The Trump administration has told Congress that Russia has failed to meet requirements that would allow Moscow to avoid a second round of US sanctions over the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal in the UK, reports The Hill. This means that consultations on a new round of sanctions against Russia will be automatically initiated under the 1991 US Chemical and Biological Weapons Destruction Act.

Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev has been detained at the request of the Monaco prosecutor's office, according to Le Monde. This is a continuation of the story about the mobile phone of businessman lawyer Tatiana Bersheda, which fell into the hands of the Swiss police in February 2017 and became the reason for the corruption scandal, which is called Monacogate.

The victory of the Democratic Party, accusations of intervention and other risks for Russia in today's US elections The most important event for Russia today is the interim elections to the US Congress. From the new composition of the American parliament - and from whether the American special services will consider that Russia intervened and in these elections will largely depend on the new sanctions that the previous composition of the congress did not have time to approve.

The Russian stock and foreign exchange market usually responds to the election results - both domestic and other countries. It may not be so at all with the intermediate elections to the US Congress, which create uncertainty regarding the future of Russia: a decision on new sanctions that are currently being discussed in the Congress, Bloomberg writes. Who is they chosen in the USA? On Tuesday, Americans will choose all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 35 senators out of 100.

“I never thought I would know so much about shit,” laughs Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent $200 million over the past seven years on sanitation research, which has led to about 20 new toilet concepts that the Microsoft founder unveiled at an exhibition in Beijing. The devices work without water, do not require a connection to the sewer, and are able to eliminate harmful microorganisms, turning waste into clean water and fertilizer.

The story of the data leak of half a million employees of Sberbank into the network continued - along with the data of people, archived technical documents describing how the bank checks the performance of its own systems also turned out to be publicly available, writes Kommersant . This is not an intentional hack, but the careless actions of one employee, experts are sure. The bank itself emphasizes that the leaked files do not contain trade secrets and personal information.

For the first time in Russia, there will be a legislative basis for the use of driverless cars: the Ministry of Industry and Trade has published a draft government resolution permitting the experimental use of driverless cars on public roads in Moscow and Tatarstan in 2019–2022. The experiment should start as early as March 1, 2019.

Since March 2019, unmanned vehicles may allow driving on public roads The founder of Yandex Arkady Volozh rides on the drone of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, October 2018 For the first time, a legislative justification for unmanned vehicles will appear in Russia: the Ministry of Industry and Trade has published a draft government of a government allowing the experimental use of drones on public roads in Moscow and Tatarstan in 2019–2022. The experiment should begin already on March 1, 2019.

The government has prepared a decree obliging messengers to identify users through mobile operators by phone number, and mobile operators to keep records in which messengers their users correspond, Alexander Zharov, head of the department, told Izvestia. Foreign messengers will most likely not comply with the new requirement, experts are sure. Later it became known that Dmitry Medvedev signed the document .