Olympics 2010. Biathlon. Men. Relay 4x7.5 km. 1. Norway (Halvard Hanvold, Tarie Bo, Emil Hegle Svenden, Ole-Einar Bjurndalen). 2. Austria (Simon Eder, Daniel Mehotich, Dominic Londertinger, Christophe Zumann). 3. Russia (Ivan Cherezov, Anton Shipulin, Maxim Chudov, Evgeny Ustyugov). Ole-Einar Bjurndalen won the sixth golden Olympic medal in his career. Now he has 11 medals - 6 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze.

In Turkey on Friday, 18 acting and retired military were arrested. They are accused of trying to organize a revolution in 2003 in order to overthrow the Government of Recep Erdogan. Earlier, 49 high -ranking officers were taken into custody on the same charges. The trial in the case of the preparation of a military coup aggravated the relationship between the government and the army.

The United States again rejected the accusations of supporting the Iranian Sunni rebel group "Dzhundall", put forward by Tehran after the arrest of its leader Abdulmalik Riga. The Minister of Counterintelligence Iran Haidar Moslekh on Thursday said that Riga admitted during interrogations that he visited the US military base in Afghanistan a day before the arrest. During his arrest, a fake Afghan passport was removed from him, which was allegedly supplied with the Americans.

In Tver, about two hundred people held a protest with a demand for the resignation of the governor of the region Dmitry Zelenin. As the Radio Liberty correspondent reports, other representatives of the opposition came to the rally organized by the Communists. The protesters expressed their indignation that the Tver region is one of the poorest in Russia, and Zelenin is one of the richest governors.

In the Noginsk near Moscow on Friday evening, two people died in a fire at a fire factory, Interfax reports with reference to law enforcement agencies. When extinguishing a fire in the factory, the bodies of two people who were poisoned by combustion products were found. It is possible that other people could be in the fire zone, they are searching for them. The cause of the fire is set.

Kaliningrad. The march of protest in front of the City Council against raising transport tax. January 30, 2010 The largest social protests of recent months took place in Kaliningrad, where at the end of December 10 or 15 thousand citizens entered the rally. One of the organizers of this rally , Konstantin Doroshko, met with the Governor of the Kaliningrad Region George Boos .

The number of victims of the explosion in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul increased to 14, more than 30 people were injured. According to the head of the Kabul police, Sayda Sayedzad, there are foreigners among the dead. He said that the attack was accompanied by a shootout, then explosions occurred next to two private boarding houses. The representative of the Taliban told Western agencies that the Taliban were taking responsibility for the attack.

Vadim Demidov Two blogs closed this week, in which I found useful links to download new albums. One Argentinean - the taste of its creator coincided with mine almost one to one. He posted the Latin ethno, and jazz, and rock, but invariably high quality. The other is Portuguese, here I “cooked” by the news of rock and electronics. And this blogger, apparently, is also a great meloman, anyway that he did not lay out.

Tamara Lyalenkova Honestly, I was not going to make a program about a new school subject this month - "Fundamentals of religious cultures and secular ethics", it seemed to me that it was early. Firstly, while this is only an experiment, even no one in his hands held textbooks. Secondly, there is a choice-not only the foundations of Orthodox culture, as proposed for many years, no, a pretty decent secular alternative. The only thing that is alarming is not early?

Mikhail Zlatkovsky, "The main thing is participation. And complicity." The artist did not find other expressive means after the Canada-Russia match Vladimir Kara-Murza: The Russian prime minister believes that it is necessary to rectify the situation in the field of sports and create all the conditions for the performance at the Sochi Olympics in 2014.

In Ukraine, to preserve the coalition in the Verkhovna Rada from Yulia Tymoshenko, its partners demand to abandon the post of prime minister, reports from Kyiv by Radio Liberty Vladimir Ivakhnenko.

Irina Lagunina: "Money and morality." Thus, the topic of discussion, which was recently at the Bruckings Institute, was formulated. The fact is that Steven Green, who presented his new book on it, is both a banker and a priest. Says Vladimir Abarinov. Vladimir Abarinov: Christianity seems to condemn the pursuit of profit.

In the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul - according to the updated data - 16 people were killed and more than 30 were injured as a result of an attack by militants. According to the information of the Afghan Ministry of the Interior, among the victims - three police officers, as well as a citizen of Italy. The French authorities confirmed the death of one Frenchman. Earlier it was reported that among the dead are several citizens of India.

In Ulyanovsk, a dispute broke out between representatives of the Orthodox Church and Muslims. The Orthodox priest, the rector of the temple of all saints in Ulyanovsk, Alexy Scala, made an open letter, in which he asks the regional power not to provoke a conflict between two religious faiths.

The Supreme Court of Myanmar rejected the appeal of the leader of the democratic opposition Aun San Su Zhi, who appealed his house arrest, reports BBC. Su Ji - the Nobel Laureate of the World - spent most of the last 20 years under house arrest, the term of which in August last year was extended for 18 months. Despite the extension of the arrest, at the end of last year, the Minister of Internal Affairs in the Military Government of Myanmar stated that Su Chi could be released ahead of schedule.