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Evening Medusa
21 December. Life sentence for drugs and dachshund Nicholas
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In Russia, for the first time, a person accused of drug trafficking was sentenced to life in prison . The court found that a citizen of Tajikistan, Sherali Tabarov, together with his accomplices, brought almost 700 kilograms of heroin to Russia. The accomplices received from six to 25 years in prison.
The Rosbalt agency reported in the evening that 400 fighters of Ramzan Kadyrov were storming the houses of the Yamadayevs in Gudermes - "breaking into houses, turning everything upside down, detaining people." The press secretary of the head of Chechnya denied this information. According to him, only a passport check was carried out.
were expelled from the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) Participants in the attack on a student who posted comments about Caucasians on a social network . He was forced to apologize on camera under threat of being killed.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation found an apartment in the center of Paris with the ex-wife of Dmitry Peskov at a price of 1.77 million euros . Judging by the declarations that the FBK checked, Peskov's ex-wife could not have had that kind of money.
Lobbyists and decision makers
Meduza special correspondent Taisiya Bekbulatova has figured out how mediators between business and the state work in Russia . Political strategist Andrei Kolyadin told, for example, the following story:
“Somehow Deputy Plenipotentiary Sergei Samoilov came to us,” recalls Kolyadin. - We are sitting in the evening, at that moment they call me - listen, they will change the governor there, if you want, we will lobby you for 12 million rubles and make you governor. I say how? “And we will introduce you to Sergei Samoilov, and through him everything ...” And he sits next to me. I tell him about it, he grabs the phone - and they are still arguing with him!
Dmitry Rogozin and dachshund Nicholas
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Dmitry Rogozin and President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić visited the Foundation for Advanced Study. There they were shown an experiment : a dachshund named Nicholas was immersed in a container with an oxygen-enriched liquid. The dog, of course, tried to escape. In social networks, of course, everyone began to scold Rogozin. The Deputy Prime Minister had to justify himself. “I understand that such experiments are necessary, but as a human being I was worried about the dog and immediately decided to take it for myself,” Rogozin said.
What else
- Apple has admitted to slowing down older iPhones when new versions of iOS are released;
- German Gref said that the Yandex voice assistant is stupid. Yandex replied: “According to the first law of robotics, a robot cannot harm a person”;
- Chelyabinsk bloggers tried to take a weight in hand luggage on the Pobeda flight. It did not work out, although the director of the company promised to remove all weight restrictions.
Dmitry Tomilov