The Russian Foreign Ministry is trying to achieve honest competition for Russian companies abroad. "We achieve only one thing - so that our entrepreneurs have equal, non -discriminatory access with honest competition," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Vesti Week of the Rossiya Television Cabinet.

The Russian national team with a large score of 2: 6 lost to the Sweden team at the Swedish hockey games held in Stockholm. At the end of the game, which became for Vyacheslav Bykov the first defeat in the main time for the period during which he stands at the helm of the Russian team, the coach assured that he would try to extract maximum benefits from the defeat. “To some extent, I am even glad that we lost today,” said Bykov in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Participants of six -way negotiations have not yet been able to reached an agreement on the creation of working groups, which would be discussed, in particular, issues of folding the Northwest Nuclear Program and providing it with economic and energy assistance. This became known to ITAR-TASS from sources close to the negotiation process.

A referendum on the abolition of criminal punishment for abortion takes place today in Portugal with low activity of the population. For noon, less than 12 percent of more than 8.5 million voters took advantage of their right. According to preliminary estimates, the number of voting can be 60 percent. This will mean a referendum failure, since by law it has force only if more than half of the voters take part in it.

In the cave on the island of Tenerife (Canary Archipelago), the bodies of all dead guides were discovered on Sunday, a source in the Civil Guard (gendarmerie) told RIA Novosti . "The bodies of six guards - five men and one woman who got lost in a multi -kilometer cave and died from gas accumulated in one of the underground galleries, were found," the agency’s interlocutor said.

In the 1/8 finals of the Davis Marat Safin Cup, Fernando Gonzalez in three sets - 3: 6, 5: 5: 5: 7, 4: 6, which equalized the account in the tennis dispute of Russia and Chile. But in the decisive fifth match, Igor Andreev defeated Nicholas Mass - 6: 2, 6: 1, 6: 7, 6: 4, and brought the Russian team to the 1/4 finals of the Davis Cup. Marat acted well in his duel. He was able to get excellent blows, and he took out the "dead" balls often.

Most Russians keep any animals at home, and the more people in the family, the more likely the fact that the favorites in this family are, sociologists found out. So, a pet has 57% of citizens with a family of five or more people, 56% of four people, 51% of three people, in 41% - out of two people. About a third of single people (28%) are also acquired by pets, Interfax told the Romir Monitoring holding, whose experts conducted an all -Russian survey on this subject.

The personality of the deceased climber was established, whose body rescuers of the Elbrus PSS found on Saturday at the site of the avalanche in the area of ​​the Passitia Pass in Kabardino-Balkaria, the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation said. It turned out to be Viktor Sergeyevich Gonenko from Krasnodar, born in 1985. The body of the helicopter deceased on Saturday was delivered to Nalchik.

The presidential candidate from the Socialist Party, Ruayal, presented today at a rally in the northern suburb of the capital Wilpent the main directions of her election program. The "presidential pact" of the socialist candidate includes about 100 proposals that are based on the program of the Socialist Party, as well as on the conclusions of election discussions with voters.

A serious accident with human victims occurred in the Urals. As Interfax was reported on Sunday in the traffic police on duty of the Sverdlovsk region, on the 44th kilometer of the Yekaterinburg-Polevskaya highway, Nissan and VAZ-2110 cars collided. "As a result of the accident, four people were injured. In particular, both drivers of vehicles and two VAZ-2110 passengers received bodily harm.

The United States is disappointed with the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Munich Conference on Security Policy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Saudi Arabia. This is the first visit of the head of the Russian state to the kingdom. The plane of the President of Russia landed at the King Haled King Airport, from where Putin will go to the residence. In the evening in the Royal Palace, he will be a guest at an official dinner on behalf of the king of Saudi Arabia Abdullah, and then hold a conversation with the monarch.

The winner of the Moscow stage of the country's mass winter competition - “Russian Ski -2007” - was the husband of the three -time Olympic champion in Yulia Chepalova, Dmitry Lyashenko. At the finish of the 10-kilometer distance Lyashenko, a few seconds of seconds won in the fight against his opponent. Immediately after the race, the winner admitted that he was glad of his victory and, in general, conducting such an event as the "skiing of Russia".

Olympic champion in six jumping Elena Isinbaeva broke her own record in the room. At the tournament in Donetsk, the Stars of the Sixth, Isinbaev, on the third attempt, overcame the bar at an altitude of 4.93 m. “I felt very confident today. Last week, speaking in the USA (at the Millrose Games tournament in New York), it seemed to me that I was very close to a world record,” Isinbaeva admitted, who, after the triumph, could not restrain her tears of joy.

In Las Vegas, a boxing duel was held for the WBC temporal welterweight champion title between the ex-world world in three weight categories of Shein Moslie and the former owner of the WBA title Luis Collabox. The beginning of the fight took place in an equal struggle. Mozli acted combinatively, pulling the collage on himself, but he was well overlapped and, in turn, attacked well with single blows.