On Monday, Moscow was undergoing an operation to detain a criminal suspected of a series of murders of pensioners. In late 2005 - early 2006, three pensioners were killed in the Bitsevsky Park and several attacks on men were committed for about 60 years. The criminal approached them from behind, pierced his head with a bottle, pushed the neck into the wound and ran away. Moore received operational information that a man appeared in the park, following the signs, similar to the suspect.

Russian biathlonist Olga Pyleva, convicted of doping, said that the leadership of the Russian Olympic team practically threw her in a situation that developed in Turin-2006. “Our leadership really doubted my honesty and decency and quit me,” Pyva said in an interview with the Krasnoyarsk Worker newspaper. - No one began to do anything. But I know firsthand how in such force majeure situations the leaders of foreign delegations literally pull the throat for their athletes.

We are publishing the text of an article by Russian President Vladimir Putin, “Energy egoism is a road leading to nowhere,” published in The Wall Street Journal on 02.28.06. Translation of text on the website Inosmi.ru . The creation of a reliable and comprehensive energy security system is one of the strategic goals of the G8, which Russia became chairman of in January, and the world community as a whole. Today, energy is the engine of social and economic progress.

Over a thousand people and about a hundred units of various techniques participate in the command and staffing exercises that begin on Tuesday in the interaction of regional forces and means to prevent emergency situations associated with the spread of bird flu. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" on Tuesday, the head of the press service of the Siberian regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies, Vladimir Berdnikov.

Vladimir Putin confirms the reliability of Russia as a supplier of energy resources. “It seems to me that no one in Europe should have any doubts about the reliability of supplies (Russian energy),” the Russian president said at a press conference in the Hungarian capital. Putin recalled that Russia never allowed any breakdowns, even in the most difficult years for its economy, in particular, in the mid-90s.

Last night in Nazran, armed people abducted the 71-year-old deputy of the republican parliament Magomed Chakhkiev, who is the father of the President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov and the prosecutor of the Republic of Mahmuda Ali Kalimatova. The operatives suggest that for the liberation of the prisoner, not economic requirements will be put forward: to contact two authoritative families even for very big money in the Caucasus is unlikely to decide, the Kommersant writes on February 28.

From the Baikonur cosmodrome, at 23.10 Moscow time, the Russian Proton-M launch vehicle with the Arabsat 4A Arabic Company was successfully launched. The launch of the "Proton" was carried out regularly and in the estimated time. On one of the walls of Cip, equipped with the latest technology, not far from the screen, on which the “picture” of what is happening on Baikonur is projected, an icon with the face of the Holy Archangel Michael is fixed.

The English punk group Sex Pistols refused to take part in the ceremony of introducing Rock and Roll into the American Hall of Glory. They wrote their statement by hand, scanned and laid out on their website. The ceremony of the introduction to the Hall of Fame will be held in New York on March 13. Together with Pistolz, the hall will include group Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blondie and Black Sabbath.

Vladimir Putin optimistically evaluates the possibility of achieving an agreement with Iran on the creation of a joint venture to enrich Uranus in Russia. "We are optimists and believe that we can agree with our Iranian negotiators on the issue of Iran’s return to an additional protocol on the issue of rating him.

The Court of the Sverdlovsk District of Krasnoyarsk satisfied the petition of the Mi-8 helicopter pilot, during which the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Lebed, Tahira Akhmerov, was killed on parole, RIA Novosti reports. The court decision will enter into legal force through the work of days.

The murder of Altynbek Sarsenbaev can become a line in the development of the political system of Kazakhstan from stability to internal crisis.

A week before the award of the Oscar, the police and security services blocked part of the Hollywood boulevard adjacent to the Kodak cinema, Lenta.ru reports. Within a few days that remained before the awards of the American film academy, entire streets will be blocked around the cinema, stores will stop working, the metro trains will not stop at the Hollywood/Highland station.

Today in Moscow the first meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian subcommission on cooperation in the space industry began, at which the draft program of bilateral cooperation in the field of research and use of space space for 2007-2011 will be discussed, LIGA reports. In particular, the parties will discuss the issues of cooperation in the field of satellite navigation, the creation of a contract base, and intellectual property protection.

The Novosibirsk garrison court today sentenced the younger sergeant Pavel Malyugin to five and a half years in a maximum security colony. In December 2005. Malyugin seriously damaged his eyes to the ordinary Yuri Chirkov, trying to take away the mobile phone from that.

President Saakashvili may approve the decision to withdraw peacekeepers in the coming months. There was a countdown of the time given by the Georgian parliament to withdraw Russian peacekeepers from South Ossetia. According to NG , this can happen in the summer of this year, when Georgian deputies can adopt a decision to withdraw Russian peacekeepers from another rebellious autonomy - Abkhazia.