In the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg, three natives of Dagestan suspected of attacking two citizens of Syria were detained. According to the department of private security at the MVD of the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg, on Monday at about 03:00 a signal of the alarm button from the Dubai cafe located on Zheleznodorozhnaya Street was received on the remote control.

Near Alma-Ata on Monday, the body of the opposition policy of Altynbek Sarsenbyuly was discovered This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to informed sources. There is no official confirmation of this information yet. According to sources, the body of Sarsenbyuly, as well as two more people, was found in a car.

The chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic, Sergei Abramov, on Monday, an operation was performed in Germany. He feels good. Surgical intervention was needed in connection with cracks on the hip joint, which appeared due to a car accident .

Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okashvili accused the leadership of the Russian military base of Akhalkalaki in South Ossetia on sale of several missiles for portable anti -aircraft missile systems "Strela". Noting that "does not have direct evidence for the charges" to specific persons, he announced a price of 10 thousand dollars for each.

At the Russian State Humanitarian University (RSUSU) last week, the International Conference "Global Processes and Religious Diversity in Russia and the World" was held. The religious scholars and religious leaders, human rights activists and lawyers gathered here for two days discussed the problems of the peaceful coexistence of various religions and faiths in the modern world.

The triumph of Russians Svetlana Ishmuratova ended with a female biathlon race 15 kilometers with four fire lines in the Olympic Valley of Cesan San Sikario. Our team managed to make a double - the second was Olga Pyveva, who was 45.5 seconds back from the winner. The third place was taken by the German Martin of the Vlags, displacing Albin Akhatova from the pedestal.

A powerful drop in prices for all metals occurred on Monday with the start of the work of commodity exchanges in Europe. So, at 11:30 Moscow time, the prices of zinc on the London metal exchange fell by 7%, for tin - by 5%, for copper - by 4%. A large drop in prices is fixed by precious metals, including gold, platinum, palladium, silver, ITAR-TASS reports.

The leadership of the Moscow Region football club Saturn satisfied the request of Vladimir Shevchuk for a resignation from the post of head coach of the team. This was reported by the press service of the club . “Yes, Shevchuk, of his own free will, left the post of head coach of Saturn,” commented the resignation of the coach Club General Mikhail Vorontsov. “All the formalities related to the termination of the current contract will be settled on Monday.

From the day when the exclusive “seven” of industrialized countries in 1998 opened the doors of her club in Russia, it was necessary to wait for troubles, writes the British business newspaper Financial Times (text on Inopressa.ru ). Russia did not fit either by the criterion of wealth or by the criterion of democracy. A welcome gesture towards Moscow was made of a desire to support the democratic process.

Evgeny Plushenko, the main favorite of the Olympic Games in Turin in men's single skating . On Tuesday, he will perform immediately after the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, who was falling out a short program. Competitions, in which 30 athletes will take part, will begin on Tuesday at 21:00 Moscow time. Three other contenders for victory-Swiss Stefan Lambiel, Canadian Jeffrey Battle and Frenchman Brian Zhuber-received the 11th, 5th and 23rd starting numbers, respectively.

34 of 37 Russian political parties presented information about their financial activities for the fourth quarter of 2005. "On February 15, we set the reference point for ourselves, when we assume that the parties did not fulfill the requirements of the law on the provision of this information," said Oleg Velyashev, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission, referring to three parties that did not submit reports.

Russia suspended the consideration of the issue of military equipment for the Palestinian security forces, an informed source in Moscow told Interfax. "After the victory of Hamas, in the parliamentary elections and the developing situation in the Middle East, it would be at least short -sighted to make a decision on the supply of armored personnel carriers to Palestine. So far we take a pause in this matter," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Canadian magazine for the first time reprinted the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which caused a powerful wave of protests in the Islamic world, ITAR-TASS reports. “The fact that we placed these drawings on our pages is absolutely normal,” said Ezra Levant, editor -in -chief editor of Albert's journal Western Standard . Having called the caricatures "harmless", he emphasized that the Western media will willingly publish materials that may consider offensive, for example, Christians.

On the night of Monday, Moscow time, the last matches of the National Hockey League Championship were held before the Olympic pause. Many of their participants will meet on the ice of Turin in two days to compete for Olympic medals as part of national teams. Recall that the official and final application of the Russian team to participate in the Olympic hockey tournament will be submitted on February 14, that is, a day before the start of the competition .

In two dozen Russian cities, motorists showed solidarity and protested against the sentence to Oleg Shcherbinsky, through the fault of which, as the court decided, the Governor of the Altai Territory Mikhail Evdokimov died in an accident. The Russian automobile community unconditionally took the side of Shcherbinsky, whose fault, according to many drivers, lies only in the fact that his car was in the way of Mercedes with a high -ranking official.