Police in Northern Ireland have arrested a 52-year-old man charged with the murder of 29-year-old journalist and writer Lyra McKee in April 2019. The police website said the man was also charged with illegal possession of a weapon and membership of a banned organisation. He will appear in court on February 13. Journalist Lyra McKee was killed on April 18, 2019, during riots in the city of Londonderry in Northern Ireland. The New IRA claimed responsibility for the murder.

The number of active users of the WhatsApp messenger has exceeded two billion people, according to the company's blog. WhatsApp's monthly audience has grown by 500 million over the past two years. At the beginning of 2018, the management of the messenger reported that 1.5 billion people used the service every month. In January, Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) reported that 2.89 billion people use all of the company's apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, every month.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has proposed that video surveillance systems in places of mass gatherings of citizens interact with the "Safe City" system. In particular, this concerns the transmission of video in real time, according to a draft government resolution prepared by the ministry. The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed doing this in order to receive operational information about crimes, according to the explanatory note to the document.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened an official investigation following the appearance of a video in which high-ranking law-enforcement officials celebrated their colleague’s promotion using chants associated with organized crime. The video was posted by a news outlet called Novy Den (New Day) and was initially recorded in a restaurant in Tyumen.

The Moscow prosecutor's office has handed the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov an indictment for malicious failure to comply with a court decision requiring the removal of the film "He's Not Dimon to You." "I am now officially a defendant," Zhdanov said on Twitter. He noted that the case would soon be heard by Moscow's Tverskoy District Court. The bailiff service opened a criminal case against Zhdanov in August 2019.

Facebook has removed a network of 78 accounts, 29 communities and 11 public pages allegedly linked to Russian intelligence and created to interfere in the affairs of other countries, primarily Ukraine. This was reported on the Facebook blog. The network of accounts, according to the social network, was coordinated from Russia, the group administrators tried to hide that they were connected.

Chinese citizen Wan Yunbin has been released from the infectious disease hospital in Russia’s Zabaikalsky region where he was being treated for the new coronavirus Covid-19, RIA-Novosti reported. He was checked in to the hospital on January 26 and experienced a mild form of the disease. On February 11, a Chinese student was released from the hospital in Tyumen where she was being treated for the virus. Her case and Wan’s were the only two coronavirus diagnoses recorded on Russian territory.

On February 11, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty LLC in the register of media outlets that are “foreign agents.” According to SPARK-Interfax, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty LLC was registered in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on January 24, 2020. The company's main activity is the provision of consulting and information services.

The administration of the Habr website did not install equipment to transmit information to the Russian FSB. This is stated in a post by the head of the Habr user service department, Alexey Shevelev. Shevelev said that the site does not automatically exchange data according to the SORM principle.

This is a film in which Wes Anderson admits to journalism love In the new film of Wes Anderson, the French dispatcher will talk about the editorial office of an American magazine located in the fictional French city of Enui-Sur-Blass. In fact, the whole film is a film adaptation of the best stories that were talked about in the magazine. Below you can see the first trailer.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, has become one of the candidates for the post of head of the media holding Gazprom-Media , Vedomosti and RBC report, citing sources. Zharov himself denies that he could head Gazprom-Media. "I don't know anything about it. I work as the head of Roskomnadzor," he told Interfax. According to business publications, the new head of Roskomnadzor may be Andrei Lipov, an employee of the presidential administration.

In the CIA, this was called the success of the century Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Crypto headquarters in the Swiss city of Steinhausen. 11 February 2020 Intelligence of the United States and Germany for decades intercepted the encrypted messages of the governments of more than 120 countries. This was made possible thanks to the purchase of the Swiss company Crypto, which was a leader in the global market for encryption equipment in the second half of the 20th century.

SAM Rowley / Wildlife PhotoGrapher of the Year winner of the audience vote for the best photo of wildlife, which is held by the London Museum of Natural Sciences, was the British photographer Sam Rowli, who shot two mice for the abandoned food in the London metro. According to the photographer himself, he took various pictures of mice at metro stations within five days. Rowley said that the conflict between the mice lasted less than a second, after which the winner ran away with prey.

The Moscow prosecutor's office has handed the director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov an indictment for malicious failure to comply with a court decision requiring the removal of the film "He's Not Dimon to You." "I am now officially a defendant," Zhdanov said on Twitter. He noted that the case would soon be heard by Moscow's Tverskoy District Court. The bailiff service opened a criminal case against Zhdanov in August 2019.

Deputies of the State Duma and members of the Federation Council proposed making former presidents senators for life (if they agree). They want to make an addition to the law “On Amendments to the Constitution of Russia” proposed by Vladimir Putin - to increase the number of representatives of the Russian Federation in the Federation Council to 30 people, seven of whom can become lifelong senators. We don't know.