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The 14th of February. What is "fake rape"? Report from Kazan

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Russian mercenaries in Syria may have come under fire while trying to take over an oil refinery. According to a Kommersant source, the operation was allegedly organized by local businessmen who support Bashar al-Assad and was carried out without the sanction of the group's command. If you've seen "a video of an airstrike on Russian mercenaries" somewhere, you 've been misled .

Ksenia Sobchak asked the Supreme Court to cancel the registration of Vladimir Putin as a presidential candidate - due to the fact that he had already held this position three times. The Central Election Commission immediately stated that there was nothing to discuss here. The court accepted Sobchak's statement for consideration.

Russian hockey players lost their first match at the Olympics - against the Slovakian team. The game ended with the score 3:2. The Russian team is one of the favorites of the Olympic tournament, to which the NHL refused to send players, and Russia sent such stars as Ilya Kovalchuk and Pavel Datsyuk.

Private military companies

After, according to various sources, from several to more than a hundred fighters of the private military company Wagner died in Syria on February 7, the head of the State Duma Defense Committee, General Vladimir Shamanov, announced the need to legally regulate the activities of PMCs. Such a bill has already been prepared, and Yevgeny Berg spoke with one of its authors, MP Mikhail Yemelyanov. According to him, everything that will happen "outside the law on PMCs" will have to fall under the article "mercenarism" of the Criminal Code.

“We expressly prohibit PMCs from participating in hostilities abroad without the invitation of the respective legitimate government. If the PMC went there without a legal invitation, then this is mercenary activity. We also say that PMCs have no right to participate in military coups, separatist movements, movements aimed at violating the integrity [of the state], and so on. Otherwise, it also falls under mercenarism. Whether a coup takes place in a particular state is determined by the norms of international law.”

"Fake Rapes"

Kazan journalist Yelena Dogadina spoke in Tatarstan with operatives who investigate crimes of a sexual nature and found that they use the concept of “fake rape” in everyday life - this is how some police officers call, for example, numerous cases when the victim knew the attacker. At the same time, such an attitude towards crimes does not prevent the police from bringing cases to court.

One of the signs of a “fake” rape, according to operatives, is the inappropriate moral behavior of the alleged victim, which witnesses and acquaintances can tell about. “There were witnesses who saw that she behaved cheekily, smoked, walked around the hostel drunk. They told her to leave. And she snapped that she knew everything herself,” says one of Meduza’s interlocutors about Marina’s case. - We have interviewed all the neighbors. Classmates, classmates. She herself, they say, wanted it. Drinking, walking, fucking. A classmate said: “Show me who didn’t fuck her here.”

How psychologists work with families of victims of disasters

After each major disaster (such as the An-148 crash in the Moscow region), psychologists from the Emergency Psychological Assistance Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations work with the families and friends of the victims. The former head of the emergency response department, Olga Makarova, answered questions from Sasha Sulim about the work of the employees of this unit:

“I used to be constantly asked:“ How do you console them? ”So, we do not console. People often utter platitudes and common phrases in such situations: “Everything will pass”, “God takes the best”, “Time heals”. This is the most useless thing to say to a grieving person. He needs to be next to him, to hold his hand, remember the deceased with him, ask simple things, remember pleasant moments, very carefully try to talk about the future.

What else

• Watch a fragment of the film "Shine will fall down" - a picture in which the last concert of "Civil Defense" is shown. The concert was played a few days before the death of Yegor Letov in 2008. The film will hit the screens on February 19.
• American curler Tyler George has been performing in the same sneakers for eight years in a row . They were already quite worn out, but he still brought them to Pyeongchang. According to the athlete, he twice tried to start wearing different shoes, but could not.
• Basta released a video for the song "My Broken Dreams", in which he appeared in the image of Bogdan Titomir . Alexei Serebryakov, Julia and Polina Aug also starred in the video.

Viktor Davydov