The business news source Vedomosti is reporting that Google has struck a deal with Russian censors to continue operating in the country by deleting websites that are banned in Russia from its results. The government censorship agency Roskomnadzor maintains a registry of sites that may not be distributed on Russian territory, but Google is one of a few search engines that does not subscribe to that registry.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been sentenced to 12 years and 11 months in prison on charges of corruption and money laundering. As the court found, Lula da Silva received a house and land in Sao Paulo in exchange for certain privileges for commercial organizations. According to the documents, the owners of the house were people from the politician's entourage. Lula Da Silva was President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011.

Russian doctors and families are fighting to access the medicine sick children need to survive Oliver Bunic / Bloomberg / Getty Images A little girl from Russia’s Penza Oblast received a rare diagnosis: a genetic disorder that causes increasingly severe epilepsy, limiting the girl’s life expectancy to her teenage years. An effective treatment for her condition exists, but only outside Russia: within the country, the medication she needs is not officially registered.

Update: “There is a constructive dialogue and cooperation between Roskomnadzor and Google. At the moment, we are satisfied with the results of this cooperation,” told Interfax Roskomnadzor spokesman Vadim Ampelonsky on Thursday. He did not elaborate on the details of the cooperation. The Google search engine regularly removes links to sites prohibited in Russia from the issuance, despite the refusal to connect to the register of prohibited information.

US President Donald Trump has nominated Deputy Treasury Secretary David Malpas to head the World Bank. Malpass's nomination is subject to approval at a meeting of the World Bank's Board of Governors. The president of the World Bank is traditionally a US citizen, while the president of the International Monetary Fund is a representative of one of the European countries.

Six years in prison for a Jehovah's Witnesses elder, felony charges for two former United Russia lawmakers, and Navalny uncovers another lavish apartment Wednesday, February 6, 2019 This day in history (19 years ago): On February 6, 2000, federal troops raised the Russian flag above Grozny's city center, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.

Russian city councilman faces felony charges for celebrating scene from police drama “Game: Revenge” Episode 16 / NTV / YouTube A man shows his friend a YouTube clip from a Russian police drama where the hero guns down a corrupt cop. Take that, buster! Long live the USSR! A few months later, the man — a troublesome local city council member — is charged with the felony of “justifying terrorism.” He says he’s being set up, however.

The Magistrate's Court fined the radio station "Ekho Moskvy in Pskov" 150 thousand rubles under the administrative article on abuse of freedom of information. As the editor-in-chief of the radio station, Maxim Kostikov, explained, the punishment is connected with the release of the author's program of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, against whom a case has been opened under the article on justification of terrorism.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow sentenced Ukrainian citizen Yuri Lysenko to 13 years in a strict regime colony for embezzling more than a billion rubles from commercial banks. As the court found, a group of hackers led by Lysenko in 2014, using a special program, stole funds from the accounts of bank customers, and then restored the balance at the expense of credit institutions' own funds.

AN147YUS / Shutterstock.com Attention! Do not try to check the VKontakte moderation system, publishing extremist materials on your page. For this, administrative and criminal liability is provided. The VKontakte social network is able to automatically delete images entered in the federal list of extremist materials (it draws up a Ministry of Justice based on decisions of Russian courts). Pictures disappear from posts on user pages and in groups a few seconds after publication.

French football club Nantes has demanded that British club Cardiff start paying for the transfer of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala, who disappeared during a flight across the English Channel shortly after signing a contract. Cardiff froze payments after the footballer's disappearance until the circumstances of the incident are clarified. As BBC Wales reports, Nantes is threatening to sue if the first tranche is not received within 10 days.

In January, the developers from Lithuania released the GetPet application for Android, with which you can get acquainted with dogs from shelters. As in Tinder, animals have their own profiles with photographs and descriptions. All descriptions are from the first person. They indicate gender, age and other details (for example, whether castration or sterilization was carried out).

Alexey Navalny / YouTube The downtown Moscow building where Chemezov’s apartment is reportedly housed. Research conducted by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) found that Sergey Chemezov, who leads Russia’s state-owned technology conglomerate Rostech, owns an apartment worth five billion rubles (just under $76 million). Alexey Navalny, the leading opposition politician who founded the FBK, revealed the results of the organization’s report on February 6.

Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On the night of February 4, a residential building caught fire in the center of Moscow - actors and musicians live in a building on Nikitsky Boulevard in 1914, but there are communal apartments there. As a result of the fire, nine people died, including two families living in one of these communal services. As Medusa found out, the residents since 2012 complained about the poor condition of the house, including the wiring.

Bilanol / Shutterstock To find work outside Russia and climb the career ladder to a leading position, you should start with education abroad. The diploma of the European or American University will noticeably affect the interest of a foreign employer. Medusa, together with the IQ Consultance agency, talked with the representative of the Swiss universities Glion and Les Roches Julia Tokareva to find out where to start and how to build a foreign career in the hospitality industry.