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In the activities of the OVD-Info, they found the "propaganda of terrorism and extremism." The main photos of 2021 according to Medusa. The historian Yuri Dmitriev was increased up to 15 years of colony

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This is the daily Medusa newsletter about the most important today. And on Mondays, also about the events of the weekend. Well, that’s the last working week of the year. Very soon the New Year and the appeal of Vladimir Putin. Watching it is still a pleasure. Largely because we know in advance about everything that will be there. But what if there is a stand -up instead of contacting? After all, Putin loves to joke ... In general, we are waiting for jokes from you .

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On Saturday, Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Human Rights Project "OTD-Info"*. The court considered the project“propaganda of terrorism and extremism” .
The court increased the term of imprisonment to the historian Yuri Dmitriev up to 15 years.
Russian Yegor Dudnikov was sentenced to 11 years in Belarus in the case of inciting social enmity.
The journalist of the Russian BBC Service Andrei Zakharov, announced by a “foreign agent”,left Russia . He explained this with an “unprecedented” surveillance.
The investigation asked to release the video blogger Yuri Khovansky from the pre -trial detention center. Two dozen other bloggers recorded a video in his support.
The former editor -in -chief of the satellite and pogrom, Yegor Prosvirin , died.
The Moscow City Court left journalist Ivan Safronov in a pre -trial detention center for another three months . By the end of this period, he will spend 639 days under arrest.
Psychotherapist Andrei Kurpatov received a prize for his contribution to the pseudoscience "Honorary Academician Lie".
The actor of dubbingAndrei Yaroslavtsev died. He voiced Optimus Prime in Transformers and Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter.

* Declared in Russia a "foreign agent."

NASA / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on December 25, the James Webb telescope finally went into space. 10 billion dollars were spent on it, and the launch was prepared for almost 30 years. Now the telescope has to go one and a half million kilometers from the ground

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The results of the year from the photo editors "Medusa"

Liam Kennedy / Bloomberg / Getty Images Theater, destroyed as a result of a tornado in the city of Maifield, Kentukki. Several dozen tornado passed through the territory of nine states in the Middle West of the United States on December 10 and 11. At least 93 people died. December 13, 2021

Speaking about the outgoing 2021, it is incredibly difficult to resist the stamp and not call it difficult. He began with the assault on the Capitol in Washington, continued to return to Russia Alexei Navalny, the arrest of the opposition and protest shares in his support. And this is only January! Back in 2021, the Olympics-2020 finally passed, the Taliban*was seized in Afghanistan*, the next exacerbation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict happened, Lionel Messi left Barcelona ... And all this against the backdrop of the Pandemia of Coronavirus. Look at the best news photos by which we will remember 2021.

* The Islamist movement "Taliban" is included in the list of organizations recognized in Russia with terrorist, its activities are prohibited.

The Kremlin requires NATO guarantees not to accept Ukraine and seems to raise bets up to the war. And what, Ukraine is a stone's throw from joining NATO?

The Russian authorities, it seems, are ready for anything so as not to let Ukraine into NATO - the guarantees of this are required “immediately” and “now”, and the bets are high as never before, as evidence of the troops deployed near the border with Ukraine. However , no one is accepting Ukraine in NATO - moreover, it seems more difficult to join there every year. We figured out how in 2008 Ukraine almost ended up in NATO and why it is “a little” impossible to eliminate so far.

Russian Yegor Dudnikov received 11 years in a colony in Belarus for voiced the videos that the local opposition made. We talked with our mother

In 2019, 19-year-old Russian Yegor Dudnikov moved from Saratov to Minsk to his girlfriend. He worked as part of the voicing of films and anime, and in 2020, when protests began throughout Belarus, he began to voice the videos of the Belarusian opposition. In May 2021, Dudnikov was detained: President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko personally called the young man the main moderator of the telegram channel “Self-Defense Units of Belarus”, which was allegedly created by members of “sleeping” terrorist cells for the violent change of power in the country. On December 27, the Minsk City Court sentenced Dudnikov to 11 years in colony. Yegor Julia's mother came to Minsk to announce the sentence to her son. We talked with her .

What is known to the OVD-Info project, in the actions of which the authorities found an excuse for “terrorism and extremism”?

In December 2021, the project turned 10 years old. The OVD-Info team helps detainees on protest promotions, teaches those who are in a critical situation, works as the media (albeit not quite classic) and receive journalistic prizes for this work, and also calls on society to solidarity .

And, perhaps, the most important thing: despite the accusations against the OVD-Info, it is still safe to support it . By law, you cannot be accused of supporting terrorism and extremism for donat. You can help the project by link .

Podkast "What happened"

Peter Ivanov successfully suits free medicines for children with rare diseases. Does the state help him? Quite the contrary

Lawyers of the Ryazan Memorial branch (declared by the Russian authorities with the “ino -agent”) help families in which there are children with orphan diseases, to receive expensive medicines from the state. Regional Ministry of Health are required to provide vital drugs for free, but often officials are afraid to take responsibility for purchases and advise parents to apply to the court.

- How to achieve free treatment of a child with a serious illness?

- Why are regional departments reluctantly purchased expensive medicines, although they must do this by law?

- Why is it more efficient to support human rights defenders than just to transfer donations to charitable foundations?

We speak with the lawyer of the Ryazan branch of the Memorial, human rights activist Peter Ivanov.

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