The Belarusian skier Denis Vorobyov was disqualified for two years by the International Ski Federation (FIS) for the fact that prohibited drugs were found in his bag. The incident occurred on December 10, 2004 at the stage of the World Cup in Ski Racing in the Italian Val Di-Femm. Vorobyov came to doping control, and a bag with a forbidden substance - growth hormone - left the rooms behind the doors of the room where the doping control procedure was carried out, the Soviet Sport reports.

Russians, according to sociologists, quite pessimistic characterize their health. Less than a third (31%) of the citizens of our country call it good, every fourth is bad. The rest (43%) believe that they have a "middle" health. These are the data of the Foundation "Public Opinion" (FOM), whose sociologists interviewed in the middle of February 1,500 Russians. The study was conducted in 100 settlements of 44 regions, regions and the Republic of the Russian Federation, Interfax reports.

In the largest Viennese zoo, Schenbrunn on Sunday the elephant attacked an employee of the zoo and killed him. According to the Directorate of the Zoo, the four -year elephant named Abu during the morning shower unexpectedly attacked the minister and literally strung him on the tusk, RIA Novosti reports. Arriving at the scene, doctors from the Vienna ambulance found the most severe wounds in the chest and abdomen of a 39-year-old employee.

The Russian striker "Utah jazz" Andrei Kirilenko will return to the system after the "match of all stars" of the National Basketball Association (NBA), which will be held on February 20 in Denver. Recall that in the second quarter of the match against the Phoenix Sans on February 14, Kirilenko turned the right ankle, however, the injury was not too serious. He should have enough 4-5 days to restore.

The police of the Pakistani city of Kvett arrested 32 people on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks during the Holy Muslims of the Tenth day of the month of Muharram, when the Memorial Day of Imam Hussein is celebrated. According to ITAR-TASS, operations to search for militants were carried out on Saturday in Kvetta, the administrative center of the Belujistan province. The processions of Shiites in different cities of the country are undergoing enhanced police security.

On Saturday, within the framework of the Russian Championship, the Dushan Ivkovich team beat the St. Petersburg Dynamo - 84:81. The owners were very close to interrupting the win-win series of the army, who still do not know defeats in the current season. Shortly before the end of the third quarter, Dynamo led a difference of 17 points (70:53), but in the last period CSKA eliminated this lag. A minute before the final siren, Dynamo won 81:80, but then David Andersen brought the army forward.

In Chechnya, the security regime was strengthened, at the main intersections of the Terrible, the roads leading to the city, additional police outfits, and units of military commandant’s offices were exhibited. This was announced on Sunday "Interfax" by the deputy Minister of the Interior of the Chechen Republic, Colonel Sultan Satuev.

In Spain today there is a referendum on the adoption of a pan -European constitution, for the participation of more than 34 million people with the right to vote. Safety in the country on the day of the referendum will be ensured by more than 100 thousand police and agents of the Civil Guard (militarized police). Spain will become the first country of the European Union, where a vote on the adoption of the Unified Basic Law of the EU will be held.

On Saturday, it became known that after the abolition of the season in the NHL, the problem of the locout may arise at the National Basketball Association, where at the end of June a collective agreement concluded 7 years ago expires. To resolve all issues in advance, club owners and representatives of the players met in New York, while in the regular championship there is a break caused by the "star weekend".

Former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. called on the international community to sacrifice at least $ 4 billion in addition to the already collected $ 7 billion to help countries affected by the unprecedented in their destructive consequences of the natural cataclysm in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004.

The National Security Council (SNB) under the US President completed the assessment of the policy of the American administration against Russia and recommended George Bush not to change the line that was held by the administration during his first presidential term. The Washington Post , according to which the assessment was carried out under the leadership of the senior director of the SNB in ​​Russia, Thomas Graham, writes about this on Sunday.

The body of the State Duma deputy Kirill Ragozin was discovered today almost a month after his death in the Vyborg Gulf. The deputy drowned, rolling on the ice of the bay on the snowmobile "Buran". As ITAR-TASS reported in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in the Leningrad Region, the divers found and raised the body to the surface at 16:10 Moscow time.

In the Japanese Sea off the coast of the island, Moneron suffers a disaster by a Russian fishing schooner. According to the captain of the Naval Rescue and Cording Center of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sunday , on the small schooner of the RSH-4293 in the storm environment, the main engine failed. The immobilized vessel, on which three fishermen are located, carried on the stones to the shore of the island of Moneron, located in the south of the Tatar Strait between Sakhalin and the mainland.

Vera Zvonareva for the second year in a row wins the VTU tournament in Memphis. In the final match, the Russian woman, the first, defeated the third racket of the tournament, American Megann Schonesses - 7: 6 (7: 3), 6: 2. Note that Vera for the first time in her career defended the conquered title. In total, the 19-year-old Russian woman has three victories at VTU tournaments. The beginning of the match did not foresee anything good: Vera lost the first three game.

The reconstruction and repair work on 35 Moscow cemeteries with fraternal and military burials have been completely completed, the head of the consumer market and the services of the capital, Vladimir Malyshkov, told Interfax. He said that the Department, together with the State Unitary Enterprise "Ritual", developed a program to conduct a set of work for 2003-2005 on memorial burials.