Russian skater Polina Shelepen decided to play for the Israeli national team, the athlete Svetlana Sokolovskaya coach told the R-Sport agency. Shelepin is a two-time silver medalist of the Grand Prix finals among juniors, five times the 17-year-old skater won at the stages of the series. She won the silver of the junior championship of Russia twice in her career, and twice became the owner of bronze.

The Russian striker of the New Jersey club Ilya Kovalchuk was injured in the NHL regular season match with Florida, which ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of his team. Ten minutes before the final siren, Ilya crashed into the side of the opponent’s gates. There was no violation by guests defenders in this episode. Having not leaned out for long on the ice, Kovalchuk independently rose to his feet and left the ice arena.

An emergency warning about the possible rise in water in the Don River and in the Sea of ​​Azov near the cities of Azov and Taganrog was received by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the Rostov Region. Already flooding the scientific base of the Russian Academy of Sciences with valuable samples.

Due to the rise in the water level in the Don in the Rostov region, 14 settlements may be partially flooded, ITAR-TASS reported at the National Management Center in Crisis situations of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies. From a more dangerous situation, a dangerous situation developed on the Farm of Zadonya, from where all 178 inhabitants evacuated. The farm itself is located on the island surrounded by Don.

A blizzard and strong wind will remain in the Moscow region, according to a hydrometeorological center. A warning about adverse weather conditions, widespread by the regional Ministry of Emergencies , was extended from the evening of Saturday until 10 a.m. Sunday. According to meteorologists, during the day the thermometer columns will show minus 7-9 degrees. The wind will blow northeast at a speed of 5-10 m/s and separate gusts up to 15-20 m/s.

“Norwegian shooter” Anders Breivik, sentenced by the 21st year, the conclusions for terrorist attacks who claimed the lives of more than 70 people, asks the leadership of the prison to release him to the funeral of his mother, reports on Sunday the Sky News television channel. The mother of the most famous Norwegian terrorist, Wenk Behrin Brevik, died on Friday at the 67th year of her life after a long illness. In December 2012, the convict was first allowed a date with his mother.

Olga Fatkulina, Russian skating, who was the first at a distance of 1000 meters at the World Championships in Sochi on Saturday, took third place on Sunday at the segment twice as short. “I am incredibly glad!” The whole sport agency reports the words of the enthusiastic Olga. “After the victory on the“ thousand ”, it was much easier for me to tune in to the“ five hundred ”. I understood that I had already won my world championship - I could also give girls a chance.

Mali’s government troops on Saturday repelled a major attack of the Islamist militants on the city of Gao, located in the north of the country, Reuters reports citing representatives of the command. According to the agency, a clash in GAO began after the locals informed the military about the entrance to the city of several groups of militants. As a result of a more than two -hour battle, the army managed to push the Islamists from the city.

Hockey players "Ak Bars" won on their ice and the second match at the Chelyabinsk "tractor" in the dispute for the title of the best team of the Eastern Conference. This time there were without overtime, Kazan residents met in regular time. Ak Bars throughout the meeting looked more preferable, so it is not surprising that in the middle of the second segment, Denis Kulyash, in the majority, changed the image on the scoreboard - 1: 0.

The Governor of the Volgograd Region Sergey Bozhenov, last year, who was crushed by the mass export of local officials and their families to Italy, sent a pregnant daughter to give birth to the United States - thus, his grandson will be able to receive citizenship of this country, journalist Andrei Malgin, publishing the relevant documents in his LiveJournal .

In Georgia, due to a hurricane wind, 100 thousand inhabitants of the country were left without light, there are victims: in Batumi, which was flooded with storm waves, one person died. The head of the Government of Georgia Bidzin Ivanishvili created a special headquarters to overcome the consequences of the elements and the fight against it. A strong wind created numerous problems with the infrastructure, the supply of electricity.

Dmitry Anisimov, director of the Russia 2 TV channel, explained why the Russian football championship is not shown on the channel. “It is bad, of course, that the VGTRK does not have the right to show the Russian championship, but it’s difficult to say. We, say, have a launch of another sports channel because of this. But it’s impossible to talk about some kind of deadly loss, since compared to those years when we showed the Russian Championship, our audience only increased.

Anapa authorities staged a large -scale car accident on the Sukko -Anapa (Krasnodar Territory) to prevent about 100 observers from the Yabloko party to open polling stations on its website . The candidate from Yabloko Alexei Egorov also participates in the mayor’s elections. The leader of the Yabloko, which visited the accident, Sergei Mitrokhin is convinced, this was done in order to carry back for the candidate from United Russia Sergey Sergeyev.

The head of the Synodal Department for Relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, considers the death of the entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky an occasion for everyone to think about the futility of material goods at a meeting with God, Interfax reports. "What to say? It’s not the time to say something bad, but I don’t know anything good about this person.

The founder of the International Bodybuilding Competition Mr. Olympia, the outstanding Canadian-American coach Joseph Wider died in the United States at the 93rd year of his life as a result of a heart attack. Joe Wider was born in Canadian Montreal in 1920. Since childhood, he was engaged in bodybuilding, and from the age of 17 he began the propaganda of this sport in the press. In 1946, he, along with his brother Ben Waider, founded the International Bodybuilders Federation (IFBB).