Evening Medusa

Report on shares for Navalny. The Czech Republic sends 70 Russian diplomats. In India in crematoriums, they barely manage to burn the bodies of the dead from coronavirus

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This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. Today we start with music: listen to how Till Lindemann quilted the song “Favorite City” by Mark Bernes. In Russian, but, of course, with a strong accent.

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Pulse

The main thing is in the day - by points

• At least 1788 people were detained at least 1788 people in support of Alexei Navalny yesterday in support of Alexei Navalny. We will tell you more about how they passed below. Navalny himself, who will only learn all the news from lawyers, thanked his supporters .
• Leonid Volkov said that on Tuesday politics was examined in a “civil hospital” and that, according to doctors, he urgently needs to stop a hunger strike .
• The Czech Republic announced that 70 Russian diplomats would send from Prague. The Senate of the country generally urged to terminate the friendship agreement with Russia and leave only one diplomat. All because of the explosions in military warehouses in 2014, in which the Czechs are suspected of GRU .
• FSB Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Cherkalin, who was found 12 billion rubles in a search, received seven years of colony for corruption - but taking into account the time spent in the pre -trial detention center, he will sit down for five years.
• To the SMM editor of the headquarters of Navalny in Moscow, Alexander Shepelev came with a search and beaten . Then he was accused of disobedience to the police and fined two thousand rubles
• In Crimea , exercises began with the participation of 10 thousand Russian military. At the same time, Sergei Shoigu ordered the allocation of troops from border to May 1.

The texts of the day

How were the shares for Navalny in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the regions

In Moscow, everything was relatively calm : none of the five Medusa correspondents saw a single detention or beating of protesters - for the first time in many months. True, before the rally, Lyubov Sobol and Kira Yarmysh were detained. The protesters walked with posters and lit flashlights in Tverskaya, tried to get to the Lubyanka and the Presidential Administration - and dispersed closer to ten in the evening.

In St. Petersburg, everything was exactly the opposite : the police acted tough and almost half of the detainees in the country was on the city. With regard to protesters, stun gunners were again used. Palace Square was blocked, they rehearsed the parade on Victory Day. So that people do not go to Nevsky Prospekt, he was washed by the communal workers - right in the rain. When the protesters approached the Mariinsky Palace, mass and unsystematic detentions began. The demonstrators were beaten and detained after the end of the action. The club was hit by the Medusa correspondent.

In other cities of Russia, thousands of people took to the streets. More actively others were Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. According to various estimates, from five to 13 thousand people went to the streets of the latter. See how this day went in the regions .

And one more thing: we collect the stories of those whose Imil was in the database, which hackers stole from the Navalny website. If you are among the victims of this leak, tell us about this - and what happened to you next

Coronavirus

In India, an extreme burst of incidence. The healthcare system does not cope, the crematoriums work with the maximum load

On April 22, 314,835 sick people per day were recorded in India - this is a historical maximum in the world since the beginning of the pandemic. Such an outbreak has several reasons: new and carefully not studied mutations of the virus, weakening of restrictions and non -compliance with precautions. As a result, the hospitals in the largest cities of India are filled with almost 80%, there are almost no free beds in intensive care, it is reported about the lack of oxygen for Ivl.It looks pretty creepy . We ask impressive people not to read this material.

Podkast "What happened"

The All -Russian action in support of Navalny - the success or the failure of the opposition?

Before the start of the rallies, more than 463 thousand people registered on the Freedom Navalny website. But much fewer people reached the streets, only about 100 thousand. According to the results of yesterday's rallies, the main requirement of protesters - to allow Alexei Navalny of his attending doctors - was not fulfilled. Despite all this, the supporters of Navalny and he himself rather considered the action successful. In the new issue of “what happened” we are talking with a candidate of political sciences, an assistant professor of HSE Alexei Gilev about whether the opposition won or lost - and what to do next.

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Video of the day

In Khabarovsk, even blocks of ice came out for a walk

An ice drift began on the Amur River. The river freed from the ice a few days ago, but from time to time the ice continues to go from the top of the upper reaches. As a result, on the afternoon of April 22, huge blocks of ice went ashore in the cliff area, breaking a reinforced concrete fence. It looked quite spectacular .

We hope that there will be nothing for the ice for the unauthorized procession, your "Medusa"