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How the UK reacts to jokes. The Omicron option is worse neutralized by antibodies of ill and vaccinated. What are the participants and contemporaries of those events about the collapse of the USSR

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This is the daily newsletter "Medusa" about the main news of the day. The best today sounds like this: the St. Petersburg El Copitas entered the top ten bars in the world . In the previous two years, a bar with Mexican food and drinking occupied the 27th line in the ranking of The Worldʼs 50 Best Bars. Another institution from Russia, Moscow Insider Bar, took 13th place.

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• Video converters of Putin and Biden lasted two hours . Biden threatened with “decisive economic and other measures” in the event of a war with Ukraine. Putin accused NATO of escalation.
• Olaf Sholts was elected new chancellor of Germany.
• In Russia, the Tor website blocked . After the publication of the call to help the Russians “stay online”.
• In Moscow, the girl jumped from the fourth floor , fleeing the rapist. Two more women were held in the same apartment
• The head of the SK Bastrykin criticized the regional departments of the departments for the growth of the number of acquittal sentences. Over the year, Russian courts justified less than 1% of the accused.
• Tiktoker Konstantin Lakeev was sentenced to two years and eight months in a colony in the case of an attack on the FSB car for promotions for Navalny.
• The Supreme Court recognized the presidential decree legal , which classified information about the employees of the NKVD involved in repressions.
• Almost 260 thousand signatures were handed over to the State Duma for the abolition of the Law on Foreign Agents.

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The texts of the day

30 years ago, the largest state of the world, the USSR ceased to exist. How it happened - recall participants in those events

Exactly 30 years ago, on December 8, 1991, the heads of the RSFSR and the Belorussian and Ukrainian SSR Boris Yeltsin, Stanislav Shushkevich and Leonid Kravchuk signed the Belovezhsky agreement - a document according to which their republics left the Soviet Union. 17 days after this, the USSR officially ceased to exist. Medusa gathered the memoirs of the participants and contemporaries of these events - during and after the collapse of the USSR.

SK began checking due to the satirical “appeal” to Bastrykin. Its author admitted that he was joking. What next?

The Investigative Committee checks the Rapers of Oximiron and Noise MC for extremism for a comic appeal to Alexander Bastrykin published in LiveJournal. The main question arising in this regard: in the UK are generally able to distinguish serious statements and frivolous ones? To answer it, Medusa dismantled the path that the satirical text goes from social network to a criminal case, and did not find a single instance that would be able to take a joke as a joke.

In the "GES-2" in front of the visitors, the Santa Barbara remake is removed-as close as possible to the original. But why?

In Moscow, the House of Culture "GES-2" was opened. The largest of the projects of the first season was created by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kyartansson. Until spring, his team is going to re-transmit all the series of the American soap opera Santa Barbara in Russian-in the presence of the audience. Critic Anton Khitrov tells why Santa Barbarucan be considered a manifesto of a new space .

Podkast "What happened"

What to expect from the new government and the new German chancellor

Olaf Sholts, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDPG), who won the parliamentary elections in September, replaced Angel Merkel as Chancellor. She held this position for the past 16 years. The SDPG united in a coalition with the party of "Green" and the right -capacity party of free democrats. One of its main tasks, the new government considers the fight against climate change. In this issue, we discuss the expectations of the Germans from the new government, the path of Scholyts from an unpopular politician to the chancellor and the possible influence of the "green" on domestic and foreign policy. Including Russian-German relations. The guest of the episode is the journalist of Medusa Dmitry Vacedin, who lives in Germany.

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Coronavirus

Omicron is really worse neutralized by antibodies of ill and vaccinated. Whether this will affect protection against a serious illness is not yet clear

Three groups of scientists in the laboratories of South Africa, Germany and Sweden came to this conclusion independently. In all three cases, the researchers saw a significant drop in the “strength” of the binding of antibodies to viral particles . It must be emphasized that it is so far about the most preliminary data. None of these works have passed the full review. And the fall of the titra of neutralization cannot simply be taken and translated into a quantitative drop in the effectiveness of vaccines or the immunity of the ill-fledged formula.

Other news about coronavirus

• The Moscow authoritiesreported on the effectiveness of treatment from Covid by plasma of the ill. This method did not recommend using WHO.
• The Supreme Court of Russia counted the photo of the violator with sufficient evidence for the fine for the lack of a mask.
• All deputies of the Communist Party left the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region during the consideration of the bill on mandatory QR codes.

The results of the year from Google

The company published a traditional New Year’s video “Year in Search” about the most popular requests of Russians. Among them are QR codes, the verdict of Alexei Navalny and rallies in his support, as well as the performance of Mange at Eurovision. By the way, the manifa specially recorded the song “Indivisible” for the video. Among the topics that fell in the video, the #Maximzhivi promotion in support of the singer Maksim, sick with coronavirus.

I wanted to sing again "Do you know" your "Medusa"