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Navalny continues to be tried for "slandering a veteran." What changed the "Night of the Long Buckets". Lavrov announced his readiness to break relations with the EU

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The main thing for the day - as short as possible

Today, continued the trial of Alexei Navalny in the case of "slandering a veteran" . The meeting turned out to be no less absurd than a week ago. We will have a report coming soon. In Vladikavkaz, an explosion occurred at the Magnit supermarket. There were no casualties, the guard was injured. Sergei Lavrov said that Russia is ready to break with the European Union . Later, the Foreign Ministry clarified: if the initiator is the EU. The editor-in-chief of Mediazona, Sergei Smirnov, had high blood pressure due to the heat in his cell. Roskomnadzor demanded that we remove the article about the authorities' reaction to the February 14 rally. For three days in Moscow, were stolen about 250 million rubles from bank cells. Rosreestr classified the wife of the alleged poisoner Navalny in property documents. has died . Jazz pianist Chick Corea

Texts of the day

A 14-year-old schoolgirl from St. Petersburg spoke about the teacher's harassment. She was believed only after she filmed the molestation on video

The girl told about the harassment by the 62-year-old OBZh teacher to the class teacher, the school principal and her mother. Her words have been called fantasies . Soon, a video appeared on social networks with a teacher molesting a schoolgirl. When it got to the school management, the OBZh teacher wrote a letter of resignation of his own free will. He claimed that the recording was misunderstood. On the evening of February 11, the Investigative Committee officially announced that it had opened a criminal case. Another four schoolgirls spoke about harassment by a life safety teacher.

A former Russian investigator was caught in Northern Cyprus for four days. He served time for a series of rapes, and then he was put on the wanted list again

Alexander Satlaev until 2013 worked as an investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. After being accused of rape, he was fired, and in 2015 he received six years in prison - on charges of four rapes and seven episodes of attempted rape. In March 2019, he was released on parole, and in August he was again put on the wanted list on suspicion of rape. Satlaev managed to escape to Northern Cyprus, where he was detained in 2019 on suspicion of assaulting a woman. He received four years in prison and was able to escape on 8 February. In search of Satlayev, all the forces of the local police, special forces, drones, as well as helicopters and service dogs were raised. He managed to hide for four days .

In New York, a Russian woman who posed as a wealthy heiress was released. The film rights to her story were bought by Netflix.

30-year-old Anna Sorokina (she introduced herself as Anna Delvey) was convicted in 2019 of embezzling about $200,000. She was supposed to spend at least four years in prison, but she was released early for good behavior . Sorokina paid $199,000 in compensation to the victims and $24,000 in fines. She got the money after Netflix paid her $320,000 for the right to make a series based on her story. Sorokina led a secular life in New York for several years: she lived in hotels and ate in restaurants on credit, borrowed money from her wealthy acquaintances.

The coronavirus

Udmurtia was the first in Russia to abolish the mandatory wearing of masks - but then changed its mind

We looked at how the Russian media wrote about the attempt of the first region of the country to abandon masks. The result was a chain of headlines ranging from "With an open visor" to "Don't relax."

Other news about coronavirus:

• Kazakhstan has approved the Russian vaccine Sputnik V.
• The Council of the European Union has decided how exactly 672 billion euros will be distributed for economic recovery.
• The US has signed a contract to supply another 200 million doses of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. The country now has enough supplies to vaccinate 300 million people by the end of July, Joe Biden said.

Podcast "What Happened"

Five years ago, the "Night of Long Buckets" took place in Moscow. What did she change?

On the night of February 9, 2016, the city authorities, under the pretext of fighting unauthorized construction, demolished 97 stalls, mostly near metro stations. For officials, these events have become the ideal that an effective technocratic manager should follow. City activists and Muscovites rather condemned such actions. We talked about the long-term consequences of the most striking example of authoritarian improvement of the environment with the head of the HSE Graduate School of Urban Studies, Kirill Puzanov, and the head of the Center for Urban Anthropology at Strelka, Mikhail Alekseevsky.

Listen to What Happened on Meduza . And subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Music and other podcast services.

Quote of the Day

How was today's trial of Navalny

This is a fragment of the dialogue between Alexei Navalny and Igor Kolesnikov - the grandson of veteran Ignat Artemenko - after the judge announced a break.

Kolesnikov: "Can I be free?"

Navalny: "No, you can't."

Kolesnikov: "You can't."

Both are screaming.

(We, too)

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