He flew away, but promised to return

Everything you need to know early in the morning of January 21

Good morning!

Former US President Donald Trump and his wife flew out of the White House in a green helicopter three hours before the inauguration of Joe Bayden. Before departure, Trump again spoke for a long time about his achievements (Melania at that time smiled radiantly) and promised to return. But the attention of the whole world has already been drawn to another:

• Joe Biden took office as president of the United States and on the first day took up the signing of executive decrees that cancel a number of Trump's initiatives.
• The FBK film about Putin’s palace broke the record on YouTube. Different Russian departments are working on the prevention of a Saturday action for the liberation of Navalny.
• Kadyrov reported to Putin that the bandit in the republic was over.
• Lithuania is ready to accept the World Hockey Championship with Latvia.

Change of power in the USA

In Washington, the inauguration of Joe Biden took place . The US President devoted his first speech to the unity of all Americans: he promised to defeat hatred and firmly withstand all manifestations of racial superiority and internal terrorism. On the very first day of his presidency, he began signing 15 executive decrees that cancel the initiative of his predecessor (such as building a wall on the border with Mexico, a ban on entry into the United States from Muslim countries, etc.).

Donald Trump’s political heritage is described here , the future of the Republican Party American Sasha Filippenko sees most large party figures in the dissociation from him. The question of the removal of Trump from office has not yet been resolved in the Senate - it is quite possible that Trump will still be banned from occupying public positions in the future. So far, the Senate is busy with the approval of the new members of the Biden administration: Avril Heinns, who previously worked as Deputy Director of the CIA and Obama adviser to National Security, became the director of the National Intelligence.

Trump's last presidential act was a pardon of 73 people, including his former adviser to Steve Bannon and lover Maria Butova Erickson. The first thing China did after the expiration of Trump's powers was sanctions against 29 members of his administration.

“Schokhotron” beats records

The FBK film about Putin’s palace in Gelendzhik beats records for views (at the time of writing these words there were over 37 million). Here is an interesting conversation with the ecologist Dmitry Shevchenko, who was at the facility in February 2011 along with colleagues from the Ecological Watch in the North Caucasus. Then the activists managed to remove something, and serious repressions after this visit followed only with respect to Suren Gazaryan, who was forced to leave Russia. Shevchenko highly appreciates the film as a successful attempt to reduce everything known together and present the available information in the most intelligible form.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, on the contrary, did not like : this is “stuffing”, “scam”, “insinuation”-Putin has no palace, because Putin has everything (Zaporozhets car with a trailer, it seems) is entered into his declaration. Peskov warned citizens against the transfer of money “these crooks” (he had in mind the FBK, and not those whom FBK usually calls crooks).

Political scientist Abbas Galyamov compared the release of the film with a voluntary call to the cage to an angry tiger - here he explains his words. The Italian architect Lanfranco Chirillo, whose incomparable creation is dedicated to the film, did not express his impressions, but here everything that is known about him was collected . He considers himself the successor of Aristotle’s case, you understand, Fioravanti and Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli.

Towards Saturday

After Alexei Navalny was placed in the sailor silence, the insulator stopped accepting letters for prisoners (the letter of Julia Navalny was not transferred either). Dates and programs are prohibited in all Moscow pre -trial detention centers.

Different famous people write appeals with an appeal to support Navalny and go to Saturday shares demanding his release.

On the other hand, feverish work is underway to prevent these shares: the troll factory creates thousands of bots that are signed on the instagrams of the headquarters of Navalny and individual activists - in order to later disable their accounts through mass complaints. The police came to the Omsk headquarters of Navalny - administrative protocols for announcements of shares in social networks are drawn up. Roskomnadzor, referring to the Prosecutor General, requires Tiktok and VK to protect minors from information about rallies.

The European Parliament will demand from the EU authorities an immediate stop of the construction of the Northern Stream -2, although, as analyst Mikhail Krutikhinexplains , this project is already dead.

Petersburg: “I ate my grandfather” by dismissing him

• The court in Kolpino forbade the distribution of the Anime “Inuyashiki”, “Death Note”, “Elven Song” and “Tokyo Ghoul” in Russia (I ate the grandfather’s Morgenster's track on February 17). For lovers of high literature - a report from the court . The expert, for example, justifies the need to ban the “ghoul”: “Even the assistant professor was divided, where the brakes are as strong as possible. And the child is not an associate professor.”
• The prosecutor’s office of St. Petersburg recognized the “contradictory law” of the Ahmet-Zaki Validi scientist, established in the territory of St. Petersburg State University (Extremist Validi, because he did not like the national policy of the Bolsheviks, and after his emigration of the NKVD, he brought several criminal cases).
• The police came to a meeting of the Smolninskoye municipal council and detained 13 deputies. Because there were too many of them for such a small room, and in the courtyard, Covid. (“Smolninsky” is one of the advice where the opposition has a majority).

Other Russian

• The Investigative Committee started the case after the mass poisoning of schoolchildren in the suburbs. The food was supplied by the company associated with Putin's cook Prigozhin. By the end of the week, they limited the work of kindergartens and schools in Buinaksk because of hundreds of poisoning-there the DNA of the pathogen of dysentery was found in tap water.
• In Khabarovsk, a journalist illuminated protests in three days was fined 235 thousand rubles. Even darker - the story of the revival of punitive psychiatry in the Kaliningrad region.
• And about the successes: the Fair Russia party joined the ranks of the “For Truth” movement, which is headed by the writer Prilepin, and Kadyrov reported to Putin that after the liquidation of the “gang of Aslan Butukaev” out of six people - with the bandit in Chechnya is over. He reported on the phone - apparently, Putin from the bunker does not come out at all, because the photograph of the baptismal dipping in the ice hole in blue underpants, which was so violently discussed on Tuesday, turned out to be old ( the same two years ago ). That is, it turns out that the blue underpants were not a message, but an omen.

Fulfillment for stripes

The court fined a resident of Grodno at $ 227 for sports trousers with white-red-white stripes (and she did not sew them to these trousers). Regarded as a picket. The story of the persecution of book publishers, book artists and translator Olga Kalatskaya read here . A very sad story. Margaret Etwood herself stood up, but who will listen to her?

Former Belarusian special forces Igor Makar, who published a recording of a conversation in the KGB of Belarus with a plan for the murder of Pavel Sheremet, talked with the Ukrainian consequence. This is what he himself tells about it.

Lithuania announced the readiness to hold part of the World Hockey Championship, which was supposed to be held in Belarus.

Chronicles of Pandemia

According to Wednesday morning, the daily increase in new cases of the Covid-19 in Russia was 21 152 (this is a fall, but Petersburg is ahead of Moscow for the second day in a row). The number of infected in the country since the beginning of the epidemic is 3 million 633 thousand. The official number of victims reached 67,220 people in the morning (+597 per day). In Russia, according to the statements of the authorities, mass vaccination is underway, but it is actually only in Moscow and Moscow Region - these are the stories of residents of other regions of the country.

For the “satellite V” vaccine, the temperature regime of storage has changed : it turned out that it can be stored in a regular refrigerator (just then it will deteriorate faster) - if the changes in the mode are approved, this can simplify the vaccination campaign in regions where there are few super -coarseers.

The Ombudsman Moskalkov proposed to issue certificates for traveling and ill Russians to travel abroad (only she did not ask the “abroad” whether he was ready to open the boundaries). Matvienko has already stated that no certificates are needed.

The “abroad” continues to sit quietly at home, but this does not interfere with virulent strains successfully spread around the world. US President Joe Biden introduces the obligatory wearing of masks on the territory of all federal facilities, as well as when crossing the border between the states.

Six links

• Story. Danya Pleshak talks about different views on the political structure of Byzantium. Or an article by the Canadian historian Aidan Fort “British Archipelago Gulag. Camp of the Liberal Empire, 1871–1903” from the collection “The Phenomenon of the Gulag: Interpretation, Comparison, Historical Context” (Publishing House of Academic Studies Press / Bibliors).
• Consides. The story of literary critic Vladimir Griba (1908–1940), who played an important role in the formation of the Soviet literary canon and managed to legalize Western classics within the Marxist model. Or the next evidence that “Quiet Don” really wrote Sholokhov - this time with the help of “Burrose delta”.
• Sexuality. A conversation with a folklorist Elena Minnok about the erotic layer of Russian ditties, riddles, etc. or a chapter on the practitioners of “adoration” from the collective monograph by Natalia Pushkareva, Anna Belova and Natalia Mitsyuk “sweeping the bans” (e-chief) about the history of female sexuality in Russia.
• 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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