The Russian skater Denis Yuskov, who, due to the sanctions of the International Olympic Committee , was forced to miss games in South Korean Pyeongchang, won the Cup of the World at a distance of 1,500 meters according to the results of the 2017/18 season. The 28-year-old Muscovite at the final stage of the World Cup in Minsk became the second in his favorite discipline, stopping a stopwatch with numbers 1 minute 45.64 seconds.

In one of the voting sites in the Leningrad Region, the armed employee of the Russian Guard achieved the movement of the urn for voting so that it was visible in the video broadcasting frame, the Russian Air Force service reports. The correspondent reports that the N70 section in the Volkhov district was opened by the performance of the anthem of Russia.

The Lyubertsy near Moscow confirmed the stuffing of ballots in the presidential election. The urn was sealed, the chairman and member of the commission was removed from work. Video with evidence was published on the page of the Voice Observer Organization on Facebook . The Chairman of the Mosoblisbirkom Irina Konovalova reported about the measures taken. “On video surveillance cameras, we found the bulk of the ballots ... The stuffing was carried out in the region of 9 in the morning.

Voting in the presidential election began at 9 am in Moscow in the western region of Russia - the Kaliningrad region. From the eastern regions, meanwhile, data on the turnout come - high, as the authorities certify. In GAS "Elections", the figures of turnout are changing in a strange way, the journalists noticed.

Pavel Grudinin, candidate for president of Russia from the Communist Party and folk patriotic forces, who, according to preliminary data , took the second line after Vladimir Putin, called the elections "the most dirty elections in the post-Soviet space." He also forcedly agreed with the opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who, even before the voting, claimed that the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation was preparing a platform for the "grandiose Mukhodny" .

The election commission in Moscow and St. Petersburg reported about an unprecedented morning turnout in the presidential election. Almost twice as many people approached the sites by 10 in the morning than in the 2012 elections. Residents, meanwhile, complain of "dubious full houses", and an organized tinch of voters is recorded on the site at Moscow State University.

Many socio-political publications conduct online broadcasts from the elections of the President of Russia, despite the predictability of the main result. However, the tonality of broadcasts varies greatly: somewhere boring reports on the turnout prevail, someone concentrated on violations, and other publications at the most strange and ridiculous moments like an invitation to a gynecologist for examining those who wish.

The building of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv on Sunday, on the day of the presidential election, law enforcement officers are guarded intensely. As Interfax reports, in the morning the situation is calm.

In St. Petersburg, the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv defeated SKA with a score of 2: 1 in the second match of the quarterfinal series of the Gagarin Cup and restored the balance in the confrontation (1: 1). Vadim Shipachev (14 ') distinguished himself among the owners of ice. Arthur Kayumov (28 ') and Ilya Lyubushkin (39') were thrown from the guests of the washers. By the way, the goal of the 20-year-old Kayumov was the first for him in his career in the playoffs.

Former GRU employee Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia could be poisoned through the BMW ventilation system, which drove along Salisbury, says ABCnews television channel with reference to three sources aware of the investigation in Britain. The channel claims that the British investigators have a rather clear picture of what happened.

Football players Artem Dziuba and Oleg Shatov before calling to the Russian team should adapt to their new teams - the Tula Arsenal and Krasnodar. This was stated by the head coach of the national team Stanislav Cherchesov. In the winter transfer window, the players of the St. Petersburg Zenit Dziuba and Shatov, on lease, went to Arsenal and Krasnodar , respectively.

Russian athletes, who performed in the status of neutral athletes and under a neutral flag, took second place in the unofficial general community medal standings of the Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang. The Russians won 24 medals, of which eight gold, ten silver and six bronze. Due to the removal of the Paralympic Committee of Russia at the 2018 Games, only 30 Russian athletes and six presenters who help athletes with visual impairment were able to act.

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson said that Great Britain has evidence of the development of neuro-paralytic poisonous substances, including a "newcomer" in Russia over the past 10 years. He also claims that the state studied ways to use them for attempts. This was reported by the parliamentary correspondent of The Telegraph Jack Madge , in the online chronicle of the Himakaki investigation in Salisbury Johnson also included the Skynews television channel.

The leadership of the United States and North Korea will hold consultations in the capital of Finland Helsinki, the Yle television company reports. Data with reference to the country's Foreign Ministry confirms the TASS agency. According to Yle, the deputy head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry Cho Kang has already gone to Finland. He is responsible for the connections between North Korea and the USA and in Helsinki he should meet with American diplomats and security experts.

Ramzan Kadyrov said that for the current president of Russia Vladimir Putin, more than 93 percent of voters in Chechnya voted in the election of the head of state. The head of the republic congratulated Putin and explained such a high support for the desire of local residents to "express gratitude." In the whole country, Putin is currently gaining a little more than 72% of the vote. "According to preliminary data, more than 93% of the voting - for the president of the country.