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Everything you need to know early in the morning of October 20

Good morning!

The western city of Russia, Baltiysk, was completely left without light last night, and a wonderful photograph of the lighthouse was obtained, the project of which, according to one of the local legends , was created by Karl Friedrich Shinkel himself.

Baltiysk, aka Pillau, was left without electricity, but the light of hope is alive Pic.twitter.com/g4cidfppkj

- Repou (@ProEbalt) October 19, 2017

There are three legislative initiatives in Moscow at once: the government introduced a bill on a four -fold increase in fines for non -payments in the Plato system, Irina Yarovaya decided to engage in pedophiles and introduce a life sentence for them, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed replacing administrative responsibility for the “promotion of homosexuality” with criminal. Until they replaced, Nikolai Alekseev continues to submit applications for gay grades in different cities, including in Crimea-five of his applications have already been rejected there. In Samara, LGBT activist was fined 50 thousand rubles for Facebook posts with links to Guardian and BuzzFeed materials about LGBT. The meeting was held closed so as not to promote.

Dmitry Peskov to the question of whether the presidential campaign of Ksenia Sobchak was planned in the Kremlin, answered laconically : “No, this is not so.” Political strategist Vitaly Shklyarov, who is going to advise Sobchak’s campaign, also claims that this is her personal decision.

The current President of Russia Vladimir Putin , who seemed to have finally moved to Sochi, performed at a meeting of the Valdai discussion club. For a long time and boring he talked about scientific and technological progress, digitalization and robotization, complained about “double standards”, read a piece of paper on the independence of Kosovo on a piece of paper, accused the Americans of reluctance to reduce nuclear potential, etc. Three bright statements made three: Torah teaches to resist separatism, John Kerry does not know how to count, the former head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Kozyrev has no head. At the end he complained that when he did not (as a world leader), they would not be bored for long.

In Chelyabinsk, searches were held at eco-activists opposing the construction of the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant (they are also supporters of Navalny ). But in Pskov, the supporters of Navalny managed to win two cases of violations on the picket on October 7 at once - the court did not find the corpus delicti.

Relatives of those who died in a plane crash filed a collective lawsuit for 93 billion rubles to insurers, a tour operator and airline. Because already received insurance payments are considered “meager”, and many have not received them.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine submitted two bills to the Supreme Court on the abolition of deputy inviolability. The conclusion of the Supreme Court is necessary because bills suggest a change in the Ukrainian constitution. In the tent town of the Verkhovna Rada, only supporters of Mikhail Saakashvili remained .

The Russian authorities eliminated the defense of the Russian soldier Viktor Ageev in the Ukrainian court. Ageeva, captured in the Luhansk region, will be defended by the Ukrainian lawyer for their intended purpose.

Spain announced the suspension of the autonomous status of Catalonia - the decision can be made at an emergency meeting of the government on October 21 and will demand the approval of the Senate. The leader of Catalonia Carles Puchdemon said that if autonomy is suspended, Catalonia will immediately proclaim independence. The head of the European Council Donald Tusk said that the European Union cannot participate in the resolution of the crisis around Catalonia.

Kurds leave the city of Kirkuk, occupied by the Iraqi army. At the same time, the Kurdish divisions of Peshmerga continue to hold the Hurmala oil field. The Rosneft agreement with the Iraqi Kurdistan on the joint oil production of the authorities in Baghdad was called illegal.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, wrote on Instagram that his representative in the Middle East found 15 Russian citizens in Syria and took them to a safe place. The Petersburg “Fontanka”, for its part, found in Syria, on the basis of the PMC of Wagner, the radical Russian nationalist Alexei Milchakov (aka Fritz, aka Serb), the creator of the Rusich diversion-gear, who had previously fought in the Donbass. It’s scary to think about what will happen when the “Syrian operation” ends.

Three links today are cinema, ar-deco and fate of Europe:

• The St. Petersburg historian Yevgeny Anisimov explains whether the Russians became Europeans after the reforms of Peter I, and Anne Applebaum compares Europe with the Eastern Roman Empire and predicts her long centuries of comfortable wilting (unlike America, which is waiting for quick collapse).
• Why did all the Hollywood projects of Sergei Eisenstein crashed? The British researcher Mike O'Makhuni, the author of the critical biography of Eisenstein, answers .
• “It is easy to trace the origin of the individual motives of the ar-deco, but it is difficult to isolate the moment of their organic unification.” An excerpt from the book of art critic Alexei Petukhov “Ar-Deco and the art of France of the first quarter of the twentieth century”.

Good weekend!

Sincerely yours,
Seven and forth