The founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov published a survey on his official Russian-language Telegram channel about blocking the Smart Voting bot. Durov asked the question “What’s better?” and offered two possible answers: “A complete cessation of Telegram’s operation in Russia” and “A suspension of campaign bots for two days of voting .” At the time of publication of this news, an hour and a half after the survey was posted, 185 thousand Telegram users took part in it.

Meet the 22 activists and journalists Russia just designated as ‘foreign agents’ Meduza The Russian Justice Ministry went on a ‘foreign agent’ designation spree on the evening of Wednesday, September 29. The agency blacklisted more than 20 individuals, as well as the independent rights watchdog OVD-Info and the news outlet Mediazona, which was founded by members of Pussy Riot and reports on Russia’s judicial, law enforcement, and penal system.

The Ministry of Justice has removed the Anti-Corruption Foundation ( FBK ) and the Citizens' Rights Protection Foundation ( CRPF ) of opposition leader Alexei Navalny from the register of "foreign agents". This decision was made in connection with the liquidation of both organizations, the Ministry of Justice told TASS.

A team that has never played in the Champions League is torn by the Shakhtar and Real Madrid The Champion of Moldova Tiraspol Sheriff sensationally debuted in the group stage of the Champions League. In the first two rounds, the regulars of the Donetsk “Shakhtar” and the record holder for the number of victories in this tournament - the Madrid “Real” were sequentially beaten. In the next two rounds, Sheriff will play with the champion of Italy - “Inter”. At least in one you need to not lose.

Tickets for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing will only be available to residents of mainland China, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced. Tickets will be sold exclusively to spectators residing in mainland China who meet COVID-19 control requirements. What these requirements are is not yet known. The IOC said they are currently being developed and will be made public later.

Moscow’s business community fears new restrictions as coronavirus cases rise Vladimir Gerdo / TASS / Scanpix / LETA A paramedic outside of Moscow’s Kommunarka Hospital. September 23, 2021. The Russian capital is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases once again. Accordingly, the number of hospitalizations is also on the rise.

Jellyfish On Wednesday evening, on September 29, the Ministry of Justice of Russia declared more than 20 people (as well as several organizations, including OVD-info and mediazone). Medusa briefly talks about each of them. Number 49 . Veronika Katkova is a human rights activist, activist, head of the Voice observers department in the Oryol region Number 50. Inna Karezina - head of the Voosa branch in the Moscow region Number 51.

An effective means in the fight against large IT companies that block Russian resources on their platforms would be to refuse to place advertising. This was stated by Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko, commenting on the blocking of YouTube channels of the German edition of RT.

Boris Kagarlitsky, a political scientist and lecturer at the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka), has been detained in Moscow. He announced this himself on Twitter. According to Kagarlitsky, he was detained at the door of Shaninka, where he was going to give a lecture on Karl Marx, and taken to the police department of the Airport district to draw up a protocol on an administrative offense.

Borja Suarez / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Lava from the Kumble-Vieuha volcano, erupting on the Spanish Island of Palm, reached the Ocean on the night of September 29. When lava with water is in contact, due to a huge temperature difference, a steam cloud forms, which contains ash particles and a pair of hydrochloric acid-this mixture irritates the eyes, lungs and skin, and under certain meteorological conditions, such a cloud can cause acid rains.

“Ino-agents” were declared “Mediazone”, “OTD-info” and 22 people. The founder of Group-Ib Ilya Sachkov was accused of Gosizman. The KGB officer of Belarus died in (very strange) shootout Good evening, This message (material) was created and (or) widespread by a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent, and (or) a Russian legal entity that performs the functions of a foreign agent This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about the main events of the day.

The Toy album, which the musician David Bowie recorded in 2001, but did not release due to the conflict with the recording studio, will be released on November 26. It is reported by BBC with reference to the producer Bowie Mark Plati. The album will be released as part of the reprint of the musical heritage of Bowie, which died in 2016. One of the tracks of the album, “Youffer Got a Habit of Leaving”, is already available for listening.

Galina Yuzefovich and Anton Dolin - about the adaptations of Tolstoy Russian and foreign directors shot dozens of films on the War and the World and Anna Karenina. Which of them is the most successful? And why do other books by Tolstoy so rarely fall into the cinema?

The local store ends food, the inhabitants were left without medical care Alexander Ignatov / Photobank Lori village Uakit In the village of Uakit in Buryatia, interruptions in food and medicines began-due to the fact that after the catastrophe of the aircraft "Sila" they stopped executing flights there. Uakit is located in the northeast of Buryatia 550 kilometers from Ulan-Ude and 350 kilometers from Chita.

Russia’s Justice Ministry designated OVD-Info and Mediazona as “foreign agents” on Tuesday, September 29, along with more than 20 individual journalists and rights activists. OVD-Info was added to the Justice Ministry’s registry of “unregistered public associations performing the functions of a foreign agent.” In turn, Mediazona was added to the agency’s registry of “foreign-agent media,” along with its publisher Pyotr Verzilov and editor-in-chief Sergey Smirnov.