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Evening Medusa
October 30. HBO is dropping a series about the North, Greta Thunberg is dropping a Nordic Council Award
🌎 What is there in the world? The US has recognized the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire as genocide , and this will further worsen its relations with Turkey. The APEC summit in Chile was canceled because the authorities cannot cope with the protests.
🐶 Animal law is good but doesn't work . In December 2018, Russia passed the Law on Responsible Treatment of Animals, which, among other things, prohibits the capture of stray dogs with the intent to kill them. But in most regions, stray animals continue to be killed. Meduza read the report of the Animal Welfare Association and found out that even if everything is done according to the current humane law, cruelty towards stray dogs and cats can only increase .
👌 Foreign policy - successful, but with reservations . In recent months, the success of Russia's foreign policy has been undeniable: Bashar al-Assad is winning in Syria, the Ukrainian authorities have agreed to the "Steinmeier formula" , and Donald Trump is increasingly talking about Russia's return to the G7. We asked political scientist Andrei Kortunov to list what factors contribute to the success of Russian foreign policy - and what hinders it.
📺 There will be no winter... HBO abandoned the Game of Thrones prequel about the White Walkers and their first battle with humans: the channel's management did not like the pilot episode of the show. But there will be a series about the Targaryen dynasty - HBO has already ordered a full season of 10 episodes ; one of the screenwriters will be George Martin.
☀️… and yes, by the way, about global warming . Greta Thunberg has turned down the Nordic Council's environmental award ($52,000, by the way). “The climate movement doesn't need awards. We need politicians and people in power to start listening to modern science,” Thunberg said.
🎵 Regular column “Do you have nothing else to do?” Ten-Grammy-winning musician John Legend rewrote the lyrics to the classic Christmas song "Baby, Itʼs Cold Outside". The song, written in 1944, was a dialogue between a woman and a man on a date: she wants to leave his house, he persuades her to stay, referring to bad weather. In recent years, many have begun to criticize the song for allegedly containing allusions to sexual coercion - and Legend changed the lyrics of the song so that it no longer raises questions from those who share the values of #MeToo.
🎤 Interview of the day . RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan came for an interview with Ksenia Sobchak - she heard uncomfortable questions there, got offended and left. That's how it was .
🎮 And - text of the day . A few days ago, the release of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare took place. The game was accused of Russophobia long before the release: the main villain in Call of Duty turned out to be a Russian general, under whose command soldiers commit atrocities in the occupied Middle Eastern country, after that the publisher decided not to release the game in Russia on discs and in the PS Store. Meduza spoke with the developers of Call of Duty, and then played it - and shares her impressions .
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Evening Jellyfish is sponsored by Qatar National Tourism Board . Together we made a test about this - not yet the most popular - tourist destination. Everything is there - from Arabian horses living in five-star hotels to modern art museums and snow-white beaches. But the main thing is direct flights and visa-free entry for Russians (no, we are not hinting at anything).
If you don't like old songs - don't listen to them, everything is simple, why remake something? Grisha Levchenko