About 30 thousand people take part in the St. Petersburg march "For Famous Elections", one of the organizers of the event told Interfax - the executive director of the United Civil Front Olga Kurnosova. At the same time, ITAR-TASS, citing the management of information from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg, reports that the rally gathered no more than 3,000 people. The convoy of the opposition reached the final point of the procession - the stable area.

The holiday of Surb Sarkis (St. Sarkis), the patron saint of young and lovers, will be celebrated in Armenia on Saturday, February 4, the News-Armenia agency reports. Saint Sarkis (285-337) is one of the most beloved holy Armenian people, who awarded the Prince of the Prince for courage for courage and appointed the commander of the bordering Cappadocia bordering on Armenia. During the persecution of Christians, St. Sarkis left the empire and found a refuge in Christian Armenia.

The defender of the England national team John Terry is deprived of the captain's bandage, the British media say. At the moment, there was no official confirmation from the football association of England. This decision will be valid during the course of the investigation in the case regarding the racist statements of Terry addressed to the player "Kuins Park Rangers" Anton Ferdinand. On Wednesday, the London court underwent consideration to July, when Euro 2012 ends.

The US Federal Prosecutor's Office closed the doping case, excited almost two years ago, with respect to the seven winner of the most prestigious cycling in the world of the Tour de France, American Lance Armstrong. In a published statement, the prosecutor Andre Borot-Jr. said that "an investigation into the charges made against participants in the professional team of bicycles Lance Armstrong is closed." At the same time, Borott did not explain on what basis this decision was made.

The UK directs the atomic submarine to the Falkland Islands in conditions of increased tension in relations between London and Buenos Aires. The Palace of Class "Trafalgar" is designed to protect the islands, which are the object of a longtime territorial dispute between the two countries. It is assumed that Tireless or Turbulent submarine will go to the southern Atlantic.

In the Podolsky district of the Moscow Region, two wooden households burned in the Garden Partnership "Shcherbinka-2". As a result of the fire, nine people died - a large family, apparently, from Zelenograd. As Irina Gumennaya told Interfax , the representative of the GSU of the RF IC of the Russian Federation in the Moscow Region, two spouses and seven children were killed in the fire, another girl of 11 years old was hospitalized.

Director Zalman King, known, first of all, by the film "Nine and a half weeks" and the television series "Diaries of the Red Speech", died in California after a long fight against cancer at the 70th year of life, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters. The death of the filmmaker was reported by his son -in -law Ellison Burnet. "Zalman was an extraordinary man and an artist, much more multifaceted ... than it might seem to those who knew him only from afar," Bernett said.

Ilya Varlamov zyalt.livejournal.com “The speeches of the speakers at the rally lasted about 45 minutes. Among the speakers were Evgenia Chirikova, Leonid Parfenov, Olga Romanova, Gennady Gudkov, Sergei Udaltsov, Ilya Yashin. At the end of the rally, Yuri Shevchuk spoke, and those gathered released white balloons into the sky.”

Three unknown weapons attacked the carriers of money in the center of Moscow and stole 320 thousand dollars, one of them was wounded, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. According to him, the incident occurred the day before in the area of ​​house 9 on Makarenko Street. "Three unknown people attacked the carriers of money, wounded one of the traumatic pistol. The robbers took the money and disappeared on a foreign car," the source said.

The football player of the Moscow Lokomotiv Roman Pavlyuchenko, who moved on Friday to the camp of railway workers from the London Tottenham, would have been sitting on the bench in the Spartak, the owner of the Red-White Leonid Fedun said. Pavlyuchenko came to Spartak at the end of 2002, twice becoming the best scorer of the Russian championship (2006, 2007). At the end of August 2008, he was sold to the English Tottenham, in the main composition of which he did not take place for a long time.

The leadership of the German "Dusseldorf" denied information about the club joining the KHL. The media reported that its main sponsor “refused” the club, and investors from Russia agreed to provide all possible assistance in the amount of 30 million euros, but subject to the team entered into the KHL. Düsseldorf thanks the Russian side for the prestigious proposal and invitation to the KHL, - quotes the managing director of Duceldorf Elmar Shmellenkamp's official website of the club.

The Belarusian oppositionist Dmitry Bondarenko, convicted of the “ December 19 ” case, wrote a petition for pardon in the name of the current president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. According to Khartia'97 , Bondarenko signed a petition for pardon on February 1. Bondarenko is a proxy of ex -candidate for the president of Belarus Andrei Sannikov.

The Russian biathletist Olga Zaitseva took second place in the persecution race for 10 kilometers at the seventh stage of the Biathlon Cup in the Norwegian Holmenkollennaya. Zaitseva, who went to the sixth race, did not allow a single miss on four firing lines and lost 36.5 seconds to the German Magdalen Neuner, who twice sent bullets to milk. Earlier, the main star of the modern biathlon won the sprint , so her next victory did not become a revelation to anyone.

Makhachkalinsky “Anji” signed a contract with the midfielder of the Russian youth team Oleg Shatov, who had previously defended the colors of the Yekaterinburg Urals. The validity of Shatov’s contract with Anji is designed for four years. The 21-year-old midfielder has played for the Urals since 2007 and marked 16 goals in 124 matches. In addition, on his account there are four accurate strikes in 11 games for the youth team.

Italian law enforcement officers arrested two people on Saturday, including the goalkeeper of the Piacenza team Mario Kassano, on suspicion of contracting football matches, RIA Novosti reports, referring to the Italian media. Kassano is suspected of involvement in the four "agreements" played by his team in the Games of the series in the Italian Championship in 2008-2009 and 2010-2011.