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In the city of Kamyshin, the Volgograd region, police officers put on a preventive record of an 11-year-old schoolboy, who, in their opinion, was engaged in the “discrediting” of the Russian army in social networks. The rest is like this:

• The Russian army fired at Kyiv during the official visit of the UN Secretary General Antoniu Gaterris.
• Zelensky said that Ukraine is ready for urgent negotiations for the evacuation of people from Mariupol and counting on support for the UN. Peskov replied that no negotiations were needed: let the civilians go out, and let the military give up.
• During the apartment bypass in the center of Moscow in front of the parade on May 9, the police ask if the Ukrainians live where.
• The German parliament allowed the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine; The US President asks Congress to allocate $ 33 billion to support Ukraine.

Military reports

According to Pentagon estimates, the Russian offensive in the Donbass is developing "slowly and unevenly"-both because of the resistance of Ukraine and because of logistics difficulties. The Ukrainian military expert Nikolai Belyeskov describes in detail the weak moves on the front line, compares the current battle for the Donbass with the advance of the Russian army to Kiev and with careful optimism predicts the counterattack of the Ukrainian army this summer.

Optimism is based on waiting for the supply of heavy Western weapons: such supplies were allowed by the Bundestag ( which is why this decision can be called historical for Germany), both chambers of the American Congress approved the Lend-Lisa bill for Ukraine (now only the signature of the president of Biden), and Biden himself, speaking to the Congress, asked for his request for additional financial assistance to Ukraine 33 billion dollars. Why the flow of Western heavy weapons to Ukraine will turn the course of the war, the military expert Sergei Grabsky intelligibly explains here .

Biden, in addition, promised to create legal mechanisms for confiscating the money and property of “Putin's kleptocracy”. These funds are supposed to be directed to the elimination of damage caused to Ukraine.

On Thursday evening, when the UN Secretary General of Antoniu Guttalsh was an official visit in Kiev, the Russian army fired at the city. The goal, presumably, was the Artem plant producing aircraft missiles, but one of the missiles (or its fragments) fell into the lower floors of a residential building. At least three people were injured. It was also reported about explosions in the Odessa region.

Here is a new portion of military photographs.

In the occupied territories

According to the results of negotiations with the UN Secretary General, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced readiness for urgent negotiations for the evacuation of people from Mariupol, during which he counts on the support of the UN. Moscow responded quite quickly with the mouth of the Putin press secretary Dmitry Peskov: "Putin clearly said that civilians can leave the" Azovstal ", and the military-to lay down weapons, this is not a topic for negotiations." Kyiv insists on the evacuation of civilians and wounded military in the direction of Ukraine hiding on “Azovstal”; Zelensky also believes that the defenders of Mariupol should get out of shelters with weapons in their hands. In addition, Ukraine asks for the assistance of the UN in organizing the evacuation of civilians from other areas of Donbass and increasing the volume of humanitarian aid. The Ukrainian leadership of Mariupol warns of an epidemiological disaster in the city.

During his visit to Ukraine, the UN Secretary General visited Borodianka - a town near Kiev, almost completely destroyed during the Russian occupation. “I imagine my family in one of these houses, now destroyed and black. I see how my granddaughters run away in panic,” said Gutterish. But under Kiev there are destruction that cause no grief, but pride in the locals: here is the story of the village of Demidov, whose residents staged a flood, destroying the dam on the Irpen River - they believe that thereby they saved Kiev.

Residents of the occupied south of Ukraine are engaged in the destruction of infrastructure: under the Melitopol, someone blew up the railway bridge, along which weapons and fuel were delivered to the Russian troops. In this region, the Russian military behaves in the same way as under Kiev: they rob houses, engage in any blessing and intimidating - this is the story of two women who fled from the occupied village in the Nikolaev region.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine named the names of ten Russian military personnel suspected of torture by the inhabitants of Buchi (some of them managed to contact journalists, and they claim that “they were not there”). The American magazine Time has published a large article “inside the world of Zelensky” about the life of the office of the president of Ukraine in besieged Kiev - this is its brief retelling .

Conflicting messages are received about the further fate of the occupied Kherson region: the pro-Russian activist of the Stremosov, now appointed "deputy chairman of the military-civil administration of the Kherson region", told the Russian State Agency RIA Novosti that the region has been transferred to the ruble from May 1. Talking about the “referendum” about the creation of “Hernr” for some reason subsided, this is confirmed by the head of the Kherson regional military administration Gennady Laguta. At the same time, at the disposal of the journalists the “schemes” turned out to be the “Manifesto of the South Russian People’s Cathedral” created in the bowels of “United Russia” - it summarizes the “historical” base under the “referendum” on the creation of quasi -state “South Russia”. Previously, the “Tauride province” was also mentioned: the issue of neiming, apparently, was not completely resolved. Here, political scientist Kirill Rogov explains why Russia will not be able to integrate the captured territories of Ukraine.

There is still no war in Russia

According to the Nizhny Novgorod publication Nn.ru, on April 19 in the Belgorod region, a Russian soldier, a native of the city of Arzamas, died near the border with Ukraine. He who fired at the border territories and military facilities within Russia is not known for certain, but here are some considerations in this regard. At least in some incidents, it is pointless to blame Ukraine: for example, in a clash of two military helicopters in the Saratov region (one crashed). And yet in Rostov-on-Don they were going to repair the bomb shelter.

Cognitive about Russian troops:

• The stories of contractors , who, having been in Ukraine, decided not to return there. They refuse - they are intimidated.
• The terrible report from Buryatia , where the dead in the war are buried almost daily. Farewells are organized in a sports center of archery (where children are engaged at the same time), journalists say that asking the statistics “indecent and dishonorable”, and they answer questions due to a dyspechable number of Buryats who died in the war: “We are all Putin's Buryats”. The most talkative is the burialist in the cemetery - he assures that they buried more in Covid.
• Talking with relatives of the murdered Russian military, whose bodies remain in Ukraine.
• The story of another sailor who survived on the cruiser “Moscow”. He confirms that there are a lot of dead.

In St. Petersburg, schoolchildren are given the task of writing a letter to Russian soldiers, “performing military duty” in Ukraine. The sheet with a letter should then be folded with a triangle, as during the Great Patriotic War. “United Russia” proposes to be accepted into universities without exams ...-It is logical to assume that “war veterans”, since many of them are 18-19 years old, but no-... children of “war veterans”. The rationale for this child -loving initiative has not yet been published.

At the Ukvartirnaya bypass of houses along Tverskaya Street, which Moscow policemen committed annually on the eve of the parade on May 9, now they ask about Ukrainians living in the district.

ZA President

• In Moscow, a teenager was detained , who stood in a picket with a poster of “uy oyna” near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
• In Moscow, at the exit from the university, employees of the Center for E -ED detained the administrator of the telegram channel “Protest Moscow State University” Dmitry Ivanov.
• The court in St. Petersburg sentenced a member of the anti -war action by the year and four months of the colony - he was accused of applying violence to a police officer on March 2.
• A resident of Novocheboksarsk was fined 30 thousand rubles under an article on “discrediting” the Russian army by replacing price tags in a supermarket with a “graphic image of a person with a slogan discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. The denunciation was written by the store employees, although they could not notice anything.
• Two protocols drew up to the Yakut activist who went to the ritual service with the “groom” poster: about petty hooliganism and the “discredit” of the Russian army.
• A criminal case was instituted against a resident of St. Petersburg about the “rehabilitation of Nazism” over last year’s comments with the St. George ribbon and the distorted phrase “grandfathers fought” (as he already distorted her, guess yourself).

Similar messages of the sea, and the OVD-Info project issued a guide for persecution for anti-war shares . There were more than a hundred criminal cases under the article on “discrediting”. But they haunt not only people, but also the media:

• The Gorno-Altai newspaper “List” was fined 300 thousand rubles under a new article on “Camesra for sanctions”. The founder of the newspaper is in a pre -trial detention center in a criminal case of “discrediting”.
• Radio Liberty is fined 800 thousand rubles for failure of “prohibited information”.
• Twitter was fined 3 million rubles for refusing to remove posts with swastikas and recipes for Molotov cocktails (“In a pan over high heat, we warm up a couple of spoons of oil ...”).
• Google was fined 3 million rubles for the refusal to remove the Morgenstern Clip “Pink wine 2” from YouTube (Roskomnadzor found “information about methods, methods for the development, manufacture and use of drugs”).

The Bi-2 group canceled its performance in Omsk because of the banner of ZA President, which hung as a backdrop at a concert venue. After that, the Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs of the Omsk Region Ivan Kolesnik apologized to the Omsks and explained the problem: the organizers of the concert “Secretly at night scored a banner with the flag of Russia and the inscription“ ZA President ”with a black mourning canvas, without agreeing with anyone” - discovering this, the Omsk authorities offered “various compromise options”, but the musicians refused to remove the black fabric, therefore The administration had to do it with my own hands. Such things.

News of Russian federalism

Former Governor of Sakhalin Alexander Khoroshavin was sentenced to 15 years in a strict regime in the case of bribes from candidates in the city elections. He did not plead guilty. This is the second term of the ex-governor: in February 2018, he was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony in the case of bribes from local businessmen. (“He will sit! I said!”)

The Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuyvashev entered , so to speak, a polemic with television propaganda Vladimir Solovyov. The latter called Yekaterinburg “the center of the abominated liberot”, to which Kuyvashev replied that Yekaterinburgers were free, who could think critically and suggested that they follow his tongue. From Solovyov, the answer followed: “Are you trying to present to me by concepts?” (It makes sense to visualize the villas on Lake Como ).

The former mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, drew up a protocol on the “disrespect of power” for storiz with the screenshot of his own tweet, in which he asks himself a well -sounding question to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov.

Former Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin (aka, the former governor of the Kostroma region Slyunyaev) opposed the nuclear war, about the inevitability of which Margarita Simonyan says a lot: “Creatures and propaganda will burn in hell! Vladimir Vladimirovich, they have been deceived many times. We are about our children and grandchildren! And about yours too!” Stop these scums! ” Vladimir Vladimirovich has not yet answered. (Meanwhile, the husband of Margarita Simonyan Tigran Keosayan intelligibly explains to the Kazakhs that if they are dilapidated, the fate of Ukraine is waiting for them).

The charter of the city is changed in St. Petersburg. The process is similar to the adoption of amendments to the Russian Constitution in the sense that the Governor of Beglov is also provided for zeroing. But the changes are much deeper and worse - here they are commented on by political analyst Alexander confusion.

Russian economic miracle

The company VK (former Mail.Ru Group) agreed on the purchase of a news aggregator "Yandex.NOSTOS" and the Yandex.Zen Blog Service. Yandex wanted to get rid of them as assets that cause excessive attention of the authorities and in this sense toxic ones.

Guided by the same considerations, Oleg Tinkov agreed to sell his share to Tinkoff Bank Vladimir Potanin. Paradoxically, Potanin, who heads the Russian Forbes list, has not yet fallen under European or American sanctions.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russia has almost doubled revenues from the sale of energy carriers to the countries of the European Union, follows from the report of the Finnish Center for Energy and Pure Air Research (Crea). Even with a total decrease in sales, prices for them brought Moscow about 63 billion euros. The main buyer remains Germany. Many European countries perceive this state of affairs as a gap in sanctions, and therefore ask the European Commission to explain the pan -European attitude towards payment for gas by rubles.

Ukraine is actively involved in the development of a plan of the phased liberation of Europe from the Russian energy yoke. This can be done relatively quickly, and here are two comments like: from the president of the Globalistics Center "XXI Strategy" Mikhail Gonchar and adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, economist Timofey Milovanov . General meaning: there would be a desire, and there will be non -Russian gas.

Russians in this context are very interested in whether there will be a shortage. Here is the answer to this question (spoiler: in a sense it will be).

Against this background of the former Minister of Economic Development of Russia, Alexei Ulyukaev, is released from the colony by parole. Although what was worth organizing a personal sharashka for him to withdraw Russia from the crisis.

Six links

• From the life of the empire. The story of how the best church wines of the Russian Empire were produced in Crimea. Oran excerpt from the book of Sergei Antonov “Bankrupt and Rosters of the Russian Empire: duty, property and law in the time of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky” (Publishing House of UFOs), dedicated to the legal side of all this.
• Art. Igor Gulin’s conversation with Boris Groys to the 35th anniversary of his book “Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin”-about the fate of the avant-garde heritage, competition in art, the possibility of new revolutions and returning to the 19th century. Or the story of Anna Tolstova about the fate of Grisha Bruskin, who - after the sudden closure of his exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery, again became an unofficial artist.
• Movie. Cinema guide Sergei Solovyov. Or a story about how the image of a woman in Soviet pre -war cinema has changed.

Sincerely yours,
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