Two-time Olympic champion in hockey Evgeny ZIMIN, in a conversation with Vremya Novostey correspondent Oleg EREMIIN, reluctantly chose the club that would be the favorite in the playoffs of the Russian championship. The fact is that, according to a hockey specialist, this tournament can be won by any of the first eight teams. Everyone has their own shortcomings, and it is not entirely clear who will be the first to hide them.

Chronicle of sporting events Basketball. Super League. Men. CSKA -- "University-Ugra" -- 101:52, "Khimki" -- UNICS -- 77:71, "Triumph" -- "Lokomotiv-Rostov" -- 97:90, "Spartak" St. Petersburg -- "Spartak" -Primorye" - 74:91, "Lokomotiv" NS - "Ural Great" - 68:78. Leading : CSKA - 18 wins, 1 loss, Khimki - 17--2, Triumph - 14--5, Dynamo M - 14--5. The capital's army team easily dealt with the University-Ugra club, which ranked tenth in terms of winning percentage.

Russia is ready to support new sanctions against Tehran Today the UN Security Council is due to vote on a draft resolution tightening international sanctions against Iran. It was originally planned that this would happen on March 1 - the first day of the Russian presidency of the UN Security Council. However, finalizing the document required additional time.

The arrest of a journalist led to mobilization in Abkhazia Last weekend , the situation in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone worsened . President Mikheil Saakashvili's threat to forcefully release a Georgian reporter from arrest in Sukhumi became the reason for partial mobilization in the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia. Russian peacekeepers set up additional posts on the separation line.

Investors are not interested in presidential elections The uncertainty in the mood of stock market participants before the presidential elections can be called symbolic. Considering the predetermined result, it is not yet clear to investors how exactly the government in the country will function under the new president. However, in fact, the market volatility on Friday was caused by external reasons that had nothing to do with the elections.

Exhibition of landscape objects Archstoyanie-2008 Architects and artists, who have long chosen a wonderfully beautiful place - the village of Nikola-Lenivets on the Ugra River as a platform for their experiments in the genre of fashionable land art, with the support of the companies Marmoleum, Softline, Autodesk, "Scale: one to one" gathered for the new Maslenitsa festival. We dedicated it to the funny theme of borders, boundaries, frontiers.

Few people remember that at the beginning of the First World War it was called nothing less than the Second Patriotic War. The defeat immediately deprived it of its honorary status, because only victorious wars, and above all the two Patriotic Wars, are traditionally considered the main content of Russian history of recent centuries. They don’t like to talk about defeats, although it was largely thanks to defeats that the Russian Empire emerged.

For the second week in a row, the Russians played the final Russian Elena Dementyeva won the prestigious tennis tournament in Dubai with a prize fund of $1.5 million. In the final, the Muscovite was opposed by her compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova, who lost in this Russian derby - 6:4, 3:6, 2:6. For the second week in a row, the championship title in the highest-rated tournaments is being contested exclusively by Russians. A week earlier, Maria Sharapova won in Doha in a duel with Vera Zvonareva.

February 1--29, 2008 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media.

Stephen Mann is “digging the ground” for the Trans-Caspian Sea Russia's energetic actions to implement two pipeline gas projects designed to satisfy the growing needs of the markets of Central and Southern Europe - the Caspian and South Stream - do not confuse Western lobbyists of the competing Trans-Caspian project . A funny coincidence was typical evidence of this.

FOOTBALL. March 4--5. Champions League . 1/8 finals. Return matches. March 6. UEFA Cup. 1/8 finals. First matches. March 9. Russian Super Cup. "Zenit" - "Lokomotiv". Moscow. An extremely busy week for the current national champion Zenit St. Petersburg.

Experts assessed the economic results of Putin's presidency By the end of the second term of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, quantitative indicators of economic development ceased to develop into qualitative indicators. Therefore, the new president will have to look for a new paradigm of economic policy. The country is reaping the benefits of what was laid down back in the 90s of the last century, but now this resource is running out.

The shareholders of KM Invest CJSC, which manages the joint assets of the head of Interros Vladimir Potanin and the head of Onexim Mikhail Prokhorov, at extraordinary meetings on Friday decided to postpone consideration of the issue of legal liquidation of the company to March 19, a representative of "Vremya Novostey" told Vremya Novostey. KM Invest" Konstantin Vorontsov.

Races in Korea did not bring together all the strongest shooting skiers The seventh stage of the World Cup in South Korea ended with a mixed relay. “Mixed” was included in the honorary trophy program for the first time, although medals have already been awarded in this discipline at the World Championships several times. The Russian national team, which was actually the second or even third team (Svetlana Neupokoeva, Anna Kunaeva, Andrei Prokunin, Andrei Makoveev), was content with fourth place.

Gazprom and E.ON are going to build a thermal power plant in Germany near the Nord Stream gas pipeline The German energy concern E.ON and Gazprom last week agreed to jointly build a power plant in Germany. The location for the gas turbine thermal power plant with a capacity of 1200 MW was chosen in the suburbs of Lubmin on the shores of the Baltic Sea - there the Nord Stream gas pipeline will enter Germany, through which fuel for the power plant will be supplied .