What happened on the day of April 11th. Short

* Employees of the city police department of Novy Urengoy handed over Magomed Gadaev, deported from France to Russia, to employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic for transfer to Chechnya. The day before, two Chechens came to the place of residence of brother Gadaev in Novy Urengoy in search of Magomed. After their visit, Gadaev's relatives turned to him with a request to "surrender at the mercy" of Ramzan Kadyrov and return voluntarily to Chechnya. Magomed Gadaev fled Chechnya after being tortured in Russian custody.

• The European Union expressed concern about the search in the apartment of the editor-in-chief of the Important Stories publication Roman Anin in the case of violation of privacy (part 2 of article 137 of the Criminal Code) and the subsequent interrogation of the journalist as a witness. The EU called intimidation of independent journalists unacceptable, and also noted that in Russia there is a deterioration in the situation with freedom of the media.

• Dutch journalists from the NOS television and radio company spoke about the content of telephone conversations of Sergei Dubinsky, a suspect in the case of the MH17 crash. From the records of the conversations, it follows that Dubinsky discussed with his commander, the Minister of Defense of the self-proclaimed DPR, Igor Strelkov (Girkin), the transportation of the Buk missile launcher to repel the attacks of the Ukrainian army near the village of Marinovka. At the same time, telephone conversations studied by journalists indicate that Dubinsky did not know about what had happened for several hours after the crash.

• The United States and Britain called on Russia to withdraw troops from the border with Ukraine. In addition, Manfred Weber, leader of the largest faction of the European Parliament and EP member from Germany, proposed tougher sanctions against Russia in the event of an escalation of the situation in Donbass. At the same time, according to the press secretary of the President of Russia, "no one is going to move towards war." “Russia has never been a party to this conflict. But Russia has always said that it will not remain indifferent to the fate of the Russian speakers who live in the southeast of the country,” he said.

• Russia has outpaced the countries of Europe and the United States in terms of excess mortality during the coronavirus pandemic , follows from a study by The New York Times. According to the publication, the death rate in Russia in April-December 2020 was 28% higher (362,302 people) than usual. At the same time, according to official data, 57,002 people died from coronavirus during this time. The NYT writes that not all deaths in Russia cited in the statistics are necessarily related to the coronavirus, but these data "refute President Vladimir Putn's claim that Russia has dealt with the virus better than most other countries."

• Politics Alexei Navalny and his creative team were awarded the "Event of the Year" prize of the "White Elephant" award for a series of investigative documentaries. The award in the category "Best Film" was awarded to the film "Dear Comrades!" Andrei Konchalovsky. Earlier, the director asked to remove his film from the nomination, explaining this by disagreeing with the decision of the expert council of the film critics and film press awards to present the award to Navalny.

• The chief director of literary and dramatic broadcasting of the All-Union Radio, People's Artist of Russia Emil Vernik, died at the age of 97. Wernick graduated from the acting department of GITIS in Moscow. From 1947 to 1958 he was an actor and director of the Moscow Literary Readings theater, and after that he began working as a director at the All-Union Radio. From 1969 to 2002, Wernick was Chief Director of Literary Drama Broadcasting. More than 200 radio shows have been released under his leadership.