Jarno Kuusinen / All Over Press / Vida Press The Australian Motivational speaker Nick Vuychich fired his closest assistant to Brandon Schwartz, with whom he worked for many years after he learned about his homosexuality. Schwartz himself spoke about this in the Advocate column. Schwartz and Vuychich met in 2013; According to Schwartz himself, Vuychich has been an idol for him for many years.

Alexander Zemlyanichenko / Xinhua / Zuma / Scanpix / Leta The Moscow authorities tightened the punishment policy for those who decided that the coronavirus epidemic is over, and you can no longer wear masks and gloves in public places. Formally, no one has canceled the requirements that replaced the quarantine, but almost no one has observed them in recent weeks.

On the morning of August 1, in Yekaterinburg, in the square near the Drama Theater, where mass protests against the construction of the Church of St. Catherine the Great Martyr took place in the spring of 2019, an art object “Say it with deed” was installed. The installation, carried out by Tochka Bank, is shaped like a fallen fence. Two hours later, a truck with a crane arrived in the square and began to dismantle the fence.

The Naked Pravda podcast is why Chinese propaganda in Russia is ineffective The chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok in the English-language podcast The Naked Pravda finds out how Chinese propaganda works in Russian media. Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element.

Evgeny Kurskov / TASS Special (Correctional) School "Siberian Luchik". Novosibirsk. April 27, 2015 Half of people with cerebral paralysis does not have cognitive violations - at the same time, not all of them study in secondary schools, regularly communicate with peers and simply adapt to public life. Some remain at home schooling, others fall into special institutions.

Anton Vaganov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta in St. Petersburg on the afternoon of August 1, about a hundred people went to Nevsky Prospekt for a joint of solidarity with the residents of Khabarovsk, arranging rallies in support of the former governor Sergei Furgal. The police detained 21 people. Solidarity shares were also held in other major cities of Russia - Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar, Irkutsk, Vladivostok. Each of them took part from several tens to hundreds of people.

Photos of Evgeny Feldman In Khabarovsk, on August 1, the 22nd action took place in support of the former governor Sergei Furgal, accused of organizing murders. According to Kommersant, there were no less people on the shares than a week and two weeks ago - despite the fact that in the morning it was raining in the city.

Clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Center have been completed. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko. The minister explained that a package of documents is being prepared for the registration of the vaccine, after which its limited use on people from risk groups, in particular, on doctors and teachers, will begin. The authorities expect to switch to more mass vaccination in October.

Graham Clark, 17, has been arrested in Florida for allegedly hacking celebrity Twitter accounts. Clark has already been charged with 30 counts and will be tried as an adult. Clark's accomplices are 22-year-old Nima Faselli, who also lives in Florida, and 19-year-old Mason Sheppard from the UK. As a result of an attack on Twitter on July 15, hackers managed to gain full control over 45 accounts, most of which belonged to famous people - Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Kanye West.

In several large Russian cities on the afternoon of August 1, solidarity actions were held with the protesters in Khabarovsk. In St. Petersburg, according to Fontanka, about a hundred people walked along Nevsky Prospekt. They held balloons in their hands and chanted "Khabarovsk!". The police blocked their way, after which at least ten activists were detained, the rest scattered along the nearby streets. In Moscow, several dozen people gathered in Novopushkinsky Square.

A businessman of Russian origin Evgeny Lebedev will become a peer and enter the House of Lords of the British Parliament. The corresponding order was signed by Queen Elizabeth II. Prime Minister Boris Johnson recommended that Lebedev be granted a peerage title - they have been friends for many years. Together with Lebedev, the title was given to 17 other people, most of them politicians, businessmen and former members of the government.

Updated . Reuters Sources told that ByteDance has agreed to sell its entire stake in the US division of TikTok to Microsoft. US President Donald Trump said he intends to ban the social network TikTok in the country. Trump said he could take appropriate action as early as August 1, such as issuing an executive order or using emergency economic powers. Trump has also made it clear that he does not support the acquisition of TikTok by any American company.

JPL-CALTECH / NASA This year, several missions on Mars started one after another, and within just one month. On July 19, the probe of the United Arab Emirates “Nadezhda” (“Al-Amal” in Arabic) went there, which will study the Martian atmosphere.

Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" In Khabarovsk on August 1, the 22nd action took place in support of the former governor Sergei Furgal . Protesters walked marching along the central streets, after which they held a rally at the regional administration building. They chanted the slogans “Russia, come out!”, “Furgal - our choice!”, “Down with the king!”. In total, the action lasted about two hours, after which its participants dispersed. For the evening of August 1, a new rally is planned.

Perhaps this is the main book of 2020 A collection of stories “End of the world, my love” by Alla Gorbunova, a poet, for whom this is the second prose book - on February 3, 2021 received the Literary Prize “Nose”. In the first part, the book rather resembles memoirs - with warm recognizable images about family and life outside the city, but then a double of the heroine appears in the text and history turns into a gloomy phantasmagoria with violence, cannibalism and otherworldly phenomena.