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The Navalny app was removed from Russian stores Apple and Google. How Putin voted over the Internet without a phone. Who are "serial candidates" - and why they are needed

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This is the daily Medusa newsletter about the most important thing that happened during the day. In Russia, a three -day vote in the elections to the State Duma began . Of course, we will carefully monitor what is happening and talk about the news to you. And also - on Sunday, September 19, at 22:00 in Moscow we will hold a stream about the elections in the Utube "Podkasta Medusa" and Instagram . The first voting results will be the leading of our political podcast Andrei Pertsev and Konstantin Haaza. Here is a link to Yetuub-broadcast -click the bell to get a notification about the beginning. And send questions with a response letter.

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• This morning, the Apple and Google corporation deleted the Navalny application from Russian applications. According to Bloomberg and The New York Times, Google did this after the threat of criminal prosecution of the company's employees.
• Apple disabled the “Private Knot” function for users from Russia, which encrypts traffic and allows you to bypass blocking.
• On the first day of voting in areas in a number of cities , abnormal queues arose . According to Medusa, the state employees were asked to vote until noon.
• The government published a holiday calendar in 2022.
• In Moscow , five defendants in the case of “declining to the riots” through Telegram were arrested during the election.
• The Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland called him"a liberation campaign."
• A suspect in the murder of a family and an attack on a police station in the Voronezh region was detained .

The texts of the day

We talk about the main intrigues of the upcoming elections in four paragraphs

Will United Russia fail, which approaches a vote with an extremely low rating? How will the Communists manifest themselves, whose popularity, on the contrary, is growing? Will the "smart vote" will work against which the authorities are so fiercely fighting? Should we wait after the elections of resignations and other personnel permutations? The special corner of the "Medusa" Andrei Peresov answers .

Who are “serial candidates” and why parties need them?

It turns out that all the elections in Russia are simply not enough for all the elections in Russia. Within the framework of the project “Elections in Russia”, Date-journalist Alexander Bogachev discovered that in the current elections one and a half thousand candidates will participate in two and more different election campaigns at the same time. And one of them - the Kazan self -nominated - is completely running in more than 40 (!) Municipalities. Most often, “serial candidates” use the LDPR and the Communist Party - for example, as spoilers (but this is not the only reason). But what will happen if such a candidate wins several elections at once? And why is it to them? We understand .

Provocative (and cring) election videos about sex appeared on the Internet - in particular, that the replacement of power does not bring to good

The heroes of the most noticeable series of videos are a young couple, in which the girl constantly offers the guy to try “something new”: sexual practice, treatment method or way to spend free time. Each time it ends badly for the guy, and the voice behind the scenes says: "New for the sake of the new is a dubious undertaking." In another video, there are three friends, one of whom soon gets married, discuss whether to change sexual partners - and the bride comes to the conclusion that sex with a familiar man is best. A sunsid voice calls on to vote "for trusted members!" The Fontanka publication spoke about the actors who starred in these videos.

Perhaps the shortest investigation of Medusa - about how Putin allegedly voted via the Internet

The Russian president has been self -isolation for several days, so today the Kremlin showed how Putin votes in the elections to the State Duma via the Internet. And everything would be fine, but he somehow managed to do this without using a mobile phone-which simply cannot be. In addition, Putin himself repeatedly said that he does not use the phone. The incident has three possible explanations .

Podkast "What happened"

While voting in the State Duma is going on, we tell the story of her first convocation. In 1993, despite the LDPR triumph, Russia had a real capable parliament

In 1993, the first elections to the State Duma of post -Soviet Russia were held. The LDPR scored most of all the votes on the lists, and the country remembered the phrase “Russia, you fooled!”. On the first day of elections in the State Duma of the eighth convocation, we are talking with the editor -in -chief of the journal Politia, a professor at the Higher School of Economics Svyatoslav caspe on how the post -Soviet parliamentarism began in Russia. And why voting for the LDPR can be called protest only partly.

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

Candles in a collabo with a brand of natural aromas for the house Freedom Aroma

In our "Magaze" you can buy candles with the aromas "Baltic Sea", "Riga Balsam" and "Saulkro". Stop, Saul-Well? Now we will tell (and show)! Saulkrasta is a small town on the shores of the Baltic Sea, an hour riding from Riga. There are tall dunes and pine forest, as well as an elongated line of the beach with white sand and a sea of ​​steel color. In general, very beautiful! The fragrance of the candle, named after the city, is the basis of the pine, juniper, lemon, moss and garden mint. And so that you feel the atmosphere of this place even better - look at the photos that Medusa’s video designer and the author of the Earth’s podcast Andrei Pershin. And how the pandemic will end - be sure to come to Saulkrasta!

See you on Sunday evening! Your "Medusa" (as well as peppers and Haaza)