The website of singer Zhanna Friske on the morning of January 21 began redirecting users to a blank page on VKontakte. The page itself had nothing to do with the singer. On Monday morning, when trying to access any note on Zhanna Friske’s website, users were redirected to a fake VKontakte page with the name “Yablozord Yablozord.” It was impossible to read the contents of the notes themselves.

Roman Abramovich's girlfriend Daria Zhukova was accused of racism because of a photo of an African-American woman on a chair On January 20, Miroslava Duma's Buro 24/7 publication published an interview with Daria Zhukova , editor-in-chief of Garage magazine and friend of oligarch Roman Abramovich. Ordinary material for a glamorous party would have gone unnoticed by the general reader, if not for a scandalous photograph from a photo shoot for an interview.

Edward Snowden accepted an invitation from an initiative group of students from the Scottish University of Glasgow to participate in the election for the post of rector. This was announced on the Edward Snowden for Rector Facebook page. A group of students organizing Snowden's nomination for chancellor contacted the former CIA officer through his lawyer. According to them, Edward Snowden accepted the invitation to participate in the elections.

In mid-January, the British portal CVG summed up the results of a large-scale vote for the best game of the generation. According to its results, the first four lines on the list were occupied by projects that had never been released on PC - the traditional way to consume games in Russia. TJournal publishes a selection of ten video games that never made it to the “Orthodox” platform, but which absolutely cannot be missed.

Journalist of the Sobesednik publication Elena Milchanovska, for whom everything worked out in her personal life after her meeting with Putin, wrote a report from the 2014 Gaidar Forum . In addition to her lively style and fascinating details of entering the forum, the talented correspondent was able to get through security to Dmitry Medvedev and take several joint photographs with him.

The French agency presented a series of prints dedicated to anonymity on the Internet, conveyed through reimagined Emoji icons. This is reported by CoCreate . French agency Rosapark has launched a social campaign with “real” Emoji for the non-profit organization Innocence en Danger. The main goal of the campaign is to remind parents that their children are not safe on the Internet. Predators sometimes pretend to be children in order to build trust with those they target.

Microsoft conducted a hidden advertising campaign for its new Xbox One gaming console on the popular YouTube channel Machinima. reports this ArsTechnica . In January, various divisions of the major gaming YouTube channel Machinima received an additional $3 per thousand impressions from Microsoft if their video included at least 30 seconds of footage from an Xbox One game and the name of the console itself was mentioned at least once.

An American creates apps for Google Glass to make life easier for firefighters. In his spare time, a North Carolina firefighter creates Google Glass apps to speed up emergency response efforts. This was reported by The Verge . While Google Glass smart glasses remain mostly a toy for enthusiasts, Patrick Johnson from Rocky Mount is trying to find really serious use for them.

Two advertising school graduates have come up with a service that can help lovers of beautiful photos of landmarks on social networks. This is reported by CoCreate . Mimi Chan and Utsavi Zhaveri, recent graduates of Miami Ad school, launched an unofficial public service for tourists in New York and San Francisco on their own.

A selection of the most important quotes from Irina Yarovaya about tightening control over the Internet in Russia On January 21, State Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya gave a press conference at ITAR-TASS, where she spoke about a package of “anti-terrorism” amendments proposing tightening control over the Internet and Internet payments. TJournal selected the most important quotes from her speech.

Hosting provider Selectel began accepting payments for services in cryptocurrency. This was reported in a press release received by TJournal. Selectel clients can pay for services using two of the most popular cryptocurrencies - bitcoins and litecoins. In both cases there is no payment fee. As Selectel explained to TJournal, operations are carried out through the OKpay payment system. Funds sent in cryptocurrency are immediately transferred to rubles. The operation takes 30-60 minutes.

appeared on the Artemy Lebedev Studio website . A hooligan poster made for Tatyana’s Day for students of Moscow State University The patroness of students is depicted in the poster with a shaved temple, piercings in her ear and nose, and a modern watch on her wrist. In one palm she squeezes a grade book, and the other is covered with formulas and cheat sheets.

A number of Russian websites were hacked in January by unknown individuals posing as Syrian hackers and representatives of the Syrian Anonymous movement. On hacked sites, Syrian hackers place “stubs” with information about themselves and a message to users. Based on the type of stubs, several categories of hacked sites can be distinguished.

Starting from January 21, the Ukrainian-language section of the Wikipedia encyclopedia will go offline daily from 16:00 to 16:30 Kiev time (from 18:00 to 18:30 Moscow time) in protest against the laws on Internet censorship signed earlier President of Ukraine. This is stated on the Wikipedia page dedicated to Law No. 721-VII .