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Who is Alexander Ionov is a person, after whose complaint we were recognized as an “foreigner”. Vaccination from coronavirus in Moscow almost stopped. In Russia, they talk about labor camps again

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The main thing is in the day - by points

• It turned out that the “Medusa” was recognized as the “ino -agent” after the appeal of the former member of the Moscow Onk Alexander Ionov .
• Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken first met and talked : about Navalny, the persecution of the opposition and the “raking of blockages” in relations.
• The head of the FSIN said that Alexei Navalny’s health after the hunger strike “more or less recovered” . Later, Navalny himself spoke about his exit from the hunger strike.
• Vladimir Putin threatened "to knock his teeth to everyone who tries to bite something off from Russia." And he remembered the non -existent quote Madel Olbraite about Siberia.
• The accused ofa series of poisoning in the “pit” in pure ponds was sentenced to 16 years of maximum security .
• The collapse of Bitcoin deprived Vitalik Butaterin's status of the youngest crypto -milliarder in the world. Helost almost 40% of the condition .

The texts of the day

Get to know Alexander Ionov - a man who wrote a denunciation for Medusa, demanding to recognize her as a “foreign agent”

You see the same dick about the “given message” in our materials and social networks thanks to the activist and businessman Alexander Ionov. It was he who wrote an appeal to Roskomnadzor on April 20, 2021 with a request to recognize Meduza media-the “foreigner”-due to the fact that he was offended by one of the publications of the “Medusa” in which he was mentioned. We tell everything that is known about the super -speed decision, which was made on the basis of Ion’s letter at once, four departments at once - and almost everything about Ionov himself , the “anti -globalist”, “public figure” and a participant in the post -war recovery of Syria, who, in an interview with “Medusa”, asked to call himself a “human rights activist”.

45 out of 450 State Duma deputies refused to support the “law against the FBK”. We talked with some of them

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill prohibiting citizens involved in the parliament involved in the activities of extremist or terrorist organizations. It is assumed that he will have retroactive power - although this directly contradicts the constitution. The amendments are called the Law Against the FBC (recognized in Russia as a “foreign agent”). The KPRF faction and one deputy from United Russia, Fair Russia and the LDPR voted against the bill. Anastasia Yakureva spoke with those who voted against, and with the co -author of the bill. You can evaluate their arguments .

How Komi is experiencing an ecological disaster after breaking through the oil pipeline on the Kolve River

In the north of Russia is another environmental disaster. On May 11, oil from the Lukoil pipeline fell into the Kolva River in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Six days later, she reached the village of Ust-Tsilm in the Komi Republic. Having overcome another 400 kilometers, in the near future the oil spot will reach the Barents Sea. Due to the wear of pipelines, oil spills occur regularly in Komi, but for some reason nothing happens to this-although many officials and environmental activists have repeatedly offered an understandable plan of action. As part of the joint project “Medusa” and “7 × 7”, journalist Maxim Polyakov went to Colwa - to find out how the village lives, past which an oil film floats almost every year .

Coronavirus

As Medusa found out, vaccination in Moscow in recent months has not only not accelerated, but actually stopped

Now, according to the data of Sergei Sobyanin, at least one dose of vaccines in the city received about 10% of the inhabitants - despite the fact that the authorities set the task to instill 60%. When will this happen? According to the Moscow Department of Health, about 8-10 thousand people per day are vaccinated daily - it will take two years at such a pace. But, probably, in fact, it is still worse: according to a source close to the Ministry of Health, 2.5–3.5 thousand people per day are now vaccinated. This means that 60% of Muscovites will be dried no earlier than five years .

Other news about coronavirus:

• The EU Council recommended that the borders for tourists vaccinated with vaccines approved in Europe . Russian drugs are not one of them yet.
• Russia canceled the rule of a single departure from the country for owners of residence permit and working abroad.
• The winner of the past Eurovision Dankan Lawrence will not perform in the final of the 2021 competition. He fell ill with Covid .
• In Paris, for the first time in six months, the terraces of cafes opened.

Podkast "What happened"

We discuss the idea of ​​the FSIN about the creation of labor camps for convicts: what is reasonable in it and what causes anxiety?

The director of the FSIN, Alexander Kalashnikov, proposed creating labor camps for prisoners in Russia - and at the same time promised that it would be “not a gulag”. According to him, prisoners could “receive a decent salary” and live not in barracks, but in hostels or in rented apartments. Labor camps, according to Kalashnikov’s idea, should help prisoners to better socialize, and Russia can cope with the shortage of labor resources. In the new output of the podcast, we evaluate the ideas of the FSIN, along with Ksenia Runova, a junior researcher at the Institute of Law Problems of the European University in St. Petersburg

Listen “What happened” at Medusa . And subscribe to Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Castbox , Yandex.Musica and other podcast services.

Flashback of the day

The trailer for the special issue of "Friends" came out. Oh!

Everything is here: Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrou, Matt Leblan, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. And also - special guests, including the Korean group of BTS, actor Kit Harington (John Snow from the Game of Thrones) and David Beckham. This will not be a full -fledged episode of the series, but a conversational show in which the actors will recall the classic scenes of “friends” (in those very decorations). Special issue will be released on May 27 at HBO Max.

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