Landscape designer died on the threshold of the temple

Among those killed during the hurricane in Moscow were two young football players. In addition to Valery Gudkov, this is also a 2nd year student at the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, a player of the faculty’s football team, 20-year-old Pavel Samoilov. Pavel knew from childhood that he would become a geographer. He followed in the footsteps of his parents, they instilled in their son a love of geography.

Pavel Samoilov.

Pasha was a sociable guy; friendly and trusting relationships with those with whom he communicated, including university teachers, were important to him,” says Timofey Samsonov, a classmate of the deceased. - In personal conversations, he sincerely shared with me his university dreams, asked about his future as a cartographer. He loved travel, mountains and really wanted to do mountain cartography - and we even had small plan about this theme. Just a few days ago, he spoke with delight about his upcoming trip to Scandinavia and the Faroe Islands.

Warm, friendly relations remained between the parents and their only son until the last. Pavel himself once wrote on his social network page: “I’m helping my mother check the children’s work in geography.” His parents are teachers. And dad is also the leader of the Moscow team in geography at the All-Russian Olympiads for schoolchildren, the head of preparation for the Olympiads in geography at the Center for Teaching Excellence. Actually, Pasha also went to the All-Russian Geography Olympiad more than once, although he did not become a prize-winner. Until recently, Pavel worked in the same center as a teacher.

Knowing that I love meteorology and everything connected with it, adds his friend Sasha, he more than once sent me photographs of beautiful clouds he saw or atmospheric phenomena. A great guy, a geographer, who loved traveling. As I heard, yesterday he was returning with his girlfriend and friends from the university after the last exam.

Pashka was a shining example of how one can and should love life. A successful photo shot, a beautiful canopy on the football field, a Panama hat with ducks - any little thing could make him happy,” recalls classmate Alexander Donetskov. “He felt nature, knew how to admire the big and beautiful world, and was inspired by people. He was also a geographer to the core. I wanted to conquer the peaks, to see as much as possible more people and countries, learn new things. Almost everyone at the faculty knew him, and that makes his loss seem even more incredible.

New data is also being received about disaster victims in the Moscow region.

57-year-old Ivan Georgievich Babiy died in the village of Putilkovo, Krasnogorsk district, Moscow region. An iron sheet that came off the fence took off half of his head. The man died before the ambulance arrived. He was a specialist in landscaping for the Zhilstroy company, and May 29 was his last working day at the site in the village of Putilkovo. A native of Ukraine was finishing laying a lawn near the Church of the Archangel Michael under construction on Bratsevskaya Street. When the wind blew, Ivan Georgievich was about to go to the temple to shelter from the weather, but did not have time. An iron sheet torn off from the fence fell directly on his head.

According to colleagues, Babiy worked almost seven days a week. His main concern was to earn more money to pay for the education of his daughter, who lives in Germany. He was very worried about her fate. The capable girl graduated from school with honors, but Ivan Georgievich was not satisfied with the quality of education in Ukraine. Therefore, he sent his only child to study in Europe and worked only so that the girl did not need anything abroad. By the way, Ivan Georgievich took up landscape design relatively recently. Before that, he served as a sailor in the Black Sea Fleet.

Relatives of 84-year-old Alexander Andreevich Kiselev put him on the wanted list on the evening of May 29, when he did not return home from a walk in Lobnya, near Moscow. Kiselev himself is a native resident of Moscow, and he and his wife have a dacha in Lobnya. Volunteers from the Lisa Alert detachment immediately organized a search for grandfather and first of all went to where he, according to his wife’s assumption, could be: to a small vegetable garden, which he cultivated on his own right in the thicket of the forest. The path there turned out to be quite difficult - the path was littered with trees that could not withstand the onslaught of the hurricane. As a result, volunteers found the old man in his garden. He was crushed to death by a birch tree. The man was probably weeding a garden bed when a tree trunk broke from behind and fell directly on the elderly man’s back. Alexander Andreevich is survived by two children and four grandchildren. All his life, Kiselev worked as a process engineer at one of the capital’s factories.

According to the latest data, the victims of the hurricane that struck the day before metropolitan region, 16 people were killed, almost 150 people were injured. 11 people died in Moscow, five more in the Moscow region.

The hurricane has already been called the most in Moscow for last decades. The families of the victims received one million rubles as compensation.

The media describes the details of people due to the elements. Muscovite Nikolai Kotov was waiting for a bus on that ill-fated day at a bus stop on Kirovogradskaya Street.

According to MK, a 65-year-old man was standing on the side of the pavilion when a sudden gust of strong wind tore the bus stop out of the asphalt and carried it straight towards him. In a matter of seconds, the pavilion knocked the man down and crushed him under his own weight. Passers-by tried to turn the structure over and rescue the victim. But he died before the ambulance arrived.

Pensioner Nina Andreeva was walking along Narimanovskaya Street (in the east of Moscow) when a tree collapsed on her. “I was just driving my car out of the yard, and I saw a woman lying under the branches. It was clear from her face that she was dead. Received serious injuries - open fracture including legs. They called the doctors, they pronounced him dead,” the publication cites eyewitness accounts.

On Bratsevskaya Street (northwest of Moscow), where the renovation work near the temple, iron sheets scattered due to the wind. One of them fatally injured 57-year-old Ivan Babii. According to eyewitnesses, the man did not have time to jump away in time.

On 7th Parkovaya Street (in the east of the capital), a very young Muscovite, 20-year-old Daria Antonova, was killed by a tree that flew into her. It is reported that the girl was returning home from school with a friend. A gust of wind brought down a large trunk on them, uprooted.

Passing men tried to lift the tree trunk, but it was obvious that the girl could no longer be helped.

“Everything there looked terrible: there was a lot of blood, my foot was torn off. The second one was in shock. Her entire shoulder was covered in bruises, but she didn’t seem to hear anything. We put her in an ambulance,” said an eyewitness.

Another girl died at VDNKh while roller skating. A poplar fell on her. Not far from the Karelia pavilion, a tree crushed a 10-year-old child.

As a result of the hurricane, 146 people were hospitalized, 108 of them remain in hospitals, including 22 children. RIA Novosti was informed about this by the capital's health department. The majority of requests came from residents of the Southern, South-Western, Western and South-Eastern administrative districts, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said. The least number comes from the territory of the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky administrative districts and Zelenograd. Due to natural disasters, 3.5 thousand trees were felled in the city. In addition, the wind damaged cars, power lines and railroad tracks, the agency notes.

The exact details of the victims of the tragedy have not yet been made public, but some names of the dead are already known from media publications:

Pavel Samoilov, 20 years old

Ivan Babiy, 57 years old

Nina Andreeva, 62 years old

Daria Antonova, 20 years old

Nikolay Kotov, 65 years old

Andrey Temnikov, 37 years old

Ekaterina Sinelnikova, 36 years old

Valery Gudkov, 17 years old

Stanislav Smirnov, 28 years old

Makeeva, 11 years old

Unknown, 20 years old

Unknown, 28 years old

The Ministry of Emergency Situations warned that showers with hail and gusty winds will continue in Central Russia and the Volga region for two more days.

Ecuadorian authorities have denied Julian Assange asylum at the London embassy. The founder of WikiLeaks was detained by British police, and this has already been called the biggest betrayal in the history of Ecuador. Why are they taking revenge on Assange and what awaits him?

Australian programmer and journalist Julian Assange became widely known after the website WikiLeaks, which he founded, published secret documents from the US State Department in 2010, as well as materials related to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But it was quite difficult to find out who the police, supporting by the arms, were leading out of the building. Assange had grown a beard and looked nothing like the energetic man he had previously appeared in photographs.

According to Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, Assange was denied asylum due to his repeated violations of international conventions.

He is expected to remain in custody at a central London police station until he appears at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Why is the President of Ecuador accused of treason?

Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called the current government's decision the biggest betrayal in the country's history. “What he (Moreno - editor’s note) did is a crime that humanity will never forget,” Correa said.

London, on the contrary, thanked Moreno. The British Foreign Office believes that justice has triumphed. The representative of the Russian diplomatic department, Maria Zakharova, has a different opinion. “The hand of “democracy” is squeezing the throat of freedom,” she noted. The Kremlin expressed hope that the rights of the arrested person will be respected.

Ecuador sheltered Assange because ex-president He held center-left views, criticized US policy and welcomed the publication by WikiLeaks of secret documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even before the Internet activist needed asylum, he managed to personally meet Correa: he interviewed him for the Russia Today channel.

However, in 2017, the government in Ecuador changed, and the country set a course for rapprochement with the United States. New President called Assange “a stone in his shoe” and immediately made it clear that his stay on the embassy premises would not be prolonged.

According to Correa, the moment of truth came at the end of June last year, when US Vice President Michael Pence arrived in Ecuador for a visit. Then everything was decided. “You have no doubt: Lenin is simply a hypocrite. He has already agreed with the Americans on the fate of Assange. And now he is trying to make us swallow the pill, saying that Ecuador is supposedly continuing the dialogue,” Correa said in an interview with the Russia Today channel.

How Assange made new enemies

The day before the arrest Chief Editor WikiLeaks Kristin Hrafnsson said that Assange was under total surveillance. “WikiLeaks uncovered a large-scale espionage operation against Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy,” he noted. According to him, cameras and voice recorders were placed around Assange, and the information received was transferred to the Donald Trump administration.

Hrafnsson clarified that Assange was going to be expelled from the embassy a week earlier. This did not happen only because WikiLeaks released this information. A high-ranking source told the portal about the plans of the Ecuadorian authorities, but the head of the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry, Jose Valencia, denied the rumors.

Assange's expulsion was preceded by the corruption scandal surrounding Moreno. In February, WikiLeaks published a package of INA Papers, which traced the operations of the offshore company INA Investment, founded by the brother of the Ecuadorian leader. Quito said it was a conspiracy between Assange and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and former Ecuadorian leader Rafael Correa to overthrow Moreno.

In early April, Moreno complained about Assange's behavior at Ecuador's London mission. “We must protect the life of Mr. Assange, but he has already crossed all boundaries in terms of violating the agreement that we came to with him,” the president said. “This does not mean that he cannot speak freely, but he cannot lie and hack.” ". At the same time, back in February last year it became known that Assange at the embassy was deprived of the opportunity to interact with outside world, in particular, his Internet access was cut off.

Why Sweden stopped its prosecution of Assange

At the end of last year Western media citing sources, they reported that Assange would be charged in the United States. This was never officially confirmed, but it was because of Washington’s position that Assange had to take refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy six years ago.

In May 2017, Sweden stopped investigating two rape cases in which the portal’s founder was accused. Assange demanded compensation from the country's government for legal costs in the amount of 900 thousand euros.

Earlier, in 2015, Swedish prosecutors also dropped three charges against him due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Where did the investigation into the rape case lead?

Assange arrived in Sweden in the summer of 2010, hoping to receive protection from American authorities. But he was investigated for rape. In November 2010, a warrant was issued for his arrest in Stockholm, and Assange was put on the international wanted list. He was detained in London, but was soon released on bail of 240 thousand pounds.

In February 2011, a British court decided to extradite Assange to Sweden, after which a number of successful appeals followed for the WikiLeaks founder.

British authorities placed him under house arrest before deciding whether to extradite him to Sweden. By violating given to the authorities promise, Assange asked for asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​which was granted to him. Since then, the UK has had its own claims against the WikiLeaks founder.

What awaits Assange now?

The man was re-arrested on a US extradition request for publishing classified documents, police said. At the same time, Deputy Head of the British Foreign Ministry Alan Duncan said that Assange would not be sent to the United States if he faced the death penalty there.

In the UK, Assange is likely to appear in court on the afternoon of April 11. This is stated on the WikiLeaks Twitter page. It is likely that the British authorities will seek maximum term imprisonment of 12 months, the man’s mother said, citing his lawyer.

At the same time, Swedish prosecutors are considering reopening the rape investigation. Attorney Elizabeth Massey Fritz, who represented the victim, will seek this.