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Alexey Navalny declared a hunger strike in the colony. We talked with a specialist in serial criminals. Why regional PMCs do not protect the rights of prisoners

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• Alexey Navalny declared a hunger strike in the colony. Here is the full text of his statement.
• The man, who on the eve of opening at the police, refused to give up and died in a fire in his house. The security forces fired at him from grenade launchers.
• Yandex updated the logo for the first time in 13 years and changed the font for services.
• Putin held negotiations with Merkel and Macron. They asked to "maintain health" Navalny.
• Since April 1, many foreign cars rise in price in Russia.
• The Federation Council approved the law on the outcome of Putin and Medvedev and amendments to control educational activities.
• At a shipbuilding plant near St. Petersburg, a fishing trawler overturned . On board were 80 people, two were killed.

The texts of the day

We talked with the former head of the slaughter department, who conducted the affairs of many serial killers - including Andrei Chikatilo

Against the backdrop of discussions about an interview with the “Skopinsky maniac”, Viktor Mokhov, which he gave Ksenia Sobchak, and the release of the Chikatilo series Sarik Andreasyan Special Corps “Medusa” Maxim Solopov interviewed a specialist in serial criminals-70-year-old General of Justice in Yevgeny Bakin . He talked about his career, about Chikatilo’s affairs of another serial killer Sergei Golovkin, about the nature of evil, about whether it is worth interviewing the criminals - and about the attitude to the death penalty.

Members of the Vladimir PMC, by law, must protect Navalny, but in fact they call him a “simulator”. We studied who is part of the commission

The Vladimir PMC includes 19 people, and at least five of them are associated with a law enforcement system: this is either retired security officials or members of public veteran organizations. The work of one of the members of the commission - Sergey Yazhan - is connected with such an episode: in 2018 in the Vladimir Central, prisoner David Mdivanishvili lost his tongue. This happened when he was in the toilet outside the visibility zone. Yazhan met with Mdivanishvili and came to the conclusion that he "himself bit his tongue." We talk about who monitors the observance of the rights of prisoners in the Vladimir region - and why in almost all regional PMCs there are so few human rights activists .

Coronavirus

WHO published a large report on the origin of Koronavirus. In the west he was criticized

The most likely option for the occurrence of the virus is named human infection through a chain of animal carriers. This report was supposed to dispel the suspicion that the virus was created in the Chinese laboratory-but the version of the laboratory origin of SARS-COV-2 as a result dedicated one and a half pages of 120. Now the countries of the West and even the head of the WHOcriticize the Chinese authorities for concealing too much important information .

Presidential managers spent more than six billion rubles to protect Putin from coronavirus

Money was spent on observation services - that is, quarantine for those who contacted the president. In particular, members of the Russia flight air squad, Prime Minister and other senior officials, veterans who were with Putin at the Victory Parade, as well as journalists of the presidential pool, who were launched for an annual press conference. Money was also spent on the maintenance of medical workers who examined Putin and other first persons. At the same time, observation services were provided in 12 hotels and sanatoriums that belong to the Presidential Administration. That is, money simply rotated within the structures of the department .

Other news about coronavirus:

• Rosselkhoznadzor announced the registration of the world's first animal vaccines.
• Lokdown has been introduced in Kiev from April 5.
• Since April 1, Croatia resolves the entry of vaccinated - including the Sputnik V vaccine.

Podkast "What happened"

Is Russia close to the emergence of state ideology?

The Ministry of Education approved the textbook of history, edited by the former Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, and in the Federation Council on a round table (also with the participation of Medinsky), senators discussed the “mental war”, the protection of “historical truth” and in general the “information policy of the Russian Federation”. In fact, they talked about state ideology. Is this approach still working? What is ideology and how is it arranged? Explains Alexander Rubtsov, the head of the philosophical research sector of the ideological processes of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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The find of the day

The Soviet television test was laid out on Yetube on the Lord of the Rings. The recording for many years was considered lost

The television test on the first of the three parts of the trilogy was removed at the Leningrad Television studio in 1991. The production is based on the translation of the “Lord of the Rings” by Vladimir Muravyov and Andrei Kistyakovsky (in it the baggins are called Torbins). Songs for the performance were written by a member of the Aquarium group Andrei "Dyusha" Romanov. He acted as a narrator. According to the publication "The World of Fantasy", the television peppect was shown on the air only once. Tolkien's fans were looking for him for many years.

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