Varvara Gert / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Russian Duma deputy Mikhail Romanov has announced that the legislative body plans to introduce new limits on election observers under which observers would only be permitted to monitor elections within their own regions. Central Election Commission Deputy Chair Nikolai Bulaev agreed that limiting the observation of regional elections to people who are eligible to vote in a given region would be a good idea.

On February 20, the Moscow office of the major human rights research and advocacy organization Memorial International held a discussion of the recent comedy film Holiday , which offers a controversial take on the Siege of Leningrad that caused hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties during World War II. According to social media posts by Memorial representatives, a group of people interrupted the discussion shortly after it began.

US Attorney General William Barr is preparing to announce the completion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's "Russia investigation" as early as next week. This was reported by CNN, citing sources familiar with the plans of the Prosecutor General. Mueller will prepare a confidential report on his work for Barr, after which he intends to present the results of the investigation to Congress, CNN claims. It is unknown when the Prosecutor General will do this.

Samsung unveiled its first foldable Galaxy Fold smartphone and new models of the Galaxy S series at a presentation in San Francisco. The Galaxy Fold folds vertically. It has a 7.3" inner screen and a 4.6" outer screen. It can be used when the smartphone is folded. The Galaxy Fold supports up to three active apps on one screen at the same time. The smartphone has six cameras: three of them are located on the back of the phone, two on the inside, and one more on the front.

People with St. George ribbons burst into the office of the public organization "International Memorial" in Moscow, where a discussion about the comedy about the siege of Leningrad "Holiday" and a screening of fragments of the film were taking place. This was reported on the page of "International Memorial" on Facebook. Hello everyone! Today it was like this: at 7 pm in the Memorial they showed fragments of the film "Holiday" by Alexei...

Putin's 2019 State of the Nation address, Ukrainian rap's preschool teacher star, and a ‘Russophobic’ FPS from Ukraine Wednesday, February 20, 2019 This day in history: 19 years ago today, on February 20, 2000, former St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak — a mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev — died suddenly in Kaliningrad due to heart failure.

The Central District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg lost a lawsuit to protect its business reputation against the chairman of the public organization Open Russia, Andrei Pivovarov, MBKh Media reports. “The court completely sided with me and confirmed that I have every right to express my opinion publicly,” Pivovarov told the publication. The lawsuit against Pivovarov was filed in May 2018.

The Pixar studio released Kitbull - a short cartoon about the friendship of a good -natured pitbul and a street kitten. Rosana Sullivan and Katherine Hendrickson, who worked on the second part of the Super Jours, were engaged in its creation. Disney • Pixar Kitbull is a part of a project called Sparkshorts, in which copyright short films will be published on the Disney+ Streaming Service. On the Pixar youtube channel you can find other examples of works that have fallen in Sparkshorts.

New first-person shooter gives players ‘Decommunization’ award for destroying Lenin monument On February 15, the first-person shooter for PC, PS4, and Xbox One Metro Exodus went on the market. The game was developed by the Ukrainian studio 4A Games and published by Deep Silver, a subsidiary of the German-Austrian company Koch Media.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the threat of turning Russia from the global Internet exists, and it needs to be prepared for it. However, the West is unprofitable for the insulation of Russia in an economic and political plan. Thus, he commented on the consideration of the bill, which will allow the Russian authorities to control the points of connection of the Russian Internet segment with the outside world. On February 12, the State Duma approved the bill in the first reading.

The user "Picabu" Tech.spiritus created a test for trusting. To go through it, you need to lower the 10-ruble coin into the monitor-after that the device will “measure” the level of gullibility and give out the result. Pavel Serkov “Dedicated to thousands of pseudo-diagnostic devices, from e-meter of scentologists to any auramamer,” the author wrote on his blog. The idea of ​​the device Tech.spiritus borrowed from the caricature (but there they ask for a whole dollar for the test!).

Barbara Gertonik / Scanpix / Leta A deputy from United Russia Mikhail Romanov said that in the State Duma they plan to introduce additional restrictions for observers in the elections: prohibit the control of voting outside their region. The deputy chairman of the Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev agreed that it should be allowed to observe in each region only to those who have active suffrage there.

In Moscow, a canvas titled “Gorbachev. Sorry". This was announced by the auction house "12th chair", which held the auction. The starting price of the lot was 100 thousand rubles. The name of the buyer is not reported; it is known that he participated in the auction by phone. Taking into account the percentage of the auction house, he will pay 13.8 million rubles, reports with reference to the 12th chair. Interfax The art provocation “M. Gorbachev.

The press service of the Concord company Evgeny Prigozhin at a meeting with representatives of the parental community at the Concord plant. February 12, 2019 At the end of the year, children in Moscow schools and kindergartens were infected with dysentery. The flash of the disease was connected with Evgeny Prigozhin At the end of December 2018, reports about the outbreak of dysentery in Moscow schools and kindergartens began to appear in the media and social networks .

On February 15, PC, PS4 and Xbox One, a Metro: Exodus , was published, developed by the Ukrainian studio 4A Games and released by the publisher of Deep Silver (belongs to the German-Austrian company Koch Media). According to the plot, events in it take place in Russia after a nuclear war. The game is based on the novels of the Russian science fiction writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the books “Metro 2033” and its two continuations - “Metro 2034” and “Metro 2035”.