The President of the Russian Hockey Federation (FHR) Alexander Stelin resigned. “He wrote a resignation statement of his own free will,” a source in the Russian Olympic Committee (OKR) said on Monday of Interfax on Monday. Earlier, Steblin also left the post of chairman of the professional hockey league (PHL) at his own request. The reason for this was the incident that occurred on January 8 in St. Petersburg at the European Champions Cup final.

The Russian government doubted plans to place shares of the Rosneft State Oil Giant in the amount of up to $ 20 billion on the London Stock Exchange. "The loss of the record IPO" Rosneft "can turn into a serious disappointment for the London Exchange, where in the last two years several successful placements of Russian companies have been committed," writes the British The Guardian .

One of the leading top managers of Italy was fined for speeding: Riccardo Ruggerio, managing Telecom Italia, dispersed his car on the highway to 311 km/h. As Ruggerio himself explained, he simply experienced the running capabilities of his brand new Porsche Carrera. The company he heads is the leading telecommunications operator in the country with a year of 30 billion euros, AFP reports. The police fined a scorch of 357 euros ($ 435) and removed 10 out of 20 permissible penalties from it.

During the investigation of the case of the collapse of the tunnel on the Zamoskvoretskaya metro line on Monday, Radislav Lybu, the general director of Polyus-M, carried out construction work, was detained on Monday. The movement of trains along the Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow metro was completely restored by Monday morning.

In the city of Dolgoprudny near Moscow, when a minibus collided with a bus with a bus evening, about ten people were injured on Monday. "The collision occurred at about 17:45 Moscow time on Likhachevsky Prospekt near house 24," RIA Novosti said in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Moscow Region. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the circumstances of the accident and the exact number of the victims are clarified.

In the Chelyabinsk region, an armed deserter was detained, who escaped with weapons in his hands from the military unit of the village of Trekhgorny after he shot his colleague. A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the murder. In the military unit, the investigation team of the military prosecutor's office of the Volga-Ural Military District and Chebarkul is currently operating.

A joint prayer-smasher combined on Monday workers and passengers of the metro Tokyo and relatives of the victims of a gas attack, arranged 11 years ago by activists of the Aum Sinrikyo apocalyptic sect in the Tokyo subway. Then, sprayed in 5 trains at 3 central stations of the city of neuro-paralytic gas, Zarin led to death 12 people, and about 5.5 thousand received poisoning. This attack has become the largest in the entire post-war history of the country, notes ITAR-TASS.

In Russia, they want to revive the honorary title "Mother Heroin", the Order "Maternal Glory" and "Maternity Medal", abolished after the collapse of the USSR, as well as benefits of heroines to motors. True, it will be easier to earn the title today than in Soviet times: it is enough to raise five children, and not ten, as before.

The Russian Foreign Ministry calls a strange resolution of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, in which congressmen declare a violation of the rights of believers and restricting freedom of religion in Russia.

The owner of one of the hotels in northern Germany began to charge a fee from guests taking into account their weight. Now those who want to spend the night in the town of Norden, near the border with the Netherlands, should stand on the scales before climbing the room and pay half a European weight per kilogram of their own weight, Reuters reports. “I had many guests who were huge, and I advised them to lose weight,” says the owner of the three -star hotel, Jurgen Hekrodt.

The Russian women's team in Kerling won a gold medal at the World Championships among juniors, which was held in the Korean city of Genjou. In the final match, our girls with a score of 5: 4 defeated the Canadian team. Bronze medals went to the danes. As part of our national team, the planet was Lyudmila Grafovkova, Ekaterina Galkina, Margarita Fomina, Angela Tuvaeva and Daria Kozlova. In the male part of the competition, Canadians, who beat the Swedes in the final - 7: 3.

The Commander-in-Chief of the RUSSIA of Russia, Colonel General Alexei Maslov, claims that there were no bullying from old-timers against ordinary Andrei Sychev, Interfax reports. “I can report that there were no facts of mass booze on New Year's Eve among the military personnel of the battalion (the battalion of ensuring the educational process of the Chelyabinsk Military Institute).

The former candidate for deputies of the Bryansk region from the LDPR Valery Khramchenkov was in intensive care for trying to refuse to participate in the vote. After submitting an application for the withdrawal of his candidacy, the temple with his wife and the child tried to leave the Bryansk region.

The situation in the district center of the Kumtorkalinsky district of Dagestan - the village of Korkmaskala - is taken under control. There, in the morning, about a thousand local residents tried to break into the administration building, protesting against the wrong, in their opinion, distribution of land plots. It is reported by ITAR-TASS.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Alexander Lukashenko in connection with the next re -election to the post of president of Belarus . This was reported by the Kremlin press service. “The results of the election testify to the trust of voters to the course you have given to further ensuring the growth of the well -being of the Belarusian people,” the congratulatory telegram directed on Monday says. “Russia and Belarus are connected by strong bonds of friendship.