2018 was one of the most difficult Facebook in the history of the social network - Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly been in the center of scandals related to user data leaks. It seems that this black strip did not end with the onset of 2019. On January 30, TechCrunch reported that Facebook paid for several years to users of the Facebook Research application aged 13 to 37 years of $ 20 a month.

“Today there is an emergency in Kolomna near Moscow. At six in the morning, a group of investigators and FSB officers from Moscow, with the support of local security forces, broke into 15 apartments of environmental activists with searches. They were looking for newspapers about the garbage disaster that threatens Kolomna, confiscating phones and computers.

In St. Petersburg, a project was frozen to create a new museum complex "Blockade and Defense of Leningrad", which was recently considered a priority, Radio Liberty reports. The first museum dedicated to the history of the battle for Leningrad and its blockade during the Great Patriotic War appeared in the city in 1944 in Solyani Lane and was defeated in 1949 during a loud campaign in the "Leningrad case" . The museum was restored only in 1989 in a much smaller amount - at 800 square meters.

The Chairman of the European Council, Donald Tusk, once again stated that the British Agreement from the EU is not subject to revision. The position of the European Union by agreement on the conditions of Brexit is “understandable and consistent,” Twitter wrote on Twitter on January 30. “Yesterday we learned what the UK does not want. But we still do not know what the UK from Brexit wants,” he said.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation intends to decide to conduct a parliamentary investigation in connection with the decision of Rospatent, which gave preference to a foreign drug to the detriment of the Russian analogue. This decision will be made upon receipt of a response from the department to the parliamentary request.

On January 30, the Yandex company announced the establishment of a prize for young scientists, which will be named after one of the co -founders of Yandex and the technical director of Ilya Segalovich, who passed away in 2013. As stated in the description on the Yandex website , the Ilya Segalovich Award was established to support young researchers and the scientific community in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The Japanese Short Tradeist Kay Saito will not be disqualified for violation of the anti-doping rules at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korean Pyeongchang, confirmed by the sports arbitration court (CAS). This is reported by the portal reports Inside the Games . On February 2, 2018, Sito handed over a positive doping test for a masking acetazolamide diuretic. The 21-year-old athlete was removed from the competition and left the Olympic village.

About 20 hospitals, 10 schools and several shopping centers are evacuated in St. Petersburg due to mining reports. Employees and visitors of the Stockmann CSS on Nevsky Prospekt were also evacuated, a source in the city law enforcement agencies told TASS. Continent shopping centers, Pearl Plaza, Mega Dybenko, Rainbow, and Polyustrovsky market are also evacuated. Judging by the DTP and PE in St.

The Bellingcat investigation group has published a material that gives new data in favor of the version of the connection of Wagner PMC with military intelligence of the Russian Federation. Previously, this version was presented by the leadership of the SBU, referring to the fact that the Wagnerian fighters used the “General” series for flights to Africa to Africa.

On January 31, AvtoVAZ began the sale of the first model in the history of the company worth more than 1 million rubles. She became Lada Vesta Sport, which is an advanced version of the usual Lada Vesta. "Lada Vesta Sport is distinguished by a sports and aggressive appearance, which form an aerodynamic body kit, 31 mm suspension and expanded track with large 17 -inch wheels on low -profile tires.

The Latvian National Council for Electronic Mass Media (NPLP) at a meeting on January 31 decided to ban the relay, including distribution, programs of the Russian Rossiy RTR television channel in Latvia, DELFI.LV reports. “Latvia will not tolerate the Kremlin’s propaganda on its territory, and this is a clear signal for unfriendly countries and forces - we defended and will defend our information space,” the publication quoted by the Deputy Chairman of the NPLP, Ivars ABOLINSHA.

After the 2018 FIFA World Cup, more than five thousand foreign fans continue to stay in Russia illegally. Most of them are citizens of Nigeria and Vietnam, RIA Novosti reports citing the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs . “Of the specified category of people (fans), the largest number are citizens of Nigeria (1863), Vietnam (911), Bangladesh (456), Senegal (253),” the department said in a statement.

The head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, who owns a five -story apartment in Moscow with an area of ​​1229 square meters, is headed by an unofficial "apartment" rating of Russian officials and heads of corporations. However, apparently, the real leader of this list for several years has been the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller, who owns the apartment of larger area. As Baza found out, Miller owns an apartment of 1396 square meters. These apartments are located in St.

In Kolomna, searches were held at the activists against the trash landing ground. As reported in the group "There is no landfill Kolomna" on the social network VKontakte, searches for activists took place since the morning. "The police are interested in information carriers, the documents of the initiative group and newspapers are politicians Dmitry Gudkov. Activists are taken away to give explanations to the police," the report said.

The head of the Investigative Committee (SK) of Russia Alexander Bastrykin, who participated in the detention of Senator Rauf Arashukov, was on friendly relations with him and his father Raul Arashukov, also detained, and more than once visited their family estate. This was announced by the source of RTVI , close to the investigation.