Department of Prevention of Losses

Good morning!

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region fascinatingly writes on its website about the resettlement of cows near Moscow to virtual reality: if you put on animals VR glasses with imitation of the summer field, then the overall anxiety of the herd is reduced, and milk yield is growing. Judging by the fact that even the name of the economy is not in the note where these glasses were supposedly put on cows, it was a mental experiment, but the direction of thought is already symptomatic. On the other side of the points with imitation of the summer field, the following occurs:

• In Moscow, an action was held against domestic violence, dedicated to the International Struggle Day for the elimination of cruelty against women.
• More than 40 schoolchildren were poisoned by emissions from the gas distribution station.
• The head of the international “memorial” was fined 100 thousand rubles three times a day.
• At the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, a large opposition rally began, participants intend to block the building.
• In Dresden, the Museum of Old Jewelry "Green Code" is robbed. The damage is estimated at a billion euros.

“When they kill, then come”

In Moscow, more than 200 people gathered for a rally demanding to adopt a law on domestic violence - it was dedicated to the International Struggle Day for the elimination of cruelty against women (on weekends large shares were held throughout Europe). The peculiarity of the Russian situation is in the active confrontation between the “Orthodox community” the bill on the prevention of domestic violence not even introduced into the State Duma. State Duma deputy Oksana Pushkin, working on this bill, asks the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pay attention to threats to the authors from the “Forty Forty” movement.

A joint study was a joint study of the Mediazones and Novaya Gazeta . Journalists studied more than four thousand sentences issued by women under articles on the murder and inflicting of serious bodily harm that led to death: it turned out that 79% of the women convicted in Russia became victims of violence from those whom they later killed.

Here, instructive stories about how the police in post -Soviet countries reacts to women's complaints about violence by husbands and partners.

Civil activity

According to the Center for Social and Labor Rights, publishing the quarterly reports “How the Russians protest”, since the beginning of the year, 1443 protest promotions have been held in Russia, this is a record over the past few years. The authorities are actively working on a decrease in this indicator:

• The Ministry of Justice of Russia appealed to the Supreme Court with a lawsuit to suspend the activities of the Civil Initiative party - Ksenia Sobchak was running for presidency from it, and since March the party chairman is Dmitry Gudkov, one of the active participants in summer protests in Moscow.
• Convised in connection with these protests by Konstantin Kotov (he received four years for “repeated violation of the rules of participation in rallies”) is transferred to the Vladimir region. Alexei Minyailo, who spent two months in a pre -trial detention center under an article on “riots” and then released to the will without any complaints, requires one and a half million rubles for illegal criminal prosecution.
• The head of the international “memorial” Yana Rachinsky was fined 100 thousand rubles three times in one day for violating the law on “foreign agents” (separately on Twitter, Instagram and on the website of the “Memorial” “This is right here”).
• The Moscow City Court approved the arrest of money on the accounts of the Corruption Fund.

Other Russian

• The Federation Council approved everything that the State Duma managed to recover last week: citizens - foreign agents and a mandatory pre -installation of Russian applications to smartphones .
• The governor of St. Petersburg Beglov wants to see his deputy guard Putin on Valdai (however, this former guard vice-governor has already worked).
• Former Moscow police officer Akbar Sergaliev, dismissed after the detention of journalist Ivan Golunov, headed the Department of Prevention of Losses in the Safety Service of the Red and Beloya stores. Today, the Basmanny Court in Moscow will continue to consider Golunov’s complaint about the inaction of the investigation - the process will probably be classified.
• A conversation with the chief editor of The Insider Roman Dobrokhotov about the valiant Russian peers who go abroad to poison who was said, read here .
• In the Vadsky Nizhny Novgorod region, more than forty children were poisoned by emissions from the gas distribution station.

The closest neighbors of Russia

In the center of Tbilisi, a multi-thousandth opposition rally gathered at the parliament building in the evening with a demand for a refusal of mixed majority and proportional election system and conducting the 2020 parliamentary elections only on party lists. Since the ruling party “Georgian Dream” does not make concessions, the opposition plans to block the entrance to the parliament again.

Putin and Zelensky talked on the phone about gas. Zelensky, in addition, asked to return weapons, equipment and documentation with ships previously returned to Ukraine.

Today Zelensky is traveling to Estonia. According to sociologists, 62% of respondents are positively evaluated by the President of Ukraine.

Culture and Sports News

• In Israel, the Soviet dissident, publisher, literary critic Mikhail Haifets died . He was 85 years old. In 1974, Heifets was convicted of four years in colony and two years links for anti -Soviet propaganda, expressed in writing the preface to the Samizdat collected works of Joseph Brodsky.
• In Dresden, the Green Code was robbed by the Museum of Old Jewelry - they carried out a billion euro of small jewelry, having previously de -energized the building.
• The Russian Ministry of Culture refused to issue rental certificates to four films from the project of Ilya Khrzhanovsky Dau - therefore there is “propaganda of pornography”.
• The Committee for compliance with the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) recommended that the executive committee of this organization remove Russia for four years from international competitions. The final decision will be made at a meeting of the executive committee in early December. In case of removal of the national team, Russian athletes will be able to participate in competitions under a neutral flag.

Seven links

• Revision of classics. Biologist Victoria Skobeev explains what provisions of Darwin theory of evolutionary biology adjusted in 160 years since the release of “origin of species”. Or a curious story about how the current successes of the right -wing politicians gradually return to world theaters a forgotten play by Brecht “Career Arturo Wi, which could not be.”
• Almost classics. A conversation with the artist Matthew Barney with a small dictionary of his key cinema sculptures at the end. Or a very interesting story by the American Slavist Henrik Baran - about life, scientific biography and in recent years, interest in the history of anti -Semitism.
• Musicians. Separate interviews with the participants of the cult group Faust, which largely determined the history of German experimental music, Jean-Erve Peron and Werner of Tsappy Dirmeier . Or a conversation with the pianist Polina Ossetian - about a difficult childhood, including.

Sincerely yours,
Seven forty