The Stockholm Arbitration Court accepted for consideration the claim of the Ukrainian Privatbank against Russia for lost assets in the Crimea. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the Novoye Vremya newspaper. “We are talking about an amount of about $ 1 billion. The subject of the claim is lost property, loans, assets,” the agency quotes the words of the head of the board of Privatbank, Dmitry Dubilet.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has temporarily suspended Russian cyclist Eduard Vorganov from competitions, whose doping test revealed the banned drug meldonium. The sample was taken from Vorganov on January 14, 2016. Meldonium has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned drug list since January 1. The Katyusha team, which includes Vorganov, suspended the cyclist from "any team activities" and announced the start of an internal investigation.

Since mid-2015, the Twitter microblogging service has blocked more than 125 thousand accounts that contained terrorist threats or terrorist propaganda. Most of the accounts were blocked due to information related to the Islamic State (the organization is recognized as terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation). The company has increased the number of employees working to verify complaints, which has allowed it to “significantly reduce response times,” the press release said.

Cologne police registered 22 reports of sexual crimes on the first day of the city's carnival. It is reported by Deutsche Welle with reference to the head of the city police Michael Temme. Of the 22 complaints, two were described by the police as "serious" - a rape allegation and an incident with a Belgian television journalist who was harassed during a live broadcast. Last year, nine complaints were registered after the first day of the carnival.

Photo: Kevin Barnett / Flickr (CC by-NC-ND 2.0) A tourist from New Jersey Noel Santillen became a local celebrity in Iceland thanks to an error in a request at the GPS navigator. He incorrectly wrote the name of one of the streets of Reykjavik and drove extra 430 kilometers-from the southwest to almost the north of the country. Santillen flew from New York to Keflavik International Airport, got into the rented car, scored the name of Reykjavik Street in the navigator, and hit the road.

Law enforcement agencies of Ukraine found fragments of weapons used to shoot at protesters on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv in early 2014. This was reported to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko by the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Hrytsak. In total, fragments of 23 rifled weapons were found, including 22 Kalashnikov assault rifles, and a 12-gauge hunting smooth-bore weapon, Hrytsak said.

The human rights center "Memorial" called the agreement between Russia and North Korea on the mutual extradition of illegal migrants criminal.

What Russian locals in Rostov think about Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko's trial Photo: Ilya Azar / Meduza At the central courthouse in the small city of Donetsk in Russia's Rostov region—not to be confused with the large city in the eastern Ukraine that shares the same name—the trial of the Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadezhda Savchenko is coming to an end.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reported that until recently, revenues from the sale of oil and gas reached 70 percent of the total revenues of the Russian budget. "Just recently, hydrocarbon revenues accounted for approximately 70 percent of the state budget revenues. That is, we were really on the hook for it. Then it became about 55 percent, now it's 45," Medvedev said at a meeting with candidates for the Supreme and General Councils of the United Russia party.

One person died and two were injured when a tower crane fell in downtown New York. Photographs from the scene show a block-high crane lying on a street in southern Manhattan. A fallen crane damaged several parked cars.

In Yekaterinburg, a criminal case has been opened against an excavator driver who, while cleaning the streets, poured a bucket of snow onto a 10-year-old girl. She was hospitalized in a critical condition, she is in a coma. The excavator is suspected of causing grievous bodily harm through negligence. The case was initiated by the police, but later it was transferred to the Investigative Committee.

The criminal prosecution of businessman Alexei Semin, who was accused under four articles of the criminal code in the case of a fire in the Admiral shopping center in Kazan, has been terminated, the Investigative Department of the RF Investigative Committee for Tatarstan reported.

Russian record holder for products costs: Report from the Sharai district of Chechnya Photo: Ilya Zhegulev / "Medusa" According to the official data of Rosstat, the Sharoysky district (Chechnya) is the most wealthy territory in Russia. If you believe the statistics, every resident of this mountainous, inaccessible area only spent more than 350 thousand rubles in 2014 - that is, 20 times more than in neighboring areas (there are no more fresh data yet).

Screengrab: 60sec / YouTube In the early morning hours of February 5, someone none too fond of Barack Obama projected onto a building in Moscow a short video depicting the US president as a demon, accusing him of mass murder. According to the news agency RSN , the video was projected onto a building next to the McDonald's on Pushkin Square. Not much later, it reappeared on another building at the Smolenskaya Embankment, near the British Embassy.

Galina Yuzefovich - about "Secrets of Soviet Cuisine" and other important books about food A weekly literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting and important books published in Russia. The current review is dedicated to the “secrets of Soviet cuisine” by Anna von Bremrezen and four more books about food as collective memory. Anna von Bremzen. Secrets of Soviet cuisine. M.: Corpus, 2016.