Evening Medusa

Who is behind the recognition of the "Medusa" "ino -agent". The US Embassy will cease to issue visas to Russians. Why Brazil refused to buy "satellite V"

Good evening,

This is the daily Medusa newsletter about important news of the day, where we should now also write that the Ministry of Justice has declared us a “foreign agent”. By the way, you have a chance to make this warning more beautifully (or even more crazy). Before we move on to the news, look at the duck . But not on a simple, but on a gigantic one. She also stands like a penguin!

Subscribe to our newsletter and share a link in social networks or messenger.

Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

The day began with the search and detention of lawyer Ivan Pavlov , the head of the human rights project “Team 29”. He protects the FBK (recognized in Russia by a “foreign agent”) and Ivan Safronov.
The US Embassy in Russia from May 12 stops issuing all visas except diplomatic.
Rosfinmonitoring included the public movement “Navalny’s headquarters” in the list of extremists. Such a movement does not legally exist.
The Account of the Project publication on Instagram was assigned the status of a deceased user . Now the editors cannot publish anything there.
Russiabanned the entry of the chairman of the European Parliament.
The physicist Viktor Kudryavtsev, accused of Gosizman, died .

The texts of the day

What is known about the detention of Ivan Pavlov

Pavlov was detained in the morning in the room of the Mercur hotel. It was brought to him the case of the disclosure of the preliminary investigation data. Pavlov himself later specified that he was detained because of the case of journalist Ivan Safronov, accused of Gosizman. With searches, they came to the colleagues of Ivan Pavlov on the “team 29” in St. Petersburg, his wife and to him in the country. “Team 29” represents the interests of the structures of Alexei Navalny in the case of recognition by extremist organizations. We also talked with the colleague of Pavlov Evgeny Smirnov . Smirnov spoke about the threats that he himself and Pavlov received from the investigator Alexei Chaban. He investigates both the case of Ivan Safronov and the case of the scientist Viktor Kudryavtsev.

Who is behind the recognition of Medusa by a “foreign agent”? So far there are two versions

The first version: we were brought into the “foreign agents” in response to the fact that the Latvian authorities are pursuing the publications “Sputnik Latvia” and Baltnews, part of the Russia Today MIA. With a request to recognize the “Medusa” “ino -agent”, the chief editor of RT Margarita Simonyan turned to the first deputy head of AP Alexei Gromov. Simonyan herself denies this.

The second version: this is the initiative not by the AP, but the Security Council. According to the Medusa source close to the government, the president’s operational meeting with the constant members of the Security Council discussed that the majority of the “foreign financing in Russian” should receive the status of “foreign agent”. There is no “clear list” of such media, but we can talk, in particular, about the BBC.

The authorities pretend that there is nothing wrong with the recognition of Medusa by a foreign agent. Independent media leaders explain why this is a lie

We talked with the chief editors and leaders of independent media: “rain”, “important stories”, “project”, “cold” and others about what in fact means the recognition of “Medusa” “ino -agent” for us, our readers and the media market as a whole.Spoiler: Nothing good .

Coronavirus

Brazil refused to buy a “satellite V” because of the “living” adenovirus, which can cause an infection in a person. What does this mean?

In the Russian vaccine, attention was found - replicating, that is, capable of breeding and infecting human cells adenoviruses. Despite the fact that the “satellite V” is made on the basis of adenoviruses, the viable adenoviruses themselves in the vaccine should not be. The Russian side said that the drug has no adenovirus replication. However, the risk of this problem, apparently, exists due to the technology chosen by the developers of the "satellite". We tried to figure out the dispute .

Other news about coronavirus:

Turkey approved the use of the Sputnik V vaccine - two weeks after Russia suspended flights to this country.
In St. Petersburg, coronavirus restrictions were extended until the end of May.
France will begin to cancel the quarantine on May 3, and will end on June 30. From June 9 , foreign tourists will begin to let in (but only those who have vaccinated or illuminated).

Podkast "What happened"

We are talking with colleague Ivan Pavlov Valeria Vetoshkina

Vetoshkina worked with Pavlov on the case of recognition of the FBK (recognized as a “foreign agent”) with an extremist organization. She tells how the “team 29” confronts the FSB, why Pavlov’s search is a new level of pressure on society and what the lunge towards lawyers may be connected.

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

Photo of the day

A huge billboard with a coin appeared on Times Square in New York. Looks impressive, that is, like this

SPOTIFY A billboard with the Russian singer posted the Spotify music service as part of the initiative to support women in the Equal musical industry

💼 Sponsor of mailing

The sponsor of this evening jellyfish is Raiffeisenbank . The bank’s team tries to make the life of entrepreneurs easier-it helps with documents and tax when opening an individual entrepreneur, and also provides free online accounting, a convenient mobile bank and acquiring. Together with Raiffeisenbank, we prepared the shortest explanation in what situations the entrepreneur can cost a personal account (few of them), and in which the current account is needed.

If we were paid every time we write about the status of "foreign -agent" ... Your "Medusa"