Evening Medusa

Navalny is still in a pre-trial detention center in Kolchugino, and not in a colony in Pokrov. What we know about vaccine immunity (enough!). Will protests begin in Russia due to rising prices for products (question!)

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - as short as possible

Alexei Navalny is in SIZO-3 in the city of Kolchugino, Vladimir Region, and not in a colony in Pokrov, as previously reported. Died TV commentator Yuri Rozanov. He had cancer. The Alliance of Doctors trade union was recognized as a "foreign agent". Ivan Golunov posted a video with a detailed chronology of his detention. Journalist Ilya Azar was arrested for 15 days and fined 150 thousand rubles because of a Facebook post. Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl was nominated to the board of directors of Rosneft. Putin danced at her wedding. Rosneft sued Novaya Gazeta, Important Stories and Bloomberg. The nature of the claims is not yet known. The publication Baza was also sued after the text about the two-billion-dollar earnings of Igor Shuvalov's daughter. Elon Musk is going to build a new city in Texas.

The coronavirus

Everything we know about vaccine immunity

In this text, Meduza science editor Alexander Ershov answers key questions about how vaccines work:

• When do vaccines start working? (On average two to three weeks after the first injection)
• Is it true that even after vaccination, safety measures must be observed? (Spoiler: yes)
• Will vaccines work against new variants of the virus? (Unfortunately, not everyone is equally effective)

And to many others.

By the way, there are difficulties with the names of the new options.

In short, names like B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 sound incomprehensible and confuse everyone. And "British" and "South African" (there is, by the way, "Russian") - divide people and remind of the colonial era. To solve the unexpected problem, WHO has already convened a working group of several dozen experts. So far, the main option is to chronologically number the virus variants in the order in which they were identified: V1, V2, V3, and so on.

Other news about coronavirus:

• In St. Petersburg, was unveiled a monument to the doctors who died during the pandemic . The ceremony took place a day earlier than the scheduled date and in secret from the initiators of the memorial.
• The head of the Trans-Baikal Territory called the hotline of the Ministry of Health - and could not sign up for vaccination .

Texts of the day

The vice president of North American Nike resigned after it turned out that her son earns on the resale of rare series of sneakers

Ann Hebert quit after Bloomberg Businessweek published a text about her 19-year-old son Joe's business. He was one of the characters in a text about the limited-edition sneaker dealer industry. In a conversation with a journalist from the publication, Hebert Jr. boasted that he knew “the right people,” but stated that his mother had never shared insider information with him and demanded that her name not be mentioned in the article. Ann Hebert retired from Nike , having been with the company for 25 years.

In Orsk, activists of the "Young Guard of United Russia" laid flowers at the grave of Hungarian prisoners of war - allies of the Nazis

Ural56.ru published a comment attributed to Mikhail Kuznetsov, head of the Orenburg regional branch of the Young Guard. Kuznetsov says the activists "were sincerely convinced that the Hungarian soldiers were allies of the Soviet troops during the Great Patriotic War" - and apologizes for the "gross mistake". However, Kuznetsov later stated that he did not make such a comment .

And the test of the day: now we will prove that you are more interested in Russian politics than you think

Just answer whether the statement that appears on the screen is true and be surprised at how much you actually know about politics.

Podcast "What Happened"

Can mass protests really begin in Russia due to rising food prices?

Bloomberg analysts have included Russia in the list of countries where rising food prices could trigger protests. Also on this list are Türkiye, Brazil and India. The Kremlin did not agree with this publication. At the same time, prices for sugar and vegetable oil have been regulated in Russia since the end of last year, and new products may be added to these products. In the country as a whole, the standard of living has not been growing for several years - now it is already below the "pre-Crimea" one, which leads to a decrease in the president's ratings. Maybe protests are really possible? We are discussing this together with Vice-Rector of the New Economic School Maxim Buev.

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Return of the day

Almost a year later, the transfer of Nikita Mikhalkov "BesogonTV" will return to the air of "Russia 24"

The first issue will be released on March 6, but there is no strength to wait anymore - so we remembered our favorite moments of the show : with a retelling of the meme about the wolf (who does not perform in the circus), comparing the smiles of Yeltsin and Navalny and, of course, exposing Bill Gates, who wants everyone chip.

In general, we envy the viewers of "Russia 24": after all, they will watch the releases of "Besogon" throughout the May holidays, which before that were only released on YouTube.

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