In Belarus, the 43rd Protest Day ended. It was especially tough in Brest, but less detainees than a week ago EPA / Scanpix / Leta Mass speeches against Alexander Lukashenko have not stopped for seven weeks. As always, the peak of protest came on Sunday. According to Reuters, more than one hundred thousand people took to the streets of Minsk (the media named similar numbers a week ago).

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and BuzzFeed News reviewed documents from the US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). As Vazhie Istorii writes, the Finance Ministry documents contain transactions by Russian businessmen.

In Belarus, 133 people were detained at protests on September 20 as of 19:50, according to the Belarusian human rights center Vesna. In Minsk, according to the center, 89 people were detained, including a Russian citizen, in other cities a total of 50 detainees. The list on the Vesna website is being updated. The "March of Justice" in Minsk ended at about half past seven in the evening. According to Reuters and the BelaPAN agency , one hundred thousand people took part in it.

In Brest, riot police applied tear gas to the protesters, Onliner reports with reference to the press secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs Olga Selfanova. In addition, the security forces made a “warning shot” into the air from a carbine.

Mario Tama / Getty images Forest Fire in the hills near Monrovia, cities in the south of California. September 15, 2020 The sky above the states of the western coast of the United States - California, Oregon and Washington - was covered with thick smoke from extensive forest fires. In California, the combustion area is already calculated by millions of hectares, and out of the twenty of the largest fires in the history of the state, five began in 2020.

How the Belarusian propaganda has changed in ten years and why the U -turn to Europe failed The chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok finds out how the Belarusian state propaganda has changed in ten years. In the new episode of the English -language podcast , The Naked Pravda Kevin says this with the head of the Medusa investigation department Alexei Kovalev and political analyst Alex Koksharov. Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element.

Former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, in an interview with RBC, twice called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “wise leader” and once noted “Moscow’s wisdom.” Speaking about the fact that Belarusians do not perceive Alexander Lukashenko as a leader, Tikhanovskaya noted: "He [Lukashenko] has simply lost, especially with his actions after August 9, even the slightest respect [from Belarusians]. And Mr.

Uktam Barnoev, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Uzbekistan for the Development of the Agrarian Sphere, died after being diagnosed with COVID-19. This was reported by the administration of the Bukhara region. Barnoev was 56 years old. According to kun.uz, ​​the official died in Germany. While he was being treated for COVID-19, he had a stroke, after which he was sent to a German private clinic, where they were supposed to undergo brain surgery, the publication claims.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. They have not found life on Venus yet, but found a substance that can indicate it. What does it mean? Explain the scientific journalists "Medusa" On September 14, a article by scientists from Cardiff University with the results of observations of the gas shell of Venus was published in Nature 14. After that, many media outlets replicated the news that life was found on Venus. In fact, it is not yet unambiguous to say about life on this planet.

Participants of the March of Justice have been detained in Minsk, MBKh Media reports. Updated at 15:12 Moscow time. Less than an hour after the start of the march, 20 people were detained in Minsk, Interfax reports . According to the agency's correspondent, about ten thousand people are participating in the action. As writes , the detentions are “pinpoint”, in different districts of the city they detain mainly people with flags.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips, and then briefly talk about the best or at least the most noticeable of them.

Mikhail Degtyarev, Acting Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, reported on Instagram about his trip to the region, which he began at the end of July almost immediately after his appointment. “Everywhere devastation, debts, debts, debts. Debts for heat, electricity, between budgets,” said Degtyarev. According to him, during the two months of his working trip, he visited all districts of the region and, after talking with people, made 80 appeals to the government and local authorities.

The author of the film "Pit" - about how he made it from the Russian appeals to Putin Semyon Katz for "Medusa" Documentary Andrei Gryazev this fall will introduce his film “Infutation” at the Artdokfest documentary movie festival. The picture consists entirely of video features of ordinary citizens to Putin, posted on Yetube from 2010 to 2020. The Russians ask the president to repair the road, stop cutting the forest, give new housing in return for the emergency, and increase the salary.

A fragment of the book of Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan “His among strangers” about Russian political emigrants Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta The publishing house of Alpina Plisher is published by the book of journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan “His own among strangers. Political emigrants and Kremlin: compatriots, agents and enemies of the regime.

The chemist of Vil Mirzayanov, who calls himself one of the developers of the Novice, on the air of the Rain TV channel apologized to Alexei Navalny for a poisonous substance, which, presumably, caused the hospitalization of a politician . “I give my deep apology to Navalny for participating in this criminal business - in the development of this substance that he was poisoned,” Mirzayanov said ( quote for Kommersant).