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

Good morning!

According to Bloomberg, in 2020, most Russian billionaires became even richer , especially Suleiman Kerimov. It remains only to rejoice for them, because there are somehow no other joyful news:

• Petersburg overtook Moscow on the daily growth of new cases of Covid-19. In England and Scotland, the third hard Lockdown was introduced.
• An audio recording was published, at which the alleged employees of the KGB of Belarus are discussing the killings of political opponents, including Pavel Sheremet.
• According to the Dossier Center, the missing top manager Wirecard, Yang Marselek could be recruited by the GRU of the Russian Federation more than 20 years ago.
• Trump's conversation with the Secretary of State Georgia has been published - in it the US president demands to give him a victory in the state.

Chronicles of Pandemia

According to Monday morning, the daily increase in new Covid-19 cases in Russia amounted to 23,351 (this is at least from mid-November). In Moscow, 3591 new cases were identified, in St. Petersburg - 3657 (St. Petersburg overtook Moscow), in the suburbs - 1250. The number of 3 million 260 thousand infected in the country since the beginning of the epidemic. The official number of victims of the epidemic reached Monday Monday 58,988 people (+482 per day). In St. Petersburg, one of the founders of the “Memorial” historian Mikhail Rogachev died from the consequences of Koronavirus; Actor Oleg Basilashvili and his wife are hospitalized with Covid-19.

The third tough Lokdown was introduced in England and Scotland - presumably, it will last until mid -February. During this time, the authorities expect to instill most representatives of risk groups - on the eve the use of the Astrazeneca vaccine developed by Oxford University (its plus is that it can be stored in a regular refrigerator). Today, about a million people have already received any vaccine in the UK.

The world leader in vaccination is Israel - more than 13% of the population has already been vaccinated there. Now, however, the pace will decrease, because there are not enough vaccines.

Mass vaccination is also in China - there the goal is to instill as many people as possible before the Chinese New Year, which will be on February 21. Here is the sad story of the Russian-Chinese family, which for almost a year for almost a year was separated by quarantines and closed boundaries, during which time the couple managed to be born a child.

They gather in a state of emergency in Tokyo - and only Tajikistan solemnly announced the final victory over the coronovirus, since the beginning of the year, only four sick people have allegedly revealed there.

Investigations

• The Dossier Center has published an investigation into the Austrian Yana Marslekle-the missing top manager of the WireCard payment system. According to investigators, his escape was helped by the Russian special services and now it is allegedly hidden on one of the GRU residences near Moscow. It is claimed that Marsealek could be recruited by the GRU more than 20 years ago.
• The euoobserver publication published a recording of a conversation made in 2012. One of the voices on her looks like the voice of the then head of the KGB of Belarus Vadim Zaitsev. On records, three are discussing the liquidation of Oleg Alkayev, the former head of the Minsk pre -trial detention center No. 1, Vladimir Borodach, the former commander of the special forces brigade, and Vyacheslav Dudkin, the former acting Head of the Corruption Board Department. For this operation, allegedly on the special estate of the President of Belarus, there were "more than one and a half million dollars." The interlocutors are also discussing the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet using the "bookmark". Here, this entry is commented by the former employee of the Almaz special forces Igor Makar (he got it, and subsequently handed it over to reporters) and Oleg Alkaviev, who avoided the “liquidation” - possibly thanks to the vigilance of Germany’s police, where he now lives. After the publication of the record, the National Police of Ukraine, investigating the murder of Pavel Sheremet, said that she received data on possible customers of his murder at the end of 2019.

Year of popular unity

Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 1 on Monday, in which 2021 is announced in Belarus by the “Year of National Unity”. The Belarusian Orthodox Church made constitutional initiatives about patriotic education and marriage “taking into account Christian traditions” - “constitutional reform”, which Lukashenko started, promises to be very similar to successfully implemented in Russia last year.

The Coordinating Council of the opposition, for its part, requires the Belarusian Prosecutor General's Office to check the activities of the Council of Elders under the Presidium of the Council of the Republic - this incomprehensible first met on December 29. The coordination council calls this body illegal.

A protocol was drawn up for a resident of the Gomel region from a snowman with a red scarf, at the foot of which it was written (with a finger in the snow) "Live Belarus." This was regarded as an unauthorized picket. Belsata journalist Igor Ilyasha was banned in prison with his wife journalist Ekaterina Andreeva - on the grounds that she “can hide from justice” (apparently directly during the meeting). Here is a conversation with Ilyash .

In Minsk, on Monday, as it was started, the local marches of pensioners were held.

Curator from the FSB

• Over the past year, the Moscow City Hall spent 2.6 billion rubles on the development of a person recognition system.
• The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky appealed to the Office of the FSB of Russia demanding to explain where a person appeared from the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which seems to everyone as a “curator from the FSB”.
• It became known about another criminal case under the article “mass riots” in connection with protests against the construction of the church of St. Catherine in Yekaterinburg in the spring of 2019.
• The case of the Russian Mi-24 helicopter was replaced by a more difficult article.

American

• Today, the second round of the Senate elections will be held in the state of Georgia, who will decide the fate of the upper house of the American Congress. In case of victory of their candidates, the democrats will receive a small advantage. On the eve of Nancy Pelosi was re -elected by the chairman of the House of Representatives. She is 80 years old, she took this position for the fourth time.
• The Washington Post has published an audio recording of a conversation in which a person who looks like President Trump demands from his interlocutor, Secretary of State of Georgia Brad Raffensperger, to count in his favor of the vote in the elections. The elected vice-president of the United States Kamal Harris said that Trump "openly abused authority."
• The court in the UK refused to give the United States the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange on the grounds that the American authorities would not be able to protect him from suicide. In the United States, Assanju has been charged with 17 accusations, which he threatens until 175 years in prison. The American side has already stated that it would appeal this decision. The other day, the British court will determine the measure of restraint of the Assange during the consideration of the appeal. Mexico offered the founder of Wikileaks political asylum.

Around the world

• Iran resumed Uranus to enrich up to 20 percent, calling this step by the response to the recent murder of Jacob's physicist Mochsen Fakhrizade, in which the Iranian authorities accuse the intelligence of Israel. The United States qualified this decision as a “nuclear blackmail”.
• Saudi Arabia opened its ground, air and sea borders with Qatar, which remained closed since the summer of 2017. Today, Emir Katara should come to the Summit of the Persian Gulf, where an agreement will be signed on the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt on the one hand and Qatar on the other. When signing, the son -in -law of Trump Jared Kushner will be present. In 2017, four countries accused Qatar of a pro -River position, declared a blockade and nominated 13 requirements to the country's leadership, but this did not lead to anything.
• In the Central Academy of Sciences, the winner of the presidential election was announced by the fuston-arman of the Tuader-the current president and ally of Moscow, for the support of which Russian military personnel were sent to the TsA.

Six links

• Story. The story of the historian Andrei Aksenov that they drank in the Russian Empire, how the tsarist government fought with drunkenness and what the revolution has to do with it. Or the sad story of the Petersburger Sergey Tarasov, who was born in 1953 in the camp with repressed parents, recently the Prosecutor General’s prosecutor’s office deprived him of the status of a victim of political repression.
• Around science. A brief introduction to the philosophy of medicine with an explanation of why it is generally needed. Or an excerpt from the book of Henry Erlich and Sergey Komarov “Is it easy to swim in the syrup. Where the strange scientific discoveries come from” (Publishing House of Alpina non-fiction ”).
• Two in one. A conversation with the Ukrainian artist Mykola Ridn about the role of politics in his work. Or the lecture by Oleg Lexmanov about sex in Russian prose of the 20th century.
• 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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