Chekist's Day

All you need to know early in the morning of December 21

Good morning!

Putin ordered to begin preparations for the celebration of the century of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

And he himself went to the solemn evening arranged in the Kremlin about the day of the employee of the security agencies of the Russian Federation . And there he told the audience that the enemies were building intrigues and therefore "the timely opening of any enemy plans against Russia, wherever they came, is of great importance."

And then it just became known that the United States expanded sanctions against Russia because of events in Ukraine. Seven people fell under new restrictions, including Yuri Kovalchuk and Putin’s personal restaurateur Evgeny Prigozhin. The Russian Foreign Ministry reserved the right to an “asymmetric answer”.

Civil activists in St. Petersburg celebrated the “Chekist Day” by the action in support of political prisoners. In Moscow, activists were detained before they could note anything. The Civil Initiative Award, established by the Committee of Civil Initiatives Alexei Kudrin, went to Denis Karagodin, who managed to find out the names of the NKVD officers who shot him great -grandfather Stepan Karagodin.

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Now the tails of the most important stories yesterday.

• The body of the Russian Ambassador of Russia in Turkey, who was killed on Monday, was delivered to Moscow to Moscow. Patriarch Kirill himself will be funny. A Russian group of 18 investigators arrived in Turkey. Six suspects were detained. Here you can read evidence of eyewitnesses of the murder, here - everything that is known about the killer.
• Angela Merkel recognized the attack on the Christmas Fair in the center of Berlin with a terrorist attack. The suspect detained in hot pursuit was released for lack of evidence, the criminal remains at large. The body with firearms found in the car belongs to the real driver of the truck, a citizen of Poland. Responsibility for the terrorist attack was taken by the terrorist group of IG.
• Shooting in the Islamic Center in Zurich is in no way connected with international terrorism. The shooting, young citizen of Switzerland, was found dead. Subsequently, it turned out that on Sunday he committed a murder.

But back to the Russian day of the Chekist:

• The blogger from Tyumen Alexei Kungurov received two years in a colony-settlement for a post in LJ. He criticized the actions of the Russian army in Syria.
• At first, the FSIN appeared, and then the material claims against Ildar Dadin, convicted of “multiple violations at rallies”, disappeared: about a million rubles allegedly left for medical checks made after his application for torture in the colony (which the Federal Penitentiary Service was going to recover from the convicted person). Later, Deputy Director of the FSIN Valery Maksimenko said that they were misunderstood and they would not demand any money from Dadin.
• In Novosibirsk, the son of the “Orthodox activist” Yuri Zaduya 21-year-old Konstantin was found dead . As investigators suggest, this is suicide. In July, Yuri Zaduya sent his son to a forced psychiatric treatment, saying that he was behaving “inappropriately”, namely, he does not share his views.

Kommersant found out the details of the death in Syria, Major Sanal Sanchirov: he fell under the mortar shelling of IG under Palmyra, where his unit was urgently transferred on December 8 to help the Syrian government army. “New Gazeta” with reference to their sources claims that two battalions of 600 people form in Chechnya to be sent to Syria. The process is led by the State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov, to lead one of the battalions, as it is assumed, will be Apti Bolothanov, who previously fought in the Donbass.

The rain has its own sources in the Kremlin. And they claim that they thought whether to allow Navalny to the 2018 presidential election in order to increase their attractiveness or not allow. We decided that it would be harmful to Russia. They will attract people to the elections by combining them with regional referenda on issues relevant for a specific place. What Navalny thinks about this, read here .

In Ukraine, a criminal case was brought against Booking.com for the fact that the service allows hotels in the Crimea or, as the author of the claim, the Verkhovna Rada deputy Grigory Logvinsky put it, for selling touches for "residence in Ukrainian sanatoriums and hotels." On the same day, the UN General Assembly recognized Russia with a queeping state, and Crimea and Sevastopol-temporarily occupied territories.

The European Commission began a new investigation against Facebook - the company is suspected of concealing information during the purchase of the WhatsApp messenger in 2014.

Simple people have more than opposite claims to Facebook related to the spread of extra information. With this, we will start three links today:

• “People are quite easy to manipulate with the help of disinformation in social networks, since this is facilitated by a complex combination of social, cognitive, economic and behavioral attitudes. Some of them played a positive role in the course of evolution: confidence in the signals emanating from the nearest environment, and skepticism in relation to their own experience helped our ancestors to learn how to avoid teeth predators. " The article of the Filippo Menceper Informatics Professor is a translation from The Conversation.
• Two therapeutic links against the background of fear of terrorist attacks, the responsibility for which ISIS takes on. In this interview, Salman Rushdi tells why he was not afraid of revenge for “satanic poems”, but is very afraid of Donald Trump’s presidency, and here - answers to 11 questions about Islam, which you probably have.
• And about the extremely irrelevant today - an excerpt from the book of Julia Shcherbinina “Time of biblioscopes: the present in the mirror of book culture” about how the therapeutic role of books changes over time.

Sincerely yours,
Seven and forth