Evening Medusa

10th of August. Everything is bad at the mine in Yakutia, RBC journalist was imprisoned for 3.5 years

Good evening,

alas, today is again not "Evening Medusa", but a messenger of hopelessness.

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The situation in Yakutia, where rescuers are looking for eight miners, is deteriorating , even the Ministry of Emergency Situations admits this. For several days, while the rescue operation was going on, we knew almost nothing about what was happening there: there are almost no journalists in Mirny, Alrosa and officials share information sparingly. Late the night before, Meduza published a transcript of a conversation between the relatives of the missing miners, representatives of Alrosa and officials, and later interviewed the relatives - they believe that the mine was in disrepair; Alrosa denies this .

RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov and three of his associates were found guilty of creating an extremist organization, three, including Sokolov, received real terms. The case is cloudy (the organization wanted to change the Constitution in such a way that the Russians would not only vote for the future president in the elections, but also evaluate the work of the old one), many witnesses are classified. Sokolov links the court's decision to his journalistic activities; RBC declines to comment. But on Facebook, the former head of RBC, Elizaveta Osetinskaya, spoke out: “I feel sorry for Sasha as a young idealist - and bitter from our general helplessness.”

In Russia, there is Sladky Island (this is the Vologda Oblast), on which for some reason people live, although there is no Internet, no cellular communication, no roads, no heating - nothing . The only way to survive on Sladkoy is a prison for life prisoners, which is located on the neighboring island of Fire. Our journalist Ilya Zhegulev spent several days on Sladkoy to understand what it is like to live in such circumstances.

Not important at all

In order not to fall into depression, we will use the therapy from the heading "Chapiteau".

Firstly, in the Moscow metro, an anonymous actionist made a bas-relief with Mr. Meesiks (it turned out great !). The metro did not appreciate the humor, the funny man from the "Belorusskaya" has already been removed.

Secondly, a fruit cake made 106 years ago was found in Antarctica. And it has held up well! They even say that it smells "almost edible."

Thirdly, it turns out that Donald Trump is carried a folder with good news about himself twice a day. We want that too!

Alexander Polivanov, your weary editor of Evening Medusa