Daniil Turovsky / Meduza The “Best Clinic,” not far from the Baumanskaya subway station in Moscow, November 22, 2018 Advisory: This article contains detailed descriptions of genital mutilation. The Best Clinic medical center was recently offering “female circumcision” on its website to patients on religious or ritual grounds Not far from the Baumanskaya subway station in Moscow, there’s a small two-story building attached to a brick warehouse that dates back to the 19th century.

Daniil Turovsky / "Medusa" Center "Best Clinic" near the Baumanskaya metro station in Moscow, November 22, 2018 Attention . The text contains a detailed description of the surgical operation on the genitals.

The Office of the press service and information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / TASS / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu and the head of GRU Igor Korobov, just appointed for this post. Moscow, February 2, 2016 Igor Korobov headed the GRU since January 2016.

Cave on Bowie, Padalki Record, Cosmic Marathon On November 20, 1998, the first element of the International Space Station (ISS) - a large orbital complex created by the joint efforts of Russia and the United States was brought into orbit. Since then, almost all space powers took part in the work of the ISS, and dozens of people visited the station. Medusa talks about six cosmonauts and astronauts, whose flights to the ISS were especially memorable.

Here are the most important things you should know about Russia’s intelligence community Dmitry Astakhov / TASS President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov visit the GRU’s headquarters, November 8, 2006 Both at home and abroad, the Russian abbreviation of the year has been “GRU” — the erstwhile but still commonly used initialism for the country’s Military Intelligence Directorate.

There is a free WiFai in Moscow. Its operator collects a lot of user data Sergey Kiselev / City News Agency "Moscow" In 2018, many posts appeared in social networks of residents of large cities describing about the situation: a person passes by a cafe, and later sees the advertising banner of the very cafe in Facebook. At first it seemed a strange coincidence, but over time it became obvious that so often coincidences did not occur.

Daniil Turovsky answers the main questions about Russian intelligence Dmitry Astakhov / TASS President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Minister of Defense Sergey Ivanov visit the headquarters of the GRU, November 8, 2006 In 2018, the main Russian abbreviation - both within the country and beyond - became GRU.

Daniil Turovsky tells the story of the climber Alexander Gukov, who was stuck in the mountains in Pakistan at an altitude of 6145 meters Alexander Utkin for Medusa Alexander Gukov in Moscow, September 24, 2018 Alexander Gukov opened his eyes and saw that a helicopter had flown behind him. The pilots and rescuers with a stretcher ran out of there - and they reported that now he was finally saved. It was July 31, 2018.

Daniil Turovsky tells the full story of the GTA GTA - Islamists, whom the state considers simply robbers Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Participants in the Gang GTA listen to the verdict in the Moscow Regional Court, August 9, 2018 On August 9, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced the members of the so-called GTA gang, who in the early 2010s attacked cars and killed drivers in Moscow and the Moscow Region.

How Russia’s war in Georgia sparked Moscow’s modern-day recruitment of criminal hackers Anna Shnygina for Meduza On the night of August 8, 2008, Georgian troops started shelling Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and then began their assault on the city. Within a few hours, Russia’s armed forces entered Georgia, leading to a five-day war that cemented South Ossetia’s secession.

As a war in Georgia inspired the special services to recruit hackers-patriots. Investigation of Daniil Turovsky Anna Shnygina for "Medusa" On the night of August 8, 2008, Georgian troops began to shell the capital of South Ossetia Tskhinvali, and then began to storm the city. A few hours later, Russia brought the troops into Georgia; The conflict lasted five days and ended with the actual branch of South Ossetia from Georgia.

They accused Russia of killing civilians. Russia accused them of staged filming Rescuers from the "White Helmets" on the ruins of the building after a airstrike in a suburbs of Damascus, February 2017. MSALLAM ABDALBASSET / AFP / Scanpix / Leta "White Helmets" is a Syrian charitable organization that arose as a union of local residents In the spring of 2011, several Syrian teenagers, inspired by the Arab Spring , drew anti -government graffiti on one of the walls of the city of Deraa.

Entrepreneur Peter Officers died Evgeny Feldman On July 13, entrepreneur Peter Officers died, who was twice convicted with Alexei Navalny in the Kirovles case. He was 43 years old. The death editor of The New Times Evgeny Albats publicly reported about the death of the businessman; A few hours later, this was confirmed by lawyer Svetlana Davydova (she was the defender of the officer at the process of Kirovles).

30 years ago, a train explosion ripped through the Soviet city of Arzamas, and locals to this day believe it was part of a plot to destroy the USSR I. P. Sklyarov Microdistrict Museum of History The explosion in Arzamas on June 4, 1988. Image recorded by amateur photographer Nikolai Bloshenkov. On June 4, 1988, not far from the railway station in the city of Arzamas, a train car carrying munitions from a nearby weapons factory suddenly exploded.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How the Soviet surgeon decided on the first floor change in history The Special Corps of Medusa Daniil Turovsky tells Alexei Ponomarev about the text about the first sex-change operation in history, which was done in the USSR in the early 1970s.