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Evening Medusa
December 18th. What will happen in the next 10 years
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Arseniy Roginsky , historian and human rights activist, chairman of the board of the international society Memorial, has died. In the 1980s, he served four years on false charges of forgery. “Many years before the emergence of Memorial, he began to fight for historical truth and for human rights - and was deprived of his freedom for this,” the society said in a statement.
on December 24 The headquarters of Alexei Navalny will hold meetings of groups of voters to nominate him for the presidency of Russia. Meetings will be held in 20 cities across the country.
On the same day, December 24, a holiday called "Day of Free Elections" is planned in Moscow - it is arranged by opposition deputies from the municipal council of the Krasnoselsky district. The mayor's office considers this event a provocation. The head of the council, Ilya Yashin, decided to sue Sergei Sobyanin.
Insults and apologies
In Russia, the genre of forced apologies on camera has become established - we have counted dozens of such cases in recent years. From a recent story - a story from the show "Comedy Woman" , where they showed a number about an Ingush girl from an escort agency. The foundations of the format were laid in Chechnya: the inhabitants of the republic on a regular basis publicly ask for forgiveness from the authorities. Meduza journalist Alexander Borzenko has figured out the basic principles of the genre .
Unprecedented in Finland
This is how Finnish journalists assess the search of the correspondent of the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper Laura Halminen, the author of an article about one of the secret objects of the Finnish special services. The article says that the electronic intelligence complex in the city of Tikkakoski was created to monitor Russian troops, and was also going to be used to control Internet traffic. The newspaper was accused of disclosing state secrets. Laura Halminen smashed the computer's hard drive before the search to destroy data.
"The Pessimist's Guide"
Bloomberg journalists said that bad things could happen in the next 10 years . The list is something like this:
- Donald Trump will be re-elected for a second term;
- fake news will beat Facebook;
- instead of banks there will be bitcoin;
- China will start a trade war;
- Vladimir Putin will be replaced as President by Elvira Nabiullina.
How the Pentagon searched for UFOs
The US Department of Defense first spoke about the Advanced Air Threat Identification Program. Over the course of five years, $22 million was spent on it. Whether it was possible to find aliens is unknown. But there are at least two videos of unidentified objects that are behaving very strangely.
Dmitry Tomilov