Russia could start direct payments to citizens in the context of the Pandemia of Coronavirus, if the ruble was a reserve currency, in the current conditions you need to help business. This was stated by Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov in an interview with Vedomosti. “If we printed backup currencies, we could also“ scatter money from a helicopter ”and spend trillions of rubles. But the task is not to compete who will spend more, but to help those who primarily need support.

Moscow authorities purchased Dutch express tests for coronavirus, which, as it turned out, were actually produced in China, and their accuracy below the declared. This was reported by "important stories" and the Center for the study of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP). We are talking about Biozek Medical tests in INZEK International Trading BV from the Netherlands. In other things, the Chinese company Hangzhou Alltest Biotech Co. produced by Moscow Tests. Ltd.

About 30% of loans from loans announced a loss of work during the Pandemia of Coronavirus, RBC writes about this with reference to large banks and the National Association of Professional Collection Agencies (Napka). According to these data, in April, the share of debtors who refuse to pay on loans due to financial difficulties increased by 10 percentage points. And amounted to 60%. A year earlier, only 18% of customers were explained by defaults by loss of work.

In Chelyabinsk, ambulance drivers Chelyabmedtrans warned that they could refuse to carry patients with suspicion of coronavirus due to lack of surcharges of 25 thousand rubles, which were promised by Vladimir Putin. This was announced by MBH Media Coordinator of "Human Rights Cards" Alexei Pryanishnikov.

Several hundred students studying in Russian medical universities complained that they were forcibly sent to fight coronavirus. This was announced by the "MBH Media" press secretary of the Alliance of Doctors, Ivan Konovalov. “At the moment, they turned from several universities in Moscow - the first honey, the second honey. From Moscow State University was asked to protect students of other universities. There were appeals from Perm from the Perm State Medical University.

Over the past two years, four criminal cases have been instituted in Russia related to the crimes of the Nazis during the Second World War in the occupied territory of the USSR. All - under Article 357 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Genocide”, one of the rarest articles in Russian legal practice. This is not a combination of circumstances, this is the result of the activities of the federal project “without a statute of limitations” , and many similar cases can be instituted.

On the evening of May 6, it became known about the suicide of businessman Dmitry Bosov. Briefly about who it is. In 2020, Dmitry Bosov took 86th place in the ranking of “200 richest businessmen of Russia” according to Forbes. The publication estimated his condition at 1.1 billion dollars. He was the largest shareholder and head of the Board of Directors of the Alltek group, which controlled the Sibantracite company, the Russian leader in the production of metallurgical coal.

Updated (14:48) The Kremlin said that they were not inclined to trust the results of the study of Putin’s rating, which was held by the Levada Center. This was stated by Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. “We have repeatedly said that they have different methods, we are not inclined to completely trust the results of these polls,” Peskov said.

“MBH Media” continues to publish the cycle of articles by Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Higher School of Economics Emil Pain “ Overcoming stereotypes: political and ethnographic sketches”.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus has deprived the accreditation of the television group of Channel One after the plot of the situation in the republic with coronavirus. This was announced on the air of the Belarus 1 television channel, Interfax reports . The press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Anatoly Eye confirmed the recall of accreditation.

Lipetsk mayor Evgenia Vovarkin and the regional governor Igor Artamonov at the meeting discussed how to disperse the gathers on the street during the “self -insulation” of the townspeople with the help of a car for spraying reagents. The recording of the conversation “MBH Media” was provided by the deputy of the Lipetsk Regional Council Oleg Khomutinnikov. At the meeting, Uvarkin reported that city officials plan to hold a “pilot launch” of the car in the Lower Park to “see which fog forms”.

The total number of coronavirus in the world exceeded 3.6 million people, the dead - more than 257 thousand, this is evidenced by the data of the John Hopkins Institute. According to these data, the US remains a leader in the number of confirmed cases, where 1.2 million cases of infection are confirmed, of which 71 thousand people died. In second place in the number of infections of Spain - there are 219 thousand sick, in the third - Italy, where 213 thousand sick.

Russian journalists and cultural figures turned to the chairman of the Supreme Court of Karelia Anatoly Skvasu with a request to release the head of the Karelian branch of Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev from the pre-trial detention center-1 Petrozavodsk, where the prisoners were revealed by coronavirus. An open letter was published by the New Gazeta. “Dmitriev is 64 years old, just two months ago he suffered a serious cold.

In Moscow, from May 12, the “weekend” regime, introduced due to the pandemic of coronavirus, will be removed from all industrial enterprises. This was announced at a meeting with Vladimir Putin by the mayor of the city Sergey Sobyanin. “This enables half a million Muscovites to get full work. This is important for the country's economy and the country's economy, ”said Sobyanin.

The court refused to human rights activist Valery Teterin, who filed a lawsuit against the governor of the Irkutsk region due to the introduction of the “self-isolation” regime, Siberia reports . MBH Media ”with reference to activist Pavel Kharitonenko. “They refused all the requirements. Human rights activists Valery Teterin and Dmitry Ponomarenko intend to appeal the decision up to the European Court, ”Kharitonenko said.