The dramatic conclusion of the career of the famous skater caused the most contradictory responses of his fans and critics , Russian skater Evgeny Plushenko completed performances at the Sochi Olympics due to injury and announced the end of his career. In Russia, he is criticized for a too persistent desire to participate in games that did not bring the result, but deprived other athletes of the place in the national team.

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For the first time in the last two years in the eurozon, annual economic growth has been noted The growth of the economy in the fourth quarter justified the best forecasts The volume of the economy of 17 eurozone countries for the period from October to December last year increased by 0.3%, the Eurostat agency said on Friday. His assessment coincided with the most optimistic of the latest forecasts.

Andrey Sannikov The head of the OSCE Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian issues, Isabelle Santush said she was concerned about the fate of the accused in the case of riots in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012. Speaking at a meeting of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly in Vienna, she expressed concern about the situation with the rule of law in Russia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

Promotion of supporters of the Opposition Party "Stroit" (Kyiv, February 13, 2014) The commandant of the Maidan Andrei Parubiy said that the headquarters of folk resistance requires from the Ukrainian authorities until 15 hours on February 17 to close all criminal cases against protest shares. Speaking on Friday in Kyiv, Parubiy said that 4 new criminal cases against self -defense organizers were opened and the opposition regarding this as a continuation of political repression.

The artistic composition on the Olympic theme created by the prisoners of the colony in the Kirov region, February 14, 2014 (the FSIN was provided) Competitions dedicated to the Sochi Olympics were held in the correctional colonies of the Kirov region. So, in a colony of strict regime No. 11 and a colony of general regime No. 5, matches on mini-football in the snow were held.

The destruction of part of the Syrian chemical arsenal will be engaged in the Finnish company EKOKEM and the French VEOLIA ENVIRONNNEMENT. The fact that they won the tender, was reported on Friday by the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons based in the Hague. For the allocated 40 million euros of the company should eliminate 500 tons of industrial chemicals and a million liters of toxic waste.

The national historical treasure rots in swamps and abandoned villages. In the Studio of Freedom - restorers Igor Shurgin and Alexander Popov. With a weeping about wooden Rus'

The DPRK and South Korea today completed the second round of negotiations at a high level dedicated to the meeting of relatives living in both countries of the divided Korean Peninsula. The South Korean Ministry of the Union reported that the consultations took place in the border paragraph of Phanmunge. The signing of any agreement is not reported. Over the past seven years, these have been the first negotiations at a high level between the two Korean states.

The British Sanger Elizabeth Yarnold became the strongest in the skeleton at the games in Sochi. The second place was taken by Noel Picus Pis from the United States, and the third was Russian woman Elena Nikitina.

On the eve of the day when we learned about the terrible absurdity-that Evgeny Vitishko was sent for three years to a colony-settlement, another event occurred. No less shocking, in Voronezh: local operatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained the famous public figure Roman Khabarov, a former police officer, founder of the Honest City movement . Khabarov was detained on the evening of February 11, he is charged with participation in an organized criminal community.

The performance of Alexander Solzhenitsyn at the United Congress of the American Federation of Labor and Production Trade Unions (AFT CPP) in Washington a year and a half after his expulsion from the USSR. June 30, 1975.

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