April 22 marked the 150th birthday of the revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. Here's how Russia marked this glorious occasion. Komsomolskaya Pravda “resurrects” Lenin Today's trying times demand a frank discussion about sex, collapsing oil prices, the global economic crisis, and of course Ukraine. In other words, reasoned Komsomolskaya Pravda , we need to talk to Vladimir Lenin, so the newspaper “resurrected” him for an exclusive interview .

State Duma deputies from the "Fair Russia" Fedot Tumusov and Dmitry Ionin prepared a bill to end the blocking of Telegram. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to the text of the document. The deputies propose not to block Telegram, as now the authorities use it to inform about the situation with the coronavirus. In particular, many regional operational headquarters have launched messenger channels.

Employees of the neurological department of hospital No. 3 of the Lyubertsy Regional Hospital complained about the management to law enforcement agencies. RBC has copies of the complaints, their authenticity was confirmed by one of the authors, nurse Arkady Khaslavsky. The doctors sent three complaints to the heads of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee. They were signed by six employees of the neurological department.

In 78% of patients with moderate to severe course of coronavirus, who participate in a clinical trial of the antimalarial drug mefloquine, a positive trend is observed. This was reported by the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) of Russia. The study is being conducted by four leading research and clinical centers of the FMBA. They are testing how safe and effective mefloquine is in treating coronavirus compared to another antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine.

In Moscow, 27 patients who tested positive for coronavirus died in one day. The city operational headquarters reported this. Among the dead are people from 38 to 90 years old. Most of them had concomitant diseases. A 38-year-old patient had chronic bronchitis. The total number of coronavirus patients who have died in Moscow has risen to 288.

Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee - Head of the Main Military Investigation Directorate Alexander Sorochkin was relieved of his post and dismissed from military service. This is stated in the officially published decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Sorochkin turned 62 in March. He went to work for the Investigative Committee after serving in the state security agencies.

The federal platform for issuing digital passes will be implemented in 21 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. These regions themselves applied for connection to it, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications reported. At the first stage, seven regions will connect to the platform: Kostroma, Tula, Tambov, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Belgorod and Oryol regions. From next week, 14 more regions of the Volga region, Siberia, the Far East and the North Caucasus will be added to them.

22 April. Quarantine violators will be punished more severely. In Bashkiria, the hospital has become a breeding ground for COVID-19. The world economy will be very bad Good evening, This is Meduza's mailing list about the coronavirus during the pandemic. It comes out on weekdays instead of Evening Medusa. If this letter was sent to you by someone you know and you have not yet subscribed to the mailing list, subscribe here .

English-speaking listeners will finally be able to enjoy the music of Valery Meladze. Tiktok user Yulia Soloveitchik translated into English the song “There is no more attraction” (aka “One Hundred Steps Back”), recorded with VIA Gra. Soloveitchik performed a new version of the song on the guitar (and her cat at that time just lay there and listened).

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Vladimir Zelensky is a year old President of Ukraine. His example shows how difficult it is to change the post -Soviet country - even if you managed to take power from the old elite On April 21, it turned a year as Vladimir Zelensky leads Ukraine.

Denis Volchek, a businessman, former State Duma deputy and city legislator, was detained in St. Petersburg. This is reported by "Fontanka" without reference to sources. On the morning of April 22, employees of the central office of the FSB of Russia arrived at Volchek's country house. They seized the businessman's phones and computer, and he himself was taken to Moscow. According to Fontanka, Volchek is involved in a criminal case initiated by the Investigative Committee of Moscow.

People who violate Russia's self-isolation regime but are not suspected of having the coronavirus should receive lesser punishments for their offense, says a new judicial practice review from the Supreme Court, TASS reports. According to RBC , Russian courts have generally sentenced violations of the self-isolation regime under Section II, Article 6.3 of the Administrative Offenses Code, which outlines hefty fines ranging from 15,000 to 40,000 rubles (between $197 and $525).

Three lawmakers behind a bill that would recriminalize domestic violence in Russia have asked Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova to exempt victims of such abuse from punishment for violating quarantine restrictions, RBC reports. In their appeal to Golikova, the three State Duma deputies warn that the number of domestic violence complaints has been increasing since the introduction of self-isolation orders.

The Ukrainian prosecutor's office opened criminal cases on the facts of possible torture during the filming of the film “Dow. Degeneration”, which took place in Kharkov. Cases were opened under articles on torture by prior agreement and on the production of works that promote the cult of violence. According to the department, minors during the filming could have suffered physical pain and mental suffering.

If the rate of spread of coronavirus infection in Russia continues, hospital beds will run out in three to four weeks, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at a meeting of the Coordination Council under the Russian government . His words are quoted on the website of the Moscow mayor's office. According to Sobyanin, the total number of beds in Russian hospitals is 80 thousand. Not counting Moscow, 24.8 thousand beds are occupied.