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Evening Medusa
27th of June. Germany did not qualify from the group for the first time at the World Cup
News
The German national team - the reigning world football champion - flew out of the tournament in Russia. The Germans lost to South Korea, conceding two goals in stoppage time. Germany didn't make it out of a group at the World Cup for the first time in history - and everyone is shocked .
Russia's Supreme Court has refused to consider the war in Syria a war. The court did not consider the complaints of ten Syrians about the denial of asylum, explaining: "The events taking place on the territory of Syria have the specific characteristics of a counter-terrorist operation, and not a classic military confrontation." The war in Syria has been going on since 2011, about five million people have left the country.
The Egyptian parliament attributed the failure of their football team to its location in Chechnya. The deputies decided to investigate, in particular, the appearance of strangers at the base, as well as the assignment of the team leader Mohammed Salah the title of an honorary citizen of Chechnya and the holding of a gala dinner in honor of this.
How Sobyanin's rivals are trying to register in the elections
Yesterday in Moscow, several potential candidates for mayor of Moscow met with municipal deputies - to convince them to support their nomination and thereby help overcome the municipal filter (to register, everyone needs signatures of at least 110 deputies from 110 districts). Without United Russia deputies who support the incumbent mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the filter cannot be passed; opposition leader Ilya Yashin has already given up trying to do so. Meduza special correspondent Taisiya Bekbulatova went to the meeting and spoke about what she saw .
Two candidates for mayor also languished in the crowd at the gates - former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov and Sergei Mitrokhin, who had just filed a lawsuit against his own party, Yabloko. <...> Both candidates counted on United Russia municipalities; Mitrokhin said that he had collected 50 deputies' signatures so far. “Well, what are we left with? Here we go. Well, how? Absolutely something without United Russia will not work. What is there to pretend? he admitted, adding that "it is very difficult to bring people to a notary." Dmitry Gudkov said that he independently recruited "about 60 districts." “The rest is all there,” he nodded at the building in which the SMOM was located. Earlier, United Russia reported that they did not plan to share their signatures with the opposition.
Where did the TamTam messenger come from, which began to be advertised after Telegram was blocked?
Meduza special correspondent Ilya Zhegulev tells the story of TamTam , a Mail.ru Group project that most people learned about after Telegram was blocked. The transition to the messenger, which is positioned as an alternative to the project of Pavel Durov, was then announced by government departments and the media; Fake channels of some publications (including Meduza) also appeared there. The active promotion of the service against the backdrop of the problems of Telegram and the entire Runet was not to everyone’s taste, however, the Mail.ru Group believes that they have become a victim of a campaign to discredit.
“All cruelty is inhuman. The bar was torn off, his eyes were bloodshot on both sides. One side for some reason introduces strict blocking measures that do not work. Another is at war with Roskomnadzor. And we ended up in the middle,” says a Meduza source at Mail.Ru Group. We are not talking about this at all. We say: guys, we also have a product. And we answered: “Oh, you bitches! If you have a product, then you are on the other side.” We are not on any side."
What else
- Lionel Messi was settled in Kazan in a hotel overlooking a giant portrait of Cristiano Ronaldo - his main rival in the fight for the title of the best football player in the world.
- Officials of the administration of Novokuznetsk filmed an amazing video on the theme of "Star Wars" for the 400th anniversary of the city. When the video sold out, for some reason it was deleted, but copies were preserved !
- Kirill Serebrennikov's film Playing the Victim is released in limited distribution in Russia. Anton Dolin found eight reasons to review it (or watch it for the first time).
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Viktor Davydov