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Why should the authorities promote electronic voting. Biden met with Zelensky. Putin poked

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The main thing for the day - point by point

• Roskomnadzor said Apple and Google's refusal to remove the Navalny app is interference in Russian elections.
• The Bell edition was hacked . His subscribers received a mailing "with a strange provocative text" about the upcoming elections. This is the third attack on The Bell journalists in three weeks.
• Novaya Gazeta published a recording of a training session for heads of election commissions in Korolev: “If you do everything correctly, then even smart or stupid voting will not work.”
• Joe Biden met with Vladimir Zelensky at the White House. In a joint statement, the United States promised to help Ukraine fight "Russian aggression."
• has died . The composer Mikis Theodorakis, the author of symphonies, operas and music for sirtaki,
• Hurricane Ida hit New York with record rainfall. Flooded streets and metro , the mayor declared a state of emergency.
• The ranking of the best universities in the world included 60 Russian universities. This is a record .

Texts of the day

Everyone says that forests are burning more often because of global warming. But then why are fires replaced by floods in a couple of days?

The summer of 2021 was remembered for large-scale natural disasters - fires and floods. They are definitely related to climate change, but how exactly? Are there really more fires? Why is flooding more frequent as the weather warms? And what does all this mean? We understand here (spoiler: one of the most terrible threats is the burning of peat bogs in Western Siberia, which will release a huge amount of toxic products into the atmosphere).

Why are the Russian authorities so eager to promote electronic voting?

In the elections in September, residents of Moscow, Sevastopol, Nizhny Novgorod, Kursk, Murmansk, Yaroslavl and Rostov regions will be able to vote via the Internet. The authorities are urging state employees to choose electronic voting, and in some regions this is accompanied by direct instructions on who to vote for. A source close to the leadership of one of the regions explained to Meduza what the idea was: “In an elegant corporate and administrative mobilization called ‘vote directly from the computer of your company’s personnel officer. You come, go to your account and vote in the presence of a senior comrade.

Podcast "What Happened"

If authoritarianism in Russia weakens and everything changes, what should be done with the security forces and judges?

Russian judges make unlawful decisions, and law enforcement officers falsify evidence and beat suspects - and do not bear any responsibility for this. It is systemic impunity that is one of the main problems, according to human rights activist Stanislav Dmitrievsky and lawyer, Moscow municipal deputy Nikolai Bobrinsky, authors of the book Between Revenge and Oblivion: A Concept of Transitional Justice for Russia. We talked with them about whether it is possible to rebuild the existing system and what will have to be done in the future with obvious crimes that the current judicial and legal apparatus does not undertake.

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Sound of the day

It was published by Vladimir Putin. When he expressed dissatisfaction with the pace of development of the Far East. And now the Russian media are figuring out what it was. Putin clicked? Or poked? Or maybe he chuckled? Opinions were divided. You, too, can contribute to this investigation. So far, most readers of Meduza are convinced that Putin has snapped.

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