Treason convictions for two top cybersecurity officials, an APB for a former anti-corruption leader, and a sneak preview at a runaway bestseller Tuesday, February 26, 2019 This day in history: Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin's wife, was born today, 150 years ago, on February 26, 1869. After Lenin's death in 1924, she served as the USSR's deputy education minister from 1929 until her own death on February 27, 1939 (eighty years ago tomorrow).

Film company Warner Bros. She showed the second trailer for Pokemon. Detective Pikachu. " WBRUSSIA Pokemon. Detective Pikachu - the second trailer The film is a film adaptation of the game Detective Pikachu - this is the first exit of the Pokemon franchise to movie screens. The plot is built around a teenager named Tim Goodman, who, with the help of Pokemon, is investigated by the disappearance of his father. The film will be released in Russian rental on May 16.

The Investigative Committee detained the deputy general director of Gazprom Gazoraspredelenie Stavropol, Zamir Borisov, and the acting director of one of the branches of Gazprommezhregiongaz Stavropol, Irina Valeshnaya, as part of an investigation into the theft of natural gas in the Caucasus. Borisov and Valeshnaya have not yet been charged; the issue of choosing a preventive measure for them will be decided in the near future.

In November 2018, the US Cyber ​​Command carried out a cyberattack against the St. Petersburg company Internet Research Agency , remotely blocking its employees' access to the internet. According to The Washington Post, this was the first offensive operation of its kind against Russia. The attack began on the day of the congressional elections and continued for several days while the votes were being counted.

A group of deputies from the Liberal Democratic Party and United Russia submitted to the State Duma a bill on conducting remote electronic voting in elections to the Moscow City Duma. Voting via the Internet is proposed to be carried out as an experiment "in one or several" single-mandate constituencies in Moscow. Remote voting will take place simultaneously with regular voting.

The group Freedom-jazz, which took second place in the national selection for Eurovision in Ukraine, after the winner of the selection, the singer Maruv, refused to participate in the contest. Difficulties with the definition of the Eurovision participant from Ukraine arose when it turned out that the winner of the national selection Maruv was touring Russia.

What qualities should an interpreter for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have? Mere knowledge of languages ​​is not enough - as it turned out, you also need to run very fast! Here is what happened, for example, after Kim Jong-un arrived in Vietnam to meet with US President Donald Trump. The head of the republic got out of the train car before his translator, who had to hastily catch up with the leader of North Korea.

The Moscow social security authorities canceled the decision to transfer the boy, left by his mother for the night in the Losiny Ostrov park, under the temporary care of his grandmother. The decision was canceled at the request of the UK, which called it "premature and unreasonable." The department noted that investigators did not fully study the role of each member of the boy's family in the crime.

On February 15, Badcomedian released a review of the film Gazagolder. Clubera ”, where the rapper Basta plays. He devoted the last third of the video to the defeat position of Basta on pension reform: the rapper publicly supported it, explaining, following the first persons of the state and federal television channels that this was a difficult but necessary step. The Bast’s reform proposed to all opponents “take an economy and calculator textbook”.

Kristoffer TripPlaar / Sipa USA / Vida Press Cognizant's office in Phoenitsa, February 4, 2018 By the end of 2018, 15 thousand people were engaged in moderation for Facebook. Some of the moderators are full -time corporation employees, but most work in companies - Facebook contractors from the USA and other countries. One of these companies is the American Cognizant. The Verge anonymously interviewed 12 former and current employees.

The results of Medusa's survey about digital etiquette - as briefly as possible Meduza asked readers to answer how they feel about various aspects of online communication. In their opinion, writing "hello!" a stranger is more likely than not. But as soon as you wrote it, you need to immediately state the essence of the matter, and not wait for an answer.

A court in Kharkov sentenced Elena Zaitseva and Gennady Dronov, who were found guilty of causing a traffic accident with six victims, to 10 years in prison. This was reported by the press secretary of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, Larisa Sargan. 10 years is the maximum punishment provided for by the Criminal Code of Ukraine under the article on road accidents resulting in death, Sargan emphasized.

The Ministry of Justice has prepared a draft government decree on new forms of writ of execution, which are used by bailiffs to search for debtors. Now such forms indicate the name, date and place of birth, place of residence, place of work (or date and place of registration of the individual entrepreneur) and individual taxpayer number.

In February, Canada celebrates Family Day - many shops are closed on this day. However, the doors of the Food Basics grocery store in Kingston remained open. All because they accidentally forgot to lock! In a conversation with local Kingstonist, an eyewitness spoke of meeting one of the customers who was just leaving the empty Food Basics (there were no security guards or store employees on site). He had two cans of cherry tomatoes in his hands.

Read a sneak preview of one of the biggest runaway bestsellers in recent Russian literature Zuleikha is the story of a young Muslim woman who is wrenched out of her abusive home and into the Gulag system. The novel is a stark portrait of the Stalinist era, but its focus is on the title character’s sense of hope and resilience: Zuleikha Valieva joins a motley crew of peasants, intellectuals, soldiers, and other displaced Soviet citizens to form an unexpectedly close family in exile.