Evening Medusa

How Yekaterinburg became the "capital of the street art." Bill and Melinda Gates part after 27 years of marriage. What Joe Biden managed to do in the post

Good evening,

This is the daily Medusa newsletter about important news of the day (and long weekend), where we should now also write that the Ministry of Justice has declared us a “foreign agent”. Today's good news is about the puppy of the Bernky Zennenhund breed named Misany, who really wanted to play with his master . Everything would be nothing, that’s just the owner of Misnich - the President of Ireland Michael Higgins, and at that very moment he tried to give an interview to reporters.

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

Payments to veterans for Victory Day in Russia were many times less than in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan : 10 thousand rubles against 175 thousand and 86 thousand, respectively.
Bill and Melinda Gates are divorced after 27 years of marriage.
Yuri Dud published a carved fragment of an interview with Ivangay - after he called him a “sake”. It was a fragment about the Holodomor, the NKVD and the War of Ukraine with Russia.
Ethereum founder Vitaly Butaterin became the youngest billionaire in the world , who earned a state of cryptocurrency.
Italy from May 3 resumed the issuance of tourist visas in Moscow.
The Russian government forbadeto take buckwheat from the country in the summer.
Zenit became the Russian football champion for the third time in a row. The Lokomotiv, who played with Zenit, announced the “flagrant attitude” to his fans : they were taken away from the stadium and kept on buses.
In Mexico City, under the metro train, the bridge collapsed . At least 20 people were killed, dozens were injured.

The texts of the day

As street artists of Yekaterinburg, they proclaimed, and then made the city the "capital of street art"

If you follow street art, then you probably heard the names of Timofei for the sake of the glory of the PTRK, Vladimir Abih, Roma Inca, Ovsyan and others. And if you do not follow and did not hear, then most likely they saw any of their work. All of them either started, or still work in Yekaterinburg. There are a lot of street art (including protest), and communal workers practically do not fight with it. Moreover: local authorities approved and financed the whole legal festival of street art-however, then he had a “partisan” opponent. The Special Corps of Medusa Andrei Pertsev studied the history of street art of Yekaterinburg and talked with the artists .

More than a third of employees resigned from the BaseCAMP software production company - after they were forbidden to discuss policy at work

The leadership decided to introduce such a ban on the list in which BaseCamp employees introduced the names of customers that seemed strange or funny to them. The list has existed since the beginning of the 2000s, but over time it began to be considered inappropriate and even racist-it had many African American and Asian names. Employees wanted to discuss the list, but the managers refused to hold such a meeting. And one of the employees remembered how he himself laughed at the name of one of the clients. Later, conversations on political topics in work chats were finally banned . Among those who left the company are the head of the marketing department, the head of the design department and the head of the customer support service.

For several years, the FSB followed the editor -in -chief of “important stories” by Roman Anin and his colleagues. All because of the photo from the closed instagram of the ex-wife of Igor Sechin

In 2016, while still working in Novaya Gazeta, Roman Anin wrote a text about the then wife of the head of Rosneft Olga Sechina. Due to the material against Anin, a criminal case was opened, and a month ago he had a search. The violation of the law in the UK was considered exactly the fact that in the article Anina published a photo from a closed Instagram account by Sechina, to which about 400 people were signed. The case led several investigators related to resonant criminal cases - in particular, the work of the “new greatness” and the work of the “seventh studio”. According to Anin, it is followed by the FSB unit, known as the Sechinsky Special Forces , the sixth service of the Office of its own security (USB) of the FSB.

Coronavirus

Today is short

Turkey tightens Lokdown from May 7.
In the 76th year of life, the People's Artist of Russia, a trainer of wild animals, Mikhail Bagdasarov, died .
WHO approved by the use of Moderna vaccine . This is the fifth drug recommended by the organization, the “satellite V” is not yet.
Oktoberfest will not pass the second year in a row .

Podkast "What happened"

We summarize the first hundred days of the presidency of Joe Biden

During this time, the new American president managed, for example, to quarrel with Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to return the United States to WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement. He also doubled the pace of vaccination from Covid and presented the largest US modernization plan in 75 years (worth two trillion dollars). We discuss the results and possible consequences of 100 days Bayden with Nadezhda Shvedova. She is a doctor of political sciences, head of the Center for Social and Political Studies of the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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

And a couple of words about the salvation of "Medusa"

On April 29, we launched the collection of donates - after we were declared a “foreign agent” and practically deprived of advertising income. The first intermediate results: we have not yet been saved, but for a couple of months we will definitely stretch! It remains only to get out of the rubble from touching letters and posts with admission to love . Thank you very much! You are the best ❤️❤️❤️

And yet - answers to two important questions:

We will definitely survive, your "Medusa"