US President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen testified at a hearing in the House of Representatives that he made threats to people about 500 times over a decade at the request and on behalf of his boss. Asked how many times Trump had asked to threaten other people, Cohen initially said, “enough.” Then the questioner, Rep. Jackie Speier, started rattling off numbers — 50, 100, 200, 500 times. Cohen stopped her at 500, saying, “Probably [that many times].”

America's ‘failed’ cyberattack on Russia's trolls, a Soviet believer's ‘persecution,’ and more Internet law tinkering Wednesday, February 27, 2019 This day in history: Four years ago today, on February 27, 2015, opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov was assassinated while crossing the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin. In July 2017, Meduza raised five questions unanswered by the subsequent murder investigation.

An inspection by the Ministry of Culture revealed security breaches in the four largest museums in Russia - the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the A.S. Pushkin and the Historical Museum. The identified violations, noted in the Ministry of Culture, arose due to shortcomings both in the museums themselves and in the divisions of the Russian Guard guarding them. In addition, the checks showed that the Ministry of Culture itself loosened control over security in museums.

The Federation Council turned to Aeroflot with a request to increase the number of flights to Magadan from Moscow and back.

Russian officials seize six children whose father says he’s being persecuted because he believes the USSR never collapsed Anatoly Kiselyov’s VKontakte page Last September, Karelia’s Supreme Court took away the Kiselyovs’ children, after officials concluded that the married couple failed to provide adequate education and living conditions. Over the past several years, the family has been cited a dozen times for different violations.

Federal News Agency ( FAN ) — a media outlet that journalists have tied to catering tycoon Evgeny Prigozhin and his infamous “troll factory” in St. Petersburg — confirms that the U.S. military targeted its servers in a cyberattack. According to FAN , a cyberattack on November 5, 2018, disabled two of its internal office server’s four hard drives, and also erased the data stored on servers the publication leases in Sweden and Estonia.

The Federal News Agency has confirmed the fact of a cyber attack from the United States on its servers. As stated by FAN, on November 5, 2018, as a result of the attack, two of the four hard drives on the internal office server were disabled, and data on the servers rented in Sweden and Estonia was erased. The agency emphasized that the office's work was not stopped.

In the Land Court of Munich, the trial of a German citizen Sergei Kiselev, the nephew of TV presenter Dmitry Kiselev, began. Sergei Kiselyov is accused of being trained in 2014 to take part in hostilities in eastern Ukraine. At the meeting, a German police officer said that the reason for checking against Sergei Kiselev was an interview given by Dmitry Kiselev to Belarusian journalists in 2016. Then the TV presenter said that his nephew from Germany was also fighting in the Donbass.

Nikita Yarosh Apple summed up the results of the competition of photographs taken to the iPhone. Among the 10 shots, the winning was a photograph of a tennis court, which was made by a quality specialist from Minsk Nikita Yarosh. This is what he told us. Apple announced a photo contest in January 2019. At first, nothing was said about the material reward for the winners - the company simply promised to hang the 10 best photos in its stores.

Ukraine will not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2019 , Hromadske reports, citing the National Public Broadcasting Company. “In the current situation, <…> as well as in the context of excessive politicization of the national selection, the public broadcaster decided to refuse to participate in the International Song Contest Eurovision 2019,” the statement said.

Venezuelan journalist - about how the country lives after the closure of the borders Nelson almeida / AFP / Scanpix / Leta, Venezuela residents are trying to transport humanitarian help across the border with Brazil. February 26, 2019 In Venezuela, a political crisis continues, which began after the mass demonstrations of January 2019.

MANDEL Ngan / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Michael Cohen at the US House. February 27, 2019 Former Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen , convicted of tax crimes and a giving false testimony to the US Congress, at the hearing in the House of Representatives in the introductory word called the president a fraud and racist.

Vladimir Andreev / URA.ru / TASS State Duma Deputy Dmitry Vyatkin The authorities are going to conduct an experiment with Internet voting in the fall of 2019 in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. Voters in one of the districts will have the opportunity to vote remotely - via the Internet. The corresponding bill was submitted to the State Duma. One of his authors Dmitry Vyatkin explained that the Internet voting will be protected with a blockchain.

Music and songs from the Disney animated films are, in fact, a separate genre. For years, the stars have been waiting for the invitation to execute the main (or at least some!) Number in the next project, because everyone knows: this song can become a new hit. Surely, something in your head is also playing in your head. Do not switch the wave, now we will tell a few interesting facts about Disney music .

Claudio Santisteban / Zuma / TASS Natasha Khaitt in Buenos Aires, January 22, 2019 On the night of February 23, in the Xanadu suburban club, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, they found the body of a 41-year-old model and TV presenter Natasha Haitt. She lay naked on the bed in one of the rooms. Doctors found that before death, a woman consumed alcohol and drugs. There were no traces of violence on the body of Khaitt. An autopsy showed that the model died of heart and lean insufficiency.