Roma-2000, which controls the football club, turned out to be greater than previously considered: it is 601.7 million euros, and not 250.

Senator John Kerry won the most important victory in 9 out of 10 states in the struggle for the nomination of the Democratic Party candidate for the president of the United States. The elections will be held on November 2. The preliminary results of the “supernote” - the most important stage of the election campaign among the Democrats - indicate that Kerry is becoming the only real contender that may be nominated by the party candidate in the presidential election.

The Lipetsk pensioner shot a man who tried to rob his courtyard. According to the press service of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate, on Wednesday night, a 78-year-old Lipetsk pensioner, armed with a smoothbore gun, set up an ambush on unknown, regularly robbing his site. The owner tried to stop the thief that appeared, but the unknown responded with abuse and threats. Then the pensioner made a warning shot into the air, after which he opened fire to defeat.

The aircraft of the head of the government of Macedonia Branko Tsrvenkovsky nearly suffered a disaster in the same area where the airliner of President of Macedonia Boris Traikovsky crashed a few days earlier. The prime minister’s incident occurred on February 28, when the delegation of the Government of Macedonia returned to Skopier from the bridge after visiting the place of the tragedy. This "Interfax" reports with reference to the B-92 Belgrade independent radio station.

The organization Nord-Ost filed a lawsuit in the Tver court of Moscow against the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in connection with the interview with the president to foreign journalists , in which, according to the applicants, false information was contained. This was reported on the air of the Radio Echo of Moscow Radio Co-chairman of Nord-Ost, Tatyana Karpova.

The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the spiritual leader of the Buddhist Dalai Lam will make the first moves of the next world chess championship, which will begin in Tripoli at the end of June. On March 1, at a meeting of the FIDE Presidential Council, an official contract was signed on the tournament. This, according to ITAR-TASS, said at today's press conference the President of the International Chess Federation Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

In Germany, a thief, instead of abandoning the abducted, being driven into a corner at the crime scene in the bar, frantically swallowed the contents of the stolen bottle of wine. What was the surprise of the unlucky 19-year-old robber, when it began to tear it uncontrollably. As it turned out later, the mistress of the bar changed the wine in a bottle for vinegar. According to the police, the criminal was caught at the scene of theft, he stumbled and fell at the moment when he tried to escape.

The Prime Minister of Chechnya Anatoly Popov said he would not remain as chairman of the Chechen government. “I think this issue has been resolved, I will not stay as Prime Minister (Chechnya),” Popov said in Moscow, Interfax reports. When asked about his participation in the upcoming governor's elections in the Volgograd region, Popov said: "I am seriously considering this issue.