Representatives of Yandex and Mail.ru Group, which belongs to VKontakte, supported the bill on the creation of an autonomous segment of the Internet in Russia during an expanded meeting of the State Duma, RNS reports.

Russian woman Maria Sharapova beat the Danish woman Karolin Voznyatski in the match of the third circle of the Australian Open Tennis Championship - the first large helmet in the season with a total prize pool of more than $ 44 million. The match in Melbourne ended with the defeat of the current owner of the trophy with a score of 4: 6, 6: 4, 3: 6. The game lasted 2 hours 24 minutes. Sharapova won the eighth victory over Vozniatski in 13 personal meetings.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Colonel of the Special Forces of the Russian Guard Oleg Kondratyev. As it turned out, in July 2018, he accepted 30 tons of rotten potatoes from the Friendship of Peoples meat factory. Kondratiev is suspected of abuse of powers (part 1 of article 286 of the Criminal Code), writes RBC with reference to a copy of the decision on the initiation of the case.

The episode of the cartoon "Masha and the Bear", which is called "Masha Plus Porridge", became the most viewed animation video on YouTube , and for this it was listed in the book of world records of Guinness. Earlier, the Western media called the series of Kremlin propaganda. "Episode" Masha Plus Porridge "entered the Book of World Records of Guinness and became the most viewed cartoon, animation video on YouTube.

While the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Post" is looking for new ways of earning in the regions, its head Nikolai Podguzov was able to improve his housing conditions by buying apartments in the elite LCD "Knightsbridge Private Park" on Efremov Street in Moscow. The cost of this housing, which is described by The Insider , may exceed 1 billion rubles. According to the investigation conducted by the publication, I bought apartments at the end of 2017.

The Russian male team on Thursday held the final match of the group stage of the World Handball Championship. In a meeting with the French deprived of tournament motivation, the Russians showed worthy resistance to the current world champions and lost with a minimum score - 22:23. The wards of Eduard Koksharov were a step away from a positive outcome, but in the end they missed the victory.

The company "Ilyushin" plans to introduce a system of protection against leaks of confidential information, which allows you to monitor the correspondence and conversations of employees. This follows from the materials on the public procurement website .

Renault is preparing to launch a system of online car sales, which will allow customers who fully pay for the purchase to get a car with home delivery. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to top managers of one of the dealers of a French car company and a source familiar with Renault managers.

More than 30 people were killed and nearly 60 injured in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during unrest following the announcement of preliminary presidential election results on January 10. This was announced at a briefing in Geneva by the official representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Ravina Shamdasani, as quoted by TASS. "We call for calm whenever the [final] results are announced.

The second meeting of the leaders of the United States and the DPRK Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un will take place closer to the end of February, the White House spokesman Sarah Sanders on January 18 following the negotiations of the American leader with the head of the United Front of the Central Committee of the Korea Labor Party Kim Yong Chhol, who flew to Washington, accompanied officials.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called vain "attempts by individual forces" to sow enmity between the Belarusian and Russian peoples. He, as TASS reports, said on Friday at a meeting on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Belarusian diplomatic service. “We will not be able to push us - Belarusians with the Russians. Not only with Russians, generally with the Russians. This is not the way to somehow get in Russia to someone from this dividends,” the Belarusian president noted.

The Islamic State terrorist group prohibited in Russia* (IG*) is responsible for the explosion of the house in Magnitogorsk. It is reported by Znak.com with reference to the Directora 4 and Site Intelligence Group Telegram channel. They, in turn, refer to the publication of the weekly Arab newspaper Al Naba, which gives the source information.

In 2018, more than 20 plane crashes were recorded in Russia, said Valery Shelkovnikov, a member of the World Flight Security Fund, the President of the International Advisory and Analytical Agency for Flight Safety. "According to those data that there are 22 plane crashes in Russia. One large - An -148 aircraft in February, in which 71 people died .

The head coach of the German football club Cloppenburg, Imke Wübbenhorst, said that she forms the composition of her team solely based on the size of the players’ penis. In this way, as the publication As writes, the mentor responded to the sexist provocations of journalists. Answering the question whether the club's players dress before she comes to the locker room, Wübbenhorst said in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt literally the following: “Of course not.

“The Grozny court wrote off more than 9 billion rubles of debt for utilities. Debts asked to forgive the local prosecutor’s office, frightened by the protest of residents of the republic. The Chechen court is not only the most just court, but also the most generous,” the public figure writes on his Facebook page. "In Russia, of course, not a case law, but the life hack from the Grozny prosecutor’s office is understandable. If the state does not forgive debts today, will we go outside tomorrow.