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We tell the main thing about the failure of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko flew to the ISS to shoot a movie. What threatens the defendants of the "Pandora's Archive"

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This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the main news of the day. The reason for joy today is this: HBO Max has finally shown the first teaser for "House of the Dragon" - the prequel to "Game of Thrones" about the civil war in Westeros. The action takes place 200 years before the events shown in the "Game of Thrones", the focus is on the Targaryen house. Well, their dragons, respectively.

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The main thing for the day - point by point

• Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp stopped working last night. The massive failure lasted six hours . Mark Zuckerberg apologized and lost six billion dollars. The last stronghold of the Internet was Twitter, where they made a bunch of memes about the failure.
• Actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko flew to the ISS to shoot a movie. The docking of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft and the station was successful . We tell the story of this flight - and the "cinema-space race" between Russia and the United States.
• The Nobel Prize in Physics was given for modeling complex systems - from climate change to the movement of the planets.
• Gulagu.net received a "secret archive" with records of torture in Russian colonies. Published videos of rape of three prisoners. The Federal Penitentiary Service and the prosecutor's office announced inspections .
• The suspect in the murder of three students in the Orenburg region pleaded guilty and said he repented. He was arrested for two months.
• Microsoft has released Windows 11 - with the Start bar in the center of the screen.
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs was ordered to establish a "reasonable period" of a ban on entry into Russia for Idrak Mirzalizade - instead of a life sentence.
• Gennady Zyuganov wrote an open letter to Vladimir Putin. He complained about the "police persecution" of supporters of the Communist Party.

Texts of the day

Why was the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology awarded this year? We explain on a metaphor with the Battle of Borodino!

Imagine aliens watching a massive battle like Borodino and learning how earthlings wage war. Why do some of the fighters now and then suddenly fall to the ground - and cease to participate in further events? It can be said that David Julius and Ardem Pataputyan explained the structure of the "gun" and "bullet" - that is, they gave the whole intricate, abstract, high-level science of sensory sensations a concrete physical meaning. In general, they told us what it is inside us that makes us feel cold, warm, pain, pleasant shiver .

And again about the "Pandora's Archive"

First, we talk about world leaders, politicians and show business stars who were among the defendants in the investigation . Among them, for example, is the current Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babis, who entered big-time politics with anti-corruption slogans - and who is expected to be re-elected on October 8 and 9. And also Vladimir Zelensky and… Pep Guardiola!

Secondly, we talked with Ilya Shumanov, a specialist in investigating corruption schemes, about what surprised him in the Pandora Archive, what consequences the publication might have, and why offshore companies continue to work around the world.

Musician Antokha MS may lose the rights to his songs and even a pseudonym due to a conflict with the producer

As Anton Kuznetsov himself (real name of the musician) says, he signed a contract with producer Eduard Shumeiko, “without going into details,” and then found out that absolutely all rights to creativity belong to the producer . Also, the contract stipulates a monthly fee of 50 thousand rubles. Remuneration in excess of this amount is at the discretion of the producer. The contract, which is valid until 2028, can only be terminated by paying a penalty of three million rubles. As a result, Antokha MC does not have enough money to rent an apartment. In addition, Shumeiko deprived the musician of access to the YouTube channel and the group on VKontakte.

We tell the main thing about the show "The Game" on TNT - the deputies have already gathered to complain about it to the prosecutor's office. Just something after the second issue!

"Game" is similar to KVN: these are competitions of teams of comedians who play miniatures, sing songs, show numbers. The jury is judging. At stake - 30 million rubles. There is no sharp political satire in the show, but compared to KVN, the Game still looks more bold. And the indignation of the State Duma deputies was caused by the number of the Kamyzyaki team, in which two men kiss. So far, there have been no sanctions against the creators of the show. We tell you what else is remarkable about the "Game".

Podcast "What Happened"

YouTube closed the German RT channels - the Russian Foreign Ministry called it "the Infobarbarossa plan." Discussing the history of successes and failures of RT in Germany

YouTube has blocked RT channels in Germany. Russian agencies and propagandists respond by threatening to block YouTube and (at the same time) ban German media in Russia. What success has Russian foreign broadcasting achieved in Germany? And why did it all go wrong? In this episode of the What Happened podcast, we speak with journalists Dmitry Vachedin and Alexei Kovalev.

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Test of the day

The Pandora Archive seems to have been sorted out. What about the myth of Pandora?

It's time to take our test and remember who Pandora was at all, what does the showdown between gods and titans have to do with it, and most importantly - what was in that very box (or casket)? Spoiler: not only troubles and misfortunes.

We hope that the film shot on the ISS will not outrage the deputies. Your Medusa