The race for Islamist partners, a game show scandal for the ages, and Kashin says Putin can save his legacy with love Wednesday, February 13, 2019 This day in history (35 years ago): Remember Konstantin Chernenko? On this day in 1984, he was unanimously elected to serve as USSR Communist Party general secretary. Chernenko would remain in office for a whole year, dying on March 10, 1985, and paving the way for the final Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. Russia and the U.S.

The Insider has published fragments of the browser history that RIA FAN journalist Kirill Romanovsky, mentioned in investigations into the murder of Russian journalists in the Central African Republic , allegedly used on July 30-31 - shortly before the murder and immediately after news of it appeared. The materials were transferred to the publication by Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Dossier Center ; how they came into its possession is not reported.

A group of US senators have introduced a new version of the “Defense from Kremlin Aggression” bill, which was first introduced in 2018 but was not considered.

Russian-mediated negotiations between the Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah are scheduled to conclude in Moscow today. The negotiations took place amid rumors that the White House is preparing a “deal of the century” to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and may make its plan public this spring.

More than 20 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps died in a terrorist attack in southeastern Iran on February 13. According to various sources, 20 or 27 people died. The explosion was arranged by a suicide bomber who crashed his car into a bus with the military. The attack occurred in the province of Sistan and Balochistan, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan.

JPL-CALTECH / NASA SMACHING OF THE WERE MARS, taken by the OPCORTYUNITY camera in 2015 On February 13, NASA was not again able to establish a connection with the Opoporti Mark -trip, which stopped responding to signals from the ground after in the summer of 2018 he fell into a sandstorm. The agency officially stated that the attempt was the last - this means the end of the most successful Martian mission in the history of space development.

A resident of Khabarovsk Krai, Natalya Zagumennaya, who was returning from Kurgan with her two disabled sons after surgery in early February, had to buy 11 seats for her children on a Utair flight. As reported by the Khabarovsk Krai Today agency, the airline demanded that nine seats be reserved for the child, who had to be in a lying position (the seats were needed to install a stretcher), and two for the child with a leg in a plaster cast.

Popular Russian game show is rocked by cheating allegations Interpress / PhotoXPress Alexander Drouz Ilya Ber, the chief editor behind the television game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” has accused “What? Where? When?” veteran contestant Alexander Drouz of trying to cheat his way to a large cash prize.

On February 11, Russian Internet users discovered a website, searchface.ru, that allows anyone to search the massive social media network VKontakte using a single image. The site’s functionality was simple: after uploading a photograph that included someone’s face, users could see a list of links to VKontakte pages with photographs that may depict the same person.

Dmitry Korotaev / Kommersant The transport prosecutor’s office began checking Aeroflot after on February 13, the company canceled 80 internal and international flights from Sheremetyevo and postponed another twenty departure. The official reason is bad weather. At the same time, judging by the airport online, from 00:00 to 18:00, only Aeroflot canceled departures, while other carriers continued to operate flights.

Netflix In December, Netflix released the interactive film “Black Mirror: Brandashmyg”, when viewing which spectators can make decisions for the protagonist (more about the picture you can read here ). As the researcher from the University College of London, Michael Wil, found out , the company records all user actions - without asking for their permission. The fork sent Netflix a request on the basis of GDPR, the new European data protection regulation that entered into force in May 2018.

Scary stories are being tweeted. It all started with a post by a user under the nickname fcuktv. He said that his crying child, in response to the question "Who hurt you?" pointed to an empty corner of the room, hinting that someone was there. “Recommend a hotel please, we seem to be moving,” wrote fcuktv. In response, other users began to send their creepy stories that happened to them and their friends. Attention!

Rapper LJ's concert in Kaliningrad, scheduled for February 16, was canceled due to "great pressure" from government agencies and "non-profit civil organizations." This was reported by the Macroconcert company, which organized the event.

On February 10, Meduza asked readers to tell us how they perceive different countries. It turned out that the opinion about Russia strongly depends on whether the survey participant lives in it: three-quarters of Russians called it a European country, and among those who took the survey from abroad, a little more than half answered the same way (for the remaining 44%, Russia is Asia).

Russia’s State Duma approved a bill in mid-December that created administrative penalties for those charged with involving minors in unsanctioned protests and rallies. Now, 18-year-old activist Ivan Luzin has become the first protester to be charged under the new law. Luzin volunteers for the national opposition politician Alexey Navalny in the city of Kaliningrad and is also a volunteer for Russia’s Libertarian Party.