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In the case of the “FSB explosion in Minecraft”, a verdict was passed. TJ was blocked in Belarus. Futurama is back

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This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the most important things that happened during the day. And first, great news for fans of classic American adult animated series: we are waiting for the return of Futurama . Streaming service Hulu has already ordered 20 episodes, which will be released in 2023.

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The main thing for the day - point by point

• 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov was sentenced to five years in prison in the case of the "FSB explosion in Minecraft."
• In Belarus, the website of the Russian edition of TJ was blocked.
• The head of the British Foreign Office, at a meeting with Sergey Lavrov, said that London would "never recognize" Russia's sovereignty over Voronezh and Rostov. Of course, by mistake .
• All telecom operators have left the Safe Internet League , which is headed by the daughter of Elena Mizulina.
• In Russia, a new record for the incidence of covid, more than 197 thousand cases.

Texts of the day

Russia was one of the first in the world to make an effective vaccine against covid - but Sputnik V has not received recognition in the West. How did it happen?

The Russian vaccine against COVID-19, Sputnik V, was one of the first in the world. It is advertised by key people in the state, the largest pharmaceutical companies in the country are engaged in production, and the fund, respected by Western investors, is engaged in international promotion. It seemed that Sputnik was doomed to global success, but it did not happen. Meduza Special Correspondent Svetlana Reiter tells the full story of Sputnik: how the vaccine was invented; what difficulties the enterprises that produced it faced; why countries importing Sputnik do not look like happy buyers .

China has done an excellent job with the coronavirus for two years. But the Olympics and Omicron can change everything

Since the first weeks of the pandemic, China has consistently pursued a policy of so-called zero tolerance for the coronavirus: the country is effectively cut off from the rest of the world; for those who enter it, a strict and long quarantine is provided, and minimal outbreaks of infection are suppressed by a total lockdown and mass testing. Until recently, such a policy has worked very successfully, allowing a country of nearly 1.5 billion people to keep the incidence at a level of no more than a few dozen people a day. But now more and more experts fear that the local virus containment system may not be able to cope with the load .

"Death on the Nile": what was the new version of the classic detective

Death on the Nile, a new film adaptation of the detective by Agatha Christie from a series of books about the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot, is coming out on the screens. Film critic Anton Dolin watched the film adaptation and tells what place it occupies in the filmography of director and starring Kenneth Branagh.

"What's happened"

India will celebrate 75 years of independence from the UK in 2022. The struggle for this independence is strongly associated with the name of Mahatma Gandhi. Now he is revered as the "father of the nation", but radical nationalists criticize his followers for supporting the Muslim population of the republic. And in New Delhi, on the site where it was supposed to erect a monument to Gandhi, the authorities decided to make a monument to another fighter for independence - Subhas Chandra Bose, who fought on the side of Germany and Japan during World War II.

In the new issue of What Happened, orientalist Yevgeny Pakhomov explains why nationalist views are becoming popular among Indians and how Mahatma Gandhi and his ideas of nonviolent resistance are now treated. Listen to the podcast on Meduza and YouTube , and subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Music and other podcast services.

I - anniversary

Exactly 15 years ago, on February 10, 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his famous Munich speech. At that time, many were surprised at its excessive rigidity and called it the beginning of a "new cold war." But now, in 2022, against the backdrop of a new conflict between Russia and the West, Putin's rhetoric seems as soft as one can imagine. Read her retelling and see for yourself.

It would be nice if the current rhetoric of Russia and NATO never seemed soft. Your Medusa