Russia chooses today a new, third in the history of the country of the President. The second president of Russia - Vladimir Putin, elected to this position eight years ago, has already worked out two four -year -olds stipulated by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and on May 7 should leave the highest state post. Presidential elections are held in Russia for the fifth time. The post of President of the Russian Federation was established at a popular referendum in 1991.

The appearance of voters in the presidential election of the Russian Federation is 3-5% higher than the turnout in the parliamentary elections in December 2007, the head of the CEC Vladimir Churov said at a press conference on Sunday. He noted that the Central Election Commission has already been received from the regions on the appearance of voters at 10:00, 14:00 and even 17:00 local time.

The forward of the London Arsenal Eduard da Silva is grateful to physiotherapist Gary Levin, who saved his career Brazilian Croat. "The injury was very serious, and I was afraid that I could lose my feet. I was grateful to Gary for minimizing the risk. I almost don’t remember what happened on the field - I woke up already in the hospital." The football player received a fracture of his legs after a collision with the club defender Martin Taylor.

The Israeli military will continue the offensive operation in the gas sector, said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday, AP agency reports. On Saturday morning, Israeli military conduct a large ground operation in the north-east of the gas sector, they inflicted air strikes throughout the enclave in response to the missile shelling of Palestinian militants.

The former ex-Vice-president of the company Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan today was given the opportunity to vote in the election of the new president of Russia today. This was reported to ITARS in the Federal Service for execution of the punishment (FSIN) of Russia.

Norwegian Jorgen Auduland became the winner of the longest ski race in the world - a 90 -kilometer Vasalopte race between the Swedish cities of Salen and Mora. The race, which started in Salen, which was near the border with Norway, found its winner after 4 hours, 13 minutes and 45 seconds. Auland has become the third Norwegian since 1971, who won this traditional race.

After a long illness, People's Artist of Georgia Sofiko, after a long illness, died on Sunday night in Tbilisi at 71 years of life, the Georgian media reported. Sofiko Chiaureli loved not only in Georgia, but also far beyond its borders. In Soviet times, films with her participation have always been very popular. Chiaureli was born in Tbilisi in the family of the famous actress Veriko Anjaparidze and the eminent director Mikhail Chiaureli.

Half of the food that is produced on British farms is thrown out, writes in the Sunday issue of the newspaper Independent . As it became known to the publication, approximately 20 million tons of food are thrown out annually throughout the country. Experts estimated that about 16 million tons of food products become waste after entering houses, hotels, shops, restaurants and food plants.

Russian President Vladimir Putin voted today for the new president of the country. Arriving at the polling station, he and his wife Lyudmila went to the table, where members of the election commission issued ballots. Member of the precinct election commission Irina Matveeva asked them for a passport. Before that, the journalists asked her whether she would verify the President’s personality with a passport, because she knows Putin well enough.

In the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt, two explosions occurred this morning. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dagestan, "the first explosion occurred at 08:45 Moscow time on Batyromurzaev Street at the time when the police" Patrol and Safe Police Service drove along the road. As a result of this explosion, no one suffered.

New peaks appeared on the Antarctica map, opened by Russian climbers under the leadership of the professor at the Department of Applied Sports and Extreme Activities of the Russian State University of Sports and Tourism, the President of the International Alpine Club of Yuri Baikovsky. The participants of the Russia-Antarctica-2008 expedition flew out on February 25 from the Cape Town on the IL-86 aircraft.

Over the past day, Fedor Konyukhov met six huge icebergs. The traveler, using good weather, takes pictures of ice skyscrapers and makes their sketches. "The southern Pacific Ocean does not give me relaxing and even in calm weather, as now, I have to constantly be on the deck and watch the horizon. The icebergs go to the wall, I will already spend 2 videos of the cassettes on them, I write each iceberg in the ship's magazine, I note on the map, I make sketching in the notebook.

Famous in the vulgar French footballer, and now President UEFA Michel Platini, published his point of view on the transition of young players from one club to another. The last scandalous events connected by the "luring" of young talents prompted him to such a statement. “I will fight the existing youth transfers system. I think that the football player should sign his first contract with the club that raised and trained it,” the president said.

A duel for the world's title of World Boxing Council WBC in heavyweight between an American with Russian passport Oleg Maskaev and Nigerian Samuel Peter, which will be held on March 8 in Cancun (Mexico), will see 400 million viewers. Such figures were reported by the organizers of the fight at a press conference in Cancun. According to them, the duel will be broadcast to 180 countries, including the USA, Mexico and Russia, and in Africa the television auditor will become record.

The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov will apply to the court on the facts of falsification of elections. "We have evidence of falsification of elections, and we will go to court," Zyuganov said. Gennady Zyuganov believes that the results of the presidential election will not contribute to solving the problems facing the country, and declares numerous violations.