A criminal case has been instituted in Astrakhan on the fact of desecration of eternal fire. The incident, which occurred the day before, was recorded on a video surveillance camera: five drunken young people fired fire in the fraternal garden. Everyone was detained.

Albert Demchenko won the silver medal of the final, ninth stage of the Rong World Cup in Sannaya Sports, which takes place these days in the pre -Olympic in Sochi. The leader of the Russian national team in single sleigh showed the result of 1 minute 47.339 seconds, losing to the amount of two races only 0.004 seconds to German Andi Langenan (1.47.335). The third was another representative of Germany - David Melller (1.47,353). Russian Victor Kneib closed the first ten.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded to withdraw the forces of American special forces from the Central Province of Vardak, which is of great strategic importance for the US contingent. According to the Air Force , the Afghan leader established a two-week period of withdrawal of American military personnel from the Vardak province due to accusations of people's disappearance and the use of torture.

In Primorye, a suspect in the murder of an eight -year -old girl Nastya Lutsishina, who was looking for the whole of Ussuriysk, was detained in Primorye. The body was found the day before in the suburbs . Investigators also found a knife, which were supposedly injured, Interfax was told in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Russian racer Denis Dmitriev won a silver medal in an individual sprint race at the World Cycling Championship on the track, which is taking place these days in Minsk. This is the first award in the history of the Russian national team at the planet’s championships in this type of program. Dmitriev showed the fourth time in qualification, then in paired races defeated two Australians and German Max Levy. In the final, in two races, he lost to the German Stefan to the nerd.

The candidate of right -wing forces, the chairman of the opposition party, the democratic collection of Nikos Anastasiadis won the second round of the presidential election in Cyprus. According to the official data of the election commission after calculating 100% of the ballots, he gained 57.48% of the vote, ITAR-TASS reports. These figures coincided with those that showed the Exit-Polls conducted earlier by the CYBC state television and broadcasting corporation.

More than 500 people came to the civilian panach of Alexei German Sr., which took place in the first pavilion of Lenfilm in St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports. Alexey German Sr. died at 75 years of life on the night of February 21 at the Military Medical Academy after a long illness.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, an investigation of the case was completed about how in Komsomolsk-on-Amur a man scored a five-month-old child to his death because he cried and prevented him from watching TV, Interfax reports. The 45-year-old man was charged with a crime under paragraph "in" part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("murder"). The case file was sent to the court.

The 25-year-old Russian football player Maxim Molokoedov, who spent three years in the Chilean prison for the transportation of cocaine, was allowed to stay in Chile. He was offered to conclude a contract with the local club of the second division "Santiago Morning". The Minister of Justice Chili withdrew the order to expel Molocoueter from the country, reports the Russian Air Force . In Santiago Morning, Molocoueters, at that time, the prisoner, trained from last season on a special basis.

The Primate of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BPC) and Metropolitan Sofia will be chosen today by the Patriarchal Church Council. The Holy Synod of the BPC determined three candidates for the patriarchal throne: the Metropolitans of the Rusen Neophyt, the Old Zagorsky Galaxation and the Khlochansky Gabriel. "On February 24, from 11:45 to 12:00 p.m.

Gennady Zyuganov was re -elected by the leader of the Communist Party, the post of his first deputy was retained by Ivan Melnikov. This decision was made at the 15th Congress of the Communist Party on Sunday. The number of deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party has grown - there are now three of them: Vladimir Kashin, Valery Rashkin and Dmitry Novikov, ITAR -TASS reports.

To the defense of the teacher , the teacher Mikhail Lobanov, his supervisor Yuri Tarannikov stood up to protect the teacher. He, like his ward, is sure that the contract with Lobanov is not prolonged due to politics. He was a member of the initiative group, in particular, who found plagiarism in the dissertation of the former director of the SUNC of Moscow State University Andrei Andriyanov, which provoked a grand scandal.

The famous French actor Gerard Depardieu, who recently became a citizen of Russia and received permanent registration in Mordovia on Saturday, visited the Sarmich cheese plant on Sunday, where he chose cheese for his future cafe in Saransk. According to RIA Novosti, the Minister of Press of the Republic Valery Maresyev, "it will be special cheese.

Mirzaev, who received a conditional term, Mirzaev returned to the sport at the Russian Combat Sambo Championship in Gubkin (Belgorod Region), where he won two contractions, but did not fall among the winners. “Rasul Mirzaev took part in the Russian championship yesterday,” the senior coach of the Russian national sambo team, Alexander Konakov, told the R -Sport agency.

Eleven African states and the UN signed in the capital of Ethiopia Addis Ababe a peaceful framework agreement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which, as the head of the UN Pan Hi Moon said, will bring peace and stability to the country. Initially, it was planned to sign the signing last month, but it was postponed "due to procedural issues." “I hope that the agreement will lead to peace and stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the region.