At least 200 people were injured during anti -government demonstrations that took place in 20 cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Interfax reports. The day before, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the capital of Sarajevo, riots covered twenty cities of the country. The presidential palace was set on fire in the capital.

A resident of Poland, who in childhood became a victim of sexual harassment by the priest, for the first time in the history of the country filed a civil lawsuit against the Catholic Church, the BBC Russian service reports. The plaintiff, known only as 25-year-old Markin K., requires compensation in the amount of 47.5 thousand euros. The priest who had abused him is already found guilty by the court and is serving a two -year imprisonment. Marchin K.

The youngest daughter of the King of Spain Juan Carlos I Donya Christina appeared on Saturday to the court to testify in the case of tax evasion and laundering of funds, the Air Force reports. For the first time in the history of Spain, a member of the royal family will testify in court as a suspect in tax crimes. The court hearing in the Spanish city of Palma de Malorca is held closed, Interfax notes.

The second set of medals of the Winter Olympic Games was played among skiers in the Skiathlon category. The owner of the gold medal was the Norwegian Marit Bjorgen, who went through the distance in 38 minutes. and 33.6 sec. For Bjorgen, this is the fourth Olympic gold in his career. The second finished Charlotte Calla from Sweden (38: 35.4), the third was another representative of Norway Heidi Hydie Hungarly (38: 46.8).

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed all Russian athletes and organizers of the Olympic Games not to relax and mobilize all their forces. At the same time, he highly appreciated the work done and the past opening ceremony of the World Sports Festival, ITAR-TASS reports. The meeting of the organizers and participants in the opening ceremony with President Vladimir Putin took place in his Sochi residence, where the head of state thanked the guests for the work already done.

Forward of the Russian national hockey team Evgeny Malkin, protecting the colors of Pittsburgh in the next NHL game, threw one puck into the gate of the Rangers, and in a series of post -match Bullitov performed a penalty throw. However, Malkin’s efforts were not enough for the owners for the final victory (3: 4). “It was not the best game for us,” NHL Malkina quoted the official website . “We tried to play harder and we were lucky that we were able to take a point.

The government and opposition in Syria made charges against each other in violation of a three -day truce in the Syrian city of Homs, Interfax reports with reference to the Air Force . On Saturday, in the city there were shots from mortar guns.

In Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin held negotiations with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Politicians were accompanied by a dog of a Japanese breed, which Abe previously gave Putin. The present turned out to be biting, the head of the Russian state noted when the guest began to stroke the dog. Politics did not discuss the issue of the return of the Kuril Islands of the Kuril Islands.

A large accident occurred in Argentina: as a result of the frontal collision of a truck and a bus, 19 people died, ITAR-TASS reports citing local authorities. The accident occurred in the province of Mendos in the west of the country in the vicinity of the city of San Martin. According to preliminary data, the driver of the truck with Brazilian numbers, who moved towards a one -way traffic at a speed of 120 km per hour, was the culprit of the accident.

In St. Petersburg , a procession was held against drunkenness . It was assumed that 400 people would take part in it, but about 700 participants came, Rosbalt reports with reference to one of the organizers, director of the Orthodox Maslenitsa exhibition-fair Igor Matveeva. According to him, the city for the first time allowed to conduct a teetotal procession. Representatives of the St.

Rear Admiral Vyacheslav Apanasenko, who shot himself in his head the day before, did it because of the lack of painkillers, his relatives said. “I ask you not to blame anyone except the Ministry of Health and the Government,” the Admiral suffering from cancer said in a suicide note. The 66 -year -old Vyacheslav Apanasenko - the former head of the department of missile -artillery weapons of the Navy - the day before fired from the award pistol. He was hospitalized in a coma.

The State Department of the United States urged its citizens to show increased caution when traveling to Sochi. This is not the first warning for the Winter Olympics heading to the capital. This time, the State Department indicated that none of the Russian means of communication guarantees compliance with the right to private life and the lack of "information leaks", Reuters reports. "American tourists should know about threats in the field of cybersecurity," the State Department noted.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny announced the renaming of an unregistered party of his supporters from the "People's Alliance" to the "Party of Progress". “The congress adopted amendments to the party’s charter and changed the name. Now we are a“ Party of Progress, ”wrote Alexei Navalny on Saturday on his microblog on Twitter.

Assistant Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Dmitry Loskutov, who previously published on his twitter a recording of the conversation of US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the American ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Payette, said that Russia was not involved in wiretap. He informed the agency AR that the video at which Nuland was insulting to the European Union accidentally found on social networks.

Johnny Kuinn, a member of the US Bobslie team, talked about how he ended up in a west in the Sochi hotel. The athlete discovered that the door in the bathroom was jammed after he took a shower. At this moment, Kuinn was without a phone, so he had to get out of the trap on his own. Having freed himself, he posted a photo of a broken door on his twitter. “I took the shower and the door was jammed.