An ordinary match of the regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL) between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Philadelphia Flyers (3:4 OT) was decorated with a colorful fight in the style of David and Goliath. At the end of the second period, the Jackets' undersized American forward Nathan Gerbe used a spectacular power move against the Pilots' captain Claude Giroux, who was immediately defended by heavy-hitting defenseman Travis Sanheim.

Pyotr Pavlensky told CNN that he stole a compromising video with politician Benjamen Grivo from the computer of his current friend Alexandra de Taddeo in November. The published compromising evidence refers to the period when the politician was a family person with children, Interfax reports. According to him, de Taddeo did not know what he found and stole the video and posted in the public domain. He informed her about this after the publication.

Former Russian tennis player Alexander Bublik, now representing Kazakhstan, said in an interview with the French newspaper L'Equipe that he hates tennis and goes on the court solely for the sake of money. “I hate tennis with all my heart, I hate every day that I have to play. I only play for money, I haven’t earned enough yet. I like to hit the ball, but playing every day with new opponents is unbearable for me,” the 22-year-old athlete is quoted as saying TASS.

The Japanese Aerospace Research Agency (JAXA) approved the mission of Martian Moons Exploration (MMX), which is the purpose of the soil from phobos (one of the two satellites of Mars) and the delivery of samples to Earth. This was reported on the JAXA website . Scientists expect that the soil from phobos will confirm the theory of the formation of Martian satellites (phobos and Damos), according to which they arose as a result of a collision of Mars with a dwarf planet.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to increase the base rate of transport tax on Ecological class "Euro-3" and below. This was announced by the deputy head of the department, Alexander Morozov. The official added that in the near future the Ministry of Industry and Trade will send documents with the relevant proposal to the Ministry of Transport. It is planned to introduce a new tax rate for old cars since 2021, RIA Novosti reports.

The leadership of the Yabloko party excluded from its ranks a member of the Moscow branch of the organization Maxim Katz and 15 of its supporters. The politician himself informed the Novaya Gazeta about this. "I was expelled from the party, except for me - Anastasia Bryukhanov, her mother and several more people. This decision of the bureau is unlikely to resist the subsequent appeal. I perceive it calmly, this will not affect my activity," he said.

The growth in the production of wagons, an unfavorable conjuncture in export markets and the load of the eastern training ground led to a record number of abandoned trains. The number of compositions temporarily left by the Russian Railways dispatchers reached a historical maximum in 1800 trains per day. This already affects the movement: the term of turning the wagon has grown by more than five days.

Last week, in the House of Representatives of the US Congress, a briefing was held at which special services said that Russia wants to intervene in the 2020 presidential campaign in order to "try to re -elect" Donald Trump, reports The New York Times (NYT) with reference to sources. According to them, Trump, having learned about the warning of intelligence, expressed fear that members of the Democratic Party could use the information received against him.

Dmitry Milin "Putin will cease to be president in 2024 or even earlier, although most likely will remain in politics at the head of the Federation Council or the State Council. The president will be elected new, but nothing will change from this. Putin is just a product of Russian society, in which 30-40% of conformists who will always vote for the current government (from communists to pro-European leftists) who remained).

In Gonolulu (Hawaii, USA), a house in which former US President Barack Obama lived with his mother and grandmother for sale for $ 2.2 million in childhood. At that time, his mother studied at a nearby Hawaiian University, writes Forbes . A wooden one-story house that was rented by the family of the future president of the United States was built in the 1940s and reconstructed in the 1960s. It has panoramic glazing, it has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Egor Sedov “What exactly is this? A certain citizen joined a certain party - by the way, which does not have representation in the State Duma. But he hopes to get this representation. That’s it. Period. But no, not everything. This caused a heated discussion on social networks,” - the publicist writes on Facebook about the discussions that the news about Sergei Shnurov’s entry into the Growth Party caused. “I have a very good attitude towards this citizen.

The European Council, sitting in Brussels, published a statement in which he called for the termination of the military offensive of the government forces of Syria in the province of Idlib. It is quoted by Interfax . "The new military offensive in Idlib of the Syrian regime and his supporters, causing huge human suffering, is unacceptable. The EU calls on all participants to immediately stop military operations," the document says.

The cooperation of Russia and Ukraine is unprofitable for a number of countries, as it creates a global competitor to them. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with TASS for the project "20 questions to Vladimir Putin." “Any association of [efforts] of Russia and Ukraine, their capabilities and competitive advantages is the creation of a competitor, a global competitor in Europe and in the world,” he said.

“Gazprom’s development strategy, focused on developing export supplies at any cost, has actually failed. And the monopoly spent more than $30 billion just on laying export gas pipelines, not counting the costs of creating related infrastructure,” the former Minister of Economy writes on Facebook . “The construction of South Stream in 2014 stopped with Bulgaria, which refused to cooperate with Russia after the annexation of Crimea.

On a multi -day ski race "Ski", which takes place as part of the World Cup draw in the vicinity of the Norwegian Meroker, serious intrigues and passions continue to rage. After the triumphal victory in the mass start of the free style of the Russian Alexander Bolshunov, who almost for a minute the eminent announcement of the Norwegians, the wounded Scandinavians accused him of dishonest struggle techniques.