The third coming of “non -working days”

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WHO resumed the approval procedure for the Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use, the group of inspectors will soon come to Russia for checks. And he will find a difficult situation there:

• The daily mortality from the Covid-19 in Russia was again record-1028. From October 30 to November 7, it was declared “non-working”.
• Alexey Navalny became a laureate of Sakharov Award - the main human rights award of the European Union.
• The ally of Navalny Love Sobol was put on the wanted list.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a meeting with the Taliban in Moscow.

Chronicles of Pandemia

According to the operational headquarters on the morning of Wednesdays, the daily increase in new Covid-19 cases in Russia amounted to 34,073. The official number of 8 million 95 thousand infected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic; The official number of victims reached the morning of the environment of 226,353 people (+1028 per day).

Putin went to meet the wishes of the government and announced a new “non -working week” from October 30 to November 7, promising compensation to companies that will suffer from this. In Moscow, according to rumors, this week is going to introduce a short -term Lokdown. Since October 25, Muscovites over 60 will have to observe the “home regime”. Professor Vasily Vlasov considers all these measures very belated, and the vaccination campaign is a failure. Here, psychologist Alexander Kolmanovsky is trying to explain why the Russians stubbornly do not want to vaccinate (due to distrust of the authorities).

In addition, according to Kommersant, the Moscow City Hall demanded to connect cameras in shopping centers to a video surveillance system that uses persons recognition - to strengthen control over the mask regime (which happens when the person recognition system is mistaken, read here ).

A hard Lockdown was introduced in Latvia, all medicine is switched to Covid, planned operations have been canceled, the hospital will stop providing outpatient assistance from Monday - this is a report from Riga .

Chances of survival

Alexey Navalny became the laureate of the Andrei Sakharov Prize "For Freedom of Thought" - the main award of the European Union in the field of human rights. According to the director of the Sakharov Center in Moscow, Sergei Lukashevsky , “the thought becomes truly significant when a person puts his freedom and life for it, and it was this bet that Alexei Navalny made in 2021.” Personally, Navalny personally will not be able to receive the prize (the ceremony will take place in December), but political scientists agree that the fact of awarding increases his chances to stay alive in the Russian colony, because the best protection for the political prisoner is public attention to his person. Against this background, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has declared the closest ally of Navalny Lyubov Sobol.

The Forbes publication found out the details of the criminal case against the former deputy Minister of Education and ex-manager of Sberbank Marina Rakakova and the rector Shanka Sergey Zuev. It was excited at the request of Julia Ponomareva - acting General Director of the Foundation of New Forms of Education Development at the Ministry of Education. The application was written on August 3, but back in July, the police on its own initiative ordered a check of contracts concluded between the Fund and Shaninka from the Russian Academy of Education. RAO is headed by the former chief of Rakoka Olga Vasilieva, with whom she had a conflict. An examination of RAO found that the work performed by Shaninka does not correspond to the terms of reference, and its results cannot be put into practice. The applicant Ponomareva agreed with the conclusions of the examination, after which there was a criminal case of fraud, the only victim in which is the Fund for new forms of education development. Shaninka Sergey Zuev, who was under house arrest , was taken to the hospital with a hypertensive crisis on Wednesday night.

Other Russian

For six months of 2021, Russian courts examined more than 16 thousand cases under the article on “violations at rallies”, fines amounted to almost 150 million rubles, calculated in the “OVD-Info”. The matter is far from always limited to fines: in St. Petersburg, the security forces came with a search of activist Olga Smirnova as part of a criminal case of “justification of terrorism” - “justification” is that Smirnova participated in pickets in support of the Crimean Tatars. Other “crimes”:

• The court in Moscow fined the independent journalist Yuri Dudia for 100 thousand rubles for the “drug propaganda” - he touched the topic of drugs in an interview with Raper Morgenstern and blogger Ivangay (to discuss it, the court considered it).
• Roskomnadzor issued an official warning to the Echo of Moscow website for a video with the participation of Alexander Nevzorov. According to the department, Nevzorov allowed statements that exciting social strife to Christian priests. The video from the site “Echo” was deleted, and Nevzorov is waiting for an administrative case under the article “Exciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity” (up to 15 days). Blogger Ruslan Bobieva and his friend Anastasia Chorov, who imitated oral sex against the background of the Basilian Basil Cathedral, will be judged for insulting the feelings of believers.
• Six more episodes of “Sales of Children” were added to doctors-refracted doctors accused of “selling children from surrogate mothers”. What is the crime, no one can explain. The bill on the ban on foreigners to use the services of surrogate mothers in Russia was submitted to the State Duma after the initiation of this criminal case and has not yet been adopted.

Caucasian

• The head of the Chechnya parliament announced that the republic’s leadership would fight those who are sitting in social networks for a long time (especially for some reason in Tiktoka): “First we explain that it is not appropriate to behave like that. The second time we will indicate that this is categorically impermissible for our youth, and if they don’t understand, we can stop it,” said Magomed Daudov.
• The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet writes with reference to the prosecutor's office that six foreigners detained on October 8 in Istanbul were arrested on charges of political and military espionage. Among them are four citizens of Russia, a citizen of Uzbekistan and a citizen of Ukraine. The investigation believes that they were preparing an attack on Chechen oppositionists living in Turkey and bought weapons for this.
• The ECHR ordered Russia to pay 453,300 euros of compensation to relatives of Cheremshi collectors killed on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia in 2010 and 2013 during a special operation.

Around the world

• In Belarus, telegram channel and chat “squads of folk self-defense” was declared an “extremist formation”, and lawyer Yevgeny Pilchenko, who defended Viktor Babariko and Maxim the sign, was removed from work ( it tells other Belarusian lawyers thrown out by the authorities from the profession). How the Belarusian authorities are blackmailing opposition citizens, threatening the deprivation of parental rights, says here .
• Doctors recommended sending the former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili to the hospital for intense observation - he has been holding a hunger strike for 20 days. The Georgian prosecutor's office finally explained how Saakshvili managed to enter the country: he arrived in Georgia from Ukrainian Black Sea on a ferry and moved off him, hiding in a truck with dairy products.
• Before the election of the President of Uzbekistan , the Uzbek Radio Liberty service will massively receive threats to murder and rape.
• In Moscow, a meeting of representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry with a delegation of the Taliban took place . Lavrov called the delegation of the "respected" and emphasized that the Russian authorities are "satisfied with the level of practical interaction" with the new Afghan authorities. According to the deputy director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies by Sergey Danilov , the Taliban want international recognition and money, and Russia seeks not to allow destabilization in the countries of the Central Asia, bordering Afghanistan. During the meeting, Russia made it clear that the Taliban would not receive money.
• Ten years ago, Libyan rebels killed Muammar Gaddafi. What happened to Libya over these ten years is told here .

Seven links

• Story. The story of hunger in the Volga region is to the centenary of Nansen’s mission to save the starving. Or a fragment from the Black Black Book “Earth obsessed with demons. Witches, healers and ghosts of the past in post-war Germany” (Publishing House of Alpina Non-Fikshn)-about Johann Cruise, a school school, who was the first to understand that the witch hunt, which unfolded in Germany in the early 1950s, had the same roots as the same persecution as pre-warr Against Jews.
• Live hiding. In the USSR, Yevgeny Schwartz and Korney Chukovsky were not at all famous for that today it seems the most important in their work: Natalya Gromova, about the half -signed Chukovsky , Elena Lukyanova, talks about an unknown Schwartz .
• Art. Two excerpts from the new book by Grisha Bruskin “Brushing Rage. Revolution and counter -revolution in art” (“New Publishing House”): the first about freedom (and its secondary sexual characteristics), the second - about Yuri Pimenov. In Pandan to Pimenov - the story of the art critic Galina Elshevskaya about socialist realism as a whole.
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