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Russia allocates troops from Crimea. Resistant bacteria appear in the rivers. Russian biathletes win a medal

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This is the daily Medusa newsletter about the most important and interesting thing that happened in a day. In this issue - why grandfather medicines can affect great sport, as now to call the capital of Thailand and why carry the skeleton in the passenger seat. We give the answer to the third question right away: obviously, for the sake of the opportunity to ride in a highlighted strip. Here is a life hack straight from the USA .

The main news of the day (which, fortunately, did not happen)

Contrary to the predictions of the Western media, the war in the Donbass on the night of February 16 did not begin. Moreover, Russia allocated a part of the troops from the Ukrainian border - the units of the Southern Military District left Crimea . Dmitry Peskov, meanwhile, stated that the recognition of the DPR and the LPR will be a violation of the Minsk agreements - and these agreements for Moscow are a priority (the State Duma adopted a resolution with Putin’s proposal to recognize the independence of the self -proclaimed republics the day before). In general, it seems that the situation slowly becomes a little more calm - but we are not sure. Today, the day of unity is celebrated in Ukraine, and the richest businessman of the country Rinat Akhmetov returned there.

A few important topics of the day you need to know in one sentence

• The family of the operator Galina Khatchins, who died on the set of the film "Rusta", sued Alec Baldwin.
• Alina Pash will not represent Ukraine at Eurovision because of a trip to the Crimea.
• For the first time in 12 years, Russian biathletes won the Olympiad medal .

And also: good news about medicine ...

Scientists managed to cure a woman from HIV for the first time in history (in the case of men it was already able to). In 2017, she was transplanted by stem cells taken from umbilical blood from a donor with a genetic mutation that blocks the penetration of the virus into the cells. Three years later, she stopped taking antiretroviral therapy, and then the virus ceased to be found at all. At the same time, unlike two other cases of successful treatment of HIV with the help of bone marrow transplantation from donors, a woman did not develop dangerous side effects .

... and bad news about medicine

As scientists found out in a new large -scale study, most rivers around the world contains significantly exceeding the norms of the active substances of pharmaceuticals. There are so many of them there that it has already been called a global threat to human health: pollution of rivers with antibiotics leads to the emergence of bacteria strains in them, which threatens with new pandemias .

What happened in Turkmenistan?

Recently, the president of the country Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov unexpectedly said to many that he was going to leave his post in order to "open the way for young leaders." The CEC has already set the date of early elections - March 12, 2022. The president has not yet called the name of the successor, but almost certainly he will be his only son Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who recently reached the age for presidency. (They say that the Favorite expression of the Serdar is “Cut the neck!”) In today's issue of the podcast “What happened” we are discussing what is happening in Turkmenistan with the editor of the Turkmen.news website by Ruslan Matyev.

The most interesting text of the day

Yesterday, the skater Kamila Valieva won a short program at the Olympics, and tomorrow she would fight for gold in an arbitrary one. Meanwhile, the discussion of its doping history continues - among other things, now they argue about how Valieva’s representatives explain the origin of the prohibited substance trimetasidine in her sample: the drug supposedly takes her grandfather, who has “serious heart problems”, and in the blood of the skater he could be, as they “drank from one glass”. The explanation looks doubtful, but in recent years the sports court justified athletes after much more amazing stories .

Amazing in the world: the new old capital of Thailand

The royal scientist Council of Thailand announced a change in the official name of the capital of the country-from Bangkok to Krung-Thep-Mach-Nakhon. So it was always called in Thai, and this is only the abbreviated name of the city, and the full - in the picture below. About this is translated as “the city of angels, the great city, the residence of the emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (Ayutthai) of the god Indra, the great capital of the world, endowed with nine precious stones, a happy city, reproducing the huge royal palace, reminiscent of the heavenly monastery, where the rebellious God reigns, the city presented by Indra and built by cherry.”

If Bangkok is a Krung-Theip Makha-Nakhon, it is scary to imagine how they would rename Eiyafyatlaiokudl. Your "Medusa"