A hunger strike of candidates for deputies. City of Lermontov, February 21, 2012 Simultaneously with the presidential election on March 4, many Russian regions will be held local elections. In a number of large cities - for example, in Arkhangelsk, Yakutsk, Astrakhan, Yaroslavl - will be elected mayors, and in Ufa, Kirov, Omsk, Oryol, Pskov and Nalchik - municipal representative bodies.

Hockey. KHL. Gagarin Cup.

The report on the situation around the observance of human rights in Russia in 2011, which was published the day before on the Internet, was removed from the network. The press service of the Russian Ombudsman does not comment on the reasons for such a decision, but they promise that the report will be published immediately after the presidential election, perhaps on March 5, writes Gazeta.ru.

Players of the Russian football team before the match with the Denmark team. Copenhagen, 29 February 2012 The Russian football team won the Danish team. The account of the friendly game that was held in Copenhagen - 2: 0. This meeting took place exactly one hundred days before the first match of the Russian team at the Euro 2012-before the game of Russians against the football players of the Czech team in Wroclaw.

The leadership of one of the two large administrative parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Serbian, ignored the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the country's independence. Only Gelko Komshich and Bakir Posetbegovich, who represented in the Sarajevo today, represented in the collective presidium of Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatians and Bosni Muslims.

Russian media on the eve of the presidential election: the last sip of freedom? The program is debated by the deputy chief editor of Novaya Gazeta Andrei Kolesnikov and correspondent. "Newspapers, RU" Ilya Azar.

Two Russian sailors, captured by pirates in Nigeria, are alive and healthy. Everything possible is being done for their liberation, said the Russian ambassador to Nigeria Alexander Polyakov. The Russian diplomat refused to inform the details. According to the Russian trade union of sailors, after the pirate attack on the Dutch ship in the port of Nigeria, the captain and senior mechanic - both inhabitants of Vladivostok were hostage. Pirates have not yet put forward any demands.

Tennis ATR. Dubai. Quarterfinals Roger Federer (Switzerland) - Mikhail Yuzhny (Russia) - 6: 3, 6: 4

Football.

Mozhaisk colony for minors In the State Duma, work is underway on a bill to reduce the age from which minors can be sent to the colony, writes RBC Daily. For the most cruel crimes, it is proposed to hold teenagers accountable from the age of 12, and for all the rest - from 14 years old. The first idea of lowering the age bar for criminal liability was voiced by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Law and State Building Vladimir Pligin.

Irina Lagunina: Relations between doctors and patients in Russia - scientists from the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences studied this topic. In this case, the so -called qualitative methods were used: in this case, individual interviews with both patients and doctors. What are the most noticeable problems in this area? To what extent do the interests of patients and those who treat them coincide? Tells Veronika Bode.

Locals in Homs as a result of shelling were under the rubble of their houses Syrian government troops stormed the city of Homs, where the armed forces of the opposition were concentrated. Before the assault, Interfax reports the city underwent massaged artillery shelling, and as a result of these hostilities, more than a hundred people were killed. More than seven thousand military personnel took part in the operation, who entered the residential quarters of Khoms, began their "stripping".

In Tver, Deputy Chairman of the Regional Public Organization "Democratic Choice" Yuri Suetin was arrested in Tver. This was reported by the editor -in -chief of the site "Other Tver" Maxim Novak. Yuri Suetina was detained late in the evening on Thursday at the exit of the bar. He is accused of appearing in a public place in a drunk form and use of obscene expressions.