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The European Union and the United States imposed sanctions due to the persecution of Navalny. NFT boom begins. Gorbachev - 90 years old (and we have a podcast about him)

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This is the daily newsletter "Medusa" about the most important news of the day. We will begin today's issue with Sergei Rachmaninov, who performs the prelude to the Duz Minor. More precisely, not from Rachmaninov himself, but a virtual pianist, which was created by the company Massive Technologies . He can play anything with his 3D-boats, and we can see how the musician looks like.

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - as short as possible

The United States and the European Union imposed sanctions due to the persecution of Navalny. General Prosecutor Igor Krasnov, the head of the UK, Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov and the director of the FSIN, Alexander Kalashnikov, fell under the sanctions of the EU. Who is on the US sanctions list is unknown. The police detained the Muscovite, who jokingly suggested “protest with the help of a flashlight” - a week before Leonid Volkov. In St. Petersburg in the police department, a man who was detained for driving without rights died . SK Belarus published a video in which Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and her supporters are discussing the seizure of administrative buildings. The Russian fund of fundamental research canceled its most massive competition for scientists. Lev Ponomarev announced the liquidation of the organization “For Human Rights” due to laws on “foreign agents”.

The texts of the day

In the world there is a NFT boom - a new type of digital assets. Singer Grains earned six million dollars in 20 minutes

NFT is deciphered as non-Fungible token-an incorrect token. They are created on a blockchain and allow you to buy ownership of a product that exists exclusively on the Internet, for example, an image, animation or video. It was for these tokens that Grains sold several works of digital art. In 2020, against the background of the pandemic, the NFT market increased four times - the total amount of transactions exceeded $ 250 million, and the number of digital wallets selling NFT doubled and reached 222 thousand. In recent months, the technology has become even more popular .

The St. Petersburg Foundation "Humanitarian Action" was included in the list of "foreign agents". It helps thousands of drug users and people with HIV

The authorities decided that philanthropists are also engaged in “political activity”: in particular, the critical statements of the state policy regarding HIV and drug addiction were attributed to it. We talked with three employees of the fund , who themselves were able to overcome addiction - and now they share their experience and help other drug users.

In Nizhny Novgorod, four family members of six people were killed. Suspect - they hired by the utility work

According to investigators, a 26-year-old man attacked a garage in a 64-year-old pensioner, then he went into the house and hit his 63-year-old wife with a knife, after which he killed their daughter and six-year-old grandson and disappeared . The eldest daughter at that time was in class in the sports section, and the father of the family on a business trip. According to the local edition of Nn.ru, the worker constantly quarreled with his family and after the next conflict his "patience could not stand it." The suspect was detained in the neighboring Vladimir region. SK opened a case that Alexander Bastrykin took under personal control.

Coronavirus

According to official figures, in Russia for the first time since October 5, less than 11 thousand new cases of disease per day were identified.

Other news about coronavirus:

• The incidence in the world, according to WHO, has grown for the first time in seven weeks.
• The German authorities plan to extend the quarantine until March 28.
• Slovakia received the first batch of the Russian vaccine "Sputnik V".

Podkast "What happened"

Today, the first and only President of the USSR is 90 years old Mikhail Gorbachev. How can you evaluate its role in history?

Gorbachev began reforms that led to the destruction of the country, but at the same time to the greater liberation of society. Now in Russia, Gorbachev is ambiguous. So, almost half of Russians (47%) are sure that there would be no better perestroika. Today's guest of Podkasta - the friend of Gorbachev and the editor -in -chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov - tells how the former president of the USSR lives now, how can his contribution to history be evaluated and what views he adheres to.

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The failure of the day

Putin and Musk never met Clubhouse. And it seems that they will not meet

Ilon Musk invited Vladimir Putin to talk on February 14. For more than two weeks, the Kremlin tried to figure out what the founder of Tesla wanted from them. And the journalists asked and asked questions to the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Finally, today he said that the Kremlin could not get any answer from the mask - "therefore, most likely, this topic has already been exhausted ."

Well, today the “Putin’s squads” powerfully opposed : pensioners demanded to close the immoral social network, in which “the mess, dens and the collapse of everything are beginning simply”.

Well, everything is mentally preparing for the closure of Clubhouse, your "Medusa"