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The UN Security Council is going to discuss Ukraine. Russian officials are getting old. Spotify bans coronavirus denial

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This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the most important things that happened during the day. But first, it's a mystery. In Russia, snow falls from the sky in winter, but what falls in Florida? The sudden answer is iguanas: at low temperatures, hibernating animals fall from the trees to the ground and lie in disordered rows here and there. Here's what it looks like .

The main thing for the day - point by point

• A new daily record for covid infections in Russia is 124,070 cases.
• The UN Security Council decided to discuss the situation around Ukraine - contrary to the position of Russia and China.
• Novaya Gazeta demanded that a criminal case be opened against Ramzan Kadyrov, who called journalists and human rights activists “terrorists”.
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs criticized servers on domestic Elbrus processors.
• In the Moscow region, a serviceman "involuntary shot" killed a colleague .
• Suspects of preparing mass riots were detained in Ukraine - according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they wanted to destabilize the situation in the country.

Texts of the day

The average age of Putin's officials is almost equal to the age of Brezhnev's

When Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, the age limit for officials was 65. In 2010, when Dmitry Medvedev was president, he was reduced to 60 years. In 2013, when Putin again became the head of state, they raised him to 70 years. Since then, the Russian president has gradually extended or removed the age limits for senior civil servants, and his entourage has aged with him. "Important stories" calculated the average age of the Russian ruling elite.

Spotify bans coronavirus denial after Neil Young and Joni Mitchell boycott

Streaming service Spotify has changed its content moderation rules after a number of musicians and podcasters decided to leave the platform in opposition to the spread of misinformation about COVID-19. The first was Neil Young, whose dissatisfaction was caused by one of the episodes of the Joe Rogan podcast. Spotify will now avoid publishing content that promotes dangerous, false or misleading medical information that could harm. Here's how it happened .

What they say on Russian TV about the crisis around Ukraine

Europe does not need conflict, but it does not have strong leaders. The USA take advantage of this and force Europe to play its game. In the United States itself, business is afraid of sanctions against Russia and the fall of stock markets, and only the arms lobby wants war. And in Ukraine, American weapons are increasingly spreading across the country and falling into the wrong hands, which threatens with new problems. We watched the Sunday editions of the main information programs of Russian TV - Dmitry Kiselev's Vesti Nedeli and Irada Zeynalova's Results of the Week - and retold their content .

Podcast "What Happened"

The aggravation of the conflict around Ukraine has resumed the political discussion about the fate of the self-proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics.

In the new episode “What happened”, we are talking with journalist Konstantin Skorkin about why Ukraine is unlikely to agree to the terms of the Minsk agreements and what a realistic compromise on the future of Donbass might be.

Listen to What Happened on Meduza and YouTube , and subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Music and other podcast services.

And playlist of the week

Every week, Meduza employees listen to new songs, watch new videos, and then briefly talk about the best, or at least the most notable ones. In the new issue: a political statement by the leader of the "Casta", a disco from the Danish singer MØ and the English duet Two Shell, as well as the great Beatles "Concert on the Roof" .

We do not know what the compromise on Donbass will be, but the main thing is that without war. Your Medusa