Evening Medusa

Russian troops began arriving for exercises in Belarus. The wife of the governor of Kuzbass is Putin’s niece. Time interviewed Navalny

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This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the most important things that happened that day. I wanted to start with the good news, but Bono got in the way. He said that since 1976, when U2 was created, he has not liked the group's name, most of the songs and his own voice. According to the musician, he learned to sing quite recently. Sounds sad...

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - point by point

• Russian troops began arriving for exercises in Belarus. The military was spotted 40 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
• Time magazine interviewed Alexei Navalny and put his portrait on the cover. Here is a shot of the cover and the main thing from the interview.
• The court in Kiev did not arrest Petro Poroshenko in the case of treason.
• The Moscow Helsinki Group said that in Belarus, eight Russians were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 16 years due to protests against Lukashenko.
• Russian mobile operators have decided to raise prices for archived tariffs.
• RBC reported that experts predict a 20% drop in the ruble in the event of a military invasion of Ukraine.
• French actor Gaspard Ulliel, who starred in the films “The Long Engagement” and “Hannibal Rising,” has died .

Texts of the day

The wife of the governor of the Kemerovo region, Anna Tsivileva, is the niece of Vladimir Putin. And she owns one of the largest coal companies in Russia

This was found out by journalists from the “Agency” publication, created by the former team of “Project” (remember, “Project” was closed after it was declared an “undesirable organization” in Russia). According to journalists, Tsivileva’s maiden name is Putina, she was born in Ivanovo, and her father is the cousin of the Russian president. In 2012, Anna and Sergey Tsivilev became owners of a share in the Kolmar coal company. The Agency found out that they received it from businessman Gennady Timchenko, close to Putin.

Coronavirus

Omicron is “softer” than delta or not? Finally there is data that allows us to draw reliable conclusions

People started talking about the “mildness” of the new variant of coronavirus immediately after its appearance. It was suggested that it causes less severe disease than its predecessors and leads to fewer deaths. Let's find out if this is so. And again we remind you that it is necessary to get vaccinated .

The media writes that children born to mothers who have recovered from Covid are developmentally delayed. This is true?

Have you seen headlines like “Rospotrebnadzor: The IQ of children of unvaccinated pregnant women who have had coronavirus is 20% lower”? Let me say this: firstly, there is still very little data to judge that a pregnant woman’s experience of Covid has a serious and negative impact on children. Secondly, in any case, there is no point in measuring IQ in children under four years of age. Read more about this in our cards .

Podcast “What Happened”

During the crisis in Kazakhstan, the country's former leader Nursultan Nazarbayev disappeared. Now that he has appeared in public, is it clearer what this all means?

Yesterday Nazarbayev addressed the citizens of the country for the first time since the protests in Kazakhstan. He stated that he did not leave the capital of Kazakhstan (and there were such rumors) and assured that there is “no conflict or confrontation in the elite” in the country (although Nazarbayev himself lost his last significant post, and his family members were fired from government bodies and large companies ). How was the address of the “leader of the nation” received in Kazakhstan? Will President Tokayev now concentrate in his hands the same power that his predecessor had? We are talking about this with candidate of political sciences Dosym Satpayev.

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Opening day

More than 100 years ago, during excavations of the Maikop mound in Adygea, a set of ancient gold and silver tubes was found. There have been several versions of what it is. And now Russian scientists led by Viktor Trifonov from the Institute of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences have published a new work. They concluded that these were straws for drinking beer together during funeral rites. Here are all the details.

Drinking beer through a straw is an idea. But it’s better not during a funeral rite... Your “Medusa”