Dastan Kasmamytov is a Kyrgyz and open gay. “For Kyrgyz, gays are usually somewhere far away in Europe, but if it’s close, then only the Slavs,” says Dastan, explaining why it was so important for him to publicly talk about his orientation in the Kyrgyz language on national television. He works as a programmer and is fond of mountaineering. And also “changes negative narrative” about LGBT people on a positive one.

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On Wednesday, the Basmanny Court chose a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions for four journalists of the DOXA student publication. The case was opened under an article on "involving a minor in committing actions that are a danger to the life of a minor." We are talking about one of the episodes of the case associated with the January protests in support of the opposition Alexei Navalny. In the same case, the ally of Navalny Leonid Volkov passes.

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On Wednesday, the Basmanny court in Moscow chose a measure of restraint in the form of a ban on certain actions for four journalists of the student publication DOXA - Armen Araman, Vladimir Metelkin, Natalia Tyshkevich and Alla Gutnikova. They were taken to court after searches and interrogations. The case was opened under an article on involving a minor in committing actions that are a danger to the life of a minor.

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Editors of DOXA (in the center of Armen Aramyan) The focus of attention is the searches and detention in the editorial office of the student publication DOXA (until 2019 went out in the Higher School of Economics, since then it has been working autonomously). A reason for the attack is a video calling for power not to intimidate students who are now qualified as the involvement of minors in dangerous actions.

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The telephone conversation of Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, according to which the White House and the Kremlin unveiled small messages, raised American analysts with whom Radio Liberty talked about whether the new American administration has a clear strategy against Russia. Regional and global issues were discussed, including the intention of the United States and Russia to maintain a dialogue about strategic stability in the field of control of weapons and security issues.

Four journalists of the student publication DOXA: Armen Aramyan, Vladimir Metelkin, Natalya Tyshkevich and Alla Gutnikova, who had searches on April 14, were taken to the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia in Moscow. Investigators informed the lawyers of the detainees that the case was initiated under an article on involving a minor in committing actions that pose a danger to the life of a minor. This was reported in the telegram channel of the publication.

At the Novosibirsk State University, a meeting of students with a member of the Public Chamber of Russia and a correspondent of Russia Today Maria Butina took place. Eyewitnesses noted that the students met her with a “complete misunderstanding,” said the NDN.info publication. Butina was widely known after she was convicted in the United States for illegal lobbying and left a imprisonment there.

In Russia, a new type of correctional institution entitled "Prison Complex" will be introduced, it will combine the functions of a colony and an investigative insulator, said the head of the Ministry of Justice Konstantin Chuychenko. According to him, each of the complexes will be designed for at least three thousand people, and they are created for the convenience of investigators, prosecutors, lawyers, public organizations and relatives of the arrested and prisoners.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he was vaccinated on Wednesday morning with the second component of the coronavirus vaccine. “I am sure that everything will be fine,” Putin said at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, which was organized in video communication mode. As Putin noted, he hopes that the pandemic will recede soon, including due to vaccination, which is "actively carried out" in Russia.