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

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Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has changed its name to Meta, but the social network itself decided not to rename. In the metapacebook, things are like this:

• In Russia, a new maximum of the daily mortality from the Covid-19 has been recorded from the beginning of the pandemic and the record number of new cases per day.
• The lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who left Russia, was put on the wanted list, Gulagu.net informant Sergei Saveliev was arrested in absentia.
• In Moscow, in a criminal case on the use of violence to a police officer, another participant in the January action was detained in support of Navalny.
• In Belarus, the website of the TV channel is blocked.

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Chronicles of Pandemia

According to the operational headquarters on Thursday morning, the daily increase in new Covid-19 cases in Russia amounted to 40,096-this is a record indicator for the entire time of the pandemic. The official number of pandemia infected in the country - 8 million 393 thousand; The official number of victims reached on Thursday morning 235,057 people (+1159 per day). This is another historical maximum. The hospitals of the Russian regions lack oxygen.

Against this background in Moscow, a luxurious exhibition of the funeral industry is held , and the Russians tired of covid hopelessness are massively scattered through the resorts of Turkey, Egypt and the UAE.

Around Navalny

• In Moscow, on charges of applying violence in relation to Rosgvardeza during the action in support of Navalny, a 20-year-old student of the Moscow Road University was detained on January 23. The maximum punishment under this article is five years of colony.
• Here, the lawyer comments on the verdict of the Libertarian Gleb Maryasov on Wednesday: he received 10 months in the colony for going to the roadway and waved his hands. In addition, the court collected 2.7 million rubles from Maryasov at the suit of the Moscow Metro and Mosgortrans for the damage, which he allegedly caused them by his access to the roadway. (Similar cash claims are in fashion and without any connection with Navalny: this is the story of a pensioner from the Novosibirsk region, with whom local officials demand half a million rubles for the repost of opposition videos, but the very crazy case of the recovery of 400 thousand rubles for the repair of the train from the mother of the child who died under the wheels of this train).
• The priest from the Ulyanovsk region spoke about the dismissal from the press service of the diocese for the post in support of Navalny.
• The court extended the arrest of Yuri Zhdanov - the father of the former director of the FBK Ivan Zhdanov - until January 12. Zhdanov Sr. is accused of fraud using their official position and official forgery, Navalny's associates are sure that this is revenge on his son.
• The State Hermitage turned to the prosecutor’s office with a statement to the Petersburger, who hung his portrait in the 1812 military gallery. Museum workers see in his actions “a public insult to the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland.” The criminal liability for this very insult (up to five years) was introduced by the State Duma in the footsteps of the case of the “slander of Navalny on the veteran”, but the heroes of the war of 1812 were also like the defenders of the Fatherland. We are waiting for criminal cases of insulting Alexander Nevsky.

Other Russian

• Former head of the 29 team, lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who left for Georgia, said that he was put on the wanted list in Russia.
• Sergei Savelyev, who handed over to the human rights project Gulagu.net video of torture in Russian colonies, was arrested in absentia in Russia for “making access to computer information protected by law”. Savelyev is in France, where he asked for political asylum.
• Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Project-“For the distribution of materials of the organization recognized in Russia as undesirable” (the “unwanted” founder of the publication was recognized). The blocking occurred the day after the founder of “Project” Roman Badanin, who was in the USA, published a column in the Wall Street Journal about Svetlana Krivogikh - the alleged mistress of Putin and his third daughter’s mother, with the explanation why Putin’s love life is not only possible, but also needs to be written.
• The Investigative Committee refused to institute criminal proceedings on the fact of the work of unauthorized persons in the precinct election commission No. 177 in St. Petersburg - the replacement of these PEC members with fake ones considered a “lack of work in the election commission”.
• The leaders of Russian charitable foundationsturned to Putin with a request not to extend to them the law on "foreign agents", because their activities cannot be considered political. The letter was signed, including Chulpan Khamatov and Konstantin Khabensky, appointed the day before the new artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater.
• The Muz-TV channel drew up a protocol on gay propaganda; The STS television channel postponed the show of the Russian Ninja show with Raper Morgenstern as the presenter - they are waiting for how to end with the investigative committee to verify the critical statements of Morgenstern about the magnificent celebrations of the Victory Day.
• In St. Petersburg, a criminal case has been instituted under an article on “damage to the object of cultural heritage” (up to three years) against the person who wrote “wake up” on the wall of the church. The damage is estimated at 51 thousand rubles.

Around Belarus

A suspect of the murder of the former top manager of the Smolensk Bank and his family members committed suicide in the Belarusian pre-trial detention center. Andrei Skripkin, whom Kommersant calls the former business partner of the murdered, fled to Belarus and was detained in Vitebsk.

The Ministry of Information of Belarus has blocked access to the website of the TV channel present in the country. Deutsche Welle sites and newspapers "Nova Hour" also became inaccessible. Previously, printing houses refused to print the newspaper, and “Belsoyuzpes” - spread. The Deputy Minister of Information of Belarus explained that hyperlinks for materials recognized in Belarus with “extremist” are distributed on these media platforms.

Hundreds of migrants are still left on the borders of Belarus with the European Union, the delivery of which is provided by travel agencies associated with the Belarusian authorities. Here, the Polish activist Kasya Vappa tells how volunteers help people hiding in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, and here the former head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Linas Linkyaviyus talks about the possible ways of resolving this crisis (spoiler: sanctions on the Lukashenko regime must be strengthened).

Around the world

The Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba substantiated the right to self -defense by the government of the Bayractar drone on the Donbass Donbass line. Thus, he responded to the concern of the German Foreign Ministry in connection with the use of the Turkish drone. Here, Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov and military expert Mikhail Samus explain why this drone was used and whether this new type of weapon is able to change the situation in the Donbass.

The lawyers of the families of the dead during the crash of the MH17 flight on the Donbass noticed surveillance. The Dutch authorities provided them with protection.

The Russian and Argentinean trials in the case of 400 kilograms of cocaine found at the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires were included in the final stage. Due to the covid restrictions, no one is allowed at the court sessions in Moscow, but the report made by audio recordings about what is happening there. The Russian investigation considers the main organizer of the operation an extradited Andrei Kovalchuk from Germany, and its lawyers almost direct text say that the supply of cocaine through the embassy organized the FSB, and when the Argentine special services were opened, it was decided to find the extreme one - it turned out to be a “simple smugglers” Kovalchuk.

Six links

• Russian history. Conversation with the Novosibirsk historian Sergei Chernoshov about the colonization of Siberia. Or the chapter from the book of Jacob Gordin “Tsar and God. Utopia of Peter the Great” - about the history of the disgrace of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich.
• The miracle of survival. The story of the camp experience of Nikolai Zabolotsky. Or a conversation with the writer Katya Petrovskaya about her book Esther and Life circumstances that formed in her basis ( you can listen ).
• Movie. Two articles from the collection of materials “Long Happy Life. Instructions for Beginners” (signature publications - the art of cinema) dedicated to the film Gennady Shpalikov (1966). Or the story of how, after the cultural revolution, Mao Zedong tried to bury the Chinese film industry.

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