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We answer the main questions about the Taliban. How the 1991 putshaw remembered his eyewitnesses. Why Russia leads by the number of murders of women by their partners

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This is the daily newsletter "Medusa" about the main news of the day. Let's start the release from the story to a million. More precisely, fifteen. A resident of Birobidzhan was in a hurry on a business trip so much that he forgot a suitcase on the street with 15 million rubles. He was distracted by the call, got into the car and drove away - and the suitcase remained. A few hours later the police became interested in the suitcase. But in the end, everything ended well .

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Pulse

The main thing about the situation in Afghanistan

• In the city of Assadabad, the Taliban* opened fire on the rally on the day of independence. There are dead.
• Due to panic at Kabul airport , at least 12 people died. People clung to flying planes, trying to escape.
• Joe Bayden promised that the US military would leave Afghanistan only when all US citizens leave the country - even if it would be necessary to extend the mission after the deadline of August 31.
• Aeroflot canceled flights to Bangkok until the end of October due to the inability to fly over Afghanistan.

Other news

• The Ministry of Justice made a movement in defense of voter rights “Voice” to the new register of “foreign agents” . Why did you need another register at all? We explain in our cards .
• The day before the anniversary of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and before the visit of Angel Merkel to Moscow, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation issued an application about what happened on August 20, 2020. Here is his short retelling .
• The comedian Idrak Mirzalizade was released after 10 days of arrest for a joke about the Russians.
• In Moscow, three police officers were detained for threats to throw drugs and extorting half a million rubles.
• In Tyumen, an eight -year -old girl was found . Hundreds of people have been looking for her from the end of June.
• In the Astrakhan region, the MiG-29 fighter crashed. The pilot died .

* The Islamist movement "Taliban" is included in the list of organizations recognized in Russia with terrorist, its activities are prohibited.

Materials of the day

August coup - 30 years. Medusa editor Valery Igumenov tells how, being a 20-year-old student, he was close to the epicenter of the most important events

“It was after August 1991 that it became completely clear: as it would not be before, but as it will be, it is generally incomprehensible. In a paradoxically, it was a very comfortable sensation - when you are 20 years old and the whole system collapses before your eyes, ” Igumenov recalls . And he tells how he ended up at the White House and got into a detachment of volunteers, who was supposed to monitor the order: to calculate suspicious people, and after the victory over the GKChP - to remove alcohol from those who wanted to note this victory.

Look at the putsch from an unfamiliar angle: through the photos of Artem Chernov, who studied at the physical faculty of Moscow State University in 1991

When a putsch began in Moscow on August 19, 1991, Chernov put a camera and film in his bag, and went to the White House. Many years later, from the pictures taken these days, Artem Chernov folded the book “Three days at the end of the history textbook. August 1991 ". We publish these pictures - and the author’s story about how they were made.

We answer the main questions about the new government in Afghanistan - the movement "Taliban"

The Taliban are trying to show the world and local residents that they are no longer the "wild" radicals who brutally ruled the country in the late 1990s. Taliban declared an amnesty for everyone who collaborated with the Americans, and also promised to respect the rights of religious minorities - and even “allow” women to study and work. But thousands of Kabul residents do not believe in these promises and try to leave Afghanistan by any means. And how many Afghans support the Taliban? Why could the government army not be able to repulse? Is it true that the Taliban is managed by Pakistan? Will the Taliban go beyond Afghanistan? We answer these and other questions.

Coronavirus

How the German movement of covid-dissidents works-and why is Russian-speaking very much in it

The “Crown Skiptics” themselves in Germany call themselves querdenker, which can be translated as “non-standard thinking”. For a year and a half, they have been holding large -scale protests against covid restrictions and vaccination. At such rallies, you can see people of various beliefs who bring with them pacifist hippie atributics, flags of Kaiser Germany and posters with aggressive calls to give the angel Merkel to trial. Often there are Russian flags on promotions. Activists use the image of Russia, where there are no particularly tough restrictions, as a counterweight to the “European Covid Dictature”. And the Russian -speaking inhabitants of Germany are becoming one of the most active protests. Journalist Dmitry Vachedin tells more about the movement of Covid-dissidents.

Other news about coronavirus:

• The Hamalea Center developed a version of the "satellite V", modified under the strain of the delta. How effective the new modification will be is unknown.
• Nicole Kidmanwas allowed not to observe self -isolation in Hong Kong. Local residents were outraged by the exception to the actress.
• Candidates in the Duma from United Russia (including from the first five of the federal list) were quarantined before meeting with Putin.

Podkast "What happened"

Why in Russia so many women die at the hands of their loved ones?

From 2011 to 2019 in Russia, 65.8% of all murders of women were committed by their partners or relatives, human rights activists said. This indicator is more than one and a half times higher than the average IRIRO. More than half of these cases are the murders who committed civil or legal husbands, as well as partners with whom women had romantic or sexual relations. In this issue, we are discussing the problem of domestic violence in Russia with a criminologist, a junior researcher at the Institute of Law Problems at the European University in St. Petersburg Vladimir Kudryavtsev.

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The debut of the day

Quentin Tarantino is not only a director and screenwriter, but also a writer

The novel “Once in Hollywood” (partially intersecting with the plot of the film of the same name) was released in America at the end of June. The film critic of Medusa Anton Dolin read the book and tells what it turned out . In short, the literary debut of Tarantino is not only not secondary to the source, but even more richer. This is truly a “directorial” version of the same story, expanded and supplemented, and in some places - unexpectedly radically reduced by the author himself.

The book is, of course, good, but we are waiting for a new Tarantino film. Your "Medusa"