"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week The Medusa musical section returns from the winter holidays. As always on Sundays, we briefly talk about the most noticeable and interesting songs and clips of the week. In this issue: the return of Placebo, Miss Kitin and the Punk project Nike Borzov Killer Honda, as well as excellent new Yard Act and “fragile and affordable” groups.

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has announced that he is leaving his post. “I thought for a very long time, and after almost four years of active work, I decided to resign from the post of President of Armenia. This is absolutely not an emotional decision, which proceeds from a certain logic,” he said in a statement published on the website of the President of Armenia.

AP / Scanpix / Leta The Istanbul court has left the journalist Sedef Kabash to the court in the case of insulting the President of Turkey. She was detained on the night of January 22 and during the day she was taken from a police station to court. Prior to this, Kabash posted a tweet in her account, which said: “If the bull enters the palace, he will not become the king. But the palace will turn into a stable. Circassian proverb.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. As ordinary Soviet panels became the main attraction of Syktyvkar. It's all about a stylish comic on houses The capital of the Komi Republic, which built up with typical panel houses since the 1960s, only at first glance seems to be an average provincial town. If you look a little, then there, then you can see on plain panels bizarre national patterns and monumental Soviet panels.

On October 6, 2018, the limousine, converted from the Ford Excursion SUV, lost control due to broken brakes at the intersection of two routes in the state of New York. The car at a speed of 190 kilometers per hour rammed the parked Toyota Highlander and shot down two passers -by to death. 16 people in the limousine died instantly from injuries, and two more in the hospital in a few hours.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has indefinitely postponed her wedding to her partner Clark Gayford due to new restrictions being imposed in the country amid the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The politician announced the postponement of the wedding ceremony during a press conference on covid restrictions.

The European Union has demanded the release of Zarema Musayeva, the wife of retired Chechen Supreme Court judge Saidi Yangulbaev, who was forcibly taken to the republic from Nizhny Novgorod by Chechen security forces. A statement on the website of the European External Action Service expressed concern about the ongoing human rights violations in Chechnya, the inaction of the federal authorities in Moscow and the impunity of those responsible.

French traveler Jean-Jacques Saven died during a solo voyage in a rowboat across the Atlantic Ocean. Savena's capsized boat was found near the Azores, about one and a half thousand kilometers from Portugal, where on January 1, the 75-year-old traveler began his voyage. Prior to this, Saven released two emergency buoys that gave distress signals. “Unfortunately, this time the ocean turned out to be stronger than our friend, who loved swimming and the sea so much,” Saven’s Facebook page says.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case because of the death of a seven-year-old girl in the village of Dombn in the Chita district of the Trans-Baikal Territory. The child disappeared on January 22, returning home from a music school. In the evening, the police were informed of the disappearance. After half an hour, the girl’s body found in a wasteland with traces of animal attacks, presumably, homeless dogs, the UK said .

As of the morning of January 23, 63 205 new cases of coronavirus infection were identified in Russia, the Federal Operational Headquarters for Combating the virus reports. This is a new maximum from the beginning of the pandemic. The previous record was set the day before - then 57,222 new cases of Covid were revealed. The total number of cases reached 11 108 191 people. In Moscow, which remains the leader in the number of infections, recorded 17,528 COVID-19 cases per day were identified.

The head of the German Naval Forces, Vice Admiral Kai-Achim Schönbach, submitted a resignation letter, apologizing for his words about Crimea and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rear Admiral Jan Christian Kaak, Schönbach's deputy, will act as interim commander-in-chief of the German Navy.

In Moscow, at the 83rd year of life, photojournalist Vladimir Lagrange died. This was announced in Facebook by the founder of the gallery and the photo of the brothers named after the brothers Lumier Natalya Grigoryeva-Litvinskaya. Gallery named after the brothers Lumier “Lagrange was for me the Russian, the most Moscow, the most dear after my large family. Such people made this city my homeland, which I want to return to. We did a lot together, but did not have time even anymore.

Retired Chechen Supreme Court judge Saidi Yangulbaev, whose wife Zarema Musayeva was forcibly taken from Nizhny Novgorod by Chechen security forces, has left Russia with his daughter Aliya, the human rights organization Committee Against Torture reports.

New episode of the podcast The Naked Pravda The editor of the international version of Medusa Ailish Hart spoke with journalists Angelina Karjakina and Ulyana Pavlova about how ordinary people in two countries perceive the possibility of war. Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. EVERYDAY LIFE Under Kremlin Brinkmanship The US authorities believe that Russia can attack Ukraine at any time.

An excerpt from the book of hematologist Mikhail Fomin “five liters of red. What you need to know about blood, its diseases and treatment " Jr Korpa / Unsplash In early February 2022, the book of Alpina Plisher was published by the book of the oncologist, hematologist Mikhail Fomini, Five Lithers of Red. What you need to know about blood, its diseases and treatment.