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What is there with a trust in Putin. What news does his confessor have. Well, Peskov as usual

Good evening,

This is the daily newsletter "Medusa", in which we talk about the main news of the day. Given the latest events, today mostly about protests and their consequences. Even all jokes about this : this is what Mr. and Mrs. Smith would look like now.

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - as short as possible

The level of trust in Putin is falling, the level of confidence in Navalny is growing . In a special -receipt in Sakharovo, where detainees are taken in Moscow, a full collapse . The US Congress introduced another draft of sanctions against Russian officials because of Navalny . The Federation Council Commissionproposed blocking social networks for calls for “illegal actions” (no matter what it means). The human rights activists had the idea that the case under the “covid” article can be started on police officers (since they were brought to the opposition).

As you can see, all the main thing is about protests, nothing can be done.

The texts of the day

Special receiver in Sakharovo: now everyone knows about him

The institution in the village of Sakharovo is in New Moscow, two hours from the Kremlin by car - is a center for the temporary maintenance of foreigners. For example, for those cases when they violated the law in Russia and the authorities decided to expel them. But now the detainees are being taken there on promotions in Moscow, because there are no places in Moscow specialists-after all, thousands of people have been detained.

Among them, the chief of the “Mediazons” Sergey Smirnov also hit Sakharov, however, he was given 25 days of arrest not for participating in the action, but for the retweet (!) Jokes (!!) to himself (!!!). If earlier, only readers of the Mediazones knew about this institution (the publication has been written more than once about those who found themselves in Sakharovo), now everyone knows about the conditions in the special reception. First, the detainees were kept in auto -zaks for hours, because there were no places, and then more than two dozen people were in the cells for eight people with beds without mattresses. Look at these photos , read Twitter Smirnov , who is now leading his colleagues. And here is the text "Mediazons" about other places where the detainees are taken away ,

The Kremlin’s position is literally like this: they themselves were to blame , there was nothing to participate in protests. The position of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: You can’t believe the photographs , because they are made by detainees who expect design.

Putin's confessor Tikhon Shevkunov: they did not remember for a long time

Two and a half years ago, Tikhon Shevkunov was suddenly sent to the Pskov region. Our correspondents Andrei Pertsev and Svetlana Reuters went there to find out - it was still a decrease or increase . I must say that this remains unclear: on the one hand, he can mark the patriarchs, and for this you must first call the diocese - and then this is preparation for a career jump. On the other hand, the chances of led by the Russian Orthodox Church, Tikhon Shevkunov seems to have a little. What is understandable: Tikhon Shevkunov took up the matter seriously-and makes grandiose plans to turn the city of Pechora into "Model Town of the North-West of Russia." As they say, his financial capabilities are almost unlimited thanks to ties.

Coronavirus

Peskov said that the "satellite V" began to be used correctly before the end of the study. Now we will explain what is wrong here

The representative of the President of Russia says: “[ The publication of the third testing phase in Lancet] confirmed the justification of the accelerated registration of this vaccine in the Russian Federation.” In fact, of course, she did not confirm anything. If we are lucky that the vaccine turned out to be safe and effective (at least short -term), then this does not mean that it should begin to use final results earlier. If you have not fastened and did not have an accident, this does not mean that you did everything right. In fact, vaccines that have passed the first phase of tests fail very often, and even in the third phase they do not fail so rarely (in 15 percent of cases).

Other news about coronavirus:

• In Denmark, the coronavirus reproduction coefficient as a whole fell below the unit. But if you take only a more contagious British strain, then it has a coefficient above 1, and this is not very good .
• In Israel, the vaccination champion, people calmed down a little and are in no hurry to vaccinate . And in France, by the way, they are almost not vaccinated on weekends .

Podkast "What happened"

Is the Kremlin really afraid of protests? And if people come out even more, will something change?

The ally of Alexei Navalny Leonid Volkov after the opposition was imprisoned, wrote that moral superiority on the side of the protesters. In the telegram channel of Navalny’s headquarters, they constantly write that Putin is afraid- especially mass rallies . We are discussing with the political scientist, researcher at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the European University of St. Petersburg, Margarita Zavadskaya, is it true.

• Can street actions lead to the democratization of the Russian regime or at least weaken political control over society?
• What is the state of Russian authoritarianism?
• If you reconstruct the logic of Navalny - what could he count on when he decided to return to Moscow from Berlin?

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Is there at least something good?

Eat!

In the United States, the young man first transplanted the face and both hands. And everything worked out , although before two hands were not able to immediately transplant.

As Sergey Smirnov says, it will be worse. But we hope that it will still be better, your naive "Medusa"