On July 14, at a meeting with the employees of the Lebedinsky mining and processing plant, Vladimir Putin said that it was still unknown whether he killed his Terrible son, "and foreigners who were afraid of" our vastness "could be attributed to him the image of a" super-burned person ". Similar thoughts were previously expressed by the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and the governor of the Oryol region Vadim Potsky. Medusa shows how Ivan the Terrible returns to political discourse.