Evening Medusa

How to go around 19 countries into a pandemic. What will happen to the Russians arrested in Belarus. Chinese families were allowed to have three children

Good evening,

This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. And on Mondays, also about what happened over the weekend. We are trying to start the release with something good, and today it is the news about the Lego version of the "villages of fools" , which was made by St. Petersburg artist Artem Bizyev. Not only the main characters were deprived of the attention, but even a crazy bee! True, so far this is only a concept. Eh ...

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Pulse

The main thing is by points

• Database from the site "Freedom Navalny!" The former FBK officer (recognized in Russia by a foreign agent) Fedor Gorozhanko stole, follows from the investigation of the fund. Gorozhanko himself denies his involvement in the leak.
• Lukashenko and Putin have been held by the third since the beginning of the yearnegotiations in Sochi . They were discussed, among other things, Sofia Sapieha . Even the presidents had lunch on the yacht - these personnel were dismantled for memes .
• In China, families were allowed to have three children -after the worst of the year of the year since the 1960s.
• The new railway station was opened in Moscow - the first in 100 years.
• Under Novosibirsk, the policeman "involuntarily" shot a 19-year-old man who tried to recapture a detained acquaintance.
• The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu announced the creation of 20 new military formations in the west of Russia in response to NATO actions.
• One of the oldest news editions of Runet was closed - Newsru.com . The site has been working since August 2000.

The texts of the day

What will happen to the Russians arrested in Belarus by the Russians Sophia Sapieha and Yegor Dudnikov ?

The Kremlin said that Russia “de jure could raise a question” about the transfer of Sapieha. However, the Belarusian authorities said that the court would definitely take place in Belarus. We tried to figure out what is happening with the help of the head of the international practice of the Human Rights Group "Agora" Kirill Koroteev. One thing can be said for sure: at first the Russians should condemn the Belarusian court. Then Russia must submit a request for extradition. If Belarus believes that the crimes are committed on its territory, she is not obliged to issue Sapuga and Dudnikov.

You may have heard that the Russians living abroad will be forced to return for a new passport. Calm: it's not

The confusion arose due to the publication of the “parliamentary newspaper” on the entry into force on May 30 of Order No. 186 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated March 31, 2021. The material was quoted by other publications - in particular, RIA Novosti. In general, if you do not go into the citation of the special regulations of the Foreign Ministry and the Federal Law on the procedure for leaving and entering the country, then nothing has changed for the Russians living abroad .

Coronavirus

Why did the European Union still have not approved the "satellite V" - although the scientific article about the vaccine was released four months ago?

In short, even publications in such an authoritative publication as The Lancet are not enough. The World Health Organization and the European Medical Agency should still be approved by the vaccine. These examinations are very different from what is happening when writing a scientific article. In particular, they should answer the question of whether the advantages of registering a vaccine are the risks that may occur during its practical application. It may well turn out that the “satellite V” is generally the best vaccine on the planet. But this still needs to be proved .

During the pandemic, Alexei Lossan managed to visit 19 countries - and told us what the difficulties of such travels and where to go first of all

Alexey Lossan is a very, very experienced traveler and journalist. In total, he visited more than 150 countries and did not abandon his hobby even because of Covid. During the pandemic, he visited 19 countries, including Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Morocco. We talked with him about traveling during the pandemic and the most interesting countries of the world . Including about those where you may start to extort a bribe.

Advertisers from Russia offered European bloggers money for publishing fakes about the mortal danger of Western vaccines. "Medusa" found out who they are

In the second half of May, French and German bloggers and journalists received a proposal from a certain advertising agency to place information about the danger of Pfizer vaccine - without referring to the fact that this is an advertising campaign, and not mentioning its customer, which remained unknown. It turned out that the traces of this campaign are leading to Moscow . In particular, several legal entities associated with the agency are led by Julia Serebryanskaya, who had previously worked in United Russia. We talked with a former employee of this agency and are going to continue the investigation of this story.

And something else about coronavirus

Sergei Sobyanin explained the May surge of incidence in Moscow. The summer residents (not barbecues, as last year) were guilty .

Podkast "What happened"

Previously, the Chinese government restrained the birth rate, and now, on the contrary, stimulates it. Why?

Since 1979, in China, the policy "One family - one child" was pursued. In 2015, families were allowed to have two children, and now there are already three. The 2020 census showed that only 12 million people were born in the country. Fumigation in China is now below German. According to the forecast of the international team of scientists, if the trend is preserved, then by 2100 the population of China will be reduced by almost half - to 730 million people. In the new issue of podcast, we are discussing Chinese demography with Elena Bazhenova, a leading researcher at the Center for Political Studies and Forecasts of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Analytics of the day

Hidden meanings in a box of matches

In the negotiation hall, where Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko met, there is a fireplace. And next to him are matches. Further follow your hands: the box was made in March 2014. “It was then that the tension in the international arena began to rapidly intensify. All these years, the West does everything in order to light new foci of instability in the post -Soviet space , ”says the special correspondent of the Moscow program. Kremlin. Putin ”(and the author of the plot about how Putin caught a pencil ) Pavel Zarubin. And we have nothing to object to him. Bravo!

Eh, sorry, Pavel Zarubin did not consider the number of matches in the box. How many new we could find out! Your "Medusa"