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The Real Russia. Today. Surviving Russian occupation: Published: Thursday, April 21, 2022

In today’s newsletter:

• Latest news
• Surviving Russian occupation at a psychoneurological care home outside Kyiv
• Putin orders the siege of Mariupol’s last-standing defenders

Major recent events in Russia and Ukraine

• 🛂 Moscow’s Russophobe ‘stop list’: Russia’s Foreign Ministry imposed personal sanctions against 61 Canadians (including Cameron Ahmad, director of communications to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Canadian Special Operations Forces Commander Steve Boivin) and 29 Americans (including Vice President Kamala Harris, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Meduza’s own English-language managing editor) in retaliation for their governments’ sanctions against Russian state officials and various individuals connected to the Kremlin. Moscow says the people named in its announcements are “directly involved in the development, justification, and implementation” of the “Russophobic” state policies. All 90 people are banned indefinitely from entering the Russian Federation.
• ⛔ Not loyal enough: Russia’s federal censor is now blocking Russkaya Planeta entirely, after blacklisting a specific story published by the website on March 2 about Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine. The outlet was created in 2013 to cover politics and social issues, but a conflict between investors and the newsroom in the aftermath of Russia’s annexation of Crimea resulted in a largely pro-regime editorial policy.
• 🔮 No predicting this: The Russian Internet giant Yandex says it is suspending an unspecified number of its investments in Russia and abroad amid economic uncertainty caused by international sanctions against Russia. The company also withdrew its financial guidance for 2022, which predicted upwards of $6.2 billion in consolidated revenue for the year. “In the current circumstances, our visibility over the […] medium-term is extremely limited,” the company said.
• 🔱 No man left behind: Dmitry Shkrebets, whose draftee son is one of the sailors aboard the Moskva warship that went missing after it sank in the Black Sea last week, says Russia Today editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan blocked him on Telegram after he criticized her coverage of events inside Russia. “Take a look at the many-sided truth found among our truth-bearers,” Shkrebets wrote online afterward.
• 🔎 Teaming up to investigate Russia’s atrocities: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed on Thursday that the United States is working with Ukraine on collecting evidence regarding possible war crimes committed by Russian occupying forces. Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, previously said her office is investigating more than 5,800 cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Additionally, new satellite images show a mass grave in a Russian-occupied village located about 12 miles west of Mariupol — a discovery that Ukrainian officials say is evidence of war crimes against civilians, reports The Washington Post.
• 🪖 The tank imbalance: Ukrainian forces currently have more tanks on the ground than their Russian counterparts, a senior U.S. defense official told The Washington Post. “Right now, the Ukrainians have more tanks in Ukraine than the Russians do,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity under terms set by the Pentagon. The official also noted that about two dozen Russian battalion tactical groups are being refitted and resupplied.
• 💱 Fortune doesn’t favor everyone: Citing EU sanctions, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Binance, announced that it is required to limit services for “Russian nationals or natural persons residing in Russia, or legal entities established in Russia, that have crypto assets exceeding the value of 10,000 euros.” These account holders now have 90 days to close out their positions.
• 🕵️ Hello, neighbor: The St. Petersburg branch of Russia’s ruling political party has launched a bot on Telegram that allows people to file complaints against individuals for spreading supposed “false information,” including information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The bot doesn’t work anonymously: users must share their own full names and email addresses. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Russian lawmakers adopted legislation that criminalizes the dissemination of such “false information” (defined as anything that contradicts official government claims). Violations are punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Human rights lawyer Pavel Chikov says officials have opened at least 32 felony cases based on this new statute, as well as dozens more cases against peace activists alleging other criminal acts, such as vandalism, “justifying terrorism,” and so on.
• 🕊️ Tokyo reassesses the Kurils: For the first time since 2003, Japan’s Foreign Ministry has identified the four southernmost Kuril Islands as “illegally occupied.” The wording used as recently as last year was that these territories “are subject to the sovereignty of Japan,” but there was no explicit denunciation of Russia’s claim to the islands. Japanese diplomats now say that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine undermines “the foundations of the international order” and the prospect of a resolution on the Kuril Islands.

🪖 A firsthand account of how Russian troops laid siege to a care home in occupied Borodyanka (7-min read)

Borodyanka is a small town outside of Kyiv, not far from Bucha. At the beginning of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces occupied both towns, only to retreat from the Kyiv region in early April. During the occupation of Borodyanka, troops from Russia’s Chechnya seized the local psychoneurological care home. In an interview with Meduza, the care home’s director Maryna Hanitska gives a firsthand account of how its staff and residents survived the siege.

🪖 Putin orders Russian forces to block the Azovstal metal works “so tightly that not even a fly can get through” (5-min read)

Vladimir Putin called off the assault on the Azovstal steel works, saying the move was “unnecessary.” “This is a case where we need to think — of course, we almost need to think about this, but in the current situation even more — about saving the lives and the health of our soldiers and officers. There’s no need to climb into those catacombs and crawl under the earth through those industrial facilities,” said President Putin at a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Instead of taking the plant by force, Putin ordered the armed forces to block “this industrial zone so tightly that not even a fly can get through.”

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