Former north-west London nursery worker Vincent Chan, 45, pleaded guilty to 56 charges. The man was sent to prison for 18 years, the BBC reports . The investigation proved that over almost 17 years of working with children, Chan committed sexualized violence with penetration, possessed indecent images and engaged in voyeurism. Its victims were people aged from two to 70 years.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is ready to make “the hardest concession of all” and withdraw the country’s armed forces from the territory of Donbass. Two advisers to the Ukrainian leader told The Atlantic journalist Simon Shuster about this.

Roman Michurin, a resident of Irkutsk who returned from the war, beat his wife for several months. When she and her son ran away from him to a crisis center, he began to pursue her. And then he kidnapped his wife’s friend and took her hostage. Several hours of negotiations did not help save the woman: Michurin surrendered to the police only after strangling her. Details are in the material “Cold” . A participant in the war in Ukraine beat his wife.

For years, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife Giselle Pelicot with large doses of tranquilizers and then allowed strangers on the internet to rape her. After the high-profile trial, the Frenchwoman gave her first television interview, CNN World reports . The investigation found that Giselle Pelicot was raped at least 92 times by more than 70 men. The violence continued from 2011 to 2020. The truth came to light when French police detained her husband in September 2020.

The creator of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov explained how the forced transfer of Russians to the “national messenger” Max differs from the experience of China and its WeChat messenger. “WeChat was not designated as a “national messenger” and was not imposed on people. It became the absolute leader in the free competition of the early 2010s, offering Chinese users the best service among dozens of contenders.

The creator of the Ethereum cryptocurrency, Vitalik Buterin, who at the age of 27 became the youngest crypto billionaire, believes that the war in Ukraine could end in 2026. However, peace must be concluded with Russian society, and not with Vladimir Putin, the Agency reports . “Many people talk about “peace with Russia,” meaning peace with Putin.

The Kremlin has prepared a memorandum with proposals for economic cooperation with the United States. Bloomberg reports this with reference to a document that was distributed among senior Russian officials. According to the agency, the document states Russia’s readiness to interact with the United States in seven areas.

In just a month, the Russian neural network learned to use Russian obscenities when discussing housing and communal services issues with clients. The developers of the voice robot had to quickly reconfigure it, TASS reports . “This is a neural network, it learns, and literally in the first month the developers noticed such a collision that the neural network learned to curse. But, as they say, whoever you get along with, that’s how you’ll gain.

The possibilities for increasing taxes on the oil and gas sector have been completely exhausted. However, due to the increase in the budget deficit, there is another “maneuver in tax policy,” Vedomosti reports . Analytics". According to experts interviewed by the publication, increasing the mineral extraction tax (MET) rate can reduce the growing state budget deficit. It could bring an additional 1.2 trillion rubles.

The Russian economy has been “ruined” and already this year the country will face a “terrible drop in production”, and citizens will begin to massively withdraw money from their accounts and “bury it in their gardens”. Nikolai Arefiev, first deputy head of the Duma Committee on Economic Policy, shared this opinion in a conversation with RTVI.

Journalist Yuri Dud asked whether the phrase “the clock is ticking” is really justified from a biological point of view. Former co-organizer and head of the first sperm and egg bank in Russia, Avtandil Chogovadze, explained how the reproductive window works in women and said that the “clock” can still be paused. “A woman’s reproductive function almost completely fades by the age of 45 and the onset of menopause.

On the social network VKontakte, users massively give virtual gifts with feces to the mayor of the city of Serdobsk, Marina Ermakova. The reason for this was Ermakova’s publication about the presentation of certificates to young families, writes Gazeta.ru . On February 11, Ermakova reported on her Vkontakte page that she had presented two young families with certificates to receive social benefits for the purchase or construction of housing.

The presidential administration is studying children from the age of eight as future voters in the 2030 and 2036 presidential elections. Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration for Public Projects Alexei Zharich stated this at the “Heroes of a Big Country” film award forum, the Agency noted . According to Zarić, for the first time, citizens who are currently between 13 and 18 years old will vote in the 2030 elections.

In the Moscow region, a 14-year-old girl was electrocuted while taking a bath because she started charging her smartphone. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region. “At home, a 14-year-old girl, taking a bath, decided not to interrupt watching on her phone. Since her smartphone was running low on power, she connected it to a portable charger and continued taking a bath.

The 11-year-old and 18-year-old sisters Irina and Marina Zhvalev, who disappeared in St. Petersburg, could have fled to the sect in which their mother is a member, the girls’ grandmother named Maria told 78.ru. She noted that the girls’ mother—her son’s wife—has always been a religious person. Four years ago, a woman joined the “Royal Empire” sect, which came as a surprise to the family.