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We talked with the prisoner of the "Skopin maniac". Russia has launched the first 5G network to which you can connect. Moscow finally cancels mandatory quarantine for the elderly

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - as short as possible

"Skopin maniac" Viktor Mokhov returned home after serving 17 years in a colony. The first real term due to the winter protests was received by a resident of the Vladimir region: three years for an attack on a security official. MTS announced the launch of the first 5G network in Russia, to which subscribers will be able to connect. Prigozhin sued Alexei Navalny for 500 thousand rubles in a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity. One in five Russians named Navalny's trial and protests as the most memorable events of January and February. The social network Odnoklassniki was fined four million rubles for refusing to remove calls for participation in the action for Navalny. In Kuzbass, guardianship authorities took away a one-year-old daughter with a disability from her mother. soon after The girl died . The main prize at the Berlinale was given to the Romanian film Inappropriate Fuck, or Crazy Porn.

Texts of the day

We talked with Ekaterina Martynova, who spent 1312 days in captivity at the “Skopin maniac”

In September 2000, two girls disappeared in the center of Ryazan - 14-year-old Ekaterina Martynova and 17-year-old Elena Samokhina. They were kidnapped and put in an underground bunker by 50-year-old Viktor Mokhov. He raped the girls for all three years and seven months that they spent in captivity. The hostages were released only in May 2004. We spoke with Ekaterina Martynova about how she managed to survive these events and what she thinks about the recent release of Viktor Mokhov

The editor-in-chief of "Baza" spoke about how their employee was detained and interrogated

The producer of "Baza" Myaila Maciulite was detained on February 27 in St. Petersburg. She was interrogated for seven consecutive hours without a lawyer being allowed to see her. Maciulite worked on the story of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Later it turned out that Maciulite's phone was hacked: during interrogation, the girl was shown her correspondence with sources among the security forces. They took a non-disclosure agreement from the journalist. The editor-in-chief of the publication, Nikita Mogutin, connects the interrogation with the criminal case of "abuse of authority" against a policeman who helped with the "breakthrough" of fellow travelers (and possible poisoners) of Navalny.

Is a cold war possible in the modern world?

75 years ago Winston Churchill delivered the Fulton Address. It is considered to be the beginning of the Cold War between the USSR and the USA for a dominant position in the world. The conflict seems to have ended with the collapse of the USSR, but after a short break, relations between Russia and America again found themselves in a crisis, which is increasingly being called the “new cold war”. We asked historians, political scientists and sociologists whether the world is really returning to the times of ideological confrontation, the arms race and the Iron Curtain.

The coronavirus

Mandatory quarantine for the elderly will be lifted in Moscow from March 8

From Monday, the self-isolation regime for people over 65 and those with chronic diseases will be advisory, not mandatory. will also be unlocked . The social cards of people who were subject to restrictions

Other news about coronavirus:

• According to Rosstat, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in Russia exceeded 200 thousand people
• Italy has blocked the export of 250,000 doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine to Australia due to a shortage in the European Union.
• Confidence in vaccines in developed countries is growing, and fears due to side effects are decreasing . The situation in Russia is worse .
• From March 25, the Seychelles will open borders for Russians . You will need to bring a negative PCR test result with you within 72 hours prior to arrival.
• The vaccine "EpiVakKorona" of the Novosibirsk center "Vector" was allowed to be used for people over 60 years old.

Podcast "What Happened"

Denis Karagodin is investigating the death of his repressed great-grandfather. Now the police are checking him - according to the statement of the son of an NKVD officer

Karagodin has been investigating for many years. He wants to achieve legal recognition as criminals of all participants in the execution of his great-grandfather (up to Joseph Stalin). Recently, the son of an NKVD officer, who, according to Karagodin, participated in the execution of his great-grandfather, filed a lawsuit against the activist. In this episode of the podcast, Denis Karagodin tells how he feels about the complaint and the interrogation that followed. And also why he considers what is happening to be part of an attack on his Karagodin Investigation project.

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thaw of the day

Snowman rallies legal

At the end of January, in the village of Zachachie in the Arkhangelsk region, snowmen went to an uncoordinated protest action with posters “Down with the tsar”, “This is our country!!!”, “Peace to huts, war to palaces” and the like. The police dispersed the action as brutally as possible: they literally destroyed its participants and took away the posters. But in the end, the police of the Arkhangelsk region did not find anything illegal in the actions of the snowmen and did not initiate proceedings against the organizer of the action, activist Elena Kalinina. “The snowmen are justified. I'm happy for them!" — wrote Kalinina.

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