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Sergey Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in colony. Why the State Duma will not consider the bill on QR codes in transport. How is life arranged in Orthodox gymnasiums

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• The second meeting was held in the Supreme Court in the case of the liquidation of the "International Memorial" *. The court studied written evidence. The debate is scheduled for December 28.
• The Belarusian oppositionist Sergei Tikhanovskyreceived 18 years in colony .
• The ECHR ordered Russia to pay 370 thousand euros Margarita Gracheva , to which her husband chopped off his hands.
• Also, Russia will pay almost a million euros of compensation for torture cases in the North Caucasus and extrajudicial executions in Chechnya.
• The Parliament of Chechnya turned to the Prosecutor General because of the proposal of director Alexander Sokurov to “release” the Caucasus from Russia.
• Alexei Navalny spoke about the rise in price products in the colony - and said that he was “just fucked up” from prices.
• Russia imposed a veto on the UN Security Council resolution, considering climate change as a threat to international security.
• In Verkhoyansk in the summer of 2020 , a temperature of 38 degrees was recorded . Now this is an officially new record for the Arctic.
• Elena Kostyuchenko, Katerina Gordeeva andall journalists announced by “foreign agents” were winners of the Profession - Journalist.

* Declared in Russia a "foreign agent."

The texts of the day

Medusa tells the story of Vladislav Struzhenkov, who arranged an explosion in the Orthodox gymnasium in Serpukhov

On the morning of December 13, an explosion occurred in the courtyard of the Orthodox gymnasium at the Vvedensky monastery of Serpukhov. A homemade bomb was driven by a former student of the Orthodox gymnasium at the monastery-18-year-old Vladislav Struzhenkov. 10 people were injured. Pupils of the gymnasium say that the attacker endured Bulling from teachers. We have collected everything that is known about Zherezhenkov .

As Sergey Tikhanovsky turned from a blogger into presidential candidates, and then to the political prisoner. Today he was given 18 years in colony

Sergei Tikhanovsky began to lead the Utuub-blog “Country for Life” in 2019. In it, he criticized Belarusian power and recorded an interview with residents. Quickly gaining popularity, Tikhanovsky announced his intention to participate in the elections of the President of Belarus. At the end of May 2020, he was detained, and his wife Svetlana became a single candidate from the opposition in the election.That's what happened next .

Together with Tikhanovsky, other opposition leaders were also sentenced today. In particular, Nikolai Statkevich, the leader of the unregistered Popular Gramada party, received 14 years. This is not the first term for him: in 2015, Statkevich was released after five years of imprisonment. The opposition was accused of organizing riots after the 2010s presidential election. Then in 2015 we talked with Statkevich about the disagreements inside the Belarusian opposition and when and how President Lukashenko will go.

Anton Dolin recalls Sergey Solovyov and his paintings that do not fit into any canon

On December 13, at the age of 77, director Sergei Solovyov died, who shot such films as “One hundred days after childhood”, “Assa”, “Black rose - the emblem of sadness, the red rose - the emblem of love” and others. Film critic Anton Dolin recalls what was the director and his paintings .

“He was open, democratic, funny, incredulous, childish impulsive, honest, but at the same time cunning, incredibly charming person, the very nature of the talent of which was special-like his films. It is not without reason that they are also impossible to squeeze into the canon of Soviet film traction as the paintings of Kira Muratova. ”

Podkast "What happened"

After the explosion in Serpukhov, many learned that there are Orthodox schools in Russia - and there are quite a few of them. This is how this system works

The former student of the Orthodox gymnasium at the Convent in Serpukhov Vladislav Struzhenkov blew up a home -made bomb in the courtyard of his former school. According to preliminary data, he did this because of the "hatred of the suspect to the teachers of the school and the nuns against the backdrop of personal hostile relations." Classmates and students of the school told reporters that the teenager was subjected to bullying from the teachers - they insulted him, underestimated the grades and scared him in hell. How are educational institutions arranged at the Russian Orthodox Church and how do religious schools differ from ordinary ones? Says journalist Ksenia Luchenko.

Listen “What happened” on “Medusa” and in Utube , as well as subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , CastBox , Yandex.Musica and other podcast services

Coronavirus

What does the spread of Omicron mean for the future pandemic?

The emergence and rapid spread of the Omicron Coronavirus variant can change the development of pandemia . The new strain can lead not only to the next wave of infection in the coming months, but also to the long -term consequences: if it becomes dominant, this can move the end of the epidemic for a long time. The transition expected by scientists from the epidemic to the endemic stage of the spread of the virus in the coming months may not happen.

Medusa found out why the State Duma will not consider the bill on QR codes in airplanes and trains

In short,the officials are sure that they have already achieved their goal : the very discussion of the bill increased the number of people who want to get involved. The source of the Medusa surrounded by the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin claims that Volodin “was against the codes from the very beginning. He understood that people would meet this idea negatively. To do this, he wrote a post [in telegram] and opened comments - to show that people are against it. " Interlocutors close to the domestic political bloc of the presidential administration argue that Vladimir Putin made the final decision to withdraw the bill. But unlike QR codes in transport, the second bill on the codes system for passing into public places will most likely be adopted. Today he was recommended to be adopted by the relevant State Duma Committee.

Another comeback

We are not enough for Oximiron and Crazy Frog - today we remember Masyanya

Immediately make a reservation that the superpopular in the zero cartoon did not disappear: new episodes continue to go out. But, probably, many of you did not know this - like Yuri Dud, who removed the issue of Masyan and her creator Oleg Kuvaeva. Do I need to say something else? Rather, run to watch !

Thank you, Yuri, returned our 2002 to us! Your "Medusa"