Warm future

Everything you need to know early in the morning of August 10

Good morning!

In Moscow, in the 92nd year of life, a human rights activist, a dissident, one of the authors of the Russian Constitution Sergey Kovalev died . Here is a story about his difficult life. In recent years, Kovalev was very sorry that in 1993 he did not notice how the word “in a row” appeared from the phrase “no more than two terms” from the phrase “no more than two terms”. And the news is:

• Leo Schlosberg was removed from the elections to the State Duma at the suit of his opponent from the Green Party.
• In Moscow, the stand-up comic of Idrak Mirzalizade was arrested for 10 days for a joke about xenophobia.
• The United States, Great Britain and Canada imposed new sanctions against the Lukashenko regime.
• The UN published an alarming 1300-page report on global warming.

The planet is burning and spinning

The UN introduced a rather gloomy 1300-page report on global warming with five scenarios of the future. Even the most optimistic of them, which provides for the achievement of the indicators of Parisian climatic agreements, predicts extremely high temperatures in some regions, the loss of arctic ice and the extinction of forests. And the future, in general, has already come:

• The area of forest fires in Russia at the end of July was more than 10 million hectares. On August 7, the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk region covered the smoke from forest fires in Yakutia. On Monday, he prevented the departure and landing of dozens of aircraft in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Bratsk, Abakan. Here, a volunteer participating in the extinguishing of forest fires talks about the situation in Yakutia, and here Maria Yakovleva, who remained in this village of parents, says about a fire in the village of Bingya-Kuel (there burned 32 houses).
• In Turkey, almost all sources of fire were taken under control , but fires destroyed more than 60 thousand hectares of forest. The victims talk about belated assistance, suspect power and construction companies in sabotage and risk falling on court for the "distribution of panic".
• How the forest is stewed in Karelia and Finland, it is told here .
• The drought in the south-west of Kazakhstan has not stopped for the third year, the farmers have been perishaly with cattle -he simply has nothing to have.
• After the May accident at the TPP in Norilsk, oil products continue to enter the soil water, even Rosprirodnadzor admits .

Unwanted Russian politicians

• The Moscow City Court abolished the registration of the State Duma of the Federal Committee of the Yabloko federal party to Lev Schlosberg - a lawsuit against Schlosberg was filed by his opponent in a single -mandate district No. 207, representative of the Green Andrei Pangaev. The decision has already been appealed. Earlier, Schlosberg was removed from the elections to the Pskov Regional Duma, but a day later the regional election man changed his mind and registered it again.
• Tomsk Oblazbirk refused to register the elections to the regional legislative Duma candidate from the Communist Party Maxim Zabelin - he was one of the seven self -nominates who won the city elections last year with the support of “smart voting”. The basis for refusal to register is to participate in the rally in support of Navalny on January 31.
• In Pskov in court in the case of the former coordinator of the regional branch of Open Russia, Liya Milushkina and her husband, activist Artyom Milushkina, requested 16 years in a maximum security colony for Artyom, 12 years of a general regime colony. They are accused of selling a large batch of drugs. Shortly before the arrest of Artem Milushkin in January 2019, police threatened him to throw a “dozen grams per pocket”. He submitted an application to the UK, but he was refused to initiate the case.
• The Russian Foreign Ministry forbade several British politicians, “tightly involved in anti -Russian activities,” their names are not called the entry into Russia. This is a response to personal sanctions imposed by UK.

Just objectionable

• The court in Moscow sentenced Alexander Federeyakov, a participant in the action in support of Navalny on January 23, by one and a half years in a colony in the case of spraying a spray to a riot police officer. Federeyakov did not plead guilty: he insists that the spray can spray another person in a similar jacket, there is even an appropriate video that the court did not take into account.
• The lawyers of Ivan Safronov, a former businessman “Kommersant”, who has been sitting in Lefortovo for more than a year on charges of Gosizmen, report that after publishing his columns in Safronov’s Vedomosti, they transferred an enhanced observation next to the cininage, where he was constantly searched. The insulator staff asks him “not to do nonsense”, but does not specify which ones.
• The defendant in the case of the "Network" Igor Shishkin served his 3.5 years and immediately left Russia. Already from abroad, he told how he was tortured, knocking out the confessions that he eventually gave ( here is his complete monologue , it is hard to read).
• The Muscovite with the crossbow climbed onto a tree, protesting against illegal construction at her house - the police in body armor removed her from the tree and took it to the station.

Chronicles of the dug for minds

• The Tagansky district court of Moscow arrested for 10 days a stand-up comic of Idrak Mirzizade for a joke about xenophobia when eating housing in Russia (“exciting hatred or enmity”). In June, he was beaten in this regard. Here he himself tells - about a joke, and about beating, and about a thousand threats that he received.
• In Novosibirsk, unknown people attacked a group of anime fans, taking them for participants in an unauthorized LGBT action.
• In the Sverdlovsk region, caring citizens accused the Salyut children's camp of “propaganda of LGBT” in connection with the traditional “Day vice versa” event, during which the girls change into boys, and boys to girls. Now the prosecutor’s office will take care of the camp.
• The Russian government plans to forcibly transferred civil servants and state employees to Russian messengers and mail, and Anna Kuznetsova’s children's Ombudsman offers Medvezhat to draw a bear on a “United Russia” logo so that it is not lonely there.

Around the world

• The United States imposed sanctions against three Russian companies due to a violation of the regime of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction for the DPRK, Iran and Syria.
• One of the participants in the protest campaign in front of the Turkmen consulate in Istanbul was kidnapped, brought to the consulate and there were beaten to loss of consciousness, having previously disconnected all surveillance cameras, here is his story .
• In Afghanistan, the Taliban captured the sixth city in three days. Residents of the captured provinces flee to Kabul, where a large rally was held demanding the cessation of hostilities.

The anniversary of Belarusian protests

During the year of protests in Belarus, at least seven people were killed, 4691 criminal cases were instituted, more than 600 Belarusians were recognized as political prisoners.Here is a selection of materials summing up this year in a variety of aspects.

The leader of the Belarusian opposition, in exile, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya held a joint press conference with the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielus Landsbergis, during which she announced new Western sanctions against the Lukashenko regime. The sanctions of the United States , Great Britain and Canada were really not forced to wait (the Russian businessman Gutseriev got into the British sanctions list). The Chairman of the OSCE said that the EU countries will support the Belarusian people "in all possible ways." Here, about the results of the first year, protests are discussed by the adviser to the Tikhalovsky Franak Vyachorka.

Lukashenko, for his part, held an eight-hour press conference , during which he convinced the audience that if a year ago he “gave a slack”, a “new world war” would have already been raging in the world. Because everything that happens in Belarus is not on the initiative of Lukashenko, is due to the evil machinations of the West. In addition, he asked Putin a new loan “in connection with the pandemia”, adding that he was not going to recognize Crimea yet.

Chronicles of Pandemia

The data received from the Cyber Partizan - Belarusian hackers who hacked the passport system indicate that from March 2020 to March 2021, excess mortality in the country amounted to 32 thousand people - 14 times more than the authorities reported.

In Russia, according to the operational headquarters on Monday morning, the daily increase in new cases of the Covid-19 amounted to 22,160. The official number of 470 thousand infected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic; The official number of victims reached Monday morning 165 650 people (+769 per day). In Vladikavkaz, nine resuscitation patients died due to oxygen supply in the hospital, everyone had a covid.

According to Rosstat, the Russians during the pandemic began to save on the funeral (or, which is also possible, the funeral business increased the “gray” segment of their activities). On the eve of the new school year, the Ministry of Education recommends universities to transfer unvaccinated students to a remote training regime.

In France, despite the protests, they introduced “sanitary passes”, which greatly complicates life unvaccinated. Whether these measures have meaning, it is not easy to understand, but it is possible: here the geneticist Fedor Kondrashov explains how the achievement of the threshold of collective immunity can contribute to the appearance of resistant forms of coronavirus, if all restrictions can be canceled. The catalog of well-known SARS-COV-2 strains today , see here .

Six links

• Soviet literary life. A large exchange rate about the village of Writers Peredelkino in the first 20 years of its existence. Or the conversation of Ivan Tolstoy with the historian Tatyana Gromova about literary circles and salons of the first years of Soviet power ( you can listen ).
• Movie. Guide to the films of Charlie Chaplin. Or a conversation with the director of the Image Forum festival of Coomasit about Japanese experimental cinema.
• The animals are alive and dead. An excerpt from the book of Willyam McKiver “The Emperors of the Deep” (the PM “Hummingbird”)-about how sharks have sex. Or a fragment from the book of Paleontologist Andrei Kapansky “On Mammoths and their satellites: paleoecology of the mammoth fauna” (Publishing House “Fiton XXI”).
• You will always find more interesting texts, interviews, interviews and reports in the present time Telegram channel . You can also read this newsletter from Telegram .

Sincerely yours,
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