Day: November 27, 2021

Defense24: Russian submarine Kursk could not be wrecked because of the United States Russian submarine Kursk, wrecked in August 2000 year in the Barents Sea, could not sink due to a collision with American submarines, since it was significantly larger than them. The impossibility of destroying a Russian vessel by US submarines is explained by the Polish edition of Defense24. The publication claims that at the time of the Kursk accident (with a displacement of 23,900 tons), American submarines Memphis (6900 tons) and Toledo, as well as the British submarine Splendid (4900 tons) were in the region. The publication reminds that in size and displacement western ships are much inferior to the Russian ship, so their collision with the latter would have led to problems for the first. Thus, Defense24 commented on the statement of the former commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, who previously stated that the

Hockey player “Washington Capitals” Ovechkin: put several stitches, did not lose a single tooth that he received multiple stitches after hitting the puck in the face in a National Hockey League (NHL) match against the Florida Panthers. He spoke about this at a press conference, the video was posted on the team's website. Ovechkin's first hat-trick of the season helped defeat Florida 4-3. In the first period of the match, the Russian went to the locker room after the puck ricocheted into his face. “It was a kind of signal to wake up. Thank God I haven't lost a single tooth. Nothing serious, “the Russian said. It was also reported that Alexander Ovechkin overtook players Guy Lefleur and Brandan Shanahan in the list of the best scorers in the National Hockey League (NHL) of all time. The Russian with 1355 points bypassed Lefler (1353 points) and Shanahan (1354), taking 26th

REN TV: last inspection of Listvyazhnaya mine revealed 10 violations of safety rules Last inspection of Listvyazhnaya mine a week before the explosion, the victims of which were 52 people, revealed 10 violations of safety rules. The results of the check are published by REN TV. Among the violations were the longwall power supply scheme not approved by the engineer and the missing methane control sensors. The documents also show that the violations were eliminated on the day of the inspection on November 18. “On that day, there were only 11 or 12 violations, they immediately eliminated them. They had nothing to do with the accident at all, there were transport violations. And this is gas, “the inspector explained. According to the specialist, 139 violations were revealed at the enterprise during the year, but there were no problems related to gas there for a long time. The mine worked for

Telegram founder Durov: Apple demanded to disable the eggplant and peach animation seeds. Otherwise, the messenger could face blocking on all devices of the American company. This was announced by the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov. He also conducted a corresponding survey on his page in the messenger, in which he asked his subscribers what to do best. The majority of users voted to “completely stop Telegram from working on Apple devices”, and a minority to “remove the gushing eggplant.” However, despite the voting results, the animation no longer works on iOS, Android and PC clients. Together with eggplant, they turned off the animation of the peach, which is often used in correspondence to denote the buttocks. Previously, when sending, the fruit was accompanied by a slap of the palm. A spicy animation appeared on Telegram a few weeks ago. To see it, you had to send an emoji to

“Zarplata.ru”: Russians are most annoyed by foreign words to follow, fix and proof Research Center of the Zarplata.ru service named the most annoying foreign words for Russians in professional communication. The research data is cited by RT. It turned out that only half of the 1,800 respondents use Anglicisms in professional communication. At the same time, every tenth Russian aged 45-55 does not understand the meaning of borrowing. 14 percent of respondents aged 35-44 said they get annoyed when they hear foreign words in the speech of their colleagues. Russians from 25 to 34 years old have a positive attitude towards Anglicism, 67 percent of respondents among this age group use foreign words at work and do not mind when others use them. The most annoying for respondents, according to the study, were words sync (sync), follow (follow), submit (submit), approve (approve or approve something) and brainstorm (brainstorm). Also, Russians