Despite the fact that Armenia and Azerbaijan last Wednesday listened to the call of Russia to the participants in armed conflicts on the eve of the Winter Games in Sochi to conclude the Olympic truce and agreed to end fire in the Karabakh direction, the country could not fulfill their obligation. Less than a day later - on Thursday evening - it became known that the confrontation was resumed, and one person became his victim.

The Russian authorities, fighting off the attacks of Western journalists who criticize the level of Sochi preparation for the Olympics, were slightly carried away and almost discredited themselves, and at the same time indirectly confirmed the fears of human rights defenders about the surveillance detailed during the games.

“In order to minimize the consequences of such a discrepancy, it is advisable to know at what stage you can already be significantly delayed. The first moment is the beginning of the procedure for obtaining a ticket and a fan passport. For the convenience of spectators, there are several ticket centers and ticket offices in Russia, as well as several spectator registration centers, where you can obtain an accreditation certificate - a fan passport.

The bronze medalists of the World Championship in ice Dancing Bobrov and Dmitry Solovyov, as well as the European champion in the women's single skating, Julia Lipnitskaya will present Russia in the team of skaters at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. This was reported by the press service of the Figure Skating Federation of the Russian Federation . They will perform on February 8 with short programs at the teams of skaters, where Russia seized leadership with 19 points out of 20 possible.

At the Sochi Fisht Stadium on Friday, the opening ceremony of the first in the history of Russia of the White Olympiad took place on Friday. A fire broke out in the Olympic bowl, and the Russian resort was declared the main sports capital of the world for the next two weeks. From February 8 to 23, athletes from 88 countries will play 98 sets of medals in 15 sports. The grandiose show was watched by three billion viewers.

Olympic champion Turin 2006 skater Evgeny Plushenko said that after a performance at the games in Sochi, he would begin to engage in hockey. He chose the role of a defender for himself and expressed his readiness to teach St. Petersburg hockey players to ride correctly. According to the athlete, he used to play hockey, but now he does not have enough time for this lesson. “I am arranging football battles before each training, I continue to engage in martial arts, got carried away with a golf.

The Government of the Russian Federation approved a proposal to create an agency of credit guarantees, ITAR-TASS reports. The State Duma will be included in the State Duma for the work of the new structure of amendments to the budget. After that, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Central Bank will have to “submit a draft relevant act” to the government within two weeks.

The Kiev authorities estimated damage to the city property from clashes between radicals and law enforcement officers in the center of the Ukrainian capital on Grushevsky Street in the amount of about $ 2.7 million, the UNN agency reports on Friday with reference to the first deputy chairman of the Kiev city administration (KSGA) Anatoly Golubchenko.

The first car of the Datsun budget brand will appear in the salons of Russian dealers of the brand by the summer of this year. The model worth up to 400 thousand rubles, which will be produced at AvtoVAZ, will be presented in April of this year. The deadlines were confirmed by DATSUN Director in Russia by Jerome, ITAR-TASS reports. Technical details of the novelty and the initial volume of release are not yet disclosed. The design is designed in Japan.

“Recently I came across an interesting album that talks about the falsification of photographs and works of art in the Stalin era. "The author, David King, reproduces, whenever possible, the original photograph and its retouched version, and sometimes several. Let's say, people disappear from a photograph one by one, as they disappear from life or from the political arena.

“Can we, for example, say that this or that book about the Great Patriotic War is boring and mediocre? Or a film? Or will we now assume that everything connected with that war is sacred by definition? And no one can criticize it? In my opinion, this is already some kind of pagan cult. The memory of the war, respect for the dead and memories of their exploits are one thing. And quite another thing is the works of art dedicated to this.

Tonight, at 20:14, the XXII Winter Olympic Games will start in Sochi - an event for which Russia has been preparing for several years, in which it has invested a huge number of resources, both material (recall that unofficial estimates are many times superior) and human ones, and from which a lot expects a lot.

Book circulations in Russia, which have fallen steadily since 2008, last year for the first time showed growth. This, as the Kommersant newspaper writes on Friday, follows from statistics published by the Russian Book Chamber. The agency calculated that the total circulation of books and brochures issued by publishers last year amounted to 541.747 million copies, and 120.5 thousand items. Compared to 2012, these indicators increased by 0.2% and 3.1%, respectively.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a difficult situation is formed against the background of the continuing protest for several days, caused by high unemployment. Activists, among whom were mainly unemployed citizens, began to throw government buildings with bottles with incendiary mixture, provoking fires.

In 2013, retail sales of whiskey in Russia by 10 million liters exceeded the volume of imports. Such a gap between the volumes of supplies and retail sales of whiskey has existed for more than a year. In 2013, the "statistical gap" amounted to almost 10 million liters, RBC Daily indicates. This means that buyers purchase millions of bottles of a drink in legal stores, the appearance of which was not recorded in Russia by customs.