Evening Medusa

8 August. The Ukrainian was carried away by sea to the Crimea. And other beach news

Good evening!

Tuesday turned out to be rich in news about the sea and beaches, but let's start not with them.

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The trial in the case of Alexei Ulyukaev has begun. The former Minister of Economic Development is accused of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale. This is how he looks after nine months of arrest. Ulyukaev was detained in November 2016 at the office of Rosneft, and the head of the oil company, Igor Sechin, was declared as one of the witnesses in the case .

The river station collapsed in Tver. The building, built in 1938, has been in disrepair since the 90s - for some reason, no one restored one of the symbols of Tver. On August 7, cracks went up the walls, and at night the roof collapsed - now the river station looks like this , and this is a symbol of the destruction of the Russian province as a whole.

Google employees are arguing over gender equality. in one of the main IT companies in the world An exemplary scandal happened . Engineer James Damore published a manifesto in which he accused Google of excessive political correctness, and also stated that women were less adapted to programming and other technical tasks than men. Damore's management publicly denounced and fired him, but he is said to have quite a few supporters inside Google. And soon the story was continued - the engineer was invited to work by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

What did Navalny, Khodorkovsky and Udaltsov do (a fickle column about the opposition)

Alexei Navalny discovered a very strange video where half-dressed girls with jackhammers advertised the My Street program. Soon the video was removed from YouTube.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky gave a long interview to Yuri Dudyu. For those who are not ready to watch almost an hour and a half of video, we have made the shortest retelling .

Sergei Udaltsov was released . The leader of the Left Front movement left the colony a day ahead of schedule. He was convicted for organizing riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. August 10 Udaltsov promises to give a key press conference.

A couple of scary stories (but it doesn't seem to be that bad)

Is there an epidemic in Turkey? (Not yet.) Russian media are multiplying headlines like "Turkey is hiding an epidemic of the dangerous Coxsackie virus in its resorts." Panic intensifies due to disturbing messages on social networks - from Russian tourists who allegedly saw dozens of people infected with the virus. These claims are not supported by any comments from local authorities or data from hospitals.

Can't swim in Australia? (Probably, it is still possible.) Australian Sam Canisei was bitten quite badly underwater by the so-called amphipods. The frightening part is that a) he didn't notice it, b) his legs bled profusely afterwards. Scientists and doctors agreed that the young man was simply very unlucky (he stood in one place for a long time in the water and, apparently, got into a cluster of crustaceans), and the bites do not pose any serious threat to health.