On Sunday night in Vancouver, the Olympic Short Treku tournament started. South Korean June Su Lee won gold at a distance of 1,500 m, silver and bronze went to the Americans Apolo Anton and Jay Chelski. Schedule of the XXI Winter Olympic Games The winner is quite young - he is only 20 years old. And he managed to surpass the athlete, whom he considers his idol - American Apolo, who has already won the sixth Olympic award.

Last night, Moscow time at the Canada Hockey Place Olympic Ice Arena in Vancouver, a women's hockey tournament started. In the group "A", the mistress of the ice did not leave stone on the stone from the defense of the Slovakian national team, defeating them with a score of 18: 0. The advantage of the throws of the ancestors of the hockey was also overwhelming - 67: 9. All issues were removed in the first period, which ended with a score of 7: 0.

The number of extremist crimes in Moscow has declined, Anatoly Bagmet, head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in Moscow, told Interfax . “In general, it can be stated that in 2009 there was a general decrease in almost 25% of crimes committed for extremist reasons, and this, of course, is a positive dynamics,” he said.

Doctors of the Romanian national team did not allow the Sanctor Violetta Straimatura, who had an accident in training, to participate in competitions at the Vancouver Olympics. “She is being removed from the competition. Doctors came to the conclusion that she should not be performed,” the Romanian delegation said. In one of the training attempts to Straimatura at high speed, she hit the fence several times, after which she lost consciousness for a short while.

The famous English writer Dick Francis (real name Richard Stanley Francis) died at the age of 89, Sky News reports. Francis was a master of the detective genre. He wrote 40 novels, the actions in which are connected with the world of equestrian sport and around it. Francis began his career as a jockey on races, served as a pilot during the Second World War, then in the 50s he repeatedly became the champion of the country.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine, presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, who, according to preliminary data, lost the election on February 7 to the opposition leader of the regions Viktor Yanukovych, announces mass fakes in the elections and intends to appeal their results in court, RIA Novosti reports. The CEC calculated 100% of the electronic protocols in the elections of the President of Ukraine: Yanukovych is gaining 48.95% of votes, Tymoshenko - 45.47%.

The Central Election Commission announced Viktor Yanukovych by the elected president of Ukraine, Interfax reports. This follows from the protocol of the results of the second round of elections on February 7, which was announced at a meeting of the Central Election Commission on Sunday. The protocol was signed by all 15 members of the CEC, including 5 - with a separate opinion.

Negotiations between Russian entrepreneur Alexander Lebedev and the British company publishing the Independent newspaper are delayed about the purchase of this publication and will not be completed, as it was planned, until February 15, the newspaper reports "> Financial Times. On Monday, the term of the Lebedev’s right to exclusive negotiations on the purchase of a newspaper and the Sunday publication of the same name expires.

The seventh racket of the world is Russians Elena Dementyeva, the winner of the tournament of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in Paris. On Sunday, Lena, in a stubborn struggle, prevailed over 23-year-old Czech Lucy Shafarzhova with a score of 6: 7 (5), 6: 1, 6: 4. During the entire match, Dementiev only once lost her submission, and she scored four Breaks. The duel lasted 2 hours 17 minutes.

The lack of supply of Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems Iran negatively affects the image of Russia around the world, says Iranian ambassador to the Russian Federation Mahmoud Reza Sajadi. “I think that such a state of affairs harms the political image of Russia around the world and the image of its technologies. Judging by the signals that we receive from the Russian public, this is actually an insult to Russia,” he said in an interview with Interfax .

Silver medalist of the Olympiad 2006 Russian Albert Demchenko is the fourth after the second attempt in competitions in the Sannaya Sports at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver Schedule of the XXI Winter Olympic Games On the hilter-bebslane highway, a little modified after the death of the Georgian sanitary, Nodar Kumaritashvili, in the first arrival of single men, he showed the fifth result, and according to the results of the second rose to one position The leadership of Felix Loch captured

Russian Mikhail Yuzhny made his way to the finals of the tennis tournament in Rotterdam, whose prize fund exceeds the million euros, but lost to the decisive battle of the trophy Swede Robin containing. In the semi-final match, the 20th racket of the world defeated the first sowing number Serb Novaku Jokovic with a score of 7: 6, 7: 6. According to the results of the match, which lasted a total of 2 hours 16 minutes, Mikhail was able to equalize the account of personal meetings with Novak (3-3).

The Russian Security Council believes that potential sanctions against Tehran must correspond to the degree of threat that the Iranian nuclear program presents. "The deviation in any direction may have undesirable consequences. If we talk about sanctions, then you can not drive Iran in a corner," Interfax said Deputy Secretary of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation Vladimir Nazarov.

The passenger car was fired by unknown persons on Sunday at 17:30 Moscow time in the municipal district of Gamurzievo City Nazran on the road near the local mosque, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia said. "As a result of the shelling of the VAZ -2110 car, the woman located in it died on the spot. Two more people were injured in varying severity," said the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The astronauts of the American shuttle of Endeavour Robert Benken and Nicholas Patrick safely work in the near-Earth orbit to establish a water supply system for the new technological module of the International Space Station (ISS), during which a small leak of ammonia occurred, NASA reports on Sunday. "During the operation of the astronauts, a small leak of ammonia occurred. Astronaut Nicholas Patrick removed the cover from the new module connector and saw ammonia crystals," the message said.