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The action in support of Navalny at the colony ended with detentions. Why Russia is building up troops on the border with Ukraine. The connection between the Astrazeneca vaccine and the formation of blood clots is “obvious”

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Pulse

The main thing is by points

• Major workers and activists held an action at the colony in Pokrov, where Alexei Navalny sits. The police detained nine people. Navalny himself on the eve of the colony was transferred to the medical unit. There is no doctor, there is only a paramedic.
• Andrey Konchalovsky asked to make his film "Dear Comrades!" with the Bely Elephant Prize. They want to reward Navalny and his associates.
• The former prisoner of the "Skopinsky maniac" Ekaterina Martynova received state protection.
• Human rights activist Marina Litvinovich was excluded from the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission.
• The ideological inspirer of the euro, economist Robert Mandell and actor Paul Ritter , who played Anatoly Dyatlov in Chernobyl, died.

The texts of the day

How was the action in Pokrov? Speaks Special Corps "Medusa" Andrei Peretsev

Representatives of the medical workers' Alliance of Doctors (recognized in Russia by a foreign agent), its chairman Anastasia Vasilieva, activists and journalists came to the colony. Vasilieva was going to meet with the head of the colony, Alexander Mukhanov, to whom she signed up in advance, but the FSIN employees did not let her in. Mukhanov, as it turned out later, was on vacation. Then Vasilieva tried to get an appointment with the deputy chief of the colony Sergei Raraev - but he was not the deputy chief of the colony, but by the deputy head of Vladimir FSIN and led in another place. FSIN employees did not even accept Vasilyeva’s letter. She was about to go to the post office, as the car rose and the detention began . Among the detainees were journalists - in particular, the crew of the CNN channel.

Russia considers China an ally in a new cold war with the West. But this is not mutual

The rhetoric of the Cold War is addressed not only in Russia, but also in the West. So far, Russia is being blamed for foreign partners in preparing an opposition to swing a boat, in the West they accuse the Russian authorities of attack on the institutes of Western society. But all this is nothing more than nostalgia for the past bipolar confrontation of the United States and the USSR. And the new Cold War, if it began, does not go between liberalism and authoritarianism, but between those who were once a colonialist, and those who were their colonies. Therefore, Russia, as a former-colonizer, and China, as one of the most affected by the imperialism of countries, is unlikely to be on one side .

Russia is building up troops on the border with Ukraine. We asked experts what will happen next - and received anxious answers

Retired military observer and retired colonel believes that Russia cannot allow Donbass - because "Crimea may become the next issue." But the armed confrontation with Ukraine, which is supported by the West, is also not an option. "So bad and that bad." Political scientist Andrei Kortunov compares the situation with the outbreak of the First World War: “An unintentional escalation may occur. As what happened in 1914 in Europe, when no one wanted to start war, but the logic of events led to the fact that it began and lasted longer than any of the participants could have imagined. ” These are non -proper forecasts .

Coronavirus

Today - only short news about pandemia:

• One of the leaders of the European Agency for Medicines announced the “obvious” relationship between the Astrazeneca vaccine and the formation of blood clots. What exactly causes such a reaction is still unknown.
• French ministers were suspected of visiting secret parties, where they did not wear masks and exchanged kisses at the meeting.
• Sports commentator Vladimir Gendlin died . In March, he suffered a heart attack, and after discharge from the hospital he fell ill with coronavirus.

Podkast "What happened"

Blogger Tumso Abdurahmanov criticizes Ramzan Kadyrov. He had to flee to Europe, and a year ago he survived the attempt

In 2015, Abdurakhmanov accidentally ran into relatives of the head of Chechnya on the road in Grozny. After the conflict, people from Kadyrov’s entourage abducted him, and the blogger was forced to leave Russia due to threats. Now Abdurakhmanov lives in Sweden, he has more than 300 thousand subscribers in Yetube. Ramzan Kadyrov’s criticism of Ramzan Kadyrov is released on the channel. Last February, an assassination attempt was made on Abdurakhmanov, the responsibility for which the blogger laid on the head of Chechnya. We talked with Tumso Abdurahmanov.

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Announcement of the day

We launch a new Yetuub show about culture-"Radio Dolin"

As you guessed, Anton Dolin will lead him - a film critic and a great master to explain everything in the world . Especially to the launch of the show, we decided to resume the tradition and again collect readers' questions . The last time they were sent more than two thousand! You can ask at all about anything: at least about persimmon, even about the bonfires of Ryabin. You will hear answers and explanations in our new show - in a special section, “Anton Dolin explains”.

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