Prices for air tickets for December-February in various directions increased on average by 5-33%. writes about this with reference to the data of e-ticket services Kommersant . According to Biletix, the average check for domestic destinations increased by 17%, while for international routes the growth was 23%. According to Aviasales, the average price for flights within the country increased by 7%, abroad - by 5%.

The government has approved a decree that will make it harder for new global satellite operators to enter Russia — they will need to obtain a special opinion from the FSB, FSO and the Ministry of Defense. This will complicate the arrival of satellite Internet from OneWeb in Russia.

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Tuesday on a resolution calling for an end to President Donald Trump's imposition of a state of emergency in the southern states to build a wall on the border with Mexico. Democrats have spoken out with sharp criticism of the president, who decided to use the money allocated by Congress for other purposes and use them to build a wall, writes Reuters . The author of the resolution, Democrat Joaquin Castro, introduced it last Friday.

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced to 22 and 14 years in a strict regime colony for treason one of the former heads of the FSB Information Security Center Sergey Mikhailov and the former head of the computer incident investigation department at Kaspersky Lab Ruslan Stoyanov. They will serve their sentence in a strict regime colony. Mikhailov was stripped of his military rank of "Reserve Colonel" and state awards, he was fined 400,000 rubles.

Chairman of the Board of the PSA Group Carlos Tavares said that the Opel brand is ready to enter the Russian market. The decision to return to the Russian market is part of a strategy aimed at developing the brand both in Europe and global markets, the company said . Dragan Nenadovic will be responsible for expanding business in the Eurasia region, taking over as Opel's regional brand manager from the company's Moscow office.

The St. Petersburg Diocese condemned the Concert Choir of the northern capital, which performed the song "In a submarine with an atomic motor" about the US nuclear bombing in St. Isaac's Cathedral at a concert on Defender of the Fatherland Day. “Choral performances in St. Isaac's Cathedral take place quite regularly, and the very fact of performing music appropriate for the church space does not cause any rejection.

The US Cyber ​​Army on the day of the midterm elections 2018 left without access to the Internet Internet Research Agency, known as the "troll factory" The fact that the US military in November 2018 blocked access to the Internet to the Russian Internet Research Agency, which is associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin and is accused of interfering in the US elections, was told by several US officials to The Washington Post .

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the Pussy Riot group, wants to apply to the Investigative Committee in order to obtain the status of a victim in a criminal case of slave labor in IK-14 in Mordovia. There Tolokonnikova served time for a punk prayer service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Znak writes . Tolokonnikova wrote about the slave labor of prisoners in the 14th colony of Mordovia back in 2013 in her open letter. “My entire team in the sewing shop works 16-17 hours a day.

Facebook has decided to allow several RT-related pages to reopen, requiring them to comply with conditions that are not binding on other pages. According to CNN , RT was given a number of conditions, the main of which is that administrators must publish information about their management and funding. Last week it became known that the social network blocked one of the projects of the In the Now channel.

No masks and Zuckerbergs have a noble goal to snatch you out of censorship, and even for free More than once I met with a strange delusion that the space Internet will save us from Yarovaya and the autonomous Internet. Any OneWeb and so on. And for some reason, many still think that this Internet will be free. No, no, not only will it be expensive by our current standards, but this business will not pass by all censorship measures.

Not only overseas rivals, but also their own population, are invited to learn that there will be no more repetition of what happened under Gorbachev Even the old banter bardic song about the glorious Russian pilots and submariners, clover turning America into nuclear ashes, began to be sung in temples, transforming the banter into patriotic-spiritual.

British Ambassador to Russia Laurie Bristow said that Sergei and Yulia Skripal were alive. He told Interfax that they had received a request from the Russian embassy asking them to meet. “They do not want to meet with representatives of the Russian embassy. It seems to me that it is not so difficult to understand why they might not want to meet with representatives of the Russian state.

Roman Rubanov, former director of the Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation, was put on the wanted list by the Ministry of Internal Affairs against him A criminal case was opened under Art. 315 of the Criminal Code (non-execution of a court decision that has entered into legal force), the maximum punishment for it is a year in prison.

As a result of artificial intelligence errors, Sberbank lost billions of rubles, admitted bank president German Gref at a private school in Moscow during a “Numbers Lesson.” Artificial intelligence makes decisions “in large systems,” Gref said, and “a small error that has crept into the algorithm can lead to very large consequences,” Vedomosti reports. “Because the machine made a small mistake on large volumes, we lost billions of rubles,” Gref said.

Since 2011, companies associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin have signed at least 5,393 state contracts for a total of 209.23 billion rubles. This is stated in the investigation of the publication "Current Time" , the authors of which say that Prigozhin uses a network of firms, creating the appearance of competition when drawing tenders.