Evening Medusa

October 20. The dissertation of Medinsky (what, again?!), Three years "Medusa" (how, already?!)

Main: Vladimir Medinsky will retain a doctoral degree

The Presidium of the highest certification commission considered insolvent claims against the doctoral dissertation of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky - despite the fact that on October 2, the expert council of the same commission called the dissertation of the unscientific and recommended depriving the Minister of Doctor's degree. Medinsky personally came to the meeting - although he ignored all the past stages of consideration of claims to his work.

Not all members of the Presidium, but only 70% , but in the Ministry of Education and Science (it is this department can make the final decision on the deprivation of the scientific degree) performed in support of Vladimir Medinsky, believe that this is not essential.

Text of the day: how do the militants treat the relatives of the Caucasus

Sasha Sulim’s journalist Medusa went to the North Caucasus and tells the stories of families from four regions -Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria. In all these regions, the authorities promised to return to the peaceful life of the militants operating there, and in each their relatives are subjected to repression.

“Our men were announced that, by decision of the villagers, we must leave the territory of the Chechen Republic in three days. They said that on the orders of Zelimkhan, people were killed in Grozny, and therefore we have no place in Chechnya. Allegedly, our fellow villagers do not want to live near us, and our fellow villagers were there, and they, on the contrary, were against us evicted. ”

Scandal around Harvey Weinstein: Continuation

The head of Roskino and the host of Channel One, Ekaterina Mcturidze, spoke about harassment from the American producer. According to her, Weinstein tried several times to invite her to his hotel room, and for the last time she was able to escape literally a miracle. In addition, director Quentin Tarantino admitted that he knew about Winstein's harassment. Another person who was accused of harassment or rape against the backdrop of a scandal around Harvey Weinstein was the illusionist David Blaine .

"Meduza" for three years!

On October 20, 2014, after two to three weeks of hard work at the table, we finally launched our site. It’s just incredible how quickly three years flew! During this time, in Russia, in Russian journalism, and in Medusa, a lot has changed (remember what was the site three years ago?). Galina Timchenko, editor -in -chief Ivan Kolpakov and publisher Ilya Krasnitchik discuss these changes in these changes, are discussing in the special issue of our podcast . And the changes in Russian media (good, although the years were not easy), we devoted a separate rating .

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Konstantin Benyumov. Happy holiday, readers!