Antonyms and phrases

Good morning!

According to Rosstat , in March 2022, 10.5 thousand people died in Russia than in February, although there were much less deaths from Covid. The living like this:

• In the evening, air anxiety was announced in all areas of Ukraine, except for Kherson. Russia is shelling the railway infrastructure of Ukraine.
• Russian troops entered the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol and are fighting there.
• The Moscow Ombudsman Tatyana Poseaeva promised the townspeople to the auto -zats of increased comfort.
• Great Britain imposed new sanctions against Russia; The EU announced a new package of sanctions, which is planned to be introduced before May 9.

Military reports

According to the General Staff of Ukraine, the Russian army is trying to increase the pace of offensive in the Donbass, in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions the battles go throughout the front line. Local authorities warn of an impending humanitarian catastrophe in the Popasnaya and Rubezhnoye (food is coming there). Here is the report of the Ukrainian journalist Natalia Gumenyuk about how the heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions are now working, but the story of the family from Lisichansk, forever crippled by the war. In Makeevka, which is under the control of the so -called “DPR”, the oil depot burned .

After the evening shelling on May 3, Lviv partially remained without light and water supply; On May 4, the shelling continued: in the center of the Dnieper Russian rocket, an object of railway infrastructure was destroyed . The meaning of these shelling is, apparently, to prevent the delivery of heavy weapons to the front, which Ukraine receives from Western countries. Here, military expert Sergei Grabsky explains why the methodical destruction of the railways will not stop these supplies.

On Wednesday, Cherkasy, Odessa, Kharkov, Nikolaev also fell under fire ( this is an interview with the head of the Nikolaev region Vitaly Kim, in which he explains that they have quietly compared to Donbass, and loudly compared to Odessa). Read the story of the shelling of Kharkov here ; In the area of Izuma, Kharkov region, Ukrainian journalist Alexander Makhov died . In the evening, air anxiety was announced in all areas of Ukraine, in addition to the partially occupied Kherson - there they moved from the bombing to Facebook and Instagram locks.

Here are fresh photos of war.

Control over Mariopol

Mariupol mayor Vadim Boychenko announced a breakthrough of Russian troops into the territory of Azovstal and heavy battles in the enterprise. Prior to this, Shoigu for the second time in two weeks spoke about "taking the city under control."

The President of Ukraine turned to the UN Secretary General Antoniu Gutterisha with a request to help all the wounded in the export from the Azovstal plant. On March 3, 156 civilians arrived in Zaporozhye, here is the story of the director of “Azovstal” by HR, Ivan Goltvenko, who met these buses. On Thursday night, the deputy prime minister of the Ukrainian government, Irina Vereshchuk, announced that 344 more people from Mariupol and nearby villages had arrived in Zaporozhye. All these people were forced to go through the Russian “filtration” procedure, as they went to Ukraine through occupied territories. Nothing is known about the fate of the “filtration” unlocked - Russia only reports that it accepted 1.1 million refugees from Ukraine on its territory. Moscow unilaterally announced the opening of humanitarian corridors from Mariupol on May 5, 6 and 7, the Ukrainian side did not comment on these messages.

From the investigation of the AP agency it follows that as a result of a airstrike at the Drama Theater in Mariupol, about 600 people were killed on March 16. Russia continues to insist that the Ukrainian military blew up the theater in Mariupol, and they allegedly destroyed the hospital: Alexander Nevzorov, against whom a criminal case was opened in Russia for the publication of “knowingly false information” about the bombing of the hospital by Russian aviation, and was put on the wanted list .

"Israeli mercenaries" and May 9

According to the “Project” publication, the Kremlin refuses the term “denazification” because Russians do not understand its meaning and are not even able to pronounce this word. After the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry that the statement “Jews did not kill themselves during the Holocaust” - anti -historical, it became especially difficult to understand “denacing”. Now the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, claims that “Israeli mercenaries are fighting“ shoulder to shoulder with the militants of Azov ”in Ukraine. What this open anti -Semitism of the Russian authorities in international politics will lead to, the political scientist Zeev Khanin explains here . And what he leads inside Russia, you can learn from the story about the criminal case against the Russian geologist Mikhail Kavun, who is accused of financing the Right Sector for a photograph in a T -shirt with the inscription “Zhidobander” (according to the investigation, “Zhidobander” is not a joke, but the “Ukrainian nationalist movement organized by I. Kolomoisky in order to support Ukrainian nationalist structures ”).

Ukrainian intelligence claims that the first deputy head of the Putin administration Sergey Kiriyenko arrived in Mariupol - he allegedly prepares "solemn events" for May 9. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the “nonsense” of the Western media report that it was Putin on Victory Day that could officially declare war on Ukraine and proclaim universal mobilization (which this will give, explained here ). In Russia, against this background, military registration and enlistment offices began to set fire - reports about such incidents have already received from six regions of the country. In Belarus, meanwhile, a sudden test of the army response began .

"Location without the ability to contact"

In Russia, a new symbol of the "Special Military Operation" appeared - a grandmother with the flag of the USSR. Murals are drawn with her, she is embroidered on chevrons, she is erected monuments. In Belgorod, the sculpture of the grandmother was installed in front of the “Victory” cinema, but immediately removed because of “attempts to climb it”. “We are looking for a location without the opportunity to contact,” said the mayor of the city Anton Ivanov.

In Sberbank, they reported that they “timely identify” Russians who donate money for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Moscow authorities obliged night clubs to connect to the city video surveillance system, access to which are police; The ruble continues to rise in price, and the Autotor Kaliningrad car holding, which used to be assembled BMW, Kia and Hyundai, allocated 10 acres for employees for arranging gardens - due to the “difficult economic situation”.

Auto -sounds of increased comfort

Putin’s personal operator Ilya Filatov quit after shooting the appeal about the beginning of the war with Ukraine. “He reached the ceiling in the profession,” he explained his decision.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Moscow, Tatyana Posheaeva, announced at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma that this year in Russia, the release of autozaks with air conditioning, toilet and “all, so to speak, comfortable conditions for people delivery” will be established. Whether the benefits of civilization will go to other cities is not known, although there is clearly a need:

• In Orenburg, a criminal case was instituted on the “discredit” of the Russian army through a “recording on a social network, the activities of which were recognized as extremist and prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation.” The 22-year-old allegedly pleaded guilty and repented.
• The court in St. Petersburg terminated the administrative case of “discrediting” against the picketer who stood with the poster “war - peace, freedom - slavery, ignorance - strength, there are enough distortions”. The court decided that “the poster contains antonyms and phrases”, but does not contain discredit.
• In Yekaterinburg, an activist who went to a picket with a sewn mouth was detained . They wanted to send to a psychiatric hospital, but then they still released it.
• Muscovites, who were going to commit suicide in protest against the war in Ukraine, tightened the accusations from hooliganism to prepare for the attack for the terrorist attack.
• Muscovite Vitaly Koltsov, who threw two bottles with an incendiary mixture into the auto -zak, sent two months to a pre -trial detention center. He was accused of attempting a security forces for a life (punishment under this article - from 12 to 20 years in prison, or life imprisonment).
• Here is a conversation with the human rights activist from Blagoveshchensk Vladislav Nikitenko, who submitted applications to all regional military investigative departments of the IC and prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation for members of the Security Council, including Putin, accusing them of unleashing an aggressive war, genocide and acts of international terrorism.

From the non-person: Navalny claims that he will be transferred to IK-6 in Melekhovo, Vladimir Region, a colony known for his torture (and for him they will be equipped with a “prison in prison”); Dentist Taraskin, who declared himself the acting of the President of the USSR, was sentenced to eight years in prison for “extremism”.

Russia in the world arena

The United Kingdom , following Australia , imposed new sanctions against Russia-they relate to 63 Russian citizens and companies, including KamAZ, VGTRK, TV presenters Mikhail Leontyev and Nail Askar-Zade, Komsomol military officer Alexander Kotz and others. British companies were forbidden to provide Russia with services in the field of management consulting, accounting and PR.

The European Union is in the process of coordinating the sixth package of sanctions against Russia: it includes (1) an oil embargo with a complete cessation of Russian oil imports six months after approval, and subsequently importing Russian oil products; (2) disconnection from Swift “Sber” and two more large banks; (3) a complete ban on Russians for operations with European real estate (owners of European permanent residence or citizenships do not fall under this ban); (4) Personal sanctions in the relationship of Patriarch Kirill ( read about his conversation with Pope Francis here ). Hungary was going to impose a veto on a decision on an oil embargo, then it seems to have agreed with this embargo, and now I decided to apply a veto again (which is happening in Hungarian politics against the backdrop of Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is told here ).

Estonia sent the organizer of the "Immortal Regiment" Alexei Yesakov (he has a Russian passport).

The international database of scientific quoting Web of Science has become unavailable in Russia.

The Moscow Arbitration Court arrested Google accounts for 500 million rubles in the NTV claim due to the blocking of the YouTube TV channel account.

Everything else

• The first head of independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, died . Here is a story about his life.
• In Belarus, the possibility of the death penalty for “attempted terrorism” was finally approved (the opposition is accused of this article).
• In Yerevan, the crowd surrounded the buildings of parliament and the Foreign Ministry. They demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan, accusing him of intentionally to sign an agreement with Azerbaijan on the recognition of the sovereignty of this country over the entire territory of the Nagorno -Karabakh. Protests do not subside since April 25.

Six links

• Emigrants of different waves. The historian of Avenue Vanyan tells how emigrants from the Russian Empire created the culture and architecture of the Serbian capital; Historian Igor Petrov explains how he managed to document the transformation of the Soviet writer Eric Ingobors into a German propagandist Nikolai Sokolovsky, and from him to Dictor Radio Liberty Nikolai Gorchakov.
• Movie. Conversation with the Ukrainian director Maxim Tsonechny, whose film "Vision of the Blobochka" will be shown in Cannes. Or the guide of Dmitry Volchek in a new documentary cinema (the crop of Jeden Svět festivals in Prague, CPH: Dox in Copenhagen and Visions du Réel in Nyon in Switzerland).
• Cultural policy. Anton Khitrov tells on the most striking examples about current changes in Russian cultural policy. Director and Songraiter Valery Polienko, who stood at the origins of the Tattoo and Beasts and invented the slogan “Dick War”, argues about the homeland and the main issue of today: “Why?”.

Sincerely yours,
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