Maxim Devyatovsky of Russia wins American Cup in gymnastics.

NEW YORK, March 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Maxim Devyatovsky of Russia won the
American Cup in gymnastics in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts on
Saturday.
The Russian athlete scored 90.600 points in this season's first
tournament. Jonathan Horton of the United States (90.150) was second and
Chris Brooks also of the United States (89.900) was third.
Rebecca Bross of the United States (60.550) won the Cup in women's
competitions. Alexandra Raisman, United States (58.900) was second, and
Jessica Lopez of Venezuela (56.500) was third.

.Record 145,000 tons of oil shipped from Russia's port of Kozmino.

VLADIVOSTOK, March 7 (Itar-Tass) -- A record-breaking consignment of
145,000 tons of oil has been shipped from Russia's youngest port of
Kozmino, the endpoint of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific oil pipeline,
Nefteshipping Co said on Sunday.
The oil was loaded onboard of the 160,000-ton-deadweight Nordic Cosmos
oil tanker on March 5 through 6. The tanker flying the flag of the
Marshall Islands is bound for China.
According to the Kozmino port's press service, a total of 1,250,000
tons of oil are expected to be handled in March. In January and February,
the figure was one million tons.
Kozmino is part of the Nakhodka shipping harbour. It is planned to
ship some 15 million tons of oil from the port of Kozmino to Asia-Pacific
countries in 2010, thus bringing Nakhodka's turnover to 50 million tons.
Kozmino oil port was commissioned on December 28, 2009.

.Ice marathon to be held across Lake Baikal on Sunday.

IRKUTSK, March 7 (Itar-Tass) -- An ice marathon for the distance of 42
kilometers 195 meters will be held across Lake Baikal within the framework
of the international winter games festival Zimniada-2010 on Sunday.
The marathon will start near the settlement of Tankhoi on the eastern
bank and finish in the village of Listvyanka on the western.
The marathon under the slogan "For Protection of Clear Waters" will be
held for the sixth time, top executive of the Absolutnaya Sibir travel
company Alexei Nikiforov told Itar-Tass. A total of 50 athletes from
Russia, Austria, Britain, Germany and the United States will take part in
the ice marathon.
According to Nikiforov, "this winter in rather severe, there are no
cracks in the ice, and although the temperature is expected to be around
25 degrees Centigrade, there will be no wind, so the weather will be
bracing."
A mass one-day travel across Baikal involving 300 adults and children
from Irkutsk, Angarsk and other Siberian cities will be organized along
the same route also on Sunday.

.US citizen wanted for money laundry in Spain detained in Moscow.

MOSCOW, March 7 (Itar-Tass) -- A US citizen Leon Kaplan was detained
in Moscow on March 5 at the request of the FBI and Spanish police, a
source in the Russian law enforcement agencies told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
"Kaplan, also known as Leon Lann and Leon Lanover, is wanted by the
Spanish authorities to be brought to trial on charges of participating in
a criminal conspiracy and money laundry," the source said.

.Russian biathlete Nikolai Kruglov ends his sports career.

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, March 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian biathlete Nikolai
Kruglov, who took part in the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, said on
Saturday he ends his sports career.
He took the decision to make this season his last one already last
year. "So I see no point in taking part in the World Cup competitions. I
will end this season by taking part in the last 2009-2010 World Cup stage
in Khanty-Mansiisk. I am very tired psychologically. The national team's
chief coach showed understanding," Kruglov told journalists.
Speaking of the Vancouver Olympics, he noted that "despite no medals
and a unfortunate fall," he was satisfied with his performance. "Vancouver
means very much for me: I am satisfied with the sate I was in before the
Olympics - to my mind, I was in an ideal trim, and by and large I was
ready to take part in all races," he said.
In the 20 kilometers individual race, Kruglov missed no marks but fell
down and broke the rifle sling, taking the 11th place. As he confessed, it
was the first incident of this sort in his entire career of 11 years.
When asked why the Russian team performed so poor, he said evasively
"there was a lack of mutual understanding in the team, a lack of joint
movement in the common direction." In his words, "the team must work as an
organic whole, I mean both medics, massage therapists, coaches and
athletes."
Nonetheless, he noted that Russian male biathletes showed better
performance in Vancouver than they had done in Turin, where they had won
the silver, while in Vancouver - gold and bronze medals.
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