Access to Vladimir

All you need to know early in the morning of April 2

Good morning!

The era of Raviv was declared in Japan, but this is not what you thought about. The rave means “prosperity and harmony”, and in connection with which they suddenly covered Japan, is explained in an interview with orientalist Vasily Golovnin, the news after which you can no longer read. But they are:

• Ukrainian elections: after processing 97% of the ballots, Petro Poroshenko is approximately half the lags behind Vladimir Zelinsky.
• Russia gives Belarus a loan of $ 600 million in order to serve the obligations on old loans.
• The company associated with Prigozhin sued Navalny.
• The UK parliament again rejected all the alternative Brexit options.

Presidential applicants

After calculating almost all the ballots submitted in the first round of the presidential elections in Ukraine, an almost two -time gap was formed between Vladimir Zelensky (he has 30% with a small one) and Peter Poroshenko (slightly less than 16%). Here you can see the approximate breakdown by regions: Poroshenko leads in the Lviv and Ternopol regions, Yulia Tymoshenko-in Ivano-Frankivsk, Yuri Boyko, who recently traveling with Medvedchuk to Medvedev, in Donetsk and Lugansk. In all other areas, Zelensky in the first place.

Zelensky does not yet give detailed interviews and does not suit press conferences-here his adviser Aivaras Abromavichus, a former Minister of Economic Development of Ukraine, speaks for the winner of the first round. In the justification of Zelensky, Abromavichus says that on Sunday in the evening at the election headquarters “access to Vladimir himself has been for a sufficiently long period”.

You can get acquainted with Zelensky by reading this material about it and this material about oligarch Kolomoisky , whose puppet was called Zelensky Petro Poroshenko. In addition, before the second round scheduled for April 21, Poroshenko and Zelensky will hold a television department.

Now it is interesting how Yulia Tymoshenko, who took third place, will act. While her headquarters only accused of the CEC of Ukraine of harnessing votes in favor of Poroshenko. Today Tymoshenko will hold a press conference. There are rumors that it can join forces with Zelensky, proposing as a political platform the transformation of Ukraine from the presidential republic to parliamentary. Reasoning on the topic of the further course of events can be read here .

International and Ukrainian observers have not found significant election violations. How Russian television cursed is told here . But the real winners of the first round were sociologists: here it is explained how they managed to get ec-regols of such accuracy.

Good neighborly

• Against the background of the presidential election, an extremely entertaining Russian-Ukrainian history was lost: in Ukraine there is a trial of a Russian who is accused of murder in 2016 of a former officer of the Ukrainian army who fought in the Donbass on the side of Ukraine. The investigation considers this murder as an episode of the “hybrid war”, but the journalists of the New York Times found out that the order for the murder did not receive because of the Donbass, but because the murdered person participated in the supply of Ukrainian weapons of Georgia before the war in South Ossetia. Someone has a good memory.
• But Belarus Russia allocates a loan of $ 600 million to serve previously allocated loans. The total debt of Minsk to Moscow exceeds $ 6.5 billion.

Russia: courts, pogroms, contracts

• After the protests in the capital of Ingushetia Magas, a criminal case was instituted on the "use of violence" to the employees of the Russian Guard. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia resigned , there is evidence that the police who refused to disperse the rally were fired.
• The head of the Chechen branch of the Memorial, Oyub Titiev, sentenced to four years, will not appeal the verdict in order to be able to submit to parole this year. Titiev did not plead guilty.
• The company “Moscow School”, which is part of the Putin cook empire Evgeny Prigozhin, sued Navalny, FBK, Lyubov Sobol and its former employee. The lawsuit is related to the investigation of the FBK on mass infection of dysentery in Moscow kindergartens. Love Sobol is in court the interests of the parents of the affected children.
• The Innopractics Foundation, which is led by Putin's alleged youngest daughter Ekaterina Tikhonov, received another contract from Rosneft for 28 million rubles for “patent research”.
• As amended by Kommersant in Yekaterinburg, a pogrom occurred , the chief editor was left the note “You will die, Syavka”. The suspect was detained.

In the world

• Hopes for the soft Brexit Tayati: the UK parliament again rejected all alternative options for leaving the EU. Here are more about voting results. The term of the hard Brexit is April 12, an EU emergency summit on this issue has been appointed on April 10. The press spreads rumors that Teresa May will announce extraordinary elections - in the hope that the EU will satisfy such a plan and Brussels will provide London with a long delay.
• Türkiye. The United States refused to equip the F-35 fighters in Turkey in response to the decision of Ankara to purchase the Russian S-400 missile system. On the Sunday of the municipal elections in Turkey, the President of the President Erdogan lost in large cities, which is why it is important .
• In Algeria, a transition government is appointed . The 82-year-old President of Buteflik promises to go on a well-deserved rest until the end of April. See.

Six links

• Conversations. A wonderful interview with Elena Gracheva, administrative director of the ADVITA St. Petersburg Fund, which helps patients with cancer, and a literature teacher at the St. Petersburg classical gymnasium; Interviews about everything at once, including Lotman, Krivulin, family history, “capricious” poor people, age and end of the world. Or a conversation with the director of Phantom Press Phass Alla Steinman about how the book market was in the nineties, and about what it has become now.
• Literature. By the 210th anniversary of Gogol, the largest Russian Gogoleved Yuri Mann tells about the classics of different little-known. Or here is a major selection of poets of the New York school-translated by Jan Probstein, with his own preface and notes.
• Science, humanitarian. In what sense are human rights universal? -An excerpt from the book of the philosopher Michael Ignatiev “Human rights as a politician and as idolatry” (Publishing House of UFOs). And a fragment of an article by a revolutionary-populist, historian and publicist Alexander Prugavin-his collection was published in 1882, but was immediately arrested by censorship. The publishing house of the CHA reprinted this collection now, the fragment is dedicated to the sectarianism of the late XIX century-Molokans, Stundists, Shaloputam, Non-Wash and other interesting people.

Sincerely yours,
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