What happened on the day of April 8th. Short

* Governor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergey Morozov ++ resigned ++. Senator Aleksey Russkikh has been appointed acting head of the region. Morozov was a political long-liver, he headed the region back in 2005. Now the ex-governor intends to run for the State Duma.

Investigators from the Conflict Intelligence Team and the New York Times++ a discovered Russian military field camp 250 km from the border with Ukraine . CIT claims that military equipment is being unloaded in the Voronezh area and south towards the Pogonovo training ground. are visible on satellite images of the test site Hundreds of pieces of military hardware . The equipment is also deployed near the city of Ostrogozhsk (150 km from the border).
After that, Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of Putin's administration, ++ told ++ that Russia would "stand up for the defense" of Russian residents of the self-proclaimed DPR if necessary. He also ++ emphasized ++ that he considers possible hostilities in the region "the beginning of the end of Ukraine" .
Against the background of the escalation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ++ talked ++ with Vladimir Putin by phone and urged him to abandon the buildup of military presence near the borders with Ukraine. At the same time, the report published by the Kremlin on a telephone conversation between the leaders of the countries does not mention Merkel's call. It only says that "Putin drew attention to the provocative actions of Kyiv, which has recently purposefully aggravated the situation on the line of contact."
Judge of the Basmanny Court of Moscow Artur Karpov ++ resigned ++ of his own free will. Now he is 51 years old. Karpov has worked in court since 2007, and it was he who, in 2011-2013, denied the complaints of the mother and colleague of Sergei Magnitsky about unlawful posthumous persecution and inaction in the investigation into the circumstances of his death. For this, the judge was included in the "Magnitsky list" - a list of those who, according to the compilers, are responsible for human rights violations in Russia. In 2012–2016, Karpov arrested defendants in the Bolotnaya case . In February 2014, he sent Alexei Navalny under house arrest in the Yves Rocher case, and in 2016 he authorized the arrest of the ex-governor of the Kirov Region Nikita Belykh . He also arrested the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal and ordered house arrest for the ex-head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev .
The court of Volgograd ++ transferred ++ 14-year-old schoolboy Yaroslav Inozemtsev from the pre-trial detention center to a closed psychiatric hospital . According to the FSB, the child was allegedly preparing an attack on the school. “For the first time in my practice <…> the mother of a minor practically begged the court to leave her child in a pre-trial detention center,” the lawyer said. As evidence of guilt in the case of Inozemtsev, only the testimony of a friend and a picture with a “Kerch shooter” on the desktop of a computer are given.
Roskomnadzor ++ filed a ++ lawsuit against Channel One for using a fragment of the plot of “Foreign Media” without specifying its status. On the air of the program “Vremya Pokazhet” on March 11, a plot of the TV channel “Present Time” was used, which was included by the Ministry of Justice in the list of media-foreign agents. The “first” faces a fine of up to 50 thousand rubles.
Russia asked the Slovak authorities ++ to return ++ a batch of the Sputnik V vaccine , as the country allegedly violated the terms of the contract by testing the drug in a non-official EU laboratory. Earlier, the media reported that the Russian vaccine supplied to Slovakia differs from the vaccine that has passed clinical trials. RDIF called these reports fake.
At the same time , RDIF began negotiations on the sale of Sputnik V to Germany . This was reported ++ by the head of the Ministry of Health of Germany ++ and the fund itself . At the same time, Germany is ready to purchase the Russian vaccine only after the approval of the European regulator. The EU authorities reported that they do not plan to centrally purchase the drug from the Russian Federation.