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Evening Medusa
24 August. You can replace Snickers, but you can't replace Michael Jackson
About a good initiative. Charitable foundations "Podari Zhizn" and "Vera" proposed to completely decriminalize the work of doctors when prescribing painkillers containing narcotic substances. Now the Ministry of Health is considering a similar bill, but, as often happens, it is half-hearted - and if adopted in its current form, it is unlikely to greatly improve the situation when doctors are afraid to give painkillers to the patient once again because of the risk of criminal prosecution.
About bad initiative. The Central Bank, following six (yes, there are already six of them, can you imagine?) other state services demanded the right to pre-trial blocking of sites. This makes it easier for them to fight financial fraud, but, as usual, they don’t want to do otherwise. I wonder who will ask for blocking rights next, Russian Post?
About the 90s, the memory of which is alive. On one of the playgrounds in Samara, they found a monument to a local crime boss, who was killed in 1994. The monument appeared long before the site - before there was a chapel and a gazebo next to it. When this place was rebuilt, the chapel with the gazebo was removed, and the monument was forgotten for unclear reasons. But from the eyes of the vigilant Samara parents, nothing will hide - they noticed a foreign object after only some three years!
About Tsoi (who is also alive). for auction In St. Petersburg , personal belongings of Viktor Tsoi are put up - his passport, a notebook with phone numbers of a rock party and manuscripts with the lyrics of two songs: "Changes" and another, previously unknown. The owner of the things claims that Tsoi forgot them at his house in 1985, and then they fell behind the refrigerator and lay there for seven years.
About Snickers (it can be replaced). "Voentorg" has created a chocolate bar with the name "Army of Russia", which will be sold in vending machines for soldiers instead of "Snickers". The price is 30 rubles. There are one and a half times fewer calories than in Snickers, but every time, pulling out a domestic bar from the machine, a soldier will experience a surge of patriotism.
About Michael Jackson (he cannot be replaced). When Sony released the singer's first posthumous album in 2010, fans suspected something was wrong - they say that not Michael sings on three songs, but some obscure type, carefully trying to copy his style. In 2014, the most persistent female fan filed a lawsuit, accusing publishers of fraud. Sony denied for several years, but now they finally admitted that the vocal part in these tracks was really performed by a completely different person .
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