The South Sakhalin City Court found the former governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin guilty of receiving bribes and sentenced him to 13 years in a maximum security colony. This was reported by the correspondent of Interfax from the courtroom. In addition, Khoroshavina was fined 500 million rubles and deprived of state awards. As RIA Novosti reports , the ex-governor will not be able to occupy government posts within five years after serving the term.

The sports arbitration court (CAS) refused to launch 47 athletes from Russia in the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. This was reported on the CAS website. At a special meeting of the CAS exit commission, it was decided to reject the statement of 32 Russian athletes who challenged the game on February 6. In addition, the court rejected the application for games of February 7 from 15 Russian athletes and coaches, previously recognized as innocent doping.

The founder of the Association of Muslim Entrepreneurs Marat Kabaev, the father of the gymnast, the ex-deputy of the State Duma Alina Kabaeva, is the patron of the Vice-mayor of Moscow on the construction of Marat Khusnullina, with whom they worked in the construction market of Kazan, reports Rain with reference to unnamed sources. Now the main executors of the capital's Renovation program will be entrepreneurs from Tatarstan, the television channel indicates.

Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, and although it is believed that the young generation prefers other options (Instagram and Snapchat), in the United States alone, the social network Mark Zuckerberg, overestimating its age during registration, uses several million children under 13 years of age. This is prohibited by American laws, so Facebook has been looking for ways to legalize their smallest users for several years.

The Moscow District Court of Nizhny Novgorod arrested the entrepreneur Evgeny Ryzhov in absentia, whom Boris Titov included the business intake of businessmen who were ready to return to Russia from abroad. A press release was posted on the court’s website on the absentee arrest of “accused R.”, the press secretary of the court Anna Serova confirmed to RBC that it was about Ryzhov.

The beginning of the twentieth century was marked by extremely bright, tragic events of colossal significance, the echoes of which are still felt. As often happens in such cases, social, political, military and economic events are closely intertwined into a large confusing ball. But in general, it was possible to arrange the most important of the shocks of that time in a kind of triad: the First World War - the Great Depression is the Second World War.

Uber settled the lawsuit filed against it by the Alphabet unit to create a car with a Waymo autopilot. This was announced by the head of Uber Dara Khosrovshahi. Khosrovshahi did not reveal the terms of the agreement of the parties, but emphasized that the purchase of OTTO, which is engaged in Uber by the development of an unmanned car, could and should have been “realized differently”.

The Bank of Russia reduced the key rate by 0.25 percentage points to 7.5% per annum. This is stated in a press release of the regulator. The Central Bank reduced the rate for the first time in 2018. “Annual inflation remains steadily low. Inflational expectations are gradually reduced. Short -term diemedal risks weakened. In this regard, the balance of economic and inflation risks was somewhat shifted towards the risks for the economy.

Facebook has begun testing the Download button, which will help the social networks moderate comments. Pressing on it will lower the author’s rating in a chain, writes Verge. Pressing on download will not reduce the number of likes, but instead will inform the moderators about a possible insult, false information or even offtop (commentary, not dedicated to the main topic of discussion).

In the USA, on the night of February 9, the government was suspended due to the fact that the Senate did not agree on the extension of its financing. This happened a second time in a month. The government’s work was suspended due to the lack of a budget for 2018. The financial year in the United States began on October 1, and until now the Congress has not been able to agree on the budget - in such a situation, the government’s work is ensured by temporary acts.

Sergey Prikhodko on the yacht of Oleg Deripaska in the investigation of Alexei Navalny - this is such an absolutely Western, European or American plot. A high -ranking official is resting on a billionaire yacht with an escort.

The Russian team at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Photo: Mark Ralston / AFP On the ninth of February, the Winter Olympic Games opened in Pyeongchang. Russia as a national team is not represented - Olympic athletes from Russia will officially perform under a neutral flag. The IOC decided to remove the national team in December, and since then the discussion has not stopped whether this decision is political or simply an uncompromising struggle with doping in sports.

Once the former exotic, avocado today is the favorite fruit of millions of people and a rare product, whose benefit does not dispute, it seems, no one. In the United States, a leading country for the consumption of avocados, over 800 thousand tons eat it a year, and over the past quarter century, consumption per capita has grown almost seven times.

In the South Korean Pyeongchang, the Winter Olympics opened. This was announced by President of South Korea Moon Jae In. Olympic fire was lit by the skater Kim Yong A. The broadcast of the opening ceremony led the match-TV . Russian athletes, according to the decision of the International Olympic Committee, will perform at the games not under the national, but under the Olympic flag.

The performance of Ksenia Sobchak at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington. Photo: Alexey Agaryshev / RIA Novosti The unexpected voyage to Washington of the now registered presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak is difficult to explain from a political technological point of view, but well and accurately calculated as a new instrument in Russia's diplomatic game to withdraw from confrontation with the United States.