Evening Medusa

Navalny returns to Moscow. Trump (again) is declared impeachment. We tell how former Belarusian investigators investigate the crimes of colleagues (also former)

Good evening,

This is the daily newsletter of the "Medusa", which replaced the "Evening Coronavirus". Of course, we will talk about pandemia, but along with other main news of the day. Usually we try to start with something good, but today we must first apologize: in yesterday we called the Soviet designer Sergey Korolev Sergey Kovalev. Korolev-Korolev-Korolev-Korolev. Now they remember. Thanks to everyone who wrote to us.

And now to the good. Today it is a story about a first -grader who keeps a school diary as a personal one - that is, writes his thoughts in the column “for notes”. Thoughts close to everyone: “I want to eat” or “I want to eat home”.

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - as short as possible

Alexey Navalny promised to return to Moscow on January 17 - despite the possible detention . The US Congress began to again consider the issue of impeachment Donald Trump. In South Sudan, they were detained , and a few hours later the publisher of the Mediazones Pyotr Verzilov and Blogger Ilya Varlamov was released . The Russians had a remote control - supposedly they could take off military facilities. A billionaire Alexei Mordashov sent his son Nikita (also a billionaire!) In the army , because he studied poorly at the Higher School of Economics. In Italy , the largest process has begun over the mafia over 30 years . Only the names of the accused read for three hours. Saratov Roskomnadzor demanded that the local media delete a comment from the website with the word “Okhuelos”, although this is actually the name of the city in Mexico.

Coronavirus

In Russia, mass vaccination begins

Moving “from large -scale to mass vaccination” was instructed by Vladimir Putin. Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova promised that vaccination would begin on January 18 . The Ministry of Health "Medusa" explained that at the first stage, citizens under 18 years of age and pregnant women will not be vaccinated.

The incidence, according to official figures, continues to decline. Statistics on Russia in the form of a map and tables

Russia was allowed to release Remesivir - without the consent of the American company that invented it

For the sake of this, the government for the first time applied forced licensing - that is, the drug will be released without the consent of the creator and owner of the patent. Remesivir is used in the treatment of Covid, but WHO does not recommend this: the effectiveness of the medicine is not proven.

Podkast "What happened"

A year ago, Bitcoin cost five thousand dollars, and now - already 34.5 thousand. We understand whether this is a fair price

JPMorgan Bank is sure that the fair Bitcoin price is $ 146 thousand. One of the analysts Bank of America called the cryptocurrency "worst of the bubbles." Who to believe? What is the reason for the sharp growth of bitcoin? Will he grow further or fall again, as it was in 2017? Does it make sense to invest in cryptocurrencies now to earn? We are discussing these issues with the head of the RBC-Crito project Nikolai Zakvozdkin.

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The texts of the day

The Minsk investigator quit, fled to Europe and created a project to investigate the crimes of the Belarusian security forces

After the resignation report, Andrei Ostapovich first fled to Russia. In Pskov, the FSB detained him and deported him back to Belarus. In the homeland of Ostapovich, KGB officers met - he disappeared from them in the forest and fled to the border from the "one of the countries of the European Union" for about two weeks. Now Ostapovich in Poland, and other former security officials joined the BYPOL project he created. Together they investigate the torture and beating of protesters against Lukashenko and lure the security forces to their side .

San Francisco programmer forgot the password from a purse with bitcoins for $ 240 million

Stefan Thomas became interested in bitcoin about ten years ago. In 2011, he made an animated video in which he explained how the cryptocurrency works. The video liked another fan of bitcoin so much that he gave Thomas 7002 bitcoin. Thomas placed the keys to the wallet on the protected Ironkey disc, recorded the password on the piece of paper, and then lost this sheet. A protected disk allows you to make only 10 entry attempts, and Thomas has already used eight of them .

What we did not write about

Habra user gained access to Russian Railways and a bunch of devices

The hacker managed to hack, in particular, outdoor surveillance cameras (according to his “modest sensations”, about ten thousand), a system for controlling air conditioning and ventilation, as well as a system for managing the scoreboard on the platforms. The user hit the internal network through an unprotected router - on it, like many others, stood a factory password. According to the author of the article , only by disableing the camera, a hypothetical attacker could cause damage about 130 million rubles in three days. Later, Russian Railways specialists contacted the hacker, and they jointly closed vulnerabilities.

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