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The president of Haiti was assassinated. Journalist Ivan Safronov has been in Lefortovo for a year now. How is the life of same-sex couples in Russia

Good evening,

This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day. To begin with, we hasten to share what is not news at all. It turns out that Marshal Georgy Zhukov was very fond of Coca-Cola - but he was afraid to drink the drink of the "imperialists" in public. After the war, a special batch of colorless cola was released for him - it was bottled without labeling, closed with white caps with a red star and sent to the Soviet occupation zone in Austria. Unfortunately, we did not understand exactly what happened to this game.

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - point by point

• of Haiti The president was assassinated . Martial law has been declared in the country. The killers have not been found, who they are - no one knows.
• in Moscow were detained Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Alexander Sofeev immediately after the end of their previous arrest. Three days ago, Pussy Riot member Veronika Nikulshina was arrested for another 15 days after 15 days of arrest.
• in Tyumen . was detained A criminal who took hostages in a Sberbank branch
• Lithuania will build a wall on the border with Belarus due to the influx of illegal migrants.
• Britney Spears' lawyer has pulled out of the custody case. For 13 years, he earned millions, but he never told the singer that she could demand that her father's guardianship be terminated.
• The defense demanded that the criminal case against Doxa journalists be closed. They are accused of involving minors in the protests. During interrogations, the minors themselves did not confirm the version of the prosecution.

Texts of the day

Journalist Ivan Safronov has been in Lefortovo for a year now. What exactly the FSB accuses him of is still not known

Ivan Safronov was detained on the morning of July 7, 2020. He is accused of collaborating with the Czech intelligence service, which collected information in the interests of the United States, and in 2017 transmitted encrypted information about Russia's military-technical cooperation with "one of the Middle Eastern African countries" via the Internet. We do not know the details, because the Safronov case, like other similar cases, is classified. And even while in jail, Ivan Safronov conducted a journalistic investigation. We don't know much about it yet, but it will be published soon. Here . - more about what happened to our colleague over the past year

"Vkusvill" was criticized for ads featuring a lesbian couple. We tell on one example how the life of such families in Russia is arranged

Do you remember what a flurry of homophobic comments and threats was caused by the advertisement of the Vkusvill supermarket chain with the participation of a lesbian couple. The worst thing is that the most important thing is left out of this discussion. Same-sex couples in Russia face enormous challenges. We talked about this with Yana and Yaroslava. They have been living together for almost nine years and they have a child. “In Russia, we are third-class people,” the girls say.

Crime reporter Pieter de Vries was seriously wounded in Amsterdam. He assisted a witness for the prosecution in the case of the most wanted criminal in the Netherlands.

Frankly, we did not really expect that this would happen in the prosperous Netherlands. Crime reporter Peter de Vries shot in the head in central Amsterdam . The journalist has been advising a prosecution witness since last year in the case of crime boss Riduan Taghi, who is accused of murder and drug trafficking. In 2019, the lawyer of this witness, Derk Wirsum, was shot dead in Amsterdam. “I am not afraid <…> This is part of the job. A crime reporter who, in really stressful moments, thinks: “The situation is getting too tense,” it would be better to work in [women's magazine] Libelle, ”said Peter de Vries.

The coronavirus

Have you seen the news that the delta often causes indigestion? Understanding what's true and what's not

In the media and social networks, they write that the delta does not cause the same symptoms as other variants of the coronavirus. Especially often - that there are "problems with the stomach." What is true about this news? And if a person does have such a disorder, does it somehow affect the treatment? We tell here .

Other news about coronavirus:

• The scientific journal Nature (one of the most respected in the world) published an article about the Sputnik V vaccine. In short, the vaccine is safe and effective, but there are questions.
• Mishustin instructed to bring the level of collective immunity to coronavirus in Russia to 80-90%.
• In Moscow, as part of the Sputnik V vaccine research program, teenagers began to be vaccinated . The program involves 100 volunteers aged 12-17 years.

Podcast "What Happened"

Why was the gay parade disrupted in Tbilisi?

Several thousand people gathered in the center of Tbilisi yesterday to speak out against the violence and for the rights of LGBT people. This happened the day after the gay parade was disrupted in the city (it was planned to be held on the evening of July 5). In both cases, counter-actions took place with the participation of those who are very dissatisfied with the appearance of rainbow flags in Georgia and "attempts to impose a rebirth." In the new episode of the podcast, we are talking with Gela Vasadze, a political scientist, an expert at the GSAC Strategic Analysis Center. How sharply do people perceive LGBT issues in Georgia? Is there a hand of Moscow here? And how influential is the Georgian Orthodox Church, which opposed the gay parade?

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