Evening Medusa

School Violence, Domestic Violence and Anti-Semitism

League of Schools. What's next? Yesterday, Meduza published perhaps our most difficult and scary, but at the same time very important text - an investigation into sexual harassment in a Moscow school that lasted more than 20 years. This material remains one of the most discussed both in the media and social networks, and at the official level: one of the consequences of the publication was the verification of the UK. Here we briefly talk about the reaction to the investigation, both on the part of the participants in the events and on the part of officials.

Decriminalization of beatings - the key to a strong family? This opinion is shared by the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, at least in this vein he commented on the bill on the withdrawal of beatings of relatives from criminal liability, which is now being considered by deputies. Not so long ago we already explained why the decriminalization of beatings in Russia is a bad idea, but this seems to be the case when you can put the link again .

Is the Vice Speaker of the State Duma an anti-Semite? Former TV presenter, and now vice-speaker of the lower house of parliament Pyotr Tolstoy commented on the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg to the Russian Orthodox Church. In his opinion, those whose ancestors, “jumping out of the Pale of Settlement,” destroyed churches after the 1917 coup, oppose the transfer of the cathedral. Many perceived Tolstoy's statement as anti-Semitic - although he later tried to justify himself and even accused his critics of anti-Semitism . Since there are no mechanisms for interacting with such speeches in Russia, it is not entirely clear what consequences Tolstoy's statement can lead to. One thing is clear: the authorities in the person of the same Volodin do not see anything terrible in the words of the Vice Speaker of the State Duma .

Consequences of sanctions: pleasant and not very. The unpleasant ones are that because of them, the import of electronics to Russia may suffer . The import of all devices that use encryption is controlled by the FSB, which has come under sanctions due to Russian hackers and their alleged meddling in the US elections. Pleasant (well, depending on who, of course) is that a new dollar billionaire has appeared in Russia due to sanctions .

La La Land received 14 Oscar nominations , and it's certainly not a nasty topic at all! The musical by Damien Chazelle is nominated in 13 categories, but in one - for the best song - twice. It seems that only "Titanic" was nominated in the same number of categories for the award. For clarity, all the nominations of La La Land in one picture. And all the other nominees of 2017 - in one paragraph .

PS The guinea pig has an existential crisis . In general, it is not surprising.