The comedy "Kholop" broke the record for distribution in Russia and the CIS, becoming the highest-grossing Russian-made film in history. According to Kinobiznes Today, Kholop's fees by the evening of February 3 amounted to 3 billion 44.2 million rubles. The previous record belonged to the film "Movement Up", which grossed 3 billion 43.7 million rubles at the box office. In Russia, Kholop earned 2941.1 million rubles.

The Russian Investment Forum, which was supposed to be held in Sochi on February 12-14, was postponed due to the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. The corresponding order of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is published on the government website. The new dates for the forum are still unclear. The forum was canceled by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, who heads the operational headquarters for preventing the spread of the virus.

A gunman opened fire on the Texas A&M University campus in Commerce, CNN reports. As a result of the incident, two people died, another was hospitalized. All classes were canceled at the university, after receiving information about the shooting, the police ordered students and teachers not to leave the premises where they were. This requirement was canceled two hours later. The police do not specify who the shooter was and whether he was detained.

TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak will host the evening talk show "Doc-talk" on Channel One. It is reported by RBC with reference to the press release of the TV company. Together with Sobchak, Alexander Gordon will lead the program. It will be dedicated to stories that are in the center of public attention. According to Sobchak, quoted by the channel's press service, Doc-Tok is a completely new format.

The parents of the defendants in the Network case wrote an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to pay attention to the case. The authors of the letter spoke about the falsification of evidence in the case and noted that the accusation in it was “virtually unfounded”, and during the process, evidence of physical and psychological pressure, even from prosecution witnesses, was ignored.

In the state of Iowa , Democrats begins - the first stage of preliminary elections in the United States. The primaries will last until June, according to their results, the Democratic Party will choose a politician who will try to prevent Donald Trump to re -elect into the presidency in November 2020. In total, 11 people are actively involved in preliminary elections, but only six can actually apply for nomination.

In London, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's press briefing on the country's future relations with the EU was disrupted by the fact that aides to the prime minister refused to let several journalists in. Among the journalists who were not allowed to attend the briefing were correspondents from the Mirror, HuffPost, Independent and other publications. Correspondents who were allowed to come to the meeting left the event in protest.

The cost of a barrel of Brent with deliveries in April on the London ICE exchange on the afternoon of February 3 fell by 3.4% to $54.7, which was the lowest price in 13 months. It is reported by Interfax. According to Bloomberg, the fall in oil prices comes against the backdrop of a 20% - by three million barrels per day - a reduction in demand in China, caused by concerns about the coronavirus.

The authorities of St. Petersburg did not receive a notification about the dismantling of the sports and concert complex (SCC) "Peterburgsky", in which a worker died , who was involved in this, they do not know in Smolny. This was announced to journalists by the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Maxim Sokolov, Interfax reports. “We have not received any official statements.

On February 3, Vogue released its March issue in the U.S. with four different covers, all portraits of megastar singer Billie Eilish. One of those covers, the lead image for the magazine’s digital edition, was drawn by a 16-year-old from a Russian town with a population under 83,000. Nastya Kovtun is from Chaykovsky, a city in Russia’s Perm region. Vogue contacted her and 20-year-old Kaylee Yang from Michigan simultaneously to commission a portrait of Billie Eilish from each artist.

The Belogorsk District Court of Crimea has arrested the owner of the Taigan safari park, Oleg Zubkov, for two months for failing to appear in court, RIA Novosti reports. “Right in the courtroom, Oleg Alekseevich was given a measure of restraint and arrested. They took me to jail for two months. The decision was made due to the fact that he did not appear in court on January 20.

Some watch Super Bowl for the game of their favorite teams. Others are for the sake of inventive (and very expensive!) Commercials . The third - for the sake of trailers of expected films and series. But specifically, Super Bowl-2020 definitely had to look for the sake of the performance of Shakira and Jennifer Lopez during the break. Namely, for the sake of this very moment: during the dance, Shakira turned directly into the camera, stuck out her tongue and began to quickly move them.

Motorola / AP / Scanpix / Leta Motorola Razr of a new generation is similar to a cult lining of the beginning of zero Manufacturers of smartphones are trying to return to the shelves the format of telephone phones, popular in the early 2000s. Motorola decided to revive the RAZR cult model, and Samsung, according to rumors, is about to present its option-photos and videos have already leaked to social networks. Unlike the old clashes, the new ones are full -fledged smartphones on Android.

Funds that the Moscow Metro won from the opposition for the July 27 protest were written off from the accounts of the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov, municipal deputy Ilya Yashin and the head of Alexei Navalny's Moscow headquarters Oleg Stepanov at the request of bailiffs. In October, the court ordered a total of 54,700 rubles to be collected from the seven defendants .

The Prosecutor General's Office asked the Court of Cassation to reduce the term of the person involved in the "Moscow case" Konstantin Kotov, who was convicted under an article on repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies. This was reported by Kotov's lawyer Maria Eismont. The supervisory authority asks to reduce Kotov's term to one year in prison. The court of first instance sentenced the activist to four years in prison.