Filming in an unwanted bedroom

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

Good morning!

If you suddenly worried about the fate of the former Russian Prime Minister Medvedev, then in vain: in a large interview with the first channel, he said that he would remain at the head of United Russia, and the work of the government under his own principle “generally satisfied”. Everyone would like that, but no:

• In Moscow, pickets were held in defense of the Constitution from amendments proposed by Putin, opponents of amendments joined the march of memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova.
• The FSB for almost six months with the permission of the court shot anastasia Shevchenko’s sleeping activist of “Open Russia” on the video. She did not know about it.
• In Kyiv, they said goodbye to those who died in a plane crash in Iran.
• At the Summit to resolve the situation in Libya, they agreed on the arms embargo.

Defenders of the Constitution

On Saturday, single pickets in defense of the Russian Constitution from the amendments proposed by Putin were held near the Presidential Administration in Moscow. The journalist and municipal deputy Ilya Azar called on to go out to the pickets. Activists of the Prochrevsky movement of SERB came to the action, began to tear posters, the police detained them.

Another Moscow municipal deputy, Julia Galyamin, called on opponents of amendments to join the annual march of memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed in 2009 by nationalist Nikita Tikhonov. As a result, more than 1,400 people gathered on the march. The police detained ten participants. The courts over them will begin today.

What the amendments suggested by Putin threaten, here the political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin explains . He believes that Putin plans to lower the “soft iron curtain”.

Loud words, quiet deeds

• At the weekend, the President of Russia talked a lot - in particular, he promised to “plug the filthy mouth, which some figures behind the hill overlapse.” It was about the Second World War, were most likely Polish “figures”. Here, the aggravated historical “debates” between Moscow and Warsaw comment on historians.
• The head of Chuvashia, Mikhail Ignatiev, called for "to wet" journalists and bloggers who criticize the authorities. Then his press service explained that by “wetting” it was meant in mind to “reveal the Simple”. What you just do not know about Russian.
• Employees of the Center of “E” in Rostov-on-Don for 120 days filmed the bedroom of the “Open Russia” activists Anastasia Shevchenko. The hidden video camera was secretly installed in her apartment in September 2018 by court order. In January 2019, Shevchenko was arrested on charges of participating in the activities of an “unwanted organization”. Anastasia Shevchenko herself learned about the camera in the bedroom, when she began to get acquainted with the criminal case and found her photos in underwear there.
• Konstantin Kotov, convicted of four years under an article on repeated violation of rallies, received the first penalty in the colony. The reprimand was pronounced that Kotov put on gloves that another prisoner gave him (Kotov himself has not yet been given out). The penalty may be a reason for refusing UPO.
• The FSB banned the entrance to Russia until 2054 to the journalist of Crimea. Realii Tarasu Ibragimov.

Impeachment and deprivation of titles

In the United States, both sides of the trial on the impeachment of President Trump presented legal arguments in defense of their position. In the Democrats document, 111 pages, the Republicans have six. Republicans consider impeachment “interference in the 2020 elections”. Trump in the Senate will, among other things, will also be special prosecutors in the case of the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

In the UK, the Buckingham Palace issued an official statement that Prince Harry and his wife Megan would no longer be able to use his royal titles, stop receiving public funds and will not officially represent the queen. Harry and Megan promised to return 2.4 million pounds spent from the British budget for the repair of their house in Windsor.

Around the world

• In Berlin, an international conference was held with the participation of the leaders of 11 states for a peaceful settlement of conflict in Libya. It was possible to agree to stop the supply of weapons to this country. On the margins of the conference, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Putin and explained to him that there would be no normalization of interstate bilateral relations until Russia stops destructive actions that threaten Great Britain and its allies.
• According to the Turkish press, in Syria, the American troops stopped the Russian military, who planned to get to the Rumeylan dispute (not far from it, the American military base).
• In Lebanon, where anti -government demonstrations do not stop for more than a month, hundreds of protesters have suffered from the police in recent days.
• The body of members of the deceased crew of international airlines in Ukraine and two other Boeing passengers, which was shot down in the early morning of January 8, was delivered to Kiev from Tehran. The President and Prime Minister of Ukraine took part in the mourning ceremony.

Six links

• Story. The wonderful story of the salvation of Galician Jews during the Second World War. Or a conversation with the co -chair of the Moscow Helsinki group Vyacheslav Bakhmin - to the fortieth anniversary of his arrest, followed by sending to Siberian camps.
• Movie. Two interviews with director Sergei Paratsev is one about what the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation wrote to him a seven -bill penalty due to the very successful film “Aika”, the second - about the artistic side of the issue. Or a funny story about how “8 ½” Federico Fellini almost lost to the Soviet film “Meet Baluev” at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1963 - by the centenary of the director.
• Art museums. The manifesto of the American art critic David Joshty on toxic philanthropy - it is written in connection with the numerous protests of the last time against the rich who finances the largest museums and galleries from the means earned by unethical methods. Or a story about the evacuation of the Prado Museum during the Civil War in Spain.

Sincerely yours,
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