Evening Medusa

October 18. Simeless Spaniard, dangerous Mexicans and inquisitive Americans

📚 What is the common Primer and the Kerch bridge? The answer is Arkady Rotenberg. Structures close to a businessman bought for six billion rubles a group of publishers “Russian Textbook” - one of the largest publishers of educational literature in Russia. Rotenberg also belonged to some publishers of textbooks, and taking into account the new purchase of its structure , almost 100% of the school educational literature market in the country began to control .

🚂 Rubric named after F. I. Tyutchev "How to understand Russia." The US Embassy in Moscow explained that it was the diplomats taken on the eve of the train in Severodvinsk, who forgot around the landfill, where a rocket exploded a few months ago. It turns out that in the Northern wilderness they tried to "understand Russia." “Our diplomats travel to Russia to better understand it. This is part of normal diplomatic activity, ”the embassy said.

😇 What does disinterested help look like? Remember how the FBK was recognized as a “foreign agent” because of two donations from a Spanish citizen? So, "Medusa" managed to find him . It turned out that he really did not know anyone such a bulk, nor even the Russian language-he translated the money, because he simply heard somewhere that FBK was fighting Russian corruption, and wanted to help a good cause. And you, too, do not like corruption in such a way as to go to the bank and translate it is not clear to whom it is not clear where 130 thousand rubles?

🌵 What does Red Dead RedMPtion look like in reality? Even in 2019, gangs can literally capture entire cities to recapture their leaders. In Mexico in the small city of Kuliakan, the police arrested one of the sons of the drug lord El Chapo - and in response to this, hundreds of drugwear fighters, armed with machine guns, actually took the city in the siege . The detainee had to be released - to avoid victims among the civilian population and so that the police were allowed to freely leave the city.

🚧 Paradox of the fence (philosophical) . The fence is used to protect other designs, but can the fence protect itself? Of course, yes, officials from Novosibirsk answer. There, at one of the intersections between the roadway and a high fence, another fence was installed - lower. There is absolutely nothing between the two fences, even the trees - and the locals are lost in conjecture why this is needed .

📸 and - photo of the day . In Barcelona, ​​half a million people came to the march of the independence of Catalonia. Almost a third of the population of the city!

Try to understand Russia - in the sense, travel more along it, it is beautiful. Grisha Levchenko