In the Perm Territory, during the hunt, the Deputy General Director of Gazprom-Nadym Konstantin Pavlov died. Having accepted him for a boar, in him the chairman of the Interregional Trade Union organization Gazprom Vladimir Babkin shot him, the New Region agency reports. Last Friday on February 19, Gazprom managers hunted boars in the forest under Tchaikovsky - in the hunting farm belonging to the director of Transgaz, Infox.ru reports. A bullet launched by Babkin wounded Pavlova in his stomach.

Russia, famous for its achievements in winter sports, is most often weaved in Vancouver. The head of the government Putin is outraged, he is afraid of the defeat of his athletes in Sochi, reports Inopressa.ru with reference to the Financial Times Deutschland . In Vancouver, before the start of the Olympic Games, a lot was said about Russian athletes.

The 90-year-old Taiwanese pensioner arranged an act of self-immolation in the center of Beijing on Wednesday, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Xinhua agency. According to these data, a native of the largest Chinese island set himself on fire with the help of a fanned newspaper near the Taiwan Chancellery building at the PRC State Council at 12:30 local time (07:30 p.m. Moscow time). The guards arrived quickly put out the old man who escaped with light burns.

The Russian football season was officially opened last Thursday by the Kazan Rubin, which played in the Europa League. Now the Moscow CSKA, who managed to leave behind the group stage of the Champions League "Wolfsburg and Besiktash", on Wednesday in the first match of the 1/8 tournament, tied with the Spanish "Seville" in a home match in Luzhniki. - "Inter" beat Chelsea on "San Siro" CSKA 1: 1 "Seville" Gonzalez, 66 The match is over Negredo, 26 Stadium: Luzhniki, Moscow.

The main owner of Mirax Group, Sergei Polonsky, had to part with one of his iconic projects abroad - the Sungate Port Royal hotel in Turkey. The buyer was the consortium of Turkish investors, the amount of the transaction amounted to 190 million euros.

The oldest English realtor of elite housing, Chesterton Humans, enters the Russian market. The Moscow office of the company opened in early February, the main area of ​​its activities will be the sale of elite residential real estate in Russia, primarily in Moscow and the Moscow Region, write with reference to Greg Teyn, the head of the Russian representative office of Chesterton Humbers, who previously headed the Board of Directors of the Knight Frank in Russia.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accepted on Wednesday in the Kremlin the Supreme Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - the First Deputy Chairman of the European Commission Baroness Katherine Ashton. During the negotiations, he expressed hope for a productive dialogue with new representatives of the EU leadership on the interaction of Russia and the European Union.

In the north-west of Turkey, in the province of Balykesir, at least 17 people died as a result of a methane explosion at the mine. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Anatolian agency, 12 workers died on the spot as a result of detonation, five more died from injuries and burns in the hospital. According to the governor of the province of Yilmaz Arslan, "there is no one left in the mine.

The son of Sheikh Hassan Yuseph, one of the leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement "Hamas", served for more than ten years an informant for the Israeli security service "Shin Bet". The 32-year-old Mosab Hassan Yusef, who turned to Christianity, was one of the most valuable sources of information in the leadership of the group, writes Inopressa with reference to Haaretz .

The commander of the group of liquidators of one of the leaders of the Palestinian group "Hamas" Mahmud al-Mabukha , who possessed an Irish passport in the name of Kevin Daveron, indicated the house of the ex-head of the government of Ireland as a place of his residence. In the account from the Jumeirah Hotel, Daverron indicated as address house number 6 on Eldin Road Street in the Dublin quarter Bolsbridge, writes The Irish Times .

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill is confident that the sensational television series "School" shown on Channel One revealed a huge reason for a popular fears, and expressed the hope that the future of Russia would not depend on such young people that are represented there. The “school”, which is positioned as a “radical series about adolescents”, showed Channel One since January 11.

Several people staged a fight at the Tretyakovskaya station on Wednesday evening. This led to the breakdown of the car and delayed trains, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the law enforcement agencies of the city. The incident occurred around 20:40. For reasons not yet clarified in one of the train wagons, which at that time at the Tretyakovskaya station, a fight began. The train driver for 10 minutes tried to close the doors and go on.

The triumphal finish of the Russian team consisting of Svetlana Sleptsova, Anna Bogali-Titovets, Olga Medvedtseva and Olga Zaitseva in the women's relay 4x6 km with an advantage over the nearest rival in more than 30 seconds took place without a traditional Russian tricolor.

Women in Russia live an average of 73 years, and men are only 60 years old, notes the UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon in his report "Health Protection, incidence, mortality and development." The report was published the day before at the New York headquarters of the organization, RIA Novosti reports. In general, according to UN experts, this corresponds to a global trend. The expected life expectancy of women in 2005-2010 is 70 years, and men - 65 years.

The number of unemployed, registered in the Russian employment service, increased by 1.4% in a week and amounted to 2.263 million people by February 17, the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation reported . Since the beginning of 2010, the number of registered unemployed grew on average by 1.25% per week (at the same period of 2009 this indicator was 4%), ITAR-TASS reports.