Evening Medusa

October 21. Riots in Chile, new orders in the Human Rights Council

‼️ News of the day . Vladimir Putin appointed Valery Fadeev, former host of the Vremya program, head of the Human Rights Council . Simultaneously with the appointment of the state propagandist to the main human rights position in the country, many remaining independent members were expelled from the council: political scientist Yekaterina Shulman, lawyer Pavel Chikov, HSE professor Ilya Shablinsky, and former head of the Human Rights Council Mikhail Fedotov.

🧨 Heading "Do you want to be like in Paris?". Mass riots have been going on in Chile for several days - their participants smash shops, burn buses and build barricades. It all started with an ordinary increase in the price of a metro ticket by 30 pesos (three rubles!) - students, tired of the constant increases in everything in the world against the backdrop of a stagnant economy, defiantly stopped buying tickets, the metro hired additional security, and then word for word ... When real battles began on the streets, the government won back the prices, but it turned out to be too late .

🎞️ If Stirlitz were Putin . VTsIOM conducted a survey on which of the movie heroes most corresponds to the ideas of Russians about the ideal political leader. Stirlitz took the first place by a wide margin , the second - Professor Preobrazhensky.

✉️ If Kennedy was Trump . The letter of the US President, in which he called on Recep Tayyip Erdogan a few days ago "not to be a fool," continues to be an occasion for jokes - now Trump's political opponents have joined in. Hillary Clinton tweeted out a parody letter that John Kennedy could have sent to Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis . “Don’t be an asshole, put away your rockets”, “you are really twisting my balls” and so on.

🎉 Meduza has a birthday! Yesterday marked five years since the launch of Meduza, hooray! On this occasion, we have collected amazing numbers about Meduza , made for you a cool Telegram sticker pack and a difficult test for the chronology of events that we have written about over the years. They also chose the most angry letters from our readers (and one of the cutest) and read them in front of the camera .

🖋️ And - text of the day . In 2011, Arkady Rotenberg helped his partners buy the Enlightenment publishing house, a former Soviet monopoly that produced school textbooks. By that time, the share of Enlightenment in the textbook market had fallen to 35%, but in just eight years the new owners brought it to 95%. In addition, Prosveshchenie is the largest supplier of equipment for schools, and this year it will also be engaged in their construction. Meduza special correspondent Anastasia Yakoreva tells how the publishing house built an “administrative monopoly” with the help of connections in the Ministry of Education and billions in lawsuits.

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