Google CEO Sundar Pichai supported the position of Apple, who the day before refused to help the FBI with a hacking of the blocked iPhone arrow from San Bernardino, reports Slon.ru. Pichai expressed his position in several records in his microblog on Twitter . "The coercion of companies to execute hacking can jeopardize users confidentiality. We know that law enforcement agencies and special services are faced with serious problems, protecting the company from crimes and terrorist attacks.

In St. Petersburg, searches were held at Raiffeisenbank offices. Investigative events began at about 13 pm in offices on Sadovaya 10 and Moika, 36. According to the Petersburg Diary with reference to the press service of the bank, this is due to the recess of client documents and is not directly related to the bank's activities. The searches are exclusively associated with the activities of individual clients suspected of performing illegal operations, they say at Raiffeisenbank.

Employees of the Office of the IC of the Russian Federation in the Sverdlovsk Region conduct an audit on the fact of bullying the concluded correctional colony N2 in Yekaterinburg. The convict was forced to put his head in the toilet and was brutally beaten. Attackers shot their actions on camera, and the video made in the press.

The number of evacuation of cars parked in Moscow with violations is generally reduced, Kommersant reports with reference to the statistics of the capital’s department of transport for 2015. At the same time, the number of cars sent to the parking lot from places for disabled people increased by 19 times, more than 3.4 times, more drivers who did not pay for paid parking.

For the first time since its appearance, sales of the smartphones of the Apple corporation have been reduced, RBC reports with reference to the data of analysts at the research company Gartner. According to experts, for the fourth quarter of 2015, the number of iPhone to end users sold to end users decreased by 4.4%compared to the same period, from 74.8 million to 71.5 million pieces. At the same time, Apple's share in the smartphone market decreased from 20.4 to 17.7%.

The Finnish Supreme Court authorized the extradition of opposition to Russia, Vasily Popov, whom human rights activists recognized illegally pursued for political reasons. By a court decision, Popov can be issued to the Russian authorities, the Finnish television and radio company Yle reports. The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation turned to the Finnish authorities with a request for Extence Popov.

“Sergey Anatolyevich Babchenko is my second cousin. I saw him once in my life, when I was seven years old and he was a little older. They were then going to our other Babchenkos, to Ukraine, for the summer holidays. And then, ten years later, I saw his mother, Nadezhda Babchenko. She was going to pick up Sergei in Tajikistan. More precisely, his body. He died two weeks before demobilization, on his last trip to the border, the only one in that battle - a bullet hit the head, a sniper.

The Presbyterian Medical Center in Hollywood, attacked by hackers, was forced to pay attackers a ransom in order to return access to their information systems, Reuters reports. The leadership of the hospital transferred to hackers 17 thousand dollars in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. According to the head of the medical institution Allen Stefaneck, it was a “fastest and most effective way” to restore the work paralyzed as a result of cyber attacks.

In Iraq, “very dangerous” radioactive materials that disappeared last year are looking for, Reuters reports with reference to a document from the Ministry of Environment and several sources in the authorities. The materials stored in a protective container the size of a laptop disappeared in November from a storage near the city of Basra, owned by the Weatherford oil and gas company, the document says. This information was also confirmed by agency sources.

The Italian carbines conducted raids in one of the educational institutions in the vicinity of Turin, where students used drugs during the educational process. For masking, the attackers used ordinary writing markers, writes The Local . Filling them with marijuana, students turned the felt -tip pen into a stupefying "electronic cigarette". Students of college college Colombatto, which prepares tourist workers and hotel management workers, used a cunning invention for smoking "grass".

Israel was suspected in a missile strike on the territory of Syria: Reuters, citing the Syrian Council for Human Rights Council, reports that the three missiles released from the territory of Israel exploded in the area of ​​the government army south of Damascus. Later, an anonymous military-administrative source said that no attacks from Israel were recorded in Syria.

The UN white trucks with humanitarian aid without hindrance entered five besieged cities in Syria, said the humanitarian coordinator of the organization Yakub El Hillo to Reuters. About a hundred trucks participated in the delivery of assistance. According to the UN, thanks to this, up to 100 thousand people will receive food, medicines and hygiene items.

Economic and political instability in the Middle East and North Africa led to a noticeable activation in the region of the so -called black diggers - people who are engaged in illegal excavations in the ground of archaeological monuments. This is evidenced by pictures from space. The famous "Space Archaeologist" Sarah Parkek, known for the study of monuments with the help of pictures from space, compared the satellite photographs of the Delta and the Nile Valley, taken from 2002 to 2013.

In July, the Museum of Mao Zedong and the exposition dedicated to the VI Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will open in Moscow. This was reported by the official portal of the government of the Russian capital. The museum will be located in the main house of the Musin-Pushkin estate in the Trinity Administrative District, where restoration has been ongoing since November 2015.

The Yabloko party reacted to the statement of Open Russia that some members of the party asked the project of the former owner of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky support in the State Duma elections. The official position of the party is as follows - any help from Khodorkovsky will be rejected, reports RBC .