In the south-west of China, the strongest drought has continued over the past 50 years, almost 6 million people experience a lack of drinking water. This was reported today by the Sinhua agency with reference to the statement of the State Staff to combat floods and droughts. The most serious situation has developed in the provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, where the lack of precipitation caused serious damage to agriculture and livestock, ITAR-TASS reports.

Russian actors Grigory Dobrygin and Sergey Pukepalis, as well as the operator Pavel Kostomarov, became laureates of the 60th Berlinal International Film Festival, they were awarded for work on the film "How I carried out this summer" directed by Alexei Popogrebsky. On Saturday evening, a ceremony of awarding the winners of this prestigious film festival was held in the German capital.

The American specialist in Russian-Iranian relations, Mark Katz considers Russia's policy regarding Iran reasonable. “Moscow behaves reasonably, demanding from the Iranians the fulfillment of its conditions before fulfilling their requirements (for the supply of S -300 missiles),” Professor University George Mason in Virginia on Sunday told Interfax .

At the Olympic Games in the Vancouver in a ski race of the persecution, the Swedish national team played a brilliant team tactics. The Scandinavians correctly used the breakthrough of the Russian Alexandra Legkov , and then left our athlete in fourth place and without a medal. - Schedule of the XXI Winter Olympic Games The Olympic champion Marcus Hellner spoke about the tactical victory of the Swedish national team for the whole sport agency.

The Russian Embassy in Thailand confirms death in Pattaya on Saturday of a Russian citizen, Muscovite Denis Zaydman born in 1978, RIA Novosti was told on Sunday at the consular department of the Embassy of the Russian Federation. According to local media reports, the Russian tourist died at the Ambassador City Gioms Hotel, falling from a 16th floor balcony to the balcony of the 6th floor. The body was discovered on Saturday in the evening of hotels working on the 16th floor.

On Sunday, more than 100 military pensioners took part in the picket and collecting signatures under appeal to the country's leadership demanding to accelerate the reform of the monetary allowance of military personnel on which their pension depends.

The elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych admitted that he has three candidates for the post of prime minister - Sergey Tigipko, Arseny Yatsenyuk and Nikolai Azarov, but he had not yet made the final choice. He announced this today by the leading Ukrainian television channels at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, where a solemn prayer was held for the end of the presidential election in Ukraine.

The Russian skater Ivan Skobrev could not take a prize at a distance of 1,500 meters in the Olympic Vancouver. The champion in this discipline was the Dutch skater Mark Tatitert, who overcame the distance in 1 minute 45.57 seconds. - Schedule of the XXI Winter Olympic Games The second place was taken by the American Shani Davis, the Olympic champion of Vancouver at 1000 meters , and Hard Bokko from Norway deserved bronze.

The military operation of the joint forces of NATO and the army of Afghanistan against the Taliban in the south of Afghanistan in the city of Marge may last another 12-18 months. This was announced in an interview with the NBC television company today by the head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces David Petreus.

The overlapping or mining of the Iran of the Strait of the Strait in response to new sanctions will lead to a full -scale conflict, ”Arab military analysts say.

Russian skier Alexander Perevkov in a 30-kilometer duatlon lost the Olympiad medal. Perevkov, who, until the last seconds, claimed gold, took fourth place, lagging behind the winner of Marcus Hellner by four seconds. - Schedule of the XXI Winter Olympic Games The first to finish the Swede by Marcus Hellner, and the German skier Tobias Angerer was the second.

The head coach of the London Chelsea Carlo Ancelotti hopes that the Russian football player Yuri Zhirkov will be able to help the team in the next fight, the official website of the Blue reports. In the last round, the "aristocrats" with a score of 2: 0 prevailed over the "Wolkupompton". The double was designed by Didier Drogba, the Russian was noted by the goal, but due to a short injury he left the field in the 56th minute. “We have problems with the extreme defenders,” said Anchalotti.

One person died and another was hospitalized as a result of a fire in one of the apartments on Sunday in the east of Moscow, the press service of the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergencies said. "Today (on Sunday) at 4:44 Moscow time, a message about the fire on the fire at the address: Izmailovsky Boulevard, house 31 Corps 14, where a fire occurred on the fourth floor of a five -story residential building," the report said in a message.

In the ranks of the Hamas Islamic Resistance, there is a traitor who informed the killers about the whereabouts of the head of the military wing of the organization-“Iszdzedin al-Kassam” Mahmud al-Mabhuha, reports Al-Arabia on Sunday with reference to the police chief of Dubai, Dai Halfan Tamim. Al-Mabhuh was killed on January 20 in one of the Dubai hotels. From Dubai, al-Mabhuh intended to go to China.

The Krasnoyarsk biathlete Evgeny Ustyugov became the second Russian Olympic champion of Vancouver, winning a men's race from the mass start for 15 km with four fire borders on Sunday. Biathlonist Olga Zaitseva won "silver" in the mass start of 12.5 km. Bobsleist Alexander Zubkov and Alexei Voivoda won bronze.