In the Sverdlovsk region, a government commission was created to investigate the causes of death and illness of pupils of the Nizhnyturinsky orphanage. The corresponding order was signed by the regional governor Alexander Misharin, ITAR-TASS reports. On Sunday, two pupils of the boarding school died, another 30 were hospitalized with a diagnosis of food poisoning. A criminal case has been opened.

The border checkpoint "Kazbegi - Upper Lars", located on the North Ossetian section of the Russian -Georgian border, resumes work after a three -year break from Monday. This is informed by RIA Novosti.

Football. Italian championship. 26th round "Jenoa" - "Bologna" 3: 4 "Livorno" - "Siena" 1: 2 "Udinese" - "Inter" 2: 3 "Skating" - "bari" 4: 0 "Parma" - "Sampdoria" 1: 0 "Napoli" - "Roma" 2: 2 "Milan" - "Atalanta" 3: 1 "Lazio" - "Fiorentina" 1: 1 "Kiev" - "Cagli" 2: 1 "Juventus" - "Palermo" 0: 2 After 26 rounds: Inter - 58 points "Milan" 54 "Roma" 51

In Pskov, on Monday, there will be a day of memory of the paratroopers of the 6th company 104 regiments of the 76th landing and screening division. On March 1, 2000, the 91 paratrooper under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Mark Evtyukhin at an altitude of 776 meters near the Chechen village of Ulus-Kert entered the battle with the superior forces of the Huttab field commander. More than 400 militants were killed, 84 paratroopers were killed.

In Primorye, the drug police detained four drugs suspects from Vladivostok to Dalnegorsk and their subsequent sales. This is informed by RIA Novosti. It is reported that the parcel with heroin in the amount of about 10 grams - this is 500 doses - was transferred from Vladivostok to Dalnegorsk with a minibus. In Dalnegorsk, a partner was waiting for the courier. Both are detained and interrogated. As a result, drug control officers managed to detain two more suspects.

Alexander Genis: North Korea is of particular interest and causes special horror among our compatriots - too much familiar in the everyday life of this country. This can be judged by three new books creating a portrait of North Korea as a totalitarian monster. The microphone has the host of the “book review” of the “American hour” Marina Efimova. Barbara Demick. “Nothing to Envy. Ordinary Lives in North Korea” Ralph Hassing and Kongdan OH. “The Hidden People of North Korea”. Br Myers.

The St. Petersburg Youth Yabloko summed up the results of the contest of the most ridiculous expenditure of the Golden Yershik budget. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya, the idea of the competition and a single bonus was born last year, when information on the purchase of toilet yershikov appeared on the city of City Copies of 13 thousand rubles per piece for converting governor rooms in Smolny.

The former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzhich, said that in the Bosnian war, the Serbs defended the "right and holy cause." Karajich, acting today at the process that resumed against him in the Hague tribunal, gave arguments to his defense. Earlier, he refused lawyers. 64-year-old Karadzhich is accused of war crimes and genocide during the war of 1992-1995, as a result of which 100 thousand Croats and Muslims were killed and more than two million left their homes.

In the south of Afghanistan, at least 6 people were killed as a result of two explosions. Under Kandahar, the suicide bomber blew up a mined car. A policeman died, another 16 people were injured, including 9 police officers. Earlier, also near Kandahar, a soldier of NATO forces and four civilians died, when a suicide bomber sent a mined Taxi car to the NATO forces on the road bridge.

In Makhachkala today a rally was held in defense of the rights of suspects in the case of the murder of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Adilgerey Magomedtagirov. According to Radio correspondent, Freedom Nariman Gadzhiev, about 500 people gathered for the rally in support of the detained shamsulla Borziev and Abdulmede, Manapov.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych holds negotiations in Brussels with representatives of the leadership of the European Union. In terms of the first foreign trip to Yanukovych as the head of state - a meeting with the Chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barrosa and the chairman of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzekom.

Alexey Tsvetkov Alexander Genis: In Moscow, a book is being prepared for the exit, connecting the new translations of the two tragedies of Shakespeare - “McBet” and “Hamlet”. Both translations were performed by poets living in New York. “Macbeta” was translated by our colleague, a regular participant in these programs, Vladimir Gandelsman. We have already discussed his work in the “American hour”.

In Irkutsk, a mass protest was held in front of the building of the Kirovsky district court, the Radio Liberty correspondent Ekaterina Vertinskaya reports. About 150 Irkutsk people demanded "to judge by law, and not by concepts." All these people advocated the candidate for mayor of Irkutsk Anton Romanov, whom they are trying to remove from the elections with a clear violation of the laws.