Evening Medusa

How a Chechen Khalimat Taramova was "treated" from a relationship with her girlfriend. Navalny gave an interview to The New York Times. New Pelevin is out!

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This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the most important things that happened during the day. First of all, congratulations and respect to the Russian cyclist Mikhail Astashov, who won the gold medal and set a world record at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Hooray! You may remember Michael. A year and a half ago, a video was widely circulated on the Internet, where he took an order at a food court in the form of a Yandex.Food courier.

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - point by point

• In Afghanistan, the first terrorist attack since the Taliban came to power*. The explosion near the airport in Kabul killed 13 people . The explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.
• A suspect in the murder of an eight-year-old girl in Tyumen confessed . He used to work in the police, and after the murder he participated in the search for a child.
• “We were all silent. And I had to get up, I had to snap." Liya Akhedzhakova, in an interview with the Dozhd TV channel (he is declared a “foreign agent” in Russia), said that she thinks about the attack of the authorities on independent media.
• In Kazakhstan, there were explosions at the warehouse of a military unit. Dozens of people were hurt.
• Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been placed under house arrest . Recall that recently the Taliban promised a "general amnesty".
• In the United States began the trial of pornographic actor Ron Jeremy. He is accused of sexually assaulting 21 women.

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

Texts of the day

They tried to “treat” a Chechen woman Khalimat Taramova from a relationship with her girlfriend in a clinic without a license. Nobody knows if she's alive

In June 2021, Chechen security forces kidnapped Khalimat Taramova from a shelter for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala. Telegram channel Baza reported on August 11 that she made another attempt to escape. Human rights activists do not know where she is now and whether she is alive. Meduza found out that shortly before Khalimat's first flight from Chechnya, her parents sent her to an "elite clinic" near Moscow, where "doctors" tried for several months to "cure" her from a relationship with another girl.

Alexei Navalny gave an interview to The New York Times

A text based on his interview appeared in the newspaper last night. But only a part of Navalny's answers to journalists' questions got into it. In their entirety (which is 54 handwritten pages sent from IK-2 in Pokrov) they were published on the politician's website. We recounted the main points from the interview - about Western sanctions against Russia, the daily routine in the colony, the risk of being killed in custody, Smart Voting, and whether it is possible to defeat United Russia and Vladimir Putin in the elections.

New Pelevin! The first novel in short stories in the writer's career

About the novel "Transhumanism Inc." the story best of all . tells Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich

The work of any cult author (and who, if not Viktor Olegovich, can claim this title in our realities), in addition to the “new”, “first” and “most”, is also based on the usual: over the years, the reader has adapted to a certain set of images and techniques and always longs to know in advance what from the classic set of basic elements will be offered to him this time. If you are worried about whether Pelevin will feature in Transhumanism Inc. ordinary tricks, then do not worry: the writer will work out all his branded numbers to glory.

Podcast "What Happened"

Why did Afghan society succumb so easily to religious radicals?

Afghanistan lived under secular power for 20 years. But as the United States began withdrawing troops from the country, the Islamist Taliban came to power swiftly—and almost unopposed—to power. Why did this happen? How has Afghanistan changed over the past two decades? What do the inhabitants of the country want? And what to expect from the Taliban? After all, they are trying to show that they have changed a lot since the 1990s. We are talking about this with the orientalist Yevgeny Pakhomov.

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TV debate of the day

Oleg Severnenko from Simferopol, a candidate for the State Duma from the Just Russia - For Truth party, spoke live on the Kerch TV channel. He began to tell the truth that Russia has a rich history and richest natural resources - and these resources are being sold, sold ... We could not find out the whole truth, how and to whom they are sold, because Oleg Severnenko suddenly asked for forgiveness and left the studio. “Honestly, I was worried. I can’t, ” the candidate from the party for the truth finished his speech .

It is easy and pleasant to speak the truth. Why worry? Your Medusa