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Evening Medusa
May, 23rd. Relatives of passengers on flight MH17 wrote a letter to the Russians
Main news
Alexei Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh received 25 days of arrest . Yarmysh was found guilty of repeated violation of the order of organizing a protest rally for the action “He is not our king,” which took place on May 5 in Moscow. According to Yarmysh herself, she was held accountable for two tweets dated April 12.
The head of the analytical department was fired from Sberbank SIB after the release of a report criticizing Gazprom and Igor Sechin. A report on Russian oil and gas companies said that the main beneficiaries of the construction of gas export pipelines to China and Europe are not Gazprom shareholders, but contractor companies, many of which are controlled by friends of Vladimir Putin. One of the report's authors was fired the day after it was released.
VTB stopped cooperation with Oleg Deripaska's companies due to sanctions. According to Andrei Kostin, the bank is not giving Deripaska “any new money.” At the same time, VTB is awaiting further decisions from the US Treasury regarding structures associated with Deripaska in order to receive back previously issued loans.
There are thousands of buildings in Moscow with problems like "Winter Cherry"
The “Winter Cherry” shopping center that burned down in Kemerovo continued to be considered a factory according to documents until the day of the fire. This is a common practice in Russia: the “industrial” status allows you to save on fire safety measures.
In Moscow alone there are more than 1,300 buildings to which officials have claims, and the same number that have no ownership documents at all: sometimes these buildings burn, sometimes they are demolished, and sometimes nothing simply happens to them, and this situation can continue for years. Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov found out everything about the “problematic” buildings in Moscow.
Relatives of those killed in the MH17 disaster sent a letter to the Russians
Relatives of passengers on flight MH17, which was shot down in the Donbass in 2014, wrote an open letter addressed to the Russian people. In the letter, they criticized Russian state media for participating in a “vile and deceitful campaign” aimed at creating “an alternative reality where no information can be trusted,” and called on Russian authorities to cooperate with the international investigation. Relatives of the victims also expressed hope that the upcoming World Cup could become a “celebration of our common humanity.”
Let this world championship be held in the spirit of goodness. We hope that it will turn out to be a success that ordinary Russians can enjoy and feel proud of. But we cannot deny that, from our point of view, there remains a shadow over this event. It pains us to realize the grim irony that the Russian leaders who would welcome the world with open arms are the ones who are primarily responsible for the destruction of our world.
Non-disclosure agreement - what is it?
Increasingly, especially in high-profile cases, investigators are taking non-disclosure agreements from the accused, their lawyers and witnesses, but many still have no idea what this really is. We have made special cards in which we explain under what circumstances an investigator may require a non-disclosure agreement, whether it is possible not to sign it, and what the consequences of violating the law are.
What else
- In Omsk, for 26 years, they have not been able to build a metro - only one station has been completed there, and in early May, local authorities announced that they do not intend to continue construction. Now the Ministry of Transport is indignant at this decision: the department regards the statement to abandon construction as an ineffective use of federal budget funds.
- Authorities in the city of Lake Worth, Florida , sent residents a notice during a power outage that they did not know when supplies would be restored because the city was under attack by zombies. The electricity supply was restored half an hour later, but the authorities had to apologize.
- Twitter has declared war on “Russian trolls” and, as part of this war, is blocking thousands of accounts, many of which belong to ordinary users. For some reason, Bulgarians benefit the most from the actions of the service administration.
- At the wedding of Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle, there were not only relatives and friends of the newlyweds, but also 1,200 ordinary British residents, who, among other things, were given memorable souvenirs. One of the wedding goers put them on eBay - and received 21 thousand pounds!
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