Russian skeletonist Alexander Tretyakov became the winner of the general offset of the World Cup 2018/19, the last stage of which takes place in the Canadian Kalgary. For the 33-year-old athlete who missed the 2018 Olympics, this victory became the second in his career after the triumph in the 2008/09 season. At the final stage of the World Cup, Tretyakov took second place and, with 1704 points, was ahead of the general classification of Yuzhnkorets, Yuna Song Bin (1680).

Vladimir Putin instructed to reduce property ownership, after which the owner may not pay income tax received from the sale of this real estate. This was reported on the Kremlin website .

IKEA has developed a prototype of the curtains with the function of air purification using photocation. It is expected that such curtains will appear on sale next year. According to N+1 , a prototype called Gunrid, created in cooperation with researchers from Europe and Asia, is made of fabric covered with a layer of a photocatalizer, which under the influence of light accelerates the process of oxidation of organic pollutants, as a result of which the air entering the window becomes cleaner.

US President Donald Trump went to the capital of Vietnam Hanoi for negotiations with the chairman of the State Council of the DPRK Kim Jong -un, TASS reports. The broadcast of departure on Monday was conducted by American news television companies. The plane of the American leader took off from the Andrews air base near Washington. According to the White House press gun, Trump did not communicate with reporters before departure.

“There are such evil, but weak teenagers who are trying to recoup the little ones for humiliation from peers,” the sociologist writes on his Facebook page. “Understanding their powerlessness, they try to intimidate everyone in criminal bonds invented by the go:“ I have an older brother, he will come with a brother and will soak you all. ”Putin missiles are this mythical older brother who should punish the offenders of a plump-teenager-overgrown in the dictator's chair.

Most of the US territory has been suffering from inclement weather in the past few days. In the southern half of the country, heavy rains led to floods and landslides . Hundreds of houses are damaged. In many areas, transport communication has been violated. Without power supply in the states of Kentucky and West Virginia the day before, on February 24, more than 155 thousand houses remained. In the northern half, the winter storm "Kvian" brought snowfalls to the Middle West and northeast.

On February 20, the South Korean company Samsung announced the flexible Galaxy Fold smartphone, the prototype of which was first demonstrated last fall. Four days later, at the MWC electronics exhibition, the Chinese company Huawei, which is under serious pressure from the US authorities due to suspicion of espionage in favor of Beijing, introduced the MWC electronics exhibition in Barcelona.

The unexpected find was made by employees of the non -governmental organization Bicho d'AGUA on the island of Marajo, which is located at the mouth of the Amazon River and partially washed by the waves of the Atlantic. In the mangroves, 15 meters from the ocean, a dead 8-meter humpbacked whale was found. Experts suggest that this one -year -old cub Kita died even before he was thrown into land during a strong tide.

Electronic rights in Russia may appear already in 2020. This was announced in an interview with RIA "Novosti" chief of the traffic police Mikhail Chernikov. “When there was no electronic databases, a driver’s license was confirmed that a person has the right to drive a vehicle.

For several years, manufacturers of smartphones have been striving to improve the quality of the shooting of the main chambers of the devices and expand their functionality by increasing the number of individual modules with various characteristics. So, the triple camera has almost the norm, there are already devices with four chambers modules in the Samsung smartphone line, and now HMD Global, which owns the rights to release devices under the Nokia brand, has overcome the next step.

From the new season of the World Cup in the classroom of the Formula-1 cars, a new rule has been introduced to the joy of many of its participants, according to which the minimum weight of the equipment with a chair should be 80 kilograms. If someone weighs less, this difference should be supplemented with ballast. This equates the chances of racers and will allow them to weaken the diet during the season.

The US Pacific Fleet said that two American warships passed on Monday through the Taiwan Strait, TASS reports. The fleet communum notes that two American ships passing through the Taiwan Strait are the STETHEM destroyer and Cesar Chavez artillery transport. "The passage of ships through the Taiwanese Strait demonstrates the adherence of US Freedom and openness in the Indo -Pacific region," the Reuters agency quoted the statement of the US Pacific Fleet.

The St. Petersburg City Court changed the sentence to the nationalist Vyacheslav Datsik, freeing him from punishment for two of the three incriminated articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Datsik was released from custody in connection with the serving of punishment. This was announced on Monday TASS with reference to the united press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg, after consideration of the complaint of the defendant about the verdict. "The St.

“Comrade Maduro, the bosom friend of the Kremlin guys and the idol of idiots who stubbornly call themselves people’s representatives, lacks strategic thinking. He mobilized the army, the police, the militias - everyone to prevent food from entering the country. He took up all-round defense on land, in the air and by water from penetration of humanitarian aid," the former politician writes on his Facebook page. “What’s the point?

Russian volleyball player of Cuban origin Oreol Camejo submitted documents to the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) to change his sports citizenship. The athlete would like to compete for the Russian national team. “Camejo has submitted documents to change his sports citizenship, and we have also submitted documents for our part.