Evening Medusa

Russian restaurants have received Michelin stars for the first time. Masked men disrupted the screening of a film about the Holodomor at the Memorial office. MP killed in UK

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This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the main news of the day. So Friday has come - that is, the time for new music releases. And today Adele has pleased us with a song (and a video!) "Easy On Me" is the singer's first composition in six years. The video was directed by Xavier Dolan, who directed the video for the song "Hello". Well, what can I say, you have to watch and listen .

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - point by point

• Michelin gave away stars to Russian restaurants for the first time. They were received by nine Moscow establishments .
• On the evening of October 14, a film about the Holodomor was shown in the office of Memorial*. The show was disrupted by masked people, after which the police arrived at the office and blocked it . At two o'clock in the morning, the security forces left, seizing the fire alarm.
• in the UK Member of Parliament David Amess was killed . He was stabbed several times at a meeting with voters.
• The FSB forbade journalist Ivan Safronov, who is being held in a pre-trial detention center, to correspond with relatives and lawyers . We talked with Safronov's lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov.
• Millionaire Robert Durst was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he accidentally confessed to on the set of a series about himself.
• IKEA has warned of product shortages until August 2022.
• Yandex.News began labeling media publications as “foreign agents”.
• In the United States showed the world's first robotic dog with an assault rifle . It can find and destroy targets at a distance of up to 1200 meters.

* "Memorial" has been declared a "foreign agent" in Russia.

Texts of the day

What Memorial employees say about the attempt to disrupt the screening of the film in their office

Agnieszka Holland's film "Gareth Jones" was shown in the office. This is the story of the first Western journalist who wrote about the Holodomor - the massive famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933. Soon, dozens of unknown people in masks burst into the hall. They took the stage near the movie screen and began to chant "Fascists!" and "Shame!" Most left the office before the arrival of the police, who held the audience until two in the morning. We asked Memorial employees about what was happening during those hours.

Oil is already under $80 a barrel. Is it long? And will Russia become richer?

The price of Brent crude this week for the first time since 2014 exceeded $83.5 per barrel. Only a year and a half has passed since the moment when oil was technically worth nothing. Vladimir Putin even believes that in the near future oil prices may rise to $100 per barrel. Traders agree with Putin: the market is actively buying options for $100 per barrel in 2022. And some traders bought (for a large amount) options for a hitherto unseen $200 per barrel for December 2022. We understand where the expectations of such prices came from and what this means for the future of Russia and the world.

Nowhere to hide from The Squid Game - even in this edition of the mailing list

In just a couple of weeks, Korea's Squid Game became the most watched series in Netflix history, ahead of The Witcher, Stranger Things and The Bridgertons. It is not surprising that everyone around went crazy on the new show : they cook sugar honeycombs from one of the tests, shoot tiktok, make memes, hold their own "Squid Game" in the Novosibirsk cheburechnaya ... And "Moskovsky Komsomolets" generally managed to tie Vladimir Putin to the series.

Podcast "What Happened"

How do Russians relate to someone else's success? And why do many even criticize the Nobel laureate, while they love Putin?

The guest of the issue is Maxim Rudnev, a researcher at the Laboratory for Comparative Studies of Mass Consciousness at the Higher School of Economics. Together with him, we discuss how the attitude of Russians to someone else's success is connected with value orientations. And is it right to say that in Russia the success of other people is disapproved? And what success is considered deserved? And why does Vladimir Putin appeal to those who believe that success can only be achieved by following the rules, and to those who are attracted to people who violate the established norms?

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Things to do on the weekend

As an option - watch the stream "Agents of people"

This is a marathon that we invented and organized together with the Dozhd TV channel, OVD-Info and Mediazona (all three media outlets are declared “foreign agents” in Russia), as well as with Ekho Moskvy and Novaya Gazeta. The goal of "Agents of the People" is to abolish the repressive legislation on "foreign agents". The marathon, which ran on Tuesday and lasted more than six hours, was attended by Leonid Parfyonov, Andrei Makarevich, Dmitry Bykov, Tatyana Lazareva, the Sansara and Aloe Vera groups, BG himself and many more guests. You may well have missed the marathon during the week - so it's time to watch it on the weekend. And sign the petition !

We rejoice in the success of each of you! Your Medusa