The Ministry of Defense of Russia declassified archival documents from the funds of the Central Archive dedicated to the liberation of Budapest during the Second World War. The new historical and cognitive section appeared on the website of the Ministry to the 75th anniversary of the operation of the Red Army.

The publication of the famous football player Dmitry Tarasov on the Instagram about the coronavirus is incurring interethnic discord, his account in this social network must be blocked. This requirement was made by a member of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs Dmitry Svishchev (LDPR). Tarasov published on the page on Instagram his photo with the hairdresser of Asian appearance and the signature of "Coronavirus".

The director of the independent non -state research “Levada Center” explained what caused the rapid fall of the rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose level of trust, compared with November 2017, fell almost half - from 59% to 35%. As Lev Gudkov explained, Putin’s rating falls long and stable, and his individual performances such as a recent message to the parliament have only a short -term effect .

“It has been proposed to introduce into the Constitution a direct ban on officials having foreign citizenship or residence permits. On the one hand, this is correct. On the other hand, is the absence of someone else’s passport a guarantee of patriotism? It’s not for nothing that many of our officials, after leaving their posts, immediately rush abroad.” , writes the former Minister of Economy on LiveJournal .

The headquarters of the opposition policy Alexei Navalny in Kazan discovered the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov Business jet Falcon 8x, the price of which reaches 3 billion rubles. The official has been using this plane for foreign trips since 2017. Activists found the plane, comparing information about the latest president’s visits with Jet's movements. So, on December 11, 2019, Minnikhanov visited Bratislava on a working visit, where this business jet was at the same moment.

The investigation charged the two -time champion of Russia in Boxing Georgy Kushitashvili in beating an employee of the Russian Guard and drug storage. "Now there is a consequence, not the fact that these articles will reach the court. We will petition for a medical examination on the method of injury by an employee of non -departmental security," the athlete’s lawyer Alexander Degerev told the R -Sport agency.

The winner of the European Junior Championships, British swimmer Tatyana Belonogoff, has completed the process of obtaining Russian sports citizenship, reports the press service of the All-Russian Swimming Federation . The 18-year-old athlete explained this decision by saying that in Russia her chances of qualifying for the World and European Championships are high, and also referred to the good support system of the national team and objective selection for it.

The American television channel ESPN introduced the ten cool heads in the history of the National Hockey League (NHL), which was crowned by the unforgettable puck Alexander Ovechkin. Only a slow repetition helps to evaluate the skill of their performance. The rating was compiled by overseas journalists illuminating the NHL matches. It especially evaluated the degree of complexity and skill, innovation and creative approach.

The final match of the Russian Football Cup of the 2019/20 season will be held on May 13 in Yekaterinburg at the arena of the same name, which hosted matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The executive committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU) made a corresponding decision on Thursday. For the second time in history, the city will host the final match of the Russian Cup. The previous one, in which Rubin Kazan beat Dynamo Moscow with a score of 1:0, took place in 2012.

The player of the Petersburg Zenit Alexander Kokorin on Wednesday negotiated with the owner of Sochi Boris Rotenberg and probably will soon join the Sochi club. An insider was shared by the commentator "Match TV" Nobel Arustamyan. “Negotiations are held productively, the denouement seems to be close. It is very likely that in the coming days Kokorin will join FC“ Sochi ”at the training camp in Turkey,” Arustamyan wrote on Twitter . Later on Thursday, Rotenberg himself confirmed this information.

The organizers of the march of memory of Boris Nemtsov filed an official notification to the city hall. The action is planned to be held on February 29 along the route from passionate boulevard to Akademika Sakharov Avenue, Ilya Yashin, the head of the Krasnoselsky municipal district of Moscow, said on Facebook . The declared number of participants is 30 thousand people.

More than 400 Russian scientists and scientific journalists demanded to cancel the verdict in the case of the "network"*, the defendants of which were sentenced to six to 18 years on charges of organizing a terrorist community and participating in it. A letter open to signing is published on the website Scientific.ru . The authors of the appeal note that the harsh accusation is based on extremely dubious evidence.

The GSMA Association, which is the organizer of the World Mobile Congress (MWC)-an exhibition of achievements of the mobile industry, which is held annually in Barcelona at the end of February, decided to cancel the MWC 2020 due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus (new type of coronavirus) in China.

Kirill Rogov “All this epic operetta with the adoption of amendments, and officially,“ amendments ”(!) To the constitution, of course, is somewhat impressed by an unbiased and unprepared imagination,” the political scientist writes on his Facebook page.

Founded by one of the creators of the Android mobile operating system, Andy Rubin, Essential, which failed to become a successful smartphone manufacturer announced its closure. The message about this was published on the company's website . Recall that in May 2017, Essential introduced the flagship smartphone Essential Phone (Essential PH-1). It was assumed that sales of the device would begin until the end of June, but the company did not meet this period.