The owner and founder of the video game payment processing company Xsolla, Alexander Agapitov, has left his post as its CEO. This was stated in a statement from Xsolla received by Forbes , Kommersant and The Bell . The new CEO of Xsolla is Konstantin Golubitsky, who was previously the company's chief technical officer. Agapitov will advise Golubitsky and will also develop other projects related to machine learning, artificial intelligence and Web 3.0 .

Chechnya reports massive protest against the family of anti-torture activist Elena Afonina / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On Wednesday, February 2, the Chechen authorities reported that 400,000 people had joined a rally in Grozny to protest the family of prominent anti-torture activist Abubakar Yangulbayev. The demonstration came a day after Russian lawmaker Adam Delimkhanov threatened to decapitate members of the Yangulbayev family.

Jeff Zucker, president of the American news channel CNN, announced his resignation due to a secret affair with one of his colleagues. CNN writes about this, citing a statement by Zucker himself. “As part of an investigation into Chris Cuomo on CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, with whom I have worked for over 20 years. I acknowledged that these relations have evolved in recent years. I should have revealed when they started, but I didn't.

The Russian authorities will begin to implement "retaliatory measures" against German media accredited in the country after Germany banned the broadcasting of the German-language TV channel RT DE. This is stated in a statement on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. On February 2, the German Media Licensing and Supervision Commission issued an order to stop satellite and other broadcasting of the RT DE channel, citing the fact that the channel had not requested permission to broadcast.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has released Natalya Poklonskaya from her duties as Russian Ambassador to Cape Verde. The corresponding decree was published on the official portal of regulatory legal acts. By another decree, Putin appointed Poklonskaya deputy head of the Federal Agency for the CIS, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo).

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This was reported on the Kremlin website. It is reported that the leaders of the two countries had a "quite detailed exchange of views" on the aggravation of the situation around Ukraine and the security guarantees demanded by Russia. The President of Russia outlined the fundamental approaches to these issues.

to the governor of the Samara region Dmitry Azarov and the mayor of Samara Elena Lapushkina Partners of the Dutch architectural bureaus UN Studio, KCAP and schiemann weyers architects wrote open letters with a request to preserve the elevator building built in Samara during the Soviet era. Samara-163 Samara elevator A masterpiece of brutalism. Letters with identical text were written in December 2021. On February 2, they were published and translated into Russian by Strelka Mag.

Peter Nicholls / Pa Images / Scanpix / Leta While Boris Johnson met in Kiev with Vladimir Zelensky, in the UK, he did not think to subside the main scandal in the career of politics - the so -called “PARTYGATE”. Now Johnson is accused of the fact that he himself participated in numerous parties with abundant alcohol consumption in the premiere’s residence in the midst of hard elbows and restrictions - which Johnson himself introduced.

The head of the Duma faction "A Just Russia - For Truth" Sergei Mironov asked the prosecutor's office to check the statements of the deputy from "United Russia" Adam Delimkhanov, who promised to cut off the heads of members of the family of judge Saidi Yangulbaev.

Deputy Delimkhanov promises to cut off their heads to his enemies. In Russia, a more contagious (but where already?!) Is a subspecies of Omcron.

The Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg announced the death of a cat named Osya, the museum's "talisman and keeper." Information about this appeared on the page of the museum in Vkontakte. For more than a decade and a half, Osya lived in the Fountain House, met visitors, took strokes, walked around the garden, and for many became a symbol of our museum.

He allegedly was unauthorized and gathered 400 thousand people (including Kadyrov's associates) Elena Afonina / TASS / Scanpix / Leta In Grozny, a rally was held against the family of former judge Sayy Yangulbaev, who is threatened by the authorities of the republic . The pro -government Chechen media reported that more than 400 thousand people came to the rally.

Russia’s Interior Ministry has submitted a draft of a new federal law — “On granting asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation” — for public consultation. If it is adopted, a definition of the institution of political asylum will appear in Russian law for the first time ever.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. It seems that Omcron is already sick simply everyone. What else can be done for yourself and loved ones? According to official figures, from January 21, 2022, the incidence of coronavirus infection is growing daily in Russia. Now it reaches record indicators: on February 2, for the first time, more than 140 thousand infections were recorded per day. In total, more than 12 million people have infected the pandemic in Russia.

In Russia, 253 cases of the disease have been registered with a subspecies of the omicron coronavirus strain - BA.2, which is considered more contagious than the previously common variant. This was told by the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, Interfax reports . Patients with BA.2 were found in Moscow, the republics of Mari El and Bashkiria, as well as in the Rostov region. According to Popova, data from "a number of countries" indicate a higher infectivity of this line.