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May 19. "Megafon" was left without communication, and Muscovites - without garages

Megafon subscribers were left without communication. Alisher Usmanov’s company has had a lot of problems lately: exactly a week ago, its computers were infected with a ransomware virus, and today tens of thousands of people all over Russia could not use MegaFon’s mobile communications for several hours due to technical failures. It was rumored that other operators had similar problems, but in the end it worked out. Apparently , there was a failure in the subscriber data store.

Moscow garages are being demolished by bulldozers and with the help of riot police. While everyone is worried about the demolition of the Khrushchevs, the city continues to destroy other real estate with might and main - Soviet-era garage cooperatives. This is done to free up space for paid parking. Moscow officials claim that the owners of garages have no property rights, but this is inaccurate, and the demolition itself is taking place as harshly as possible: this week, for example, in the Akademichesky district, bulldozers leveled a garage in which the property of a third-degree disabled person and her family lay. ; riot police guarded the construction equipment. This is our main report of the day ; sometimes it seems that you are reading the script of a new film by Andrey Zvyagintsev.

Assange is innocent. In any case, today Sweden stopped the investigation into the case of rape against the founder of WikiLeaks, because of which he has been imprisoned in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the last years. However, whether Assange will finally be able to go free is unclear: British police said they would still have to arrest him. So far, Assange has simply appeared on the balcony of the embassy to speak to reporters.

Usmanov is also innocent. In any case, the businessman himself has been trying for many years to prove that he was in prison in Soviet times not on charges of rape, as Alexei Navalny, in particular, claims. According to the billionaire, confirmed by documents, it was only about economic crimes. We decided to find out where allegations of rape came from - it turns out that they first appeared in the media back in 1998. Meanwhile, the RBC website reported today that Usmanov was coordinating his lawsuit against Navalny with the Kremlin.

Mysteries of the day. Is this picture a river or a wall? What happened to the mountain of coins that the artist and photographer left on a footbridge in London? How many nannies, housekeepers and tutors are there in Russia, according to the Federal Tax Service? Where go ? did the 22 million rubles that the Russians transferred for Zhanna Friske's treatment

Also cultural news. The new album of the pioneers of Russian hip-hop from Kasta tells about the life of the local middle class much more accurately than any other music (and not only music). And the new film by the great American director Todd Haynes makes children's cinema an adult one.

Good weekend! Your dear edition