20 best outputs of the podcast “What happened” 2020

We understand that last year I want to forget as a nightmare. But these episodes will be relevant for a long time

Less than a year ago, on February 19, 2020, Medusa launched the daily news podcast “What happened”. More than two hundred issues have been published since then - about politics, once again about politics (it is strange if in the year of resignation, zeroing, poisoning of Navalny there were few); Of course, about pandemia. In general, almost everything that managed to happen to Russia and the world in a year. After the holidays, the podcast will return, but for now we have chosen twenty episodes that are interesting to listen to now.

About the theories of conspiracy that experience incredible flowering

Due to pandemia, most people are bad, but folklore researchers are vice versa. Alarming times supply them with material for research: in society, all kinds of fears, rumors and conspiracy theories are more often arise and more rapidly.

Some of them are able to influence a huge number of people. You understand that even now several million people around the world do not know what to do with the toilet paper , which was bought in March for the future?

The podcast “What happened” had two episodes on this subject - about conspiracy (with the author of the book “Russian Culture of the Conspiracy” by Ilya Yablokov,this podcast ) and separately with the anthropologist Alexandra Arkhipova. She is the co -author of the book “Dangerous Soviet things. City legends and fears in the USSR. ” Here is this issue.

About coronavirus - more precisely about China, from which the pandemic began

In “What happened” they talked many times about coronavirus (about its distribution in Russia and the world ), about vaccines , about electronic passes on the basis of the Moscow tracking system for citizens, about the school distance (and in rural schools), and also about the incidence curve and so on.

But this episode is about the country with which the distribution of coronavirus began and which was able to cope with pandemia better than many.

And another episode about coronavirus is about what the world will be after the pandemic

The release recorded already on April 10, 2020 (that is, at the dawn of the coronavirus epidemic in Russia). In it, sociologist Konstantin Haaza argues how the world will change after Covid. The prophecy in many ways remains relevant now, and sometimes scares its insight.

The story of Eduard Limonov - from youth to the present day

There is such a stamp: the 2020th was terrible not only in itself (that is, with its many disasters), but also the fact that especially many great people died this year.

One of the first in this sad list was the politician, writer and poet Eduard Limonov. Here is a story about his outstanding life-with bikes-memories of contemporaries.

About the secrets of Stalin, which we still do not know

In 2020, in Russia they were going to widely celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War, but due to the pandemic it was lubricated. For example, the Victory Parade had to be postponed from May 9 to June 24.

By the way, here is the episode “What happened” about how the Kremlin did not want to abandon the May procession on Red Square for a long time. And because of this, there was an outbreak of infection among Russian soldiers and cadets (they were taken from all over the country to rehearse the parade).

But the release about Covid from the parade was later, and on May 9 we talked about the archives of Joseph Stalin. They are still partially closed and are of great interest to scientists. Including for our interlocutor, historian Leonid Maksimenkov.



Why in the USA the speeches against racism took place (and, apparently, there will still be)

In 2020, BLM processes were large-scale. For example, we talked about how life is arranged in the city quarter of Seattle, which was captured by the protesters. They kicked the police out of it and established their own orders - reminiscent of a commune and a party at the same time.

But, if you look at the problem wider, then you need to ask the question - what is the phenomenon of such performances.

Belarusians, it turns out, has a government in exile. And this is not the team of Tikhanovskaya

Far from the most main, but amazing plot regarding Belarusian protests . The Belarusians have the oldest government in the world. He is more than a century, it still acts and, by the way, opposes Alexander Lukashenko.

The story of Father Sergius - the same Schigumen from Sredneuralsk

At the end of 2020, near Yekaterinburg, Sergius (Romanov) was detained - a preacher who lived in the Central Urals Monastery for many years.

Sergius was also known before - as an Orthodox exorcist and confessor of the former prosecutor of Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya. But in 2020 he raised Sergius to the federal level. He came into conflict with the current government and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Sergius recorded the videos in which he criticized officials - for quarantine measures, the church - for the fact that she did not reject this measure.

The journalist of the Ural edition of Znak.com Igor Pushkarev - about the biography of the preacher and how he went against the authorities and hierarchs.

Interview with Oleg Kashin on the tenth anniversary of the attack

In 2010, journalist Oleg Kashin became a victim of an attack. He was brutally beaten near his own house. The then President Dmitry Medvedev promised that the Kashin case would be uncovered.

After the decade, everything happened - with one reservation: the performers of the crime were found and condemned , but not his customer. Kashin has repeatedly stated who exactly he considers the initiator of the crime - in his opinion, this is one of the leaders of United Russia Andrei Turchak. And Kashin is sure that he was already able to inflict great damage to the customer, and without the participation of investigators and the court.

There is forced psychiatry in Russia. It is applied, including to minors

At the end of August, it became known about the forced psychiatric hospitalization of several teenagers in Krasnoyarsk. This was probably done with the submission of special services. In that case, the security forces reacted to the fact that the teenagers were in the VKontakte group dedicated to the Columbine.

Lyubov Vinogradov from the independent psychiatric association of Russia explains that the Krasnoyarsk case is far from the only one. According to her, Russian security forces often resort to psychiatric hospitalization as a method of pressure. This is how it works.

How the "drug" criminal article 228 is used after the Golunov case

In 2019, Ivan Golunov was fabricated against the Medusa journalist - the police threw him drugs.

This is a common method, which is very often used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs throughout Russia to improve statistical indicators. Because of this, article 228 of the Criminal Code (namely it is used in such cases) is called "folk".

In the case of Kolunov, the case was closed after a wide public campaign, and under the investigation and in court there were police officers who threw drugs.

Did this loud history affect the general practice of falsification of affairs and the application of the 228th article? The answer to this question will disappoint you.

A wave of terrorist attacks in France. Why is radical Islam so popular there?

In 2020, France survived a series of terrorist attacks carried out by radical Islamists. The organizers and executors of the attacks were young people from Muslim countries. Many of them are not migrants and not refugees, but French citizens, that is, the children and grandchildren of those who once came to the country from Africa or from the Middle East.

The problem of Islamism in France is closely related to the problem of integrating new citizens into society. It turns out that she works even worse there than in Russia.

How is Chechen propaganda

The most loud of the French attacks of 2020 is the murder of teacher Samuel Pati near Paris. He was committed by 18-year-old Chechen Abdullah Anzorov born in Moscow.

Anzorov himself was killed by police at the crime scene, and then buried in the Chechen village of Shalazhi. The sympathetic plot about this came out on local state television. The author of the report stated that the reason why such terrorist attacks occur is an insult to the feelings of believers.

And this is far from the most striking example of a specific Chechen propaganda. In this episode - about how it is arranged, why it acts in the republic totally and how direct violence is often used for ideological effects.

35 years since the acceleration was proclaimed, and then also publicity

Another podcast of 2020 on a historical theme is about perestroika. He was dedicated to the remaining almost unnoticed anniversary of the beginning of the transformation of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.

As the USSR suddenly began to change, the economist Andrei Markevich, dissident Vyacheslav Gamesov and philologist Andrei Zorin, recall.

About the people of Nagorno -Karabakh, who leave the houses after defeat in the war

In the fall of 2020, for a half-month war, Azerbaijan (with the support of Turkey) won a military victory over the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and its ally, Armenia.

The Azerbaijani army took control of several areas of Karabakh, and many local residents (Armenians) left their homes. Journalist Alexander Chernykh talked with them and, returning from Karabakh, spoke about what we saw.

Pyotr Verzilov - about his poisoning, which is very similar to what was with Navalny

On August 20, Alexei Navalny was poisoned and at first it was not clear what exactly happened to him. Then Navalny himself told about the sensations to journalist Yuri Dudu. Even later - the politician explained who he considers responsible for the attempt (this is the FSB, but more on this - two paragraphs below).

Even when Navalny was in a coma, we talked with the publisher of Mediazones Peter Verzilov. He was poisoned two years earlier and everything that happened to him (including someone) was suspiciously like what happened to Navalny.

What is the FSB of Russia and what is this special service capable of?

In 2020, we twice made a podcast about the FSB - one issue in the summer, in the wake of a large study of the Dossier Center, Lubyanskaya Federation. And the second episode came out at the end of the year-and, of course, was due to the fact that Alexei Navalny (together with journalists-investigators ) called his poisoners of the personnel of the FSB.

This release about why the main Russian special service could really be involved in such an assassination attempt. And also about how it became so influential and inappropriate. Explain journalists Irina Borogan and Valery Shiryaev. By the way, Valery himself was an employee of the KGB of the USSR. And Irina is the co -author of the book “New Nobility. Essays on the history of the FSB. "

They almost forgot about Biden and Trump!

In the USA, a new president was elected - and this is Joseph Biden.

Professor of Chicago University Konstantin Sonin - about why this happened (after all, Donald Trump had every chance of victory). And also that Trump and his (rather extensive) electorate are still early to write off the accounts.

The story of a member of a youth gang that grew up and wrote a book-study book

Robert Garayev is the author of the book “The Word of the Board. Criminal Tatarstan 1970-2010. " In it, he explores the “Kazan phenomenon” - this term describes the situation that has developed in the late Soviet capital of the Soviet Tatar and a number of other cities of the Volga region. This is when the city is divided between youth gangs that establish their (rather animal) laws for all young people (even those who are not in any gang).

Robert tells how he himself was a member of the group in the late 1980s. And also that in the 1990s, Kazan “streets” (that is, gangs) mutated in fierce organized crime groups that operated throughout Russia.

After the next portion of the New Year TV show, do you think that Russian TV is dead? No!

The state reduces its share in Channel One. But this is not a sudden confession that the propaganda telephony in Russia has been destroyed and therefore officials no longer need control of broadcasting.

In fact, a decrease in the state control over the first is rather a formality. As for the television propagandists, they have long been adapted to a new reality. And in Yetube, they will most likely soon dominate. Despite the existence of independent and popular channels such as Vedya, Editorial, or Parthenona.

Vladislav Gorin