Evening Medusa

Roskomnadzor began to slow down Twitter (and slowed down everything else). What is happening in the city where Navalny sits (reporting). 30 years ago in Moscow the largest promotion of the opposition in history (photo)

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This is the daily newsletter "Medusa" about the most important news of the day. A new day is a new spectacular video from which we start a letter. This time, this is a drone, which at full speed flew into a bowling, flew past visitors and rolling balls, circled around the hall and eventually shot down cogli (though not all). Not only we are impressed: director James Gann called the author of the video to shoot the third part of the “Guardians of the Galaxy”!

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Pulse

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

Roskomnadzor announced that he began to slow down the speed of Twitter for refusing to remove illegitimate content. After that, the sites of the Kremlin, government, State Duma and a number of others ceased to open . All sites with a combination of T.CO in the address were affected in general. The Kremlin said that everything works for them. Later, the government explained what was happening in malfunctions in the work of Rostelecom equipment. The British royal family commented on an interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The court in St. Petersburg forbade three more anime - and manga. The driver of the car, who hit the policeman at the rally on January 23 in Moscow,received a year conditionally . The Prime Minister of Armenia fired the head of the General Staff. The president twice refused to sign a decree on his resignation.

The texts of the day

What happens in Kolchugino - a city in the Vladimir region, where Alexey Navalny sits in a pre -trial detention center

The Special Corps of Medusa Maxim Solopov went to Kolchugino and talked with its residents, as well as those who built a pre -trial detention center and worked in it . The new body of the insulator was solemnly opened in 2017. According to the FSIN, there are "European standards of detention." A former pre-trial detention center agrees with such an assessment and calls the insulator “exemplary”. True, in 2016, minors of prisoners were systematically beaten there. The head of the educational work department received a suspended sentence for this. For the most part, local residents do not support Navalny (“he insulted a veteran, disgrace our country”), and politicians relate wary: they condemn his nationalist rhetoric, but recognize the benefits of filming films. And they complain that the pre -trial detention center looks the most modern against the background of the rest of the city.

Exactly 30 years ago, half a million people entered Manezhnaya Square. We talked with the organizer of the rally

On March 10, 1991, people left, demanding the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev and calling for vote against the All -Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR. One of the organizers of the action - Mikhail Schneider - told how, perhaps, the largest opposition action in the history of the country was passed . And how it was possible to avoid crush and clashes with security forces.

Coronavirus

Today all the news about the pandemic one line:

• "Satellite V" will be produced in Italy . It is expected that production will begin in July, and by the end of the year they will make 10 million doses.
• The Coha Institute in Germany stated that the third wave of pandemic begins in the country.
• "Satellite V" approved in Zimbabwe , Morocco and Kenya . In total, the use of the Russian vaccine has already approved 48 countries.

Podkast "What happened"

What did Roskomnadzor learn from the unsuccessful experience of blocking telegram? And what did we learn about the "sovereign Internet" today?

After the announcement of Twitter's work, not only state sites began to work worse, but also the Yandex and Google services and QIWI payment system. The Ministry of Digital Development of Russia stated that these events are not interconnected - but the guest of today's issue, the executive director of the Internet Protection Society Mikhail Klimarev, is sure that this is not so.

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Time machine

Who leads a slowdown in Twitter in Russia?

In this section of the "Evening Medusa" we talk about the heroes that were reported earlier. Today there is a good reason to recall the text of the Medusa IT editor Maria Kolomychenko about the center of monitoring and the management of communication networks created within Roskomnadzor and about his chapter-the former FSO officer and representative of the noble missile dynasty Sergey Khutorstsev. It is he who and his employees will have to slow down Twitter .

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