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Chronicle of current events. Economics, society, politics. Issue 81
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* 19: 11 * The State Duma of the Russian Federation approved in the first reading the bill of United Russia on the endowment of the Prosecutor General’s Office to select a license from the Russian media without warning for information that it considers “disrespect for power”, “false messages” or “calls for unanctional events”.
The bill was introduced by deputies Oleg Matveychev (Kuzbass), Dmitry Savelyev (Novosibirsk Region) and other united Russians, including the head of the State Duma Committee on the Safety of Vasily Piskarev, as well as representatives of the "new people" Anton Tkachev and Rosa Chemeris, Socialist Revolutionaries Yana Lantratov and deputies from the LDPR Andrei Lugovoi and Sergey Leonov.
The State Duma website claims that the document is prepared for "mirror response measures to ban Russian media abroad." It really says that the Prosecutor General could initiate the closure of a foreign media in Russia in response to the closure of the Russian media abroad. But the main changes relate to the extrajudicial procedure for the recall of the media license, the introduction of responsibility for reprinting information from other media, if, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, it will be “false”, as well as the endowment of the Prosecutor General’s Office by the right of “eternal” blocking of resources on the Internet for “repeated distribution of prohibited or illegal information”.
Now you can deprive the media of registration "exclusively" in court, the Federal Law "On the Media" says .
* 19: 00 * Roskomnadzor drew up a protocol for the chief expense of the mediazone* Sergey Smirnov* for the non -mining of the "foreign agent" (part 1 of article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was announced by the editor himself.
“The protocol for the lack of marking in the telegram channel and YouTube! That is, Twitter and Facebook blocking work! There are no protocols for Twitter! Well, there will be a fine of 10 thousand, ”said Smirnov in his telegram channel.
The reason for the protocol was seven posts in the telegram channel and four videos on the YouTube channel, said human rights activist Pavel Chikov.
* 17: 55 * State Duma deputy from Transbaikalia Andrei Gurulev ("United Russia") suggested "destroy" Aeroflot.
“Over the past 10 years, I say that for the revival of Russian aircraft industry it is necessary to destroy Aeroflot, it was they who purchased foreign planes according to incomprehensible schemes,” Gurulev says in his telegram channel. - And the fact that the company's management began to occur after February 24, is indicative. All these figures are accustomed to bohemian life, which lies not in the service of the state and people, but in serving their own skin interests. Previously, they endured it, but now times have changed. ”
Gurulev himself, according to official figures, earned more than 6.6 million rubles in 2021. He is a reserve lieutenant, former deputy commander of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation. Before the election to the State Duma was the deputy prime minister of the Trans-Baikal Territory.
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* 17: 04 * The Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) considers the proposal of a “number of public organizations”, as well as the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu about the ranks of the saints of the commander Alexander Suvorov. This was announced by TASS by the chairman of the Synodal Commission on the canonization of the saints of the Moscow Patriarchate, Bishop of Troitsky Pankrati.
But for canonization we need information about the presence or absence of "facts of miracles."
“His Holiness Patriarch answered Sergei Kuzhugetovich [Shoigu] that we will collect materials. And you collect materials about his life, perhaps about those miracles that were performed, which we do not know about. When we have quite a lot of material, we will return to this issue thoroughly, ”the bishop said.
* 16: 15 * Mosgorsud upheld the sentence to Alexei Navalny in the case of “fraud” and “insulting the court”, Interfax reports . Given the abolition of the conditional conviction in the Yiv Rocher case, he was previously appointed 9 years of a maximum security colony.
* 16: 08 * Deputy Chairman of the Council of Security of Russia Dmitry Medvedev proposed “to work out mechanisms for the release of immigrants from Donbass and from Ukraine from the payment of state fees when paperwork in the Russian Federation,” TASS reports .
* 15: 31 * The volunteer of the “Civil Assistance Center” in Ust-Kut Tatyana Kuzakova is interrogated for six hours in the Investigative Committee, the publication “People of Baikal” reports with reference to her lawyer Olga Rosenrah.
According to Rosenrah, Kuzakov was called to the UK as a witness in criminal cases, instituted against the structures of Alexei Navalny. Investigators believe that the “Civil Assistance Center” collaborated with politician organizations.
The head of the Civil Assistance Center, Alexei Tupitsin, told the publication that investigators were going to search in Kuzakova’s apartment.
Tupitsin himself left Russia. Previously, he was searches at his home and in the editorial office, he was taken for interrogation in the UK in one of the affairs against Navalny. Now Alexei is located in one of the EU countries.
* 14: 34 * former President of Moldova Igor Dodon was detained for 72 hours in the case of corruption and treason, RBC reports .
Previously, Dodon began searches. According to the country's General Prosecutor's Office, he is suspected of receiving a bribe from businessman Vladimir Plahotnyuk. That, in turn, is accused of laundering money, illegal enrichment and withdrawal of $ 1 billion from the country's banking system. The businessman illegally left Moldova in June 2019,resemble Vedomosti.
* 14: 28 * The inscription in Irkutsk.
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* 14: 20 * MTS launched the sale of discounted and used smartphones in its own retail and online store.
* 13: 17 * The Federal Air Transport Agency extended the ban on flights to the airports of the south and west of Russia until May 31.
“The flights to the airports of Anapa, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov-on-Don, Simferopol and Elista are temporarily limited,” the website of the Federal Air Transport Agency said.
* 12: 51 * The State Duma of the Russian Federation on May 24 will consider the bill of United Russia on the establishment of the Prosecutor General’s Office to select a license from the Russian media without warning for information that it considers “disrespect for power”, “inaccurate messages” or “calls for unauthorized measures”. In addition, they wanted to block resources forever, which have already suffered from censorship, including after February 24.
The bill was introduced by deputies Oleg Matveychev (Kuzbass), Dmitry Savelyev (Novosibirsk Region) and other united Russians, including the head of the State Duma Committee on the Safety of Vasily Piskarev, as well as representatives of the "new people" Anton Tkachev and Rosa Chemeris, Socialist Revolutionaries Yana Lantratov and deputies from the LDPR Andrei Lugovoi and Sergey Leonov.
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The State Duma website claims that the document is prepared for "mirror response measures to ban Russian media abroad." It really says that the Prosecutor General could initiate the closure of a foreign media in Russia in response to the closure of the Russian media abroad. There is also a wording from which it follows that the Russian media and Internet users will try not to oblige the materials of the media “prohibited in Russia”. But the main changes relate to the extrajudicial procedure for the recall of the media license, the introduction of responsibility for reprinting information from other media, if, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office, it will be “false”, as well as the endowment of the Prosecutor General’s Office by the right of “eternal” blocking of resources on the Internet for “repeated distribution of prohibited or illegal information”.
Now you can deprive the media of registration "exclusively" in court, the Federal Law "On the Media" says .
* 12: 15 * Apple's official retailers in Russia Re: Store and iPort began to close stores, it should be from data on companies. Re: Store stores are temporarily closed in Novosibirsk in the Aura shopping center and the Gallery Novosibirsk shopping center, the company's website says. Only the point in the Royal Park remains available.
Part of Re: Store stores in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar and Chelyabinsk are also closed.
Re: Store is part of Inventive Retail Group, IRG. The Kommersant’s source in the real estate market said that IRG decided to suspend the work of stores for three months, during which the company expects to rebuild logistics: “The retailer agrees with the owners of the premises on the suspension of work and finally closes only points where it is not possible to agree on the rental holidays or discounts.”
There are 87 stores on the network. Apple stopped supplying to Russia after the start of the “special operation” in Ukraine.
* 12: 10 * Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation against reducing VAT for goods from "friendly countries".
* 11: 52 * Five Chinese companies can stop participating in the Novateka project “Arctic LNG-2” due to the sanctions of the European Union, writes South China Morning Post with reference to sources. At the same time, one of them said that the final decision has not yet been made.
In the construction of modules for Arctic LNG - 2, Bomesc Offshore Engineering, Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry, Penglai Jutla Offshore Engineering, Wison Offshore Engineering are involved Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan. According to the publication, manufacturers received notifications of termination of work on the modules by the end of the month.
The launch of the first stage of Arctic LNG-2 is scheduled for 2023, the second in 2024, the third in 2026, the Vedomosti writes. The cost of the project is estimated at $ 21.3 billion, Novateka owns 60%, other shareholders, including the French Totlenergies, Chinese CNPC and CNOOC, as well as the Japanese Japan Arctic LNG consortium - 10%each.
* 11: 28 * About a third of the Russians surveyed turned out to be supporters of the theories of conspiracy - most of these people are actively watching TV. Such the results of the hundredthold were cited by the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM).
37% of respondents believe that there are “secret organizations” and “secret forces”, supposedly affecting society and the behavior of people. Basically, people over 65 years old (49%) and active viewers (48%) believe in the theory of conspiracy. “The proportion of the conspiracy theory is growing faster than the share of its supporters is reduced. For 30 years, people began to deny twice more often the presence of secret organizations, while the share of supporters of such views decreased by almost a half times, ”the VTsIOM noted.
51% of respondents denies "the existence of secret organizations that determine the state of affairs in the country or the world." “More often, youth thinks about 18-34 years (62–64%) and active Internet users (63%),” the study says.
* 11: 20 * In Khakassia, they paid off the debt on vacation pay to doctors who assisted patients with Covid-19 in 2020. The local Ministry of Health reported this. Debts were estimated at 46.4 million rubles, they had to be extinguished from the regional budget, despite the promises of the federal authorities to provide payments.
“The debt was formed due to the delay in financing from the federal budget,” the regional government emphasized . - The Ministry of Health of Khakassia on an ongoing basis sends applications to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, but financing from the Ministry of Finance of Russia has not been received. Therefore, it was decided to repay debts from the republican budget. Funds to the accounts of health workers were transferred at the end of last week. ”
“Note that social benefits at the expense of the regional budget funds to health workers providing assistance to patients with COVID-19 are carried out monthly, without delay. Payments are charged according to the results of the past month, ”the Ministry of Health of Khakassia explained.
* 10: 20 * Altai journalist RusNews Maria Ponomarenko was transferred from St. Petersburg to Barnaul. This was reported by the publication itself, citing lawyer Sergei Podolsky.
Ponomarenko is accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army based on political hatred (paragraph “D” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The reason was Ponomarenko’s post in Telegram about the drama theater in Mariupol. The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent a journalist to a pre -trial detention center during the investigation.
Ponomarenko has two minor children, she faces up to 10 years in a colony. Previously, she handed a letter from a pre -trial detention center. “We hold on, do not give up, fight with evil,” she wrote.
The law on the introduction of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on March 4. Since then, it has been used, including against civilian activists, politicians and journalists. For example, in the pre-trial detention center there are already the founder of the Listovka city-Altai city newspaper Sergei Mikhailov , the editor-in-chief of the Khakass publication “New Focus” Mikhail Afanasyev , and the Kuzbass journalist Andrei Novashov -prohibiting certain actions.
*The main thing in the morning of May 24 *
• The Tver Court of Moscow rejected the Rain Channel Channel* On contesting the site blocking.
The representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation stated in court that after February 24, the channel “broadcast the position of the Western countries in a sense”: “Given the foreign financing, we have indicated by us, they regarded by us as a way of intentional introduction of a wide circle of users in order to form also protest sentiments in society and attempts to ultimately include the stability of the constitutional system and safety of the constitutional system and safety Russia ".
• The musician Noize MC (Ivan Alekseev) supported the 16-year-old Alena Kuznetsova detained in Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square. She went to a picket with a poster: “The naked king promises warm things to all subjects for the winter. With open mouths, the people are delighted with his fiery speech. ”
“The police, as expected, saw in the words on the poster the discrediting of the RF Armed Forces and took Alena to the insulator for minors for 48 hours, and then to the hospital, from where her mother had already taken her. The girl with dignity transferred all the “charms” of stay in these places, which she dedicated to the thread on Twitter, ”said Alekseev. -As soon as the news about the misadventures of the bold girl appeared in TG channels, lawyer Alexei Pryanishnikov and I found Alena and her mother and agreed that we would protect them-after all, the story did not end, and now the girl and mother are waiting for a trial in the commission of minors immediately after the case came to Kaluga. We will work and seek justice for Alena and her mother, we will definitely talk about the news! ”
• The Oktyabrsky District Court of the Kursk Region fined the municipal deputy of the village of Pryamitsyno Natalya Kulikov for 30 thousand rubles for the video criticized by the authorities, which she published after February 24. She was accused under Part 3 of Art. 20.1 Code of Administrative Offenses ("clear disrespect" to the representative of the highest state power)
Kulikova was elected to the village council from United Russia. A 47-year-old woman is a native of Kharkov. She pleaded guilty, saying that “she published this video message while in emotional excitement in connection with the events,” the court claims.
• Internet providers from the LPR reported on your work in the YouTube work, writes TJournal with reference to companies and user messages. At the same time, the service is available even through the Russian VPN, which can talk about the slowdown of the site specifically in the territory of the LPR.
The DPR also reported a global failure in the YouTube service.
• Money from the Moscow budget will go to the restoration of Donetsk and Lugansk, writes RBC with reference to the source. The amount is not indicated.
Earlier, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, claimed that the Russian regions would “take patronage over the areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics”. According to him, this decision was made by Vladimir Putin. At the same time, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that any documents distributing the territories of the LPR and the DPR between the Russian regions are not required: “Regions at their discretion, themselves can independently take other regions, including the regions of Donbass.” *According to the Ministry of Justice Rf, is the media that performs the functions of a foreign agent. We must indicate all this by prohibitive laws.
*According to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, is the media that performs the functions of a foreign agent. We must indicate all this by prohibitive laws.
** The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation introduced the OVD-Info to the register of unregistered public associations performing the functions of the "foreign" **
*** According to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation , is an individual performing the functions of a foreign agent.
**** Facebook and Instagram social networks are prohibited in Russia. They belong to META corporations recognized as extremist and prohibited in Russia.