President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev did not agree with the admirers of Joseph Stalin, who considered the unacceptable assessments of the times of the reign of this figure. In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine, Medvedev noted that his recent statements by the video blog in connection with the day of memory of the victims of political repression found a lively response, in particular, thousands of responses came to the presidential site to what he said.

In Altai, the power supply of 40 villages with a population of more than 11 thousand people who remained without electricity for more than a day was completely restored. About this corr. ITAR-TASS was today reported in the regional administration. The power engineers completed the liquidation of the accident, which led to a disconnection, on Saturday morning at about 9:00 local time - seven impulses were eliminated on the power line.

The United States is categorically against consideration by the UN Security Council of the Mission of Richard Goldstone, who investigated war crimes committed in the gas sector last winter. This was stated on Friday at a regular briefing, the official representative of the State Department Ian Kelly, reports ITAR-TASS. "We do not support the raising of this issue in the Security Council. Members of the UN Security Council themselves decide what problems will be touched on at the meeting.

From overcoming the split in the center of Europe, the symbol of which was almost 30 years of the Berlin Wall, everything won, but this decision required a considerable courage from the Soviet leadership. In an interview with ITAR-TASS, the former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev told about this. "This is an event that did not fall, like Manna heavenly. In fact, a very difficult path to this day was," he said.

One and a half hundred people gathered a rally of supporters of left -wing forces in the Revolution Square in the center of Moscow; This event passed without incident. According to Interfaxe, a source in law enforcement agencies, 150 people took part in the rally, mainly the elderly.

The bronze medalists of the World-2009 Championship Russians Yuko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnov became the second among sports couples in Nagano at the fourth stage of the Grand Prix on figure skating-NHK Trophy, receiving in total a short and arbitrary program of 193.05 points. They beat a personal record for 1.72 points, although in an arbitrary program they made a number of errors. And the champions of the World 2006 won the Chinese Pan Qing and the tone of Jiang (199.65).

In Chechnya, in the vicinity of the city of Argun, especially dangerous leaders of illegal armed groups were eliminated. The special operation was personally led by the President of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov told Interfax that the so -called emir of Shalinsky and Kurchalsky districts, involved in a number of terrorist attacks, and his accomplice were eliminated.

Altai social activists are outraged by the closure of the criminal case on the fact of poaching hunting and the fact that none of the officials is held accountable. This was reported by RIA Novosti . We are talking about January events when high -ranking participants in the hunting of red -knit archars died in the helicopter disaster. Public organizations of the republic say that "everything was dumped on the dead," and intend to achieve the resumption of a criminal case.

Seven people were saved and two were killed as a result of a large fire in a residential building on Marshal Tukhachevsky Street Saturday in Moscow, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the capital reports. "The fire occurred at about one in the morning on the ninth floor of a nine -story residential building on Marshal Tukhachevsky Street.

The head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Sergei Naryshkin, resigned from the post of president of the All -Russian Swimming Federation, the all sport agency reports. Naryshkin does not swim completely from the water sport: he will head the highest supervisory board of the organization. The acting President of the VFP was appointed four -time Olympic champion Vladimir Salnikov. In this status, seals will stay until February 8, 2010.

Employees of the Russian traffic police do not have enough alcohol testers to identify drunk drivers on the roads. This was announced today by the head of the Department of Roads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Viktor Kiryanov, speaking at the All -Russian meeting on the issues of security on the country's roads. “To date, we have 6 thousand 800 certified devices that allow you to determine the degree of intoxication of the driver,” Kiryanov noted.

Russian tennis player Nikolai Davydenko got a ticket to the semifinals at the tournament in Valencia, whose prize fund is more than 2 million euros. In the quarterfinal dispute, Davydenko broke the resistance of the Spaniard Guillermo Garcia -Lopes in two sets - 6: 4, 7: 6 (7: 3). The meeting lasted 1 hour 55 minutes. Nikolai implemented three Break Point out of six and made nine Aises.

As expected, humanoids from more than 100 universities from around the world will take part in the Olympics. Robots will compete in 16 types, both in the usual sports, for example, athletics, as well as applied, in particular, in cleaning floors. Moreover, in the competitions that will be held in the city of Harbin, only robots will be able to take part, similar in appearance to a person - with two hands and legs.

In Tbilisi, during these hours, a meeting of the leaders of the opposition is being held, at which they presented a report on the 6-year board of Mikhail Saakashvili in Georgia. The speeches of the leaders of the opposition were reduced to one conclusion - the president of Saakashvili must appear before the court, reports Interfax .

In the Kholmogorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, a passenger car fell from the bridge to the river, six people were killed, Interfax was told in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the accident occurred at about 8:30 on Saturday 77 km from Kholmogor on the bridge over the river Kulya.