Evening Medusa

What happened in Afghanistan after the seizure of power by the Taliban. How forest fires are stewed in Yakutia. Whether the vaccines protect from the Delta option

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This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. Topic number one is still the situation in Afghanistan, where the power of the Taliban’s authorities seized power*. Yesterday we made an emergency issue of the “evening jellyfish” about this event, and now we will first tell you about what has changed over the past day. And then about other news.

* The Taliban has been declared in Russia a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited.

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Pulse

What's new in Afghanistan

• Last night, the Taliban announced the revival of the Islamic Emirate Afghanistan. This was the name of the state from 1996 to 2001.
• More than 60 statescalled on to allow the free departure of citizens from Afghanistan. The application was signed, in particular, Great Britain, France and Germany - but not Russia.
• Hundreds of people in an attempt to leave Afghanistan went to Kabula airport. They tried to fly away with all their might, including clinging to the bottom of the aircraft, which is gaining speed on the runway. Several people died . On August 16, all commercial flights from Kabul suspended.
• Some people, on the contrary, wanted to return to Afghanistan. As soon as the checkpoint on the Afghan-Pakistani border earned again, the queues lined up on them.
• The Russian embassy said that Afghanistan President Ashraf Gani, when fleeing from the country , took a large amount of money with him in cash: "Four cars were stuffed with money."
• The Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan announced that the Afghan Air Force plane was shot down , which illegally crossed the border. Both pilots survived, but received severe injuries.

Other news

• Anapa flooded in Anapa , where children with disabilities rested. They were isolated in cases without electricity, water and hot power.
• The press secretary of Alexei Navalny Kira Yarmys received a year and a half restrictions on freedom in the "sanitary business".
• The United Statesconsiders the opportunity to deprive Russia of the status of a country with a market economy.
• The bodies of eight tourists who died during the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter in Kamchatka were found .
• The mayor of Krivoy Rog Konstantin Pavlov was found dead .
• Valery Karpin did not call Artyom Dziuba to the nearest matches in the Russian national football team.

Materials of the day

Photos and the story of Denis Sinyakov about how the extinguishing of forest fires in Yakutia looks like

Yakutia continues to catastrophically burn. In the republic, an “emergency regime of an interregional nature” was introduced. More than seven million hectares of forest have already burned down. In the area, this is Ireland. The photographer Denis Sinyakov spent several days on fires in the Ust-Aldan ulus along with the people who extinguish them. Here is his story about how this happens (not as you imagine).

An interview with the anonymous artist Pasha, who "was born gay in the Soviet Union and lives gay in Russia." Among his works are a portrait of Brezhnev with the signature of "Pedic" and the rainbow flag of the USSR

The artist told Medusa about how he went to the realization of his identity, about bullying in the Soviet school, his work and a new conservative turn in relation to LGBT, which Russia made in the 2010s. Quote: “This [the law on gay propaganda] is simply ridiculous. How can someone be imposed on someone, to be or not to be gay? In early childhood, I realized without any propaganda and in general some information that I was different from most boys. And only later I read and found out that there are people like me. I learned that I am not alone. Then there was a definition, the name of the one who I am. After that, I really became much simpler and calmer. I'm gay. Well, what to do, ok. "

As the main underground publication in the USSR was arranged - the “Chronicles of current events”. Memory of Sergey Kovalev

On August 9, at the age of 91, Sergey Adamovich Kovalev died, one of the founders of the human rights movement in the USSR, who continued his activities in modern Russia, becoming one of the co -authors of the new Constitution. Kovalev was serving a prison term on charges of “anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda” as an editor of the Chronicle of current events - an underground balloon of violation of human rights in the USSR. Instead of an obituary, a colleague Sergei Kovalev on the Memorial Society* Alexander Cherkasov tells what principles the authors of this collection were guided - and why all doubts were interpreted in favor of the accused, even if this accused was the state itself, which planted dissidents in camps and a psychiatric hospital.

* "Memorial" declared in Russia a "foreign agent".

Coronavirus

Vaccines are really worse protecting the Delta strain. But they are effective from severe cases leading to hospitalization and deaths

The effectiveness of vaccines against Delta infection is much lower than 90%. This does not allow us to hope for collective immunity. However, vaccinations continue to protect very well from the severe course of the disease. The new strain is also extremely contagious. It can easily transmit it even vaccinated, which means that they will also have to think abouthow not to become a source of infection . We know all this from preliminary data on the UK, USA, Qatar and other countries - but there are no similar research on the “satellite V”, so we have to rely on the similarity of vaccines again.

Podkast "What happened"

We are talking about the causes and consequences of the capture of Kabul. And also about what the Americans and Pakistan have to do with it

The guest of release is the head of the Center for the Study of Afghan Policy Andrei Serenko. Yesterday he gave us an operational (and rather pessimistic) comment on the situation in Afghanistan. And today explains to Vladislav Gorin:

• Why did it seem to many earlier that the government in Kabul was able to cope with the Taliban, and what went wrong?
• Why do the Afghans almost do not resist the Taliban?
• What will happen to the country now and why is it bad for the whole world (including Russia)?

Listen “what happened” on “Medusa” (the release is soon released on the site) and in Yetube , as well as subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Mizoki and other podcast services.

And now about the eternal

Tsoi is alive! Even the Communists are sure of this

The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov wrote a rather unexpected tweet in which he praised the leader of the Kino group. “His songs are revealed to young people images of creative heroism. And today we can confidently repeat: “Tsoi is alive!” ” - writes Zyuganov. So the author of the song “Mom - Anarchy” turned out to be alive than Lenin. What it was, we did not fully understand, but there are several versions of varying degrees of persuasiveness.

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