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Evening Medusa
June 8. The archives destroy documents on repressions
The main news
Donald Trump suggested that Russia return membership to the Big Eight. The US president made such a statement on the eve of the G7 summit, which today begins in Canada. Russia was excluded from the Great Eight in 2014, after the accession of Crimea.
In Russia, archival documents on repressed citizens of the USSR are destroyed. As they found out in the Museum of the History of the Gulag, there is an interdepartmental order of 2014, according to which accounting cards on convicts in Soviet times-on everyone who would have been 80 years old by 2014-are subject to destruction. How many documents have already managed to destroy is still unknown. Read why it is very bad .
International observers accused Russia of the deaths of 44 Syrians. Participants in the White Helmets and Syrian Observator for Human Rights said that yesterday, Russian planes had inflicted air jackets in the Idlib province. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation refutes the data on the strike.
In Novosibirsk, direct elections of the mayor will be preserved. As the current head of the city Anatoly Lokot announced, such an agreement was reached according to the results of negotiations with the acting head of the region Andrei Travnikov. In exchange for this, the elbow, who won the previous mayor in 2014 as a single opposition candidate, decided to refuse to nominate the governor.
How astrophysicists are looking for aliens
From “Interstellara” and “Gravity” to “Attraction” and “Arrival”, from Ilon Mask and Jeff Bezos to Pavel Pushkin, from SpaceX to Rosetta-traveling to other planets again became part of pop culture and great business. The search for alien civilizations remain relevant. The Medusa correspondent Polina Eremenko talked with scientists in Moscow and California and found out how astrophysicists are looking for an extraterrestrial mind .
“It's not about catching a signal. I do not sit down and do not think - it didn’t work yesterday, today I will open it. The signal that should still be is something that will change not only my life. This is a fundamental thing for understanding humanity. I have no fear that during my life they will not find a signal. This is not about the ego, this is about the sacrament. It inspires me that I am involved in this process. This is a dream. Do you understand? Participation warms me. "
Sentsov’s hunger strike - why is it important
Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, serving a 20-year term for preparing for a terrorist act and arson of the door of the United Russia office in Crimea, is already holding a hunger strike for the 26th day. The director, in the defense of which many cultural figures act both in Russia and abroad, requires the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners from Russian prisons. Film critic Anton Dolin explains why Oleg Sentsov’s hunger strike is what you can not ignore.
Ovechkin first won the Stanley Cup
The NHL Club “Washington Capitals” for the first time in his 43-year history won the Stanley Cup . In the final series, Washington won over the club - newcomer to the Vegas Golden Knights League. Forward Alexander Ovechkin received the prize of the most valuable player of the playoffs and was the first Russian in history to raise the Stanley Cup in the status of the captain of the winning team.
Together with the Ovechkin holders of the Stanley Cup, two more Russians became - Dmitry Orlov and Evgeny Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov became the best scorer of the playoffs, and we are convinced that it was he-and not Ovechkin-right now is the best hockey player from Russia.
What else
- On Tuesday, a historical meeting of Donald Trump and Kim Jong -un will take place - a few months ago they threatened each other with a nuclear war, and now they are seriously claiming a joint Nobel Prize of the World. We have collected everything we need to know about preparing for the summit.
- Al Pacino will be shot for the first time in the film Quentin Tarantino. The actor will join the team working on the film "Once upon a time in Hollywood"; Other main roles there will play Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. The film, the plot of which tells about the crimes of the "family" Charles Manson, will be released in August 2019.
- In anticipation of the World Cup, Gai Richie shot Beats's headphones advertising: in it the “Nadezhda Russian Football” boy Andrei confronts the courtyard hooligans. Neymar, Harry Kane, Mesut Ozil and Serena Williams also appear in the video. Look at him right now !
PS
We will have a lot of materials to the World Cup, and today is the first of them: this is a test for knowledge of the tournament participants . Try in a short time to answer correctly which of the football superstars will go to the World Cup and who does not.
Grigory Levchenko