President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) Dmitry Shlyakhtin does not rule out that after the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to punish 12 Russian athletes for violating anti-doping rules, ARAF's debt to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will increase and exceed $3 million. In the fall of 2018, Shlyakhtin said that ARAF should pay the IAAF about $2.7 million for the process of restoring the organization.

The Pope Francis flew to Abu Dhabi (the United Arab Emirates - the UAE), where he will take part in a large inter -religious meeting, organized by the Council of Muslim elders, TASS reports with reference to the press of the Holy See. As the service recalls, this is the first visit of the head of the Catholic Church on the Arabian Peninsula in history.

Russian Victoria Demchenko, who rolled over during a competition a month ago and ended up in hospital , won a bronze medal at the Luge World Cup in Altenberg, Germany. Demchenko showed a time of 54.178 seconds, losing 0.246 seconds to the winning Italian Sandra Robacher (53.932). German Natalie Geisenberger took silver (+0.090). Another representative of Russia Tatyana Ivanova (+0.451) took 10th place, Ekaterina Baturina (+0.686) - 15th, Ekaterina Katnikova (+1.001) - 21st.

The representative of the DPRK Foreign Ministry condemned "attempts to overthrow the legally elected president" of Venezuela and called for a peaceful conflict in the country. According to TASS, the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (CST) reported on Sunday, quoting the statement of the foreign policy of North Korea.

The Air Accident Investigation Board (AAIB) launched an underwater search on Sunday for the missing plane carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson. AAIB specialists on the Geo Ocean III vessel plan to conduct searches for three days. In parallel, a private vessel will operate and continue searching until the plane is found. In mid-January, Sala moved from Nantes to Cardiff and returned to France to say goodbye to his former teammates.

Russian boxer Sergei Kovalev returned the WBO world champion title in the weight category up to 79.38 kg. In a 12-rang match in Frisco (USA, Texas), he was stronger than Colombian Elaider Alvarez on points. All judges gave the victory to Kovalev - 116: 112, 116: 112, 120: 108. "Today I worked a lot of jabs and was looking for an opportunity to strike.

Famous football coach Jose Mourinho has been invited to the KHL regular championship match between Omsk Avangard and St. Petersburg SKA, the Portuguese is expected to conduct the starting throw-in, sources in both clubs told RIA Novosti . “Avangard” will host a KHL regular championship match against SKA on February 4 in Balashikha near Moscow.

At least 88.2% of the Japanese do not believe that the problem of the territorial affiliation of the southern part of the Kuril Islands can be solved in the next two years, while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in power in Japan. The data of a sociological survey conducted by the Kyodo agency published on Sunday, which was published on Sunday, testify to this.

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday in an interview with CBS, which does not exclude the use of US armed forces in Venezuela, TASS reports. The president answered the question of in which he would use military force in this Latin American country. “I don't want to say that,” Trump answered. At the same time, he emphasized that "this is undoubtedly one of the possibilities." Trump also recalled that a few months ago he refused to meet with the Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro.

The Monaco Football Club won with Toulouse with a score of 2: 1 in the home match of the 23rd round of the French championship. As part of the winners, the exact blows were inflicted by the midfielder of the Russian national team Alexander Golovin (15 '), who distinguished himself in the second meeting in a row , and Cesk Fabregas (62'). Alexander went on the starting lineup and spent 77 minutes on the field.

In dozens of Russian cities on February 3, protests were held against the "garbage reform", which began only a month ago. The organizers call shares all -Russian protest. According to the EcoProtest 3.02 portal, rallies were agreed in at least 44 cities in dozens of regions of the country. It was not possible to coordinate events with the authorities in all settlements, so some shares were accompanied by detentions.

The Russian rapper decl (real name Cyril Tolmatsky) suddenly died on the night of Saturday to Sunday, February 3, at the age of 35. "Friends, unfortunately, a terrible event took place tonight: Cyril is no longer with us," the musician’s official group on the VKontakte social network reports.

The winner of the bronze medal of the 2014 Olympic Games , two -time European champion 2013 and 2017, Russian skeletonist Elena Nikitina admitted that in the past she had a photo shoot in a swimsuit and underwear, for which she is still ashamed. “I had one photo shoot in a swimsuit and underwear, but I was even ashamed that I even asked for these photos to delete. The photographer initially told me that such pictures are normal, in front of you, the girls from Kerling also came to take pictures.

The graduate student of the Mechanical and Mathematics of Moscow State University Azat Miftakhov, suspected of making an explosive device, complained about physical pressure and torture by law enforcement officials. This was told by TASS on Sunday to his lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina. "He complained to me to the torture of employees who did not introduce themselves that he was beaten with his hands and fists in the face, he had a trace of a screwdriver at the chest level.

Multiple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt repeated one of the National Football League records. The 32-year-old Jamaican decided to run the standard NFL rookie 40-yard sprint (36.58 meters). As a result, Bolt covered the distance in 4.22 seconds, thereby repeating the league record. In 2017, Washington Huskies receiver John Ross showed a similar result.