The battle is lost, but not war

Everything you need to know early in the morning of July 22

Good morning!

Russia launched the Science Laboratory module from Baikonur to the ISS, which was supposed to fly there back in 2007 ( details here ). On earth like this:

• The press secretary of Navalny Kira Yarmysh enlisted house arrest at once for six months.
• In Yakutia, forests continue to burn, and a state of emergency regime has been introduced in Karelia.
• Today Lukashenko will receive a list of amendments to the Basic Law of Belarus from the Constitutional Commission.
• The United States and Germany agreed on the completion of the North Stream 2 project without the introduction of American sanctions. Ukraine and Poland are unhappy.

Russian repressive

• The court in Moscow extended for six months a house arrest to the press secretary of Navalny Kira Yarmysh. She is accused of “sanitary business”. At the same time, the former coordinator of the Moscow headquarters of Navalny Oleg Stepanov and the municipal deputy Dmitry Baranovsky were extended for three months. Where such a difference is unknown.
• Another accused in the “sanitary case”, Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina, is serving an administrative arrest for the second consecutive. Earlier, her comrade -in -arms in Pussy Riot, Alexander Sofeev left Russia, freeing himself after the second contract of arrest - this is a conversation with him (he says that "the battle is lost, but not war"). In Moscow, immediately after leaving the house, Pussy Riot Flores was detained - they drew up a protocol on the disobedience of the police and left it in the department at night. Court today.
• The court in Krasnodar left in the pre -trial detention center of the former director of “Open Russia” Andrei Pivovarov until October 29 - thus, he will sit for the entire election campaign behind bars (the Pivovarov was nominated by the candidate for the State Duma from “Yabloko” on the regional list in Krasnodar).
• In Moscow, two former employees of the Voronezh headquarters of Navalny were detained and immediately taken to the UK for interrogation in the “fraud case”, whose plot is that Navalny stole all the donations of his supporters.
• The head of the Buryat branch of the human rights organization “Siberia without torture” Yevgeny Khasoev was detained in Poland at the Russian request to Interpol. In his homeland, criminal cases of slander and violence against the policeman have been instituted against him. Khasoev hopes that the court will refuse extradition.
• YouTube blocked the FBK investigation on the head of Rosturism in June - it tells that Zarina Doguzova received a luxurious apartment in the center of Moscow as a “lonely girl” according to the social program. The complaint was filed by a certain Nadezhda Sagittarius, in the FBK they find out why the service satisfied it.
• According to RBC, successful exercises on the insulation of Runet have passed in Russia.
• Here are quite intricate explanations about the meaning of the FSB of the List of military and technical information, for which in the interests of a foreign source the criminal case will immediately institute if the collector of such information does not register in the Ministry of Justice as a “foreign agent” (in short, then it is impossible to write articles about problems in the army and “Roscosmos”).
• From the historical - chronicle of events that led to the actual ban on single pickets in Russia (coronavirus restrictions finally finished off).

Mysterious Russian real estate

• The head of the Stavropol traffic police was arrested for two months. Before the start of the hearing, he explained where he got a house in which everything was finished under gold, including the toilet. He says that this wife built him before him, and he came to everything ready.
• The publication “Important Stories” found that the family of Vitaly Borodin , who wrote a denunciation of “project” and several other journalists, lives in a mansion on Rublevka worth about 75 million rubles.
• Here, one of the authors of the MBH Media investigation about the new Putin sports and recreation residence in Novo-Ogarev, tells how the journalists found and removed this object and why Putin was so many ice arenas with mud.
• The Investigative Committee commented on the investigation of 47.News about a private prison with a crematorium in the vicinity of St. Petersburg: they say that the investigation group did not find traces of people in this prison.

Other Russian

• The examination recognized Ilnaz Galyavieva, who arranged a mass execution in the Kazan school.
• The judge of the Moscow City Court, who sentenced the police in the Golunov case, resigned .
• Forest fires do not stop in Yakutia, there is not enough money for their extinguishing, so in the republican hospital No. 1 they were going to deduct “voluntary donations” for extinguishing from the salary, but after noise the order was canceled . In Karelia, in connection with forest fires, an emergency regime has been introduced - this is a report from the region.

Towards the new Belarusian constitution

The Constitutional Commission, created in Belarus in March, prepared a list of amendments to the Constitution and today will send them Lukashenko. The amendments limit the number of presidential terms by two, introduce a new body - the All -Belorussian People’s Assembly (Lukashenko will be supposedly headed), but the courts, cycles and parliament are completely controlled by the president. Why are all these body movements are needed, Yuri Voskresensky (miraculously fell from the pre -trial detention center after a meeting with Lukashenko directly in this constitutional commission) and one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition in exile Pavel Latushko.

The Belarusian economy, according to official reports, is growing like yeast. Where did this growth come from and what recently introduced European sanctions will make with it, the economist Yaroslav Romanchuk explains here (he left Belarus after the search).

Inside the country, everything is still:

• The Ministry of Justice of Belarus filed a lawsuit against the liquidation of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.
• The volunteer of the Vesna human rights center spoke about the recruitment by the employees of the Department of Financial Investigations after its detention during mass searches from Belarusian human rights defenders.
• The Court of Appeal in Moscow upheld the decision to extradite MMA fighter Alexei Kudin to Belarus, despite the fact that the ECHR had previously forbade him to send him to his homeland. In Belarus against Kudin, a criminal case was instituted on the resistance of the police (up to five years of the colony). He was going to ask for political asylum in Russia.

In Lithuania, in order to restrain the influx of illegal migrants, which has grown up 27 times, a law is adopted across the Belarusian border that tightly limits the rights of migrants. The authors of the law and the president of the country admit that there are holes in it from the point of view of protecting human rights, but no one sees another way to cope with the emergency on the border.

"Northern Stream 2"

The United States and Germany agreed to complete the Northern Stream 2 project without the introduction of American sanctions. Washington and Berlin will seek the extension of an agreement on the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine in 2024 for another ten years. In addition, Germany will help Ukraine in diversification of energy sources and reducing its dependence on supplies and transit of Russian gas. If Russia tries to use energy resources for pressure on other countries, Germany undertakes to initiate the introduction of new sanctions.

Putin had already talked with Merkel on the phone about this (with what result - is not known). Ukraine and Poland condemned the agreement as creating extra energy and military risks for central Europe. Soon it became known that the US president will accept Vladimir Zelensky on August 30 in the White House.

Around the world

• In the list of potential objects for surveillance through the PEGASUS program, the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov was found ; Durov himself says he knew about it. Who else was on this list, see here .
• The Hungarian government initiates a referendum on the law that is designed to protect children from LGBT ideas. Referendums and “meetings with the people” are a favorite political instrument of Prime Minister Viktor Orban: the results of voting always coincide with the point of view of the government, but these referendums do not have a binding force, because the percentage of voters does not come to them. This referendum, probably, will have to demonstrate the EU that the ban on the “LGBT propaganda” is the holy will of the Hungarian people.
• In the United States, the court sentenced the Russian hacker Pyotr Levashov to a prison time he had already served in the case of cybercrime. He was engaged in the newsletter of spam.
• In China, at least 25 people were killed as a result of a large flood, the scope of the disaster can be estimated by this video .
• The flood in the West of Germany led to a surge in solidarity with the victims and new disputes about the role of a person in a global climate change.

Chronicles of Pandemia

According to the operational headquarters in the morning of the midst, the daily increase in new Covid-19 cases in Russia remains at the same level -23,704. The number of pandemia infected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic is 6 million 30 thousand. The official number of victims reached 150,705 people in the morning of the environment (+783 per day). After the day a day a day earlier, deafening journalistic discoveries about real numbers did not follow any significant statements from the authorities.

Against the background of a surge of incidence in Japan, the Olympics, which begins tomorrow, looks increasingly attractive. Politics and sponsors refuse to attend events, there will be no spectators there, and losses will be about $ 22 billion.

Six links

• Story. The story of the archaeologist Andrei Novichikhin about what the Hellenes did in the forest -steppes of the Black Sea region. Or an excerpt from the book of the Gurry Matsuya “The Great War of the Professors. Humanitarian Sciences. 1912–1923” (Publishing House of St. Petersburg)-about how anthropologists at the beginning of the 20th century argued about racial superiority and discussed the backwardness of “Mongolized” Slavs.
• Music. 14 of the most popular legends about Beethoven with comments by the musicologist Vekaterina Klyuchnikova. Or a conversation with the composer Gennady Gladkov about his famous and little -known work, Tariverdiev’s help, the advice of Danelia, etc.
• There is no evolution of the end. Synopsis of lectures of French biologists Marin Dauluen and Jeremy Sush about how amphibians and reptiles adapt to global warming (for the example of Triton and Teru). Or an interview with the physical anthropologist and popularizer of science Stanislav Drobyshevsky about the evolution of biological and cultural.
• 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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