The Moscow CSKA on its site outplayed Bilbao in the second match of the quarterfinal series of the basketball Euroleague with a score of 79:60 and increased the gap in the series to three victories. Compared to the first meeting, which the Red-blue won with a difference of 27 points, the game on Friday turned out to be more intense.

The mass production of a commemorative 25-ruble coin with talismans of the 2014 Games in Sochi opened the second series of the Sochi 2014 monetary program. The circulation of coins with a bear, a bunny and a leopard will be up to 10 million pieces.

Patriarch Kirill for the first time openly commented on the Pussy Riot campaign in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, calling it mockery of the shrine, and attempts to justify the "blasphemy" from the Orthodox believers are unacceptable. “The devil laughed at all of us,” the Primate, posted on the Patriarchate’s website , says.

The opposition is preparing for mass rallies on May 6 on the eve of the inauguration of Vladimir Putin. This was announced during the picket in the Novopushkinsky square was announced by the leader of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov and the co -chair of the unregistered Party of People's Freedom (Parnassus) Boris Nemtsov. At the beginning of the action, the Pushkin provocateur was expelled from the square, after which they picked peacefully, and the action was completed without incident.

On Saturday, the media had the opportunity to evaluate the cost of the escape of the prisoner Alexei Shestakov by helicopter. The rent cost him 80 thousand rubles, and he promised 2 million to the accomplices. All three participants in the daring escape were arrested, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Vladimir Markin told ITAR-TASS. The court authorized the arrest of ZEK Alexei Shestakov, as well as his accomplices - Atyana Vajalina and Alexander Rusakov.

The investigating authorities of the RF IC of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow is investigated by a criminal case on the murder of the murder of the Deputy Head of FC "Shinnik" Yuri Shishlova on the grounds of crimes under Articles 105 and 222 of the Criminal Code (murder, illegal turnover of weapons), Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the department.

The border of South Ossetia from Georgia will close during the elections in a partially recognized republic. According to Interfax on Saturday, a source in the law enforcement agencies of the republic, from Friday, March 23, all power structures of South Ossetia were transferred to an enhanced service schedule before a special order.

Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev, who in December acquired a control package of shares of the Monaco club, installed the largest premium for players in the French championship, L'Equipe reports, citing Le Parisien .

Vladimir Abarinov “It is generally accepted that avid Internet users are an educated class. In any case, they consider themselves as such. Indeed: haven’t the Internet and smartphones given us the widest access to any information? We already consider ourselves the fifth power (if the fourth is the usual the press), which Putin seems to be in awe of. This is self-delusion. Really valuable information still costs money. The Internet is not access to databases of abstracts.

The attack on the post of police was committed on Saturday morning in Dagestan on the Caucasus federal highway near the village of Dzhemkent, one of the attackers was killed, Interfax was told in the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic. According to the representative of the department, at about 4:00, when checking the documents, the driver of the Gazelle truck, unknown persons who were under the tent in the back, opened fire from automatic weapons.

The British Ministry of Internal Affairs is looking for possible ways to deprive the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad Assa British citizenship, the Daily Telegraph writes on Saturday, referring to sources in the ministry. According to the publication, the authorities can take advantage of one of the articles of the British immigration legislation, which allows to deprive of citizenship in case a person poses a threat to society.

The British McLarena pilot Lewis Hamilton won the second qualification of two possible formula-1 in the new season, which will start from the first position in the Malaysian Grand Prix race. “While the weekend is successful, but today it was a difficult day, since the weather conditions changed and the air temperature rose,” Hamilton said after the qualification. “We made a number of changes to the settings and were able to show a good time, but the rivals were very actively attended.

American lawmakers agreed to allocate to Palestinians in the amount of more than $ 88 million. These funds are designed to carry out projects in the field of health and providing food, and they have been frozen since September last year. According to Radio Liberty , the decision was made after it was supported by two congressmen from the Republican Party, who previously advocated freezing the help of the Palestinians.

The sergeant of the US Armed Forces Robert Bailes officially charged with the murder of 17 civilians in the Afghan village, Interfax reports. The soldier is accused of 17 points of deliberate murder. He is also accused of six points of attempted murder and six more cases of a threat to violence. The accused is held under arrest in a military prison in the United States. If the court finds the sergeant guilty, he is facing the highest measure of punishment - the death penalty.

The US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFol said in his microblog on Twitter that he was preparing for the meeting of President Barack Obama with the head of the Russian state Dmitry Medvedev. It will take place on the eve of the nuclear security summit in Seoul and will be the last meeting of Obama and Medvedev in the role of heads of state, McFol noted. According to Interfax, the assistant to the head of state Sergei Prikhodko said, the meeting will be held on March 26 in Seoul.