Alexei Navalny was regularly visited by civilian doctors between March 24 and April 20. This was stated by the Commissioner for Human Rights under the President of Russia Tatyana Moskalkova, TASS reports. According to Moskalkova, she requested and received all the conclusions of doctors, not from the FSIN system, who examined Navalny. Among the civilian specialists who visited the politician were a radiologist, a neurosurgeon, a neurologist, a nephrologist, and a gastroenterologist.

On Monday, April 26, Moscow’s Savelovsky District Court jailed libertarian activist Mikhail Svetov for nine days. The “Civil Society” movement chairman was found guilty on administrative charges of organizing an unauthorized rally (a violation of Russian Administrative Code article 20.2, section 2). Svetov wrote on Twitter that he was charged over “a tweet with an alleged call [to protest], dated January 23.” “[Found] guilty of organizing a public event.

Russians doing battle with rare diseases are also fighting government officials to get the medications they need Sergey Fadeichev / TASS There are many people in Russia battling rare diseases. But no one knows exactly how many. Their treatment is often expensive with some drugs costing millions of rubles.

The UK has imposed sanctions against 14 Russian citizens who, according to the country's authorities, are connected to the Magnitsky case and involved in thefts from the Russian budget.

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow arrested Mikhail Svetov, a member of the unregistered Libertarian Party, for nine days. Svetov was found guilty under the administrative article on organizing a rally (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). As the politician clarified, he was charged with “a tweet with an alleged appeal dated January 23” as a violation. Guilty of organizing a public event.

Says historian Sergei Padoy AKG-Images / Scanpix / Leta Repair work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the accident On the night of April 26, 1986, an accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - the largest in the history of atomic energy. The construction of Chernobyl was a Soviet, "imperial" project.

What will happen to Medusa further. The headquarters of Navalny throughout the country suspended activities. There are so many dead from India from Covid that funeral bonfires burn day and night Good evening, This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. And on Mondays, also about what happened over the weekend. It seems that there are no good news today. Therefore, we will immediately move on to the main ones.

GRU officers from military unit 29155 carried out an attack on a warehouse where weapons of Bulgarian businessman Emelyan Gebrev were stored, as he was one of the key suppliers of ammunition for Ukraine during the active phase of the conflict in Donbass. This is reported by The Insider and Bellingcat. As the investigators found out, Gebrev’s company EMCO, whose weapons were stored in the warehouse in Vrbětice, exported ammunition to Ukraine between December 2014 and February 2015.

Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court has fined opposition figure Lyubov Sobol 300,000 rubles (about $4,000) for repeatedly violating the regulations for holding rallies (article 20.2, part 8, of the Russian Administration Code). Sobol, who works for Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, was fined over comments she made during an Ekho Moskvy radio broadcast.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Russia quarreled with the Czech Republic because of Petrov with Boshirov and sabotage in a weapon warehouse. Is this an episode of the new Cold War? This is true On April 17, Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babish and the Minister of the Interior Jan Gamachek said that the Russian GRU was involved in explosions in the warehouses of ammunition in the Vrbetitsa. Explosions occurred in 2014, then two people died.

Spoiler: We don’t know 🤦‍♂️ On Friday, April 23, the Russian Justice Ministry added Meduza to its list of “foreign agent” media outlets. Glance at the Russian-language side of our operation and the reverberations of this police action are unmistakable: Russian law requires us to notify readers about our new status in every message, whether it’s a news report or a post on social media. Crippling us further, these notifications must appear in a font that is twice the size of our actual content.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow fined FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol 300 thousand rubles. Sobol was found guilty under the article on repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies (Article 20.2, Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).

The Ministry of Culture has changed the charter of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater. Now the director and the president will manage the theater. They will appoint an artistic director in agreement with the Ministry of Culture, Interfax writes with reference to the department. The old charter of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater stated that the theater is managed by an artistic director - a director who concludes an agreement with the Ministry of Culture.

The Moscow prosecutor's office did not find in the archives an administrative document on the dismantling of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanka Square. This is stated in the response of the department to the request of the organization "Officers of Russia", which seeks the restoration of the monument.

Maxim Trudolyubov explains how torturing Alexey Navalny and repressing his supporters may fit into the Russian government’s larger foreign policy strategy Evgeny Feldman The Russian authorities recently threatened to designate the Anti-Corruption Foundation , the Citizens' Rights Protection Foundation , and Team Navalny’s offices as “extremist organizations.” In Russia’s hierarchy of “internal enemies,” any connection to an “extremist” organization can carry even more severe consequences than a