In the election of the President of Russia, polling stations opened in four regions of the Far East - in the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories, the Sakhalin Region and the Jewish Autonomous Region. On Chukotka, Kamchatka and Magadan, the vote began an hour earlier. In some polling stations - as evidenced by the webcam data - lines of the ballots lined up.

The Moscow police confirmed the detention of three participants in the feminist punk group Pussy Riot, as well as the former activist of the war group "War" by Peter Verzilov. The press center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow explained that they were detained as accused in the criminal case of hooliganism, initiated after the performance of the group in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, who was unclear in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Sverdlovsk region beats records in the number of observers. More than a thousand people want to control the course of the presidential election. These are not only representatives of the headquarters of candidates, but also volunteers trained by the public organization "Voice". After the State Duma Campaign and a wave of protest actions, a huge number of people decided to become observers in the presidential election.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez on Friday announced that he was quickly recovering - after a surgical operation in Cuba. The Cuban press published a photo of Chavez, on which he is captured by smiling while walking around the room - without outside help. In other photographs, Chavez is depicted with Fidel Castro, who, apparently, visited the Venezuelan president in the hospital. 57 -year -old Chavez arrived in Cuba on February 24 - for the next operation to remove a cancer tumor.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda No one will bear personal responsibility for an accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima. This statement was made today by the Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda-a week before the anniversary of the tragedy. In an interview with foreign journalists, Noda said that the Japanese leadership had false ideas about the safety of atomic energy, so everyone will have to share responsibility for the tragedy and extract the lesson from it.

About 60 residents of the village of Petrovskoye in the Ramensky district of the Moscow Region today blocked the Moscow Lesser Ring highway. According to the associations of Russian lawyers, one of the civilian activists, Marina Zlotnikova, thus local residents confront the development of a sand career, which, according to them, is carried out without permits.

Football. Championship of Germany. 24th round "Bayer" - "Bavaria" 2: 0 "Borussia" d - "Mainz" 2: 1 "Hamburg" - "Stuttgart" 0: 4 "Hanover" - "Augsburg" 2: 2 "Hertha" - "verder" 1: 0 "Kaiserslautern" - "Wolfsburg" 0: 0 "Freiburg" - "Schalke" 2: 1

In the south and Middle West of the United States, the number of those killed as a result of Thornado increased to 37. Hundreds of people were injured. President Barack Obama called the state governors of Indiana, Kentuki and Ohio to express his condolences in connection with the death of people. There are dead in Georgia, Alabame. Many houses are destroyed to the base, trees are torn out with the root. Now the hurricane is moving east.

"Stalin Bunker" in Samara: the past and the present (Sergey Khazov).

Basketball. NBA. Regular championship "Houston" - "Denver" 105: 117. Timothy of the brain ("Denver") 5 points "Los Angeles Lakers" - "Sacramento" 115: 107 "Phoenix" - "Los Angeles Clippers" 81:78 "Utah" - "Miami" 99:98 "San Antonio"-"Charlotte" 102: 72 "New Orlean"-"Dallas" 97:92 "Philadelphia" - "Golden Steit" 105: 83 "Cleveland" - "Chicago" 91: 112 "Atlanta" - "Miluoki" 99:94 "Boston"-"New Jersey" 107: 94 "Toronto" - "Memphis" 99: 102

Skiing. World Cup. Lahti, Finland Women. Duatlon, 7.5+7.5 km 1. Teresa Johaug (Norway) 2. Marit Bjorgen (Norway) 3. Heidi Hungarian (Norway) Men. Duatlon, 15+15 km 1. Dario Colony (Switzerland) 2. Martin Jonesrud Sundbu (Norway) 3. Alex Harway (Canada)

In Pakistan, when attacking the convoy, who accompanied the former Minister of Internal Affairs of the country of AFTAB Khan Sherpao, one of his guards was killed, three more people were injured. On the path of cars, in one of which the ex-minister was located, the suicide bomber has acted an explosive device. This happened near Peshavara. Sherpao himself was not injured in the explosion, the local police said.

In Moscow, in the International Information Center "Elections-2012" today a scoreboard has opened with the possibility of video broadcasting from polling stations. The length of the screen is 12 meters, a height of 3 meters. On the right and left on the scoreboard is directly broadcasting 72 sites, in the center a close -up can be displayed from any camera, ”said Igor Schechenlev, Minister of Communications and Mass Communications.