Sergey Fadeichev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Just before Russia’s most recent presidential elections in 2018, several fundamental changes were made to the country’s election laws. Absentee ballots were replaced with the so-called Mobile Voter system, which allowed voters to switch precincts ahead of the election either online or in person. Both election observers and opposition politicians immediately criticized the new system.

Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Vida Press October 3, 2007 ↓ The Moscow government adopted a resolution “On a comprehensive reconstruction of the territory of the Dynamo Central Stadium. It was planned to start work in 2009 and finish by 2011 with the preservation of the facade of the old stadium.

2019 is the year that the "mudblood" Hermione Granger, as follows from the plot of the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", headed the British Ministry of Magic. Twitter user male_mixer drew attention to this fact. As noted in the comments, Granger is definitely out of luck. Once appointed, she will have to work with British Prime Minister Theresa May, also during Brexit. It is not clear how it will affect (if it does!) the British Ministry of Magic.

On February 20, a three-year-old girl was found dead in a locked apartment in Kirov. Vladimir Shabardin, Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Kirov Region , told TASS that the girl was alone in the apartment for seven days. All this time, her 21-year-old mother, who raised her daughter alone, was with a friend. As investigators found out, before leaving, the mother turned off the taps and left the child without food.

Russian premiere of the film "The Avengers. The final” will be held not on April 25, as previously planned, but on the 29th. The new date is indicated in the description of the film's Russian trailer (the old one remains in the video itself), as well as on the website of the Film Distributor's Bulletin. The reason for the postponement of the premiere has not yet been named.

Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Vida Press What he said: “The annual level of acquittals in cases brought by the Investigative Committee is about 0.5 percent. Investigative Committee Director Alexander Bastrykin cited this as evidence of the stability and quality of his agency’s work,” says the headline and subheading of a story reported by the news agency TASS about a forum on March 1 where the Investigative Committee reviewed its work in 2018.

The Pakistani authorities handed over to India military pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, whose fighter was shot down during the conflict on February 27. In Pakistan, they called it a gesture of goodwill. Indian pilot returns from Pakistan to India The dogfight between the Pakistani and Indian air forces, during which Varthaman was captured, occurred after India launched an air strike on a militant camp in a neighboring country. Pakistan claims to have shot down two Indian planes.

Subscribers to the official instagram of United Russia guess the members of the party from children's photographs. Each post is accompanied by a brief description of the deputy and a lot of compliments in his direction. Example (emoji saved): 🤗 Before you is a kind boy who will achieve great success, become the head of Perm, as well as a State Duma deputy! 😉 By the way, he plays basketball, swims, loves to ride a bike, cooks and collects ceramic plates.

Since the beginning of 2019, 13 companies allegedly linked to businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin have signed contracts worth 10 billion rubles to supply food to Moscow hospitals and educational institutions, according to The Bell, a website that studied government procurement data. Only two companies from The Bell's list are officially linked to Prigozhin: Concord Food Combine and Concord M. They signed contracts worth 19 million rubles.

AFP correspondent Maria Antonova has noted that the Russian state-owned channel Rossiya-24 occasionally broadcasts interviews with expert commentators who look suspiciously similar to world leaders. The TV station invites these guests to discuss current events such as interference in Venezuelan politics and legal accusations against U.S. president Donald Trump. The expert invited to speak on Venezuela was Alexey Leonkov, an editor at the magazine Arsenal Otechestva .

A group of Russian cinemas have told the Ministry of Culture that they are ready to refuse to show the Russian cartoon "Gurvinek. The Magic Game" if they do not allow the Belgian film "The Royal Corgi" to be released at the same time. This is reported by Vedomosti, citing sources. The letter was sent to the department by the Association of Cinema Owners and the heads of the large chains Cinema Star, Karo and Kinomax. The Ministry of Culture's response to this appeal has not yet been reported.

Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for Russian president Vladimir Putin, has responded to reports that financial charges against the investment firm Baring Vostok and its American leader, Michael Calvey, might have followed suspicions that the firm funded Russian opposition groups. The independent television station Dozhd reported earlier on an anonymous source close to the Kremlin who said the firm had funded opposition efforts in advance of Russia’s most recent presidential election.

The editors of the Russian-language version of Motorsport.com almost completely left the publication after the change of ownership. As Yaroslav Zagorets, the former editor-in-chief of the publication, explained on his Facebook page, since March 1, the editorial staff's contracts were expiring, and it was not possible to agree on their extension with the new owner. According to Zagorets, now only one employee remains in the editorial office, who maintains the work of the site.

Anorak was invented by the inhabitants of the north to escape from the cold and wind. Later, athletes and travelers began to wear them: the polar explorer Roal Amundsen conquered the South Pole precisely in Anorak from the wolf skkura. Today, anoraks are made of technological materials - waterproof, non -proceeding and at the same time breathing.

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko revealed new details during a press conference regarding recent negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko said the two state leaders discussed transferring their economies to a common currency under the legal framework of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. The Union was formed in 1995 and has since been a source of hope for those who would like the two countries to be fully reunited as a single state.