The Russian hockey team will host the final match today as part of the group-2006 group tournament. The remaining opponent in the group is the US team, and it is possible that in the confrontation with it the Russians will be beneficial ... defeat. According to the prevailing four years, traditions participating in the games are divided into two groups of six teams each. Two worst from each group are outlined, and the rest, respectively, go into the playoffs.

On the outskirts of the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, the remains of at least 100 people were found on the garbage dump. This was reported by representatives of the local police. According to medical experts, the bones found belong to people who died 2-3 years ago, writes Gazeta.ru . According to one version of the investigation, the remains in plastic bags fell on a landfill from a nearby cemetery, whose leadership preferred to throw them out, instead of burying.

At negotiations in Moscow, Russia called on Iran to complete cooperation with with the IAEA, the RIA Novosti reports the official message of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

From today, the commanders will not be held accountable for the crimes of subordinates in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, if they will report on them in a timely manner and frankly about them, RIA Novosti reports. The corresponding directive was published today by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov.

In the fresh issue of Novaya Gazeta , a report was published about one of the victims of the army grandfather, - Dmitry Smirny, the 19 -year -old ordinary ordinary in the Moscow Region of the Guards Kantemirovsky Division, which has become known on the wave of interest of the media to the army’s problems, which was ensured by the “ case of Sychev ”.

Today, 19% of Russians perceive on February 23 as the day of the creation of the Red Army, for 31% - this is a holiday of all Russian troops, but most of the respondents - 42% - consider the festival of all Russian men on February 23, RBC reports. These are the data of the survey conducted by the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) in order to find out how the Russians perceive on February 23, and whether this holiday retains importance for them ..

For an unauthorized picket at the building of the reception of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, ten activists of the NBP were detained in the center of Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. All of them were delivered to the Krasnoselsky police department, where, on the fact of the unauthorized picket, a protocol on an administrative offense was drawn up.

On February 17, the Minister of Science and Education Andrei Aleksandrovich Fursenko gave a small press conference at the Russian New University during the presentation of the newspaper “In the World of Science” - a new application to the magazine of the same name. Both publications are headed by the vice -rector of Rosnou Professor S.P. Kapitsa .

The Chelyabinsk garrison court sentenced Private Alexei Shashko by one year of detention in a disciplinary battalion for non-structured actions at the Chelyabinsk tank school, ITAR-TASS reports. This is the second of the five initiated criminal cases on the facts of hazing in the Chelyabinsk tank school, where the soldier Andrei Sychev was then seriously injured.

The Government of the Russian Federation adopted a decree "On Amendments to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of January 19, 1998 and recognizing some legal acts on the retail sales of alcoholic beverages that have lost their strength," which should enter into force on February 23.

The court of Japanese Prefecture Kyoto sentenced the 20 years of the priest, who raped seven girls. According to court sources, 62-year-old Customs Kin harassed the girls from among parishioners. He threatened his victims that they would fall into hell if they resist. The age of affected girls is from 12 to 16 years old, writes Gazeta.Ru . The court granted the prosecution, and sentenced Kin to the maximum possible term of imprisonment in this case.

In the United States, the execution of a person accused of rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl is postponed due to the self-release of two anesthesiologists who considered their participation in the execution unethical. The execution of the California prison prison San Kentin Michael Morales was supposed to occur on the night of Monday on Tuesday, reports AP .

As a result of the accident, four five -story residential buildings remained at the hot water supply pipeline in the Western Administrative District of Moscow without heat and hot water, Interfax was told in the capital's city hall. The representative of the city hall noted that there was a threat of disconnection of the district heat station, which would lead to a disconnection from the hot water supply of several hundred houses.

The Russian bookstore, for a long time, who was a refuge of immigrants, researchers and - as some say - even the CIA spies and agents during the Cold War, unexpectedly closed the door last week, after its owner was deprived of property, reports the Gazette publication. Thousands of books, all in Russian, some still packed in plastic containers, were sent to the Garbage Processing Station in Shady Growv.

In Saudi Arabia, a newspaper is closed, printing caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad. The government of the country ordered the issue of the SHAMS periodic publication, which published caricatures as an illustration for an article in which the inhabitants of Saudi Arabia called for a protest against the actions of the Danish media . According to the newspaper editors, they published caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad in order to start a campaign against Denmark , RBC reports.