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Non-working days (and QR codes) in Moscow - from October 28th. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia put Lyubov Sobol on the wanted list. In Bryansk, the first verdict was passed in the case against the creators of 1xBet

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Pulse

First, about covid

• Sergei Sobyanin announced non-working days in Moscow from October 28 to November 7 . Restaurants and non-food stores will be closed.
• The announcement of non-working days has raised the demand for air tickets within Russia. The resorts of the Kuban and Crimea are waiting for an influx of tourists. The authorities asked to refrain from traveling.
• WHO V. resumed examination of Sputnik Russia expects that the vaccine will be approved in two months. Reuters, citing a source, writes that the vaccine will not be approved in Europe until the end of the year .
• In Russia, the first cases of a new variant of the coronavirus AY.4.2, one of more than 40 subspecies of the delta strain, have been identified.

And everything else

• Putin said that the law on "foreign agents" needs to be improved .
• In Russia, the sale of more than 60 models of Samsung smartphones was banned - but the court decision was appealed and has not yet entered into force.
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia put Lyubov Sobol on the wanted list .
• Shaninka's rector Sergei Zuev is undergoing heart surgery . The day before he was hospitalized with a hypertensive crisis.
• The Kremlin said it was critical of the decision of the European Parliament to award the Andrei Sakharov Prize to Alexei Navalny. And the head of the Moscow "Yabloko" Sergei Ivanenko even wrote a letter to the European Parliament with a request not to award the prize to the oppositionist.
• Roskomnadzor forced Ekho Moskvy to remove Alexander Nevzorov's video from the site , "inciting discord" in relation to priests.
• The actress, who parodied the speaker of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in videos about the fictional deputy Nalivkin, was sentenced to three months in prison .
• The host of the TV channel "Rain" * Dmitry Kaznin died . In 2015, he was diagnosed with bowel cancer.

* Dozhd is declared a "foreign agent" in Russia

Texts of the day

We continue to celebrate the seventh anniversary of Meduza: we ask the editorial staff what they wanted to be at the age of seven

Special correspondent Ivan Golunov dreamed of leading excursions around Moscow, editor Valery Igumenov dreamed of studying the World Ocean (like Jacques-Yves Cousteau), and publisher Galina Timchenko dreamed of making donuts. But the editor Dmitry Kartsev wanted to replace Boris Yeltsin in the presidency even in the first grade. But it was not limited to this :

“... to be honest, the ambitions were wider and only decreased over time: from the leader of a single world republic to the president of Eurasia, then Russia within the borders of 1913 (I did not recognize the Soviet Union) ... And I don’t remember, by the age of seven or still later, but I resigned myself to the narrowing of the country to the size of the Russian Federation. I also kept coming up with different options for the name of my future position: for some reason, I didn’t really like the “president”, it turned out something in the amplitude from a German chancellor to a Romanian ruler.”

In Bryansk, the first verdict was passed in the case against the founders of the 1xBet bookmaker. Their illegal income was estimated at 63 billion rubles

This amount exceeds the annual budget of the Bryansk region. The first defendant, according to Bryansk.news, was Olesya Mospanova, a resident of Bryansk. She was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 800 thousand rubles. According to investigators, Mospanova accepted cash from customers and allowed them to bet on sports through the 1xBet website, whose activities are illegal in Russia. The sentence handed down to the woman has so far become the only one in the criminal case against the creators of 1xBet. According to RBC, the alleged creators of 1xBet have either applied for Cypriot citizenship or have already received it. The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Bryansk region put all three on the international wanted list .

The coronavirus

In Russia, the maximum number of cases and deaths from coronavirus. Non-working days announced in regions, lockdown and QR codes in Moscow

Now Russia has the highest incidence rates since the beginning of the pandemic. Over the past week, more than 30,000 new cases have been detected daily, and on October 21, the number of new cases exceeded 36,000. Vladimir Putin declared non-working days in Russia from October 30 to November 7 inclusive. Regions where the situation with the incidence is especially difficult can declare non-working days from October 23 and extend them after November 7. In Moscow, non-working days will begin on October 28 . Cafes, restaurants and non-food stores will close. Schools and kindergartens will go on vacation, universities will go away. It will be possible to get to theaters and museums only by QR codes

Russian cinemas in early autumn raised more money than before the pandemic. Was it a miracle?

In September, Russian cinemas reached a box office level that exceeded pre-pandemic levels, largely thanks to Dune and the second part of Venom. And this despite the fact that covid restrictions were in effect in most regions. But what is in store for film distribution in the near future? Especially considering the "non-working days"? about this at the request of Meduza . tells Journalist Yekaterina Barabash

Podcast "What Happened"

We are discussing the book "The Tsar's Move" - ​​about the Yeltsin "family" and how it differed from Putin's current entourage

The book "The Tsar's Move" was written by journalist and former special correspondent for Meduza, Ilya Zhegulev. It is based on many hours of interviews with members of the "family" of Boris Yeltsin. That is, with people from the inner circle of the president. It was on the advice of the "family" that Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin as his successor. In this episode of the podcast, we discuss with the author of the book how the fate of the members of the "family" turned out, why in 1999 the "family" did not see an alternative to Putin - and how the myth of Yeltsin the Democrat corresponds to reality.

Listen to What Happened on Meduza and YouTube , and subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Music and other podcast services.

Now back to 2014!

For the seventh anniversary, we have collected 77 best songs from the year when Meduza was launched. I must say that at least in terms of music, the year was excellent. Here you have “Chandelier” with “Shake It Off”, and “Warriors of Light” with “Minibus”, and Farrell, and Dorn, and SBHR, and BG, and even “Em Bird” with “Caspian cargo”. In general, listen quickly !

Well, in fact, how much can you return 2007? Your Medusa