Do not compare

Everything you need to know early in the morning of October 29

Good morning!

The total number of coronavirus in the world approaches 45 million, over the past day a record daily increase - 500 thousand has been recorded in the world. But in Russia there are more important things to do: Putin supported the idea of legislatively prohibiting the comparison of the USSR with Nazi Germany. Otherwise there:

• In Russia-a new record of daily mortality from Covid-19. In Germany and France, Lokdown is returned.
• The prosecutor general of Belarus promises to qualify cases against protesters as terrorism.
• The Turkish President sued the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
• The Tu-154 plane made the last civilian flight.

"Like Kutia"

According to Wednesday morning, the daily growth of new Covid-19 cases in Russia amounted to 16,202. In Moscow, 3670 new cases were identified, 727 in St. Petersburg. A total of 1 million 564 thousand infected in the country since the beginning of the epidemic. The official number of victims of the epidemic reached 26,935 people by the morning of the environment (+346 per day is a new record). In Moscow, another 66 people died in Moscow.

In Moscow, distance learning for high school students, remote work for employees of enterprises and self -insulation mode for persons over 65 years old was extended . Bars and restaurants continue to work on QR codes, the Kremlin claims that in this way new business support measures are not required, and the regions are ordered to allocate 10 billion rubles per masks and tests.

In the regions, the situation is difficult:

• In different cities of Kuzbass, the hospitals are crowded , people are sent to get sick at home, there are no drugs in pharmacies.
• In the capital of the Amur Region of Blagoveshchensk , social advertising with the text “Do not like to wear a mask? Your loved ones will like Kutya”. A couple of weeks ago, mass events such as subbotniks and the adoption of a “Cossack oath” were held in the city.
• After the action with the supply of patients on an ambulance to the building of the regional Ministry of Health, the Deputy Minister of Health of the Omsk Region was temporarily suspended from the post of deputy minister of health. Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Health of the Rostov Region, after the death of five patients caused by interruptions in the supply of oxygen (what could be the cause of such interruptions, is explained here ).

So that such incidents do not become public, the Ministry of Health forbade doctors publicly speak about coronavirus without prior consistency with the press service of the department. Messages that several testing participants in the Russian Sputnik V were infected with coronavirus, we must think, were agreed.

The world records a record daily increase in new sick - 500 thousand. A nationwide Lockdown is introduced in Germany and France: in France - from Friday (to go out, it will be necessary to fill out a special uniform), in Germany - from Monday (bars, hotels, cinemas, schools and shops will be closed, but more than 10 people cannot be collected). Fortune -telling about whether such measures are effective, you can familiarize yourself with here .

Atlant straightened his shoulders

In Belarus, a nationwide strike announced by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya continues. The employee of the Atlant plant Viktor Mankevich climbed onto the pipe of an industrial building with a white-red-white flag and recorded an appeal to Lukashenko demanding to resign. When Mankevich went down, the police were handed over. 14 employees were fired from the Grodno Nitrogen factory, and they fired retroactively - this is the conversation with the head of the Stachkom of the enterprise, which in August was forced to flee Poland. The deductions of striking students began - at the Academy of Arts, the vice -rector refused to sign orders for deductions. Several dozen teachers and employees of the Minsk State Linguistic University joined the strike. The Ambassador of Belarus to Argentina, who previously resigned, withdrew his statement to indicate another reason for dismissal: due to violation of the law by the employer (he refuses to submit to the “illegitimate president” abroad).

The prosecutor general of Belarus reported on the initiation of 657 criminal cases in connection with protests, the actions of some protesters will, according to him, will qualify as terrorism. The adviser to Tikhanovskaya in international politics Franak Vyachorka believes that this is a bluff: in recent weeks, from his point of view, Lukashenko does not take any of his own actions, but only reacts.

The repressions against Belarusian journalists are described in detail here ; Here is a conversation with the wife of the Pandadoc top manager Viktor Kuvshinov, she tells why he was not released.

Russian routine

• The State Duma continues to accept amendments to the laws, bringing them into line with the new constitution.
• The acting governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Mikhail Degtyarev, who worked in this function for a hundred days, gave a great interview in which he spoke about his desire to become a tyrant and poured Putin (according to him, he needs to erect monuments “wherever possible”). Degtyarev was hired for 800 thousand rubles a month.
• The "project" found the property of Patriarch Kirill for 225 million rubles: for some reason he and his second cousins have apartments at once in Moscow and in St. Petersburg.
• The prosecutor's office wants to close the process of police officers accused in the case of casting in drugs by Medusa journalist Ivan Golunov.
• According to the Chechen opposition telegram channel 1adat, one and a half thousand people were stolen in the republic for six months.
• The only Tu-154 aircraft remaining in Russian civil aviation has completed its last regular flight from peaceful to Novosibirsk. Here, pilots recall this plane.
• In St. Petersburg, the poet and translator Mikhail Yasnov died . He was 74 years old.

Offended feelings

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan filed a lawsuit in his country to the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, who published a caricature of him. What is the meaning of this, it is not very clear - here it is trying to explain the Czech orientalist Lucia Tungul.

Ramzan Kadyrov received a hat from Peskov for sayings about the President of France (Kadyrov called Macron “number one terrorist”): “The heads of subjects cannot engage in foreign policy,” said Putin's spokesman. Here, Kadyrov’s statement is commented by the French political scientist Cecil Wessier.

But in Chechnya they are not emerging: the authorities of the republic promised to pay 100 thousand rubles to families who would call children born in the republic in honor of the Prophet Muhammad, "his family members, his venerable wives and closest associates."

Russia in the world arena

• The Spanish newspaper El Periodico writes with reference to the investigations in the case of the former head of Catalonia Carles Puchdemon, that Russia offered him 10 thousand troops and hundreds of billions of euros to support the independence of the region.
• The Wall Street Journal found the primary source of some accusations against Trump against Russia from a dossier compiled in 2016 by the former Mi-6 agent Christopher Steel. According to the publication, they were the former journalist of RIA Novosti Olga Galkina, who after that worked as the head of the press service of the governor of the Saratov region and Vice-mayor Saratov, and then-the press secretary of Rostekhnadzor. In the FBI, the information provided by her did not cause much confidence.
• The site of the pre-election headquarters of Donald Trump was hacked by someone a week before the election-it is not yet known who.

Other battles

• Baku announced the shelling of the city of Bard and the death of over 20 people. Yerevan called this accusation "unreasonable and deceitful." From the Nagorno -Karabakh, explosions in Stepanakert are reported .
• In Poland, protests on the ban on abortion continue . As concern for the rights of unborn babies with serious pathologies, it actually turns into a woman’s coercion of childbirth, it is told here (not for the faint of heart).

Six links

• Foreigners. How do the Crimeans differ from the Karaites? - A detailed educational program about the Jews of the Russian Empire. Or an excerpt from the book of the British researcher Mungo Melvin “The History of Crimea and Sevastopol: from Potemkin to the present day” (Publishing House of Hummingbirds)-about the first failures and successes of Russia in the confrontation with the Crimean Tatars.
• From the history of the French press. The essay of Fedorov Zhuravlev about the birth of a free press from the spirit of the Great French Revolution. Or the feuilleton “troubles of human life” by Frederick Sulie (1800–1847) with comments by Vera Milchina.
• Russian literary province. Rostov-on-Don and Chelyabinsk .
• You will always find more interesting texts and reports in the present tense Telegram channel , which is specifically instructed for Longrids.

Sincerely yours,
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