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Sophia Sapga asked about pardon. Gas prices are hitting records. What will happen to local self -government

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This is the daily newsletter "Medusa" about the main news of the day. But first - a mysterious story: the user of the Internet from Chicago discovered a photograph of a mysterious perfectly flat round hole in forest thickets. Portal to another dimension? Nora hobbits? The machinations of aliens? Suddenly , a solution was discovered in the south of Estonia .

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The main thing is in the day - by points

• Russian woman Sophia Sapga, accused of inciting enmity in Belarus, filed a petition for pardon .
• The vaccination of adolescents from coronavirus was included in the calendar of preventive vaccinations . She will be voluntary.
• Putin signed the law on the expansion of police powers . He gives the right to open cars to employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
• The price of gas in Europe reached a historical maximum - $ 2,000 per thousand cubic meters. This is ten times higher than at the beginning of the year.
• In Russia, 41 people found Omicron . And in the USA he became a dominant version of coronavirus.
• In Moscow, the prosecutor's office demanded the sentence of a teenager who was helping on a stand with portraits of war veterans, to five years in a colony.

The texts of the day

Several women were accused by actor Chris Nota - a “dream man” from “sex in a big city” - for coercion to sex. That's what happened next

After the premiere of the series “And just like that ...”, an article was published in The Hollywood Reporter in which two women accused the note of forcing sex in 2004 and 2015. The actor rejected the prosecution. “These stories could occur 30 years ago or 30 days ago -“ no ”always means“ no ”, this is the line that I have not crossed. The meetings took place by mutual agreement, ”said NOT. However, after that, two more women announced the duress of sex. As a result, the performer of the main roles in “And just like that ...” supported the women who accused the note. The actor lost his role in another series and a major deal .

Photo of Evgeny Feldman about Dasha Forest. Her fiancé Egor has been in a colony in the "Moscow case" for two years

In December 2019, Yegor Lesnovy, one of the defendants in the Moscow Affairs, during the last word in court made an offer to his girlfriend Dasha. The next day, he received three years in a colony. Egor was accused of violence against the police after he tried to protect other people from beating by the Rosgvardeis; He is serving a term in a colony-settlement near Volgograd and should be released in June 2022. About once every two months, his bride travels to his colony. Medusa photographer Evgeny Feldman shot Dasha for several weeks - before and after their meeting. That's what happened .

A year ago, 190 countries united into the COVAX program to achieve uniform distribution of vaccines around the world. It was a beautiful idea, but a lot went wrong

At the very beginning of the pandemic, in April 2020, the COVAX program was launched under the auspices of the World Health Organization. Its goal was to prevent the so -called vaccine nationalism, when the countries producing vaccines primarily provide their excess at home and only then export. More than 190 countries joined the initiative in total, but almost immediately everything went wrong . As a result, as Wired writes, the program has not changed the situation with the vaccine inequality between poor and wealthy states: less than 5% of the population has been vaccinated in the poorest countries of Africa.

Podkast "What happened"

In Russia, a new reform of local self -government has started. Well, as a reform - rather, the final liquidation

A bill on local self -government was submitted to the State Duma, proposing to abolish the self -government bodies of urban and rural settlements. If the bill is accepted in the proposed form, then they will lose the right to the local administration and the Council of Deputies, and their territories will be connected to urban or municipal districts. About 18 thousand local municipalities of the first level, now having their own self -government and budget, fall under the document. We are talking with an expert in the field of local self -government, the former coordinator of the project “Municipal map of Russia: Growth Points” Dmitry Sosnin about what such changes will lead to.

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And - the best movie!

The 2021st is coming to an end, which means it's time to start summing up its results. The film critic of Medusa Anton Dolin chose the ten best films of the year (more precisely, nine films and one series - he was so good!). “Dune”, “Quiet Voice”, “Memory”, “Lamb” - and other films that you should definitely watch if you have not done this yet.

The new movie is, of course, good, but who we are deceiving, all the same, the year will end with the "irony of fate." Your "Medusa"