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What will happen to the economy after the pandemic (too early to relax). SC will check Morgenstern's words about Victory Day. How employees of Russian pre-trial detention centers force prisoners to torture each other

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Pulse

Let's start with the coronavirus

• The Ministry of Health showed a new certificate of vaccination against covid. It contains the patient's personal data, information about vaccinations, medical contraindications, and past coronavirus.
• The Kremlin said that " there is no and no lockdown planned in Moscow ." Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov added that "there is a very important nuance here," but did not explain what it was.
• Meanwhile, in Russia, a new anti-record for mortality from covid is 1,106 deaths per day. And Khakassia was the first of the Russian regions to introduce a curfew for the period of non-working days.

And now for other news.

• The court in Amsterdam decided to transfer the "Scythian gold" to Ukraine. This is a collection from the museums of Crimea, which was sent to an exhibition in the Netherlands in February 2014, before the annexation of Crimea to Russia.
• Morgenstern said he didn't understand why spending millions on VE Day. "Veterans of Russia" promised to complain to the prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee. In the Kremlin, the rapper was called to moral responsibility . He himself later apologized - but the head of the Investigative Committee Bastrykin still instructed to check his words .
• In Colombia, was arrested the leader of the largest drug cartel Dairo Usugu . He was wanted for 10 years and was caught in the jungle after betraying members of his own group.
• A student at the Ostankino Higher School told how she and five other students were threatened with expulsion because of a like on Instagram. The school itself said that the reason for the expulsion was “sabotage of anti-COVID measures.”
• in Moscow . was killed Andrey Novoseltsev, former deputy head of the economic security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,
• Also in Moscow, were killed . a former top manager of the bankrupt Smolensky Bank and members of his family

Texts of the day

Big money has come to English football again: this time, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia bought Newcastle. Not everyone is happy with this deal.

Alan Shearer once shone at Newcastle, and the club itself played leading roles in the English Premier League and played in European competition. Over the years, things have changed for the worse: in the last decade and a half, the club has been relegated twice from the top division, and this season it takes the penultimate place and risks leaving the Premier League again. So when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bought the club, fans were ecstatic. Many are hoping that the same thing that happened to Manchester City will happen to the club thanks to the capital of UAE Sheikh Mansour. But other Premier League clubs are opposed to the deal , and the media are reminded of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 - and other activists and journalists killed or missing.

The Japanese princess Mako got married and lost her title. The wedding was supposed to take place three years ago, but it was postponed due to the scandal with the debts of the groom's mother.

Princess Mako's husband was Kei Komuro, with whom she studied at the same university. By marrying a commoner, Mako lost the title of princess, as required by Japanese law. The wedding was supposed to take place back in November 2018, but six months before the ceremony, a close friend of Kei's mother Komuro publicly announced that she borrowed large sums of money from him, promising to marry him. The marriage did not take place, but Kei Komuro's mother refused to repay the debt. Amid the scandal, the wedding of the princess was postponed, and Kei Komuro left to live and work in the United States. Japanese society did not approve of the marriage . The groom was criticized by the media, in addition, it was believed that the imperial family was against the choice of the princess, although nothing of the kind was officially announced. In Tokyo, there was even a protest before the wedding.

In Russian pre-trial detention centers, inmates torture each other in exchange for alcohol, parole and lenient sentences. Here's how the system works

This text is part of the special project "Encyclopedia of Violence in Irkutsk Colonies and SIZOs", which was made by the Taiga.info publication. It tells about how the SIZO staff recruit prisoners to torture their cellmates and force them to give the necessary testimony. The starting point for the publication was a protest in Angarsk colony No. 15 in April 2020. Then the prisoners cut their veins, protesting against the actions of the administration. After that, several outbuildings and the duty unit caught fire. The protests lasted about a day, then the special forces of the Federal Penitentiary Service entered the colony, which severely suppressed the uprising. According to Taiga, hundreds of prisoners could have been beaten and raped in several pre-trial detention centers and colonies in the region after the protest action.

Podcast "What Happened"

The economy is finally recovering from the pandemic. But it’s too early to relax: there are new big problems ahead

From October 30 to November 7, a non-working week has been announced in Russia with new severe restrictions that will hit businesses. Even before the introduction of a new quarantine, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, said that the recovery growth that the Russian economy had shown in recent months had exhausted itself. Together with economist Ruben Enikolopov, we discuss how the Russian (and global) economy survived the pandemic, what will happen next, what long-term consequences should be expected, and how the collapse of the largest Chinese developer Evergrande can lead to a global economic crisis

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"What would you like to see?" days

It's the Netflix series "The Cleaner" that was overshadowed by "The Squid Game"

"The Cleaner" is a scary and uplifting story of a girl who fights for the future of her two-year-old daughter. And a social drama about poverty, violence, despair - and the will to live. Starring Andie MacDowell and her daughter Margaret Qualley. The series is shot with piercing tenderness, and hope never fades in it. In general, film critic Yegor Moskvitin recommends .

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