Putin is like a grandmother and a circus without horses

Medusa Podcast

Alexei Ponomarev and Evgeny Berg discuss Vladimir Putin's relationship with the Internet, the death of an American student after a trip to North Korea, "pocket" forensic experts and the case of Karelian local historian Yuri Dmitriev, the surreal trial of the management of the Gogol Center, and the cult status of the film Brother. You can download the podcast here .

Materials used in the podcast:

• Putin issued a video recording of American air strikes for Russian shelling in Syria. It turns out that this record was given to him by Shoigu
• US student dies a week after being released from prison in North Korea
• Specialists in pornography and extremism. How the Center for Sociocultural Expertise works, whose analytical articles help courts jail human rights activists, nationalists and Pussy Riot
• Shura Burtin. Hottabych case
• The investigation could not establish whether the performance was former director of the Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky sent under arrest. Meduza's report from the courtroom
• "We're out of Cinema." Tsoi's Week at Meduza
• Brother-20 Anton Dolin - about Danil Bagrov, the main character of post-Soviet cinema

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