Almost the entire central part of Vladikavkaz on Saturday was left without electricity. The reason for the failure was a short circuit at the central distribution point, ITAR-TASS was told in the press service of the Vladikavkaz City Hall. The accident occurred in the morning at the transformer substation located in the city center. As a result, two transformers, 13 Federov and 73 substations failed along the chain.

As a result of a series of explosions that thundered in the city of Kano in the north of Nigeria on Friday, at least 24 people were killed, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to AFP. The city has been announced a commandant hour, reports the Air Force . According to local authorities, the suicide bomber has acted an explosive device next to the building of the regional police department. Several explosions also sounded at the office of the local immigration service and other police sites.

The President of the Moscow CSKA Vyacheslav Fetisov announced that he was leaving his post in the army hockey club. In addition, Fetisov noted that he intends to leave hockey at all. The President of the PHC CSKA made an appropriate statement at a press conference in Riga before the match of the KHL stars. “I am leaving hockey in general. I made such a decision. Today's match is the last for me.

In the center of the Latvian capital on Friday, during the events in honor of the anniversary of the construction of the Barricades in 1991, service cars of the country's president Andris Berzins and the speaker of the Sejm Solvita Aboltini collided. As a result of the accident, no one was injured, local media reported.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill today in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior will give the head of the Palestinian National Administration Mahmoud the Abbas Prize "For outstanding activities to strengthen the unity of the Orthodox peoples," ITAR-TASS reports. This award, which is already awarded for the eleventh time, is now named after Patriarch Alexy II, who initiated its creation.

Russian biathletes won bronze medals in the 4x6 kilometer relay at the sixth stage of the World Cup, which takes place in Italian Anterselva.

Forward "Cologne" Lucas Podolski at the end of the season will become a player in the capital's "Lokomotiv", reports "Sport day after day." According to the source, the striker visited Moscow with an introductory trip and agreed with the leadership of the "railway workers". The contract will be signed in the summer, and the German salary will be about 5 million euros per year. This season, Podolski spent 16 matches in the Bundesliga and scored 14 goals.

A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the mass death of infants in the Nalchik children's hospital. Since the beginning of the year, eight babies have died in the intensive care unit, and the Investigative Committee decided to check the media statements that this did not happen due to severe pathologies, but because they turned off the electricity in the hospital.

Presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, who published his election program the day before, began the election campaign: on Saturday he meets youth in Kazan, and the night before in a television interview he promised to sell his business in case of victory in the elections. The owner of the ONEXIM group said in an interview on the Rain TV channel: "If I become the president, I sell all my assets and give most of the money to charity ...

The three -time champion of the Bolshoi helmet tournaments easily solved the problem of entering the fourth circle of the open championship of Australia, defeating Angelica Kerber from Germany in the third circle of 6: 1, 6: 2. Sharapova’s advantage was overwhelming: she won 71% of the points on her first serve, having dealt with the task for the match in an hour and a half. Note that at the current competition, Maria has not lost a single set yet. “I felt that I was acting quite aggressively.

The leadership of the Roman Lazio, who recently visited Moscow at the negotiations on the midfielder of CSKA Keisuke Honda, decided to refuse to buy a Japanese. According to Gazzetta Dello Sport , the Italians scared the price of a midfielder of 16 million euros. In this regard, the "eagles" switched their attention to more affordable options. In particular, Lazio is ready to enter into negotiations with Juventus regarding the midfielder Milos Krasich, who rarely gets into this season.

In October of this year, the London court will begin to consider the new claim of Russian entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky - this time to the family of his late business partner, Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili. Berezovsky demands to reimburse him for $ 3 billion, the newspaper The Times reports, which at the disposal of which got the case file. It is expected that the trial will last six months.

The three-inch nail in his head did not interfere with the 32-year-old American Dante Outullo to continue repairing his house, during which he was injured. Having completed the repair, Dante went to bed, and the next morning he woke up, feeling unhealthy, and was hospitalized. According to Sky News , the X -ray made in one of the hospitals Chicago showed that Dante not only scratched himself with a pneumatic pistol for nails, but drove a three -inch nail into his head.

Opposition parties presented in the State Duma - the Communist Party, "Fair Russia" and the LDPR - hold a rally permitted by the authorities on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. About a thousand people gathered for a rally. At the rally, Gennady Zyuganov and the leader of the "Left Front" Sergey Udaltsov performed.

The striker of Chelsea Didier Drogba excluded the possibility of his departure from the London team until the end of the current season. The Chinese Shanghai Schenhua is shown by the Ivoarian, where the ex-label of the Drogba in Chelsea Nicolas Angelka has already moved. “I would like to experience pleasure, thrill, enthusiasm and passion from playing the field,” Drogba EUROSPORT reports. “This makes our work pleasant, and this is what I missed in recent months.