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Evening Medusa
April 25 at 10 locations
10. Let's start with the game (especially since there will be little fun later): more and more often, our correspondents communicate with sources using encrypted communication channels. These ciphers, as a rule, are arranged quite intricately - but there are quite simple ones in the world! Here is a game in which you need to unravel the messages from Medusa: there are three more or less simple levels and one to think about.
9. Ukraine cut off electricity to Lugansk: the Ministry of Energy decided that it was not necessary to supply electricity to the regions controlled by the separatists, especially since they do not pay their debts. A few hours later, Lugansk began to receive electricity from Russia.
8. Where to copy homework? By the end of the year, this issue becomes more and more relevant. Millions of schoolchildren in Russia have an answer: "educational" sites with ready-made homework break attendance records - for example, they bypass the famous Kursera in terms of the number of unique visitors. Journalist Alexandra Sivtsova, at the request of Meduza, told the story of these sites and even spoke with the founder of one of them.
7. The person involved in the “bolotnaya case” was beaten in the Yaroslavl colony. Ivan Nepomniachtchi is the 33rd person involved in the Bolotnaya case, he was detained in February 2015, two and a half years after the action on Bolotnaya Square. He is due to be released in the summer of 2017. In mid-April, after a mass search, he and his cellmates were beaten and placed in a punishment cell . Human rights activists believe that there were no reasons for the use of force.
6. Other news from the law enforcement system: the appeal left the mathematician Dmitry Bogatov in custody until the summer (he apparently sits for posts that he never wrote and does not even know the author), and nationalist Dmitry Demushkin was sentenced to two and a half years in two photos on VKontakte.
5. In fifth place are Moscow five-story buildings. There is a lot of news about them: according to rumors , those who do not go to the vote regarding the fate of the house will be included in the lists of those who voted for the demolition. Other sources claim that the mayor's office figured out how to move people from one area to another: for example, to give a one-room plus a two-room apartment for a three-room apartment. And the architectural critic Grigory Revzin tells what is good and bad about the idea of the Moscow authorities, and even advises how to cope with the discontent of citizens (see for yourself whether these tips are reasonable and appropriate).
4. In St. Petersburg, five people were detained in the case of harassment in an orphanage. The story is terrible : the harassment allegedly took place from 2005 to 2010, the pupils of the orphanage were at that time from 10 to 15 years old. Meduza is preparing a material about this case, but by the time Evening Medusa was sent, it was not yet ready, read a little later.
3. Novaya Gazeta has found new evidence that a Boeing in Ukraine was shot down from a Russian Buk . The journalist of the publication Pavel Kanygin spoke with a colleague of Sergei Dubinsky, who is suspected of delivering the same Buk to the Donbass. The colleague says that it is Dubinsky’s voice on the recordings of the negotiations presented by the Ukrainian side.
2. Remember Alexei Navalny's investigation into funds allegedly linked to Dmitry Medvedev? Well, the same investigation that led to protests all over Russia on March 26? So, these funds published statements for the first time in their history . on something It shows that the funds spent billions of rubles .
1. Speaking of billions of rubles. Our special correspondent Ilya Zhegulev studied in depth the history of the Massandra winery, which came under the control of the administration of the President of Russia. In short, everything is very strange there: a criminal case was opened against the former director, the famous ports stopped being produced, switching to dry wine, a huge number of bottles were not sold, and employees fear that Massandra will start buying wine materials from abroad.
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