The Russian national hockey team naturally lost to the Sweden team at the Channel One Cup, the head coach of the Russians Zinetula Bilyaletdinov recognized after the match. "We lost deservedly. The Swedish team actually played very well, aggressively - it was very quickly rolled up on the defenders, they constantly covered our players who own the puck, and we made the wrong decisions, made a mistake in the programs.

The ex-champion of the world in half-burned 43-year-old American Antonio Tarver dreams of a duel with the IBF/WBA/WBO/The Ring champion in heavyweight, 35-year-old Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko. Tarver shocked the boxing world on May 15, 2004, when he knocked out in the second round of the then leader of the rating of the best boxers of the world, regardless of the weight category of Roy Jones Jr..

The chairman of Yabloko, Sergei Mitrokhin, nominated at the party congress as a candidate for the President of the Russian Federation, the candidacy of one of the founders of the party Grigory Yavlinsky, RIA Novosti reports. “I would like to invite the congress to nominate Grigory Alekseevich Yavlinsky as a candidate in the election of the President of the Russian Federation ... I bring not only from myself, I bring her from the people,” Mitrokhin said at the congress.

Kiev on the eve of the Ukraine-ES summit wanted to "activate and accelerate" negotiations with Gazprom, the source of "Interfax" in the Russian concern said. What kind of agreements did Ukrainian officials want to urgently reach, since the last configurations, well -known media, the European Union will clearly not like. They involve the creation of Russian-Ukrainian joint ventures without European participation in exchange for reducing gas prices.

The Central Election Commission at a meeting on Sunday refused to register three candidates-nominates, including opposition politician Eduard Limonov. In the CEC, he was registered under his real name Savenko. According to Interfax , Limonov received an official refusal of the Central Election Commission to participate in the presidential election campaign.

The pile of Kola's drilling platform that turned up in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk sank. Only 14 out of 67 people on board were rescued. The platform turned over with a storm that interfered with a rescue operation: the wind force in the crash area reaches 15 m/s, the wave height is five meters. Before the onset of darkness, rescuers found two rescue rafts without people and the body of four people in the wetsuits. The rescue operation was suspended until Monday morning.

Barcelona with a score of 4: 0 defeated the Brazilian Santos in the final match of the club championship of the world, which ended in Jokogama. As part of the winners, the Argentine striker Lionel Messi was noted as a club, and the midfielders Havi Ernandez and Cesk Fabregas scored the blue. “Messi held the next match at the highest level, but I do not want to connect the victory with his personal merits. Andres Iniesta held a good game, Tiago Alcantara played an important role.

In England, it is believed that Manchester United can get a ticket to the 1/8 finals of the Champions League in connection with the possible disqualification of Swiss clubs . On the eve of FIFA, she threatened to suspend the membership of the Switzerland football federation since January 14, 2012 in case the solution of the Club “Sion” was not found.

The tropical storm that fell on the Philippines took the lives of at least 539 people, another 274 are considered missing, reports Interfax with reference to Red Cross data. According to the latest information, 106.476 thousand people were injured as a result of the impact of the elements. Of these, 34.911 thousand are in temporary shelters. Tens of thousands of Filipinos, who were left without shelter, had not yet reached temporary shelters.

In 2012, the non-profit organization Estonian Military Memorial plans to make a film about the 36th police battalion formed in the city of Haapsalu in November 1941 (Schutzmannschaft Front Bataillon 36 Arensburg). "This battalion took part in the destruction of Jews in Belarus and in the Battle of Stalingrad.

In Russia, protests are continuing against the results of the State Duma elections, on Sunday the shares were held in Ufa, Khabarovsk, in Magadan, Blagoveshchensk and Sakhalin. The rallies were authorized by the authorities and passed calmly. In Ufa, the rally "Against mass falsifications" was organized by the Communists. Despite the frost, minus 15 degrees, in the square in front of the Russian drama theater gathered, according to the organizers, 250 people.

About 2 thousand people gathered at the authorized opposition rally on Pioneer Square in St. Petersburg on Sunday afternoon, the official representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region told Interfax . “By 14:00, about 2 thousand people gathered in the square,” the agency’s interlocutor noted. He added that until the law enforcement officers recorded any violations.

In the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, people with the inverted drill platform "Kola", on which there were 67 people, are saved. The platform of 200 km from Sakhalin was overturned by a storm that now interferes with rescuers. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Emergencies, 14 people were saved alive, of which two are in serious condition, the rest are in satisfactory. Two more bodies were found.

Police officers shot at the Hooligans, who blocked the movement of trains at Shetpe station and resisted law enforcement officers. They defeated the composition and moved to the village, breaking the windows. In the west of Kazakhstan, clashes of citizens and the police, ending with victims, again occurred.

One of the three rescue ships heading to the crash site of the Kola Platform arrived in the rescue operation in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. The vessels continue to look for crew members in the dark, and with dawn the search will resume planes. However, the news of the presence of people or at least the bodies of the dead after sunset was not received, the statistics are the same: out of 67 people on board 14, they got alive from the water, 4 more bodies of the dead were found, the rest are missing.