Igor Malashenko, founder of Russia’s first independent TV station, dies at 64 Irina Buzhor / Kommersant On February 25, Igor Malashenko passed away in Spain. Malashenko, a major media figure, was the co-founder and general director of the television station NTV.

Update: Kazan International Airport told Meduza that it also began accepting electronic boarding passes on February 25. In test mode, the representatives of the airport added, this system was tested during the 2018 World Cup. Domodedovo Airport was the first in Russia to start accepting electronic boarding passes. As a representative of the airport told Vedomosti, the first passengers with such coupons were able to board the planes on February 25.

The boy, abandoned by his mother in Losiny Ostrov Park , was officially transferred to the care of his grandmother. According to the press service of the Moscow Department of Labor and Social Protection, the grandmother will be able to take the boy home after he is discharged from the hospital. The boy's mother, 33-year-old Nadezhda Kulikova, is under arrest until April 18. She has been charged with attempted murder of a minor with particular cruelty.

Igor Malashenko, founder of Russia’s first independent TV station, dies at 64 Irina Buzhor / Kommersant On February 25, Igor Malashenko passed away in Spain. Malashenko, a major media figure, was the co-founder and general director of the television station NTV.

Russian online retailer Ozon has lowered its shipping rates introduced three weeks ago. Now the cost of delivery to Ozon's own pickup points will be 199 instead of 299 rubles. The company explained this step by “redistributing routes” and changing the system for receiving goods from suppliers. Clarification: As Ozon told Meduza, the tariff of 199 rubles is valid in the first zone, subject to delivery to its own parcel terminals and pickup points with prepayment.

Friends and colleagues recall Igor Malashenko Irina Buzhor / Kommersant On February 25, a media manager, a former general director and one of the creators of the NTV television channel Igor Malashenko died in Spain.

Former Trump campaign worker Alva Johnson is suing him for trying to kiss her against her will. According to Johnson, the incident occurred after the conclusion of one of Trump's campaign events in Florida in August 2016. The future president grabbed her hand and tried to kiss her on the lips, but she managed to turn away, causing the kiss to fall on the corner of her mouth. According to Johnson, this happened with a small number of witnesses from among the campaigners.

Nurphoto / Zuma Press / Scanpix / Leta Maruv in the final of the Ukrainian selection for Eurovision, February 23, 2019 The winner of the competition for the right to represent Ukraine at Eurovision 2019 was the singer Maruv (real name-Anna Korsun). The final of the Ukrainian selection was held in Kiev on February 23. Maruv scored a total of 11 points: five from judges and six from the audience. In the final, the singer was asked the question why she was touring Russia.

Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary to Vladimir Putin, said the Russian president did not defend the country’s prosecution of American citizen Michael Calvey, who leads the major investment fund Baring Vostok. On February 25, Bloomberg reported that Putin had made statements in a closed meeting several days before that appeared to justify Calvey’s arrest.

The head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, Mikhail Chernikov, gave an interview to RIA Novosti, where he spoke about electronic licenses , control over car sharing , and remote testing of taxi drivers . The correspondent also asked Chernikov: "Do you have statistics on what place Russia ranks in the world in terms of road traffic fatalities?" Here is his verbatim answer (the fact check is provided in the footnotes). Our parameters are average .

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not expressed support for the detention and arrest of Baring Vostok fund head Michael Calvey , Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. "Absolutely not. The president stated the facts. He did not express any preferences," Peskov said, answering a question about whether the assertion that Putin considered the businessman's detention justified was true.

In 2019, we will see a lot of phones with a layering screen - Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi and other manufacturers have already begun to show their prototypes and serial models. True, as far as it will be practical, it is difficult to say: the mass sale of folding phones has not yet begun, and their price (and reliability) is already starting to scare. Subscribe to our YouTube

Riccardo Antimiani / EPA / Scanpix / Leta during the meeting of Catholic clergy in Rome was the “march of zero tolerance”. Inscriptions on posters: “The Vatican is silent sexual violence” and “Enough!” On February 24, a meeting of Catholic clerics dedicated to the protection of minors in the church ended in the Vatican. It discussed the sexual crimes of the clergy against children.

Yelizaveta Peskova, the daughter of Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, has found work as an intern in the European Parliament. The television channel Current Time discovered her position on February 25. Peskova is registered as an intern in the office of the French deputy Aymeric Chauprade, a former member of France’s National Front party who has since joined an independent group of right-wing populist politicians in the European Parliament.

Drivers of the Presidential Property Management Department's fleet serving State Duma deputies have complained to the Kremlin that their vehicles' movements are being tracked using the GLONASS system, RBK reports. Such surveillance, according to the “Human Rights” trade union, which includes the deputies’ drivers, is illegal. The reason for the appeal was a reprimand given to one of the drivers.