Two policemen injured in Ingushetia.

NAZRAN, February 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Two policemen were injured in
Ingushetia, a source in the Ingush Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on
Sunday.
A patrol car with the policemen inside came under fire at
Ordzhonikidzevskaya on Sunday evening. The policemen were hospitalized.
They are in moderate-to-severe condition.
The search operation for the criminals is underway.

.Biathlete Ustyugov wins Russia's second gold medal at Olympics.
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VANCOUVER, February 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Biathlete Yevgeny Ustyugov won
gold in men's 15-kilometer mass start event on Sunday.
Yevgeny Ustyugov was born on June 4, 1985, in Krasnoyarsk. He lives in
this Siberian city. He is 168 centimeters high and weighs 60 kilograms. He
plays for the Academy of Biathlon sport club.
Ustyugov went in for biathlon at the age of 12 years in 1997. He won
two gold medals and a silver medal in the Junior World Championship in the
United States in 2007.
Ustyugov plays for the Russian national team since 2007. He debuted at
the World Cup in Oberhof (Germany) in January 2009. The 2009-2010 season
was successful for Yevgeny from the very beginning. He won two victories
the World Cups in Oberhof and Pokljuka (Slovenia). He was leading the
World Cup standings for a while.
At the Vancouver Olympics Ustyugov took the 15th place in the first
race (10-km sprint) and again the 15th place in the second race (12.5-km
pursuit) and held the 4th place in the 20-km event.
Ustyugov graduated from the Siberian State Technological University.
He is married since August 2009.

.Russia biathlete Olga Zaitseva wins silver at women's mass start.

WHISTLER, February 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian biathlete Olga Zaitseva
won silver at women's 12.5-km mass start at the Vancouver Olympics.
Magdalena Neuner from Germany won gold and Simone Hauswald from
Germany won the bronze medal.

.Ustyugov says all to go on all right after first RF biathlon gold.

WHISTLER, February 22 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Olympic champion in
biathlon men's 15-km mass start Yevgeny Ustyugov said that "all should go
on all right" after he succeeded to win first Russian biathlon gold at the
Vancouver Olympics on Sunday.
The biathlete admitted that he was shivering greatly inside before the
start. "I was really shivering inside that I had not experienced for a
long time. After that I realized that all would come out successfully. I
went on the track with the desire to fight to the very end. Remembering an
unsuccessful shot in the previous race I was trying to shoot clearly
today. I even took a pause before the final shot to hit the target for
sure.
The first thought after the final shooting stage was the satisfaction
that I was shooting clearly and was feeling my strength. I knew that I am
stronger than a rival, grabbed the initiative in my hands and won
confidently. It is just a pity that I did not dare to take the Russian
national flag on the last meters, I did not want to risk, as I did not
know how far my rivals are behind. Today we won the first biathlon gold
medal and I hope that all will go on all right now. One of the major
Olympic events - the relay race is ahead," the victor said.

.RF ice hockey team qualifies for quarterfinals beating Czech Rep.

VANCOUVER, February 22 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian ice hockey team
beats 4-2 the Czech Republic and qualifies for the Olympic quarterfinals.

.Russia ice hockey team qualifies for Olympic quarterfinals(adds).

VANCOUVER, February 22 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian ice hockey team
qualified for the quarterfinals at the Vancouver Olympics. Russia beat
4-2(1-1, 1-0, 2-1) the Czech Republic in the final match of the Group B
preliminary round.
Russia scored a power play goal (the 16th minute). Forwarder Yevgeny
Malkin hit the net from a sharp angle. However four minutes later the
Czech Republic equalized the score in the power play of two players. Tomas
Plekanec scored the goal. Vyacheslav Bykov's coached team took the lead
(the 35th minute) after Viktor Kozlov had scored the second goal, and
Malkin made the double hit (the 42nd minute).
Five minutes before the end of the third period Czech player Milan
Michalek scored narrowing the lag behind Russia. Russian forwarder Pavel
Datsyuk scored the final empty net goal just 22 seconds before the end of
the match.
Russia qualified in the play-off stage from the first place in Group B
with seven points. The Czech Republic came second (six points), Slovakia
took the third place (five points), and Latvia did not get any points.
The quarterfinals will be played on February 24.
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