In the framework of the fifth round of the second round of the second group stage, the Euroleague beat the Greek Olympiacos basketball players in the framework of the fifth round of the second round and designed the first place in the group ahead of schedule. In a difficult match, where for forty minutes the teams fought for the victory, the army team won in the end with a small advantage - 83:79 (14:20, 25:17, 23:19, 21:23).

The outstanding Russian writer Valentin Rasputin on Thursday, March 15, marks 70 years. He will spend this day in Moscow, and he will go to his homeland in the Baikal region in April.

The position of the Italian journalist Daniele Mastrojakomo, stolen 10 days ago, was complicated by the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. On Thursday, he asked the Italian government to fulfill the requirements of its kidnappers. Otherwise, after two days it will be executed. The 52-year-old hostage read this appeal in English in a voice that had gone with excitement.

Ferrari expanded the shelves of its souvenir store and put on them exclusive sports mountain skis Ferrari Race Carve GS. As reported on the website of the Ferrari online store, each novelty received its own individual number, and in total 149 pairs of skis will be released. The skis are made using the “sandwich” technology when several layers of material are applied to each other similarly to the sandwich.

The famous British singer and composer Elton John "In Tsari" celebrated his 60th anniversary, having arranged one of the most interesting parties lately. During the solemn costumed ball, which was arranged in London, he appeared in a suit of a Russian general, reports the British tabloid The Sun. Sir Elton arrived in Shoreditch Town Hall in the east of the British capital in a uniform with epaulettes, in a high cap with cockades and trousers with red stripes.

In the Sverdlovsk region, 1711 km of a railway line in the area of ​​the city of Khalus occurred from the rails of 36 cargo train wagons No. 2355. As the head of the press service of the GUVD of the Sverdlovsk region Valery Gorelykh told the Interfax agency, the train followed last Wednesday at 22:05 local time from the Sverdlovsk-Sorting station to Perm. In the wagons there was sand, crushed stone and coal. There are no victims as a result of the incident.

Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov continues to make transformations into the social and political life of the republic, this time he intends to initiate amendments to the Constitution of the republic. As Interfax, the head of the presidential apparatus and the government of Chechnya Abdulkadir Israiilov, speaking on Thursday at a meeting with deputies of the Republic of Republic, said: "The Constitution of the Chechen Republic should be in full compliance with federal law.

NTV-Plus will transfer the right to broadcast two matches of each round of the Russian football championship. This was announced by the President of the Samara "Wings of the Soviets" Alexander Baranovsky, who was present at the meeting at the meeting of the Working Group of the Foreign League.

The American automotive corporation General Motors is 2.5 times increasing the capacity of the vehicles under construction in St. Petersburg, to 100 thousand vehicles per year, the Vedomosti newspaper reports. The decision made is not much to increase the costs of the company, but at the same time GM will help GM in the future to return leadership in Russia and improve its serious financial condition.

As a result of the explosion in the center of Baghdad on Thursday, 8 Iraqi police and military personnel were killed. Another 25 people, including civilians, were injured. According to the incoming information, in the Carrada Carrada, a car filled by explosives, which was ruled by a suicide bomber, flew into the air in the metropolitan district of Karrad, ITAR-TASS reports. The area in which the explosion occurred was inhabited mainly by Shiites.

The New York restaurateur has prepared the most extravagant pizza in the world worth $ 1,000 with six types of caviar and fresh lobsters. Nino Selimai, who came to New York from Albania 30 years ago, and now owns six pizzerias in the city, presented his "luxurious pizza" with caviar, lobsters, sour cream and onions last Wednesday, the facts reports. If you cut this pizza into eight parts, then each will cost $ 125.

Bremen Verder made his way to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup, having won the offender of the Moscow Spartak Spartak, and 2-0 in the response match. Heartily patting the nerves of Chelsea and Barcelona during the group stage of the Champions League, Tomas Shaf’s wards do not hide their ambitions and desires to get to the very top in the UEFA Cup. Brementsev is rightly attributed to the favorites of the tournament, and they over and over again prove the validity of their claims.

As the Pentagon is becoming increasingly difficult to find new recruits, some deputies of the American Congress and the military propose to openly recruit gays and lesbians into the army, noting that 11077 of them - that is, a whole division - were fired due to non -traditional sexual orientation from 1994 to 2005, and among them there were many doctors and 54 Arab -speaking linguists, in which so so The US Army in Iraq needs now, writes Liberal .

Five regular members of the UN Security Council and Germany agreed on a draft new resolution on Iran, which provides for sanctions for refusing to freeze a nuclear program, reports Skynews. “We have an agreement on the text, and the United Kingdom will present it,” the Permanent Representative of Great Britain at the UN Emir Jones Parry said on Thursday.

The Iraq appeal court approved on Thursday the death sentence to the former vice-president of the country Taha Yasin Ramadan. The death sentence to Ramadan was sentenced in the case of the mass murder of the inhabitants of the Shiite village of Dudamil in 1982.