Over the last day in Russia, 6562 new cases of infection with the coronavirus COVID-19 were detected in 84 regions. The total number of people infected in the country reached 700,792.

Oil products were found in Lake Pyasino after the accident at the thermal power station and the spill of diesel fuel near Norilsk.

Russian businessman Roman Abramovich bought the most expensive villa in Israel in the elite village of Herzliya Pituach (a suburb of Tel Aviv) for 226 million shekels (about $ 64.7 million).

The outstanding Russian playwright Leonid Zorin, aged 95, died from heart failure.

A solo performance of the People's Artist of the RSFSR Larisa Golubkina took place at the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army on March 10, 2020.

The founders of Veeam Software Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov became dollar billionaires after a deal on selling the company concluded to the American Insight Partner fund.

Chopin’s sketch “Aeolian Harp” was performed by the Russian virtuoso at a speed of 22 notes per second.

The People’s Artist of Russia Dmitry Kharatyan is celebrating his 60th birthday with a concert in St. Petersburg and is going to perform in Kremlin on February 12.

The winners of the Master Award have been announced. The award is granted by the Guild of Literary Translation Masters to the best translators of belles-letters into Russian.

Soviet and Russian film director, the People's Artist of the USSR, Georgi Daneliya, aged 88, died on April 4, 2019.