An emergency situation has been declared in the Rostov region, there is not enough food Due to heavy snowfalls, an emergency situation was declared in the Rostov region. There is not enough food, and people walk to work. The situation in Rostov worsened on January 28, when the city received a month's worth of precipitation. On January 30, a state of emergency was declared in the region.

How Justin Bieber's Problems Helped Reveal Twitter's Achilles Heel Author: Nastya Prazdnichnaya Jenna Wortham from The New York Times , using the example of the news about the arrest of Justin Bieber, analyzed what communication on Twitter has become: instead of sharing important news, everyone is trying to portray themselves as the smartest and sharpest wordsmiths, making it difficult to understand what is really important . TJournal publishes a translation of her article.

A group of Russian tourists vacationing in Ecuador were attacked by local bandits. According to their statement to the Ecuadorian police (a copy of which is available to TJournal), one of the robbers who stole a Samsung Galaxy smartphone did not turn off GPS and automatic photo synchronization with the Dropbox cloud service and shared his own self-portraits with the former owner.

Beeline subscribers protest against shutdown of Dozhd On the morning of January 31, Beeline announced the shutdown of the rebroadcast of the Dozhd TV channel on its networks. Subscribers remembered that the operator had promised not to do this the day before, and began to express their dissatisfaction on social networks. In recent days, the Dozhd channel has come under a hail of criticism for a survey about the siege of Leningrad conducted on January 26.

A series of photographs by a famous New York photographer, based on movie posters from the subway, is gaining popularity online. This is reported by CoCreate . The photographic project Head Shots by John Bergerman consists of self-portraits taken in New York subway passages and dedicated to the problem of cruelty in modern culture - in particular, in cinema. In each of the images, Bergerman appears as the victim of the shooter depicted in the movie poster.

Lebedev's studio fired the designer for plagiarism in his work on the corporate style of the Workplace workspace. This happened after bloggers discovered the similarity of the Studio’s work with the logo of the New York Moomah cafe. On January 29, Lebedev Studio published on its website a description of the work completed for the “Workplace” network of workspaces.

Microsoft is testing an update for Windows 8.1 that disables the tiled interface by default. This was reported by The Verge . The Windows 8.1 operating system, which was released in October 2013, took a big step back in terms of the so-called “tiled” interface, allowing users to immediately find themselves on the classic desktop after a reboot. However, sources inside the company tell The Verge that Microsoft intends to go further.

American singer Katy Perry became the first Twitter user in history to surpass the 50 million subscriber mark. reports Mashable . In June 2013, Katy Perry lost the race for the championship in reaching 40 million followers to pop singer Justin Bieber, but over the next six months she managed to become a leader and get to the next important number of subscribers before all her competitors. By this time, Bieber, who was arrested for drunk driving on January 23, only had 49.2 million followers.

Microsoft employees responsible for the official Xbox Twitter were caught using an Android smartphone. This is reported by The Next Web . The fact that Microsoft employees are actively using a competing platform was first noticed by Californian blogger Romit Mehta, who uses the Tweetbot application for iOS. Unlike most mobile clients, it displays information about the device from which the tweet was posted.

The United Capital Partners (UCP) fund invited former deputy general director of VKontakte Ilya Perekopsky to head the company. newspaper reports this The Vedomosti . Other co-owners of the social network said that they do not plan to change the company's CEO. Ilya Perekopsky and Pavel Durov (center) Ilya Perekopsky confirmed to the newspaper that the UCP really offered him to take Pavel Durov’s place on VKontakte. Perekopsky, who left the company in mid-January, declined to comment further.

The American television channel MSNBC fired an employee who wrote a tweet on the corporate microblog with a jab at those who hold right-wing views. reports this USA Today . On January 29, a tweet appeared on the MSNBC microblog: “The right may hate it, but everyone else will be touched: an adorable new Cheerios ad with a biracial family.” The link in the tweet led to material about an American brand Cheerios commercial filmed for the Super Bowl.

The administration of the social network VKontakte will block communities that have dramatically changed their topics in order to attract Euromaidan supporters. The press secretary of the Ukrainian division of the social network, Vlad Legotkin, reported this on his page . As Legotkin writes, recently some communities have abruptly changed their topic to one related to the protests in Ukraine in order to attract the attention of sympathetic users.

The American channel ABC has ordered a pilot for the comedy Selfie, which tells the story of a narcissistic young girl. reports Entertainment Weekly . The show from the creator of the comedy “Suburgatory” Emily Kapnek will tell the story of a girl in her 20s who is more obsessed with likes than with the actual possibility of getting people to like her.

Movies, TV series, cartoons, news, a lot of cats and more in the best clubs of the week Author: Alexander Sobolev A musical, comprehensive, humorous and cinematic selection of coubs from a TJournal reviewer. Today's episode contains a lot of cats, movies, TV series, cartoons and news. Cats Today's section with animals is occupied by cats. Movie Strange fantasies on the theme of “The Matrix”, “The Lord of the Rings” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” meet us in the traditional section.

Wahhabitcoins, parrying Mushroom and dolls in coffins Author: Zalina Marshenkulova This week from start to finish consisted of a deadly concentrate of madness.