The known in the past, the goalkeeper of the German football team Oliver Kan rejected the proposal of the Schalke club to become a general manager. According to the results of negotiations with the leadership of the team from Gelsenkirchen, who wanted to see the ex-and-hekper on the site of the previously dismissed general manager Andreas Meller, according to the results of negotiations. Schalke needs a manager who would have devoted himself to the team one hundred percent.

The leader of the Communist Party and her parliamentary faction in the State Duma Gennady Zyuganov said that the party leaders agreed not to picket each other's party events, Interfax reports. “We have long agreed with the heads of parties not to picket our events,” said Zyuganov, opening the plenum of the Communist Party, which takes place on Saturday in the suburbs. Meanwhile, he remarked, the “Young Guard” tried to picket today's event, and “this is disgrace”.

Tibet celebrates a new holiday on March 28 - the day of the abolition of serfdom, RIA Novosti reports. The decision to proclaim the new "Red Date" was made in January 2009 in connection with the 50th anniversary of the start of reforms carried out in the Tibetan Autonomous Region by the Chinese government. About 14 thousand people gathered to celebrate a new holiday in the administrative center of Tibet Lhasa at the famous palace.

On Sakhalin, two passenger trains that visited snow captivity arrived today at the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk end station, ITAR-TASS reports. In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the arrived transit passengers by railway workers at their own expense are taken to the airport or settled at the hotel. In total, in the five trains stuck in the snow there were 733 people, 45 of them were children.

Boris Nemtsov is threatened to continue to transfer money from abroad, reports Echo of Moscow . The day before, the headquarters of the mayor of Sochi already called the “provocation” of the receipt of several thousand dollars from the United States. According to the law, financing of the election company from abroad is prohibited. The Interfax agency reports that Nemtsov’s associates are called a certain person who says that he intends to transfer money to his account.

The US authorities send additional forces in the city of Fargo in the north of the country, the Federal Emergency Agency (FEMA) said. Northern Dakota was subjected to strong floods due to ice congestion on rivers and snow melting. The situation is complicated by adverse weather conditions: snowstorms are raging for several days in a row in the region.

The Soyuz manned ship with the Russian-American crew of three today at 16:05 Moscow time was attached to the International Space Station (ISS) in manual mode. This was announced by ITAR-TASS by the official representative of the flight control center Valery Lyndin. The TMA-14 Union could not be attached today to the ISS in automatic mode. The Donkovka department was taken by the ship commander Gennady Padalka.

The UN American official, who headed the design services management in Afghanistan in 2002-2006, is accused of financial fraud totaling, exceeding half a million dollars, including the theft of 65 thousand dollars from the UN cash desk. This is stated in the report of the Office of Internal Investigations of the UN, the contents of which were reported on Friday by the American media.

The Russian national football team today will hold the next qualifying match of the 2010 World Cup with a team of Azerbaijan, which will be held at the capital's Luzhniki stadium. On the eve of the game, the mentor of Russians Dutchman Gus Hiddink noted that in any case, Azerbaijan’s team cannot be underestimated. "She does not have a European level of stars, but the opponent will be seriously tuned in playing with Russia. Most likely, he will act from defense and try to score in counterattacks.

Fifteen apartment buildings in Sochi were left on Saturday morning without gas supply due to a landslide gathering in a construction foundation pit on Nagornaya Street and a rupture of a local gas pipeline of diameters of 57 millimeters, a representative of the Sochorgaz press service told RIA Novosti . "Fifteen apartment buildings as a result of the rupture of the gas pipeline were left without gas supply," the agency’s interlocutor said.

A soldier of the Afghan National Army (ANA), killed on Friday in the north of Afghanistan, were Americans, a source in the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan told RIA Novosti . On Friday, the ANA soldier opened fire on the foreign military, killing two of them, after which he shot himself. "The incident occurred in the location of the 209th Army Corps" Shahin ", based in a suburbs of Mazari-Sharif, the administrative center of the Northern Province of Balkh.

In Italy, the police arrested her father and son, who for 25 years raped their relatives. The main victim of the perverts was the sister of the youngest of them. For 25 years she was abused, like the daughter of a terrible Austrian maniac Joseph Fritzl . The investigation of this terrible crime began in October 2008, when 34-year-old Laura came to the city of Turin.

As a result of the car accident in Thailand, 17 people died, 50 were injured. This was reported today by representatives of the metropolitan police.

The Sakhalin naval border guards had to open a warning fire to detain a foreign vessel who illegally crossed the State Border of the Russian Federation in the Southern Kurili area.

Russian skaters Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin became world champions in ice dancing, winning gold awards at the championship, which takes place these days in Los Angeles. On the night of Friday to Saturday, the duets presented their arbitrary dances to the judges, and Domnina and Shabalin were able to hold the first place that they occupied after two days of the competition. The final result of the Russian couple is 105.45 points.