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It was worth the Czech authorities to partially relieve quarantine, anti -government demonstrations were held in Prague and Brno - in masks and distance. Whether the Russian Communists will be able to arrange May Day demonstrations in the conditions of self -isolation, you will find out on Monday May 4, when you get the next mailing - at May Day 7:40 will rest from coronavirus.

• The number of infected in Russia approached one hundred thousand, the number of victims of the epidemic exceeded a thousand.
• Amnesty International writes that the authorities of Russia, Azerbaijan and Central Asia are resorting to repressions against the backdrop of the fight against the epidemic.
• Rosneft is going to invest up to a billion dollars in the “study of the Russians genome” under the leadership of Putin's eldest daughter. True, the company says that this is not true.
• Today an online saammit will be held in the Norman format. They will remotely resolve the conflict in the Donbass.
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The Kremlin timidly hopes

According to Wednesday morning, the daily increase in new cases of the Covid-19 in Russia amounted to 5841 (a little less than days earlier), 972 people died of all the sick. In Moscow, 65 people died on Wednesday.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reports on 1044 infected in the army, among the victims of coronavirus- a 34-year-old FSO officer (there are about 20 cases of infection, but no one is eager to test all-they check only those who work in Novo-Ogarev where Putin sits). The project “Project” writes that the Covid-19 was illuminated by Kiriyenko himself, but these are rumors-as well as the fact that the Kremlin is very unhappy with the anticoronaviral activity of the Moscow mayor.

Putin’s spokeswoman said that they were “timidly hoping” that we went “on the long-awaited plateau”-however, the Governor of the Moscow Region said the same thing , the regions were again ahead of the Kremlin.

Patriarch Kirill forbade the service of Protodiacon Andrei Kuraev for criticizing the abbot of the Elokhov Cathedral in Moscow, which died of coronavirus. In fact, in the Russian Orthodox Church in connection with the epidemic-the same throwing as in Novo-Ogarev: here is a policy of prohibitions and tells about outbreaks of infection in church institutions. Covid-19 fell ill with the Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev-he himself told about this on his “Tsargrad-TV”.

Outbreaks of the epidemic continue to occur in closed institutions - for example, in the house of the disabled in Syzran .

Repressive measures

Amnesty International notes in his coronaviral report that the fight against the epidemic in Russia, Azerbaijan and Central Asia has the nature of repression. Blocking by Roskomnadzor Vademecum for an article on the procedure for paying for the treatment of coronavirus patients in Moscow from the compulsory medical insurance fund is a good example: the fact that the article is written truth was confirmed in the FMF. Here is a conversation with the chief editor of the site (they are preparing claims for the RKN and the Prosecutor General). The court in St. Petersburg rejected the collective lawsuit against the city’s authorities about the illegality of the restrictions introduced, the verdict will be appealed.

They want to introduce a sentence of 5 thousand rubles for driving without passing after Moscow throughout Russia, although there are plenty of fines: in Nizhny Novgorod, for example, people who took a round dance in the forest are fined . In Yakutia, the prosecutor's office began to deal with the offices of the shift workers in the Chayandinsky field - this is a good report from there. In Ufa, the police detained the relatives of the cancer patients who went to the picket because they refused the operation. The epidemic is a huge problem for those who are sick with cancer, they, in fact, leave them to die at home .

Against this background, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee reports that three militants were “eliminated in Yekaterinburg” (before such lapidar messages using such vocabulary were made only in relation to the North Caucasus), the Ministry of Internal Affairs is making access to banking secrets, and in the Nizhny Novgorod region they are released from house arrests accused of torture (although homemade arrest is now few What is different from freedom).

But there are also religions: the Russian government allowed Russians with dual citizenship or a residence permit in another country to go to the country of residence (but only once and only by car), foreigners are still prohibited from entering Russia. In Moscow, it was forbidden to disconnect light, water and other Housing and communal services due to debt.

Big people

• The Russian BBC service said that Rosneft is going to invest up to a billion dollars in the Center for Genetic Research, which will study the “Russians Gene” under the guidance of the alleged eldest daughter Putin. This center should be located next to the "Valley of Moscow State University", which is overseeated by the alleged youngest daughter of Putin. After the publication of the material, Rosneft announced that she would sue the BBC for “refuting false information, recognition of information inaccurate and compensation for damage to the reputation” of the company (as if investments in genetics are something bad).
• The sale transaction of the newspaper "Vedomosti"has been postponed . It may turn out that the newspaper threatens bankruptcy and the transition to the Kremlin control.
• The story of the forest arson by Irkutsk officials turned out to be a disassembly of the Ust-Kut Vorotny Elites . (So you can get to trouble, because the forest is on, here is a report from Transbaikalia, where the inhabitants are desperately dug and no volunteers against the backdrop of the epidemic can help them).
• And the most mysterious news from the highest areas: the Ministry of Defense is going to deprive the generals of the Karakule caps. Why and why, no one knows.

World coronavirus chronicles

The total number of COVID-19 cases in the world has exceeded 3 million 200 thousand, over the past day more than 10 thousand people died-this is twice as much as days earlier. In part, such a leap is explained by the fact that the UK included in statistics 3654 previously not taken into account the person who died from the beginning of the pandemic outside hospitals (for example, at home or in nursing homes). Thus, Great Britain was in second place in Europe in terms of the number of victims of the Covid-19-26,097 people, more-only in Italy.

The UN International Labor Organization claims that about half of all employees in the world may remain without existence due to pandemia. The US economy in the first quarter decreased for the first time in six years. In Ukraine, salaries were limited to the heads of state -owned companies, but the business suffers - the government building has a clash between the police and entrepreneurs who demanded the removal of quarantine.

Quarantine measures are gradually weakened in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan ; In Tajikistan, hospitals are full of patients with pneumonia, but coronavirus is still not officially there (although some restrictions are introduced). In Belarus, no one is dying from coronavirus- this is a report from there.

The American Gilead Sciences announced the promising results of the clinical tests of Remesivir - the first specific medicine for coronavirus. Oxford University and WHO conduct their tests .

Large expectations are associated with such medical news - but there are almost no expectations from the video conference of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France on the situation in the Donbass, which will take place today. And a couple of months ago it would be the main news.

Eight links

• Heroes of the outgoing era. A big conversation with Andrei Makarevich, who interrupted the anniversary tour to the 50th anniversary of the creation of the “Time Machine” due to the epidemic. Or the Bayopic of the chief edges of the “Echo of Moscow” by Alexei Venediktov, can be published in ZhZL (if the epidemic does not finish the publisher).
• Epidemics. (1) The answers of Russian publishers and booksakers about the scale of the crisis, which comprehended (and still comprehend) the book industry in connection with coronavirus. And without books it would not be recognized (2) the history of the plague and (3) not to admire the ancient masks , which were protected not from coronavirus.
• Holocaust. (1) a conversation with the Polish historian Dariuse a table about the attitude of the Poles towards the Holocaust; (2) The story of Helmut Oberlander-the first accused of war crimes, which Russia wants to achieve (the implements, the Soviet German, worked with the Nazis as a translator-the Russian authorities want to prove his involvement in the murders of Jews in the Zmievsky beam of Rostov-on-Don, in the mines and in the Morozovsky district of the Rostov region; (3) the interview of Sergey Lesodnitsa about The film, on which he worked before quarantine is about the execution of Jews in Babi Yar in Kyiv.

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