Evening Medusa

We answer questions about the investigation of the scale of the pandemic in Russia. What Lebanon looks like a year after the explosion in the port of Beirut. Is the Kurds really standing behind forest fires in Turkey

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This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. At the beginning of today's issue, we rejoice at the successes of Reese Witherspoon and Rihanna. The first sold its film company for $ 900 million , and the second Forbes was estimated at 1.7 billion dollars .

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• The court refused to cancel the decision on the recognition of the FBK with an “extremist organization” (the fund was liquidated by court decision, earlier it was recognized as a “foreign agent”) .
• The Belarusian runner Kristina Timanovskaya flew to Vienna . She changed the flight at the last moment, and her plane did not fly over Belarus.
• The prosecutor asked for Oleg Navalnya year conditionally in the "sanitary case".
• Lev Schlosberg was allowed to elections to the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies. Previously, it was refused to register due to relations with the FBK.
• Passenger trains collided in the Czech Republic. At least two people were killed, at least 50 were injured.
• The President of Blizzard (the publisher of World of Warcraft and Diablo) quit the company's discrimination and harassment.
• Synchronists won the 14th gold of the Olympics for Russia.
• In Minsk, the trial of one of the opposition leaders Maria Kolesnikova began. We retold her interview “Rain”.

The texts of the day

Quir-family, who starred in the advertising "Vastiville", and then left Russia due to threats, gave an interview to Karen Shainyan

Here is a fragment from our reservation of the interview : “When we were going to act for the article“ Tasteville ”, we thought we would talk about veganism, sorting garbage, about how personal responsibility is important to us. We hoped that people would see our love, kindness, families. Why should we protect our love, why is our love worse than someone else? Cool one dude on YouTube said: “Girls are sitting, ribbons from the cakes are sorted, why are you sticking to them?” ”

The head of the Xsolla created in Perm Fired 150 people after analyzing their online activity

XSOLLA is engaged in processing payments in video games. In 2020, the company's revenue amounted to $ 67 million. About 150 employees of the Perm and foreign offices of XSOLLA received letters about the dismissal. The decision was made on the basis of the analysis, which was conducted by the Big Date team. Employees were recognized as “involuntary and unproductive” , based on their activity in work services and instant messengers. The founder of the XSOLLA Alexander Agapitov promised to help the dismissed employees get a new place where they will "get more and work less."

Coronavirus

How many people were ill with Covid in Russia? Hardly less than 40 million

Medusa, together with the Mediazone and Cold, once again studied the Covid-19 federal register, and also compared the information from it with other information on the Covid epidemic in Russia-and came to the conclusion that even the authorities provide completely distorted information on the basis of which they make decisions on various anti-retaining measures. The source of the Medusa, familiar with the work of the register at all levels of access, explains: “Back in April last year, when the shaft [coronavirus diseases] went, there was an unspoken indication to underestimate [the number of diagnoses“ Covid ”]. In May of this year, when it became clear that vaccination fails, they allowed to introduce [real diagnoses] of all [real -sick covid]. ”

Photo of the day

How was the year in Lebanon after the explosion in the port of Beirut. The disaster has practically destroyed the country's economy

The explosion that occurred on August 4, 2020 became one of the most destructive industrial disasters in the history of mankind. More than 200 people were killed, thousands were seriously injured. The infrastructure of the Lebanese capital suffered severe damage, estimated at billions of dollars. Lebanon was in a deep economic crisis before the explosion - but the catastrophe in the port of it has many times aggravated. The currency has depreciated almost ten times, there are not enough drugs in pharmacies, at gas stations - gasoline, the light was turned off several times throughout the country. The ruins of the port and the quarters destroyed by the explosion in its vicinity are unusual. Looking at these photos is hard.

Podkast "What happened"

Fires in southern Turkey can stand radical Kurds. What do they want to achieve?

For a week, the South of Turkey (including popular resorts) has been covered by forest fires. Eight people died, hundreds were injured. The Kurdish group "Children of Fire" took responsibility for fires. Could they really go for it? How do Kurds fight for their independence and why do they still have no state? The associate professor of the School of Historical Sciences and the School of Oriental Studies of the Higher Superior Alexei Muravyov explains.

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Meeting the day

The Russian folk choir welcomed the Olympic champion Vitalina Batsarashkin with a song from "Witcher"

The athlete returned to her native Omsk with two gold and one silver medals of games in Tokyo. They met her as expected: applause and Russian folk choir, who performed the very song about a minted coin. Batsarashkina, it seems, was satisfied and sang along with the choir . At the competition, the athlete often put on medallions with the symbols of “Witcher” - and eventually received congratulations from CD Projekt Red, developers of the series of the video game of the same name. And now also such a trick!

Let’s already the second season “Witcher”. With Vitalina! Your "Medusa"