Evening Medusa

16th of May. "Poroshenko, return the wall!"

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Main news: Ukraine has radically expanded the sanctions list against Russia. In addition to various boring companies , from which Ukrainian citizens are neither cold nor hot, Yandex with all its services, Mail.ru (including VKontakte and Odnoklassniki), Kaspersky Lab, ABBYY and 1C fell under the ban. ". In short: of the top 10 most popular sites in Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko banned four .

The excessiveness of this measure can be judged even by the quotes of Russian State Duma deputies. “On the Internet, it is stupid and irrational to act with bans, people will somehow find a way to get around them,” said , for example, MP Yevgeny Revenko. I wonder if he approves of the activities of Roskomnadzor? Just today, Vedomosti learned that the department threatened to block Telegram in Russia.

All day, providers in Ukraine thought about what to do now, but in the evening they nevertheless began to block Russian sites. While "VK" and "OK" were available, users mostly had fun : here is the predictable "Poroshenko, return the wall" and the less obvious "I'll sell a flash drive with memes." Our favorite: "And only one calms - that the "tanks" are Belarusian."

Not about Ukrainian sanctions (briefly). In Volgograd, gas exploded in a residential building (according to various sources, either two or three people died), in the United States, Donald Trump allegedly spilled secret (or semi-secret) information to Sergei Lavrov, Pozner argued with the Russian Orthodox Church about atheism and the Criminal Code ( here's what Pozner said, this is in Syria how the Russian Orthodox Church answered), a crematorium was found , in which the bodies of those killed as a result of mass extrajudicial executions are allegedly burned. And one more thing: Vladimir Putin's "May decrees" are five years old, but they are, to put it mildly, not being implemented very well .

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