The Russian women's hockey team won the Germany team in the first round of the group stage of the Olympic tournament in Sochi. The meeting ended with a score of 4: 1 (0: 0, 0: 1, 4: 0) in favor of Russian hockey players. As part of the winners of the puck, Iy Gavrilova (46th minute), Olga Sosnina (49, 53) and Ekaterina Smolentseva (50) were abandoned. Francis Bush (27) distinguished themselves in the German team, ITAR-TASS reports.

There are new details about the shooting that the man arranged in the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, killing two and injuring six people . "Vesti FM" reports that the shooter - a guard of one of the local choles - is allegedly mentally ill. He received a gun from the authorities to accompany one of the collection vehicles a few hours before the massacre. At the time of the execution in the temple there were many people - there was a liturgy.

The surveillance of the guests of the Olympic Sochi hotels, rumors about which they go in a foreign press, are not conducted, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak in the Sunday time on Channel One assured the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation . Previously, he himself reinforced suspicions, saying that the water in the souls was not turned off . “There must be a very rich imagination to come up with this. There was no surveillance.

The Russian national football team won the silver medals of the European Championship, which ended in Antwerp. In the final match, the Russians lost to the Italian team with a score of 1: 3. The Russian team, which won the European Championship in 1999, was defeated in the fourth final of the Euro. Moreover, this was the first final match in which Russian football players did not play with the Spanish national team, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Russian team in figure skating ahead of schedule secured a victory in the team Olympic tournament. This happened due to the fact that the Canadian skater Kaitlin Osmond failed the performance in the arbitrary program. Thus, the Canadian team lost theoretical chances of getting ahead of the general standings of the leading Russian team. The rivals was used by the Russian participant of the female arbitrary program, Julia Lipnitskaya.

Russian Olga Graf won the Olympiad’s armored medal at skating competitions at a distance of 3000 m. She ran her with a personal record, showing a result of 4 minutes. 3.47 sec. Bronze Count - the first award of the Russian national team at games in Sochi. The Olympic champion was Iren Wuste from Holland (4: 00.34), the second was finished by Czech Martin Sablikova (4: 01.95). The Wüst won the third gold medal of the Olympic Games in her career.

The Russian team in ski racing protested for the result of the male skiatlo at the Olympics in Sochi. Russian Maxim Vylegzhanin took fourth place in the race, losing at the finish centimeters to Norwegian Martin Sundbu . The R -Sport agency reports that the protest was quickly rejected, which approved the fourth place for the Russian and the podium - for the Norwegian. However, the head of the Federation Elena Vyalbe said that she intends to appeal to the decision to deviate protest.

The man opened shooting at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, killing two and injuring six people, the site of the South Sakhalin and Kuril diocese reports. The representative of the city police confirmed RIA Novosti Information about the incident. The shooting was arranged by a 25-year-old guard, the motives are being clarified. The emergency occurred in the main cathedral of the South Sakhalin and Kuril diocese at about 14:00 local time.

At the Olympic Games in Sochi, the skiers played medals in the Skiatlon 30 km. Gold in this discipline was won by the Swiss Dario Colony, who became a two -time Olympic champion. He was ahead of the Swede of Marcus Helner for 0.4 seconds. In the struggle for bronze, Norwegian Martin Yonsrud Sundby pulled out 0.1 seconds from the Russian Maxim Vylegzhanin. The fifth was finished by another owner of the highway - Ilya Chernousov.

Biathlonist Olga Vilukhina, without mistakes, passing two firing borders, took second place in the sprint race 7.5 kilometers in the Olympic Sochi. Silver Vitlukhina allowed the Russian team to reach 9th place in the medal standings of the games. The podium came out completely "Slavic": in the first place - Anastasia Kuzmina, who was playing for Slovakia, in the third - Vita Semerenko from Ukraine, who lost less than a second at the finish line.

The next round of negotiations between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) related to Iran’s nuclear program successfully ended on February 9. During negotiations, the parties expanded the list of those measures that were approved at a meeting in November last year. As ISNA reports, the new agreement consists of seven points of joint actions.

The twelfth International Film Festival of Film Films, which will be held in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug from February 28 to March 6, will be dedicated to Russian oil industry workers, Interfax reports. "The thematic orientation of the future festival is associated with an important event: on September 21, 2013, Yugra celebrated a significant date - the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Berezovsky gas.

In the Olympic Sochi ended the final of the snowboarding competitions in the Slopstail category. Gold in this new Olympic discipline was taken by American Jamie Anderson. In her best attempt, she scored 95.25 points. The winner of the silver medal was the Finnish athlete Annie Rukoyarvi (92.50), British Jenny Jones (87.25) went to bronze. Russian snowboarders did not participate in this category of competition. - Diary of the 2014 Olympics.

Four in medical masks robbed a store on the Volga Boulevard in the southeast of Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow. "On Sunday, four men in medical masks broke into a grocery store. Threatening the staff, presumably, with a gun, they took the revenue from the cash register and disappeared," the press service employee said. Whether visitors were in the store, is not specified.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday evening arrived in the Austrian Tyrol house in Krasnaya Polyana. There he drank beer and shnapsa and talked with the legendary skier of Karl Shranz, and also congratulated the Austria national team on a gold medal. Our Olympians at the time were awarded from Putin only two congratulatory telegrams: he congratulated Olga Count on bronze, and Olga Vilukhina with silver, the president’s official website reports.