Evening Medusa

Bayden asks the Americans to urgently leave Ukraine. Webmoney stops operations in rubles. Nagiev replaces Maslyakova in KVN

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This is the daily Medusa newsletter about the most important thing that happened during the day. And to begin with the unraveling of the main secret of the week-why Putin and Macron in the negotiations shared a very, very long table . It turned out that Moscow offered the French to choose from two options: either Macron passes the PCR test to Russian doctors and they are convinced that he does not have a Covid, or he would not see Putin nearby. In Paris , they decided that they could not allow the Russians to "get the DNA of the president."

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The main thing is in the day - by points

• The new coivaire record is more than 200 thousand sick per day . Sobyanin says that Moscow has already passed the peak of incidence .
• Bayden asked the Americans to leave Ukraine immediately .
• Webmoney announced the stop of all wallet operations in rubles.
• Actress Evgenia Brik died.
• Nagiyev will replace (so far temporarily) Alexander Maslyakov as the leader in KVN .

The texts of the day

Interview of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada - about what the Ukrainian establishment of a possible war with Russia is thinking

Dmitry Gurin grew up in Mariupol in the east of Ukraine, and in 2002 he moved to Moscow, where he worked in advertising and media, including the art director of the “old” “Lenta.ru”. In 2014, after the Euromaidan, Gurin returned to Ukraine and took up social activities and politics. In the 2019 elections, he was elected as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the party “Servant of the people” by Vladimir Zelensky, and recently went into opposition to the president. Medusa talked with Gurin about what they think in the Ukrainian establishment of a possible war with Russia - and how the situation is affected by numerous domestic political conflicts in the country.

In the Kaluga region, they suspended the program of the resettlement of compatriots - because not the Slavs arrived

The Kaluga region left the program of the resettlement of compatriots due to the fact that residents of Central Asia and Transcaucasia countries stretched to the region, and not the “Slavic peoples”: if in 2007, when the program was launched, more than 80% of representatives of the Slavic peoples arrived in the region, then in 2022-17% (as the regional administration explained). At the same time, the materials about the program of the resettlement of compatriots “Slavs” are not mentioned at all, but among the tasks of the program - “increasing the migration influx of the population”. This is how the regional authorities explain their decision .

Pavel Durov created the image of a “fighter for freedom”. But in fact, he is a pragmatic businessman and leader of the "sect of subordinates"

The creator of VKontakte and Telegram Pavel Durov has successfully built the image of a freedom fighter for many years. Many publications about Durov and his messenger were most uncritical as possible. But journalist Darren Lucaydes, having spent almost a year on conversations with former and current Telegram employees, in his huge article for the March issue of Wield magazine draws a completely different picture - not very pleasant for Durov. Here is our detailed retelling of this material.

"What's happened"

From January 1, 2021, income tax, which exceeds 5 million rubles per year, is 15% instead of 13%. The progressive income tax rate was introduced on the initiative of Vladimir Putin, which he announced in 2020.

In the new issue of “What happened” we are discussing with an expert of the economic expert group Alexandra Suslana, how successful the introduction of an increased personal income tax rate can be considered and whether it is worth waiting for further taxes. Listen to Podkast on Medusa and Yetube , as well as subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Musica and other podcast services.

Photo of the day

SpaceX, due to a geomagnetic storm, lost up to 40 out of 49 satellites launched on February 3 as part of the Starlink satellite Internet project, which is designed to provide broadband access to the Network The whole world. Due to atmospheric resistance, the satellites could not start maneuvers to increase the orbit and entered (or are only going to enter) into the atmosphere of the Earth. On February 7, several satellites were noticed in the sky over Puerto Rico. It is expected that other falling satellites can be seen in the coming days.

And - gifts for the upcoming holidays in "Magaze"

Very soon, Valentine's Day, February 23 and March 8, will come. They are all often criticized: February 14 is too commercial, the day of the defender of the Fatherland is militarized, and on March 8, from the day of solidarity and the struggle for equality, it turned into a holiday of “the fairer sex”. But if you celebrate these dates (and why not, in fact, not?), Look at the Magaz - we have 45 gift ideas .

Give loved ones gifts as often as possible (no, this is not because the advertisement of "Magaza", just give, it's cool!). Your Medusa.