Evening Medusa

11th August. Cuba, Korea, the Internet - dangers everywhere

Good evening!

The busiest week of summer is over. Guess how? Again, almost nothing happened!

List of the day

The FSB needs your phone number and a list of the languages ​​you speak. As well as clothes and a motorcycle! (Joke.) Today it became known what kind of data the “information dissemination organizers” (that is, Internet services and social networks) should store in order to provide them to the special services if necessary. The list is impressive . Actually, what data you can keep with you is somehow even unclear.

Panic of the day

Trump threatens North Korea. Again! The President of the United States, despite being on vacation, continues to threaten the DPRK with the fact that if Kim Jong-un behaves foolishly, he will bring down all the military power of America on the country. True, there is one small nuance: so far, American troops are not preparing for anything special. And thank God: as you know, the main thing is that there should be no war.

Riddle of the day

American and Canadian diplomats in Cuba have begun to lose their hearing in recent years. What is this new acoustic weapon ?

Fight of the day

Banker Tinkov did not like how video bloggers told about him. And how the journalists talked about the video bloggers who talked about him. Now his representatives are threatening to sue both the first and the second, and other video bloggers refuse to cooperate with Tinkov. Perfect fit for a Friday night!

Empire of the day

Rapper Oksimiron released the first new song in a year and a half. Well, that is, not quite - this is an advertisement for the Reebok company, of which the musician is an ambassador. But he talks in the video not at all about sneakers, but about the fact that he is building his own empire. In general, Oksimiron and his recent battle with rapper Purulent is one of the main topics of the week, and if you haven’t figured it out yet, it’s time to listen to our weekly podcast Meduza in the Know. Attention - there are a lot of spoilers!

Recognition of the day

We love Soviet modernism very much. Yes, yes - these are the very, at first glance, dull buildings of the 1960s and 80s, with which all of Moscow (and all of Russia) is built up. One of the brightest buildings in this style, the INION RAS building that burned down several years ago, was decided to be restored this week in its original form - and on the occasion of such good news, we asked our colleague Yuri Bolotov to explain why Soviet modernism is good .

kiss of the day

Zhukov kisses Khrushchev on the lips in the trailer for the new film by the wonderful British satirist Armando Iannucci, The Death of Stalin. Khrushchev is played by Steve Buscemi. Watch before it's banned!

Good weekend! Your author of the “Evening Medusa” of the day is Alexander Gorbachev