Nabokov lasted two periods Hockey. NHL. Regular season . “Buffalo” – “Florida” – 6:2, “Montreal” – “Carolina” – 1:2, “Pittsburgh” – “Tampa Bay” – 0:2, “Minnesota” – “ Chicago - 0:4, Dallas - San Jose - 5:1, Colorado - Anaheim - 2:5, Calgary - Phoenix - 2: 1. Several matches were played in the National Hockey League on Thursday night. All teams in which Russian legionnaires were involved lost to their opponents. Dallas maintains a hypothetical chance of making the playoffs.

Conscripts will be allowed to use mobile phones On March 31, the Russian President signed a decree on the next conscription for military service from April 1. The decree contains the figure of 270,600 conscripts. Last fall, 271,200 people were called up. The Ministry of Defense hastened to assure yesterday that it had not planned and does not plan to approach the country's top leadership with a proposal to increase the service life.

Enrollment of children in schools has begun The campaign to enroll children in first grade, which launched yesterday, will clearly make parents nervous. At least education officials have already begun to convince parents that the procedure for enrolling a child in school is painless.

Investigators visited the management of Mirax Group Police officers, with the support of special forces, yesterday conducted searches in the office of Mirax Group (MG), one of the five largest development companies in Russia. The head of the corporation, Sergei Polonsky, was the first to announce this on his online blog, also posting a short video and the text of the investigator’s resolution.

"Thirst" on Moscow screens To paraphrase somewhat one of the characters in the movie “Pop” (surprisingly released at the same time as “Thirst”), Sang Hyun (Song Kang Go) is undoubtedly “the most outstanding example of a Korean priest.” He is a very sincere believer, attentive and sensitive to his parishioners (but if necessary, he recommends that they not only pray, but also take antidepressants), and in addition, he plays the flute very well.

The search unit of the Ministry of Defense may be disbanded The Interdepartmental Commission for Calculating Losses in the Great Patriotic War pledged to create an electronic data bank on the fallen defenders of the Motherland by April 1. The commission includes representatives of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosstat, Rosarkhiv and other departments. The commission will send the results to the government and the president.

The average increase in pension is 465 rubles From April 1, the majority of Russian pensioners will receive 6.3% more. On average, the increase will be 465 rubles, and for old-age labor pensions - 488 rubles. Social pensions will increase by the same amount as last year's inflation - by 8.8%. Experts are not yet ready to assess the consequences for family budgets, but they see risks for the state treasury.

Oleg Butman. Passion (Butman Music) . Another “product” from Igor Butman’s label is an album by his brother, Oleg Butman, a famous drummer. Passion is stated as a solo creation by Oleg Butman, although this is not entirely true: Butman Jr. composed the material in collaboration with his wife, pianist Natalya Smirnova. The fragile lady Smirnova plays energetically, like another black man of advanced years.

The OSCE Chairman visited Chisinau and Tiraspol Yesterday in Chisinau, the current chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Kanat Saudabayev, spoke in favor of an early resumption of negotiations on the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict in the “5+2” format.

Lawyers for Khodorkovsky and Lebedev praised the work of the prosecutor's office Next week, Mikhail Khodorkovsky will testify in the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow on charges brought against him and his business partner Platon Lebedev of stealing in 1998-2003 350 million tons of oil from subsidiaries of an oil company worth more than 892.4 billion rubles.

China has final say on sanctions against Iran Chinese President Hu Jintao will take part in the global summit on nuclear security issues, which will be held in Washington on April 12-13. This was announced yesterday by the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang.

In Ingushetia they checked whether relatives of militants were at home While President Dmitry Medvedev confirmed at a meeting in Makhachkala his commitment to the chosen priorities for the socio-economic development of the North Caucasus, Ingushetia was almost completely engulfed in a counter-terrorism operation. On Thursday morning, the operational headquarters of the republic announced the introduction of countermeasures in a large part of the Malgobek region.

Inter confidently beat CSKA CSKA Moscow tested itself as one of the eight best clubs in Europe. The army team lost outright to Inter at the San Siro in the first quarterfinal match of the Champions League, but the minimal score (0:1) leaves Leonid Slutsky's team at least the illusion that the fight can still be continued. The army team in Milan did not demonstrate any real prerequisites for the fact that CSKA will be able to win back in Moscow.

The Fed spoke about its unsuccessful acquisitions The US Federal Reserve has disclosed information about the assets it acquired during the rescue of investment bank Bear Stearns, which became the first victim of the mortgage crisis. Experts believe that regulators abused the trust of investors by purchasing many toxic securities. The Fed decided to announce the details of the purchase of Bear Stearns securities during the takeover of this bank by JP Morgan Chase & Co.

The ex-Prime Minister of the Czech Republic paid for his talkativeness Former Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (pictured) is stepping down as chairman of the right-wing liberal Civic Democratic Party (CDP), which he led for more than seven years. As Topolanek himself told reporters yesterday, the party will be led to the May parliamentary elections by the deputy chairman of the GDP, 45-year-old Petr Necas.