2nd of March. Russia without “Rain” and “Echo”
Putin banned take out of Russia more than 10 thousand dollars in cash, the government of the Russian Federation made a promise on the withdrawal of foreign assets from Russian assets. The war continues:
- On Tuesday, shelling of settlements in Kharkov resumed, as well as a missile attack on the surrounding square of the city. A TV tower was shelled in Kyiv. The authorities of Chernihiv and Zhytomyr report attacks on residential areas.
- According to the UN, at least 136 civilians were killed in Ukraine, 670 Ukrainians left the country.
- In Russia, the sites of Dozhd and Ekho Moskvy are blocked, Ekho is off the air. Roskomnadzor has provisions in the Russian “Wikipedia”.
- The European Parliament preferred the choice of candidate status for EU membership.
Frontal summaries
On Tuesday, the Russian army continued mass shelling of Kharkov, in the morning there was the first missile attack on Svoboda Square, where the city administration building is located. According to preliminary data, the death toll more than 20 people were injured. After that, the President of Ukraine named Russian mass-terrorist. Kharkiv journalist Maria Malevskaya He speaksthat there is no area in the city that would not fall under shelling: “The guys from the territorial zone associate the shelling with the fact that Kharkov is fighting back, like the whole of Ukraine.” On Wednesday morning, there were reports of a message landing in a Russian city, then they were denied.
Analyzed footage from Kharkiv, Bellingcat detection detection of the cluster use of the crime (Putin’s press secretary called it a “duck”). The head of Bellingcat, Hristo Grozev, recognized this as a war crime, and the shelling of the main square of the city as a scale of terrorism. Grozev He speaksfor information, overview Russian state arsenal).
Residential areas were also shelled in Mariupol, Chernigov (there, presumably, observed “Grady”), Zhytomyr (tragedy by fewer people in the world), townships near Kiev.
Kyiv Russian aviation on the beat on the TV tower, the death of five people. The Russian Defense Ministry announced this airstrike as a demand to “suppress information attacks against Russia.” According to the director of the “Internet Defense Society” Mikhail Klimarev, it is realized that Russian strategies are not quite accessible, what is “information penetration”. Near the Kiev TV tower is the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial center.
Head of the Sumy region informedHe managed to change five fighters of the territorial guard for one officer of the Russian military police. In settlements moved under the control of the Russian army,video) – a deputy of the Sumy Regional Council, living in the city of Trostyanets, tellsthat they, apparently, simply have nothing to eat. In the Melitopol region, they blocked the path of a Russian military convoy to tell everyone what they think about the “Russian brothers” –video). Tonight under Russian control probability, passed Kherson. Ministry of Defense of Russia claimsthat access to the Sea of Azov for Ukrainian troops is completely blocked.
According to the UNSince the beginning of the war in Ukraine, at least 136 people have been killed, including 13 children, and 400 people have been injured. Over 670 thousand people were available to leave the country (here is the video report from the center for improvement on the Moldovan border). From abroad to home returned 80 thousand Ukrainians – to join the army or territorial defense units.
Russian official sources still do not report anything about the dead, detained and wounded, and this outraged even Senator Lyudmila Narusova. Maybe, the wounded are being taken to the Belgorod hospital. Relatives of the survey protocols reported what they did to return them, but in the military registration and enlistment offices in Ukraine they meet with laughter and the phrase “this is fake” (this is just one such story.: interview with relatives of a captured conscript soldier). According to the Uzbek service of Radio LibertyRussia is attracted by military actions of guards from Uzbekistan.
Here are the pictures sixth day of the war here is a selection observation video, and here hospital Russians living in Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to pay the deadline for the end of the bombing of Ukrainian cities before the transition to fuel consumption. Former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma processed to the Russians with the words “do not be accomplices.”
Trying not to be accomplices
In Russia are not exhausted street anti-war actions. On the sixth day of the police war delayed 307 people in 32 cities. Only in St. Petersburg, at Gostiny Dvor, at least a hundred protesters were seized. Total number of detainees since the beginning of the war reached 6820. Police in Moscow not shy to delay mothers with young children. In Ekaterinburg a place in a special detention center, new detentions will be sent to the Sverdlovsk region.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on his website that “all possible threats will be consistently suppressed.” And indeed: the Yabloko party filed was an application for an anti-war march on March 12 will be submitted to the mayor’s office, but there it is expected that a “March in the Russian Army” will take place in Moscow on March 12. Here is a good interview with sociologist Grigory Yudin, in which he highly appreciates the civic activity of Russians and athletes, why there are no hundreds of thousands of anti-war marches in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
But there were many voices against the war. Here are two Russian monologues: the 13th world chess champion Garry Kasparov and a retired military pilot, a resident of Belgorod Vladimir Bilevich. Others include anti-war agencies municipal deputies, students Skoltech, Russian doctors, graduate and graduate of Moscow State University, Eugene Kaspersky, ROC priestformer Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev, former head of Yandex.News Lev Gershenzon.
Gershenzon provides for the responsibility of Yandex employees for the absence of war in the Russian news field. This is all the more true as the news field of swiftness is shrinking:
- Websites of “Echo of Moscow” and “Rain” locked At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, “Echo” is off the air. I promise to continue broadcasting on YouTube. Here are the accusations “Rain” firms. An hour before the closing of the site tvrain.ru, the distributor “Karo.Art” canceled premiere of a documentary by Vera Krichevskaya about the channel.
- Roskomnadzor threatens to block Russian “Wikipedia” – for the article “Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)”.
- Twitter slow down again.
- For the announcement of an anti-war action blocked website of the Socialist Alternative movement.
- “New Newspaper” decided to continue work in accordance with the requirements of the authorities, that is, without calling it a war. So far, the editors are doing well.
Already expressed receive a header:
- fired artistic director of the Center Meyerhold Dmitry Volkostrelov.
- To the comedians who signed the anti-war proclamation advise “squeeze”.
- On TV stopped showing an advertisement for Uralsib Bank with Maxim Galkin opposing the war.
Continue to appear and be confirmed by the war (for examplefrom the rectors of VGIK, Shchukinka, Gnesinka, GITIS), and the Russian Ministry of Defense in general announced on the convening of the “International Anti-Fascist Congress” within the framework of the military-technical forum “Army-2022” to “fight the ideology of Nazism.” Many, of course, read about something similar to one English manufacturer, but here – for history – dictionary of “euphemisms of war”associated with government officials in the last seven days.
International
- Vladimir Zelensky arose in Europe via video link with the recognition of Ukraine in the EU. MEPs applauded him for parking, he said without a piece of paper, improvised, and successfully: European Parliament account for choosing in Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership.
- At the UN meeting on the human case in Geneva, the speech of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as indicated in the recording, delegates got up and left. Such a meeting happened during the speeches of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken questioned Russia’s membership in the UN Council for the Adaptation of Man after its invasion of Ukraine.
- The first part of the President’s annual State of the Union Address, with material first released tonight by Joe Biden, was entirely devoted to Ukraine and Russian aggression. American senators and Congress came to listen to Biden’s speech with Ukrainian flags. He announcedthat the United States protected its skies for Russian aircraft.
- International Court of Justice in The Hague hold hearings on the suit of Ukraine on March 7 and 8. Kyiv requires a written Russia to be published for distorting the concept of “genocide” to justify the aggression against Ukraine.
Sanctions and their consequences
There were no high-profile announcements of new sanctions against Russia at the state level per minute of the day – already announced ones came into force. There have been, however, numerous reports of voluntary deregulation with Russia:
- Boeing declared about the suspension of work with the public.
- The largest container companies in the world surprise acceptance of orders for the transportation of goods to Russia.
- an Apple suspended sale of goods in Russia (and Nike too).
- Payment systems Visa and Mastercard blocked several Russian banks.
How and why these “voluntary” waivers are included, Here are the preventive measures. head of Transparency International – Russia Ilya Shumanov. American experts believethat in order to push Russia to peace with Ukraine, it will inevitably go even further.
The most serious of the meetings adopted in relation to Russia by many (including the President of the United States) may impose a ban on the supply of microelectronics to Russia. Here is an interview with an expertwhich explains how fast Russia’s technological rollback to the early 2000s is happening, and tells what can be reduced on its own (spoiler: almost nothing).
Cultural “sanctions” stand apart:
- Valery Gergiev fired as Principal Conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Russia will not the Venice Biennale, and here is a long list events where it will not be.
- Netflix wide work on the protection of projects, and Sony and Paramount joined the fight against Russian cinemas. Russian film distribution must be fully imported, and here’s what he thinks about it Anton Dolin.
Meanwhile in Russia
- The trial of Aleksey Navalny continues in the Pokrovskaya colony, but against the backdrop of the invasion of Ukraine, only a lone Mediazona correspondent is probably watching him: here online the seventh day of the meeting (reports were heard about the victims, in relation to the Navalny attack in case of fraud, then they moved on to the court case and listened to the expert, recognized the words “damn”, “goof” and “yo-my” as “euphemisms of obscene words”).
- Since the meeting of the Supreme Court of Russia, which finally liquidated Memorial on Monday, no one has had online access. But there are comics..
- BBC journalists found owner of the yacht Graceful, commonly referred to as Putin’s yacht. Two weeks before the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, the unrepaired yacht left Hamburg for Kaliningrad. The owner turned out to be AO Argument, a company associated with the construction of Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik. In a word, this is really Putin’s yacht.
Six links
- Military diaries. Collective selection artistic reflections on the emergence: poems, statements about horror and impotence, Olga Bragina’s Kyiv diary, pictures about impotence, again poetry. Or excerpts from diary and correspondence poet Sergei Magid in the early days of the war.
- Prehistory of the normal. Russian translation article by Vladimir Sorokin, published last Sunday in the Guardian: the author of “The Day of the British Oprichnik” slowed down the Western world, how did it happen. Or replica art historian Nadia Plungyan about self-awareness of forty-year-olds in the disease of Russia.
- What to do if you are Russian? Answer poet Alexei Petrovich Tsvetkov, answer philosopher Maria Bikbulatova.
Sincerely yours,
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