The Far East becomes closer

Everything you need to know early in the morning of November 5

Good morning!

Start a week with entertaining geography: the new Caledonia spoke in a referendum against independence and will remain the overseas territory of France, and the Grenada state recalled the recognition of Kosov’s independence. And the news is:

• The Communist Party refused to nominate its candidate for repeated elections to Primorye.
• Putin transferred Buryatia and the Trans -Baikal Territory to the Primorsky Federal District.
• Ukraine and the Ecumenical Patriarchate signed an agreement on cooperation.
• In Ukraine, an adviser to the mayor of Kherson died, who was doused with acid three months ago.

Far Eastern

• The Communist Party did not begin to nominate its candidate in the repeated elections of the governor of Primorye, thereby killing the whole intrigue. The head of the party, Gennady Zyuganov, explained the decision dialectically: once in the previous elections, the results of which were canceled due to falsifications, the Communist Party candidate Andrei Ishchenko actually won, it is inappropriate to nominate it again.
• Without explanation, Putin translated Buryatia and the Trans -Baikal Territory from the Siberian Federal District to the Far Eastern.
• Omsk is still in Siberia, but the 74-year-old human rights activist was beaten there for Far Eastern motives: he fought with the construction of a town for Chinese workers on agricultural lands.

Arrests and detention

• On November 4, on the day of popular unity, “Russian marches” were held in different cities of Russia. They did not gather many participants, but in Moscow, just in case, the organizers and several participants detained , and aside them- a 14-year-old participant in “unlimited protest” .
• In St. Petersburg, a picket worker was received for 10 days of arrest, comparing TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov with the Nazi propagandist Julius Strayher.
• In Pskov, one of the organizers of the coordinated rally against corruption, police and judicial arbitrariness Artem Milushkin was harshly detained .
• Against the Moscow schoolboy, who allegedly found a bomb and who allegedly communicated on the Internet with an archangel bomb, a criminal case was instituted under two articles. His arrest was extended until November 6. The detainee’s father claims that his son was not found in a bomb, but something like a firecracker, but a proof of his communication with a young man who exploded a bomb in the building of the Arkhangelsk FSB, comes down to the fact that they were subscribed to one public in VK. The student does not plead guilty.

Ukrainian

• The President of Ukraine and the Ecumenical Patriarchsigned an agreement on cooperation. Bartholomew called this event "a historical moment for all Orthodoxy," and Poroshenko noted that the agreement "completes the process" of the provision of autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
• Former assistant to the mayor of Kherson and anti -corruption activist Ekaterina Gandzyuk died in the hospital. At the end of July, she spilled in her face with a concentrated acid solution. He received a burn of 30% of the body and was later treated in Kyiv. Until recently, it was reported that the girl is recovering. The criminal case of the attack was retrained for intentional murder.

Four links with a bonus

• Memory. 50 years ago in Kyiv, Vasily Makukh committed self -immolation. He protested against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the troops of the Warsaw Treaty countries and for the independence of Ukraine. He committed this act a few months earlier than Jan Palach. In Ukraine, they are not very remembered. The historian Viktor Tupulko tells about Makukha. Here are brief remarks of leading Russian historians about the mechanisms of cultural memory and understanding of tragedies.
• Literature. The new large text on the “shelf” is dedicated to the “small demons” of Sologub - in Russia today is a day off, and it certainly makes sense to spend it in the company of Ardallon Borisovich Predvonov. Or here is the text about Dostoevsky - or rather, about his complex relationship with money.
• Bonus for those who read in English. At the end of March, the French philosopher of Bulgarian descent Julia Kristev was accused of cooperation with the Bulgarian intelligence services. Three years earlier, she already appeared as a Bulgarian agent in the Detective Loran Bin, “The Seventh Function of the Language” (very funny, but exclusively for the humanities of continental training). In the blogs of Los Angeles Review of Books, Julia Kristeva expanded to accusations.

Sincerely yours,
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