A scholar burned himself to death to protest the disappearance of indigenous languages and cultures in Russia. We reported from the city where he lived and died. Yaroslav Chernov for Meduza On September 10, the scholar and social activist Albert Razin walked up to Udmurtia’s parliament building in the region’s capital city of Izhevsk. The 79-year-old, who held the Russian equivalent of a Ph.D.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree dismissing 11 generals. Among the dismissed generals are six representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, four of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and one of the Investigative Committee. Among those fired was Alexander Melnikov, the first deputy head of the Main Directorate for Ensuring Public Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, accused of fraud. Melnikov was arrested at the end of September.

Adobe has released a version of Photoshop for iPads. Adobe emphasizes that the app is "true Photoshop" and supports most of the features found on the desktop version, including PSD, layers, retouching tools, and compositing. The app will also work with all versions of the Apple Pencil. The application was officially presented at the annual Adobe conference. The company noted that the first version is "this is just the beginning" and in the future the number of functions will be increased.

Soldier Ramil Shamsutdinov, who shot eight of his fellow soldiers in a unit in the Zabaikalsky Krai, received warnings for violating rules for handling weapons. This is reported by RBC, which has familiarized itself with the socio-psychological characteristics of Shamsutdinov's personality. "He has repeatedly received warnings from commanders for violating safety requirements with weapons during combat training exercises.

A Belarusian court has sentenced a 38-year-old Russian woman to 17 years in prison for drug trafficking. She was arrested in May of 2019 at the border between Belarus and Poland, where border control officials found a number of secret compartments in her car. The compartments, which were protected by electromagnetic locks, contained 100 packs of ecstasy weighing a total of 100 kilograms (220 lbs) and two packs of hashish weighing 357 grams (0.79 lbs) in total.

A court in Belarus sentenced a Russian citizen to 17 years in prison for drug smuggling. A 38-year-old woman was found guilty of illegal possession and transportation for the purpose of selling narcotic drugs and especially dangerous psychotropic substances on a large scale. She will serve her sentence in a penal colony. The Russian woman was detained in May 2019 at the border with Poland.

Kremlin media wrangler blames opposition protests on supposed excess of humanities majors Dmitry Kiselyov, the Russian state media system’s most prominent pundit, argued on his show Vesti Nedeli that higher learning in the humanities breeds social unrest. His November 3 segment on the topic can be found in full here ; it is paraphrased in brief below.

Islam Kadyrov, the former mayor of Grozny and the second cousin once removed of Chechen government leader Ramzan Kadyrov, has confessed to torturing fraud suspects using a taser. Islam Kadyrov apologized for his actions in a live Instagram video interview with Chingiz Akhmadov, a journalist for the same outlet that first revealed Kadyrov’s involvement in the torture. According to the wire service TASS , Kadyrov said, “I have no excuse. I’m 100 percent guilty.

Mikhail Svetov, who has become the public face of Russia’s Libertarian Party in recent months, has announced his departure from the party’s federal board.

The Russian social media network VKontakte has released an experimental function for its interface that aims to discourage users from posting offensive comments. The network’s press service announced the new feature on November 4. With the new feature in place, every comment users write will be evaluated by an algorithm trained to recognize insults.

The Japanese office of Microsoft switched to a four-day work week as an experiment for a month. The results showed that this had a positive impact not only on employees, but also on the results of the company. The experiment was carried out in August, all 2,300 workers were given an extra day off on Friday - while they did not reduce their wages and did not deduct days from vacation. Compared to August 2018, productivity increased by almost 40%.

HBO released the second trailer for the series Paolo Sorrentino New Dad. HBO “New Dad” is the continuation of the series “Young Dad”, telling about a pontiff with views extremely free for his position. In the New Dad, the hero of Juda Low Pius XIII lies in a coma, and his place is occupied by a new pontiff - John Pavel III, played by John Malkovich. The series, consisting of nine episodes, will begin in January 2020.

Hayley Catherine / Unsplash A person spends about a third of his life in a dream. A huge amount of scientific research is devoted to the study of sleep, but even today scientists have no unequivocal answer to the question of why it would still be so much time to waste so much time. The article of scientists from Boston University and Harvard’s medical school, also, of course, does not give all the answers, but at least bring some clarity to it, published in the last issue of Science.

A Russian version of the YouTube channel ‘HiHo Kids’ faces felony charges for featuring an interview with a gay man State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy is outraged about a YouTube channel called Real Talk , where children have conversations with “unlikely companions.” In one episode, for example, children speak to a gay man. In another, a child questions a pornographic actress.

There are too many humanities students for the country, and the process of their education is not rich enough to protect them from stupidity. Two students at the journalism department of Moscow State University have taken up activism and are collecting signatures in support of Azat Miftakhov - instead of studying, it is much more interesting to assert oneself through protest. The higher education system is a conveyor belt that creates dissatisfied people.