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The Real Russia. Today. Meet ‘the conscience of St. Petersburg’ Published: Tuesday, April 19, 2022

In today’s newsletter:

• Latest news
• Fighting drags out at Mariupol’s Azovstal plant
• Artist Yelena Osipova describes her decades of antiwar activism
• Parting with St. Petersburg’s Viktor Tsoi ‘biopic’ exhibition

Major recent events in Russia and Ukraine

• 🪖 Mariupol’s endgame: Fighting continues in Mariupol, where an unknown number of soldiers and civilians are sheltering at the Azovstal iron and steel works. Moscow has repeatedly demanded the surrender of Ukrainian troops at the factory. Roughly 120 civilians left the factory on Tuesday, exiting through a humanitarian corridor, according to Russian state television. Serhii Volyna, the commander of the trapped Ukrainian forces, has appealed to world leaders for help brokering an extraction agreement, calling the situation “critical.”
• 👻 TikToodleloo: TikTok has disappeared from the AppStore in Russia.
• 👮 Censorship branching out: A court in Moscow placed a Colombian national in remand prison, following felony charges that he spread “fake information about the Russian Army” in a Facebook post. The text was in Spanish, making the case unusual, but Facebook’s automatic translation feature apparently brought it to the attention of Russian law enforcement. Facebook and Instagram are both blocked and outlawed in Russia.
• ☢️ Duck and cover: Someone hacked the press service for Russia’s Emergencies and Disaster Relief Ministry, publishing “recommendations in case of a retaliatory nuclear strike by NATO countries.” The text warned the public that the West might (counter)attack on Orthodox Easter. In addition to detailed iodine-dose guidelines broken down for children, the article also featured an infographic depicting the dangers of a nuclear blast radius.
• 📽️ No lesbian nuns on the silver screen: Russia’s Culture Ministry revoked a distribution license issued to Paul Verhoeven’s 2021 drama “Benedetta,” a film about a nun in the 17th century who joins an Italian convent and has a lesbian love affair with another nun. The ministry also fired the employee responsible for issuing the original permit.
• 👮 No twerking at the eternal flame: Russian officials in Khanty-Mansiysk charged a 21-year-old student from Zambia with “rehabilitating Nazism” because she filmed herself twerking in front of the city’s Great Patriotic War eternal flame. If convicted, she faces 5 years in prison. Local law enforcement also published a video showing her apologizing for the stunt.
• 🧑‍🏫 Classroom innovations: Russia’s Education Ministry announced plans to introduce “historical factual awareness” (not to be confused with “history lessons”) in the first grade. The traditional study of history won’t begin until the fifth grade, which is how Russian curriculum is currently structured.
• 🪖 The secret dead: Russia’s Defense Ministry will begin further limiting access to information about soldiers killed in Ukraine. While data on military servicemen killed in “special military operations” has been officially classified since 2015, the benefits issued to soldiers’ family members used to come from local civilian government officials; the Defense Ministry is now requesting that role be given to military enlistment offices instead.
• 🗳️ A familiar playbook: The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate announced that Russian troops have been distributing paper material about an upcoming referendum on establishing a Kherson People’s Republic, according to Hromadske. Ukrainian officials believe that in lieu of an actual election, the results of the “referendum” will be falsified using passport data that Kherson residents provided in order to receive humanitarian aid.
• 🪖 Czech on your friends: The Czech Defense Ministry announced that Czech defense companies will repair Ukrainian military equipment that has been damaged or needs to be serviced. According to a statement from the ministry, Ukraine will continue to focus on small repairs while Czech firms will take over “more extensive works, including overhauls and bringing equipment in long-term storage to service.” The Czech Republic has been providing large amounts of weapons and support to Ukraine since the early days of the war.

🪖 Russian bombardment reportedly destroys Mariupol metalworks plant — a Ukrainian stronghold also sheltering civilians (4-min read)

On Tuesday, April 19, the deputy commander of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment said that Russian bombardment had destroyed Mariupol’s Azovstal plant “almost completely.” The metalworks plant was serving as a Ukrainian stronghold, where the Azov Regiment and 36th Marine Brigade continued to defend the besieged city. What’s more, according to Ukrainian authorities, at least 1,000 civilians (including children) were hiding in underground shelters at the industrial complex at the time of the Russian assault. Here’s what we know so far.

✊ Artist and activist Yelena Osipova on Russia’s war against Ukraine and her 20 years of protesting Putin’s regime (11-min read)

They call her “the conscience of St. Petersburg.” For twenty years now, 76-year-old Yelena Andreyevna Osipova has been protesting war and the Russian government. An artist and teacher by training, Osipova spent her career teaching children to draw. These days, she brings her anti-war posters out to St. Petersburg’s central streets. In March 2022, she was arrested several times and footage of Osipova surrounded by riot police went viral online. In an interview with Meduza, Yelena Osipova talked about political protest, art, the Putin regime, and Russia’s future. This is her story in her own words.

👨‍🎤 A Viktor Tsoi ‘biopic’ exhibition is now on display in St. Petersburg. We spoke to its curator. (16-min read)

Viktor Tsoi: A Hero’s Path, the first major biographical exhibition about the co-founder and lead singer of the Soviet-era rock band Kino, opened at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg on January 15, 2022. It features Viktor Tsoi’s paintings and drawings, rare archival recordings, his favorite vinyl records, and video cassettes, as well as personal items, many of which have been stored by the musician’s loved ones for thirty years. The exhibition was due to close on April 15, but has been extended until June 21, which would have been Tsoi’s sixtieth birthday. Meduza spoke to the exhibition’s curator, Dmitry Mishenin.

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