Two sargsyan and genocide through sanctions

Everything you need to know early in the morning of April 17

Good morning!

Today, the Armenian parliament is expected to approve Serzh Sargsyan as prime minister. Serzh Sargsyan was the President of Armenia for ten years, at the end of the second term he carried out a constitutional reform, turning the country from the presidential to the Parliamentary Republic, and now he is going to premieres. The special beauty of this “castling” is also given by the fact that Sargsyan, but Armen, was recently elected by the President of Armenia. He is a namesake and one -party fellow serge S.

On Monday, citizens dissatisfied with the castle took to the streets led by opposition deputy Nikola Pashinyan. “Cosmonauts” with barbed wire were sent against them. 46 people were injured.

Read the comments of political scientist Stepan Grigoryan here .

US President Donald Trump, according to Washington Post, ordered to postpone the introduction of new sanctions against Russia . By this, however, the intensity of Russian foreign policy rhetoric can no longer be reduced. In an interview with “BBC”, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, said that during the Cold War, unlike the current, “there was no obsession with Russophobia, which looks like genocide through sanctions ”. Although the current head of Pskov, in Instagram-correspondence with the former Pskov governor Turchak, showed a vivid example of the unbending: “The Pindos lied like this,” he wrote , “that they are easier to erase from the face of the earth , but the Lord prohibits it!” The comment, however, disappeared after a while.

It was placed under the photograph of Damascus destroyed by the war. On the eve of the report on strikes related to the chemical program of Syria , Teresa May reported in the UK parliament. Today, French President Emmanuel Macron will affect the same topic in contacting the European Parliament.

In the meantime, the special services of the United States and the UK warned the world community that Russian hackers infected routers around the world as part of the Cybershpione campaign.

In Russia, providers began to block the Telegram messenger - according to the court decision made on Friday. Together with Telegram, millions of Amazon and Google IP addresses are blocked . The proxy servers are also blocked . 12 people with paper aircraft were detained on Lubyanka, protesting against the blocking of the messenger. In parallel, there is a promotion of the Tamtam messenger, owned by Mail.ru Group. The founder of Telegram Pavel Durov called the actions of the Russian authorities anti -constitutional and said that the blocking will worsen the quality of life of 15 million Russians. Here, a lawyer of Roskomvoboda explains why the Russians should say goodbye to privacy.

In Moscow and the Moscow Region, two manifestations of the thaw were seen:

• The Mosgodsud abolished the sentence of a hematologist Elena Misyurina, who was previously convicted by two years, accusing the patient's death. The case, however, was not closed, but returned to the prosecutor's office.
• The Moscow Regional Council canceled the arrest of the organizer of protests against the Yadrovo landfill Artem Lyubimov, his business was discontinued - Lyubimov, however, had already served his 15 days.

Other judicial investigative news:

• In St. Petersburg, according to Novaya Gazeta, the accused of theft during the construction of the Warsaw's submarine Valery Pshenichichniki, they swept to death. Earlier it was said about suicide, but the forensic medical examination indicates torture, rape and murder.
• In Krasnoyarsk, the user “VKontakte” was given two years in a colony settlement for pictures posted in a closed album.
• In Moscow, a historical checker was stolen , in which the first Soviet astronauts trained.

The cause of the fire in the “Winter Cherry” in Kemerovo was, according to Kommersant , a short circuit: due to uncleaned snow, the roof flowed, the water fell on the wires laid on the children's gaming area on the top floor. The ventilation was not turned off, so the fire spread faster than it could. Firefighters in Yakutsk, without waiting for the tragedy, announced a hunger strike in connection with the lack of equipment.

In the Russian State Duma , everything is quiet: the deputy Slutsky submitted a land plot that Navalny found to him, the unicorn Vostretsov introduced a bill on compulsory distribution for students-budgets (for a period of four to six years), and the response of Russia in relation to the United States will be considered on May 15 (because the bill should be “very high-quality,” said Volodin). If someone is interested in how exactly they are gnawing for power in “United Russia”, then this is highlighted here (Dressy speakers turn to the journalist with the word “Kotik”-some progress compared to the “Zaychut” deputy of Slutsky).

The winners of the Pulitzer Prize were declared . Among them is the son of Woody Allen Ronan Farrow, one of the initiators of the campaign against sexual harassment in Hollywood, who affected his father, and the editorial offices of the New York Times and Washington Post - for covering Russian intervention in the American presidential election.

Today, the memoirs of the former FBI director James Komi are released, in which he explains why Donald Trump is morally unsuitable for the presidential position. Trump himself will accept in his Florida the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe - they will discuss the upcoming constructive dialogue with Kim Jong -un.

Three links today will devote entirely to the affairs for a long time:

• “Some Vilnius Jews had illusions, especially my grandfather who spoke German freely. They considered the Germans the only civilized nation in Europe. Where are the Russians before them! And the Poles!” The life story of sociologist Theodore Shanin, recorded by Alexander Arkhangelsk.
• Irina Caspe's reasoning about the meaning of the blockade of Leningrad in late Soviet culture.
• Pictures, motionless and moving. Unknown photo archive of an unknown colonel for 1910-1914 (with comments by a historian) or material for the 30th anniversary of the film “Assa”.

Sincerely yours,
Seven and forth

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