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Evening Medusa
February 16. Five-year-old Stella waves to metro drivers - this is the best story of the week ❤️
Five-year-old Stella from New York City waves to drivers of arriving subway trains every morning on her way to school as she stands at a station in the Bronx. On February 14, Valentine's Day, the lead car of the train stopped next to her. Engine driver Joe Moreno leaned out of the window and gave Stella a heart-shaped box of chocolates. “Every time I see a little girl standing on the platform and waving at me, my day gets better,” the driver said . In an interview with reporters, he later added: “For the average New Yorker, we are invisible - but not for Stella!”
Worse news
The Supreme Court rejected the claim of Ksenia Sobchak, who demanded that Vladimir Putin’s registration as a candidate in the presidential elections be declared illegal. Putin is running for this post for the fourth time.
The founder of the Magnit retail chain, Sergei Galitsky, left the company , selling his share of shares to the state bank VTB. Hundreds of employees came to the Magnit head office in Krasnodar to say goodbye to him.
Vladimir Medinsky spoke to VGIK students. He assured that there is no censorship in Russia, admitted that he manually promotes some films at the box office, and asked to stop again and again “remaking the unfortunate “The Brothers Karamazov”, giving them a new meaning.”
The coach shielded the children from the bullets
A former student at a school in Parkland, Florida, shot and killed 17 people there on February 14. Among the dead was football coach Aaron Fies, who worked at the school. When the killer opened fire on the children, Fais shielded them from the bullets . The local sheriff spoke about the deceased:
“The kids loved him. They adored him. He was one of the best people I know. When Aaron Feis was killed - tragically, inhumanely - he died protecting others. It was obvious that he would do this - that’s the kind of person he was.”
How harmful is highly processed food?
French epidemiologists have concluded that highly processed foods may increase the risk of cancer. This food category includes, for example, carbonated drinks, chips, instant noodles, sausage, hot dogs, chocolate and frozen ready meals. Nutritionist Elena Motova explains whether you should be afraid of the results of a new study.
“Born in 1958 in a working-class family. Father died in the war"
Taisiya Bekbulatova talked with political strategists about how election campaigns took place in Russia. Political and GR consultant Vladimir Shemyakin, a former employee of the presidential administration, told, for example, the following story:
About twenty years ago, during one gubernatorial election, a calendar for rural areas was printed with the biography of the candidate. It was written in the genre of “snot in sugar” and began like this: “Born in 1958 in a working-class family. My father died in the war...” Since frugality was cultivated in the region, they were not allowed to go under the knife; special people scraped off the phrase “Father died in the war” with a razor blade. The circulation of the calendar was 20 thousand copies. The phrase became the campaign motto.
What else
- Boris Grebenshchikov’s new album “Time N” has been released. You can listen to ithere .
- Yandex's driverless car drove around Khamovniki .
- The Chinese celebrated the beginning of a new year, 4716.
Dmitry Tomilov. Good weekend!