Evening Medusa

The Law Against the FBC will be softened and tightened. Elon Musk spoke at the Russian educational forum. We recall the life of Andrei Sakharov - a scientist, human rights activist and dissident

Good evening,

This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. To begin with, the news marked "Lightning": Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov shaved his mustache! Look at his upper lip right now - this can be done for the first time since 2017.

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• The “law against the FBK” (the Fund is recognized in Russia by the “foreign agent”) will amend. On the one hand, it will be extended to the elections of all levels , and even those who simply supported extremist organizations in words will be chosen to be chosen. On the other hand, the law will not have retroactive force , as it was originally conceived.
• Israel and Hamas agreed on the ceasefire . The militants announced the "victory", and the Israeli army - the success of a military operation.
• Elon Musk spoke at the Economic Forum “New Knowledge” - and, in particular, said that Tesla would appear in Russia soon .
• In the city of Berezniki, the Perm Territory, a student of the lyceumattacked a teacher with a knife . She was hospitalized, the student was detained.
• In the forest belt in Kazan , diamonds and decorations of 160 million rubles stolen during the 2018 World Cup were found . The kidnapper was a citizen of Colombia.
• Rospotrebnadzor will check how toys the Simple-B. and pop-out toys affect children .

Theme of the day

Today it turned 100 since the birth of Andrei Sakharov - a scientist, human rights activist, dissident and Nobel laureate

We gathered a chronicle of how, after decades of confrontation with the authorities, links and several hunger strikes, the nuclear physicist Sakharov defeated the Soviet system-but he himself managed to find only the first signs of the new time. Look at Sakharov’s life in photographs .

Also , the text of the journalist Andrei Loshak about the life of Sakharov and the law enforcement officer came out at Medusa. It is based on the script for the documentary about Soviet dissidents, which Losk wrote in the early 2010s. The series was never shot; Only one part of it, the Rain TV channel released the film "Anatomy of the Process". Another fragment of the script - about punitive psychiatry - was published by the Arzamas project.

Coronavirus

Sergei Sobyanin said that vaccination in Moscow is going too slowly ( we agree with this ). And also-that in Europe the vaccination costs one and a half to two thousand euros. But this is not so

Sobyanin, speaking at a meeting with the "activists of the North-East of Moscow", said that "the percentage of vaccinated in Moscow is less than in any European city, and for some-at times." He called the current situation “very offensive” and added that in Russia the vaccine is free, and “in Europe it costs one and a half to two thousand euros”. In fact, for the population of the European Union and the countries that are not included in it , the vaccine is as free as in Russia . There is, of course, San Marino, where they organized a business on vaccination of tourists. But even there, a “satellite V” vaccine costs only 50 euros, that is, 30–40 times less than Sobyanin says.

Other news about coronavirus:

• Rospotrebnadzor admitted that the Indian version of the virus came to Russia : more than ten sick were revealed. On May 13, Kommersant reported this, but then the department denied everything .
• Until May 25, the court closed the central children's store on Lubyanka, where there was a long -term meeting with the actors of the film "Major Thunder".
• The authorities of Buryatia announced the third wave of pandemia and tightened restrictions.

Podkast "What happened"

Beijing promised that he would live with Hong Kong as “one country - two systems”, but violated the promise. And in response received an increase in the movement for the independence of the city

China continues to increase pressure on independent political figures of Hong Kong. Activists receive real terms for participation in 2019 protests and in a procession in memory of the events of 1989 on Tiananmen Square. And in April of this year, the PRC made it so that the Political Politics controlled by Beijing will be able to go to the Hong Kong parliament. Why is China go to the course of the full curtailing of the autonomy of the city, despite the protests and increased pressure of the West? And how does China’s strict policy leads to an increase in Hong Kong's independence? We speak with the Chinesist Temur Umarov.

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The illusion of the day

Eiffel Tower inflated over a deserted canyon

This is the work of the French artist JR. To achieve such an effect, he glued black and white murals with the image of rocks and the tower itself and the fence. It turned out very beautifully!

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