The Russian striker of Washington Alexander Ovechkin entered the leaders in the dispute of snipers and bombers of the season in the NHL. In the game against the Atlanta, Ovechkin abandoned two goals and gave one burning gear. The double of Alexander allowed the Russian to overtake the Canadian Crosby, playing for Pittsburgh in the sniper race. From now on, there is 50 goals in the asset of the Russian (he is ahead of Crosby to one accurate throw).

Before the tragedy near Smolensk, in which the President of Poland and his accompanying persons, the most significant on the global scale, caused the death of the heads of states and politicians of the world, according to RIA Novosti , was the death of the UN Secretary General Swede Daga Hammarscheld. His plane crashed on September 18, 1961 , when the UN Secretary General was heading with a peacekeeping mission to the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

The US military announced today the temporary ending of flights to Afghanistan from the Kyrgyz base "Manas" "for security reasons" for at least 72 hours. "Despite the fact that on Friday the day, flights resumed in normal mode, in the evening of the same day it was decided to temporarily stop military transport operations," said the representative of the central command of the United States.

Dmitry Medvedev was today in a television personality to the Polish people in connection with a plane crash near Smolensk, in which the President of Poland, many representatives of the Polish military command and prominent public figures of the country, died.

The President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kachinsky will visit the Katynskoye cemetery near Smolensk today, where the first international memorial complex in Russian victims of totalitarian repressions is located. This was reported to ITAR-TASS on the eve of the regional administration. It is expected that in events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of tragic events in Katyn, about 1 thousand representatives of the Polish public organization Katyn Families will take part.

At least 90 people were wounded during the day on Saturday, the Thai security forces of the Thai security forces of the anti-government demonstrators of Ratchadaminn Avenue in the historical part of Bangkok and Ratchapason Square in the business and tourist center of the Thai capital, ITAR-TASS reported on Saturday, citing local and foreign media. The PHYA Thai Party and the Movement of Red Red Businesses on March 12 have been conducting massive anti -government manifestations in Bangkok.

The Tu-154 aircraft crew, on which the Polish delegation led by President Leh Kachinsky flew to the Smolensk region, several times did not follow the head of the flights of the Smolensk airfield. This was stated to reporters by the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Alexander Aleshin. "At the distance of 1.5 km, the flight management group found that the crew increased the vertical speed of the decline and began to decline below the glideal.

The head of the Russian government, Vladimir Putin, who arrived in Smolensk , approved the composition of the State Commission to establish the reasons for the disaster of the Tu-154 aircraft, on board of which almost the entire political elite of Poland was located.

The Hot Line in Russian and Polish was organized in connection with the catastrophe of the President of Poland Tu-154 in the administration of the Smolensk region. Phone number 8800-100-19-01 . As ITAR-TASS said in the administration, at present on the "hot line" there is data on registered passengers for a flight, accurate information about the dead should be later.

The Brazilian legionnaire Daniel Robert de Zesus died during a football match in Pavlodar, the administrative center of the Pavlodar region in the east of Kazakhstan, the director of the Irtysh football club Alexander Goncharenko told reporters. “At the warm-up of the fourth round of the Kauldar team (Pavlodar), the Kairat (Alma-Ata) Pavlodar legionnaire from Brazil, 28-year-old Daniel Robert de Zesus, took it into the locker room, he never went to the match,” Goncharenko said.

A family of five, including two young children, died on Friday during a fire in a private residential building in the village of Levikha Sverdlovsk Region, RIA Novosti told the deputy head of the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies for the region Natalya Zyryanova. "The fire report was received at 23:48 (local time, 21:48 Moscow time). A private residential building was burning on Pushkin Street, as well as outbuildings.

State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov called a heavy loss of death in the plane crash of Polish Polish Lech Kachinsky. “The Russian people mourn with the Polish people,” the Duma Duma of public relations and media interaction quotes the speaker quoted on Saturday. Gryzlov expressed deep condolences to the relatives and friends of Lech Kachinsky, relatives of all the victims of this disaster - citizens of Poland.

Messages about death in a disaster near Smolensk Polish Ambassador to the Russian Federation Huri Bar are not true. This was reported at the Embassy of the Polish Republic in Moscow. “An error has occurred,” the diplomatic mission emphasized. “Jerzy Bar was at that time at the Smolensk airport among those met. Messages about his death are not true.” The press service noted that dozens of Muscovites are now bringing flowers and candles to the walls of the embassy, ​​ITAR-TASS reports.

The head coach of Milan Brazilian Leonardo intends to leave his post due to frequent public criticism from the bosses of the Italian football club. The vice president of the club Adriano Galliani denied this information, however, according to Corriere Dello Sport , Leonardo is already tired of constant negative comments about his work by Milan President Silvio Berlusconi.

Poland will conduct its own investigation of the reasons for the disaster of the presidential Tu-154 airliner near Smolensk. This was announced today by Polish Prosecutor Andje Sheremet. In this regard, the Poland Foreign Ministry will turn to the Russian side with a request to allow Polish investigators to the place where the Tu-154 fell, and allow them to examine a unit of a burned airliner. According to ITAR-TASS, the Polish investigation will take place regardless of Russian.