Belgium in mourning. "Gorella Shin, Palail"

Everything you need to know early in the morning of March 23

Good morning!

These days, we are all Belgians - including the French, who only do on other days, what jokes say about the Belgians.

According to the latest official figures, 31 people became victims of two terrorist attacks in Brussels, 250 people were injured . The “Islamic state” took responsibility for the explosions. In Belgium, a three -day mourning is declared and the maximum level of a terrorist threat. We will be closed the airport to the head today all day. The police identified at least three suspects, they are looking for them. During the searches in Brussels in the apartment of one of the suspects , a homemade explosive device was found, filled with nails . The border between France and Belgium is closed, the railway message is cut, and safety measures have been increased in different countries throughout Europe. Residents of Brussels offer free help to all those who are stuck in the city.

• Eyewitnesses can be read here and here .
• The opinions of experts are here and here .

The topic that I do not want to raise against the background of mourning, but you can not help but mention - this is a reaction to the incident of Russian officials. The statements of the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexei Pushkov and the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Maria Zakharova you will find here-along with the reaction of social networks to “choral fragmentation” of officials. Separate micro - the exchange of courtesies between the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Gritsak and the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Gritsak said that in Brussels terrorist attacks you can find a Russian trail, Medvedev in response called the Gritsak “moron”.

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The second sad theme of yesterday is a conviction of Nadezhda Savchenko . The Ukrainian soldier received 22 years in prison and 30 thousand rubles of a fine . Savchenko herself reacted to the verdict of the song "Gorel Shin, Palal" and is not going to appeal him. Immediately after the verdict, Petro Poroshenko proposed to exchange Savchenko for two Russian troops detained in Ukraine. Poroshenko did not call names, but, obviously, Erofeev and Alexandrov. The Kremlin with the mouth of Peskov replied that only Putin can solve the issue of exchange. Human Rights Watch stated that Savchenko’s sentence was submitted according to the results of the unfair court. Savchenko hinted at the “humane decision” of the case by the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Today he will hold negotiations in Moscow with Lavrov and Medvedev. Today, US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Putin, Peskov confirmed this .

The Crimean director Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Russia for terrorism, was discovered in pre -trial detention center No. 1 of the city of Yakutsk . Meanwhile, in his homeland, the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol resigned the speaker of the city parliament Alexei Chally.

Today, the Moscow City Court will consider an appeal to the verdict to the activist Ildar Dadin , who was sentenced to three years in prison for “repeated violations at rallies”.

Everything is complicated with the court of Peter Pavlensky : the decision of the peace court in St. Petersburg on his “Freedom” campaign was transferred to Moscow , where he is in the pre -trial detention center in connection with the “Threat” campaign.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky commented on Facebook to cooperate his structures with people who until recently performed on the side of the authorities. The essence of the comment is that there are few good people, and Khodorkovsky himself is a former oligarch and Komsomolets.

And life goes on as usual. Flydubai Airlines resumed flights to Rostov-on-Don.

Three links will be today, if necessary, very abstract - about religion, political myth -making and trouble -free drunkenness.

• Maxim Goryunov discusses the “heresies of humanity”, presented on the weekend by Patriarch Kirill, and comes to the conclusion that the current head of the Russian Orthodox Church is a figure for the new Russia is too secular . This post is clearly needed by Tikhon Shevkunov.
• The philosopher Mikhail Yampolsky in an interview with the “Gifter” site talks about the real and mythical threats of Russia: “When all the boundaries are already crossed, when you attack a neighbor and cannot justify it, the mythology is the last refuge: here Korsun, Vladimir Baptist, and everything is mobilized for confrontation of reality, and then this ends Donbass, shot down by Boeing and the general moral degradation of the country. ”
• 60 years ago, Penguin Books published an amazing book about London drunkards on the eve of World War II - 15 years after the first publication. The author of the novel “The Square of the hangover” Patrick Hamilton was a finished alcoholic by that time. A few years later he died of cirrhosis. And about a novel that would be good to revive in Russian, read here .

Other longings about things not so abstract read in the mobile application “Pulse of Time” . Do not waste time searching for practical articles - they have already been found for you.

Sincerely yours,

Seven and forth