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How now to get from Belarus to Europe. Why such an interest in the duel of two little people. Is it true that Russia is a country of victorious patriarchy

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - point by point

• The Belarusian pro-government telegram channel published a video with Russian Sofya Sapega: she admits that she allegedly published personal data of the security forces . According to Novaya Gazeta, Sapega is accused of organizing riots .
• Alyaksandr Lukashenka commented on the forced landing of a Ryanair plane : a message about the mines came from Switzerland, the Belarusian authorities acted according to the law, Roman Protasevich is a terrorist.
• The “Law against FBK” (the fund is recognized in Russia as a “foreign agent”) was adopted in the third reading . Now people who worked in extremist organizations or donated to them will not be able to participate in elections of any level.
• Lawyers were forbidden to bring telephones and dictaphones into the colony .
• New Hampshire authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Marilyn Manson on charges of assaulting a videographer.
• Amazon buys Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio for $8.45 billion .
• At Baikonur, on the unfinished Buran, they wrote "Yura, we have arrived . "

Texts of the day

We explain who Hasbik and Abdurozik are - participants in the "main battle of the year"

Hasbik and Abdurozik is a Dagestan blogger and singer from Tajikistan. Their total weight is less than 40 kilograms. The video from their impromptu press conference has over 10 million views. This is more than a similar video before the fight between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov. At Meduza’s request, Alexey Alekhin, a sports journalist and author of a blog about martial arts, explains why the fight between two little people attracted such interest, can it be considered a sport, and what is pop MMA .

The European Union closes air communication with Belarus. What does this mean for Belarusians and Russians?

It will be extremely difficult to fly from Belarus to Europe very soon - all because of the arrest of Roman Protasevich. Many major Western airlines have refused to fly over Belarusian territory. It has become more difficult for ordinary Belarusians (including opposition-minded) to leave for Europe. In addition, some transit passengers from Russia also used the Minsk airport. However, it is still possible to change seats in Istanbul. But if Turkish airlines stop communicating with Belarus, it will become very bad .

A fugitive Turkish mafia boss became a YouTube star and provoked a political crisis in Turkey: he accuses the authorities of corruption and murders - and admits that he himself participated in this

Sedat Peker, 49, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2007 for creating and leading a criminal gang. In 2014, he was released, and in 2020 he fled Turkey. Now he posts videos on YouTube accusing the country's leading politicians (including President Erdogan's closest associates) of contract killings, rape and corruption. Peker also talks about cooperation between organized crime and the Turkish authorities. His videos have already provoked a political crisis in Turkey . The attempts of the authorities to cope with it only exacerbate the problem.

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The coronavirus

Today in a nutshell:

• in Moscow restaurants Sergei Sobyanin proposed creating “coronavirus-free zones” for visitors who have been vaccinated.
• Slovakia has registered Sputnik V. Because of the support for this vaccine, the country's prime minister left his post in March.
• The US has fully vaccinated half of its adult population —nearly 130 million people.

Podcast "What Happened"

Is Russia really a country of victorious patriarchy?

Singer Manizha took ninth place at Eurovision with a feminist song. From the moment it became known that it was Manizha who would represent Russia at the competition, negative comments fell upon her, including xenophobic and misogynistic ones. Does this reaction indicate that Russian society is traditionalist? And what values ​​do Russians share in principle? We asked Candidate of Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at the European University at St. Petersburg Veronika Kostenko about this.

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question of the day

Why does Lakhta Center 2 resemble a sawn-off unicorn horn?

Gazprom is going to build another skyscraper in St. Petersburg, this time with a height of 703 meters. For comparison: the height of the first Lakhta Center is 462 meters, and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is 828 meters. The architecture of the tower reminded the Russians of a sawn-off unicorn horn (well, or an icicle). About why the new skyscraper turned out just like that , we talked with Alexander Semenov, a researcher of architecture and design and the author of the telegram channel "Romanticism Enema".

We propose to create a “coronavirus-free zone” the size of the whole of Russia, your Meduza