Evening Medusa

Roskomnadzor blocked six VPN services. What can be learned from Tiktok's daughter of the deputy. And one story of a double agent

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This is the daily Medusa newsletter about the most important thing that happened during the day. For starters - about art. You probably remember how at the Sothebyʼs auction the painting “Girl with a balloon” (Banksy is considered her author) self -destructed in front of shocked spectators. And immediately after it was sold for 1 million pounds. As it turned out, Schroeder was built into the frame. Almost three years passed - and the picture was again put up for auction. Now it is called "Love in the garbage tank." How much do you think it costs now? And most importantly - what will happen at new auction, which will take place in the same hall where the picture from one work of art turned into another? Bidding will take place on October 14 .

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• The Russian Central Bank predicted the global financial crisis in 2023.
• The Kremlin promised to consider the amendments to the law on “foreign agents” proposed by independent media (in fact, the law must be canceled, but the Kremlin does not promise this).
• Roskomnadzor blocked six VPN services, including NordVPN and ExpressVPN.
• Alexey Navalnyhanded over the monetary part of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation Prize to the families of political prisoners.
• Journalists found a ticktok of the 11-year-old daughter of a deputy of Slutsky. It contains stories about life in an elite villa in Turkey and a private school in Switzerland.
• Firefly Aerospace rocket exploded during the first test flight.
• The Persevserans Mars -Road obtained the first example of Martian soil. “I have never been so happy to see a hole in the stone,” the chief engineer of the project Adam Steltzner wrote on Twitter.

The texts of the day

Sue Dobson was a double agent in South Africa - she studied underground work in the USSR, and then returned to her homeland to undermine the apartheid from the inside

In 1989, the special services of South Africa revealed Dobson when she was preparing to infiltrate the administration of the then president under the regime of the apartheid. The 59-year-old native of South Africa, living in England, has not told anyone about this. She decided to talk with Medusa only because all these years she really wanted to thank the employee of the Soviet embassy in Botswan, who put her on the plane to London and helped her preserve freedom - and possibly life. Read our interview with her, this is an incredibly exciting spy story.

Why do all parties end in dancing under Meladze?

This is the most Friday material-a big conversation about Russian pop music with journalist Alexander Gorbachev, who compiled an almost thousand-grass book dedicated to the history of this genre. “No need to be shy” describes 30 years of pops: from “London, Goodbai!” Car-Men groups to Cadillac Morgenstern and Elja. The Medusa editor Natalya Gredina discussed with Gorbachev what to consider pop (why, for example, there is no Zemfira in the book?), How did the Russian Estreus try to declare itself in the West and why the song “Factory” is actually about the 2000s.

Podkast "What happened"

Bayden announced that America has completed the "era of the reconstruction of other countries." Will she no longer plant democracy?

In his appeal to the nation after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden said that America would no longer redo other countries with the help of military force. She is going to protect democracy with diplomatic and economic methods. Will the US really have a completely different foreign policy? And can China or Russia take the place of states that abandon military operations in other countries? We are talking about this with an Americanist, professor of the European University in St. Petersburg Ivan Kurilla.

Listen “What happened” on “Medusa” and in Yetube , as well as subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , CastBox , Yandex.Musiki and other podcast services.

Merch of the day

So, now we will show you something! Once. ⬇️

Two! ⬇️⬇️

Cool, right? An elegant black keychain and a stylish white pendant are released in conjunction with the Moscow brand Recycle Object. The accessories are made of processed materials, although the keychain looks like it was pulled out of marble. In fact, this is processed plastic that remained after 3D printing (however, a ballpoint chain of steel also goes to the pendant).

Buy jewelry with care for nature and Medusa. ” 40% (!!!) from the sales of each product Recycle Object will transfer Medusa.

Plastic for a keyen and pendant was chopped into a crumb and pressed. In which case, the jewelry can be returned to the Recycle Object, then they will be sent to re -processing. And we will also reveal the secret: the Medusa logo is visible on the pendant only when sunlight enters it.

Read more about the process of creating products and the history of Recycle Object can be learned from our material . In particular, we talked with the founder of the brand Polina Chernitska, who, incidentally, hears a keychain with Medusa.

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