Centromobile Pioneer, owned by Alexander Mamut's A&NN Investments, has bought the Pioneer cinema building on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow. This is reported by the newspaper "Vedomosti". During the auction on January 31, in which other companies associated with Mamut also participated, the cost of the building increased from 72.5 to 123.1 million rubles. Previously, the building was in city ownership and was leased by Centromobile Pioneer. Cinema "Pioneer" was opened in 1953.

A 12-year-old girl has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of a school shooting. A 15-year-old boy and girl were injured as a result of the shooting. The young man, who was shot in the head, is in critical condition. Three other people received minor injuries during the incident. There is no information about the motives of the attacker. The media published footage in which the police, presumably, are suspected.

Nikita Belykh was sentenced to eight years of strict regime. Report "Medusa" Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On February 1, the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh was sentenced to eight years of strict regime and a fine of 48 million rubles. He was tried for three episodes of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, according to one episode he was justified. Behaly himself did not admit his guilt.

In Kizilyurt, a court arrested on suspicion of aiding terrorism Kazim Nurmagomedov, a resident of Dagestan who is known for trying to rescue his son Marat from the ranks of the terrorist Islamic State. Nurmagomedov was detained on January 31 in Moscow near the district military court, the case of his other son Shamil is being heard - also in the case of complicity in terrorism.

Video "Medusa" The former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh was sentenced to 8 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 48.2 million rubles per bribe. On February 1, such a sentence was issued by the Presnensky District Court of Moscow. White, in custody since June 2016, did not plead guilty. Medusa briefly tells what the former governor was put for.

A Moscow court has convicted former Kirov Governor Nikita Belykh of accepting hundreds of thousands of euros in bribes, sentencing him to eight years in prison and fining him 48.2 million rubles ($860,000). Federal Security Service agents detained Belykh in June 2016, when he was still the Kirov region’s sitting governor. He's been found guilty of taking €600,000 (almost $750,000) in bribes from a local businessman. Belykh denies the charges, saying his political adversaries framed him.

Former Governor of the Kirov Region Nikita Belykh has been sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony, a Meduza correspondent reports from the courtroom. On February 1, the verdict was delivered by the judge of the Presnensky District Court of Moscow, Tatyana Vasyuchenko. Belykh was found guilty under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe on an especially large scale).

Mikhail Voskresensky / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Alexander Treyakov, skeletonist gold medal winner at Sochi 2014 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne has concluded that only 11 of the 43 Russian athletes penalized for breaking anti-doping rules actually broke them. Twenty-eight athletes have been fully cleared, three are awaiting hearings, and bobsledder Maxim Belugin did not contest the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision.

Left activist Viktor Filinkov, who was arrested in St. Petersburg on suspicion of participating in a terrorist organization, filed a complaint with the Investigative Committee about torture and abuse by FSB officers. In an appeal published by Mediazona, Filinkov said that on the night of January 24, FSB officers took him out of town in a dark blue Volkswagen Transporter minivan and beat him and shocked him with a stun gun for three hours.

Promoter Alexander Cheparukhin published his interview with Boris Yeltsin (no one had seen him before) The Musical promoter and founder of Greenwave Music (who brought to Russia, in particular, Michael Naiman, Kraftwerk, Kronos Quartet) Alexander Cheparukhin posted a video of the interview of Boris Yeltsin - today, February 1, it would have turned 87 years old.

(Spoiler: This is a cunning plan of Mark Zuckerberg) Facebook on January 31 summed up the results of 2017. It was successful: the revenue grew by 49%, to 40 billion dollars, the number of daily users - by 14%, to 1.4 billion people. But at the same time, people began to spend less time on social networks - this indicator in the last quarter of 2017 decreased by five percent (50 million hours a day!). "Medusa" tells how this is due to the desire of Mark Zuckerberg to change the Facebook tape.

Three men have been arrested in Lithuania, suspected of passing information about Lithuanian military and strategic facilities to Russian special services. It is reported by Delfi with reference to the police and military intelligence. Two of the suspects were members of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, the third worked there in a civilian position. All three are citizens of Lithuania, one of them had a residence permit in another country (which one is not specified).

February 1. Nikita Belykh's sentence and the victory of athletes in court The case of Nikita Belykh Throughout the day, in the Presnensky court, Moscow announced the verdict to the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh. He was found guilty of receiving bribes on an especially large scale. By the time we sent the “evening jellyfish”, reading the sentence has not yet ended. The prosecutor's office asked to put a former governor for 10 years and finish 100 million rubles.

In St. Petersburg, the concert of the Ukrainian musician Zakhar May, which was supposed to be held at the Sokol club (Zoccolo 2.0) on February 14, was canceled. Also canceled was his concert in the Moscow club "Schwein", scheduled for February 9th. On February 25, the musician is due to perform at Gogol in Moscow.

Craig Bailey / Florida Today / USA Today Network / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta Launch of the Falcon 9 missile from Cape Canaveral, January 31, 2018 The SpaceX Space Company Ilona Mask launched another rocket with a satellite on January 31. There was nothing unusual in the start itself: as planned, the Falcon 9 missile brought into the orbit of the Luxembourg Communication satellite GOV-SAT 1.