Russian diplomat Dmitry Trofimov, who oversees political questions at the Russian Embassy in Canada, will answer questions from deputies of the House of Communities of Canada on Monday.

Due to the cyclone passing along the Pacific coast of Russia, an emergency warning is announced today about the possible emergency situations in the Sakhalin Region and the Khabarovsk Territory. On March 23-24, strong and very strong precipitation in the form of wet snow, blizzards, wind strengthening up to 20-25 meters per second are predicted there, ITAR-TASS reports.

One of the largest private shareholders of Gazprom, Sberbank and Rosneft Elena Baturina is ready to part with the papers of these companies in order to repay the loan of his construction company Inteko Gazprombank, they write Vedomosti on Monday with reference to Baturina itself. According to the newspaper, on Friday, the “chips” of Baturina cost 18.5 billion rubles on the MICEX, and Inteko should Gazprombank about 15 billion rubles, which is about half the total debt of the company.

In the Altai Territory, the two homeless people who are found guilty of rape of adolescents and the murder of a woman were sentenced. To hide the traces of the crime, the tramps tried to burn the children alive.

The summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in 2012 in Vladivostok will lose the Opera and Ballet Theater, the Medical Center, the forum budget will also be reduced . The summit will be held in Vladivostok , conversations are refuted about the termination of financing a large construction site, ”Mayor Igor Pushkarev told the residents of Vladivostok. However, as an independent newspaper writes, a list of 36 objects planned to be built to the forum is reduced.

On Monday, the Hockey players of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv on Monday beat Magnitogorsk Metallurg in the third match with a score of 4: 2 and first led the continental hockey league in the semifinal series of the playoffs. At the same time, Kari Hikekil’s wards, as in two fights regularly, won the Ural club, missing the first. The guests managed to abandon the decisive goals, realizing the extra player twice.

The flight management center in Houston (Texas) ordered Discovery astronauts to stop attempts to bring the bracket to the regular position, designed to attach a lered platform on the outside of the International Space Station. Recall that the previous time the astronauts were mistaken , fixing the equipment on the external body of the ISS. During the final exit to the open space, two astronauts tried to put in order the frozen bracket, but they did not succeed.

In the current crisis situation in the US economy, there is also a “potential lumen”: its restoration can occur as quickly as the entry during the recession. This opinion was expressed in an interview with CBS by US President Barack Obama. Answering the question of how much, in his opinion, the economic crisis in the United States could last, he stated that the "glimpses of hope" had already been outlined.

The host of Google designer Douglas Bowman quit the company, finally reporting on his blog that the reason for leaving was the impossibility of working with Google employees due to different views on the work of designers and the excessive passion of former colleagues with small little things, the weblanet reports. “I started working in Google three years ago. I created a team and was happy to hire beautiful talented designers to work.

If your mailbox is in the Gmail system, now you have a chance in the literal sense of the word to return the sent letter back, reports CybersecUmyity.ru . The other day, Google announced the emergence of a new Undo Send function in her postal service (cancellation of sending), with the help of which the letter just sent can be canceled. However, this function works unusual - you are given only 5 seconds to the decision to send or cancel.

Employers in the Primorsky Territory, due to the financial crisis, began to force employees to write applications for dismissal of their own free will, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of the deputy head of the State Labor Inspectorate in the region of Tatyana Kuznetsova. "Since the beginning of 2009, we have already received 70 such complaints from employees, last year there were units last year," Kuznetsova said on Monday at a press conference.

Joseph Weiss, representative of the company Applied Control Solutions, whose maintenance is to ensure the safety of industrial IT systems, provided members of the Special Committee of the US Senate, which lists all the fixed cases of unintentional or deliberate decommissioning, including IT infrastructures deployed on the nuclear power plant power plants, hydroelectric power stations, as well as decisions used in the oil industry and in the agricultural industry.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Monday for the first time in many years arrived on an official visit to Iraq. During the visit, which will last until March 24, he will discuss the problem of struggle with Kurdish separatists and issues of strengthening bilateral relations, ITAR-TASS reports. The previous trip of the head of the Turkish Republic to a neighboring country was 33 years ago. She was performed by the then Turkish leader Fahri Koruturk.

In Moscow, a third -grader was detained and his mother, who became the culprits of the commotion of city services at Vnukovo Airport. Having played into the bandits, the schoolboy forced the police to look for a non -existent bomb.

Representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate note "some improvement in the climate of bilateral Orthodox-Catholic relations." “We have had fewer complaints about the actions of the Catholic orders in Russia, which caused our concern,” ITAR -TASS said the acting chairman of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP), Bishop Yegoryevsky Mark, commenting on the results of his meeting in Moscow with the states by Archbishop Dominikom Mamberty.