Dozens of scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard University, the Parisian School of Economics, the Russian Academy of Sciences and other leading scientific and educational institutions from around the world expressed indignation at the persecution of Alexei Navalny and severe suppression of protests in his support. An open letter was published on the website of the newspaper "Trinity option - Science" February 1, reports DW.

In St. Petersburg, a participant in the action was detained on January 31, which the policeman threatened with a gun. This was reported by TASS with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. 32 years old, a native of Astrakhan, whose name is not called, was detained in the case of the use of violence to a police officer. The Ministry of Internal Affairs believe that the actions of the protester prompted the policeman to get a service weapon.

Dozens of scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard University, the Parisian School of Economics, the Russian Academy of Sciences and other leading scientific and educational institutions from around the world expressed indignation at the persecution of Alexei Navalny and severe suppression of protests in his support. An open letter was published on the website of the newspaper "Trinity option - Science" February 1, reports DW.

Video reports from Moscow (and not only Moscow) streets on January 31, to the extent of mixing, resembled recent shots from Minsk. Absolutely peaceful people dragged on asphalt, beat with batons on their feet, brought with electric shockers to loss of consciousness, powerlessly pulled out of the crowd and threw face into mud.

The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called "absolutely logical" administrative protocol on the chief editor of the "mediazone" Sergey Smirnov, drawn up due to the repost of a joke on Twitter. “He doesn’t have a participation in the action. In my opinion, he is charged with something else, if I’m not mistaken. Everything is absolutely logical there,” Peskov said. “Contact law enforcement agencies, this is not the prerogative of the presidential administration.

The Israeli company Teva will resume the supply of the Vincristine antitumor drug to Russia. The first batch will be received in April 2021. A number of cancer in the Russian Federation were in short supply due to the low cost of registration. As explained in the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the prices for these drugs were registered back in 2010 at a very low level, which made their production and deliveries unprofitable.

Dmitry Medvedev, whom the observers for some time lost sight of, suddenly showed up with a great interview, where he called Alexei Navalny "unbridled and cynical political rogue." To some extent, it became black ingratitude, because Medvedev himself Navalny did not include in his “sanctions list”. And who turned on and by what principle? We discuss with experts. And also: why does the Russian government do everything possible to incite protest moods?

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