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The United States imposed new sanctions against Russia. Why the Russian Orthodox Church against the Vaccine "Sputnik V". We speak with reporters of the DOXA publication, which the authorities began to press

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• Four editors of the DOXA student publication, who were searches the day before,were forbidden to use the Internet and leave the house .
• Lawyer Vadim Kobzev visited Alexei Navalny in the colony. According to him, the politician is “slightly staggering”, he has a very dizzy . Navalny holds a hunger strike from March 31, an independent doctor is not allowed to be allowed to be allowed.
• The United States has imposed new sanctions against Russia - in particular, six technological companies have fallen under them. American investors were forbidden to buy Russian government bonds. After the sanctions of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the US ambassador to a “difficult conversation” called .
• In Yekaterinburg, the court classified the case of Vladimir Taushankov, whom the Rosgvardists shot down due to four wallpaper rolls. Allegedly, the case contains information constituting a state secret.
• Lyubov Sobol sentenced the “apartment case”: a year of correctional labor conditionally.
• Biden and Merkel called on Russia to withdraw the army from borders with Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry in response asked not to consider the teachings of the border by the manifestation of aggression.

The texts of the day

We answer the main questions about exacerbation in the Donbass and a possible war

Details about how it all started and how it can end, says Novaya Gazeta journalist Pavel Kanygin, who wrote dozens of materials about the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine. Kanygin also explains what is happening in the unrecognized “people's republics” themselves: are there among residents those who want to go back to Ukraine? And how many citizens of Russia are there after distribution of passports? What will happen if Russia recognizes the LPR and the DPR? And what happens in the Ukrainian part of Donbass? The answers to these and other questions are in our text .

The Bank of Russia is developing digital rubles. Is this cryptocurrency? How will it work at all?

How technically the digital ruble will look, is still unknown. But, most likely, in the form of token in the blockchain. At the same time, the Central Bank categorically against the use of the term “cryptocurrency”, because the digital ruble will not be decentralized like bitcoin, because it will be issued by the Bank of Russia. One digital ruble will always be equal to one cash ruble - as similar projects of digital yuan or digital euros. When all this will work, it is unknown, but the prototype of the platforms should begin to test next year. In our analysis , we tell in detail what can (and what is impossible) will do with digital rubles.

The Navalny team showed Putin's “most secret official cottage” in Valdai. With a church, vip-restaurant and spa complex

The area of ​​the residence "Long beards" is 250 hectares. Of these, 150 hectares officially belong to the Russian Federation and are in unlimited use by the FSO. The rest of the land is owned by the company Yuri Kovalchuk - a friend of Putin and the main shareholder of the Bank "Russia". Over the past ten years, 2.7 billion rubles have spent on the rental of this land for the rental of this land. The residence has a spa complex with two underground floors, which is almost twice as large as the main mansion. Inside-a solarium, a float bass and cryocamer .

The best photos of the year

Today, the World Press Photo winners were announced, the most prestigious award for photojournalists, in 2020. In the main nomination-“Photo of the Year”-the picture of the Danish photographer Mads Nissen, taken in the elderly boarding house in San Paulo, won the picture of the Danish photographer:

The work of other laureates (including photographers from Russia) can be found at the link .

Coronavirus

Patriarch Kirill vaccinated - and most likely not a "satellite V"

On April 13, the Russian Orthodox Church announced that Patriarch Kirill was vaccinated. The message also said that both injections were made back in March. But this is what it was for the vaccine is unknown. Two sources of Medusa in the Russian Orthodox Church believe that the Patriarch could be injected with an “epivacorone” (with a greater degree of probability) or “covivak”. The fact is that in the production of “satellite V”, embryonic cell lines are used , the use of which the Russian Orthodox Church does not approve.

Podkast "What happened"

How did DOXA become famous in a couple of years and attracted the attention of the security forces?

DOXA was founded in 2017 by students and graduates of the Higher School of Economics and other universities. In the summer of 2019, media talked about Moscow protests and helped students detained at rallies. Soon, the Higher School of Economics deprived the publication of the status of a student project and financing. And the day before, DOXA journalists became defendants in a criminal case. In the new episode of the podcast “What happened”, we say with DOXA editors Ekaterina Martynova and Mstislav Grivachev about why the small student media became the object of pressure of the security forces - and what the editorial office plans to do on.

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