
On this day, nature hinted to us with this photograph that in the world in 2020 something terrible will happen. In Australia, at the very beginning of 2020, forest fires intensify, in which more than a billion animals die, and smoke reaches South America. It would seem that strong rains in mid -January should save Australia from fires. Yes, but there is a new threat in the form of floods and landslides.

On January 3, American aircraft inflicts Baghdad Airport Airport and kills the commander of the special forces of the Al-KudS Islamic Revolution Corps, General Kasem Suleimani. In response, Iran promises to brutally avenge the death of Suleimani. On the same day, a meme about the Third World War appears on social networks.
Exactly a week later, Iran is shot down by the Boeing 737 Air International Airlines of Ukraine, which flies out of Tehran Airport. 176 people die.
The Medusa editors go to work after the New Year holidays. On January 11, news appears on the site: "The first person who was previously unknown to the virus died in China." Now on the Medusa website there are more than 1000 materials, in the heading of which there is the word "coronavirus", and all over the worldmore than 500,000 people died from infection.

In Kalabas, the state of California, a helicopter crashed, on board of which there were eight people, including one of the best basketball players of all time - Kobi Bryant. Among the dead is the 13-year-old daughter of the basketball player Jianne. So the whole world said goodbye to him.
Russia is on the verge of war with Turkey due to clashes in Syria. On February 18, the diplomats of Russia and Turkey met in Moscow and tried to resolve a new crisis in Syria. The parties quarreled. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to start surgery against Syria, which Russia supports, on Twitter again jokes about the third world.

Nothing has changed. Turkey is at war with Syria because of the Idlib province. How did the contradictions of Russia and Turkey begin? What do both countries do in Syria? Will they really begin to fight against each other? We answered these questions in detail in our podcast "what happened."
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The largest invasion of locusts in Africa in history. Due to the global warming of the locust, the crop eats even more actively, and therefore millions of people can be left without food.
The ruble exchange rate collapsed after the oil collapse against the background of the coronavirus epidemic (by the way, right at that time the epidemic develops into a pandemic ). Stock markets sprinkled in the world. Onlymemes about Natasha saved.
In Russia, quarantine begins due to the epidemic. Vladimir Putin makes a television and announces the first "non -working days." All April Russians will sit at home and listen to Putin's new appeals. Everyone remembers the Pechenegs.
In the USA, a wave of protests breaks out after the murder of African American George Floyd. Troops are introduced into the cities, protesters are facing clashes with the police, luters rob shops, crowds of people go to the White House. In almost all cities of America, actions are held against police arbitrariness (the police themselves begin to participate in protests). Following America, Europe joins the shares. Promotions are organized in Italy, France, Belgium and other countries.

In Botswan, elephants die for several months. No one knows why. Specialists in the protection of wildlife think that elephants could become infected with some kind of illness or poison themselves with some kind of substance. It is not ruled out that the disease can be dangerous for people.

After the recession of Pandemia, many cities of the world begin to return quarantine measures - coronavirus has not gone anywhere.

A star was gone , which was 2.5 million times brighter than the sun.

In Russia, according to the CEC, almost 80% of the voted supported the adoption of amendments to the Constitution. The deadlines of Vladimir Putin were "dug up." Now he may be president until 2036.
In some areas that border the Tuva and the Altai Republic, quarantine was injected due to the danger of the spread of the plague.
Comfortable news for the world: flashes of plague occur quite often .

2020 was horrified by Yuri Saprykin, the younger