Evening Medusa

“Electricity is state-owned, I ask you not to use it.” Putin wrote an article about the history of Ukraine. Jackie Chan is a communist

Good evening,

This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day. And on Mondays we also talk about what happened over the weekend.

Let's start with an amazing story. A British soldier's parachute did not fully open during a training jump. We don’t even know if it’s appropriate to say that he was very unlucky. Because then he was very lucky : he fell on a residential building, broke through the roof and ended up in the kitchen - while avoiding serious injuries. The home's neighbor Rose Martin, who works as a nurse, said what we were all thinking: “I think it's a miracle. I mean, who lands like that without a parachute and survives?”

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - point by point (today is not only the main thing, sorry, we couldn’t resist)

• The first mass protests since 1994 are taking place in Cuba. Residents of the country demand medicines and vaccines against covid.
• Vladimir Putin wrote an article about the history of Ukraine. Here is her (as brief as possible) retelling .
• Ilya Yashin resigned from his post as head of the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow. He complained about pressure from the prosecutor's office.
• Jackie Chan (remember, he is from Hong Kong) said that he wants to join the Communist Party of China.
• A St. Petersburg deputy was not allowed to recharge his phone at the election commission because “the electricity is state-owned, I will ask you not to use it.”
• Maria Zakharova told a “mind-blowing story”: a US Embassy employee stole a sign on the railway in the Tver region.

Texts of the day

Italy is European champion

Last night, in the final match with the English at Wembley, the Italians won on penalties. To put it very briefly, this is how it was (and it was extremely nervous, five penalties were missed, the goalkeepers were top!). On Russian television, the match was commentated by Vladimir Stognienko. After the game, at Meduza’s request, he spoke about his work and his impressions. And journalist Alexandra Vladimirova, living in London, wrote a report about what happened in the British capital on the day of the final and the day before - when the British sang “It's coming home” and believed that their team would finally take the trophy.

Billionaire Richard Branson flew into space on his own spacecraft

The founder of Virgin Galactic went on a suborbital flight aboard the VSS Unity rocket plane. Along with him were two pilots and three more passengers. Here we followed the flight in detail - and were very worried. Everything went great - just look at these photos . There will be another start on July 20th. Jeff Bezos will go into space (as well as 82-year-old pilot Wally Funk , who waited 60 years for the flight). The popularizer of astronautics, Alexander Khokhlov, told us in detail about the spaceships of the two billionaires.

Looks like we have a new New Year's movie - with maniacs, corpses and hallucinations

Kirill Serebrennikov’s film “Petrovs in the Flu” was shown in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Anton Dolin writes that this picture incredibly accurately describes the moment in which humanity is stuck today : “Of course, neither the director nor the author of the source novel, Yekaterinburg writer Alexey Salnikov, planned this. All the more striking is the appropriateness of the shown total epidemic, where everyone coughs, has a fever, loses consciousness, and endlessly infects each other in a circle. They crowd into the same spaces, fall out of reality into hallucinations, and from them into the next, completely insane waking dreams.”

Coronavirus

Many people want to get vaccinated with CoviVac and even stand in line to get it. Is this really such a good vaccine?

In Moscow, queues lined up for vaccination with CoviVac, a drug produced by the M.P. Center. Chumakova. On Saturday, people stood in front of the Healthy Moscow pavilions in 30-degree heat, but for many there was not enough vaccine: a batch of 12 thousand doses ran out in less than 24 hours. Excessive demand for CoviVac is also observed in some regions. What kind of vaccine is this? Why do people want to get vaccinated with CoviVac? Is it better than Sputnik V? We answer in our cards .

Other news about coronavirus:

• The authorities of St. Petersburg said that “Scarlet Sails” (where the crowd gathered) did not affect the increase in the incidence rate in the city. The Dozhd TV channel, meanwhile, discovered strange changes in St. Petersburg morbidity statistics.
• The St. Petersburg crematorium is operating at full capacity. Funeral companies have decided to bury those who died from coronavirus for free .
• The Federal Air Transport Agency has obliged pilots and flight attendants to take Covid tests at least once every three days. Airlines asked to cancel checks.

Podcast “What Happened”

What is the nomenclature of Russia now? And how did the “young technocrats” (whom no one had time to remember) already be replaced by “new wave managers”?

“What Happened” went on hiatus for two weeks, but as we promised, Saturday episodes continue to appear. This time, Meduza special correspondent Andrei Pertsev and political commentator and sociologist Konstantin Gaase talked about how the civil service is structured in Russia. Who are the technocrats who were mentioned so much in politics just recently? Who does the ruling class consist of? How to make a career in power?

Listen to “What Happened” on Meduza and on YouTube , and also subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Music and other podcast services.

Forgetfulness of the day

A book that was taken there in 1709 has been returned to the library of Sheffield Cathedral - 312 years ago! “The book came back to us because a lady from Wales found it among the belongings of her deceased godmother. The woman's will asked that the book be returned to the cathedral, said the Rev. Keith Farrow, deputy rector. They promised to put the book on display in the temple.

I wanted to go to the library. Your "Medusa"