The Yandex company began showing information about traffic jams in Moscow on 12 street advertising screens. As reported in a Yandex press release received by Lenta.ru, information about traffic jams appears every 2.5 minutes. All 12 screens belong to the outdoor advertising operator IVM and are located at major intersections of the Garden Ring, the Third Transport Ring, as well as several radial highways. A diagram of their location can be found at the link .

The Burkina Faso football team reached the final of the 2013 African Cup of Nations for the first time, defeating Ghana in the semi-final match on penalties, Reuters reported on Thursday . The main and extra time ended with the score 1:1, but in the penalty shootout the representatives of Burkina Faso were stronger, achieving a 3:2 advantage. In the final they will meet the Nigerians, who earlier on Wednesday defeated the Mali team with a score of 4:1.

Korzhik, who called himself responsible for the theft of the monument to the cookies of the Bahlsen confectionery company, stopped making his presence known. The alleged attacker did not send any new letters or photographs related to the disappearance of the sculpture to the police, the company, or the newspapers, reports the Associated Press . The liver monument was stolen from a sculpture installed at the entrance to Bahlsen's head office in Hannover in the first half of January 2013.

The UK's second-largest pay-TV operator, Virgin Media, will be sold to US cable TV company Liberty Global, reports Agence France-Presse . The deal will be worth $15.75 billion, part of which will be paid to the owners of Virgin Media in cash and part in Liberty Global shares. The deal, said a joint statement from Virgin Media and Liberty Global, will create a telecommunications company with access to 47 million households in 14 countries.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Maxim Reznik addressed Governor Georgy Poltavchenko with a request regarding the actions of the Federal Customs Service (FCS).

Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele's drawing "Lovers (Self-Portrait with Wally)" sold on Tuesday, February 5, at Sotheby's in London for £7.9 million, setting a record auction price for the artist's work. This was reported in a press release published on the Sotheby's website. Before the auction began, “Lovers,” which came up for auction from the collection of the Rudolf Leopold Museum in Vienna, were estimated at 6.5–8.5 million pounds sterling.

Any little thing, even a seemingly ordinary, causeless smile, can radically transform reality and unexpectedly reveal the beauty hidden in everyday gray life. Reality through the eyes of the metropolitan group The Melodies is just that beautiful: in it, a smiling heart wanders through the streets of Moscow, bestowing joy on passers-by and singing, “Take My Hand,” to the accompaniment of top-notch retro soul interspersed with reggae. The group will present the corresponding clip on Lenta.ru.

Former Raiffeisenbank employee Daniil Shaporenko received a suspended sentence for embezzling more than 3 million rubles by fraudulently cashing them out of client accounts. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. In 2010-2011, Shaporenko, being a bank employee, had access to information about depositors' accounts.

On February 1, 2013, the Moscow Business Club opened applications for the annual international award “Real Estate Market Records”. Participation in the award is free. "Lenta.ru" acts as a media sponsor of the event. A large-scale advertising campaign will give each nominee the opportunity to increase recognition of their real estate projects, intensify sales, and strengthen the image of the company and the property.

Kazan teenagers who threw stones at passenger trains received 3 months of restriction of freedom. This was reported on the website of the Volga Transport Prosecutor's Office. As the investigation established, on October 6, 2012, a 17-year-old Kazan resident and his two 14-year-old friends threw stones at passenger train number 410, traveling along the Novorossiysk-Kazan route, when the train passed through the Kirovsky district of Kazan.

Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected sports facilities being built for the Olympics in Sochi. According to the Interfax agency , he demanded that all projects be completed on schedule and stated the need to control construction costs. “The main thing is that no one steals anything, that there is no unreasonable rise in price,” the president said. At the same time, he admitted that with such a large-scale construction, it is difficult to avoid exceeding the original estimate.

The feature film “Lust for Life” about the joint creative work of Iggy Pop and David Bowie in the 1970s will be shot in Berlin. This was reported by The Hollywood Reporter. The film will be directed by Gabriel Range (The Death of a President), and the script will be written by Robin French, who worked on the BBC television series Cuckoo. “Lust for Life” will be produced by the British company Altered Image and the company Egoli Tossell, Germany.

Ukraine will become independent from external energy supplies in 10 years. As Korrespondent.net reports, Carlos Pascual, Commissioner of the US State Department for Energy Affairs, stated this in an interview with local Channel 5. According to him, for this Ukraine needs to increase the level of energy efficiency. The American official recalled that Ukraine currently consumes three times more electricity per capita than other European countries.

The productivity of staff in Russian supermarkets and hypermarkets turned out to be three times lower than that of employees of American stores. newspaper writes about this in its issue dated February 6 The Vedomosti , citing a study of the domestic consumer sector conducted by Sberbank-CIB, an investment banking unit created on the basis of the Troika Dialog company purchased by Sberbank.

On February 6, Moscow said goodbye to composer Oscar Feltsman, who died three days earlier. According to Interfax , the ceremony took place at the House of Composers. The farewell ceremony for Feltsman was attended by Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and People's Artist of the USSR, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Joseph Kobzon. The composer's funeral will take place at the Novodevichy cemetery.