Agent "Medusa"

All you need to know early in the morning of April 24

Good morning!

On the recommendation of Rospotrebnadzor, Putin announced the first ten days of May in non -working - this is a specific Russian euphemism for Lockdown. News are:

• Navalny announced the cessation of a hunger strike. Doctors demand to transfer it to the Moscow multidisciplinary hospital.
• The coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny in Rostov-on-Don reported the abduction and torture.
• The Ministry of Justice brought Medusa to the list of media - foreign agents.
• Russia began the withdrawal of troops from Crimea.

I started eating again

Alexei Navalny announced that he was stopping a hunger strike, having achieved examinations by civilian doctors and transferring the results of examination to lawyers. He thanked everyone who supported him, and especially people who declared a hunger strike of solidarity with him. The way out of the hunger strike will take as much as it continued, that is, 24 days. He remains in the hospital of colony No. 3 in Vladimir (this is a very bad hospital, here is a story about this ), his attending doctors continue to demand a transfer to the Moscow multidisciplinary hospital for further examination (his sections of the legs and arms are numb - it is not yet clear why). As noted by the head of the regional headquarters of Navalny Leonid Volkov, long May weekends mean that lawyers will not be able to get to Navalny ten days in a row.

Economists from leading universities in the world made a request to free Navalny.

Egyptian executions

According to the latest data from the ATS-Info, on April 21, 1958 people were detained in support of Navalny throughout Russia, half of them in St. Petersburg. There, the courts returned the police over 20 cases against the detainees in connection with the gross errors in the protocols. The Bar Chamber of St. Petersburg complained of violations of the rights of the detainees - they were simply hidden from the defenders. Peskov, in response to a question about cruel detentions in St. Petersburg, said that the shares were illegal, so there should be no questions.

Among the detainees throughout the country are a variety of people : from the record holders from the Guinness Book of Records to volunteers and employees of the headquarters of Navalny (the SMM manager of the Navalny team in Krasnoyarsk was fined 650 thousand rubles). The most terrible story occurred with the head of Navalny’s headquarters in Rostov-on-Don Daria Seredina: on the night of April 23, unknown people were abducted , taken to the village in the Krasnodar Territory, they were tortured there, forcing “swallowed a rubber baton” and making cuts on the arm for each refusal (the police say that they have nothing to do with these events).

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was instituted on calls for mass riots through publications in Telegram (the court appointed the accused the “ban of certain actions” as a preventive measure); A criminal case of hooliganism was instituted against a resident of Krasnoyarsk due to a lit fire on the shares on April 21.

Other movements:

• Mosgortrans employee Jan Kholodova, whose email address turned out to be stolen from the base on Free.Navalny.com, was asked to quit on the “order from above” at work, and then they pretended that there was no such conversation.
• Students of Tomsk State University are stuffed with conversations about the dangers of rallies.
• Historian Tamaru Eidelman was called to the police because of Facebook related to Navalny.

Other Russian

• The Ministry of Justice brought Medusa to the list of “foreign agents”. The publication will appeal this decision. The editors of the status of a “foreign agent” were called discriminatory. “Medusa” was founded after acceleration of the editorial office “Lenta.ru”, the site was registered in Latvia, the editors are in Riga. Here are comments of Russian lawyers and media managers about the motives and consequences of such a decision.
• Rutube video hosting has been announced on a large -scale restart of the video hosting - there is an opinion that in this way preparations are being made for YouTube locking in Russia.
• The coordinator of educational projects “Postcards” Tatyana Usmanova was fined 150 thousand rubles for “violation of sanitary rules” at the congress of municipal deputies, which was detained in full force on March 13.
• In Moscow, the court sentenced to 20 years the colony of associate professor of the Moscow Aviation Institute. He was found guilty of the Stateizer, the transfer of the scientific and technical information that can be used to create weapons of mass destruction, and the smuggling of some poisons (everything is classified).
• The investigator, who pestered the editor of the student magazine DOXA, after the complaint was transferred to the editor of the same magazine. Journalists are accused of involving minors in the protest of the YouTube video.
• A detailed story about the case of “Rostov extremists”, very reminiscent of the work of “new greatness”, read here .

Teachings and sabotage

Russia began to return the troops that were involved in exercises in the Southern Military District near the borders of Ukraine to the points of constant deployment. Here, this discharge is commented on by Ukrainian military experts. They recall that at the same time, due to large-scale exercises in Crimea, Russia blocked the Kerch Strait, closing for six months the entrance to the basics for military ships of other countries. Ukraine called this blocking a violation of the agreement on the joint use of the water area.

To the question of where the employee of the Russian GRE Chepigi-Boshirov could have a Tajikistan’s passport in the name of Ruslan Taborov (it was his copy that he sent a Czech arms warehouse, which later took off into the air), there was a simple answer: Tajik passports were easy to buy .

Diplomatic wars and sanctions

Putin signed a decree limiting the possibility of hiring Russians to work in the diplomatic mission of “unfriendly states”. The list of such states will be determined by the Russian government.

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia send Russian diplomats in solidarity with the Czech Republic. Russia, in turn, sent five Polish diplomats - this is a response to solidarity previously shown by Poland with the United States.

The leaders of the Helsinki Commission of the United States-Democrat Senator Ben Cardin, Republican Senator Roger Wizker and Congressman Joe Wilson- called on Biden’s administration more actively in support of Navalny, in particular, to impose sanctions against Abramovich, Usmanov, Shuvalov.

Chronicles of Pandemia

According to the operational headquarters on Friday morning, the daily growth of new Covid-19 cases in Russia amounted to 8840. The number of 4 million 744 thousand infected in the country from the beginning of the epidemic. The official number of victims reached 107,501 people by the morning of Friday (+398 per day). Rospotrebnadzor calls the situation stable, but the announced “May holidays” make it doubt this. For the peace of Russian tourists who have lost Turkey, Russia resumes air traffic with Egypt.

The incidence in India and the surroundings continues to beat records, the virus even hit the Everest (the climber had to be lowered from the route by helicopter, after which he was diagnosed with Covid). European countries, on the contrary, gradually weaken restrictions. The head of the European Commission announced the purchase of almost two billion doses of Pfizer vaccine in the period from 2021 to 2023. This should be enough to instill and reappering the entire EU population. The preference given to Pfizer, Ursula von der Layen, explained to the “flexibility” of this vaccine (it can be easily and quickly adapted to the expected new mutations).

Reading links

• Medieval. The historian Daria Akhapkina explains how the world of “Roman about the fox” works. Or a fragment of the article by the linguist Fedor Uspensky “Under the Fast Victory. Konung Sverrir and his banner”-about how metaphors in scaldic poetry are arranged (from the collection “Architects, Kongs, Pontiffs in Medieval Europe”, the Publishing House of the VSHE).
• Soviet. Conversation with Mikhail Melnichenko, director of the EUSPB center and author of the book “Soviet Little Anecdote: Signing of the Stories” - on the existence of jokes in the USSR and emigration. Or the story of how artificial blood created in the USSR, and its inventor committed suicide.
• Polish. The story of a brief post -war Renaissance of literature in Yiddish in Poland. Or the story of the poem by Henrika Lazotert “Little Smuggling” - about a boy who delivered food to the Warsaw ghetto.
• Children's. A fragment from the memoirs of the granddaughter of Leonid Andreev Olga Andreeva-Carloil “Island for Life” (“Elena Shubina editors”)-about the war years spent in France. Or a conversation with the nephew of Stanislav Lem Mikhail Zykh - about the dictations that his uncle arranged (now they are published by a separate book).
• Architectural. The story of the evolution of Moscow squares and their relations with monuments. Or a brief guide to feminist architecture.
• Hungry. A fragment of the book of the American researcher Rachel Louise Snyder “Without Visible Basy” about the phenomenon of domestic violence. Or absolutely wonderful reporting from a apartment-apartment for the LGBT community in St. Petersburg.
• You will always find more interesting texts, interviews, interviews and reports in the present time Telegram channel . You can also read this newsletter from Telegram .

Sincerely yours,
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