Lithuanian nationalists recalled dark times The political action that accompanied the March 11 celebration of the 20th anniversary of the restoration of Lithuania's independence provoked a sharp rebuke from abroad.

The Penguins got into a fight Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Detroit” – “Pittsburgh” – 3:1, “Montreal” – “Ottawa” – 0:2, “Los Angeles” – “Colorado” – 4:3. Detroit's match with Pittsburgh, the main character of which was the scorer of the double against the Penguins, Henrik Zetterberg, ended in a fight. After the final siren, Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby actively pushed Zetterberg in the back, and it all ended in a brawl, in which Detroit goalkeeper Jimmy Howard also took part.

In light of plans for a new massive sale of assets to the state, it is important to recall the experience of the 1990s At the end of 2009, the topic of a new wave of privatization in Russia became the focus of attention of politicians and experts. In September, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov announced that the country needs to carry out a new structural privatization and corporatize a large number of state-owned enterprises.

On Wednesday, another cyclone from the Baltic will hit the center of Russia. It will bring precipitation of varying intensity (mainly in the form of snow), during the day - 0...+5оС. In the Chernozem region there is light and moderate precipitation, +1...+6оС. In the northwestern regions there will also be precipitation; in the Leningrad region there will be snow and sleet in places, the temperature will be -3...+3°C.

A criminal case was opened against Deputy Yuri Luzhkov The Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office yesterday announced the initiation of a criminal case against the 50-year-old deputy mayor of Moscow for control of investments and contracts, chairman of the committee for control and regulation of investment programs of the city (Moskontrol) Alexander Ryabinin.

The court ordered the police whistleblower to apologize to his former superiors The Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk yesterday made a decision on the civil suit of the leaders of the Novorossiysk police against their former employee Alexei Dymovsky, who became widely known after a video message to the country's leadership, in which he spoke about “police lawlessness” and accused his superiors of corruption and numerous violations.

High-ranking police officer fired President Medvedev, as his press service reported yesterday, dismissed Lieutenant General Vyacheslav Zakharenkov from his post as head of the Department of Law Enforcement in Transport (DOPT) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Officially, nothing was reported about the reasons for the resignation, but in the Ministry of Internal Affairs itself it did not come as a big surprise.

The French government yesterday abandoned plans to increase taxes on companies that do not reduce industrial gas emissions. President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to implement these plans this summer. Prime Minister Francois Fillon said that the decision was made in the interests of maintaining the competitiveness of French manufacturers.

CSKA started the Euroleague playoffs with a big victory In the first match of the quarterfinals of the ULEB Euroleague, the capital's army team defeated the Spanish team Caja Laboral, formerly known as Tau, on their site - 86:63. Tomorrow the second match of the best-of-three series will take place in Moscow, and then the rivals will go to the Basque Country, where they will play the next one (March 30), and if necessary, the fourth game.

The ROC Executive Committee approved the resignation of Leonid Tyagachev An extraordinary meeting of the executive committee of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) took place yesterday on Luzhnetskaya Embankment. Members of this organization approved the voluntary resignation of ROC President Leonid Tyagachev, who announced his early resignation on March 4. According to those present, the issue of revising or rejecting the statement of the head of the ROC was not raised at the meeting yesterday.

CLASSIC Archbishop Hilarion. "Matthew Passion" Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Synodal Choir. Conductor A. Puzakov. Conservatory , 19.00. Rafael Aguirre, Anabel Montesinos, Marco Tamayo (guitar, Spain). E. Pujol, H. Malats, F. Tárrega, M. Giuliani, I.-S. Bach, A. Vivaldi, N. Paganini, L. Brouwer, M. de Falla, M. Saumel, A. Mencken. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall , 19.00. Chamber orchestra and choir Musica Viva. J. Haydn, A. Vivaldi. Roman Catholic Cathedral , 19.30. THEATERS “Dido and Aeneas” by G.

The number of Afghans seeking asylum abroad increased by 45% last year and reached 26 thousand people. Refugee Agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said yesterday that "ongoing violence in Afghanistan is forcing people to flee their homes". In addition, there are about 1.7 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan and about a million more in Iran. In total, 377 thousand asylum applications were submitted last year.

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Kyrgyzstan will build a “deliberative democracy” Five years ago, on March 24, 2005, Kyrgyzstan was the first country in post-Soviet Central Asia, if you don’t count the civil war in Tajikistan in the early 1990s, to change power. The first president of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akaev, under pressure from the opposition and the crowd, refused to use force and fled the country .

The Presidium of the Moscow Union of Journalists and the editors-in-chief of Russian media consider it necessary to publicly express serious concern about the campaign organized using Internet technologies against our colleague, editor-in-chief of Russian Newsweek magazine Mikhail Fishman. The methods by which this is done allow us to speak of a planned and well-organized provocation addressed not only to our colleague, but also to the journalistic community as a whole.