Evening Medusa

Are Messi and Barcelona further without each other. Why Russia is the fourth vaccine from Covid. Who will get to the new State Duma

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This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. We start, as usual, with good: on the second attempt by DC (using the director of the “Guardians of the Galaxy”), it was possible to make a great film on the “Suicide squad” ! Much better than in 2016. And could it be otherwise? After all, there is a shark in shorts, which speaks in the voice of Sylvester Stallone. And Margo Robbie in the role of Harley Quinn is also in place.

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• The Barcelona football club announced that the contract with one of the best players in the world Lionel Messi would not extend . We analyze this story in details (spoiler: business in money).
• Five defendants, including the accused of the murder of the “sausage king” Vladimir Marugov, fled from the insulator in the suburbs in the suburbs. Police officers are suspected of conspiracy with the fugitives.
• CNN found under Minsk "Possible camp for political dissidents." The Ministry of Defense of Belarus said that this is a military unit that has existed since the 1950s.
• The HSE teacher Maxim Tseluyko, whom four students accused of a harassment, called himself a "victim of slander."
• In Russia, prices for VPN services began to rise . This is associated with the activities of Roskomnadzor to block such services.
• The fighter Zaurbek Sidakov brought Russia the 17th gold of the Olympiad . In the general medal standings, the Russians are in fifth place.

The texts of the day

We talked with the founder of XSOLLA Alexander Agapitov - thereby who fired 150 "non -involved" employees based on "BIG DATU"

The Special Corps of Medusa Anastasia Yakureva asked Agapitova about how the Big Date team works, why he decided to dismiss people with the help of an “algorithmic solution” and why he considers this story a good PR for XSOLLA. Agapitov himself insists that he has not yet fired: “We said that the company does not appreciate you, we will find a better job for you. And with the best salary. " Well, another fragment from an interview that we just like:

- Many still additionally struck how it was written, as if the text wrote a neural network.

- No, this is not a neural network, this is my Russian, I had a three in Russian and there was a three in English. This is not a neural network, I wrote it.

Who will get to the new State Duma? Political analyst Alexander Kynev calls the deputies of the eighth convocation (almost) by name

If as short as possible, there will be many doctors. Cosmonauts, on the contrary, will become smaller, and more TV presenters. Well, a lot of pro -Kremlin youth awaits us - the winners of numerous Kremlin contests of recent years, a kind of “new Komsomol members”. Whether the spuler party with the speaking name “New People” will fall into the State Duma is more difficult to say. But even if this happens, then, according to Kynev, the overall alignment will change little, but will only strengthen the overall impression of the composition of the new Duma.

Coronavirus

An interview with Biocad vice president, which is already developing the fourth Russian vaccine. Why do you need another drug?

All Russian vaccines - “satellite V”, “Epivaccoron” and “Kovivak” - were created by state organizations. Biocad vaccine may be the first in Russia created by a private company. Svetlana Reuters and scientific editor Alexander Ershov talked with the Vice President for the early development and research of BioCad Pavel Yakovlev about why Russia needs the fourth vaccine, how it works, how it is different from all the previous ones and why it was decided to develop a company that has never been engaged in vaccines in Russia .

Podkast "What happened"

During the time past from the war of 2008, Russia managed to almost irrevocably tear off South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Tbilisi. What will Moscow do with them?

Vladimir Putin approved the double citizenship agreement between Russia and Southern Ossetia. Since 2008, the unrecognized republic, like Abkhazia, has been under the control of Moscow. What is happening there? And what awaits them? Says the editor -in -chief of the Georgian edition of Owl, Martha Ardashelia.

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The race of the day

70 thousand (!) Rubber ducks participated in it

The swim went to Chicago - and looked, of course, very impressive. But even better that it was not an act of vandalism or, say, artistic performance (with all due respect to artists). The race was held by the non -profit charitable organization Special Olympics Illinois. The contribution for the participants was five dollars (the price included a rubber duck). The winner received a car, and took the second and third places - a trip to Mexico and another $ 200. Thanks to the duck race, it was possible to raise more than 300 thousand dollars. This money will go to charity, and more specifically - to help athletes with the features of mental development.

Everything, we can’t say anymore: the current takes us along with the rubber ducks towards the weekend. Your "Medusa"