In St. Petersburg, in the 72nd year of his life, the famous Russian film director Yevgeny Mezentsev died, Interfax reports with reference to the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. Relatives promise to clarify the date and place of the director’s funeral later. “So far, approximately, the funeral will take place on Saturday, but everything can change,” the interlocutor of the agency in the UK said. Mezentsev was born in 1938 in Moscow. He studied at VGIK at the faculty of the faculty.

The National Assembly (Parliament) of France approved at its meeting the use of the country's latest scanners at the airports to inspect passengers. Such devices completely shine through the clothes and allow you to instantly detect the weapon and explosives hidden under it, without resorting to a manual search. It is stipulated that no images obtained when using scanners will save airport security services.

The leadership of the Israeli Football Federation sees the Dutch coach of the Russian national team Hus Hiddink as a mentor of his national team. According to Life Sports , the Israelis have already managed to communicate with representatives of the eminent 63-year-old specialist. The Israeli national team does not have the head coach now, and they hope to find it until the summer - as soon as possible.

On the eve of the elections of the mayor of the eagle, scheduled for Sunday, February 14, United Russia, a special electorate was returned - patients of the regional specialized psychiatric hospital, which contains criminals recognized as insane, the New Region agency reports. By the decision of the precinct election commission No. 785 located in the hospital, 590 patients of this medical institution are included in the lists of voting in the election of the mayor.

On the night of Saturday, Moscow time in the Canadian Vancouver will start the XXI Winter Olympic Games. Until the end of February, athletes from more than 80 countries will play 86 sets of awards in 15 sports. The favorite of the current games are the national teams of Germany, the USA, Austria, Russia and Canada. The Germans are strong in biathlon, beobser, skate and sanny sports. Americans are snowboarding, skates and short track.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who lost the presidential election, can be resigned on Tuesday February 16 - immediately after the formation of a new ruling coalition in the Verkhovna Rada. The Party of Regions, headed by the winner Viktor Yanukovych, count on just such a development of events, writes the Ukrainian edition of Kommersant on Friday.

In the beginning of the next week, residents of the village of Rechnik, at the beginning of the Moscow Arbitration Court of Moscow, have two lawsuits for almost 18 billion rubles for the capital's mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the prefect of the northern administrative district of the city Oleg Mitvol, RIA Novosti writes with reference to the legal consultant of the garden non -profit partnership (SNP), Alexander Legalin.

In the Olympic Vancouver, with the traditional for visiting “Russian parties” by a scope, high -ranking guests, folk songs performed by Cossack groups and an abundance of Russian symbols, “Russian House” was opened. According to the organizers of the "Russian House", the total area that it occupies is about 10 thousand square meters, which makes it the largest in the history of games, reports Bfm.ru.

The husband and eleven -year -old daughter of the deceased Ekaterina Kangina, the alleged culprit of the explosion and fire in the military arsenal in Ulyanovsk, are evicted outside. Husband Igor Kangin is trying to achieve justice and get compensation from a military enterprise through the court. Recall that an employee of the 31st Arsenal Ekaterina Kangina probably violated safety precautions in the disposal of ammunition.

The Government of the Russian Federation approved the concept of the federal system of citizens' preparation for military service until 2020, which is published by the Russian Newspaper today. The core of the concept will be a modernized system of training and education of conscripts, created on the basis of DOSAAF. The main goal of the entire work is to “guarantee 100 percent completion of parts by recruiters prepared by recruits who want and capable of serving,” the newspaper writes.

The metropolitan police detained a scammer nicknamed a draft, whose victim was the parliamentarian and member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) Eduard Markin. The criminal lured the deputy’s guard in a fake exchange point, where he abducted 14 million rubles with deception .

An entrepreneur from Dnepropetrovsk invented a device for the production of biofuel at home. The so -called Biodiesel Sergey Goloburda produces from the waste of oil processing enterprises - cafes and restaurants. The developer assures that the resulting fuel is economical and, which is characteristic, positively affects the efficiency of the engines. For the production of biodesel at home, the Dnepropetrovsk craftsman uses any animal fat, including fish, chicken, pork, and cow.

The state’s efforts to control the prices of medicines can give a side effect. It is possible that some of the drugs will disappear from pharmacies, because companies do not have time to register the maximum price on them on time. As previously reported, within time from January 1, 2010 to April 1, all manufacturers are obliged to register maximum vacation prices for vital and most important drugs in Roszdravnadzor, Vedomosti write.

The Israeli Canal 10 television channel showed fragments of a hidden video on which the chief adviser to the Palestinian leader Rafik Husseini forces the applicant to work in the Palestinian administration to engage in sexual relations with him. According to Inopressa.ru with reference to Le Temps , Husseini also speaks of corruption in the leadership of PA and calls the names, including Yasir Arafat and Tiraui Tauhika, whom he calls the "main thieves".

The Khamovnican Court of Moscow on Friday will make a decision at the request of the prosecutor’s office to extend until May 17, the arrest of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of the Menatep MFI Platon Lebedev, accused of embezzlement of 350 million tons of oil, RIA Novosti reports. The term of the arrest of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev expires on February 17.