In the center of Moscow, the owner of the apartment, where the bailiffs came to describe the property, shot the representative of the claimant. Yulia Ivanova, a representative of the RF IC, informed the Moscow agency about this. As a result of the shooting, another person was injured, TASS reports citing a law enforcement source. Arriving on a call, the police detained the armed suspect on the street, TASS reports.

Thanks to the country's economic crisis, Russians are now having sex less often, according to Dr. Nikolai Kirbrik, the director of the Sexopathology Department at Helmholtzeye Institute. “People have started worrying more about their financial situations, focusing on activities more vitally important to their lives than things like their sexual health,” Kirbrik told the radio station RSN .

When checking the personal mail of former heads of the US State Department, 12 letters with classified information were found. This was announced on February 4 by Congressman Elijah Cummings, Associated Press reports. Two letters arrived in the mail of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and ten letters were addressed to subordinates of Condoleezza Rice, who took over after Powell. The letters were sent between February 2003 and June 2008, when Republican George W.

The Russian government is considering the issue of introducing excise taxes on harmful products, in particular palm oil and carbonated drinks. Vedomosti reported this with reference to government sources. According to one of the publication’s interlocutors, chips and electronic cigarettes may also be included in the list of excisable goods.

The Beninese military did not find the Russians on the tanker "Leon Diaz", seized last week in the territorial waters of Nigeria. This was reported to TASS by a representative of the Russian Embassy in Benin, citing Benin Navy Colonel Gozalo Joseph. The embassy reported that the militants left the ship along with five hostages and headed towards Nigeria. Whether there are Russian citizens among the hostages, the diplomats do not know.

Facebook checked the theory of six handshakes Photo: Jezper / Alamy / Vida Press The theory of six handshakes says that all people on earth are familiar with each other in a maximum of five people. It was repeatedly checked by scientists - both primitive methods (sending letters) and using a computer. The results came out different - sometimes four handshakes were enough, sometimes five, and sometimes six.

Screencap: Twitter A schoolgirl in Khabarovsk passed off lyrics by the Russian rapper Oxxxymiron for a poem by Osip Mandelstam, who was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets and died in the Soviet Gulag in 1938 at age 47.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reduced the term of imprisonment from 14 to 6 years for former GRU officer Gennady Kravtsov, previously convicted of treason. According to RAPSI, Kravtsov's defense asked the court to cancel the verdict of the Moscow City Court and issue a verdict of not guilty. “We will continue to work on the case, as we insist on his full acquittal,” lawyer Ivan Pavlov commented on the court’s decision.

In Spain, a pregnant woman has been infected with the Zika virus, the first such case in Europe. According to Spanish authorities, the sick woman recently returned from Colombia. Presumably, she contracted it there - in recent months, there has been an outbreak in Latin America. The patient is a resident of Catalonia at 13-14 weeks of pregnancy. Her name is not called. In total, seven cases of Zika virus infection are known in Spain. The Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes.

Governor of the Tver region Andrei Shevelev will leave his post in the near future. RBC writes about this with reference to people close to the Kremlin and a source in the State Duma. According to the publication, the decision on Shevelev’s resignation will be made within a month, that is, before the elections, before which the region needs a stronger leader.

Interview by the director of the film "Yang Karsky" - about the man who told the world about the Holocaust Photo: Dmitry Korobeinikov / East News In Russian cinemas on February 4, the documentary “Yan Karsky. The righteous of the world ”of Slavomir Grunberg, laureate of the Emmy Prize.

The recession in the Russian economy is over, said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev. According to the minister, we can talk about a recession after two consecutive quarters of economic decline, which is not currently observed in Russia. Ulyukayev did not specify exactly when the economy emerged from recession. According to Interfax, the minister meant that growth was recorded in the third quarter of 2015.

Frame: NBC / YouTube The NBC TV channel published the first promotional program in which the acting of the series “Friends” will be reunited. In the video, presenter Andy Cohen is asked by Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrou, Courtney Cox, Matt Leblan and David Schwimmer the question of whether the actors of the series “Friends” had a clause in the contract, which forbade them to have sex with each other. There is no answer in the video!

Meanwhile in Russia, on Thursday, February 4, 2016 Russian Ambassador to Latvia Alexander Veshnyakov Photo: Ieva Čīka / LETA Another Russian soldier perished in definitely-not-combat in Syria this week. Russia's 2015 “banker of the year” has been nominated for a top spot in the state's gas monopoly.

Aram Gabrelyanov will be removed from the leadership of the Izvestia newspaper. RBC reports this with reference to people close to the Kremlin and a source in the National Media Group (the holding company that owns Izvestia). According to RBC sources, NMG is currently selecting a new newspaper publisher to replace Aram Gabrelyanov (Gabrelyanov heads the board of directors of the publisher OJSC Gazeta Izvestia).