Putin consolidates goals

Everything you need to know early in the morning of July 14

Good morning!

Today, the CEC of Belarus will consider the issue of registering candidates to participate in the presidential election scheduled for August 9. From the beginning of the campaign, more than 700 people have been detained in the country, two of the potential candidates are under arrest, the police catches even cyclists - more than details of repression are described here . But there is no news:

• In the Khabarovsk Territory, shares continued in support of the arrested governor of Furgal. Deputy Prime Minister Trutnev came to the region.
• Ivan Safronov was officially charged with the Stateizer, but there was nothing new in this text. At Safronov’s promotions, 18 journalists were detained.
• WHO calls for compliance with the elementary rules for protection against coronavirus, because the pandemic does not go to the decline.
• Andrzej Duda was re -elected by the President of Poland.

Ivan Safronov and journalists

FSB investigators presented the journalist and adviser to the head of Roscosmos Ivan Safronov by the official accusation of the state treason, but the essence of the accusation from this document did not become clear: it was only a statement that Safronov used the Veraacrypt program to encrypt his messages (according to the investigation, in 2017 he transmitted some secret information to one of the special services Czech Republic). Safronov does not plead guilty, the accusations are incomprehensible to him; Here is a conversation with one of his lawyers, Ivan Pavlov.

Safronov connects persecution with his journalistic activity. Here is a curious conversation with the former head of the Czech Military Intelligence Andor Sandor: he considers the case against the Russian Safronov response to a series of recent Russian-Chesh diplomatic scandals (the logic is quite Kremlin: they scandalized the heads of Prague municipalities, and the Moscow journalist will be sitting).

An independent trade union of journalists and media workers published an open letter in support of Safronov. On the bridge at the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center, which contains Ivan, a banner was hung with a demand for its release. Safronov’s colleagues gathered at the pre -trial detention center, 18 people detained - even those who did not have any posters, but only T -shirt with the inscription “Freedom Safronov” were taken away. All detainees were released from the ATS to come to the drawing of the protocol. The statement in support of Safronov was made by Yuri Dud. Ksenia Sobchak inserted a video of her detention on the rally on July 7 in support of Safronova in advertising from a online service. Such times now.

Even in the spirit of the times: the police tried to conduct a new search in the Open Russia office (the previous one was four days ago), the chief editor of MBH Media Sergey Prostakov resigned after accusations of harassment. There are few searches, we still need harassment.

Journalist Plyushchev was fined 10 thousand rubles for a single picket in support of the journalist Azar, the press secretary of the Independent Trade Union “The Alliance of Doctors” was detained and sent to the army one day.

A symbol of political subjectivity

In Khabarovsk, on Monday, actions continued in support of the arrested governor Sergei Furgal - several hundred people gathered in the central square. Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev came to the region: he admitted the right of Khabarovsk to an expression of his opinion, but at the same time added that not all voted for the van could know the details of his biography.

Political scientist Abbas Galyamov explains that the biography of the van is worried about few - his arrest became the reason for expressing Moscow discontent and upholding his “political subjectivity”. The head of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation Mikhail Vinogradov believes that the Kremlin will try to lower protests on the brakes in the hope that it will resolve.

The LDPR, the native party of Furgal, has already seemed to come to terms with its upcoming resignation and offers its candidates for the post of Acting Governor.

Meanwhile, the epidemic

According to official figures on Monday morning, 6537 new Covid-19 cases were identified in Russia (there were about the same day a day earlier). 104 people died per day, the total number of victims of the epidemic was 11,439 on Monday morning, another 37 people died in Moscow. The total number of epidemics infected over the entire period exceeded 733 thousand.

The Moscow Department of Health named its mortality rate: in June, the Covid-19 became the main or related cause of death 3408 Muscovites. This is less than in May. In St. Petersburg, the daily increase in new cases has not dropped for at least two months - Governor Beglov explains this to the “carelessness” of the townspeople.

In fact, the head of the WHO says the same, urging all countries of the world to observe elementary precautions. The daily increase in new cases of the disease around the world again beats records , more than half of them fall on the USA, Brazil and India. The Governor of California returned part of the restrictions: bars and restaurants are closed in the state, in some districts - shopping centers and churches.

The effects of tough limit measures were extended for two weeks and in Kazakhstan, in Turkmenistan they introduced mandatory wearing masks.

In Russia, from July 15, a mandatory two -week isolation is canceled for those entering the country, but there will be a test for coronavirus. Head of the National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Gamalei Alexander Ginzburg promises that already in August the vaccine developed in this center will begin to be used in medical institutions. Here, scientific journalist Irina Yakutenko explains how this vaccine works (only video, there is no text).

Features of Russian farming

• In the Khabarovsk Territory, oil products fell into the lake of naked. The volume of the leak is clarified by investigators.
• In the Amur Region, the workers of one of the Gazprom facilities arranged a pogrom due to non-payment of salaries. The rebels dispersed the riot police, some were detained, a criminal case of riots was instituted.
• The emergency mode was introduced in Taimyr due to a spill of aviation fuel. The penalty paid by Norkelm as a compensation for environmental damage for the previous spill will be taken to the federal budget. The shares of Norilsk Nickel are falling , the richest person in Russia Vladimir Potanin is rapidly poor.
• In Moscow, migrant janitors were a third for a third. They quit.

Around the world

• Presidential elections in Poland were still won by the current president Andrzej Duda. According to official figures, he scored 51.21% against 48.79% from his opponent, the liberal mayor of Warsaw Rafal Tshaskovsky. The turnout exceeded 68%. There is a good analysis of the presidential campaign and the consequences of these elections.
• In Kyrgyzstan, parliamentary elections are scheduled for October 4. Citizens requiring their transfer due to pandemia are delayed by the police.
• And only Putin does not care at all: he instructed his administration to prepare draft decrees “to consolidate the goals of national development until 2030”. It is not clear why not until 2036.

Six links

• Soviet. A conversation with critic Natalya Ivanova and poet Lev Rubinstein about the structure of the official and unofficial literary life of the era of stagnation (as it is seen from Moscow, of course).
• Writers on the letter S. The story of Sholokhov’s perception in the Russian emigrant environment. Or reasoning about the poetry of Varlam Shalamov to the release of the two -volume of his poems and poems.
• Music. (1) A fragment from the book of Peter Dayan “Painting as music, music as poetry, poetry as a painting: Essays on the interlocal aesthetics from Wistler to Stravinsky and further” (Publishing House of N.I. Novikova) dedicated to Stravinsky’s opera “King Edip”. (2) A conversation with art forces Marina Raku about the history of the assignment of musical classics with new political regimes (as Beethoven was appointed the chief revolutionary composer in the USSR). (3) The history of the USSR in ten songs of Matvey Blanger, with the comments of Denis Boyarinov.
• You will always find more interesting texts and reports in the present tense Telegram channel , which is specifically instructed for Longrids.

Sincerely yours,
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