The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office in Moscow opened a criminal case against a gynecologist of a private clinic in which the patient died from abortion, the head of the SCP SU Anatoly Bagmet told Interfax on Saturday.

Russia's consent to impose new sanctions against Iran will negatively affect the economic cooperation of the two countries, including in the energy sector, said Iranian ambassador to the Russian Federation Mahmoud Reza Sajadi. "Today, Russia takes 36th place in Iran’s trade exchanges. And the policy of our leadership boils down to rise to 15th place. That is, we strive to strengthen our ties," he said in an interview with Interfax .

On February 12, a tragedy occurred at the venerable sports sports training on a sanctuary at the Whistler-the Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili in the last turn failed and flew out of the sleigh, hitting the fence, and already in the hospital from the injuries died. The tragedy with the Georgian Sanctor occurred at the very beginning of the sixth and final training session, which started about 10 in the morning local time.

About 1 thousand inhabitants of the Samara region gathered on Saturday for a rally organized by the Kirov Square in Samara organized by the party demanding the resignation of the governor of the region Vladimir Artyakov, the Interfax-Volga region in the Central Council of the party told the agency. As the correspondent of Interfax reports, the gathered chanted slogans criticizing the regional authorities.

The mentor of the Russian national football team Hus Hiddink will leave his post on June 30, 2010, when his contract with the Russian Football Union (RFU) expires. This was stated by the Dutch specialist in his column in the newspaper De Telegraaf . “After a very benevolent conversation with the new President of the RFU, Sergei Fursenko, we agreed to part on June 30,” Hiddink admitted.

Experts of the International Sailor Federation (FIL) and the Organizing Committee of Games in Vancouver, having studied all the details of the tragic death of the Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili during training, came to the conclusion that the cause of its departure from the highway was a pilot error, and not the structural features of the route in the stages.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell organized a charity show on Friday evening as part of a high fashion week, the funds from which will be sent to help Haiti, according to the official website of the event that takes place in New York. In a press release of Campbell, in whose veins the Caribbean blood flows, she stated that she wanted to help the island state, brutally affected by the earthquake. The proceeds will be aimed at medical programs for women and children.

The formation of a “moral attitude” in society for the modernization of the country was devoted today to a meeting of three party clubs of United Russia. The discussion passed behind closed doors, and judging by the information post sent later, it did not lead to the development of uniform approaches to solving such a difficult problem, ITAR-TASS reports.

Olympic skiing competitions among men in the “high-speed descent” discipline, which were supposed to take place on Saturday, were postponed indefinitely due to heavy snowfall and rain on the highway in Wistler. Schedule of the XXI Winter Olympic Games “The highway was caused a lot of damage due to warm weather, snow and rain,” admitted Gunther Guyar, director of the competition. Recall that Russia in this form is represented by Alexander Khoroshilov and Stepan Zuev.

Open Day and Winter Winter took place on Saturday in the location of the Moscow riot police with the participation of invited human rights activists. “It is very good that a lot of people, press have gathered here. OMON should be open and transparent so that everyone can see their achievements and problems, and problems are in every team,” said Vladimir Lukin, who took part in the event, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation.

A woman detained on suspicion that she had firing at a university in the American city of Huntsville (Alabama) was a teacher of this educational institution, the Chinese agency Sinhua reports on Saturday, citing a statement by a representative of the university. According to the representative of the university of Ray Garner, three people were killed during firing, three more were injured. Of these, five are teachers of the university, a full -time employee was also wounded.

President of Cyprus Dimitris Khristofias assured the opposition on Saturday that he would not go to unprofitable Greeks-kipriotes compromises at negotiations with Turks-kypriots about the reunification of the island, the press service of Christopias said. Cyprus has been divided since 1974 by a Turkish military invasion.

The special commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), created at the direction of the President of the organization Jacques Rogge, studies the causes of the tragedy on the Sanno-Bobslane highway in Wistler, where on Friday a few hours before the opening ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Games, the Georgian Sledon Nodar Kumaritashvili crashed.

From the early morning of Saturday, Muscovites have been going to the conservatory to say goodbye to the outstanding singer of our time Irina Arkhipova, who died on Thursday at the 86th year of her life, RIA Novosti reports. Her coffin is installed in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, where the voice of the great singer sounded repeatedly. And now music and her singing sounds in the hall.

The Russian woman Vera Zvonareva beat the representative of Kazakhstan Yaroslav Shvedova and reached the finals of the tennis tournament in Pattaya, which had already won last year. In the semifinals, the first racket of the competition in 2 hours 12 minutes managed to achieve a difficult victory with a score of 6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 3.