A ‘Meduza’ special correspondent joins Russia’s coronavirus vaccine clinical trials and catalogs the experience before and after her shot Tatiana Makeeva / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA On August 11, Russia announced the registration of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, named “Sputnik V” by its developers at Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the "bias" of the technical secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), whose representatives took samples of the politician Alexei Navalny in the Berlin clinic "Charite". The samples were taken "in the course of a secret operation, carefully concealed from us by all its participants," the Foreign Ministry said.

Igor Podgorny / TASS The historian Yuri Dmitriev was supposed to be released this year. But the verdict was tightened immediately for 10 years On July 22, the Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced the historian, the head of the Karelian Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev, to three and a half years in a maximum security colony in the case of violent acts of a sexual nature in relation to the adopted daughter. He was supposed to be released in November 2020-because of the time spent in jail.

Their versions of what is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh - as briefly as possible Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan : On September 27, Armenia shelled our settlements and combat positions. Eleven civilians were killed, including two children. This was a planned military provocation: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ( a Soros protege ) wants to divert attention from domestic problems. We were forced to respond. The fighting has been going on for three days.

Recommendations on compliance with the regime of self-isolation and remote work, which the Moscow authorities gave on September 25, will be valid until October 28. This is stated in the decree of Sergei Sobyanin. On September 25, Sobyanin recommended that people over 65 and people with chronic diseases not leave their homes unless absolutely necessary, and that employers should transfer employees to remote work. In Moscow, there is a surge in the incidence of COVID-19.

Tourism season leaves behind a flood of coronavirus patients in Crimea Viktor Korotayev / Kommersant Convenient statistics According to official statistics , Russian-annexed Crimea identified its first coronavirus case on March 21. By the beginning of May, when morbidity rates were rising sharply all across Russia, Crimea had recorded 100 cases of the infection; Sevastopol , its largest city, had 85.

The Ministry of Information of Belarus will suspend the publication of the “online publication Tut.by” from October 1 to December 30, 2020. Tut.by stated that this means that it has lost its status as a media outlet. The publication intends to continue working without him. Registration of Internet resources as online publications in Belarus is voluntary. The status of mass media provides certain advantages, in particular the ability to legally be present...

Google has required application developers to switch to the company's payment system within a year, which implies a 30% commission deduction from all payments received. The new rules will come into effect on September 30, 2021. Google stressed that now 97% of applications are already working through the company's payment system. According to CNBC, among the developers that allow users to conduct transactions bypassing the Google payment system are Netflix and Spotify.

Supervisors of Moscow cinemas during screenings should check every 10-15 minutes whether the audience is observing the mask regime. This was stated by the head of Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow, Elena Andreeva, Interfax reports. If we are still talking about cinemas, when the lights are turned off, then for some reason at that moment no one is watching the audience, who continue to be among other viewers for two hours with their masks down. And at this moment we say that you control this issue.

The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah, has died. He was 91 years old. The sheikh died in the United States - he flew to this country in July for a medical examination. It was later reported that he had a successful operation and was in rehab. The new Emir of Kuwait will be the half-brother of the deceased, Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah. In recent months, when Sheikh Sabah was treated in the United States, he was already partly acting head of state.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In Russia and around the world, the number of coronavirus is growing again. But there are countries where there is no second wave. How did they manage to avoid it? In Russia, a second wave of coronavirus infection began. According to official figures, the number of infected ones increased by 8232 per day - the last time such indicators were in mid -June. Most sick in Moscow.

The UK and Canada have imposed sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko and people from his entourage in connection with the falsifications in the presidential elections and human rights violations in Belarus. This is stated on the website of the British government. The regime of Alexander Lukashenko is responsible for a series of human rights violations against opposition figures, the media and the people of Belarus following the rigged elections.

We tested the Russian vaccine on ourselves. In Moscow schools - a two -week vacation. How is the pandemic in Crimea Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here . If you read this on the site, share a link on social networks.

The Armenian Defense Ministry reported that an F-16 fighter of the Turkish Air Force shot down an Armenian Su-25 aircraft. As a result of the incident, according to the department, the pilot died. The F-16 fighter at that moment was in the airspace of Armenia at a distance of 60 kilometers from the border. The Turkish presidential administration and the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that the Turkish fighter did not shoot down the Armenian plane.

The United States is using "the most unscrupulous methods to rock the situation" in Belarus, said the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin. The corresponding press release is posted on the department's website. According to the Foreign Intelligence Service, the US State Department "launched work to connect extremist elements to the protests," which are being trained in Poland, Georgia, Ukraine and the Baltic countries.