Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the military operation in the Syrian Idlib is a matter of time, the Turkish television channel NTV reports. According to the president, Ankara makes the last warnings to Damascus, and preparations for the implementation of the Idlib plan have been completed.

The Kazan "Ak Bars" defeated the Omsk Avangard on its ice in the National Hockey League (KHL) regular championship match and won the Eastern Conference ahead of schedule. The owners of Tatneft Arena were 5-0 by the 53rd minute after the goals of Emil Galimov, Stanislav Galieva, Justin Azevedo, Dmitry Voronkov and Mikhail Fisenko. At the finish, they loosened the grip, allowing Rob Klinkhammer, Yegor Martynov and Pavel Dedunov to distinguish themselves.

The US administration condemned China for the deprivation of three journalists of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal and the requirement to leave the country, the head of the State Department Michael Pompeo said on Wednesday. The expulsion of media workers is caused by the fact that the Chinese authorities saw xenophobia in one of the WSJ headings. “Developed, responsible countries understand that the free press reports the facts and expresses opinions.

The social network VKontakte has released an updated version of its mobile application, which has received a new design. The TJ publication writes about this with reference to company representatives. “The last time we updated the application on a large scale was two years ago . A lot has changed since then: services, trends, tools. It’s time to streamline it all, and at the same time prepare the groundwork for the future,” the social network’s blog says about the innovations.

Mail.ru Group is testing a video service called "Watch Mail.ru" - the mention of it was found in the Pulse recommendation system, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The company's plans to launch such a service became known in mid -December last year. The press service of the company confirmed the existence of the service and clarified that it works in beta testing mode.

In 2019, more than a third of all new cars sold in Russia had a four -wheel drive. This conclusion was reached in the agency "Avtostat" . According to analysts, in total last year, 566 thousand new cars with all -wheel drive were sold in Russia - their sales were 34.7% of the total Russian car market. Basically we are talking about crossovers with all -wheel drive and relatively modest off -road capabilities.

In 2019, Russian banks paid 935 million rubles to customers written off from their accounts without consent. This amount compensates for approximately 15% of the funds lost by customers as a result of unauthorized operations, according to the annual report of the finser (center for monitoring and response to computer attacks in the credit and financial sector of the Bank of Russia). Its data leads to RBC .

The 19-year-old Norwegian striker of the Dortmund Borussia Erling Holann nearly broke the world record in 60 meters running during the 1/8 finals of the Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain (2: 1) . According to the Sky Sport Italia television channel, in one of the counterattacks of the Dortmunds, he ran across a field of 60 meters in 6.64 seconds. The world record is 6.34 seconds, it was set by American Christian Coleman in 2018.

Kommersant found out the details of the breakdown of one of the engines of the Arctic head atomic icebreaker under construction, which happened during mooring tests on February 4. According to the newspaper, one of the rowing electric motors of the vessel is recognized as not subject to restoration. There are three rowing shafts on the icebreaker "Arctic", two engines of 10 MW are installed on each. One of them came out of the system.

The State Duma Committee on the Financial Market recommended that the lower house of the parliament reject the bill in the first reading a bill that allows citizens to receive income in the form of interest on the escrow accounts, RIA Novosti reports.

The Russian skier Alexander Bolshunov shared the opinion on the incident in the sprint race with a free style as part of the multi -day Ski Tour in the Swedish Orega, which left it without the final. In the semifinals, the Norwegian Simen Krueger, when overtaking, stepped on the ski and collapsed in front of Bolshunov’s feet, because of which the Russian tripped over and took fourth place, without getting to the final. The winner of the decisive race was the Norwegian Johannes Clebo.

The Russian singer Alsu admitted that she bought votes for the victory of her daughter Michella Abramova on the musical show "Voice. Children-6" on Channel One. The artist told in an interview with the journalist Ksenia Sobchak that he considers herself to be guilty of the scandal. She also believes that she made a mistake because she did not hide her family relationship with Micellla.

Mikhail Maccoon "The issue of school food, by and large, is not even the competence of local self -government. This, generally speaking, is the competence of a particular school. Moreover, not even at the level of directorship voluntarism, but parental committees. Because the regions are different, the cities are different, local traditions and infrastructure are different, different schools, parents and children are different," writes the observer on his page on Facebook .

The dispatchers of the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans were instructed to call the police if the driver announced the "faces of Chinese nationality" in the cabin. This follows from the screenshot of a letter from an enterprise published on Twitter. Representatives of Mosgortrans in social networks first called information about the letter Fake. Then the company confirmed the presence of a scandalous order. The screenshot of emails published, in particular, Maxim Katz.

On February 19, the quarantine period ended on the cruise liner of Diamond Princess, which since February 5 stood in the port of the city of Iokogam with almost 4 thousand passengers on board. Despite the precautions, the number of infected people exceeded 500 people - now there are half of cases of infection outside China, RIA Novosti reports.