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Evening Medusa
How Navalny came to the status of the chief oppositionist of Russia. When they finally instill everyone. What happens in the isolator in Sakharovo (evidence of those who were there)
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This is the daily newsletter "Medusa" about the main news of the day. In today's issue, there are many news about courts, detentions and arrests again. But we also have a Shapito about a brave comedian who went to read out jokes about the Russian Guard himself .
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Pulse
The main thing is in the day - as short as possible
Alexei Navalny was tried again - this time for slander against the veteran. The meeting was peculiar - read the report on Medusa soon (although this is understandable in the chronicle ). Supporters of Navalny decided not to arrange protests this weekend - now in the spring and summer. And they plan to “get it out” from a conclusion by foreign policy (by the way, the new US President Joe Biden called for the release of Navalny ). The court fined Norilsk Nickel for 146 billion rubles due to fuel spill. In Moscow, 25 participants in the photo project were detained : they were dressed in the form of riot police and guarded the word “freedom”. After the entry into force of amendments against the mat on social networks, they began to swear even more .
The texts of the day
How Alexey Navalny became the chief oppositionist and political prisoners of Russia
We studied the photo archives to recall how the young Moscow activist and blogger, whom Navalny was in the middle of the zero, came to the rank of chief opposition. Through the detentions, election campaigns, criminal cases, attacks and unsuccessful poisoning. Look at these photos .
In other news about Navalny (if it continues, we will start a separate section about him!):
- After shares , 50 criminal cases have already been instituted in support of the politician.
- In Yekaterinburg, the security forces came with a search to the parents of Leonid Volkov, who heads Navalny's headquarters.
- Russia accused of participation in the shares for Navalny three European diplomats and sent them.
What happens in a crowded insulator in Sakharovo
They began to bring the detainees in Moscow to the deportation center for migrants in the village of Sakharovo, because places ended in the city specialists. The Special Corps of Medusa Maxim Solopov went there and talked with people who tried to transfer things and products to their loved ones - as well as those who have already served their term in the center. Those who brought the program had to wait several hours in the cold (caring drivers let them warm). They did not have the opportunity to go to the toilet. And one of the detainees described the conditions of detention as follows: “Just kapets is a real zone, in a bad sense of the word. A hole in the floor instead of a toilet, around it a wall is waist -deep, and a camera is directed there. ”
Last night, prisoners in Sakharovo arranged a rebellion. One of them announced a hunger strike . In Moscow, in Moscow, meanwhile, almost a thousand people were arrested. Including the SMM manager of Aviasales Roman Bordunov, who firstmanaged to slip away from the court (on Twitter Aviasales, of course, joke about it ).
Photorepector Ivan Kleimenov was beaten during the detention - and then arrested for 10 days. We talked with his wife
Ivan Kleimenov, who collaborated with Medusa, worked for the rally on January 31. When detaining it, they were beaten with a stormer shocker and legs - they broke their heads. Despite the recorded injuries, Kleimenov was arrested for 10 days. About the details of the detention, as well as what happened next,was told to us by the wife of Kleimenova Daria Trofimova .
At a court session in the case of former police officers who threw drugs to Ivan Golunov, interrogated the witness Sergei Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov-this is the same one who, on the day of the detention of Golunov, greeted one of the accused, Igor Lyakhovts in a friendly manner. Today, Kuznetsov admitted that the former district police officer asked him to “help” and to be understood by his witnesses and that the operatives paid him for this. Quite a few-one and a half or two thousand rubles. Initially, Kuznetsov claimed that at the scene of Golunov he was “accidentally”. Unfortunately, to most of the other questions the witness answered: "I do not remember."
Coronavirus
Bloomberg is trying to answer the main question: Well, when will it all end?
It is believed that the condition for returning to normal life in each individual country can be a vaccination of 75% of the population. Bloomberg made a calculator in which he took into account the current vaccination pace. If they are preserved, then the United States will need less than a year to return to a well -like life. But Canada is almost 10 years. China will squeeze three quarters of the population in seven years. Israel remains to suffer two months, Germany - a little over three years. There is no Russia in this calculator: we have little known about the pace of vaccination. There are two encouraging news. Firstly, the pace will most likely grow. And secondly, not only vaccinated, but also ill people receive immunity. In fact, all these are very rude assumptions.
Other news about coronavirus:
- From February 8, students of Moscow universities will return to study . They will unlock transport cards.
- The census of the population in Russia was postponed for the second time . Now from April to September 2021.
Podkast "What happened"
Vladimir Putin instructed the State Duma to ban the comparison of the USSR with the Third Reich. What do historians think about this?
The guest of today's issue is the German historian Leonid Lux, the author of the book “Two Persons of Totalitarism: Bolshevism and National Socialism in Comparison”. He tells what the similarities of the totalitarian regimes of the Stalinist USSR and Nazi Germany, as well as their ideologies. And also - as in Germany with the existing taboos and traumatic experience related to Nazism, historians conduct their research.
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Video of the day
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya - the heroine of the new issue "Tell Gordeeva"
One of the most striking Russian writers tells Katerina Gordeeva about female happiness and misfortune, great Russian directors and writers and what a small child who remembers life in Metropol is feeling and is suddenly forced to eat from a garbage bucket. And also recalls the time when Vladimir Putin managed to joking witty.
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