Agency "Shadow"

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Russian assets of the Renault group passed into state property. The Moscow authorities received the Renault Russia plant and promised to establish the production of Moskvich cars there. But it was not more fun to live from this:

• According to the Institute for the Study of War, Russia focused all efforts on the capture of Severodonetsk and the capture of the Luhansk region. On Tuesday night, the Lviv region was shelling.
• The Ukrainian military began to be exported from Azovstali to the so -called “DPR”. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine claims that they will be exchanged for Russian prisoners of war.
• The military registration and enlistment offices in Russia are being launched by the “volunteers”; In St. Petersburg, the military enlistment office demanded a Gazelle from a private company to conduct “mobilization events”.
• The Dossier Center claims that private detectives associated with the FSB followed Navalny.
• Russian Forbes will stop going out on paper.

Military reports

According to the American Institute for the Study of War, Russia abandoned the plans of the large -scale environment of the Ukrainian group in the Donetsk region and now directs the main efforts to take control of the Luhansk region, desperately storming Severodonetsk. According to the mayor of Slavyansk , in the Donetsk region, Russian troops fired at Svyatogorsk and Liman-they did not manage to take Slavyansk because of an unsuccessful offensive in the area of raisins. According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russia is trying to keep its position in the Kharkov region.

On Monday, Russiainflicted a aircraft in the Odessa region - four civilians, including a six -year -old girl, were seriously wounded . In the afternoon, Nikolaev was sheated (in addition to shelling, the main problem of this city is that from April 12, water supply was violated there). On Tuesday night, Russia was massively fired at Lviv and the Lviv region .

The evacuation of the Ukrainian military from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol began . In total, 264 Ukrainian troops left the territory of the enterprise, of which 53 were injured. The wounded was delivered to the city of Novoazovsk, which is under the control of the so -called “DPR”, another 211 military were delivered to a deer (also “DPR”). The Channel One correspondent there writes that they will begin to interrogate them in the morning.According to the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Anna Malel, to return the defenders of Azovstali, the exchange procedure will be applied to Ukraine. People still remain at the factory, now they are trying to save them. The President of Ukraine in the evening appeal emphasized that “Ukrainian heroes are needed by Ukraine alive” and that work to return “requires delicacy and time”. Here is a monologue evacuating Inna Tsoloki from Mariupol - her son Mark, an employee in the National Guard of Ukraine, is located on Azovstal. Mariupoltsev can now be found around the world - from the find , where they have hard to do, to the Estonian city of Polva .

According to the first deputy head of the Kherson regional council, Yuri Sobolevsky, from 40 to 45% of residents, occupied by Russian troops, the city. The main reason is the food crisis and the atmosphere of terror. You can get into the “filter basement” for some photo in the phone that the Russian military did not like. Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova announced the identification of 45 people from Russia who are suspected of committing war crimes in Ukraine. The trial of one of them, prisoner of war Vadim Shishimarin , will begin tomorrow.

There is no war in Russia - for now

According to the estimates of the American military expert Michael Kofman, about 10 thousand Russian troops were killed in Ukraine. Here is the story of one of them, Captain Denis Frolov from Transbaikalia: in early March, near Kiev, by an unhappy accident, he fell under the armored vehicle of the so -called “LPR” and received the Order of Courage posthumously; His wife says that immediately after the “exercises” he planned to quit the army, because there was a mess. The mother of the missing conscript from the cruiser “Moscow” still hopes that her son was alive: she went to the Crimea, walked along the hospitals and met with the father of another missing age, Dmitry Shrebz, but rather quickly wounded sailors stopped talking to her, the skin, apparently, was intimidated by two accompanying bodies, read .

According to human rights activist Alexei Tabalov, the Russian military registration and enlistment offices were launched by volunteers - each district commissariat should find at least 60 people; To solve this difficult task, often using students, forcing them to sign the consent to conduct early draft events. Despite the fact that mobilization was not formally announced, one of the district military enlistment offices in St. Petersburg demanded that the private company provide 10 days “Gazelle” for mobilization measures (this is legal only in a martial law that was not announced in Russia). The Russian BBC service says that the police once a week are forced to hear Putin's transcripts or videos of performances and then hand over the notes written by hand; This annoys them, but not as much as a recent requirement to equip a duffel bag at your own expense (according to the law, when transferring the police to work in wartime, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is obliged to provide a duffel bag for each employee).

“Important stories” publish an investigation by Anin’s novel about how Putin decided to start a war with Ukraine (spoiler: the fifth FSB service informed him only what he wanted to hear, and he herself received information from Ukrainian officials who fled from Kiev in 2014 after Yanukovych). ANNIN sources call the FSB employees “performing morons” and crave their blood. The fact that the elites, military and special services are unhappy, is confirmed by the head of Bellingcat Khrista Grozev - according to him, with the outbreak of the war of the “plums” from the system became 50 times more.

According to British intelligence, Alexander Lukashenko balances between the support of the Russian invasion and the desire to avoid direct participation in it, fearing the sanctions, the discontent of the Belarusian military and the response of Ukraine. Lukashenko at least balances: as the meeting of the leaders of the countries of the organization on collective security (CSTOs) took place in Moscow, they are not even ready to speak about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the resolution adopted following the results of the resolution speaks of “tendencies to forceful intervention in crisis, inpouring generally recognized international legal norms and principles”. This, however, did not prevent Putin from telling them also about the development of biological weapons in Ukraine.

Life in Russia is getting better

• The Central Bankincreased the limit to transfer money from the Russian account to foreign from 10 to 50 thousand dollars.
• Nashstore was opened - the Russian analogue of Google Play. Immediately after the opening, he fell, but then rose and shook himself off.
• McDonalds announced the sale of all restaurants and final care from the Russian market. It will not be possible to use his brand. The same is the Israeli Gett taxi service.
• The Russian Forbes will stop going out on paper because the paper has risen in price, and the advertisers left. In Russia and Belarus, the Olympiads of 2026 and 2028 will not be shown, because these two countries did not allow the tender for the purchase of rights for television banks.
• A bill was introduced to the State Duma that orders not to implement the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (including in the issue of compensation), issued after March 16 - the day when Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe in connection with aggression against Ukraine.
• Roskomnadzor blocked in Russia The Village Belarus for an article on the shelling of the station in Kramatorsk; The court in Moscow fined Radio Freedom for another 18 million rubles for refusing to delete materials about the war in Ukraine.
• In Russia, there is a cleaning of the field of education. Universities leave teachers sometimes without explaining reasons or for far -fetched reasons ( here are examples from St. Petersburg), and sometimes at the request of vigilant colleagues ( here is the story of Denis Grekov from the Ranks, who was forced to quit on his own retroactively and then leave Russia). School teachers who expressed themselves against the war in Ukraine are often fired with the wording “for an immoral act” - this happened with Alexander Boburov, a physics teacher at the President’s private school, where children of senior officials and rich are studying.
• Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order excluding director Rimas Tuminas, who had previously left the post of the head of the theater named after Vakhtangov, from among the laureates of the Russian Government Prize in the field of culture for 2021. The reason is not explained.

Discreditors and vandals

• The court in Pushkin (formally this is the area of St. Petersburg) sent to the pre -trial detention center of a citizen of Ukraine Yegor Kazanz, who wrote the spray with "Glory to Ukraine!" On the facade of the house (“vandalism”, up to three years in prison).
• A resident of Vladivostok, who doused the monument to Richard Sorge (also “vandalism”) with a paint, the court sent to a pre-trial detention center , and its minor daughters to a socio-rehabilitation center. At home, pets remained unattended.
• The Moscow municipal deputy and Pussy Riot Pussy Riot was put on the wanted list .
• In Petrozavodsk, a 77-year-old pensionerwas fined 30 thousand rubles under an article on the “discredit” of the Russian army: she hung a Putin leaflet in the entrance, went out of Ukraine, and the chairman of the TZHS announced it to the police because “people should not see these calls that create an abnormal situation in the house.”
• The St. Petersburg edition of the Paper published a protocol of interrogation of the 72-year-old Petersburzhenka, who announced the police for the artist Sasha Skochilenko. Skochilenko replaced the price tags in the “Crossroads” for reports of Mariupol and is now sitting in a pre -trial detention center in the criminal case of “discrediting”. The pensioner during the interrogation said, in particular, the following: “Our soldiers would not allow the bombing of peaceful civilian objects such as the school. Thus, it is obvious that the information is a lie.”
• The general producer of the Krasnoyarsk independent TV channel Vadim Vostrov drew up an administrative protocol on the “dicreditation” of the Russian army due to publication in Telegram quotes from the article by Shura Burtin on Medusa to enter into darkness and find people in it (in it, the author is trying to understand why the Russians support the war).
• In Yevpatoria, the media artist Bogdan Zizu was detained , who allegedly doused the facade of the local administration with yellow and blue colors. The security forces posted a video on the network with his “guilty admission”.

But there are other articles

• The Dossier Center claims that the Ryazan private detective agency “Shadow” associated with the FSB monitored Navalny before poisoning. Probably, they were hired by the poisoners from the FSB.
• The court in Moscow sentenced to eight years the colony participant in the promotion in support of Navalny on February 2, 2021, Maria Chugunova on charges of “roads of roads”. Under the same article, the Libertarian Gleb Maryasov was previously convicted.
• The court in Perm sentenced the former State Duma deputy from United Russia Alexei Burnashov to 2.5 years in a general regime colony in the case of an attack on the traffic police inspector (the United Russia tried to bite his ear).
• The court in Moscow sent to the pre -trial detention center two former orderlies of the Saratov prison regional hospital No. 1, which prisoners accused of torture and rape.

Shares and dominates

Putin reacted relatively softly to the decision of Sweden and Finland to join NATO (he said that Russia does not have territorial disputes with these countries, unlike Ukraine, therefore the conflict is unlikely) - but sharply against the membership of Sweden and Finland, the Turkish President Erdogan spoke in NATO. He called Sweden the “incubation center of terrorist organizations”, accusing it of covering the “Kurdish militants” and followers of Fethullah Gulen. The conflict is planned, because for the country's entry into NATO, all members of the alliance should be supported.

The European Union was not able to coordinate the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, which includes an oil embargo. Hungary is still against: requires money and more delay. The EU countries, the EU countries, who met on the eve of Brussels, could not solve this problem, now it will be discussed at the level of ambassadors in the EU, and then decide at the EU summit on May 30–31. Germany will refuse to purchase Russian oil until the end of this year, regardless of whether it will be possible to convince Orban.

In Ukraine, the assets of the Russian oligarch Mikhail Friedman were arrested for more than $ 430 million.

According to The Bell, Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh asked the prime minister of Israel to help with visas to the company's employees.

Everything else

• The court in Tbilisi sentenced to 3.5 years the prison of the head of the opposition television company Mtavar Nika Gwairami. He is accused of embezzlement when he was the head of the Rustavi 2 television channel, but Hvaray himself calls the matter politically motivated. Opposition parties, the media community and NGOs threaten to begin mass protests if the authorities do not immediately release the journalist.
• In Yerevan, 91 participants in the opposition rally were detained with the request of Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan. The police said that such promotions pose a threat to traffic safety.
• As a result of shooting in the Presbyterian church in California, one person was killed , five more were injured. The parishioners themselves detained the shooter.
• According to observers, in North Korea there may be up to a million infected with coronavirus. To fight the epidemic, the army is involved.

Six links

• Story. The story of King Philip IV Beautiful, who ruined France with a strong hand and destroyed his own dynasty. Or a story about a massacre in Glenko, after which the non -fulfillment of criminal orders became a military duty.
• Dutch painting. The intellectual biography of the art historian Svetlana Alpers and an excerpt from her book “The Art of Description. Dutch painting in the 17th century” (Publishing House V-a-C Press).
• The science of unsuccessful.An excerpt from the book of Michael Gaazanigi “Consciousness as instinct. Riddle of the brain: where does the psyche come from” (Publishing House Corpus) on the formation of neuropsychology. Or a fragment from Lydia Denvort's book “On Friendship. Evolution, Biology and Superlane of the main in life of ties” (also “Corpus”) about the influence of social relations on human physical health.

Sincerely yours,
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