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Skiing. World Cup. Falun (Sweden) Women distance competitions. Pursuit Race, 10 km (free style) 1. Marit Bjorgen (Norway) 2. Justin Kovalchik (Poland) 3. Charlotte Calla (Sweden) The best of the Russians Olga Zavyalova showed the 11th result. In the overall standings of the World Cup, Justin Kovalchik won the victory. Men distance competitions. Pursuit Race, 15 km (free style) 1. Peter Northug (Norway) 2. Maurice Manifa (France) 3.

Sprinkle jumps. World Cup. Pomeleus (Slovenia) Personal competitions, K-185 1. Simon Ammann (Switzerland) 2. Gregor Schlirenitsauer (Austria) 3. Anders Jacobsen (Norway) Team competitions 1. Austria 2. Norway 3. Finland Russian team in 9th place

The independent election commission of Iraq rejected the calls of the president and the prime minister of the country to count the votes filed in the parliamentary elections on March 7. The representative of the commission called the procedure excessive, emphasizing that if one of the elections participants have doubts about the veracity of the voting results in a particular site, then a partial recalculation can always be carried out.

Hockey. KHL championship. Playoffs. 1/4 finals "Salavat Yulaev" - "Neftekhimik" 1: 2 (in overtime). Account in series 1: 1 "Metallurg" (Magnitogorsk) - "Ak Bars" 2: 3. Account in the series 0: 2

Strong fog prevents the normal operation of Moscow airports. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the press service of the metropolitan air, the landing in Moscow on Sunday in Sunday could not make more than 20 aircraft. They were forced to leave for spare airfields - to Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and St. Petersburg. In addition, several aircraft were redirected from Vnukovo Airport to Domodedovo. It is expected that the fog will last until Monday morning.

The Georgian television company Imedi brought official apology to the public and foreign diplomats for the plot-promotion of the alleged Russian military invasion of Georgia, released last week. The statement "Imady" emphasizes that in the future the company will not commit violations of journalistic ethics. The National Communications Commission obliged the television company earlier.

The entrepreneur Yuri Merkind, who was detained for the murder of his wife and two daughters, explained his act by the presence of huge debts and unwillingness to burden their family. This was announced by the representative of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office Anatoly Bagmet, noting that Merkind was going to end with himself, but he had ended ammunition.

The study of the Institute of Sociology, dedicated to the problems of the pre -Olympic Sochi. The program is attended by: Leocadia Redizheva, head of the Center for Study of Interethnic Relations of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ivan Klimov, associate professor of the sociological faculty of the Higher School of Economics, Roman Mamin, teacher of the University of Tourism and resort business.

Israeli soldiers shot two Palestinians who tried to kill a soldier in the city of Nablus. According to the representative of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the incident occurred at the Havar checkpoint, southeast of the city of Nabluz on the west coast. Earlier today, the Palestinian boy, who participated in the demonstration south of Nablus, died of injury as a result of a shot of an Israeli soldier.

In the environmental information tent, everyone could receive printed materials on Sunday, and volunteers told passers-by about the threat hanging over Lake Baikal in connection with the upcoming launch of the Baikal Pulp and Drummer Plant, poisoning the lake with their waste, the Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg, Tatyana Voltskaya. "Unfortunately, Baikal once again became the bargaining coin of the oligarchs who want to help out momentary funds.

The final results of the parliamentary elections in Iraq will be published on Friday - March 26. Earlier on Sunday, representatives of the country's independent election commission said that they were not going to re -recalculate the votes filed on the election day of March 7. The procedure is insisted by President Iraq Jalyal Talabani and the current Prime Minister Nuri Al-Malika, who declared possible violations when summing up the voting results.

Over 300 thousand people were injured in the Xinjiang-Uygursky Autonomous District of China as a result of floods and avalanches. According to BBC, an increase in air temperature in combination with abundant precipitation over the past three days has led to melting the mass of snow in the northern part of the region. The damage was caused to the livestock industry and residential infrastructure, many roads are blocked, and work at enterprises has been stopped.

In France, at the second round of elections, the local authorities to the local authorities, it is expected that the law-conservative party of the country's president Nicolas Sarkozy will be defeated. On previous Sunday, during the first round of elections, the Union for the Popular Movement received only 26 percent of the vote, and its opponents - the Socialist Party - 29.

Supporters of France President Nicolas Sarkozi suffered a serious defeat in the regional elections, the second round of which was held on Sunday. According to the preliminary results of the vote count, the left -wing parties, led by the socialists, secured the support of more than 50 percent of those who took part in the elections and ahead of the lawyers - supporters of the sarcose - by 17 percent. Of the 22 regions of the France metropolis, the right -wing people defeated only one in Alsace.