Evening Medusa

October 5. Being a spy is dangerous, the president is even more dangerous

Sentsov ends the hunger strike. It lasted 145 days. According to Sentsov, this is a forced step : he learned that in the near future he would be fed forcibly "as part of resuscitation measures to save the patient's life." The director expressed regret that he did not achieve his goals to release political prisoners. Here is how his lawyer Dmitry Dinze describes the situation : “They said that they would make a vegetable out of him. Vegetable - it will just stupidly lie on the bed with a tube in the nose or mouth. They [and now] believe that he is already incapable of reporting to his actions, that the hunger strike went to the stage when a point of no return came. That is, it is not known how he will leave the hunger strike - 50 to 50. ”

Dangerous profession. The head of Interpol Meng Hunswei left home in Lyon a few days ago (where the headquarters of the organization is located) and did not return: today his wife turned to the police. She said that she has no connection with her husband since he flew to China at the end of September. However, the version that some criminal elements decided to get into the background with the head of the International Police, quickly faded into the background: most likely, Maine simply secretly arrested the Chinese authorities .

A very dangerous profession. In the UK, a book by journalist Mark Urban, dedicated to the fate of Sergei Skripal, was published. It is based on a series of interviews taken from the former GRU colonel a year ago. There are a lot of interesting things - from the beginning of a career on the border with China to the reasons that prompted it to betray Russia, possible cooperation with the GRU and - most importantly - motives for its poisoning. Our editor Dmitry Kartsev read the book and retold the most interesting points .

The most dangerous profession. Do you think we are talking about spies again? Ha! There is a much more dangerous profession - this is the president of South Korea. Today, Men Buck (he ruled the country from 2008 to 2013) received 15 years in prison for corruption. Only six months ago, 24 years prison were given to another former President Pak Kyn Hy. In the 1990s, one former president was generally sentenced to death (then, though pardoned), another was given for 22 years. And in the zero, another former president committed suicide, without waiting for the verdict in the case of corruption. In the history of South Korea there were only 12 presidents.

The story about drunk (Friday evening!) Birds. In the city of Gilbert in the United States, Drozds and Waxworms began to crash into the windshields of cars massively and stumble on trees. The police believe that these birds are drunk , but, however, not of their own free will. They eat overripe berries that began to wander due to frosts, and their liver cannot correctly process alcohol.

And - a quote. Soothing. Still, no one is going to prohibit the dollar (although it is not clear whether it is possible to believe these people at least sometimes).

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Let's go eat overripe berries? (Friday evening!) Grisha Levchenko, Sasha Polivanov