The response match in the English “Chelsea” with the Danish “Copenhagen” of one eighth Champions League ended with a draw. Having played with the Danes with a score of 0: 0, the team of Carlo Ancheelotti secured a place in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. The home team more than once during the meeting owned the initiative, but the British failed to break through the enemy’s gates.

Due to accidents at the Japanese nuclear power plant, residents of Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka and Sakhalin massively buy dosimeters and drugs containing iodine, the Kommersant newspaper writes. At the same time, local residents are not stopped even by the high price of dosimeters - from 5 to 7 thousand rubles. In addition, on Sakhalin, people bought all the tickets for the mainland.

The St. Petersburg Academic University (SPBAU) of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced the acceptance of students to study in a magistracy in computer science in the 2011-2012 academic year. Study will go in three areas: theoretical computer science, software development and algorithmic bioinformatics.

On March 16, the son of Muammar Gaddafi, safe al-Islam, said Libya financed the election campaign of French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007. The son of the leader of the Libyan Jamahiria gave an interview to Euronews , in which he promised to provide evidence of his words. The al-Islam safe claimed that he has documents that compromise sarcose.

The Central Election Commission suggested banning agitation on blogs on “days of silence”, equalizing them in this with traditional media, Gazeta.Ru reports. Such an initiative was a member of the Mayan Grishin committee at parliamentary hearings on the legislative regulation of the Internet.

The Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of Russia Vitaly Mutko proposed holding the World Figure Skating Championship in Moscow. With such an idea, he turned in an official letter to the President of the International Union of Skatytsy (ISU) Ottavio Chinkante. According to the whole sport agency , in the same letter, Mutko expressed condolences to the residents of Japan in connection with the catastrophe in the country.

The winner of the male sprint race (10 km) at the Biathlon World Cup in Oslo became the German Andres Birnbacher. The representative of Germany did not make a single inaccurate shot, and spent 26 minutes, 14.6 seconds to overcome the distance. The company on the podium of honor was made by the Swede Bjorn Ferry (second place), and German Alexander Wolf (third). The performance of Russian biathletes in this race can be regarded as unsuccessful.

The leadership of “Fair Russia” is ready to provide places in the party list to members of other opposition parties, but only if they suspend their membership in them, said Sergey Mironov, the leader of Fair Russia, said at a press conference in St. Petersburg, Zaks.ru reports. "We are ready to provide places on their lists if they suspend their membership," Mironov said.

The USA and Chile are going to cooperate in the field of nuclear energy. The corresponding framework agreement will be signed between the countries on Friday, President Chile Sebastian Pigner told reporters. “We should not be afraid to study nuclear energy. The agreement planned for signing on Friday provides for scientific research, staff training, as well as improving the safety of radioactive waste burials from the two experimental reactors we have, ”the head of state said.

Norway authorities on Friday, on March 18, the fighter is deported to Russia without heavyweight rules with the radical nationalist views of Vyacheslav "Red Tarzan" Datsik. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to a source in the Russian Prosecutor General. According to a source who fled to Norway from a psychiatric hospital near St. Petersburg in August 2010, they will be delivered by a flight from Oslo to St. Petersburg in the morning.

The Japanese authorities began to cool the repository of the worked out nuclear fuel and the Fukushima-1 emergency nuclear power plant. Helicopters of self -defense forces of the country dump water over the third power unit of the station on Thursday, Kyodo reports. Two CH-47 brand helicopters participate in the operation. They dump water from reservoirs with a volume of 7.5 tons attached to the aircraft.

Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin stated on Wednesday that Russia is ready to refuse the construction of the South Stream due to Turkey's impregnance. However, this is just bargaining with partners. A month ago, Putin in Brussels advertised very actively a month ago, and soon he flies to discuss him in Slovenia and Serbia. Russia may abandon the large fuel and energy project "South Stream".

The goalkeeper of the St. Petersburg Zenit Vyacheslav Malafeev will not play on Thursday in the return match of the 1/8 finals of the Europa League against the Dutch Twente. Instead, another goalkeeper will enter the field, namely, Yuri Zhevnov. This was reported by the " Russian News Service " with reference to the press service of Zenit. On the morning of March 17, Vyacheslav Malafeev became a widower: his wife Marina Malafeeva died in a car accident.

The Moscow Center for Modern Culture "Garage" moves to the territory of the Central Park of Culture and Rest named after Gorky, Kommersant reports. As the Garage Director Anton Belov said in an interview with the newspaper, the famous hexagonal pavilion was allocated for the center in the park.

Leonid Bolshov, Director of the Institute of Problems of Safe Development of Atomic Energy (Ibrae) RAS, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor: Professor: The situation in Japan on the site of Fukushima-1 does not move yet for the worse, but not for the better, that is, it is recorded and rested on the verge. If three reactors and basins of excerpt were cooled, it would become calmer.