In Pskov, at a picket in support of journalist Svetlana Prokopieva, the correspondent of the Pskov Gubernia Vladimir Kapustinsky and the newspaper's editor-in-chief Denis Kamalyagin were detained. It is reported by MBH Media North-West. Prokopyeva, who is accused of justifying terrorism, was the editor-in-chief of Pskov Gubernia in 2013-2014.

Dear readers! There was news that, as it turned out after publication, violates Meduza's standards. We reported that the film “Welcome to Chechnya” about the persecution of gays was posted on YouTube. The material contained a link leading to a pirated copy. In reality, HBO did not release the film to the public. The news has been removed. We apologize to readers.

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation is considering attracting money from the "mass user" for the construction of infrastructure, said the head of the department, Yevgeny Dietrich. His words are quoted by Interfax. As Dietrich explained, the Ministry of Transport is interested in the mechanism that the Ministry of Construction uses in housing construction (issuing mortgage bonds to attract investors).

The meme about a woman screaming at a cat is certainly great. But right now, against the backdrop of all the dramatic events that have happened in 2020, he is being replaced by memes about two Shiba Inu. The dogs' names are Doge and Chims. Doge is a shiba jock who often represents something or someone from the past (it used to be better!). And Chims can only sit and mumble - of course, he personifies modernity. Sometimes memes come out offensive, but in general they are quite harmless.

Updated. Investigator Ruslan Miniakhmetov's ID and personal belongings were returned and he was released, lawyer Konstantin Trapaidze told RIA Novosti. Miniakhmetov has no procedural status, he added. The Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation are disputing each other's decisions regarding the criminal case against the investigator of the Investigative Committee's central office, Ruslan Miniakhmetov.

And you tell us if there was something good 2020-just disgusting! Something terrible happens every month! Invasions of locusts, the collapse of the economy, the loss of stars in the sky, the plague. What is happening for humanity can easily be described by one meme. Here: Now we will recall the worst that has happened over the past six months, and you try to calm us down and share something good at the very end.

This is the novel-Estate “Portrait of a Men in Red”-about the beautiful era in the history of Europe (and in fact about “Brexit”) Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich talks about the new novel-Estate of the British writer Julian Barnes “Portrait of a Men in Red”. Describing the life of Samuel Pozti - the hero of the painting by John Singera Sargent, a successful surgeon and favorite of the High World - the author draws a portrait of a European beautiful era .

Alexey Shipov / Kommersant Voting on amendments to the Constitution on PEC No. 146 in Kazan. July 1, 2020 During the All -Russian vote, the capital of Tatarstan Kazan showed abnormal results: in most sites, amendments to the Constitution were supported by almost exactly 50% of registered voters. Medusa appreciated the likelihood that voting and calculation of the ballots were honest. What happened in Kazan? A strange distribution of votes was discovered by blogger Alexander Kireev.

Hotels in the Krasnodar Territory and Crimea raised prices for July-August by 50-100%, travel agencies polled by Interfax reported. According to the head of the Pink Elephant travel agency network, Alexan Mkrtchyan, in the Krasnodar Territory, 4-5-star hotels that cost 10,000 rubles a day are raising the price to 15,000 rubles.

Now everyone is discussing how to ban light dispersion in Russia On July 3, at a meeting between Vladimir Putin and members of the working group to prepare amendments to the Constitution, the head of the Women's Union of Russia, Yekaterina Lakhova, complained to the president about the impact of Raduga ice cream and colorful billboards on children. They promote unconventional values, Lakhova explained to the president.

The document with the text of the updated Constitution of the Russian Federation was published on the Internet portal of legal information on July 4 under the name "Constitution of the President of the Russian Federation." Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the Golos movement, drew attention to this. The title of the document has since been corrected, and a saved copy of the page is available at archive.is. Updated.

Films about cruelty and love - “Funny Games”, “Pianist”, “White Ribbon” and others Every weekend in the “Home Cinema” section on “Medusa”, recommendations are released for everyone who wants to study the history of the cinema. In this issue, film critic Anton Dolin talks about one of the most famous European directors, the owner of the Oscar and two “gold palm branches” - Michael Hanek.

The Commission on Freedom of Information of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation called the case of the Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopieva absurd. The commission's statement is published on the HRC website. In addition, the commission is outraged by the prosecutor's office's demand to sentence Prokopyev to six years in prison, the statement said.

Over the past day, 6,632 new cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded in Russia, according to the federal operational headquarters for combating COVID-19. 168 people died per day, bringing the total number of deaths from the infection since the beginning of the epidemic to 10,027. The number of cases, according to the headquarters, in Russia on the morning of July 4 is 674,515 people. 8,986 people recovered per day, a total of 446,879 people since the beginning of the epidemic.

The number of people infected with coronavirus infection in the world by 09:00 Moscow time on July 4 amounted to 11.078 million people. These are the data from Johns Hopkins University. Died during the epidemic 525.2 thousand people, per day the number of deaths from infection worldwide increased by 3.4 thousand people. Most of the cases as of the morning of July 4 in the United States - 2.8 million people. Died in the United States during the epidemic 129.4 thousand patients with COVID-19.