Wuhan Virology Institute In the past few weeks, the coronavirus infection has become the main theme of the world media, and many rumors have appeared around it. They say , for example, that she could become the result of a leakage of the “combat virus”, which the China government created in Juni - it is not without reason that there is a virological institute.

Shanghai authorities have issued a decree requiring city residents to wear masks in all public places, Xinhua reports. In particular, it will be possible to appear only in masks at airports, in the subway, at public transport stations, as well as in schools, hospitals, shopping centers and supermarkets. At the entrance to some of them, the citizens will also have to measure the temperature without fail.

Streaming service Netflix for the first time published information about which films and shows it removed in various countries around the world at the request of local authorities. Over the past five years, the platform has removed a total of nine products. Five of these cases were in Singapore - the claims of the authorities mainly concerned either scenes of drug use or controversial content from the point of view of religion.

US President Donald Trump has fired several members of his administration who testified against him at congressional hearings during his impeachment trial. On Friday, February 7, Alexander Vindman, an employee of the National Security Council, was removed from his post, as well as the US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sandland. In addition, Vindman's brother, Eugene, was fired from the White House bar.

In the city of Nakhon Ratchasima in central Thailand, Army Corporal Jakrapanth Thomma opened fire at a shopping center, after which he took several people hostage. First, the serviceman shot the commander of his unit and two other people - an officer and a 63-year-old woman. After that, in a car stolen from the unit, he drove to the city center, where he opened fire on random passers-by.

A Thai army soldier opened fire on passers-by near a shopping center in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima in the central part of the country. As a result of his actions, at least 12 people died. Before opening fire in the city, the serviceman killed the commander and two other people in his unit. During the shooting, the attacker was broadcasting his actions on Facebook for about 20 minutes; after that, his page was blocked. Reinforced police and military units arrived at the scene.

In St. Petersburg, an underground casino was found in an apartment owned by the head of the Vvedensky municipality, a member of United Russia, Oleg Kalyadin. This was reported by Interfax, citing a source. Searches in the apartment took place on the night of February 8 as part of the case of a network of underground casinos under investigation since 2019. A roulette wheel, four poker tables and 12 slot machines were seized from the apartment.

Rex / Vida Press RBC published a letter from the UFG managing partner Polina Gerasimenko about the income of Mikhail Mishustin-it was in this company that the current Prime Minister worked in 2008-2009. Thus, a public dialogue continued between the top official and its opponents, which is atypical for modern Russia.

The head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Murashko, called a fake story that in a hospital in Kirov, a nurse allegedly killed veterans by disconnecting them from a ventilator. According to him, information about the murders was not confirmed during the check.

The authorities of Prague intend to rename the Square Under the Chestnuts, located near the Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic, into Boris Nemtsov Square. Aktualne writes about it. According to the publication, the corresponding renaming has already been approved by the toponymic commission.

In the south of Kazakhstan, in the evening of February 7, mass riots occurred . According to the official statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the village of Masanchi of the Zhambyl region, a fight began with the participation of more than 70 people, later, when information about it spread in social networks, even more than 300 people from neighboring auls joined it. Stones, reinforcement and firearms were used in the fight - as a result, eight people were killed, 40 were injured.

Updated . The founder of Habrakhabr, Denis Kryuchkov , explained that the transfer of the company to Cyprus is connected with his desire to position the project as a global one, and not as a local Russian one. He emphasized that this change will make it easier to work with clients who are not residents of the Russian Federation - according to him, recently there have been more and more of them.

Russia and Belarus reached an agreement on the price of gas supplied from the Russian Federation. Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, stated this following the results of negotiations on February 7. According to Kozak, the gas price for Minsk will remain at the 2019 level. This agreement will be in effect throughout 2020. At the same time, Kozak stressed that Moscow does not intend to provide a discount on oil, which Belarus had previously asked for.

Jules Binosh - about the film "Pravda", competition on the set and the search for freedom Alberto Pizzoli / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Pravda-the drama about the famous French actress and her daughter-scenarist (the roles played by Katrin Denev and Jules Binosh), shot by the Japanese director Hirokazu Koraeda, was released. The film critic of Medusa Anton Dolin discussed with Binosh her work in this picture, rivalry with other actresses on the set and attitude to prestigious awards.

In Wuhan, a US citizen died from a new coronavirus infection. According to the South China Morning Post, this is the first death in China of a foreign citizen since the beginning of the epidemic. According to The New York Times, citing sources, the deceased is a woman, she was about 60 years old. In total, 86 people have died from the disease in China over the past 24 hours, 81 of them in Hubei province. The total death toll since the beginning of the epidemic has reached 724 people.