In the Kemerovo region, the investigators detained the person with whom Igor Erofeevsky, who captured the hostages on Friday at the Bank of Leninsk-Kuznetskiy, talked on a cell phone.

Police officers detained a number of young people who tried to prevent the holding of the protest of opposition organizations of the left -wing one under the name "Folk Anger Day" on Saturday in Moscow. On Saturday, at the venue of the action - on the square near the 1905 street station - intensified police outfits were on duty, Interfax reports.

The 67 special forces deployed in Berdsk will not be disbanded, officers will be offered positions in constant combat readiness as part of the Siberian Military District, the head of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said on the Saturday of RIA Novosti . "No" expulsion of professionals from the army ", especially without observing and fulfilling their social obligations and guarantees to them, which some newspapers and politicians hurried about them, are not talking about.

Kazan "Ak Bars" with a score of 11: 1 defeated the local "avant-garde" in Omsk in the fourth match of the 1/4 finals of the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League. The account in the series was equal to (2: 2), the fifth decisive meeting will be held in Kazan on March 16. The guests removed all questions about the winner already in the first period won with a score of 6: 0.

The upcoming in London on April 2, the Summit of "Big Twenty" will play a significant role in the assistance of overcoming the global financial and economic crisis. Confidence in this was expressed by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who today spoke at a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Great Britain Gordon Brown, held according to the results of their meeting.

The balcony, on which, as is commonly believed, Juliet listened to the recognition of Romeo in love, it will soon be possible to rent for wedding celebrations. The authorities of the Italian city of Veron, in which William Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet”, claims to be kept that they want to consolidate the image of their city as a center of romantic love. Casa di Guilietta or Juliet's House is the XIV century building in the heart of Verona.

In Tbilisi, near the office of the youth organization of the opposition "democratic movement - a single Georgia", which is headed by the ex -chairman of the parliament Nino Burjanadze, a car exploded on Friday evening. According to Interfax with reference to the Georgian media, the explosion occurred at the moment when a group of members of the organization returned from the action that took place on Rick Square.

The mentor of the capital CSKA Vyacheslav Bykov stated that after the defeat from Dynamo (0: 3 in the series) it was time to switch to the Russian national hockey team, and also denied rumors about leaving the army club.

Russian woman Olga Zaitseva won a bronze medal in a 7.5 km sprint as part of the Biathlon World Cup, which takes place in the Canadian Vancouver these days. One of the main characters of the last championship of the planet, not allowing a single miss when shooting at two firing borders, showed the time of 19 minutes 45.2 seconds - a wonderful indicator! However, the winner of the race Swede Helen Yunsson was a little faster than Olga - she passed the distance of one and a half seconds faster.

In the city of Dalnerechensk of the Primorsky Territory, commemorative measures were held on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the armed conflict on the island of Damansky. “In the fighting, when protecting the border at that time, 56 soldiers and officers of the border troops and units of the Far Eastern Military District were killed.

The Katar television channel Al-Jazeera announced on Saturday a new message to the leader of the Al-Qaeda International Terrorist Organization Ben Ben Laden, we are talking about audio recordings, Reuters reported on Saturday. This time Ben Laden accused the heads of several Arab states of conspiracy with the West against the Islamic world. According to the CIA, the number one terrorist is hidden in the border areas of Pakistan and no longer carries out the daily management of Al-Qaeda.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin considers the forecast of the federal budget deficit for 2009 in the amount of 8% of GDP. “I think that our forecast - 8% of GDP - is rather optimistic,” he said, answering the question of whether it is possible to expect a smaller deficiency, based on the latest data execution of the federal budget in January -February 2009.

Portuguese Winger "Manchester United" Cristiano Ronaldo once again testified to the club, the colors of which have been defending the sixth season. “I am happy that I am in the strongest team on the planet is a great honor for any football player. With the transition to Manchester, my life has turned into a real holiday - and I don’t want to leave somewhere,” 24 -year -old Ronaldo said in an interview with Daily Mirror , who had been trying to move to Madrid's “Real” last summer.

The missile, with the help of which Pyongyang intends to bring a satellite into the near -Earth orbit, is able to hit targets within a radius of over 7 - 8 thousand kilometers. To this conclusion, the Seoul newspaper Choson Ilbo reports today, experts of intelligence services of South Korea and the USA came.

Deputies of the Oryol Regional Council today have amended the Charter (Basic Law) of the Oryol Region and adopted the Law "On the Government and System of Executive State Power of the Oryol Region".