Evening Medusa

In Moscow, many streets and the metro station were flooded. We spoke with the developers of the CoviVac vaccine. How to turn coronavirus into a regular flu

Good evening,

This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day. And on Mondays also about what happened over the weekend. Let's start this issue with a gospel from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In his article “On Law, Rights and Rules,” Lavrov claims that Jesus Christ was declared bisexual in Western schools. And this is oh-oh-very reminiscent of one tiktok in the "baby talk" genre .

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Pulse

The main thing - point by point

• In Moscow, there was a "super downpour" - in some areas, 70% of the monthly rainfall fell in a few hours. The streets and the metro station were flooded, in Ramenskoye a construction crane collapsed due to the wind.
• The American ambassador announced the suspension of consular services in Russia from August 1.
• In St. Petersburg on the night of June 26, the annual holiday of graduates "Scarlet Sails" was held . Thousands of people took to the streets despite the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
• The former director of Open Russia, Andrei Pivovarov, called on Grigory Yavlinsky to nominate him to the State Duma from the Yabloko party .
• Former PMC member Alexander Ionov complained about Novaya Gazeta to the UK . Earlier, according to his denunciation, Meduza was recognized as a “foreign agent”.
• Comedian Idrak Mirzalizade said he was attacked in Moscow after being bullied because of a joke .
• Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 and a half years for the murder of African-American George Floyd.

Texts of the day

In Russia, they began to vaccinate people with CoviVacom — we talked with the developers of the vaccine

"KoviVak" was developed at the Center. M. P. Chumakova. The drug is made according to the oldest, classic technology for such drugs - and is an inactivated (“killed”) pathogen virus with the addition of an immune stimulant. KoviVac is the third registered vaccine in Russia, and so far it is not easy to find it. Was it reasonable to wait for this particular vaccine? Why did it become only the third in a row in Russia? Can we be sure that the virus in the vaccine is really "killed" and will not harm us? And did they really want to call her "Dude"? We asked these and other questions to the developers of KoviVak .

How can a person with a disability find a job? Instruction MeduzaCare

There are 3.8 million people of working age with disabilities in Russia. Only a quarter of them have jobs. For people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism, the figure is even lower, at 2%. At the same time, there are non-profit organizations in Russia that know how to remedy the situation. They help people with disabilities choose a suitable profession, find good vacancies, and the employer to prepare for the employment of a new employee. In this guide , we tell you what to do if you live with a disability and want to work.

The killer of George Floyd received 22.5 years in prison. Has the Black Lives Matter movement achieved its goals?

Short answer: probably not, although there is progress. In July 2021, the movement will be eight years old. During this time, the activists managed to win a number of tactical victories: in particular, more than a hundred laws related to the work of the police were adopted. Officers in ten states are now required to wear body cameras while on the job, and 18 states ban security forces from using chokeholds during arrest. from solving the fundamental problem of police violence in the US However, the BLM movement is still a long way .

The coronavirus

Singapore authorities have developed a plan to turn covid into a regular flu

Singapore has prepared a plan to transition to a "new normal" in the face of coexistence with the coronavirus . The authorities of the island proceed from the fact that the virus will never disappear from the human population, and therefore it is necessary to make sure that the disease it causes for most people and the whole society is no worse than the flu. For this to happen, large-scale vaccination will be needed, daily rapid testing of a large proportion of the population and all those arriving on the island, as well as total tracking of people who have been in contact with infected people and those who have been in contact with these contacts.

In Australia, where only 5% of the population is vaccinated, the delta variant has arrived. Prior to this, the country coped with the pandemic with the help of closed borders and lockdowns.

Australia's strategy has been successful : since the beginning of the pandemic, the country of 25 million people has recorded just over 30,000 cases of coronavirus infection and 910 deaths from it. But with the advent of a new strain, the incidence began to rise, and the country's government faced harsh criticism due to extremely low vaccination rates (only 5% of those fully vaccinated against about 30% in many other developed countries). The reasons for the slow vaccination are delays in the supply of drugs and the restriction on the use of the vaccine from AstraZeneca due to cases of blood clots in the vaccinated. Sydney has been in lockdown since June 26th. The government does not rule out that Australia's borders will remain closed until the end of 2022.

Other news about coronavirus:

• An outbreak of coronavirus occurred in a children's camp in Tuva. More than 70 people have been isolated .
• in Moscow For the second time in a week , the KoviVac vaccine ran out .
• The head of the British Ministry of Health Matt Hancock was photographed with his mistress. He resigned due to violating social distancing rules.
• In the Moscow MFC, a visitor without a mask was severely detained . She was charged with disobedience to a police officer.
• Iceland has lifted all restrictions imposed due to COVID-19 . 87% of the adult population has been vaccinated in the country.
• The founder and leader of the Dr. Watson group, Georgy Mamikonov , and businessman from the Forbes list, Oleg Burlakov, have died .

Podcast "What Happened"

What will Alexander Lukashenko do in the face of EU sanctions, Putin's pressure and smoldering protests in Belarus?

The new sanctions imposed after the forced landing of a Ryanair plane at the airport in Minsk deal a heavy blow to the Belarusian GDP, since Europe is the second trading partner for Belarus after the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. In the new episode of the What Happened podcast, we are talking with Belarusian political analyst Artem Shraibman about how the story of the detained Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapieha will end, how the sanctions have affected and will still affect the regime in Belarus, and whether it is worth waiting for the departure of Alexander Lukashenko (about which he seems to have announced).

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Threat of the day

Philip Kirkorov was a threat to the national security of Ukraine for three days

On June 25, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine included him in the list of persons threatening the national security of the country. The basis was a letter from the Security Service of Ukraine. Later, the department sent a new letter - with a request to withdraw the previous one. The reasons for the inclusion and exclusion of Kirkorov from the list remained unknown . The performer himself said that "if Kirkorov becomes a threat to the state, then the state can only be regretted."

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