With the approximation of the presidential elections on March 4, Russia is being prepared for the “main surprise” - a convincing victory of Vladimir Putin in the first round. Many hundreds of recent times show that the prime minister’s personal rating is stably high and is much ahead of rivals' ratings. True, if the State All -Russian Center for Public Opinion optimistically predicts the chief candidate more than 58.6% of the vote, then in independent sociologists the figures are lower.

At the first match of the 1/8 finals of the playoffs of the Champions Football League between the Moscow CSKA and the Madrid Real Madrid (1: 1), which was held the day before at the Luzhniki stadium , the fans broke 1800 seats, causing the arena for almost half a million rubles. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to law enforcement agencies of the capital.

The US aircraft carrier, led by the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, was on duty in the Iran region, left the Persian Gulf, without hoving the Strait of the Ormuzian Strait, and entered the Arabian Sea. Thus, at present, there is not a single American aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, Interfax reports citing the US Navy information service. Previously, this was reported last week, on February 16, when the Persian bay left another aircraft carrier group led by ABRAHAM Lincoln.

The developer of the methods of non -violent forms of power resistance, quite successfully used for two decades in many countries of the world, the American historian and political scientist Jin Sharp denies his involvement in the opposition mood that has covered Russia since the end of last year.

Instead of $ 1.7 billion, the largest construction site in Belarus - the Minsk City business center - will bring some losses. About this, as Kommersant writes, the head of state Alexander Lukashenko, in a letter, was warned by the Russian oil and gas company "Itra", which the Belarusian authorities removed from the project . The construction of the Minsk City business center with residential complexes, offices, torgenters and hotels with a total area of ​​3.5 million square meters.

A new director has been appointed to the Maintenance Theater, the Moscow Department of Culture reports. The new director was Vladimir Bakulev, Interfax reports. Bakulev, the champion of the USSR, the champion of Russia, the multiple winner of all-Union and international tournaments, since 1982-1989 he was a member of the USSR national team under the leadership of Shamil Tarpishchev.

The Federation Council on Wednesday was reassigned to the chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery Zorkin. His candidacy was supported by 141 senator, ITAR-TASS reports. No one spoke out against, one member of the Council abstained. Thus, the 69-year-old Zorkin was reassigned to this post for the fifth time. On February 10, Zorkin's candidacy was submitted to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

In the near future, the Russian airborne troops will soon receive the combat equipment of the “soldier of the future” of domestic production, the Hero of Russia Vladimir Shamanov is sure of the Airborne Forces commander.

In the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, a crowded train went off the rails and crashed into a platform at the ONCE station, AP reports. Hundreds of people were injured, there are also a lot of victims. According to the country's Minister of Transport, Juan Pablo Shiavi, some people are still trapped. According to the latest data from ITAR-TASS, the number of victims of the railway accident in Argentina exceeded 600 people.

Two minibuses collided in the suburbs: 12 people were injured, many of them needed hospitalization. According to ITAR-TASS, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, an accident happened on Wednesday evening at the 121st kilometer of the M-4 Don highway in the Kashirsky district. Of the 12 victims, seven were hospitalized in the Central District Hospital. The causes and circumstances of the accident are clarified. Links on the topic

Two employees of the Western media died on Wednesday in the Syrian city of Homs as a result of shelling by its government troops fighting the opposition. The victims were an American - an employee of the British weekly Sunday Times Mary Colvin - and the French photographer Remi Kollo, with reference to representatives of the opposition of BBC .

Garry Kasparov “Medvedev, according to the meeting participants, categorically rejected all the political demands of Bolotnaya Square from the very threshold, and promised to consider the issue of the release of political prisoners in a targeted manner. The first results of this consideration were not long in coming.

The Hollywood film studio Paramount Pictures appealed to the court in order to prohibit the publication of the continuation of the cult novel "Cross Father" by the American writer Mario Puzu (1920-1999). This was announced by Hollywood Reporter .

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril expressed concern about the level of Russian culture. He spoke about this in his speech at the meeting of the Patriarchal Council on Culture on February 22. “No living organism can eat synthetic products for a long time, sooner or later it will get sick.

Residents of the village of Urman are outraged by the decision of local authorities: the district administration announced a tender for the purchase of an expensive SUV worth almost 2.5 million rubles. Apparently, it is easier to move between the houses in the village, which still have not been restored after the explosions at the military arsenal in May last year, Vesti.ru is ironic. By purchases of expensive foreign cars for officials in Bashkiria, few people will surprise few.