In March 2021, 23,715 people with coronavirus died in Russia. Such statistics are provided by Rosstat. In 15,003 cases, covid was recorded as the main cause of death, in 2,454 cases it was assumed as the main cause, but not confirmed by laboratory. In another 1,401 cases, the coronavirus contributed to the occurrence of complications that hastened death from other diseases, and in 4,857 cases it did not affect the onset of death. In total, 191.3 thousand people died in March 2021.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law imposing fines on journalists and editorial offices for distributing messages and materials from other media - "foreign agents" without specifying this status. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. Editorial offices are required to indicate the status of the media as a “foreign agent” only if they disseminate its messages (and not just mention it), and do this both on their pages and in their social networks.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has banned eight officials from European Union bodies and individual EU countries from entering Russia. According to a statement released by the Foreign Ministry on Friday, April 30, this decision comes in response to the EU imposing unilateral restrictions on Russian citizens and companies. The statement underscores that six Russian citizens came under EU sanctions in March 2021.

Russia's leading online sports publications Chempionat and Sports.ru announced a boycott of the CSKA football club due to the refusal of accreditation to a journalist after a critical article. As part of the boycott, all reporters from both publications will not go to CSKA matches and will not release any material about them, except for news items about the results.

Saratov pensioner runs into Russia’s State Duma speaker and gives him a piece of her mind While walking in downtown Saratov on Friday, April 30, Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin had a memorable encounter with a pensioner. The 90-year-old woman, who introduced herself as Anna Alexandrovna, gave Volodin an earful about how Russian officials are destroying the country by lying and stealing.

The phrase "foreign agent" in the eyes of many people has a negative connotation, but everything can be changed! A few days ago, shortly after Meduza was declared a “foreign agent,” the founder of the Avgvst jewelry brand, Natalya Bryantseva, suggested on her Instagram the idea of ​​releasing merchandise with the inscription “foreign agent.” What then? Never mind. It's just that everyone will go around as foreign agents, the status will seem to lose its negative connotation and depreciate.

Who is behind the recognition of the "Medusa" "ino -agent". The US Embassy will cease to issue visas to Russians. Why Brazil refused to buy "satellite V" Good evening, This is the daily Medusa newsletter about important news of the day, where we should now also write that the Ministry of Justice has declared us a “foreign agent”. By the way, you have a chance to make this warning more beautifully (or even more crazy). Before we move on to the news, look at the duck .

We tell you briefly what happened Anna Vinogradova / Kommersant Andrey Borovikov, 2019 The former coordinator of the Arkhangelsk headquarters of Navalny Andrei Borovikov received two and a half years in the colony in the case of the spread of pornography. In 2014, Borovikov made the repost of the Pussy clip of the Rammstein group in VKontakte, and in 2020 deleted it from his page. But this did not help. "Medusa" tells this not such a simple story.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has chosen a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions for the head of the human rights project “Team 29” , lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who is accused of disclosing preliminary investigation data (Article 310 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The court banned Pavlov from communicating with witnesses in his case, as well as from using the Internet and a mobile phone, Mediazona reports. Pavlov was detained on the morning of April 30.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Lawyer Ivan Pavlov for years defended people in courts from the FSB. In 2021, he himself became the accused. We speak with his colleague Valeria Vetoshkina On April 30, the FSB detained Ivan Pavlov, a lawyer, the head of the human rights project “Team 29”. The searches took place in the office of this organization, at the country of Pavlov, with his wife, as well as the IT specialist of the project Igor Dorfman.

The authorities disrupted the concert of rapper Noize MC (Ivan Alekseev) in Orenburg. The musician himself spoke about this on Instagram. According to Alekseev, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the regional administration put pressure on the concert venues before the concert, with which the organizers tried to negotiate. Because of this, the performance had to be divided into two and invite half of the audience to one place, and the other half to another.

Russia has closed entry to the country for eight representatives of official structures of the European Union and individual European countries. This was announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Let's figure out what the notification should look like - so that the law does not violate and it is beautiful (or even crazy) This phrase pursues our readers day and night. On each page with the material - and in each post on social networks. Here's what the Medusa Twitter looks like: Alas, this is the law: a phrase of 24 words in this formulation should accompany each article, every video, podcast and post on the social networks of a “foreign agent”.

Our continued existence now depends on you Sultan Suleimanov / Meduza The Russian authorities are trying to kill Meduza . The Justice Ministry has labeled us a “foreign agent,” chasing away our advertisers. This means we will run out of money. We are already running out of money. Let’s cut to the chase: You can help sustain Meduza right here . We’ve always believed that we could build a media outlet that served the public at no charge, relying on ad revenue.

In one of the military enlistment offices in Krasnoyarsk, recruits were asked to take a test with questions about their attitude towards rallies, revolutions and terrorists. This was reported by Taiga.info, which received a copy of the questionnaire from one of the conscripts.