The French biathlete Marten Fourcade became the Olympic champion of the Games in Sochi, winning the persecution race. This is his first Olympic reward in his career. The silver medal won Moravets from the Czech Republic with Odrzhi. The bronze medalist is another biathlete from France Jean-Giyom Beatrix.

Romeo and Juliet, Ford Madox Brown, 1870 “Broadway” on the screen. The prospects of new operas. To the 40th anniversary of Solzhenitsyn's expulsion Alexander Genis: Today's release ACh will open a “Broadway Dialogue”, which we are conducting with Solomon Volkov in the Broadway studio Radio Liberty. Solomon, what is they talking about Broadway? Solomon Volkov: At Broadway, of course, they are preparing for Valentinov Day.

The Olympics became the main political event of February in Russia, and everything in Moscow and Sochi, obviously, will spin not so much around the sport as around Putin; Where will he go, who will hug, with whom it will take a picture. The first target was the young idol of figure skating Julia Lipnitskaya; If hockey players won their tournament, they will not be too good for them.

Both in Russia and outside the country, the Olympics passing in Sochi is perceived not only - but many and not so much - as sports competitions, but as a propaganda campaign of the Russian authorities. The purpose of this campaign is to confirm the authority of Vladimir Putin and the style of his leadership, to breathe pride into his country into Russian citizens and unite the nation with the idea of a great victory and a common cause. How achieved these goals?

Vladimir Abarinov Historical reporting Vladimir Abarinov Alexander Genis: Having visited America and having seen Hollywood cranberries, Ilf and Petrov came up with a generalized character of American films on the Russian theme: “Princess Grishka”. Since then, of course, a lot has changed, but this movie hero still regularly appears on the screens. Over the third century, I have seen everyone.

President Yemen Abd-ratbuba Mansur Hadi Yemen will be transformed into a federation of six entities. This was announced on Monday by a special commission, headed by the President of the country, Abd-Rabbu Mansur Hadi. According to the new political and administrative structure of the country, two provinces will be in the south of Yemen and four in the north. The capital of Yemen San will not belong to any of the six regions.

Rain TV channel On Monday, one of the largest Russian telecom operators Tricolor TV stopped broadcasting the rain television channel - as promised by its leadership a week before the day. Earlier, the channel was disconnected by the Akado, Vimpelcom, Rostelecom, Megaphone and NTV Plus. A formal reason for such actions was a survey, recently conducted on the air of the Rain television channel, related to the history of the blockade of Leningrad during the war years.

Mass protests in Horage, February 10, 2014 On Monday in Bosnia, thousands of people again took part in protests against unemployment, poverty and corruption. The demonstrations that began last week became the worst unrest since the end of the war 1992-1995. The protests were peaceful, and their participants demanded the resignation of the government and the creation of a new, consisting of non -party experts.

The defense of the nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich, known under the nickname "Tesac" and the accused of extremism, appealed the extension of his arrest. According to Interfax the lawyer of the accused, the decision to extend the term of detention of Martsinkevich was made with numerous violations of the legislation. Earlier, the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow, at the request of the investigation, extended the Nationalist an arrest until April 10.

Switzerland citizens at a referendum on Sunday supported the restoration of quotas for the influx of migrants from the countries of the European Union. Supporters of tightening measures won with a slight advantage. 50.3 percent of voters spoke out for the proposal, who overcame the necessary threshold of 50 percent to approve the initiative with their votes. According to the BBC, the initiative met wide support among residents of the Italian canton of Tichino.

Many years ago, an apparent fork was formed in my biography: on the one hand, I continued the work that started back in my youth, that is, I wrote and published poetry, and on the other hand I worked as a journalist and publicist, which also gave a considerable piece of life. The strangeness of such a double calling was that I formed two not very related audiences, whose representatives often either did not know about the other side of my work, or did not pay attention to it.

Rear Admiral Vyacheslav Apanasenko died in the intensive care unit of the first city hospital. This information was confirmed by the press service of the capital's department of health. He was hospitalized after he shot himself with a pistol, ”said an employee of the press service of Interfax on Monday. Earlier, some media reported that the ex-head of one of the departments of the Navy Apanasenko, suffering from an incurable disease, tried to commit suicide and was hospitalized last Friday.

30 Greenpeace activists, arrested for an attempt to hold a Protective Protection against oil production in the Arctic in the Pechora Sea platform, returned their personal belongings, documents, bank cards. This was reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya.

Beatles at New York Airport, February 7, 1964 In the United States, a series of concerts and events celebrate the half -century anniversary of the first visit to the country of the legendary Bitles. On Sunday, the CBS television channel broadcast the program “The evening that changed America” in memory of the first appearance of “Beatles” on the screens of American TVs. Many music stars of different generations took part in the show, including two "Beatles" - Paul McCartney and Ringo Starra.

Alexander Vuchich: The beginning of the election campaign. Coral caricature The election campaign of the Serbian progressive party began with the salvation of the child In Serbia, on March 16, extraordinary parliamentary elections were scheduled. The initiator of extraordinary elections is the government, in fact, the leading force of the ruling coalition is the legalist Serbian progressive party.