The IOC will challenge the decision on Valieva, the resignation of the governor. Highlights of the night

• The State Department also issued a new notice urging US citizens not to travel to the country “due to the increased threat of Russian military action and COVID-19.” The same Americans who are already in Ukraine should leave immediately by commercial or private transport, the notice says. Moscow has repeatedly denied plans to conduct military operations with Ukraine.

The head of Mari El, Alexander Evstifeev, does not want to run for a second term, four people familiar with the discussion of the source of RBC said. Alexander Evstifeev is 63 years old, his term of office expires this year.

• The reason is the personal decision of the head of the region, three interlocutors of RBC said. “He categorically does not want to,” said one of the sources. The probability of Yevstifeev’s resignation “is approaching 100%,” another RBC interlocutor added. RBC sent a request to the press service of the head of Mari El. About who can replace him in this post – in the full version of the article.

Rosstat revised the methodology for calculating data on the monetary incomes of Russians for 2020, saying that according to the results of the recalculation, they turned out to be higher than previously thought. The articles that the department has mainly revised are property income, social benefits receipts and other cash receipts.

• Property receipts were increased by 34.6%, mainly due to the payment of dividends to citizens, from 2.7 trillion to about 3.7 trillion rubles, that is, almost 1 trillion, Rosstat explained to RBC. And the share of property income in the total monetary income of the population for 2020 reached 5.8%, and not 4.3%, as previously reported. This is the highest value of this share since 2013.
• The total amount of cash income of Russians in 2020 turned out to be almost 600 billion rubles. more than previously thought, and the fall in real disposable income in the first pandemic year was 2%, not 2.8%.

The characteristics of the Ukrainian government given by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov can be considered an undermining of Ukraine’s sovereignty, said British Foreign Minister Liz Truss. She said this in an interview with RBC.

• According to her, at a press conference that followed the talks with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergey Lavrov spoke about Russia’s concerns about the legitimacy of the government of this country. According to her, this statement – as well as cyber attacks – undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
• The UK is ready to impose sanctions against Russia, but does not want to do this.
• Liz Truss really made a mistake in answering Lavrov’s question about Russia’s sovereignty over the Voronezh and Rostov regions, she told RBC. At first she stated that London would never recognize these regions as Russian, and then she corrected her mistake.

• Russian aqua farms have increased oyster production by more than a third over the two years of the pandemic. Production growth was provided by Primorye: heat and floods provoked the death of mollusks in the Crimea and Kuban.
• Presidents of Russia and France Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron sat at a very long table during their meeting in Moscow. According to Reutersthe distance between the presidents was maintained because Macron refused to take a PCR test after he landed in Russia, due to fears that Moscow would receive his DNA.
• The United Russia party decided to purge the ranks of its supporters from those people who were considered disloyal in the party. There are more than 50% of such “disloyal” party members, one of RBC’s interlocutors said. What methods of analysis were used, the interlocutor of RBC did not disclose.