How armies of fixers and specialists negotiate the nation’s dicey relationship between businesses and the state Sasha Baranovskaya for Meduza Technically speaking, lobbying doesn’t exist in Russia. The concept, at least, isn’t established anywhere in the country’s laws, and the activity itself isn’t formally regulated in any way.

January 8. The main thing for a very long weekend Hello! “Evening Medusa” woke up after the New Year holidays - and is trying to understand what has happened important and interesting over the past 10 days. Let's start with the main one. On January 1, dozens of laws and by -laws entered into force in Russia. We have collected some of them in the same picture: In Iran for about a half weeks , mass protests continued, covering almost the entire country .

I also carried a sandwich to the spacecraft! NASA In the USA, on January 5, astronaut John Young died, a man with one of the brightest quarries in the history of space development. Yang was 87 years old. He ended up in the second detachment of NASA astronauts in 1962 at the age of 32 and worked at the agency 42, taking part in three different programs of manned flights - “Jamini”, “Apollo” and “Space Shattle”.

The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed reports that an attempt was made to attack Russian military bases in Syria using drones. “The security system <…> on the night of January 5-6 successfully thwarted an attempted attack by terrorists with the massive use of attack unmanned aerial vehicles,” the statement said. As a result, no one was hurt, and no material damage was caused to the bases.

Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts A few thousand years ago, someone portrayed a scene of hunting on a stone found in India. The picture has one oddity: two almost the same luminaries are depicted over people and animals. Astrophysicists from Mumbai and Potsdam suggested that the author actually depicted a supernova outbreak - perhaps she was burning so brightly that it seemed as if two moon was hanging in the sky. The publication of Quartz told about their conclusions.

In New York, there was a fire in the skyscraper Trump Tower. The CBS television channel reports, citing the fire department, that the top floor of the building caught fire. According to preliminary information , the fire started in the skyscraper's heating system. The fire was quickly contained. NBC reports that two people were injured. Trump Tower (Trump Tower) is a 58-story skyscraper with a height of 202 meters in Manhattan. It contains offices and apartments.

The electoral fund of Vladimir Putin, who is running for president for a fourth term, has reached the maximum possible size - 400 million rubles. This was reported in the report of the Central Election Commission as of January 5. This is the first report in which Putin's fund appears. The Putin Foundation lists only one large donation from a private individual in the amount of 30,000 rubles.

The wife of football player Andrei Arshavin, Alice, who was traveling with two young children, was removed on January 6 from the Moscow-Alma-Ata flight of the Aeroflot airline. Alisa Arshavina, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, said that she was dropped off the plane after she decided to change her daughter's diaper. According to Arshavina, the flight attendant did not like the strong smell.

Football coach Barry Bennell is on trial in Liverpool after being accused of dozens of harassment of minors. At the first meeting, the 63-year-old coach confessed to six episodes. In total, Bennell is charged with 42 counts of sexual harassment, 11 counts of soliciting minors for sex, and two attempts to solicit sex. The details of the episodes in which Bennell pleaded guilty were not disclosed. The allegations against Bennell relate to his work at the Crewe Alexandra from 1979-1991.

Speed ​​of Opra Winfrey at the presentation of "golden globes" about sexual violence. Translation Paul Drinkwater / NBC / USA Today Network / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta The American TV presenter Winfrey at the Golden Globes Award ceremony made a speech about women's rights and the inadmissibility of sexual harassment. Winfrey’s monologue became the main event of the entire ceremony, at which many actresses dressed in black - in solidarity with victims of harassment.

In many popular publics on the VKontakte social network, on January 7, a screenshot from the Instagram singer Valery Meladze appeared with the signature “Can I love Meladze even more?” In the photo, the singer holds two huge bottles of wine; The inscription under the picture says: “For a healthy lifestyle !!!! Fitness 2018 !!!!!!!!!!! ” As it turned out, Meladze registered on Instagram at the end of November 2017. The singer leads a funny account in which he talks at ease about tour and family.

Engineer EO Hyun Men from Singapore was able to install and start the modern Gentoo Linux distribution on a computer released 25 years ago. About why he needed this, and what happened, Yo Hyun Men told in his blog. The Singapore engineer was interested in what the oldest processor of the X86 family supports the modern Linux core.

The choice of "Medusa": Justin, Kendrick, Antokha, Lana - as well as a song about Medusa and singer Grechka Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs and watch new clips to select the best from them - and explain what they are notable for. This time on the list - duets with the participation of Kendrick Lamar, Lana Del Rey and Ivan Dorn, the return of Justin Timberlake and Maynard James Kinan, as well as promising newcomers from Russia and England.

A court in Tambov has awarded 5,000 rubles (about $88) in compensation to activists from the liberal opposition party “Yabloko,” ruling that police illegally detained two demonstrators on December 7, 2017, at a rally in support of Grigory Yavlinsky, the party’s founder. The activists originally applied for a permit to stage a single-person picket, but the city told them that no permission was necessary.

Russian-German dual citizen “Sergey V.” has confessed to detonating several bombs aboard a bus for the German soccer team “Borussia Dortmund.” The man said in court on January 8 that he regrets his actions and said he was only trying to create the appearance of damage to the vehicle, without injuring anyone. He said he hatched the plan after a rough breakup with his girlfriend, who left him and moved to Australia.