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February 19. How many of you could be bought before the abolition of serfdom?

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In Spain, the court began in the case of the Russian Mafia. He was investigated for about 10 years. The prosecution was charged with the defendants, 18 people were on the bench. The most senior defendant is the State Duma deputy Vladislav Reznik. Among the accusations are murders, smuggling weapons and drugs, extortion, fraud, forking documents and bribery.

The Chelyabinsk region is investigating the case of rape of a boarding school for children with developmental retardation. The 51-year-old man was detained , the director of the boarding schoolwas fired . Judging by the results of a journalistic investigation, the educators received money for letting men to children.

In Dagestan yesterday they attacked the parishioners of the church in Kizlyar. After service, people leaving the building opened fire from the hunting rifle man shouting Allah Akbar. Five people were killed, law enforcement officers shot a criminal. The responsibility for the attack was taken by the terrorists of the Islamic State. SK said that he was considering a terrorist attack among other versions.

The Russian medalist of the 2018 Olympics is caught at doping. Today, all day we were waiting for checking the second doping tests of Kerlingist Alexander Krushelnitsky, who won bronze in Pyeongchang. In the first sample , traces of Meldonia were found . According to rumors, a positive result was confirmed, but there was no official message about this by the time of release of the “evening jellyfish”.

Memory of Yegor Letov

The leader of the Civil Defense died 10 years ago - February 19, 2008. About how he lived and what contribution made to Russian music - in three materials of Medusa:

• Composer Igor Vdovin, poet Lev Oborin and rapper Feysdiscussed in the podcast how the songs of Letov were arranged.
• Academic musicians explained the phenomenon of Letov as a composer.
• The widow of the musician Natalya Chumakova spoke about the creative and daily life of “Civil Defense” (inside-photographs of the mid-2000s).

"Troll factory": investigation of a special prosecutor

The US Department of Justice at the end of last week made official accusations to 13 Russian citizens in the case of Russian interference with the American elections. The main person involved is businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, founder of the “Internet research agency”, better known as the “Troll Factory”.

Donald Trump commented on the results of the work of the special prosecutor Robert Muller, who heads the investigation (the best tweet of the US President, “in Moscow, laugh at us to the plain!”), The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, despite the existence of specific accusations against specific people, said that there are still no evidence for the Americans.

How much would you cost in 1800?

This can be calculated using our calculator - in the text about the abolition of serfdom in Russia. There, the authors of the Inliberty educational project answer a shameful question about peasant reform of 1861. For example, on the following:

• Is serfs slaves?
• Could the serf be a rich man?
• Was it possible to buy African slaves for yourself?
• Was the peasant reform good or bad?

Dmitry Tomilov