It is ordered not to hysteria

Everything you need to know early in the morning of August 13

Good morning!

In the Murmansk region , the memory of sailors who died 21 years ago on the Kursk submarine was honored . Opening the event, the presenters said that the Kursk catastrophe became a “swivel milestone in the way of reviving the Navy”. Without 118 victims, of course, it was not to revive. In the news, respectively, this is:

• The former coordinator of Open Russia in Pskov Liya Milushkina gave 10.5 years in the colony in the case of drugs, her husband Artem is 11.
• When the helicopter crash in Kamchatka, eight people died; A woman became a victim of a bus explosion in Voronezh, another 17 people were injured.
• The former presidential candidate Andrei Dmitriev was detained in Belarus.
• The daily mortality from Covid-19 in Russia for the first time exceeded 800 people.

Dust on ships to swallow

• The Pskov District Court sentenced the former coordinator of the Pskov branch of Open Russia to Lyu Milushkin to the ten and a half years (she was given a postponement of punishment until 2024, because the children are still small). The husband of Leah, activist Artyom Milushkin was given 11 years in colony. After the sentence, Artem broke the bench standing in the cage, and began to break the cell itself. The Milushkins were tried under the article on the sale of drugs, they did not admit their guilt. Human rights activists call the case completely fabricated and consider it revenge for political activity - here in more detail .
• Pussy Riot Pussy Rita Flores was detained at the exit of the special receiver, where she served 15 days, and brought a new administrative case on her about “propaganda of Nazi symbols” (symbolism was seen in some of the Instagram-strokes Flores).
• A resident of Kirov was detained in the case of threats to murder or harm to health to prosecutor Ekaterina Frolova from the process of replacing a conditional deadline with a real term with a real one (the threat of murder was dug up in some comments on the Internet).
• The prosecutor asks for two years of restrictions on freedom for the press secretary of Navalny Kira Yarmysh in the “sanitary case” and demands to leave her under house arrest until the verdict enters into force.
• In Moscow, another scientist was arrested on charges of Gosizmen-the general director of the research enterprise of hypersonic systems Alexander Kuranov. He is 73 years old, the court sent him to a pre -trial detention center for two months.
• Vitaly Borodin, who wrote a denunciation of the “project”, filed a lawsuit to protect the honor and dignity of the chief of the publication to Roman Badanin and the Rain TV channel: Badanin on the air of “Rain” called Borodin “with a insignificance, empty place, scum,” and “rain” is guilty of what he broadcast. Borodin requires a million.
• Unknown people tried to hack the phone of the journalist The Bell Irina Pankratova and, taking advantage of a fake power of attorney, ordered the details of her calls and SMS in the “megafon” in two years.
• In Krasnodar, Colonel of the FSB was detained , who took bribes with apartments, cars and a sewage network.

Towards the election

The Navalny team issued an investigation about a member of the CEC Antona Lopatin: he is closely connected with the chairman of the State Duma Volodin (not only in politics, but also in business), and the former mother -in -law Lopatin earns well on contracts with the CEC. The investigation was not commented on in the CEC, but they called for “not to hysteria” in connection with the termination of publicly accessible video broadcasts from polling stations.

One of the features of the current elections was the return of the electoral technologies of the 90s: the video incriminating candidates appear on the Internet, the Uzopinsky maniac actively drowns the Communist Party without the knowledge of the Communist Party itself, the namesakes of real politicians appear in the lists of candidates, among the participants in electronic voting in Moscow , political scientists are trying to explain why all this should be allocated in conditions when to get a candidate not approved by power and is so unreasonable.

To prevent the “not those people”, a special law was adopted for the election on the deprivation of “extremists” of passive suffrage. Since 2020, the list of “extremists” has grown by a quarter. It is also impossible to protest against this: the special report by Amnesty International analyzes the legal restrictions on mass shares in Russia and it is concluded that the protest “within the framework of the law” is simply impossible. Here, one of his authors, Oleg Kozlovsky, tells about the report.

From the life of a “crying random”

• In Kamchatka, a Mi-8 helicopter with tourists on board fell into the lake . Eight out of 16 people survived.
• A regular bus exploded in Voronezh. At least 17 people were injured , one woman died. At first, the incident was explained by the explosion of gas on the bus, but when it turned out that it was diesel, they did not explain the explosion in any way. The version of the attack is not yet considered.
• In the Caspian pipeline consortium, on the terminal of which oil was released into the Black Sea, searches were held . The head of the consortium continues to insist that there was very little oil, and the huge spot that scientists saw has nothing to do with oil. The governor of the Krasnodar Territory did not see the spot at all. Here, environmentalists explain why the oil workers behave like that, and what the consequences of the spill for nature can.
• Advisor to the head of the administration of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Andrei Agafonov called the inhabitants of the region a "aching bunch of shit" and "tearful rabble" due to complaints of smoke from Yakut forest fires that covered the city. The air in Krasnoyarsk and without forest fires is not very clean - it tells in detail how it breathes there.
• The film “Suncruses” about the mercenaries of the PMC Wagner, who heroically fought for the so -called “Lugansk People’s Republic”, will soon be released on NTV. He was removed not in Lugansk, but in Evpatoria for the money of Putin's Prigogyn's “cook”. Prigozhin himself claims that he has nothing to do with the Wagnerians and does not know anything about financing the film: “Evgeny Viktorovich has no information, whether he financed the shooting of the Suncript,” his press service said.

Belkator No. 18

Law enforcement agencies in Belarus continue to work seven days a week and smoke breaks:

• A group of accused in the case of "riots" in Brest was sentenced to a colony for terms of 3 to 4.5 years. This is the third group of convicts in this case, the court recognized everyone “prone to extremism”.
• The former presidential candidatewas detained , co -chair of the Association "Talk to the Truth" Andrei Dmitriev.
• The former ambassador of Belarus in Israel and Slovakia Igor Leshcheny was placed in the isolation ward to the surroundings. The day before he was a search.
• The verdict of Minskhanin Stepan Latypov, arrested for defending Mural with the DJs in his yard, will be announced on Monday. Here is his last word : he tells how he was beaten and how he tried to commit suicide in the courtroom.

In Belarus, there are rumors that Lukashenko is going to pardon part of the political prisoners - this requires to write an appropriate petition, they are collected by Yuri Voskresensky, a former volunteer of the headquarters of Babariko, who, having sat in a pre -trial detention center, agreed to represent a “constructive” Belarusian opposition. In the imminent pardon of all political prisoners, the wife of the world of kickboxing Alexei Kudinis sure (after extradition from Russia he was sentenced to 2.5 years in colony). What is behind these rumors is explained here .

Read the stories of Belarusians who went through the surveyor at the surroundings in August last year and participated in the multimedia project “Camera No. 18” -impressive. Here are the stories of Belarusian students who will end their education in the Czech Republic (this year, Czech universities accepted 85 students from Belarus).

Since December, Lithuania has been stopping the transit of Belaruskali products in accordance with US sanctions against the Lukashenko regime.

Around the world

• The Taliban captured the second and third largest in the city of Afghanistan, Kandahar and Herat. Here is an interactive map . The United States sends the military to Afghanistan to evacuate the embassy staff.
• In the capital of Turkey Ankara, clashes occurred between local residents and refugees from Syria, who passed into the pogrom of shops and arson of cars.
• Lithuanian President reported a cyber attack at the Foreign Ministry. We can talk about one and a half million secret letters, their leak can cause serious damage to Lithuania and her NATO allies.

Chronicles of Pandemia

According to the operational headquarters on Thursday morning, the daily increase in new Covid-19 cases in Russia amounted to 21,932. The official number of 3 million 535 thousand infected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic; The official number of victims reached 168 049 people by the morning of Thursday (+808 per day). The line of 800 deaths was overcome for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the death of 799 people per day was recorded four times.

Representations of the real scale of mortality are given by the data of the registry office throughout the country - the only problem is that they are published with a delay and not in all regions. Here, the demographer Alexei Raksha says that data from 21 in the region of Russia give a 53 percent average excess of mortality compared to the premise level of 2019.

Six links

• Against the current. A brief story of women in anti -fascist resistance. Or an excerpt from Ben Mcyntire’s book “Spy and Traitor. The most loud spy history of the Cold War” (Publishing House of Corpus)-about how the British intelligence agencies took their spy from the USSR and, in combination with the KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky.
• Cemeteries. A conversation with the connoisseur of the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg Valeria Efremova - about cemetery tourism and the specifics of Lutheran burials. Or a fragment from the book of the literary critic and culturalist Olga Matich “The Museums of Death: Parisian and Moscow Cemeteries” (Publishing House of the UFO), dedicated to the Vvedensky foreign cemetery in Moscow.
• Children and animals. A story about the Russian postcards of the frontier of centuries with images of children (with pictures). Or Anna Izakar's essay about the invasion of animals in modern cinema.
• 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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