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Evening Medusa
January 17. Cosmic Kingdom and the collapse of Bitcoin
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In Ingushetia set fire to the Memorial office. Computers, furniture and documents were completely burned. This happened a few days after the head of the local branch of the organization of Oyub Titiev was arrested in neighboring Chechnya. The Kremlin called for “not to draw generalized conclusions” about the oppression of human rights activists in the Caucasus.
The bitcoin exchange rate fell below 10 thousand dollars . Over the past month, the price of the main cryptocurrency, which has swiftly flew up at the end of last year, has almost doubled . The fall is explained by the attempts of the authorities in different countries to adjust the production and sale of bitcoins - for example, in China, mining wants to stop . It's time to remember what Bitcoin is bad .
The priest Gleb Grozovsky was sentenced to 14 years of strict regime on charges of sexual violence against children in Orthodox camps. Grozovsky, who, after the initiation of the case, went to Israel and was extradited from there, does not plead guilty. Read more about the case here .
North and South Korea will be held under the same flag at the opening and closing of the Olympics in Pyeongchang (which is less than a month before). In addition, they will have a common women's hockey team .
Cosmic Kingdom
The former head of the defense concern "Almaz-Antei" Igor Ashurbei creates his own state called Asgardia (with a permanent settlement on the moon). Almost 170 thousand people have already decided to join the Ashurbei, which Ashurbeili calls the cosmic kingdom. Our special corner Taisiya Bekbulatova tells about Ashurbeyli himself and his project .
After state bodies are formed, Ashurbely is going to contact the UN so that Asgardia becomes a member of the organization. “Rather, the UN will be blossomed than Asgardia will not be a state,” he says confidently. - What is the UN in general? Well, laughter and tears. This is actually a public organization that cannot recognize the state or not recognize. We have a gangster land, a planet. Here you stood on your square meter with a knife and say that this is my state. And the neighbor says: no. You once - dusted him. All".
“There was everything in captivity. I will not say anything else "
At the end of December, the first exchange of prisoners between Kiev and separatists from the DPR and the LPR for a long time took place in Ukraine. Juliana Skibitskaya journalist recorded the monologues of three people who were transferred to the Ukrainian side - a military, volunteer and a resident of Lugansk. We could not talk to those who returned to the Donbass: their names were not published.
“Initially, when I was accepted, I was charged with Article 343 of the Criminal Code of the LPR - this is an incitement of enmity on a racial basis, that is, to the Russian population. When they began to check the correspondence on Facebook, they found my messages, where I transmitted the Armed Forces [of the Armed Forces of Ukraine] and the volunteers of the coordinates of the positions of the separatists. This information was attributed to military secrets - for this they charged me with treason and espionage in favor of a foreign state. It was written in brackets: a foreign state is Ukraine. ”
Renovation in Moscow: how new houses will look like
In Moscow, competitions of projects of the first 20 houses were announced, which will be built under the renovation program. Now you can imagine how these houses will look-for each competition in the documents the “object-analogue” is indicated. For example, a house in the Mozhaisk district, on which they want to build a house on Alekseevskaya:
What else
- Two neighbors in the village of Sosnovsky under Kaliningrad quarreled and drilled ate planted. Now a criminal case has been instituted against them on illegal cutting of forest stands. Everyone faces up to two years in prison .
- In the USA and Canada, a dangerous flash mob is gaining popularity - adolescents are trying to bite the capsules similar to craps and try gel. Procter & Gamble is releasing video warning, and on the Internet they are already collecting money for the production of marmalade in the form of capsules.
Victor Davydov