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Everything you need to know early in the morning of February 12

Good morning!

“A world where there will be fewer penguins will become a less happy place,” they say Greenpeace. Sympathize with the Antarctic penguins, which are replaced by the Papuan ones, and then sympathize with people:

• In the midst of summer protests in Moscow, the FSB demanded a “round-the-clock remote access” from a dozen Russian Internet services. Some provided him.
• In Russia, the first verdict was sentenced under the article on participation in an “unwanted organization”.
• The President of Ukraine replaced the head of his administration.
• WHO gave the official name of the disease caused by the new coronavirus-Covid-19. The number of victims of the virus was 1113 people.

The case of the “network”, echoes

In Penza, on Tuesday evening, activists were detained and released who came to the city to announce the verdict in the case of the “network”. Several people were landed by force from the Moscow train (simultaneously they were beaten and torn clothes), about 20 more people were covered in a rented apartment (they complained to the owner, turned off the light).

“Today, the state is afraid of anyone who is united, anyone who has any common interests,” the mother of Dmitry Pchelintsev, convicted in the case of the “network” for 18 years, comments on these detentions.

“New Gazeta” published letters of parents and wives of convicts in the case of “Network”. Russian cultural figures supported the political prisoners. The head of the Council for Human Rights under the President of Russia, Valery Fadeev, refused to comment on the verdict in the case of the "network", citing the fact that he was an "employee of the presidential administration".

More sentences and conversations

• The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg issued the first verdict in Russia under an article on an “unwanted organization”. The former coordinator of Open Russia and the head of the publication Ural. MBH Media Maxim Vernikov received 300 hours of compulsory work. Four more cases are considered under this article.
• In St. Petersburg, two policemen received real terms (1 year and 8 months, 1 year and 6 months) for beating a teenager in a department in Kolpino, in Saratov, police who beat the detainee to his death for 10 and 10.5 years.
• Here, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova tells in detail how the police do not allow her to work on a new clip in St. Petersburg. She calls what is happening “fierce hell”.

They read and listen to us

• Last summer, the FSB sent out letters to the largest Russian Internet services demanding to install equipment that gives special services to users. This right of the FSB gives the “Yarovaya Law”. The sources of The Bell claim that some of the Internet companies have already established everything that the FSB asked them, and at their own expense.
• Against this background, the requirement of compensation for free access to subscribers to “socially significant sites” as part of the “Available Internet” project, presented to the authorities with mobile operators and Internet companies, looks more understandable.
• The Moscow authorities are satisfied with the work of 105 thousand cameras connected to the person recognition system: for the New Year holidays, with their help, 34 people who were wanted.
• The American military is suspected by Russian satellites of orbital surveillance of their spacecraft.
• In a joint investigation of The Washington Post, the German television company ZDF and the Swiss SRF is told (English), as the Swiss company Crypto AG, which supplies almost the whole world for encryption of communications, has been controlled by the CIA and German special services for decades. The Switzerland government finds out the circumstances.
• And the cherry on the cake. The essence of the “spy activity” of a resident of Kaliningrad Antonina Zimina, since July 2018 sitting in Lefortovo, became clear . She invited her friend-FSBSHNIK to the wedding, he got drunk and began to tell everyone what kind of FSBSHNI he was. Video and photos from the wedding were posted on the network, where they were allegedly discovered by the special services of Latvia, thus gaining the opportunity to identify the current FSB officer. The valiant FSBSHNI does not appear in the case.

Towards the 150th anniversary of Ilyich

The Kremlin plan to pursue the amendments to the Constitution on a weekday, which will be made by the weekend. Most likely, it will be April 22, when “the Soviet people and all progressive humanity”, as it was once customary to say, will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lenin in a single impulse.

A group of Russian senators and deputies has prepared their amendments to the Constitution: they offer to give ex-presidents of the Russian Federation (the plural here looks encouraging) the right to become lifelong members of the Federation Council, and the current president to give the right to appoint various outstanding senators of various outstanding people. They are not offered to rename the SF into the House of Lords.

The chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia announced , in accordance with Putin's instructions, an ambulance. He intends to extend the jury courts to all cases of crimes of special severity and business related to entrepreneurship.

There is money, but you hold

• The Russian government will buy a share from the Central Bank in Sberbank to budget funds. This is done in order to very cunningly bypass the indestructible “budget rule” and still spend budget trillions on social needs, as Putin promised.
• It is easier to get around with budget billions: the authorities of Moscow and the Moscow Region donated almost three billion rubles through a grant for the construction of the Main Temple of the Ministry of Defense.
• In Moscow, pickets were required to provide children with medicines. Why do drugs for the treatment of cancer disappear in Russia, is explained here .

Behind the wall of the Caucasus

• The head of the Chechnya Security Council was appointed 23-year-old nephew Kadyrov.
• The prosecutor's office of Makhachkala does not consider discrimination to the prevention of women to the Anji Arena pool.
• In Ingushetia, the first “murder of honor” occurred after the security forces posted a video from the apartment on the network where they tried to detain the suspect in blackmail and extortion. The alleged blackmailer jumped out of the window, but one of the women that he appeared in the video he was blackmailed was already killed by his brother.

The closest neighbors of Russia

• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky changed his head of his administration: he fired Andrei Bogdan, who was considered the protege of Kolomoisky, and appointed Andrei Ermak, who has ties with Russian companies. More here .
• In Tashkent, a closed trial began on a dozen senior employees of the National Security Service of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Defense and other departments. All of them are accused of espionage in favor of Russia and the disclosure of state secrets, but the details of the case are unknown. Here are the crumbs .
• The President of Latvia proposed to reduce television broadcasting in Russian to 20% of the broadcast.

Coronavirus chronicles

The number of those who died from coronavirus in China was 1113 people. 45.1 thousand are sick around the world. WHO gave the official name of the disease caused by the new virus-Covid-19.

In China, in connection with the epidemic, cleaning in the authorities began , around the world a surge of hostile attitude towards people with an Asian appearance is celebrated around the world. The Westerdam cruise liner, who left Hong Kong on February 1, was already refused to accept four countries, although there seemed to be not sick on board.

Around the world

• On the primaries of the US Democratic Party in the state of New Gampshire, Bernie Sanders leads . Here it is briefly told about the two favorites of the initial phase of the race for the presidential nomination.
• The Sudan government agreed to comply with the request of the International Criminal Court and issue him wanted persons, including the overthrown President of Omar al-Bashira. He is accused of genocide and war crimes committed during the Darfur interethnic conflict in 2003.
• The battles in the "de-escalation zone" in the province of Idlib in the north-west of Syria are more intensively. The United States expressed concern to Turkey and Russia in the region. Today, the Turkish president must announce some new steps.

Six links

• Soviet. A fragment from the book of Vladimir Videmann “The Forbidden Union-2” (Publishing House of Ripol Classic), dedicated to the African sorcerer of Mbmebe and several other non-trivial personalities. Or the story of an Indian writer and journalist Dipa Bhasti about Soviet literary expansion in her country.
• 12+7. 12 words that allow you to understand the culture of Korea, or 7 details from the Gogol’s works, which you probably still have not paid attention to.
• Scientist. A conversation with the philosopher Alexei Greenbaum on how to save artificial intelligence from evil (the response is paradoxical: rely on accident). Or an excerpt from the collective monograph “Artistic Worlds of the 21st century. Ways of the integration of architecture and art practitioner” (the “Booksmart” Publishing House) about the theoretician of architecture David Leterbarrow and its concepts of “weathering” (curious, by the way).

Sincerely yours,
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