The head coach of the St. Petersburg Zenit, Luciano Spalletti, was pleased with the game of his team in the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League against the Portuguese Benfica (3: 2). “We did what we planned, not paying attention to a difficult field, and scored three very good goals. Especially highlighted the second goal, which sent Semak to the gate of the opponent. This is one of the most beautiful balls that scored my teams.

The Presnensky court of Moscow extended the arrest to Sambist Rasul Mirzaev, after which 19-year-old Ivan Agafonov died, until May 17. On the eve of the Zamoskvoretsky court arrested the athlete before April 1. This was reported by RAPSI . Earlier, the investigation re -qualified the article on which Mirzaev was accused. Now the athlete is accused of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm, resulting in the death of the victim by negligence.

President Medvedev introduced a bill to the State Duma on a change in the order of elections of deputies of the lower house of parliament. The draft new law retains the current proportional electoral system, but provides for a number of innovations, in particular, involves holding elections in 225 districts. The passage barrier is reduced to 5 percent.

Moscow taxi drivers will not be able to use the allocated stripes for public transport. This was stated by the head of the Department of Transport and Road Transport infrastructure Maxim Liksutov, reports Interfax . “Only buses will travel in the city in the city, there will be no exception to a taxi,” he said. According to Liskutov, today 13 thousand permits for taxi transportation have been issued in Moscow.

The leader of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov said that the Moscow authorities refused to agree on the action, which was planned to be held on February 26 on the Revolution Square, the RIA Novosti website reports. According to Udaltsov, in the evening of February 15, the organizers called the city hall and said that they could not agree on the action “Sales of the Putin’s political winter” on the Revolution Square.

The Russian Economic School opens the spring season of lectures . The spring course includes 10 lectures, thematically divided into two cycles: “Questions to economists” and “Economic policy” . Lectures will be held in the lecture of the Polytechnic Museum.

The newspaper "KP" notes that the political struggle goes into virtual space. One of the last victims of this struggle was Indicom, which earns on the creation of products to use them in marketing and advertising campaigns, Internet trade and customer service via the Internet and a mobile phone. One of these developments is the Wow -Call service. Its essence is that the user can order on his phone or phone of his friends, colleagues call with the voice of a famous person.

The authorities want to speak with "unregistered parties." The motive is understandable: the conversation in this format cuts off those “Bolotnaya leaders” with whom the authorities do not want to communicate. However, this imitation of dialogue: nothing will change from communicating with obscure people, and the "swamp" on the "leaders" does not give a damn. In Russia, thanks to the efforts of tandemocrats, a new political entity arose.

Attention! Lecture season "Polit.ru" 2011 - 2012. It takes place on the new site - in the club "Zavtra" (the previous name is "Pir.g.I. on Sretenka"). Driving scheme. On March 1, 2012 (Thursday), a specialist in military strategy, former US President Ronald Reagan, expert of the Center for Strategic and International Research (Center for Strategic and International Studies - CSIS), Edward Luttvak , will perform as part of the Public Lectures.

According to the results of the referendum in North Kosovo, 99.74 percent of citizens spoke out against the recognition of the Albanian authorities of the self -proclaimed Republic of Kosovo. It is reported by AFP from the words of the representative of the CEC Lubiri Radovich. The appearance in the referendum amounted to 75.28 percent, official results will be published on February 19.

The Russian-Israeli entrepreneur Arkady Gaidamak concluded a deal with justice on Wednesday, partially pleading his guilt as part of the case of money laundering in Israel in exchange for mitigating the charges. It is reported by RIA Novosti . Gaidamak found himself guilty of obtaining the benefits “malicious, but not fraudulently” and agreed to voluntarily introduce more than 800 thousand dollars to the treasury of Israel, in addition to a fine of 5.6 thousand dollars.

Yesterday, Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting with the leaders of the registered parties, announced the creation of a working group to finalize bills on political reform. It will be headed by the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin. Leaders and registered and unregistered parties are invited to the group. According to Kommersant , most proposals were the leaders who did not go to the State Duma of parties.

The head of the Communist Party, presidential candidate Gennady Zyuganov proposed to transfer some of the presidential powers to the parliament and the government. “It is necessary to redistribute the powers of the president in favor of a strong government and parliament. The power vertical should be under the control of the people's chosen ones. Today, the Russian president has two, or even four times more powers than other presidents, for example, the US President, ” Interfax quotes Zyuganova.

The Public Opinion Foundation published a forecast regarding the preferences of voters in the presidential election on March 4. According to the forecast, Vladimir Putin will win the victory in the first round. 60 percent of Russians are ready for it. In second place is the leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov with 16.7 percent of the vote. The leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky has 9.5 percent of the vote. Mikhail Prokhorov gained 7.4 percent of the vote.

France President Nicolas Sarkoi nominated his candidacy for a second term. According to Reuters , he stated on the air of the TF1 television channel. His main competitor in the struggle for the post of head of state will be the leader of socialists Francois Hollande. Sarkozy promised voters “strong France”, which will protect its people from the global economic crisis.