The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced sanctions against 398 members of the US Congress Chamber in response to sanctions against State Duma deputies. The application is published on the website of the Foreign Ministry. The statement states that, taking into account past sanctions, all US congressmen were in the “stoplist”. The ministry introduced the same restrictions against 87 Canadian senters - in response to sanctions against members of the Federation Council.

News The ex-investigator of the FSB Svinolup left the post of the head of the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. It will be replaced by another native of the FSB 13 April 2022 The head of the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center Mikhail Svinolup leaves his post and returns to the FSB Investigative Department, the source said. The information was confirmed by the editor -in -chief of the AGentura.ru portal Andrey Soldatov. The reasons for the departure of pigs are unknown.

POLITICS Do the Russians Want War? Why we can't trust opinion polls and what ‘partisan sociology’ is telling us Sergei Erofeev 13 апреля 2022 Those Russians who are appalled by the war Putin has unleashed on Ukraine are even more appalled by their compatriots who support it. If we were to trust official opinion polls, more than half of the population does.

News BAZA: Aeroflot’s office was searched. Previously, the former deputy leader of the company called for "sabotage military operations" 13 April 2022 On April 12, the FSB conducted searches in the Moscow office of Aeroflot, they lasted all day, Baza reports . According to them, one of the reasons for the search was the statements of the former deputy general director of the company Andrei Panov about the war in Ukraine.

Director-documentary and journalist Sergei Yerzhenkov says that after the detention in Kasimov, the Ryazan region in early March, he was tortured by law enforcement officials. He stated this on the air of the Air program on the Khodorkovsky Live channel. “People who know me can see that I have increased scars on my head. And I have certificates from the emergency room where I went. I have to say that, yes, there were torture, ”said Yerzhenkov.

The Tver Court of Moscow will consider the lawsuit of the Rain TV channel against the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation due to blocking access to the channel website, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the court. “The preliminary court hearing (conversation) in the case was scheduled for April 18 at 11:00,” the press service told the agency.

The Bucha massacre and other war crimes committed by the Russian military on the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories bring to mind similar crimes committed by Red Army soldiers and officers in Germany and other European countries, as well as in East Asia in 1944-1945.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will strike at the headquarters and the main governing bodies of Ukraine if sabotage continues in the Russian territory. This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov. “We see attempts by sabotage and striking Ukrainian troops on objects in the Russian Federation.

The Moscow cruiser - the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation - was struck by two anti -ship missiles "Neptune". This was announced by the head of the Odessa Regional Military Administration, Maxim Marchenko, as well as the Ukrainian volunteer and blogger Alexander Karpyuk. “They confirmed that the Moscow missile cruiser went exactly where it was sent by our border guards on the island of Zmein,” Marchenko wrote.

POLITICS Bad repetition. The Red Army’s World War II Rampage Boris Sokolov 13 апреля 2022 The Bucha massacre and other war crimes committed by the Russian military on the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories bring to mind similar crimes committed by Red Army soldiers and officers in Germany and other European countries, as well as in East Asia in 1944-1945.

The detention of Medvedchuk, who had previously escaped from house arrest, became known on the eve of April 12. President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that thanks to the SBU, a special operation was carried out. Zelensky invited the Russian authorities to exchange Medvedchuk for captive Ukrainians. “He was hiding for 48 days. And finally, I decided to try to escape outside our state.

The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine said that 20 journalists have died since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. A few more people have not been in touch for several days, but there is no exact data about their fate yet.

Those Russians who are appalled by the war Putin has unleashed on Ukraine are even more appalled by their compatriots who support it. If we were to trust official opinion polls, more than half of the population does. Sociologist Sergei Erofeev explains why such polls are not to be trusted and quotes data supplied by “partisan sociologists”, which inspires careful optimism and shows a few less obvious trends, for instance, that most low-income Russians do not support the war. Contents 1.

On April 13, the Gazelle trucks with the registration of 15 regions of the Russian Federation (Ossetia) and marked with symbols V and Z were noticed on the Tavrida highway in the Crimea, near the turn of the Russian Federation. Cars moved towards the mainland part of Ukraine were seen. Eyewitnesses reported this to the project "Crimea. Realia". Earlier information appeared that the Russian military was exporting through Crimea to Russia a military equipment broken and damaged in Ukraine.

The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine has reported 20 journalists have been killed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began. Several more have not been in touch for several days, but there's no exact data on their whereabouts.