Of the persons involved in the once loud "gambling", two ex-employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were accused of receiving bribes from the owner of the illegal casinos Ivan Nazarov may soon be excluded. Lawyers Farit Temirgaliev and Mikhail Kulikov submitted a petition to the Investigative Committee of Russia to terminate their criminal prosecution, Kommersant found out.

The demand for loans from Russians is high, the number of applications is growing, but banks deliberately tighten the terms of lending and are fighting for the quality of customers. In January, the retail loan portfolio, according to the Central Bank, grew by only 0.2%. It was worse only in January 2011, when the portfolio decreased by 0.1%. In January 2013 and 2012, the retail portfolio of banks added 0.8 and 0.6%, compared the data "Vedomosti" .

Spectators who are directed to the Sochi Olympic Games can leave cars on a free intercepting parking lot in a hot manner, the press service of the "Transport Directorate of the Olympic Games" said . The parking is located on the federal road M -27 "Dzhubga - Sochi" near the railway station and is designed for 900 seats. You can get to it, guided by road signs, data on the number of free parking spaces are displayed on a variable of information.

The male team of Russian Kerling, debuting at the Olympic Games in Sochi, won the first victory in a circular tournament after four starting defeats. The owners of the Ice Cube, led by Skip Andrei Drozdov on Thursday, defeated the Swiss with a score of 7: 6, yielding to the last end of 4: 6. In the standings, Russians now take the eighth place out of ten, sharing it with the Swiss. On Friday, our team will play with the Americans. - Diary of the 2014 Olympics.

Belgium took another step towards becoming the first country in which euthanasia is allowed for all minors without exception. The corresponding law is approved by the lower house of parliament, reports NLN.BE. Of the 142 deputies of the House of Representatives who took part in the vote, 86 voted "for", 44 - "against" and 12 abstained.

The Nissan Leaf model finished 2013 in Europe with record results, becoming the best -selling electric car in the Old World. Over the 12 months of last year, Leaf divorced the European market with a circulation of 11,120 copies, which is 5,600 cars (204%) more compared to indicators for the same period in 2012. According to Nissan, the model confidently leads sales in the segment of electric vehicles, exceeding the result of the closest competitor by 25%, writes Avtomontro.ru .

Members of the Muslim community of the city of Linz in Austria offered local doctors to help in the form of donated blood. It is always not enough, so many organizations regularly ask to pass it to everyone. However, in the case of the followers of Islam, the situation was not so simple. Muslims who contacted the Red Cross of the Austrian federal land Verkhnyaya Austria were refused, Inopressa.ru reports with reference to publication in the German newspaper Die Welt .

Member of the Russian Olympic team in skiing Mikhail Maksimochkin, hospitalized the day before after falling during the K-125 springboard, was discharged from the hospital. The athlete damaged the eighth rib and, for this reason, may miss Olympic competitions at a large springboard. “The crack of the rib is a painful trauma, but it does not imply the imposition of gypsum or tires.

Japanese Yuzuru Khany won the short program of the Olympic tournament skaters, setting a new world record for the number of points. The judges appreciated his performance in Sochi at 101.45 points. The previous world record belonged to the same athlete - 99.84. - Diary of the 2014 Olympics.

"At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris was terrorized by gangs of Apaches - Les Apaches. To intimidate, they began to call themselves that in honor of the bloodthirsty Apaches. Pickpockets, hooligans, robbers and pimps united in gangs. The police were often powerless. 8,000 gendarmes against 30,000 young thugs . Some historians believe that the number of Apaches reached 70,000. The Apaches also developed a kind of their own hand-to-hand combat system - the savat (old boot).

In the Russian -speaking Wikipedia, the articles on famous Russians will add records of their votes, Izvestia reports. The project was called "Wiki Golos". Earlier it became known that a similar project called Wikipedia Voice Intro Project is launched by the World Wikipedia. The first person who left the voice appeal for this project was the British writer and actor Stephen Fry .

The American freestanist Joss Kristensen won gold in Slopstail at the Olympic Games in Sochi. The best result of Kristensen from two final attempts is 95.80 points. The remaining two places on the catwalk were also taken by the Americans: Gus Kenvort (93.60) won silver, and Nicholas Gepper (92.40) - bronze. Russian Pavel Korpachev could not overcome qualifications in Slopstail.

The silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Sochi in the sprint of the Russian Olga Vilukhina will miss an individual race, according to the website of the Union of Biathlonists of Russia (SBR). On Thursday, the final composition of the female quartet of housewives on the race was determined. The colors of the Russian flag on February 14 will be defended by Olga Zaitseva, Yana Romanova, Ekaterina Glazyrina and Olga Podchufarova.

On the eve of the Moscow Arbitration Court, on April 4, he appointed hearings on the claim of the State Film Fund, the main archive of the films of the Russian Federation, on the recognition of an insignificant transaction to transfer rights to the Soviet animation of the Soyuzmultfilm creative and production association, RIA Novosti reports.

On Tuesday, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court sentenced three men who were involved in the brutal double murder of foreign workers. The motive for reprisals was suspicion that migrant workers abducted the perforator. Lynch shows subjected the victims to the tortures, and then drowned them in the Yenisei. By a court decision, the previously convicted deputy director of Krasnologholm LLC Mikhail Fedorov will spend 17 years behind bars. And his accomplices S.A.