It will become harder

Everything you need to know early in the morning of March 29

Good morning!

They leave Russia-Trolls. The heirs of Tove Jansson ceased to give Russian companies new licenses to use their images and extend the current ones - apparently, they fear that they will be uncomfortable in Russia. The rest is like this:

• The commander of the land forces of the Ukrainian army called the situation around Bakhmut tense, but controlled. Fights no less intensity are followed by Avdeevka.
• The father of a schoolgirl, who painted an anti -war drawing, was given two years in a colony. The court stated that he escaped from house arrest.
• The cassation court canceled the acquittal to the artist Julia Tsvetkova, who was accused of spreading pornography for drawings of the female body. She left Russia.
• In Russia, for the first time in 20 years, the number of murders has grown.
• The National Assembly of France recognized the Holodomor with the genocide of the Ukrainian people.

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Military reports

The fighting in the Donbass is concentrated around Bakhmut and Avdeevka. The commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Army, Alexander Syrsky, located in the Bakhmut area, calls the situation there “tense, but controlled”; The task of the Ukrainian army, he said, is to exhaust the Russian one. Here is a fresh report on Ukrainian gunners fighting under Bakhmut.

Avdeevka is known about the situation in the suburbs of Donetsk Avdeevka (both sides closed the city for journalists): Avdeevka, like Bakhmut, is in half-reduction, the Russian army carries heavy losses there (British military intelligence reports that the Russian 10th Panzer Regiment has lost a large part of its tanks there), but it actively involves the Ukrainians to cope with the deaths (the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported about the death The squadron of the squadron of Major Denis Kirilyuk, without specifying, however, the places of death). Everything that is known about the situation in Avdeevka is collected here , but a selection of videos from Avdeevka and Slavyansk, the center of which on Monday underwent Russian missile shelling.

The President of Ukraine on Tuesday went to the Sumy region, visited the location of the border guards and handed the honorary sign of the hero city of Akhtyrka. The head of the Magate Rafael Grossy, whom Zelensky met on the eve of Zaporozhye, should come to the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant today. Grossy gave a pessimistic interview with CNN, in which he stated that the fighting around the largest nuclear power plant in Europe was becoming more actively. What are the direct tasks of his visit and what he will see at the station, Olga Koshaka, a Ukrainian nuclear security expert, tells here .

The Ukrainian Ministry of Reintegration of temporarily occupied territories has updated data on illegally exported Ukrainian children: now it is known about 19,514 such children ( it tells who it is, under what circumstances they were exported and what is happening with them in Russia). The children who returned home talked about beatings and identified a person who threatened with particularly obstinate - he turned out to be a former Berkutian, and here are new details about him.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine made new accusations to the former President “Motor Sich” Vyacheslav Boguslaev: in April last year, he allegedly prevented the transfer of a military helicopter to the Military Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Boguslaev was detained at the end of October last year on suspicion of collaboration and complication of Russia.

The Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine announced that the first three shock companies of the Ukrainian army of drones have already been formed. When these units are sent to battle, it is not specified. Great Britain and Poland agreed to build two temporary villages for immigrants in the Poltava and Lviv regions.

War, view from Russia

According to The Guardian, in December last year, at a dinner in the house of a certain Russian official, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned the elite there that the war would drag out for a long time and “everything would be much heavier.” The interlocutor of the newspaper noted that the guests were unpleasant to hear this.

And the war is everything stretch:

• In New Moscow, the wreckage of a homemade drone was found , painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, with the words “glory to Ukraine” on the wings. It is still unknown who launched it, but it is known that the Russian authorities plan to deal with the attacks of drones with the help of private security companies.
• Vorkuta mayor Yaroslav Shaposhnikov announced that he was leaving for war in Ukraine. But not immediately, but "somewhere in May." Together with him, according to him, five more city officials will go to fight, but they could not name their names at the city hall to journalists.
• In the Rostov region, a soldier was accused of Gosizmen and illegal access to Gostine. What exactly he did is not known.
• Three cadets died at the Military Academy of Communications near St. Petersburg. What happened to them is not yet clear.
• The New York Times journalist Christian Tibert published a new satellite picture of the Wagner PMC in a hot man, which indicates the appearance of hundreds of new graves there. The bodies of mercenaries who did not indicate where they would like to be buried are taken to the hot key.
• The flow of appeals of the wives of mobilized to Putin stopped, but the stories of Russian women-military personnel began to appear: here is a contractor named Margarita about sexual harassment by officers, grandiose problems with the supply of the army, terrible intimidation of those who refuse to go to the frontal attack, cases of self-arrest and other horrors. Margarita, however, after rehabilitation, is ready to return to the front, because, according to her, they do not pay money in other places.

And everything becomes much harder:

• In 2022, the number of murders and attempts on murder for the first time in 20 years increased in Russia. This is stated in the report of the lawyer association "Traumeter." The authors believe that one of the reasons for growth is the war in Ukraine.
• According to Bloomberg, Russia classified almost a third of all budget expenditures.
• According to Financial Times, about two thousand foreign companies are waiting for permission from the Ministry of Finance to sell their assets in Russia and leave the country. German Henkel found buyers for its 11 Russian plants; The American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced full departure from Russia.
• After the departure of Western companies and the introduction of sanctions, the state of the Russian oil and gas industry is entertaining here .
• From the new academic year, students will be obliged to study the Chinese language instead of Spanish, French or German so that they can “read technical documentation”.
• The countries of the North Atlantic ceased to let Russian scientific vessels into their economic zones.

But not everyone is bad

• The company Centrum Moscow, 30% of the shares of which belong to the daughter of the Putin spokesman Elizabeth Peskova, increased revenue by seventy times over the year, reports Virta. The company is engaged in the "design and creation of exhibition spaces and expositions", among its customers - the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Moscow government, Rosrybolovstvo and other government agencies.
• Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov over the year of the war in Ukraine became the first billionaire in the government. He got rich in the sale of real estate to the company Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia. Manturov’s children live in apartments for a quarter of a billion rubles. This is stated in a joint investigation of "interlocutor" and "we can explain."
• “Important stories” described elite real estate, expensive cars and the corresponding lifestyle of family members of the first FSB, Army General Sergei Korolev, and then explained the origin of this wealth: for many years, Korolev “resolved issues” with business through his acquaintance Valery Bitaev. Bitaev received 23% as a reward at Citadel, which by the end of 2018 became the largest supplier of SORM equipment for mobile operators.
• The FSB, meanwhile, developed a draft government decree, which provides it with "24 -hour remote access" to the bases of taxi aggregators without the permission of the court.

Russian-Belarusian punitive

• The court in the Tula region sentenced Alexei Moskalev, the father of the sixth grader Masha, who drew an anti -war drawing in the school lesson at the school in the school under the article on the “re -discredit” of the Russian army for publication in “Odnoklassniki”. Moskaleva was not in court, because the day before at night he escaped from under house arrest. Where he is now is not known. A few hours before the verdict announced the daughter of Moskalev, who is now contained in the shelter, handed the lawyer the accused drawings and a letter for her father, which ends with the phrase: "Dad, you are my hero."
• In Moscow, the trial of politician Vladimir Kara-Murza continues , who, after improving in the schizo, had serious health problems. On March 27, he was examined by doctors, but the pre -trial detention center has not yet submitted any documents to the lawyer. Presumably, the policy of polyneuropathy, caused by two poisoning “newcomer”; Such a diagnosis prevents serving a sentence. Kara-Murza is accused immediately by three articles and is now being judged for the distribution of “fakes” about the Russian army.
• Former FBK employee Pavel Zelensky, who in 2021 received two years in a colony in the case of calls for extremism, testified against the former head of Navalny’s headquarters in Ufa Lilia Chanysheva. Chanysheva is charged with participation in the activities of the “extremist community”, and Zelensky confirmed in court that the employees of the FBC and Navalny’s headquarters were engaged in extremist activities. The director of the FBK Ivan Zhdanov does not directly call Zelensky an agent of special services in FBK, but recalls that he was convicted of two tweets, which later became the basis for the recognition of the FBK with an extremist organization, after his arrest he pleaded guilty and refused a lawyer, and after his release he did not leave Russia, although Zhdanov offered his assistance.
• The cassation court canceled the acquittal to the artist Julia Tsvetkova, who was accused of spreading pornography for publishing drawings of the female body in VKontakte. The case will be sent for a new consideration. Tsvetkova and her mother left Russia in November last year, as soon as the acquittal entered into force. The case has been going on since the fall of 2019.
• The court in the Krasnodar Territory fined 40 thousand rubles of a local priest and theologian Viktor Pivovarov on charges of “discrediting the army” during a church sermon.
• In relation to the teacher of the Nizhny Novgorod university, Olga Lizunkova, who was previously forced to resign due to the denunciation of students, a criminal case of “discrediting” of the Russian army was opened . Immediately after dismissal, she left for Kyrgyzstan.
• A criminal case of the “fakes” about the Russian army for comments on the looting of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, left on the E- Xecutive.ru website in April of last year, was opened against Muscovite. Tomorrow the court will choose a measure of restraint.
• The magistrate court in Moscow fined three graffitists in the case of vandalism for anti -war graffiti. At the same time, the amount of the fine, like many details of the crime, is for some reason hidden in the document.
• In Belarus, the son of the politician Anatoly Lebedko Artem was detained . In 2000-2018, Anatoly Lebedko headed the United Civil Party. Now he lives abroad and is a representative of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya according to constitutional reform and parliamentary cooperation. In Belarus, a criminal case has been instituted against him. For which the son was detained, no one knows.
• Interviews with the accused: the professor of Chicago University, economist Konstantin Sonin (accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army) tells how suddenly a criminal case arose against him; Petersburg activist Boris Romanov (also “fakes”) recalls the escape from Russia, denunciation and mockery in jail; The artist Vadim Grigoriev-Bashun, due to the “discrediting” picture of which on the St. Petersburg private museum of modern art “Erarta”, the police received a denunciation, interprets his work.

Other Russian

• The court in St. Petersburg, famous for the prohibitions of various cartoons and anime, forbade to publish a quote from Sartre in Russia: “Any anti -communist is a bastard”. The context of the communist explained to the court the context in which Sartre had this phrase, told about the philosopher Morisa Merlo-Ponti, explained why the word “chien” used in the original can be translated as “bastard”. Even the translator Valery Fokin was called to court, but he did not come.
• Roskomnadzor promises to block the resources broadcasting Eurovision - 2023 if it finds in these broadcasts the “propaganda of LGBT”.
• Judging by the activities of the VK company, expanding the network of servers to accelerate video downloading, they are going to ban YouTube in Russia. Previously, a sign of a quick banube ban was considered that the television channels included in the Gazprom-Media holding stopped uploading their programs on YouTube. But now they lay out again . Again this damned uncertainty.
• On Tuesday night, unknown people fired on the post of police on the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia - two police officers were wounded, the attackers disappeared. On Wednesday night, two unknown people fired at the police department in the Chechen city of Gudermes, they were killed .

International Echo of War

• The Lithuanian Seim of Lithuania postponed for an indefinite period the bill on the restriction of the rights of Russians and Belarusians in the country (it involves the termination of the acceptance of applications for citizenship and a residence permit, as well as a ban on the purchase of real estate in Lithuania). In the first reading he was accepted on March 21.
• Russian human rights activist Daryan Gryaznov was not allowed into Georgia without explanation.
• In Poland, on suspicion of espionage in favor of Russia, three more foreigners were detained .
• The National Assembly of France recognized the Holodomor with the genocide of the Ukrainian people. Ukraine thanked .
• The United States supported the idea of a "hybrid tribunal" on the crimes of Russia in Ukraine, that is, an international court based on the legal system of Ukraine, but including some international elements. Ukraine would prefer to establish a separate international court, but this requires support for the UN General Assembly, where there may not be enough votes.
• The United States has stopped exchange with Russia on nuclear forces in connection with the withdrawal of Moscow from the contract for START-3.

Everything else

• In Mexico in a fire in the center for migrants located near the border with the United States, at least 39 people died .
• North Korea said that she had an imitation of a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere.
• Read about the threat of a new pandemic in the near future here .

Seven links

• Peter I.​ Essay on the historian Dmitry Levchik about Peter as the founder of Russian utopian colonialism. Or an excerpt from the book by historian Evgeny Akeliev “Russian Misopogon: Peter I, Braudbrium and ten million“ Muscovites ”(Publishing House of the UFO”), dedicated to how the authorities monitored the observance of the Petrine Decree in Moscow and forced those who refused to pay the fee. Plus a review of this book.
• Soviet book. The biographical essay of Irina Pivovarova (1939–1986) - writers, poet and artist, famous for children's poetic collections with her own illustrations and pictures of his then husband Viktor Pivovarov. Or the story of Irina Ponomarenko about the Soviet book schedule and her place in the changing hierarchy of arts.
• Animals. An excerpt from the book of Maria Mozersitskaya and the Karina of the Pinti “dog with me. How to understand the dog and make it happy” (Publishing House of Individuum), which explains how smart the dogs are actually smart. Or a fragment from the book of the Canadian veterinarian Philip Shott “How to examine Wolverine” (Publishing House “Corpus”), dedicated to the effects of feline mint on domestic and wild cats.

Sincerely yours,
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