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Everything you need to know early in the morning of February 5

Good morning!

Putin updated the list of effectiveness criteria for governors - there are as much as 20 of them, but in the first place is “trust in power”. It is created something like this:

• The temporary detention center for foreign citizens in the village of Sakharovo, where they are taken administratively arrested for participating in Moscow rallies, is overflowing.
• The head of the headquarters of Navalny Leonid Volkov announced that in the near future there would be no shares for the release of Navalny, but in Kazan they had already agreed on a rally “against detentions and repressions”.
• Today, Navalny will be judged by the slander of the veteran from the RT campaign roller.
• In Minsk, the consideration of the case “Belgazprombank” began, but without Victor Babariko.

Ugly Sakharovo

In the center of temporary detention of foreign citizens in the village of Sakharovo, about 50 km from Moscow on Thursday there was a many -hour line of buses, in which they were brought sentenced to administrative arrest. Drivers are jamming engines for the sake of saving fuel, it is cold in buses, hungry people, friends and relatives cannot find their loved ones. To pass food, huge lines are being built, but many still do not have time. There are several conversations with stood in such lines, but the story of the girl freed on Thursday. Here are photographs of the insides of this very tsVSIG.

The Moscow Ombudsman Tatyana Posheaeva said that all this was not true, and at the Ministry of Internal Affairs these photos were called “biased”, because, they say, they were not serving administrative arrest, but only delivered to serving administrative arrest. And this, of course, changes the matter.

According to the member of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission (PMC), Marina Litvinovich, now 812 people are contained in the Sugar, and they gradually place everyone in schools, and the programs began to be accepted until the evening so that everyone had time. The ONK Secretary Alexei Melnikov explained that the detainees are not tortured on purpose, but because the process of registration is very long. The press secretary of Putin Peskov, commenting on all this, said that there were no repressions, and mass detentions were “provoked” by mass shares.

In St. Petersburg, the conditions are no better- these are the stories about the basements in which something measuredly is dripping from the ceiling, and funny policemen, who answer the request to eat: “Navalny feeds you”.

Oleg Kozlovsky from Amnesty International says that inhuman conditions of detention should be complained. The Russian courts will not satisfy these complaints, but the ECHR will make an justice decision, there is already such experience.

For those who have never encountered a Russian penitentiary system, a video clarification about how it is arranged. It is useful to familiarize yourself: according to Reuters sources , the Kremlin “Belarusian Scenario” of total terror is considered effective, and what we see now is only a warm -up.

More about detention and criminalism

Despite the fact that the system of punishments is clearly overloaded, they have not yet been lowered on the brakes: in Moscow they caught a man who left the court’s meeting three days ago, because the police forgot to draw up documents for him. The Timiryazevsky court of Moscow arrested the Frenchman for 7 days and fined 15 thousand Syrian (he asked the policeman, where the Okhotny Ryad metro station was located). In Rostov-on-Don for five days, a school teacher was arrested for five days, already fired from everywhere for participation in the action, and in the apartment of his ex-wife a search was held ( here is an interview that he managed to give before the arrest). The Saratov rapper, which recorded the track “Aquadiscot”, was fined 10 thousand rubles - he danced in the square under his track ( this is the conversation with him , taking place even before the fine).

Criminal cases initiated in connection with shares in support of Navalny, already 50 . The Moscow “sanitary business” feels great: the accusations were brought by Lyubov Sobol, after that the police once again burst into her apartment. As a reaction, the Public Verdict human rights organization requires a criminal case under the same article against police officers, since they do not provide a social distance for detainees, do not give them masks and gloves and do not provide opportunities for disinfection of hands.

This statement has zero prospects, but Senator Alexei Pushkov’s proposal to block social networks for calls for “illegal actions” is likely to success. Even the Rector of the Higher School of Enterprise complains of “threats and insults” from Navalny’s supporters, although he promises to defend the “apolitics” of his “brand”.

Voices from the opposite side are small: the Union of Journalists requires the validity of the arrest of the chief editor of the “Mediazons” ( here a member of the Human Rights Council under Putin Ivan Zasursky recalls that “journalists have rights”). Independent associations of musical and theatrical critics, as well as St. Petersburg urbanists and architects , were demanding to stop violence. Kazan authorities agreed on the opposition rally “Against the detentions and repressions and changes in the elected legislation in the State Duma” (the declared number is 200 people, and they will have to stand one and a half meters from each other).

Hi, this is Navalny

The first message of Alexei Navalny was published from sailor silence: “Of course, I heard this phrase many times:“ It is impossible to deprive the one who is free inside. ”And now I honestly ask myself:“ Well, how does it work? ”Believe me, it works.”

Today, Navalny can again be seen in court. At a visiting meeting in the Grandmother's Court, the justice of the peace will consider a lawsuit about slander for a veteran. In June, commenting on the RT video in support of the “popular approval” of the corrected constitution with Putin’s stunned terms, Navalny called the heroes of this video “sales Kholui”, and among them there was a veteran. The maximum possible punishment under this article is up to two years. In any case, the list of this “slander” aroused against Navalny’s affairs is not exhausted, and the hell continues around it: in Omsk at the age of 55, the deputy head physician of the hospital, where they treated Navalny, died suddenly . According to the head of the regional headquarters of Navalny Leonid Volkov, this doctor knew about Alexei's condition the most.

Volkov himself announced that until the spring of mass street shares in support of Navalny, it would not turn into total terror, and the headquarters should concentrate in the September elections to the State Duma. He is going to get Navalny from prison by foreign policy.

There is international support: immediately released Navalny was called by US President Joe Biden. Obviously, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrel, will also be required to be required, although the question of the fighter with Navalny will be held, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova answered : “Let them agree.”

Other Russian

• In Rostov-on-Don, the prosecutor requested five years in a colony for the activist of Open Russia Anastasia Shevchenko in the case of the activities of an “unwanted” organization. She has been sitting under house arrest since January 2019, during which time her daughter with disabilities died. The verdict will be next week.
• The chairman of the All -Tatar Public Center Farit Zakiev announced a hunger strike in response to the prosecutor's demand to recognize the organization of an extremist and close it.
• After stopping the NNK-Khabarovsk Oil Refinery, the planned modernization of compressor equipment in the Far East, fuel collapse occurred : there are huge lines, gasoline, which is not resold, drivers trade places in the queues. On the street –40 °.
• “Russian LGBT -network” said that two natives of Chechnya that this organization helped was detained in Nizhny Novgorod and taken to Gudermes.
• Additional literature: Interesting material about the “confessor of Putin” Tikhone Shevkunov-he is going to build a “underground temple”, along which the “underground river” will flow next to the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery.

Ukraine and Belarus

In Ukraine, the main theme is the closure of the television channels "112 Ukraine", Newsone and Zik, declared by the Rupor of Russian Propaganda. Here, an interview with the chairman of the “Servant of the People” party Alexander Kornienko, in which he explains this step, and here why this is not censorship, explains the lawyer, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada and Minister of Culture of Ukraine.

In Belarus, the topic is also the same - new sentences, new certificates of repressions:

• The Minsk resident received three years in a colony for several strokes on the traffic police.
• A resident of Vitebsk was given three years for spraying a spray can in police officers (the piquancy was that the police who captured him were in civilian clothes).
• A criminal case has been opened against the director of the “Office of the Rights of the Disabled” and the lawyer of this organization. They are accused of "taking possession of donations." The lawyer is still sitting on the surroundings, the director was sent under house arrest.
• The BYPOL initiative was at the disposal of the document in which the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus asks the country's security council to influence the courts of the Minsk region so that they would appoint more arrests and fewer fines.
• In Minsk, in conditions of increased security, the process of Belgazprombank began , which the former presidential candidate Viktor Babariko is accused. While the court is considering the cases of the arrested colleagues Babariko, who fully pleaded guilty. Babariko himself, who denies guilt, has not yet been taken to court.
• Against this background, the former Prime Minister of Belarus Sergey Rumas, dismissed in June 2020, disappeared somewhere . According to one version, he was imprisoned, according to the other - he left the country. Political scientist Igor Tyshkevich is sure that Rumas can be considered in the Kremlin as a person who can lead Belarus after Lukashenko.

Chronicles of Pandemia

According to Thursday morning, the daily increase in new Covid-19 cases in Russia has increased slightly -to 16,714. The number of 3 million 918 thousand infected in the country from the beginning of the epidemic. The official number of victims reached on Thursday morning 75 205 people (+521 per day).

The “satellite V” began to be sent to Iran, and the European Union allowed his diplomat in Moscow to get involved in the Russian vaccine, if they have such a desire. In Europe, there are not enough vaccines, the head of the European Commission Ursula von Layen admitted that the EU underestimated the difficulties with supplies. The restrictions introduced almost throughout Europe do not yet give special results.

Six links

• Scientific biographies. A conversation with Sumerologist Vladimir Emelyanov about the formation in the profession. Or a story about the fate of Soviet scientists, a wisdom, to one of which the Nobel Committee could not get through to.
• Hermann. The publishing house “Session” published a large book about director Alexei German. Here, Yuri Saprykin tells about her, but the preface of Lyubov Arcus.
• Death. An excerpt from the book of Maria Kundozerova “The Concept of the Universe in the Karelian Runs” (Publishing House of Belokolskie)-about the structure of the Karelian kingdom of the dead. Or the explanation of the subtle difference between euthanasia and terminal sedation from the book of the American doctor Heider Varraich “Modern Death. How Medicine changed the departure from life” (Publishing House of Alpina Non-Fixes).
• You will always find more interesting texts and reports in the present tense Telegram channel , which is specifically instructed for Longrids.

Sincerely yours,
Seven forty