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So many Russian troops have not been on the border with Ukraine since 2015. Alexei Navalny was found to have two hernias. Who controls the Moscow PMC, from where Marina Litvinovich was expelled

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Pulse

The main thing - point by point

• Alexei Navalny was found to have two hernias. Lawyer Olga Mikhailova spoke about the further deterioration of his condition.
• Public figures and cultural figures demanded that a doctor be allowed to see Navalny.
• Conflict Intelligence Team: The concentration of Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine is the highest since 2015 .
• The distributor of Zoom said that the company banned selling access to the service to Russian government agencies. In Zoom itself, "they are clarifying this information."
• Vladimir Putin's supervisor, Vladimir Litvinenko, has become a dollar billionaire.
• Putin's adviser Valentin Yumashev and his wife found a villa on a Caribbean island for 15 million euros. Yumashev said he took out a loan to buy it.

Texts of the day

The publication "Project" found the second wife of Ramzan Kadyrov. And the fake identity of the official wife

The authors of the investigation claim that the second wife of the head of Chechnya is Fatima Khazuyeva. She owns real estate for 370 million rubles : several apartments in Moscow and a palace in Grozny, located opposite the working residence of Kadyrov. The lawful wife of Ramzan Kadyrov, Medni Kadyrova, has a false identity - Medni Musaeva (and this is not her maiden name). They have the same name, patronymic and even date of birth. Several apartments in Moscow are also decorated for Musaev.

Against the backdrop of Russian troops being pulled to the Donbass, Ukraine refused to negotiate in Minsk and again raised the issue of joining NATO

Ukraine is not the first time trying to abandon the negotiations in Minsk - because "Belarus today is under the influence of Russia, and Kiev has no confidence in this territory." Relations between the countries soured after the start of protests in Belarus last summer. We spoke with sources close to the leadership of Ukraine in order to understand how the situation will develop further.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Ukraine's entry into NATO "the only way to end the war in Donbas." The Kremlin believes that this will only aggravate the situation, and the alliance itself is not yet ready to accept a new member. The fact is that Ukraine does not meet the standards of joining NATO : corruption and unresolved territorial disputes interfere.

Who controls the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow, from which human rights activist Marina Litvinovich was recently expelled

On Tuesday, April 6, active human rights activist Marina Litvinovich was expelled from the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow. These commissions are supposed to ensure “public control over the provision of human rights in places of detention,” but in recent years, the selection of people into the PMCs themselves has been constantly accompanied by scandals. Meduza special correspondents Maxim Solopov and Ivan Golunov figured out who runs the Moscow PMC — and what does the Moscow district of Mitino, the trade union of security guards and the presidential administration have to do with it.

The coronavirus

Today, like yesterday, only short news:

• The former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, became infected in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. He was hospitalized in the hospital of the pre-trial detention center "Matrosskaya Tishina".
• The European Medicines Agency will verify compliance with ethical standards in the trials of Sputnik V.
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the start of the third wave of the pandemic in the country.

Podcast "What Happened"

Marina Litvinovich, one of Russia's most famous human rights activists, was expelled from the Moscow POC. We talked to her

Litvinovich talked about the conditions of detention of prisoners, including journalist Ivan Safronov, former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, and those taken to the Sakharovo detention center after the winter protests. The reason for the exclusion of the human rights activist from the POC was her December interview with Dozhd, in which she allegedly revealed the secret of the investigation into the case of Lyubov Sobol. Litvinovich simply spoke about the conditions of Sobol's detention and her confrontation with the mother-in-law of the alleged poisoner Navalny. In this issue, we discuss the possible reason for Litvinovich's exclusion, her intention to become a State Duma deputy, and how the regional PMCs are cleared of independent social activists.

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Mortal combo-a-a-at of the day

Recall the story of the very soundtrack of the 1995 film

The most famous composition - a track called "Techno Syndrome" - was written by Belgian musician Oliver Adams. Maurice Engelen, known today from the Praga Khan project, helped him with the rest of the soundtrack compositions. Adams and Engelen started out in the Belgian nu-beat band Lords of Acid in the late eighties. Like other representatives of the new beat, they used samples from porn in their music. Due to this, the group became famous in the USA, doing nothing to promote their music: the protests of conservatives became advertising. how Adams and Engelen received an offer to write a soundtrack and how work on it went Music journalist Nikita Velichko tells .

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