Saakashvili is often convincing. A picture of 2013 In Washington, the conference "Russia and the North Caucasus after the Olympics in Sochi", organized by the research center "Jamstown Fund" was held. The participants were addressed by the former President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, who expressed the opinion that the North Caucasus region and the Russian itself are waiting for great changes.

Kamil Stokh from Poland became a two-time Olympic champion, winning ski jumping competitions with a 125-meter springboard. The second place was taken by the Japanese athlete Noriaki Casai, the third - Peter Perevts from Slovenia.

In the Leningrad region today, at a frontal clash of a timber truck with a minibus, nine people were killed and three were injured. According to the representative of the traffic police, the accident occurred on the Vyborg - Brusnicheny highway. The private minibus Volkswagen, moving towards the border with Finland, drove into the oncoming lane for the unidentified reason and ran into a timber truck, the traffic police officer said.

In the Leningrad Region, when a minibus collided with a timber truck, ten people were killed, according to the specified data. According to the traffic police, eight women and two men were killed, including a minibus driver. Three more suffered, they are hospitalized, Interfax reports. The accident occurred on the Vyborg-Brusnika highway. In the private minibus Volkswagen were 12 people.

The Swedish women's team won the ski relay. Its composition of the Olympic champions was Ida Idemarsdotter, Emma Vicen, Anna Hog and Charlotte Calla. The second place was taken by the Finnish team, the third were the skiers of Germany.

r One of the recent visits to Moscow, I met with a major media manager. There was a topic for conversation, but they said, as is usually the case in Moscow, about everything. He relates himself to the conservatives. There is now such a trend in Moscow among high -ranking and noticeable figures, loyal authorities. This is a kind of Russian patriotic conservatism, which does not really coincide with the Western understanding of the word. However, this is not important. We spoke a couple of hours.

In Alma-Ata, about a hundred protesters began the procession towards the city hall. Demonstrators require the authorities to solve social problems that have worsened after the recent devaluation of the local currency. According to Interfax, the participants of the action chant "forward, Kazakhstan." Earlier, the protesters tried to break into the square in front of the Palace of the Republic, which is closed by metal fences, but were stopped by the police.

Evgen Grebenka. Portrait of the work of Taras Shevchenko The science of the eyes was taught in Nizhin The eyes look at the eyes, the eyes of speech speak. What are the speeches? The cornea, anti -aircraft gun, apple, iris, lens - how many expressive, tangible words surround the word "eye". But this word itself, it seems, is not so fragile, not so juicy, not so bright. In the Old Russian language, it meant a "ball": glass eyes - glass balls. Still, you see, glass is not crystal.

Achievements and disappointments of the Sochi Olympiad, prison term of civil activist Yevgeny Vitishko, Julia Tymoshenko factor in the Ukrainian political crisis, the suffering of the Rain television channel and a letter of director Alexander Sokurov - an overview of important, entertaining, iconic events of the 7th week of 2014

On February 15, 1989, the Soviet Union completed a nine -month withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. This event ended the armed conflict, which lasted almost a decade, in which more than 14 thousand Soviet military personnel and at least 200 thousand Afghans - both military and civilian population died.

Maria Komissarova during the fall The Russian skier of Maria Komissarova performed a successful operation, which lasted six hours. After an accident during the training, she damaged the spine. The representative of the Russian skiing Federation, Mikhail Verzheba, said that after Komissarov’s injury was urgently taken to the hospital. He also informed that a 23-year-old athlete will not perform at the current games.

The International Olympic Committee received assurances from the Russian powers that the verdict to the civil activist Evgeny Vitishko is not related to his environmental activities in the construction of Olympic facilities and his criticism of the Russian authorities. On February 12, the Krasnodar Regional Court confirmed the verdict of Vitishko previously issued by the Tuapse City Court - the activist was sentenced to three years in colony.

Barack Obama Washington considers the possibility of taking "intermediate measures" in order to provide pressure on the Syrian government and improve the humanitarian situation in Syria. This was stated by US President Barack Obama at negotiations with the king of Jordan Abdalla II in California on Friday. According to Obama, the United States does not expect the Syrian conflict will be settled in the near future. Today in Geneva the second round of inter -Siri peace negotiations ends.