Former co-owner of the oil company Gunvor, businessman Petr Kolbin, was friends with current Russian President Vladimir Putin as a child. This is stated in an investigation by the Dozhd TV channel. According to the TV channel, Putin and Kolbin met in the 1950s in the village of Imenitsy in the Leningrad region, where the Putin family rented a dacha, and subsequently "saw each other often." Their fathers, according to Dozhd, were close friends.

In Azerbaijan, the majority of voters supported the introduction of amendments to the Constitution at a referendum, including the extension of the presidential term. This was announced by the deputy head of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, Ali Ahmadov, citing exit polls. “The activity of citizens in the referendum demonstrated the support of the people of Azerbaijan for the policy of the president,” TASS quoted Akhmedov as saying.

Spoiler: They are stupid Photo: Iain Masterton / Alamy / Vida Press The largest IT companies in the world are trying to force us to use virtual assistants. Apple simplified the Siri call on phones and built it into computers; Google released a messenger with a built-in helping boot; Microsoft and Amazon have their own solutions. But why are we still not talking from morning to night with our phones, computers and columns?

The Ministry of Internal Affairs found signs of corpus delicti during the inspection of the activities of the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Aristarkhov and his brother Andrei Aristarkhov, the former head of Restoration Companies OJSC. This is stated in response to a request from the deputy of the State Duma of the sixth convocation, Alexander Ageev, who was at the disposal of RBC.

Russian bombers flew dangerously close to an Icelandic passenger plane. The incident occurred on September 22, but the Iceland Monitor only reported on it on the 26th. According to the publication, the planes met in Icelandic airspace, not far from Norwegian. Icelandic dispatchers spotted the Russian bombers when they were 88 kilometers from the passenger liner. At that moment, they informed the pilot that two planes were approaching him.

Every year, tens of thousands of tourists come to the Chinese province of Zhejiang to look at the largest river boron (tidal wave) in the world. Sometimes unpleasant stories happen to them. For example, such (all the most interesting after the 35th second): A tidal wave moves upstream of the river at a speed of up to 40 kilometers per hour. In height, it reaches nine meters. It looks like this from a height: CCTV+ Worldʼs Largest Tidal Bore Forms in Chinaʼs Qiantang River

Just watch the video: ピコ太郎歌唱ビデオチャンネル ペンパイナッポーアッポーペン／ピコ太郎 This is a Japanese performer of Piko-Taro. We also did not know anything about him, while everyone - from Mashable to The Next Web - did not write that this video that would capture the world. And, you know, it looks like the truth. This seems to be one of the most adhering melodies in the world. Pen-PineApple-Apple-Pen! Naturally, such a hit could not be left without parodies. There are already some kind of inconspicuous number of them.

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, submitted a letter of resignation to President Vladimir Putin. It is reported by RBC with reference to a source close to the presidential administration. According to the publication, the petition was filed on September 20. RBC has a copy of the first page of the document. The fact that Bastrykin submitted his resignation with reference to a copy of the document is also reported by Legal.Report .

Alexandra Petrunko, who doused the urine of the photo of Joka Rodges at the exhibition in Moscow, was arrested for seven days, Interfax reports. The court found him guilty of petty hooliganism. The maximum punishment under this article of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation is an arrest for 15 days.

The police detained a wedding cortege near Tsaritsynsky Park in Moscow. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the agency, the search for a motorcade of 12 cars began after reports of possible shooting from the windows of cars at the intersection of Miklukho-Maklay Street and Sevastopolsky Prospekt.

The most important technical revolution of the last 20 years in five pictures Photo: B Christopher / Alamy / Vida Press A week after the start of sales of two new LECO smartphones - LEMAX 2 and LE 2 - Medusa recalls how the phones have changed over the past 20 years and what success manufacturers have achieved, competing with each other in the power of cameras, the screen size and technological “filling”. 1. Size The first mobile phone, which could be held with one hand, weighed about 790 grams.

Why does the FBI check Donald Trump in Russia: Politico Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Donald Trump presidential candidate from the Republicans, in his own words, relies on the opinions of five advisers in matters of foreign policy. Among them are the former investment banker of the Moscow office Merrill Lynch Carter Page, supposedly possessing great ties among the Russian establishment.

The parties that entered the State Duma following the September 18 elections distributed working committees among themselves. United Russia, which received an overwhelming majority of votes, took control of 13 of the 26 committees. Leaders are not yet known in all committees.

Manchester police received a call on the evening of Saturday, September 24 about an incident on the road: worried people reported that a man attacked a woman and bit her. The police went to the place where the attack took place. True, when they found the car reported by eyewitnesses, it turned out that no one had bitten anyone. In the car sat a man and a woman, made up as zombies and covered in fake blood. They said that they work as extras and go to the shooting.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation charged three members of the precinct election commission number 1958 in Rostov-on-Don with falsifying the voting results (Article 142.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to investigators, during the elections on September 18, the secretary of the election commission threw at least 50 “previously falsified” ballots into the ballot box, which were subsequently taken into account when counting votes.