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Cherchesov fired from the Russian team. Soon it will be possible to fly to the resorts of Egypt. The Teletubbies got vaccinated

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This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day. As usual, let's start with the good news - and this time without any jokes. Stanislav Cherchesov was fired from the Russian national football team. Here - details about his five years as head coach of the team (and the fact that he considered his post a "public position" and himself a "soldier of his country"). And here - as briefly as possible about how cool it was in the summer of 2018 at the home World Cup and how sad it was in the summer of 2021 at the Euro.

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - point by point

• in Moscow A delegation of the Taliban arrived , an Afghan movement recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization whose activities are banned (we indicate this at the request of the authorities).
• Belarus continues to destroy independent media. to the employees of the Nasha Niva publication Searches came , the editor-in-chief was detained, the site was blocked . Similarly, Tut.by, the largest news resource in Belarus, was recently smashed.
• Maria Alyokhina was given 15 days of arrest immediately after she served another 15 days. She was detained as soon as she left the detention center.
• Haitian police have shot and killed four suspects in the assassination of the country's president. Two more were detained.
• The Ministry of Finance proposed to increase insurance premiums from salaries above 122 thousand rubles a month.
• In Florida, they stopped searching for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed 12-story building. 54 people died. 86 people were not found.

Texts of the day

The New Yorker told how custody of Britney Spears works - with frightening details

The singer has been under the guardianship of her father since 2008. He controls literally everything in her life - from money to the intrauterine device. And he's assisted by a whole team of other guardians and court-appointed trustees. Britney ended up in custody amid problems with alcohol and drugs, as well as a divorce and a dispute with her ex-husband over parental rights to two sons. She has been trying to return to an independent life for a long time, but the court does not allow this. The New Yorker released a detailed article about Britney's life - here's her not-so-brief retelling . One of the authors of the article is journalist Ronan Farrow, the author of high-profile publications that laid the foundation for the #MeToo movement.

The creator of the American PMC Blackwater was going to organize a private army in Ukraine

Blackwater is an American private security company founded in 1997 by former Navy SEAL Eric Prince and shooting coach Al Clark. She has worked in Iraq and Afghanistan. The most famous episode with her participation is the massacre of civilians in Baghdad in 2007. Time magazine found out that in 2020, Erik Prince was going to create a PMC in Ukraine and recruit war veterans in the Donbass there. Prince met with former adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Igor Novikov and head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak, and also expected to use connections in the administration of US President Donald Trump. But after the defeat of Trump in the elections, all plans fell through.

The coronavirus

Today is very short:

• The decree banning flights from Russia to Egyptian resorts has been cancelled. When flights will resume and how many there will be, is still unclear.
• In Moscow, opened the first criminal case on the purchase of a fake QR code.
• Visiting summer verandas in Moscow without QR codes was allowed until August 1.
• The Moscow Mayor's Office to a private company will transfer a surveillance system for patients with covid . The company will not have access to personal data.

Podcast "What Happened"

The Taliban are advancing in Afghanistan, and this threatens Tajikistan, which has already asked for help from Russia. Putin will have to get involved in a new Afghan conflict?

The Taliban movement (the same terrorist organization whose representatives came to Moscow for negotiations) after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan continues to attack government forces and is actively operating in the border areas with Tajikistan. Vladimir Putin has already promised to help Tajikistan. This country hosts the 201st Russian military base, the largest Russian military facility outside the country. Can the Taliban go on the offensive in Tajikistan? Will Russia enter a new Afghan war? We are talking about this with the foreign policy correspondent of the Kommersant publishing house, Kirill Krivosheev, who recently returned from Tajikistan.

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Tweet of the day

Tinky Winky, Dipsy, La-La and Po have been vaccinated. Such a message appeared on the Teletubbies twitter. The result is thousands of comments, tens of thousands of retweets and hundreds of thousands of likes. We would never have dared to write about this without asking our medical editor Daria Sargsyan for a comment. Read here !

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