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Pulse

The main thing is as short as possible

On Sunday throughout Russia, shares were held in support of Alexei Navalny, who is sitting under arrest. Their main result is over five thousand detainees (this is a record ) and an unprecedented level of police cruelty . Tomorrow, February 2, the court will decide whether to change Navalny's punishment from a conditional term for real. It will be held in the building of the Moscow City Court, although the case is being considered by the Simonovsky court.

The case of the Khachaturian sisters was returned to the prosecutor's office . A military coup occurred in Myanmar - the Nobel Peace Laureate Aun San Su Sui, who became the head of the country in 2016, was removed from the authorities. Actress Evan Rachel Wood and several more womenaccused Marilyn Manson of violence. ASOS online store bought a Topshop brand.

Protests - of course, the main topic

How were the shares in support of Navalny in Moscow and St. Petersburg

In Moscow, on the eve of protests, seven metro stations and central streets were blocked. Protesters changed the route several times, trying to go around the cordon, but most often they fell into the police trap. Our special teams, along with the participants in the action, passed several routes from Sukharevskaya and Red Gate to the Sailor Silence pre -trial detention center - and became witnesses to beating and detention .

In St. Petersburg, the police also beat protesters with batons and shockers (and, possibly, applied tear gas). And one of the policemen even took out a service weapon - and directed him towards the demonstrators. The security forces detained more than a thousand people, among whom was rapper Oximiron. He came to the action on his 36th birthday. Read the Medusa report from St. Petersburg.

How the authorities and propagandists reacted to this

• According to federal channels and news agencies, the actions reached "several times less people than on Saturday." Dmitry Kiselev called Sunday protests "zilch". How more than five thousand people were detained in the end, no one explained .
• The presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov tried to do this: the police took the necessary measures, because "there can be no conversation with hooligans and provocateurs."
• Dmitry Medvedev spoke about protests and Navalny: “Navalny is an adventurer and a rogue, tries to climb into power and involves adolescents in the protests. Moreover, he drags people to illegal rallies in the pandemic. ”

Who supported the protesters and Navalny

• Commissioner for Human Rights of St. Petersburg Alexander Shishlov . He said that even in a pandemic, people should be able to express their position, and condemned violence (from the protesters too).
• Pussy Riot . The musicians released the clip for the song "Enrages" . The track and video are devoted to Alexei Navalny and all political prisoners. Activists demand their release, and also urge the police to stop the beating of protesters.

Coronavirus

• France, Czech Republic and Germany limited the entry of foreigners.
• The 100-year-old British veteran Tom Moore was infected . During the pandemic, he collected almost 33 million pounds for British doctors.
• "Satellite V" was delivered to the self -proclaimed LPR and the DPR .

Podkast "What happened"

Why do Russian security forces act so hard at rallies? And why is the same thing in the West?

During the Sunday actions, the security forces acted even more cruelly than before: the detainees were not only beaten with batons, but also used stampers. In today's podcast “What happened” we are talking with sociologist Karin Cleman and political scientist Kirill Shamiev about police cruelty in Russia and Western countries.

Listen “What happened” at Medusa . And subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Musica and other podcast services

Time machine

"It turns out that the Russian Masonic lodge has Instagram." And now also Tiktok!

In this section of the "Evening Medusa" we talk about the heroes that were reported earlier. Three years ago, it turned out that the Russian box of Masons (the Great Lodge, as the Masons themselves insist) has an Instagram account . The content there was not very diverse: photos of men in apron and different Masonic paraphernalia. There was no answer to the question of whether the Masons would rule the world. But now there is ! It seems that they really are not omnipotent: the great master of the box Andrei Bogdanov had to vaccinate "satellite V" . Over the past three years, Russian Masons reached Tiktok . You ask: "Why is Mason Tiktok?" But why .

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