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Is Europe facing a new migrant crisis? How the Russian authorities' fear of the West interferes with science and education. Why the law on the media - “foreign agents” is applied selectively

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - point by point

• Spencer Alden, 30, the baby on the Nevermind album cover, is suing Nirvana for distributing child pornography.
• Vladimir Putin allowed Russians with foreign citizenship to work as officials if they cannot get rid of it.
• A suspect in the murder of an eight-year-old girl in Tyumen has been detained. They searched for her from the end of June and found her dead in mid-August.
• The OnlyFans service has changed its mind about prohibiting the publication of sexually explicit materials.
• on the Moscow Central Circle A double-decker train was launched . While in test mode - at least until September 8.
• Municipal deputy and member of Pussy Riot Lucy Stein was given a year of restriction of freedom on a “sanitary case”. Here is her last word .
• has died Charlie Watts , drummer for The Rolling Stones, . The story of the musician for Meduza was told by Lev Gankin .

Texts of the day

The state dreams of bringing Russian science and education to the world level. But it spoils everything - fear of the West

There are quite a few areas in Russia in which the state seems to be bifurcated - in words it strives for development, but immediately pulls itself back. In the field of education and science, the bifurcation is especially pronounced. By returning money to science and education, the state regained control over these areas. As a result, the task of ensuring security began to replace the task of development . This sad text was written for our column "Ideas" by sociologist of education Dmitry Dubrovsky.

We talked to Afghans who want to get refugee status in Russia - but they can't always do it

There are a lot of Afghans who do not want to return to their homeland, captured by the Taliban *. But getting refugee status is very difficult. At the end of 2020, only 455 people from different countries had this status in Russia. Meduza Special Correspondent Irina Kravtsova spoke with Afghans who ended up in Russia as “refugees in place”, with a woman who fled Afghanistan in 1997 and received a temporary residence permit only in 2021, and with students who are afraid to return to their homeland .

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

The fastest roller coaster in the world has closed in Japan. Visitors to this attraction received fractures of the vertebrae

The Do-Dodonpa roller coaster opened in 2001 at the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park. The trailer accelerated to 180 kilometers per hour in 1.56 seconds (which created overloads comparable to the overloads of astronauts when launching a rocket), and the dead loop with a diameter of 39.7 meters was the largest in the world. From December 2020 to August 2021, four Do-Dodonpa visitors, men and women aged 30 to 50, were found to have fractures in different parts of the spine. It took several months for them to recover from their injuries. At the same time , it is not known for certain whether Do-Dodonpa passengers' fractures are related to the attraction itself, and if so, how exactly.

The coronavirus

Joe Biden received a classified intelligence report on the origin of the coronavirus. Its authors could not come to a consensus

The Washington Post reviewed the report and claims the report's findings were "inconclusive." American intelligence allegedly failed to find sufficient data either in favor of the version of the natural origin of the virus, or in favor of a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan. The report is expected to be published in part within a few days.

Podcast "What Happened"

Is Europe (and Russia) in for a new migration crisis due to the change of power in Afghanistan

In this episode of the podcast, we are talking with Olga Gulina, director of the RUSMPI Migration Policy Institute, and trying to understand the scale of the new migration crisis that could hit Europe. We also find out whether Russia can stay away from it and what conclusions the Europeans drew from the last crisis (if, of course, they did). And why will Afghanistan soon be considered not such a big problem?

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question of the day

Why is Dozhd declared a "foreign agent", but RT is not?

The answer, as often happens, is the press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov. We asked him why Izvestia, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, TASS and Russia Today receive foreign funding in the same way as Dozhd, but only the latter is declared a "foreign agent"? And doesn't the Kremlin think that the law on "foreign agents" is being applied selectively? We are willing to bet that you have already predicted Peskov's answer .

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