For the third time this season, the Russian biathlonist Dmitry Yaroshenko was convicted by the International Biathlon Union (IBU) in the use of prohibited drugs, the press release posted on the IBU website on Sunday reports. The doping test was positive, which was taken from 32-year-old Yaroshenko during the stage of the World Cup in German Oberhof (early January 2009). The Russian refused to open the sample B, thereby admitting to the use of doping.

The reason for the tragedy that led to a fire in a three -story residential building of the village of Aksarai Astrakhan Region was a careless handling of fire. "As the main version of the cause of the fire in the three -story hostel of the village of Aksarai (Youth), we consider the careless handling of fire," the official representative of the prosecutor's office of the Astrakhan region told Interfax on Sunday.

In the criminal circles of Italy, phone calls over the Internet are gaining more and more popularity, as they help to avoid a police "wiretap", the Air Force reports. Sources in the Italian police say that the participants in the criminal syndicates involved in the trade in weapons, drugs and people, for their negotiations, are increasingly using the Skype computer program to confuse the investigation.

The General Motors union in St. Petersburg intends to demand from the leadership to abandon the plans for the launch of the enterprise on the reduced schedule, since the workers, according to profaveders, will not be able to live on a salary for a three -day working week, said the chairman of the professionalization of the plant Yevgeny Ivanov. Now the Petersburg GM plant, which opened in November last year, is operating in test mode.

The regime of the counter -terrorism operation was introduced on Sunday by the decision of the operational headquarters to counteract terrorism to the parts of the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, Interfax reported in the group of public relations (GOS) of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Republic. In the forests, measures are being held to search and neutralize participants in illegal armed groups.

Five foreign sailors from a sinking vessel registered under the flag of Sierra Leone died while trying to raise them on board from a rescue raft, RIA Novosti said on Sunday, the captain of the Vladivostok Coordinating and rescue center (SCC). The foreign carriage began to sink fifty miles from the port of the Podorsky Territory on Sunday morning in local time. From him, 16 sailors were evacuated from him to two rescue inflatable rafts, all foreign citizens.

The London Chelsea on Saturday in the 1/8 Cup of England on football at a guest won a difficult victory with a score of 3: 1 over the club of the Second Watford Division, pleasing his new head coach Hus Hiddinka. The mentor of the Russian national team, now combining this position with work in Chelsea, did not lead the London team from the field of the field - the functions of the head coach were temporarily performed by Ray Wilkins.

The situation in Russia in connection with the crisis is quite understandable and controlled, convinced by the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev. “You know, the forecasts are really not pleasing, they are rather complicated, and most experts, most analytical agencies give different forecasts, but they are all complicated,” he said in an interview with the host of the Vesti Week program Evgeny Revenko.

The Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko promised to take measures to ensure that graduates of spiritual universities could eventually defend candidate and doctoral dissertations within the framework of educational institutions.

The Minister of the Japanese Government on the problem of reducing the birth rate and equality between the floors, 35-year-old Yuko’s training is expecting a child. It is reported today by the office of the Cabinet of Ministers. This is the first case of pregnancy in history of the current minister of the government of Japan.

The authoritative jury of the International Biathlon Union returned the "gold" to the Norwegian Oleu-Einar Bjornalen based on the results of the persecution race at the World Cup in the South Korean Pyeongchang.

The support rating of Japanese Prime Minister Taro ASO fell to 9.7%, Reuters reported on Sunday with reference to the NTV local television channel survey. The prime minister’s rating fell after a series of unsuccessful, according to the public, political actions during a deepening recession in the country against the background of a global economic crisis.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 occurred today in Japan. According to meteorological administration, there is no threat of tsunami. Data is not received about the victims and destruction. The epicenter of an underground push recorded by seismologists at 18:24 local time (12:24 Moscow time) was located off the coast of the Ivata Prefecture, which is located in the north of the main Japanese Island of Honsu. The hearth lay at a depth of about 40 km.

A message about a fire in a residential building - a building of a former dormitory in the Astrakhan region, which claimed the lives of 15 people, entered the remote control of a single duty dispatch service late, noted in the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation.

The twentieth anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan is celebrated today in Russia. On February 15, 1989, at 10 hours 30 minutes, the commander of the 40th Army, Lieutenant General Boris Gromov, the last of the limited contingent of the Soviet troops crossed the bridge over the Amu Darya, sharing the USSR and Afghanistan. Thus ended the nine -year unnecessary war, whose victims were about 15 thousand Soviet troops and at least 100 thousand Afghans.