The preeminent contemporary Russian poet Maria Stepanova won the 2019 “NOS” prize in a February 4 ceremony for her latest novel , whose title has been translated as In Memory of Memory or Post-Memory . Stepanova also received the “Big Book” prize, one of the two most-discussed mainstream literary prizes in Russia, in December 2018.

Banksy's painting "Girl with a Balloon" was exhibited at the Frieder Burda Museum of Modern Art in the German city of Baden-Baden. Before the painting was put on display, museum staff dismantled its frame and deactivated its built-in shredder to ensure it would not completely destroy the painting. Museum visitors can see the painting for free: gallery representatives stressed that Banksy, as a street artist, would hardly support the idea of ​​charging money to view his work.

The Investigative Committee is investigating a criminal case against the former head of the Otkritie bank, Yevgeny Dankevich, said Igor Krasnov, deputy head of the department. According to the IC, in the summer of 2017, Dankevich embezzled 34 billion rubles by speculating with bonds. The former manager has been put on the wanted list. Dankevich served as chairman of the board of the bank until September 2017, when the Central Bank began reorganizing Otkritie.

Former Manchester United head coach Jose Mourinho attended the Kontinental Hockey League match between Avangard and SKA in Balashikha near Moscow. Before the start of the meeting, Mourinho made a symbolic throw-in. Leaving the site, the coach slipped on the carpet and fell. Hockey players helped him up; The coach did not receive serious injuries.

Aeroflot's net profit in 2018 amounted to 2.8 billion rubles, the company said in a statement. This is ten times less than a year earlier - in 2017, net profit amounted to 28.4 billion rubles. The main reasons for the decline in profits in the company called a sharp rise in fuel prices, as well as a general increase in competition among carriers. In 2018, the average fuel price for Aeroflot increased by 38%, which is the highest figure among the five largest Russian air carriers.

Swedish furniture company IKEA will start renting out furniture. The first country where this will happen will be Switzerland, where this feature will be available as early as February 2019. The service is being introduced as part of IKEA's green business program. At the initial stage, only office furniture will be rented out. In the future, IKEA plans to extend this practice to kitchen furniture. In 2018, IKEA's profit fell by more than a third.

On the night of February 4 , the 2019 Super Bowl took place in Atlanta. During the game, Marvel showed a 30-second commercial for the film Avengers: Endgame. Like the first teaser, the video raises many questions - and here are the main ones. How much time has passed since the events of Infinity War? At the end of the previous film, Thanos turns half the universe to ash.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Murder of money. How to open a cafe on Sicily and do not earn anything Ilya Dewaret and Sasha Polivanov are discussing with the editor and screenwriter Katya Afonina, as she left for Italy, opened the bar in Sicily, did not work anything (for now!), But every day she looked at the sea. Here are a few truly harmful tips: Sell ​​an apartment and instead buy a small house and an abandoned building with a beautiful sea view.

On February 1, plainclothes and uniformed officers searched the homes of a group of Moscow residents suspected of anarchist activity. The officers arrested 11 people, 10 of whom were then released. Three of those arrested said they had been tortured in custody, OVD Info reported. Azat Miftakhov, a graduate student in mechanics and mathematics at Moscow State University, was not released.

The court in Balashikha extended the detention of Moscow State University graduate student Azat Miftakhov, suspected of making explosives, by 72 hours. The investigation asked to place Miftakhov under arrest.

Sixty years after the death of the Dyatlov group in the Urals, it became known that a new large-scale investigation into the case was being conducted. On February 4, the prosecutor's office presented the first findings at a special press conference. 75 versions appeared because the case materials are on the Internet, and they are misinterpreted by ordinary people. None of the conspiracy theories about the involvement of government agencies were confirmed.

The administrative offices of the Russian military have consistently refused to recognize Russian citizens who fought in Syria as war veterans who may receive military pensions from the Russian government, Kommersant has found. Soldiers who were killed in action in Syria are also being denied official military status. Kommersant ’s report on the issue highlighted the case of Andrei Pylenok, who was killed in a plane crash on a Syrian base in March 2018.

Ural Airlines has changed its food standards for passengers. This was reported by the publication Yekaterinburg Online, citing a corresponding order from the airline's management dated February 1. According to the document, economy class passengers on short flights (up to two hours) and some flights from Zhukovsky Airport have stopped being fed; on flights over two hours, the hot food ration has been reduced or replaced with cold food.

Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Senator Rauf Arashukov being arraigned in court in Moscow on January 30, 2019 In an article for Carnegie Moscow Center, political expert Tatyana Stanovaya says Vladimir Putin has left Russia’s elites to fend for themselves as he wanders off to worry almost exclusively about geopolitics.

In the emergency hospital No. 2 of Rostov-on-Don, an internal investigation began after one of the patients applied to the Minister of Health of the Rostov Region, Tatyana Bykovskaya. A hospital patient has recorded a video where he and his roommates are being charged for watching TV. For two days the patient gave 100 rubles. “We have read this message, we are conducting an internal investigation. We do not sell TV.