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May 4th. Police detain activists before Navalny's rallies

Tomorrow, supporters of Alexei Navalny are organizing an action called “He is not our king,” timed to coincide with the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, who will take office as president of Russia for the fourth time on May 7.

The police have begun preparations: activists have already been detained in at least several cities. Ilya Gantvarg from St. Petersburg was detained for participating in a picket in memory of those killed in a fire in Kemerovo, which took place on March 27. Igor Slivin from Tambov received 20 days of arrest for organizing single pickets on October 7.

If you are planning to take part in protests, you should also prepare. Perhaps our cards will help:

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• I was detained. What to do?

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The Nobel Committeehas decided not to award a prize for literature in 2018. The reason is a data leak scandal in which the husband of one of the organization’s members is suspected. Two laureates will be announced in 2019.

One of the founders of the “Meaning Hallucinations” group, Vladimir Burdin , was sent for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric hospital. He was convicted of a fight in a store, during which he lightly wounded one of the customers with a knife. The musician claims that he was protecting his wife.

The founder of the food delivery service VkusLab, Artem Laptev , faced the threat of criminal prosecution due to the fact that he bought Chinese GPS trackers for couriers. The article is illegal trafficking of special technical means intended for secretly obtaining information.

The social network VKontakte has begun developing a new service, which in functionality resembles Telegram channels.

Moscow mayoral elections

• Sergei Kapkov will help Sergei Sobyanin. The former head of the city department of culture will take part in the preparation of the mayor’s program , with which he will go to the elections in September. Meduza's sources said that after the elections, Kapkov may again receive a position in the capital's government - which one is still unknown. Kapkov headed the culture department for about four years, from 2011 to 2015. His resignation was explained by disagreements with Sobyanin.
• Electric buses instead of trolleybuses. They will be launched in Moscow shortly before the mayoral elections, and Sobyanin will do it personally. Expenses - more than 12 billion rubles. Judging by the terms of reference, Rostec and Oleg Deripaska will make money from this order.

Google and Amazon have made it more difficult to bypass blocking

Recently, Google and Amazon, one after another, banned the use of their domains to bypass blocking. In short, it worked like this: the application sent a special request to Google, and it automatically went to the desired address. As a result, the user had a service that was blocked in the country, and the authorities could not do anything about it - just block all of Google. Why did companies disable this feature ? Perhaps because of the "Russian hackers" who abused it.

There were 22 fairy tales in the book “50 Tales”

This was discovered by Anna Ananskaya, PR director of the Na Strastnom Theater Center. She decided to find outhow this could be . And I received the answer: “It’s very strange that for a certain amount you bought not an entire book, but 50 fairy tales. This is some kind of unprecedented purchasing approach.”

A short investigation showed that the story of fairy tales is not unique. In the book about 50 ancient Slavic symbols, only 12 symbols are indicated, and in the collection “100 Favorite Poems” there are only 22 poems.

Dmitry Tomilov