Russian Instagram users can now add music to their stories. Officially, the function was supposed to launch on June 23, but it became available to Russians a few hours earlier, writes TJournal. To add music, you need to select the appropriate sticker in the story, find the song in the track library and select the desired fragment. The lyrics of the song will automatically be displayed on the screen in the story.

On the evening of June 22, a technical failure occurred in the St. Petersburg metro, due to which several hundred passengers were blocked in the tunnel. It is reported by "Fontanka". At about six o'clock in the evening local time, there was a breakdown of an electric cable in the tunnel of the Parnassus station on the blue metro line. Parnassus and three neighboring stations were closed. The head of the St.

We tell how the first day of the war ended - and what led to it Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / Getty Images 80 years ago, Germany began invasion of the USSR. Most of Soviet citizens learned about the start of the war at 12:15 in Moscow, when the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov performed on the radio.

Evgeny Feldman for Medusa Closed Cafe in GUM, March 30, 2020 Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin limited access to city catering establishments for those who do not have immunity to coronavirus . From June 28, only those who have completed vaccination against coronavirus will be able to visit cafes and bars of Moscow; I was ill with Covid over the past six months; It has a negative result of the PCR test for coronavirus.

The district electoral commission for the Nagatinsky single-mandate constituency of Moscow refused to allow Oleg Stepanov, former head of Alexei Navalny's Moscow headquarters, to open an electoral account to collect signatures before the State Duma elections. Stepanov's team reported this on his Telegram channel. On June 19, Stepanov's associates submitted documents to the commission to nominate Stepanov to the State Duma in single-mandate constituency No. 201. "They accepted the documents.

United Russia leaves chairman Dmitry Medvedev out in the cold ahead of 2021 State Duma election Grigory Sysoev / POOL / SPUTNIK / EPA / Scanpix / LETA United Russia Chairman Dmitry Medvedev has been sidelined by his own party ahead of the parliamentary elections in September Following United Russia’s congress in Moscow on June 19, the ruling party confirmed its election list for the September 2021 State Duma election.

AFP / Scanpix / Leta Vaccination Queue in China The PRC authorities officially announced that a billion of injections from coronavirus had been made in the country. The mass vaccination campaign began in China more than six months ago, but the pace scored only by the end of spring - and now in two days in China they make as many injections as in Russia they made pandemia for all the time. Seven vaccines from coronavirus have been created in China.

Only vaccinated and ill -fledged by Covid will be able to get into the cafes and restaurants in Moscow. How to get a vaccine that really works. Why "total dictation" was deprived of state financing Good evening, This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. Today we start with the fact that we take and move ... in 2002. More precisely, let's see how Avril Lavin returns our 2002, in the new version of the clip for the song “SK8er Boi” . Of course, in Tiktok.

Russia flew out with Euro 2020. There is little good in this (well, if only memes!) The Russian national football team missed four goals in a match with Denmark (having scored only one) and flew out with Euro 2020. “We love our adventures on the ass, so today we got a bit,” the captain of the national team Artem Dziuba commented on the defeat of the team.

The Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow sentenced Elena Kanunnikova, an employee of a branch of the Alrosa diamond mining company, to nine years in prison. She was found guilty of theft and illegal circulation of precious stones, writes "Interfax" with reference to the press service of the court. Three of Kanunnikova's accomplices received four to seven years in prison. The court also satisfied in full the civil claim of Alrosa in the amount of more than 713 million rubles.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The Total Dictation lost state financing - it seems, for political reasons. We are talking about the fate of the project with his head Olga Rebkovets On June 21, 2021, the head of the Total Dictation Olga Rebkovets told her Facebook page that the Presidential Grants Fund refused to allocate money for this educational project in 2022. The Total Dictation has collaborated with the presidential fund since 2017.

Tells Kirill Krivosheev (Carnegie.ru) Diego Herrera / Sopa Images / Zuma Wire / Scanpix / Leta The party "Civil Treaty" Nikola Pashinyan won extraordinary elections to the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia. 53.92% of voters voted for it. This is an unexpected result of the election: sociological surveys predicted the victory of the main enemy Pashinyan, Robert Kocharian.

The Spanish government has pardoned nine Catalan leaders convicted in connection with the organization of a referendum on the independence of Catalonia. It is reported by Reuters. “With this act [of pardon], we want to open a new phase of dialogue, reconciliation and put an end to all differences and confrontation once and for all,” said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. The Catalan authorities held a referendum in 2017, despite the ban of the Spanish Constitutional Court.

A former teacher who was fired from Moscow State University’s elite Kolmogorov Boarding School has filed a defamation suit against the investigative outlet Proekt and journalist Yulia Lukyanova. As reported by MBX Media, Moscow’s Nikulinsky District Court registered the lawsuit on June 21.

DVANOV group - in the Marathon "Summer Agents" Medusa continues the musical marathon "Summer Agents". Every day on weekdays since the beginning of June, we publish premieres, special live performances, as well as the appeals of artists about the situation with independent media in Russia. You can arrange a regular donation to Medusa here . Another participant in the marathon is the Krasnodar-Petersburg group of Dvanov, named after the protagonist of the Chevengur Andrei Platonov.