In the city of Kirensk, Irkutsk region, a man was arrested today, for four days held as a hostage at first a 7 -year -old girl, and then her mother.

The issues of gas supplies were discussed today in Tel Aviv, the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller and the acting Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert. According to the forecasts of economists, in the coming years, Israel may face a lack of natural gas. The main supplier - Egypt raised gas prices two to three times. Russia may offer quite favorable conditions, Echo Moscow Echo, Alexander Eterman, said on the air of Echo of Moscow .

On Sunday, Turin will host the closing ceremony of the IX Winter Paralympic Games. More than 600 athletes with disabilities from 40 countries played 54 sets of medals in five sports: skiing, biathlon, skiing, hockey and Kerling. These games were remembered primarily by the brilliant performance of Russian athletes, who ahead of schedule, the day before the end of the competitive program, provided Russia with first place in the medal standings of the Paralympics.

Near the Voikovskaya metro station, the tunnel collapsed, pile pierced the third car, after which it caught fire. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the fire service of the capital, noting that the incident occurred when the train followed the center. There are no victims. 10 people turned for psychological help. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation. All these people were in the ill -fated train car.

The Belarusian biathlete Alena Zubrilova became the best in the mass start at the eighth stage of the World Cup in Finnish Contiolati. Alena allowed only one miss along the race and finished with the flag in her hands, as her nearest rivals were far behind. For Zubrilova, this victory was the first in the season. The second place was taken by the German Katya Wilhelm, who was guaranteed the early success of the World Cup, and the bronze was won by the Slovenian biathlete Tadeya Brankovich.

The Belarusian hockey federation with a puck (BFH) after serious thoughts withdrew an application for the 2008 youth world championship and the 2011 adult World Cup. According to BelTA agency in the BFH, an official letter about this was sent to the International Hockey Federation ( IIHF ). The letter notes that at the present stage, our country considers the priority task to gain proper experience and improve infrastructure for conducting competitions of such a high level.

In the festive procession and show dedicated to the Irish national holiday of St. Patrick Day, held in the center of Moscow on New Arbat, several thousand people took part. According to Interfax, the colors of the national flag of Ireland - green, orange and white prevailed in the procession.

Mytishchinsky “Chemist”, who won the fifth match of the 1/8 finals on his ice, Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik with a score of 2: 1, was the last quarter-finalist of the Russian hockey playoffs. The duel, as expected, turned out to be intense and low -contrasting: the responsibility greatly affected the players, who first of all tried not to make a mistake. Such the specifics of the game led to the fact that the audience saw the abandoned puck only at the beginning of the final period.

The premature departure of the United States from Iraq would become the "modern equivalent" of the return of post -war Germany under the control of the Nazis. This opinion is expressed by the US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld in his article “What we have achieved in Iraq”, published today in The Washington Post , on the occasion of the third anniversary of the current operation in the Persian Gulf zone.

Today in Moscow there will be a parade dedicated to the Irish national holiday - St. Patrick Day. In this regard, the movement of vehicles, including public ones, will be limited in the city center. From 11 o’clock the movement in the New Arbat, Znamenka and Vozdvizhenka closes. The traffic police asks drivers in advance to choose a detour route and strictly comply with the instructions of the road signs, as well as the instructions of traffic police officers.

Russians have a stable idea that men and women are friends in different ways - it is shared by half of the respondents (50%). They do not agree with him - they believe that male friendship is not different from female - 37%. The rest do not have a certain opinion on this. The point of view, according to which male friendship differs from female, is more often shared by young respondents than the elderly (58% and 39%, respectively).

Submarines of the future generation must be built taking into account the realities of today - such as the development of the Internet, as well as the widespread involvement of women in military service. “The submarines, of which we begin, will have the opportunity for women to feel comfortable on board the ship, and the Internet, which today and in the future is necessary for people,” the General Designer of the Rubin Central Design Bureau Igor Spassky told Interfax on Sunday.

The French traveler Nicolas Vanya completed his "Siberian Odyssey" with a length of 8 thousand km on Red Square in Moscow. Welcome to Muscovites and specially flew from France to meet him by compatriots Vanier entered the square through the Resurrection Gates on a dog harness. The traveler’s sled drove along a snow -2 m wide strip and a thickness of 20 cm with a thickness of 20 cm with a thickness of 20 cm. "The task of my expedition is the environmental formation of society.

The daughter of the ex-president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevich, who died on March 11 in the UN prison in The Hague, intends to reburiate his father’s body in Montenegro, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Belgrade media, Maria Milosevich called the ceremony of the burial of her father, buried last Saturday in the courtyard of her family house in the Serbian city of Pozharez, "scandalous" and expressed extreme displeasure to the organization of the funeral.

Large riots flashed shortly before midnight in the center of Paris on Saint-Michelle Boulevard in front of the walls of the Sorbonne University. The crowd, numbering more than a thousand people, tried to storm to break through the reinforced outfits of a militarized police into the square in front of the main building of the university.