European figure skating champion, 17-year-old Alena Kostornaia , has returned to coach Eteri Tutberidze's group. She announced her return in a conversation with Channel One journalists. When I was training this season, that is, in another school, I understood that, well, I can’t force myself to do anything completely. That is, I understood that if Eteri Georgievna were here now, I would have done as much as needed, and even more.

The author of repacks of pirated versions of video games, known as xatab, has died. The message about his death appeared on March 6 in the group "Xatab RePack" on VKontakte. Other sources have not yet confirmed this information. TJ writes that xatab died at the age of 60. The Zone of Games website claims that xatab's real name is Radik Nizamov.

The writer and literary critic Valentin Kurbatov died at the age of 81. The writer, State Duma deputy Sergei Shargunov reported his death in Telegram. Svetlana Privalova / Kommersant Kurbatov died when he went for his wife’s flowers, says Vladimir Tolstoy, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on culture. “He went for his wife’s flowers, bought a bouquet, and with a bouquet in his hands fell on the street and died suddenly.

The streaming service Netflix in 2020 doubled its market share of online cinemas operating in Russia. If in 2019 the share of the service accounted for 4.1%, then in 2020 - 8.4%, RBC reports, citing the calculations of the Telecom Daily agency. At the end of the year, Netflix's revenue in Russia, according to analysts, almost tripled - from more than one billion rubles in 2019 to 3.3 billion rubles in 2020.

The head and one of the founders of the social network Twitter, Jack Dorsey, put his first tweet , published on March 21, 2006, up for sale. On March 5, he posted a message on his page on the social network with a link to the Valuables platform, where tweets are traded. Just setting up my tvttr According to The Verge, Dorsey is trying to sell his first tweet as a non-fungible token ( NFT ).

Alexander Ryumin / TASS The Fix Price network chain of low -fixed prices conducted the primary placement of shares ( IPO ) , which can be the largest Russian IPO in more than 10 years. The company put up over 178 million depository receipts for shares (GDR), this is about 21% of the total number of promoted shares. Due to high demand, the volume of placement was increased by 5%, it was originally planned to sell 170 million GDR.

The TNT TV channel cut out from the recording of the Comedy Club program from February 26 a joke by comedian Pavel Volya about the palace that Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation ( FBK ) calls "Putin's palace." As reported by the publication "Executioner", the joke disappeared from the episode of the comedy show published on the Premier video service website. In the said episode, as "Meduza" has verified, there really is no joke about the palace.

Now the most successful extreme right in modern German history can be even more radicalized Reiner Zensen / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta Co -chairman of the Alternative for Germany (ADG) Yorg Hubert Moten The German intelligence services placed the most popular (9-11% of the latest polls) the extreme right-hand part of the Alternative for Germany (ADG) under “Suspicion” in extremism. This decision will have legal and political consequences.

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called the statement of State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin, who claims that after the Duma elections in 2021, the Russian authorities may again raise the retirement age, erroneous. “This is an erroneous statement,” Peskov told Interfax, commenting on the words of the deputy.

Kevin Rotrok finds out in the new episode of the podcast The Naked Pravda In February, a meme was spreading on the English -speaking Twitter - a picture where aliens are compared in Soviet and American cinema. On one side of the personnel with calm and thoughtful faces, and on the other, aggressive monsters like someone else’s and predator.

Instructions Femactivist Daria Serenko Until March 8, nothing remains, and many have a question of how appropriate to congratulate this holiday - and whether it is worth congratulating at all. The fact is that throughout its history, International Women's Day has undergone several semantic changes. Once upon a time, left-wing feminists established him as a day of the struggle of women for their rights.

The US Department of Justice has charged the creator of the first commercial antivirus McAfee, 75-year-old John McAfee , with conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering. Similar charges, as reported on the Justice Department website, have been brought against McAfee's bodyguard and assistant, 40-year-old Jimmy Gale Watson Jr.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Mikhail Mishustin came to the government as a technical prime minister. Who is he now - a successor or a political threat to Putin? Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin over the past week made a series of trips to the most economically depressed regions of the country. On the way he celebrated the 55th anniversary (it was in a cafe on the way from Barnaul to Gorno-Altaysk).

Vatican Media / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Pope for the first time in history arrived in Iraq. Pope Francis came to the country to try to achieve protection for local Christians. Over the past two decades, the number of Christians in Iraq has decreased from almost one and a half million to 250 thousand due to the civil war and violence by militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization.

More than 20,000 private companies and government agencies in the United States, as well as tens of thousands of organizations in Europe and Asia, were affected by a hacker attack due to a vulnerability in the Exchange Server messaging program developed by Microsoft Corporation. This is reported by Reuters, citing the words of an anonymous source familiar with the reaction of the US government. Hackers gained access to hacked mail servers used by compromised organizations.