Evening Medusa

Open Media, MBKh Media and Pravozashchita Postcards have stopped working. Can stylist Sergei Zverev win the Duma elections. HSE students report harassment by teacher

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This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day. Today, choosing something good to start mailing is especially difficult. There is good news, which, however, looks like little consolation: Yulia Navalnaya came for a long meeting with her husband - the first since his detention. Instagram posts by Yulia and Alexei turned out to be very touching: about love, sorrel borscht and the value of simple moments of life.

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - point by point

• Last night, Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of Open Media, MBKh Media, and Pravozashchita Postcards in Russia. Today they all announced the termination of work .
• in a village in Khakassia A family of five was killed . The murder suspect was released a few weeks ago after 18 years in prison.
• Alexander Lukashenko instructed to close "every meter of the border" from the south and west - against the background of the migration crisis .
• Four students of the Higher School of Economics reported harassment by a teacher. The university advised to talk about it through word of mouth.
• The Russian submarine "Orel" has lost its course off the coast of Denmark. It began to be carried away by the current towards the island of Seyere.
• The Russian team won the 15th and 16th gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. They were brought by boxer Albert Batyrgaziev and wrestler Zaur Uguev .

Texts of the day

Buryatia is one of the few regions of Russia where the results of the elections to the State Duma may surprise

The Communist Party candidate Bair Tsyrenov, the United Russia candidate Vyacheslav Damdintsurov and the candidate from the small and almost unknown Green party, shocking showman and stylist Sergei Zverev compete here. At first, no one took Zverev seriously, but polls show that he is almost on a par with United Russia and the communist. Meduza special correspondent Andrei Pertsev went to Buryatia to find out on the spot how the election campaigns of his main rivals are going and whether his stylized Buryat outfits, references to Iosif Kobzon and actions in defense of Lake Baikal will help Sergei Zverev become a State Duma deputy from the Republic of Buryatia.

What happened after 150 Xsolla employees were fired due to "non-involvement" (which was shown by "big date")

The mass dismissal based on algorithms became known the day before. The founder of Xsolla, Alexander Agapitov, explained the decision by the fact that the company stopped showing 40 percent growth. To compensate for this, the company decided to part with the 10% of the lowest paid employees. After a video conference during which Agapitov answered questions from those interested, he wrote on Facebook that he was looking for "an involved PR person in Russia", and then published a post: "********** [work hard] or *** ****** [get out of here]!” The tactics chosen by Agapitov were criticized by HR specialists and users of social networks, and the legality of layoffs at Xsolla will be checked by Rostrud and the prosecutor's office . And they made a lot of great memes on this topic .

Alexander Lukashenko found new enemies - human rights activists and environmentalists. They were immediately declared agents of the West and "liquidated"

The Belarusian authorities launched an attack on non-profit organizations of various kinds - human rights, environmental, educational and cultural. Security forces come with searches to activists and their relatives, dozens of NGOs are liquidated without explanation, and Alexander Lukashenko talks about the "destructive" activities of objectionable organizations to Vladimir Putin. According to political scientist Artem Shraibman, such an attack is simply explained - there is simply nothing left in Belarus that could still be defeated. The authorities also view the persecution of human rights activists as a kind of response to Western sanctions.

The coronavirus

Today - short news:

• The number of officially registered cases of coronavirus in the world has exceeded 200 million .
• WHO has demanded a moratorium on revaccination . And instead send surplus vaccines to developing countries.
• to enter the country US authorities plan to allow only vaccinated foreigners .

Podcast "What Happened"

Why did Mikhail Khodorkovsky build his own political, civil and media structures in Russia for several years? And are they closed now?

Many of Khodorkovsky's projects have been declared "undesirable" in Russia. This means that the Russians are forbidden to cooperate with them under the threat of persecution. And Open Media, MBKh Media and Pravozashchita Postcards have stopped working from today. In this episode of the podcast, together with Andrey Pertsev, a political correspondent for Meduza, we discuss how Khodorkovsky built his large-scale project of influencing Russian society and power, how successful his structures were, and what purpose all this pursued.

Listen to What Happened on Meduza (today's episode is about to appear on the site) and on YouTube , and subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Music and other podcast services.

Conspiracy of the day

Calm down: no coronavirus here

All in all, fans of the actor Seth Rogen are sure that some potter kidnapped him. Because Rogen became interested in modeling - so much so that he stopped posting selfies on social networks. Now in his social networks only vases and pots. And beautiful and similar to Easter cakes. But not everyone appreciated Rogen's new hobby. Tiktoker ChrisCanBeFunny posted a video with a theory that the actor was kidnapped and forced to make pots. The video sold well, and Rogen himself had to comment on it. Needless to say, no one believed him?

I wanted sorrel borscht! And then work hard. Your Medusa