The Russian Ministry of Defense has temporarily suspended flights of Mi-28 helicopters. The reason for introducing such a measure was an incident in the Stavropol Territory, where a helicopter of this type made a hard landing. According to preliminary data, the helicopter's engine failed. RIA Novosti reports this. Earlier it was reported that the crew decided to make an emergency landing after depressurization occurred at an altitude of 600 meters.

The names of experts from the commission under the Presidential Human Rights Council, who will prepare a conclusion on the verdict against ex-YUKOS owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, will not be disclosed “to avoid premature leakage of information.” This was stated by the head of the Council, Mikhail Fedotov.

Over the course of three years, the Olympic construction in Sochi has changed three general directors. The “chief foremen” of a fantastically expensive project stay in a responsible position for no more than a year. Why? Bustle at Olympus The leaders of Olympstroy in Sochi are jokingly called gods: by analogy with the Greek inhabitants of Olympus, they are also practically invisible to mere mortals and almost omnipotent.

A new service is gaining popularity in Russia – on-call bathhouse. To go over your body with a broom, you no longer need to travel far and wide. The steam room can be delivered directly to your home. It’s good for everyone: some worry about it, others make money from it. "ZIL-Banych" 62-year-old Muscovite Tatyana Tyukhova from Kuzminki has a tradition: every year on December 23, her birthday, she goes to the bathhouse with her friends.

Last week, the third stage of the Euro Hockey Tour, the Swedish Games, took place in Stockholm. The head coach of the Russian national team, Vyacheslav Bykov, two and a half months before the start of the World Cup, took a completely experimental squad to Scandinavia. Why, at a time when it is necessary to closely play the links for the upcoming championship of the planet, does the mentor suddenly decide to experiment? There is no clear answer to this question.

Perhaps this is the loudest news before the start of the football season. Andrei Tikhonov returned to his native Moscow Spartak. At the end of last week, he flew with the team to the last pre-season training camp in Turkey. At first there was a rumor that he would shake off his old ways - he was already over forty - and play the season on the field. But Andrei himself dispelled the rumor.

Recently, cases have become frequent when people receive packages in the mail and then discover that someone has already gutted them. Yulia Shvets, a lawyer at the Moscow Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights, tells Sobesednik how to get yours back and whether it is possible to punish scammers. – The first thing to remember when you send a parcel to your friends or relatives is that anything can happen to it along the way.

I'm currently working on two portraits of Fidel Castro. One is realistic. The other is from the “River of Time” series (famous contemporaries in costumes from different eras). At the last one he is there in the guise of a revolutionary. And recently, with the support of MGIMO Rector Anatoly Vasilyevich Torkunov, he decorated the new building of the institute with thirty copies of his works.

Several theaters across the country want to stage the play by Anna Yablonskaya, who died in Domodedovo. Friends and relatives are raising money for her little daughter Masha. “One playwright flew to America today. – Which airport? - I ask. A short laugh on the phone. – The one through which playwrights fly... - Well, then everything is in order. Now at Domodedovo they check passengers’ armpits and look in their hair!” This is what Mikhail Ugarov, head of Teatr.doc, wrote in his LJ blog.

In Moscow, the magistrate court sentenced Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the Left Front movement, to 10 days of administrative arrest, finding him guilty of disobedience to police officers during the Day of Wrath. Let us remind you that this action took place in the capital on Saturday, February 12th. Udaltsov was detained while trying to take the list of demands of the protest participants to the presidential administration.

Sexologists say that representatives of the stronger sex at different ages perceive sex differently. What a 20-year-old guy needs is completely unnecessary for a 40-year-old man, and vice versa. And you must definitely take this into account. From 20 years old Young people at this age feel like sexual giants. And this is true: hormones are going through the roof, and the level of testosterone in the blood is growing by leaps and bounds.

Last week, Dmitry Medvedev said that starting in the fall of 2011, Russia will stop moving the clocks and we will live according to summer time. His announcement sparked a lot of debate about who would benefit and what. YOU ASKED TO TELL: How will the abolition of winter time affect the economy?

Employees of the special unit of the Ministry of Emergency Situations found themselves in the position of slaves. Shoigu came to investigate Voronezh has been restless in recent days - the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu, came to the city with a total inspection of the local fire brigade. But he first visited the special unit, whose employees wrote an open letter. 37 firefighters who signed demanded to deal with the arbitrariness of the leadership.

Cottage development on the territory of the Borodino Field nature reserve is stopping. The authorities of the Mozhaisk district were also strictly forbidden to think about the construction of a landfill. At the beginning of January, Sobesednik, in the article “The Battle of Borodino around the garbage dump,” wrote about the illegal cottage development on the territory of the Borodino Field museum-reserve.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved the initiative of the Governor of the Leningrad Region Valery Serdyukov, who proposed developing a new system of initial vocational training. Its goal is to move from a three-year training period to a one-year training period. In this regard, the official proposes to replace training with production practice at enterprises with modern technological equipment, ITAR-TASS reports.