The harsh Belarusian spring

Everything you need to know early in the morning of March 29

Good morning!

Another doctor of the Omsk hospital, in which Navalny lay, died suddenly. The factory of traumatology and orthopedics Rustam Agishev was 63 years old. Earlier, 55-year-old deputy chief physician Sergei Maximishin died from a heart attack. The rest is like this:

• Members of the PMC of the Vladimir region visited Navalny in the colony: he complains about pain in his leg, but he walks.
• The mayor of Yakutsk was elected United Russia Grigoryev.
• On Saturday, during the “first protest of the Belarusian spring”, about 200 people were detained.
• The Prime Minister of Armenia is resigned so that early elections can be held in the country.

Around Navalny

On Saturday, members of the Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) of the Vladimir region visited Alexei Navalny in the colony. According to them, he complained about pain in his leg and asked to help with receiving Diclofenac injections. At the same time, he walks himself.

The Russian doctors (in the amount of 24) made Navalny medical assistance immediately; The foreign policy departments of the United States and the UK called on Russia to allow doctors to Navalny. Here, the lawyer Eldar Haroz tells about the state of prison medicine in Russia, and this story is disappointing: “Even if you discard the political moment, convicted in principle, they are extremely rarely released and, as a rule, are already released to certain death.”

On the site Free.navalny.com, where those who wish to take part in the rally for the liberation of Navalny are registered, more than 350 thousand people were noted - the organizers will announce the date when the number of participants will exceed half a million.

Cognitive : a conversation with the head of the Kurgan headquarters of Navalny Alexei Schwartz, who had been spent twice 30 days for the January rallies, about the extremely instructive prison experience and plans for the future and conversation with the father of seven children Andrei Lomov, who received two years conditionally for pushing the Rosgvardeytsy at the rally on January 23 (Lomov spent two months).

Other Russian

• The mayor of Yakutsk was chosen who was needed, namely, United Russia Evgeny Grigoryev. The vote lasted three days; Three opposition candidates who had the chances of winning were removed from the elections by a court decision.
• Former Khabarovsk Governor Sergei Furgal complains about pressure from the investigation and wants to tell about this press. This was announced by a member of the Moscow PPC Marina Litvinovich (which, meanwhile, is excluded from the PMC).
• The Ministry of Education of Russia approved a series of textbooks on Russian and universal history, edited by the former Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky (now he is an assistant to Putin and chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society). The series was presented at the Non/Fiction Book Fair. (Medinsky calls the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact “Soviet diplomatic triumph”, and the story of the Panfilovites is “a holy legend that you simply cannot touch”).
• In St. Petersburg, after serving administrative arrest for the second time, the Belarusian activist Jeanne Galeev was detained - this time for the “organization of a rally” against the cooperation of the Norwegian company Yara with Belaruskalia (in fact it was a single picket).

Who needs to change the appearance

On Saturday, during the “first protest action of the Belarusian spring”, about two hundred people were detained . In the morning, the center of Minsk was filled with security forces and military equipment, patrols and people in civilian clothes walked in the yards of microdistricts. Mass detentions did not allow people to gather for a promotion in any of the places declared in the telegram channels. Among the detainees were journalists and random passers -by. By two o’clock in the afternoon, the security forces reported that in the city “not a single unauthorized mass event was recorded”.

The authorities of Belarus are discussing amendments to the law on state protection - they must provide additional security measures to security officials and state media employees. We are talking about both physical protection and other measures up to the "legend of their data" and changes in appearance.

Two conversations with those who left Belarus : violinist of the Belarusian Opera House Alla Dzhigan and artist Vladimir Gramovich . Both plan to return.

Around the world

• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky canceled the decrees of the then President Viktor Yanukovych dating from the year 2013 on the appointment of two judges of the Constitutional Court - Alexander Tupitsky and Alexander Casminin. So he is trying to resolve the constitutional crisis, which has occurred in the fall, when the Supreme Court recognized as unconstitutional a number of anti -corruption laws.
• On Saturday, different cities of Kazakhstan, hundreds of people went to rallies against the construction of new Chinese factories in the country. The places of the shares were cordoned off by the police, there were detentions everywhere.
• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that he would resign in April. This is due to the holding of early parliamentary elections in the country.
• The Suez Canal is still closed , it has not yet been possible to return the Ever Given container line. Most likely, it will be partially unloaded, and this can drag on for weeks.
• In Myanmar during protests in one day, Saturday, more than 100 people were killed . Among the victims there are children. The heads of the General Staff of 12 countries, including the United States, Great Britain and Germany, called on the military in Myanmar to cease violence. On the day of the massacres of demonstrators in Myanmar, a military parade on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day was held. The guest was attended by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, Alexander Fomin (and accompanied him by the chief of the “Moscow Komsomolets”, chairman of the Union of Moscow journalists, prominent human rights activist Pavel Gusev). The head of the military junta, speaking at the parade, called Russia a “faithful friend”.

Chronicles of Pandemia

According to the operational headquarters on the morning of Sunday, the daily increase in the new cases of the Covid-19 in Russia amounted to 9088. The number of 4 million 250 thousand infected in the country from the beginning of the epidemic. The official number of victims reached 97,740 people by the morning of Sunday (+336 per day). About the problems of vaccination in Europe, where tough restrictions continue to operate, read here .

Six links

• Story. By the centenary of the NEP, historian Alexander Gogun is trying to understand whether he was a prologue to Stalinism. Or a selection of stories of Russian historians about the current heroization of the Chekists and attempts to confront this wave.
• Serious conversations. The interview , which Primo Levy gave Philip Company in 1986 in Turin. Or a conversation with the historian of philosophy Irina Widow - about how the first scholasticism differs from the second and why study all this at all.
• Art. The conversation of Dmitry Volchek with the corporateist Ilya Kachaev, who ran naked on Red Square a couple of weeks ago as part of the “Dream of a Funny Man” campaign. Or an interview with the American Russianman Alexandar Mikhailovich, who wrote a whole book about Mitki.
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