Mark Solonin “Once upon a time, in the summer of 1977, our construction team built something out of a brick on a collective farm, whose names I couldn’t remember anymore. The construction site was behind the outskirts, and the solution of which I was assigned to that day, demanded water. I went with buckets in a nearby pigsty. So I went, with a cheerful step, with two buckets. He suffered his breath and ran through the puddles of the wet pork to the cranes . "And what to do?

The Olympic champion of Rio de Janeiro in freestyle wrestling Dagestan Abdulrashid Sadulaev supported his fellow countryman, the winner of the UFC title Khabib Nurmagomedov, who was hungry for too frank , in his opinion, the play "Hunting for Men." “There are no words, except for the words of shame! Knowing which republic we live in, this evil comes and imposes on us its“ culture ”. How much can this be swallowed?!

The House of US Representatives in the evening of February 26 voted to cancel the decree of President Donald Trump on the introduction of a state of emergency on the border with Mexico. The American leader introduced it on February 15 in order to receive funds in the amount of about $ 8 billion for the construction of a wall from migrants without approval of the congress.

Representatives of the Embassies of the EU member countries and the American ambassador honored the memory of the Russian opposition policy Boris Nemtsov, the German Embassy in the Russian Federation said on Wednesday.

The metropolitan police "besieged" the Open Russia Office of the Public Movement, when a video broadcast was conducted in it with the participation of the founder of this movement - an opposition public figure and businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. From the office, law enforcement officers were released only by media representatives. The rest will be released after the signing of the explanatory, the MBH Media was told in Open Russia.

The Russian mobile operator Tele2, which will soon own Rostelecom, and the Swedish manufacturer of the Ericsson telecommunication equipment concluded a five-year agreement on the supply of 50 thousand base stations that will be established in 27 regions of Russia, including Moscow and St. Petersburg. This is written by the newspaper "Vedomosti" .

Venezuela addressed to the Armed Forces of Venezuela to switch to the side of the opposition has not yet brought any result. This opinion was expressed on Wednesday by the chairman of the Constitutional Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Dyosdado Cabel, as reported by TASS. "They (opposition. - approx. TASS ) send the [military] messages, but they have not had any effect to the present," Kabelo said. He also called on the Chavistov (followers of the late President Hugo Chavez. - Note Corr.

Two more Ukrainian groups, following the singer, Maruv refused to go to the Eurovision Support contest to Israel. The Freedom-Jazz Girls Band, which took second place following the results of national selection, said on Facebook , which is in the process of signing a contract with a European promoter and intends to agree on concert tours. Later, the Kazka group took out the third place in the national selection from among the contestants.

A number of well-known companies have been testing robots of various designs for several years to deliver pizza or various parcels to customers. Thus, Amazon recently showed its own delivery robot, and now the American courier company FedEx has joined the list. According to The Verge , FedEx officially announced an experiment in delivering packages by robots and published a short video showing the SameDay Bot delivery robot.

The Russian skier Alexander Immortals won a silver medal at the World Cup in Austrian Zeefeld in an individual race of 15 km by a classic course. The winner of the race with a result of 38 minutes 22.6 seconds was the Norwegian Martin Yonsrud Sundby. The immortals lost to him 2.9 seconds, the third place was taken by the Finn Ivo Niskanen (+20.4).

US President Donald Trump stated that he had a magnificent meeting with the DPRK leader Kim Jong -un in Hano and is waiting for the resumption of discussions on Thursday, TASS reports. The American leader posted on Wednesday on his Twitter page on Wednesday. “Great meetings and dinner in Vietnam with the leader of North Korea Kim Jong -un. A very good dialogue,” the American president wrote.

An examination found traces of cocaine in the blood of 30-year-old Murad Kasymov, who on the night of February 24, while driving a BMW X6, hit five people on the sidewalk of Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, resulting in two of them dying. “The investigation ordered several examinations in Kasymov’s case, the results of one of them became known on Wednesday.

The train caught fire after a collision with the platform at the main station of the capital of Egypt Cairo, reports of numerous victims and wounded. According to AR, at least 10 people were killed, 22 were injured, and this number can increase. Local media reports about two dozen dead. The tragedy occurred in the area of ​​the Ramses railway station.

“You know what is the worst in the history of the concert choir of St. Petersburg at a festive concert on February 23 in the Isaac's Cathedral Songs about the nuclear bombardment of the United States? The fact that this parody comic song composed in Soviet times was now taken seriously,” writes sociologist in Facebook . “After its performance, patriotic spectators clapped, but did not laugh, and, on the liberal FB, on the contrary, a wave of indignation swept.

The winter storm brought down snowfall and strong winds on the states of the western coast of the United States. In the evening (local time) on February 24, the passenger train of AMTRAK, following the route of Seattle (Washington) - Los Angeles (California), crashed into a fallen tree near the city of Okridge in Oregon. The composition could not continue moving, reports StormNews with reference to the Katu TV channel. It is noted that among 183 passengers there were no victims of the train.