In the village of Selyatino, Moscow Region, a father of five shot his wife dead when his son, born in 2009, was in the house, the Moskva news agency reports, citing the Investigative Committee. According to Mash, the man killed his ex-wife. This happened in the hostel where they continued to live after the divorce. He shot her with a sawed-off hunting rifle, after which he committed suicide. One of the five children was at home, he ran away to the neighbors and was not injured.

One of China's largest pharmaceutical companies, Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical, said it had received government approval to begin selling the antiviral drug Favipiravir, a potential cure for the Covid-19 coronavirus. According to Reuters, after the drug goes on sale, the company will have to continue clinical trials of the drug. Favipiravir has been tested in clinical trials involving 70 people and has "relatively obvious efficacy," China's Ministry of Science and Technology said .

Erik Lucero / Google Sycamore architecture, on which quantum superiority At the end of 2019, physicists working in Google announced on the pages of Nature magazine that they were the first in the world to achieve quantum superiority - that is, to solve a task on a quantum computer that cannot be solved even on the most powerful modern computers of traditional architecture.

A group of Russian psychologists has issued an appeal in support of the defendants in the "Network" case , seven of whom were sentenced to imprisonment for a term of six to 18 years on February 10. Activist Valery Tenevoy confirmed the authenticity of the letter to MBKh Media. The authors of the appeal said they were outraged by the sentence.

Vladimir Zelensky first performed at the Munich Security Conference Sven Hoppe / DPA / AP / Scanpix / Leta On February 15, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke at the Munich Security Conference - the largest forum on foreign policy and international security. The debut performance of the President of Ukraine took place in a small room of the Bayerischer Hof hotel.

One of the founders of the banking service Revolut, 35-year-old Nikolai Storonsky became a dollar billionaire after the financial startup held another round of attracting investments. It is reported by Forbes magazine. After attracting investments, the value of the company reached six billion dollars, according to The Telegraph. According to Forbes, Storonsky owns about 30% of Revolut. Based on this, the publication concludes that the businessman's fortune has grown to $1.65 billion.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. "They drank moonshine with pirates." The history of sailors who spent several months captive from the Somalians In September 2008, the Somali pirates captured the Faina cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden. An old military equipment was carried on the ship. The team, in which there were three Russians, 17 Ukrainians and one citizen of Latvia, held in captivity for more than four months. The crew was released in February 2009, after a ransom was paid.

Performance artist Petr Pavlensky has been detained in France in connection with a case involving the publication of an intimate video recording, BFM TV reports. The artist's 29-year-old girlfriend has also been detained in connection with a case involving interference with privacy and the distribution of sexual materials without a person's consent. The case is being investigated due to a statement by former Paris mayoral candidate Benjamin Griveaux.

Why is the protagonist of the New Dad Voillo? Remember the whole season (spoilers!) HBO / "Amediathek" The New Dad ended - the second season of the series Paolo Sorrentino about the life of the Vatican. Pius XIII, conservative Lenny Belardo, fell into coma, John Branox, a former punk, doubting himself and the world around him, replaced him. Sorrentino churches managed to maintain balance in large part due to the efforts of the priest Angelo Voillo, the permanent Secretary of State Vatican.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has proposed to regulate malicious content distributed on the Internet, reports Reuters. “I think there should be regulation of malicious content … There is a question of what framework you use for this,” Zuckerberg said, speaking on February 15 at the Munich Security Conference. In his opinion, social networks should be regulated by a certain system between the media and telecommunications companies.

One of the founders of the electronic project Triplex, DJ and composer Andrei Ivanov died in Australia. He was 47 years old. Ivanov drowned, crashing about a cliff near the beach in Sydney, the journalist and producer Mikhail Kozyrev said on Facebook. According to him, rescuers were able to pull out the wife of Ivanov out of the water. Andrei Ivanov died. He drowned in Australia today. The ocean took the ocean near Bond Beach in Sydney. I crashed about a cliff ...

Dmitry Nerin / Photobank Lori On the morning of February 16, the criminal with a knife attacked the ministers of the Church of St. Nicholas in Pokrovsky in Moscow. The man entered the church building on Bakuninskaya Street, when a Sunday service was going on there. The rector of the temple Archpriest Kirill Scholkov told Ren to the Ren television channel that a man was made in glasses, rubber gloves, a hood and headphones who listened to music at the time of the attack.

Interview directed by Alla Kovgan - she shot a film about the avant -garde dancer Merce Cunningham for seven years in 3D Thomas Nedermueller / ZFF / Getty Images The cinema is a documentary 3D film “Cunningham” -about the life and work of the famous American choreographer Merce Cunningham, who largely determined the appearance of modern dance. The author of the picture is Alla Kovgan linguist from Moscow. In the late 1990s, she left for the United States and became an independent director there.

At least two people were injured during an attack on parishioners in the church of St. Nicholas in Moscow. This was reported by Interfax, citing a source. On the morning of February 16, a man with a knife broke into the temple on Bakuninskaya Street. Near the altar, he wounded two men, a source told the agency. The rector of the temple, Archpriest Kirill Sladkov , told the REN television channel that a man wearing glasses, rubber gloves, a hood and headphones ran up to the altar.

The daughter of former US Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, 27-year-old Sophia, was detained in Maryland on murder charges. The Montgomery County Police reported that Sophia Negroponte was detained on the evening of February 13. She is accused of killing her 24-year-old friend Yousef Rasmussen. According to police, a young woman stabbed him with a knife during an argument.