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Bastrykin instructed to check the songs of Oximiron and Noise MC after a comic denunciation. What happened to the heroes of mass protests in 2011. In Russia, two omicron infected with strain was revealed

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Pulse

The main thing is by points

• Bastrykin instructed to check the songs of Oximiron and Noise MC after a fictional statement of the “group of patriots of Russia”. The author of the appeal called him "satire for our time."
• Two people in Russia revealed the Omicron Coronavirus version , said in Rospotrebnadzor. And one person became a source of infection with 90% of Russians with a strain of Delta.
• The passenger liner S7 almost crashed due to icing. He almost broke into a corkscrew - but he was able to sit urgently . SK opened a criminal case .
• Sberbank increased mortgage rates for the second time in a month.
• Fans of Russian football clubs left the stands during RPL matches. This action was a response to the detention of 400 fans of CSKA at the match with Zenit.
• The real estate site Tsianforbade renting housing "only to the Slavs."
• Putin and Biden will hold negotiations on the video on December 7. The US President said he was waiting for a "long discussion."
• The Russian national tennis team won the Davis Cup for the third time in history.
• The creator of the Kinotavrav, Mark Rudinstein , died.

Materials of the day

A large bird advertises vaccination, and a girl of Korean descent complains about bullying - this is what Sesam Street looks like in 2021

In November 2021, one of the oldest programs of American television, “Sesam Street”, was criticized by conservatives due to the release, in which puppet characters told the children about coronavirus vaccination. Later, a new heroine appeared among the characters of the show-puppet jangs, having a Korean origin in the plot. She became a response to a new round of discussion of racism in American society. Throughout its history, the show spoke with children about adult problems: inequality, addictions, poverty and attitude to health. "Medusa" tells how the puppet transmission teaches children what adults are afraid to start talking about .

10 years ago, the most massive (and optimistic) protests against Putin began in Moscow. This is what happened to the heroes of those events

On December 4, 2011, the State Duma elections were held, where United Russia gained 49%. Mass falsifications have become the reason for political protests throughout the country, the largest since the beginning of the 1990s. The main events of the “snowy” or “swamp” revolution, as it was called in the media (although no revolution happened), was a rally on clean ponds on December 5, shares on Bolotnaya Square on December 10 and on Sakharov Avenue on December 24, a march on Yakimanka and a rally on Bolotnaya on February 4. “Millions march” - an opposition procession to Bolotnaya on May 6 - ended with clashes with the police and the “swamp business”. On the tenth anniversary of protests, which became a time of grandiose political hopes, we remember their heroes - and we tell you what happened to them .

Bonus: The brightest shots of protests December 2011 .

Podkast "What happened"

Football fans are almost the last massive independent movement in Russia. And guess what? The security forces started an attack on them

After the protests of football fans on the 2010 Manezhnaya Square, power and security forces went to cooperate with the fan community. Now the tactics have changed: pressure instead of cooperation. We are talking about this in our news podcast with the journalist of the Championship Evgeny Markov.

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Coronavirus

Omicron seems to have the ability to move away from immunity. And it is higher than that of his predecessors

South African epidemiologists received the first data on the ability of a new variant of coronavirus partially overcome the natural immunity to Covid, which the ill ones have. Until now, in addition to a purely theoretical analysis of numerous mutations acquired by this option, there was no reliable information on this score. Medusa says what has become known from this study .

Excessive mortality in Russia during the pandemic reached a million people

In October, in Russia, for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic, excess mortality (associated with coronavirus infection) exceeded 100 thousand people. In total, from April 2020 to the beginning of December 2021, about a million people died “excessively”. In terms of the number of excess deaths, Russia was ahead of the United States for the first time and went out at least in second place in the world : perhaps more dead only in India, which does not publish such statistics.

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