Rambler.Kassa has temporarily canceled a 10% commission when buying online tickets to cinemas of the Cinema Park and Formula Kino chains, Vedomosti writes with reference to the Rambler & Co holding. A representative of the holding said that the cancellation of the commission is connected with plans to integrate Rambler.Kassy with the Unified Federal Automated Information System for information about film screenings in cinemas (UAIS).

The Northern Syria Observer, a group of Syrian journalists and human rights activists, published an interview with a militant who allegedly shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft. The man in the video claims his name is Mahmoud Hajj Ismail (call sign "Castro") and that he is a member of the Free Idlib Army . He claims to have shot down the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft, using a heavy machine gun rather than a man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) as was believed .

One person died, another was injured as a result of rock collapse at the Osinnikovskaya mine in the Kemerovo region, Interfax reports, citing the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region. At the time of the collapse, 125 people were in the face, eight of them worked at the emergency site. Among them there is one dead and one injured; the remaining six were evacuated. Rescue operation completed. The mine is operating normally.

An apartment building in the Russian city of Artyom caught fire on February 6 because of a short circuit allegedly caused by overheated machinery being used to mine cryptocurrency . Police say the flames spread quickly among the upper floors because of high winds. Seven trucks from the Vladivostok airport joined local firefighters to put out the blaze, which took almost four hours. Though the fire started at roughly 3 a.m., miraculously no one was killed.

Former Minister of Defense of Ukraine said that the country voluntarily "surrendered" of Russia Vladimir Gontar / UNIAN Former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Igor Tenyukh In Ukraine, the trial of former President Viktor Yanukovych continues: he is accused of Gosizmen. On February 7, in the Obolonsky court of Kyiv, the 33rd meeting in the Yanukovych case, which fled from Ukraine in 2014 (now lives in Russia), was held in the Obolonsky Court of Kiev. The process lasts since May 2017.

Update . Petr Levashov was transferred from the detention center to the general holding area of ​​the Bridgeport prison after a complaint from Russian diplomats, . the Russian Consulate General in New York tweeted The Russian embassy in Washington demanded that the State Department and the US Department of Justice improve the conditions in prison of the Russian programmer Pyotr Levashov accused of hacker attacks, in particular, give him the necessary medicines.

Representatives of the Interior Ministry and National Guard deny reports that police and National Guardsmen from outside Dagestan have replaced the local personnel stationed at checkpoints throughout the republic.

Update : The administration of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug confirmed to RIA Novosti that Anvar Masalimov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, was released. 63-year-old Anvar Masalimov, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, left the Polar Owl colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and is presumably in Moscow, Moskovsky Komsomolets reports, citing Larisa Novolodskaya, a representative of the Vologda Regional Court.

Galina Yuzefovich reviews books by Natalia Meshchaninova, Andrey Filimonov, and Narine Abgaryan Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich gives her take on three new books of Russian prose: Stories by Natalia Meshchaninova, Andrey Filimonov’s Recipes for the Creation of the World: From Paris to Siberia Through the Whole Twentieth Century , and Living On by Narine Abgaryan. Natalia Meshchaninova, Stories . St. Petersburg: Séance, 2017.

Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard denied information about the replacement of personnel at traffic police posts in Dagestan. Magomed Baachilov, the head of the republican department of the Russian Guard , said that since 2010 in Dagestan, due to the terrorist threat, employees seconded from other regions have been at traffic police posts.

More than 4.5 thousand orphans in the Republic of Tuva cannot receive the apartments they are entitled to from the state by law ; the republican budget has not had enough money for this since 2008, plus the authorities have had problems with contractors who have missed deadlines. According to information in the group "Orphans of Tuva. The Right to Housing" on VKontakte, the last apartment for orphans on the waiting list was allocated here in 2015.

February 7. Total searches in Dagestan Main In Dagestan, a large -scale operation to verify local authorities continues , within the framework of which the former heads of the government of the republic were arrested yesterday. According to unofficial data, searches were held in the republican ministries today, and officials were banned from traveling abroad. At the posts of traffic police, local police officers were replaced by employees from other regions.

Passengers aboard a plane at a Krasnoyarsk airport had to sit idle for two hours in the freezing cold with the cabin doors open on February 7. The aircraft was supposed to take off for Moscow at 8:15 a.m., local time, but the pilot suddenly announced that “because of the arrival of state officials,” the airport would be closed — even for airport staff.

Yandex and Uber have announced the closing of a deal to merge their taxi calling services. The united company was headed by the head of Yandex.Taxi Tigran Khudaverdyan. The board of directors includes four representatives of Yandex (including one of the founders Arkady Volozh) and three representatives of Uber. At the close of the deal, Uber and Yandex had invested $225 million and $100 million in the new company, respectively. <…> [The company] is valued at more than $3.8 billion.

French law enforcement agencies have allowed Federation Council member Suleiman Kerimov to visit Russia for the second time, Nice prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre told Reuters. Kerimov explained the need for a second trip to Russia for "personal and family reasons," told Pretr RBC. According to the prosecutor, the trip will last several days (the exact duration and dates are unknown). Kerimov will return to Nice before the end of the week, Praet said.