Omicron and Aquarium

All you need to know early in the morning of November 29

Good morning!

The singer and composer Alexander Gradsky died in Moscow, he was 72 years old; In the USA, at the 92nd year of his life, the author of the Broadway musicals Stephen Sondheim died . The living like this:

• Israel for two weeks closed borders for foreigners in connection with the alleged danger of Omicron's strain. USA, EU, Canada and Australia banned the entrance from South Africa.
• Kuzbass authorities impede the communication of journalists with the miners who survived the accident at the Lastyazzhnaya mine.
• In Moscow, after the match with Zenit, hundreds of CSKA fans were detained.
• Six parties went to the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan, of which the opposition is only one.

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Chronicles of Pandemia

According to the operational headquarters on the morning of Sunday, the daily increase in the new cases of the COVID-19 in Russia amounted to 33,548. The official number of infected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic-9 million 570 thousand; The official number of victims reached 271,755 people by the morning of Sunday (+1224 per day). Summing up the second year of Pandemia, scientific journalist Irina Yakutenko emphasizes the unreliability of official statistics in countries such as Russia, and says that the main problem around the world was not the powerlessness of science in front of the virus, but the impotence of politicians before people to vaccinate. As if, in confirmation of her words in Yekaterinburg on Saturday, about three hundred people came to a picket against the introduction of QR codes: they sang the anthem of the USSR and even the “International”. Tomich, who penetrated the covid zone under the guise of a doctor, to take care of his grandmother there, left Russia for security reasons.

WHO cannot yet evaluate whether Omicron is more dangerous in comparison with other coronavirus strains or not, but the USA, Australia, Canada and the European Union closed the entrance from South Africa (although Omicron has already been found in many European countries), and Israel closed entry for all foreigners for two weeks. Different countries in Europe tightly tighten existing restrictions. The procedure for the appointment of the new Prime Minister of the Czech Republic generally had a wild look : President Milos Zeman, who recently confirmed Covid, was sitting on his wheelchair in a glass aquarium so as not to violate the insulation conditions, but also not to delay the process of changing power in the country to infinity.

In Russia

• In Moscow, after the CSKA match with the St. Petersburg Zenit (which won), the police detained over four hundred fans of the Moscow Club. Some of them were not released from the stadium for about four hours, they also did not have the opportunity to go to the toilet or buy water. The reason is allegedly using pyrotechnics.
• The court in Moscow sent a 19-year-old student to a pre-trial detention center who had a good need to need a stand with portraits of veterans of the Great Patriotic War. This is qualified as the rehabilitation of Nazism by insulting the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland and punishable by a period of up to five years. They caught him, of course, through Instagram.
• Two professors who criticized the state of law and justice in Russia were fired from the Higher School of Economics.
• The stand-up comedian Ruslan Bely spoke about the abolition of concerts in several cities of Russia in connection with an unspoken ban on the authorities. The ban, in his opinion, followed after the publication of the video of his two concerts, in which there were political jokes.
• From this school year, students in grades 9–11 of Chechen schools will necessarily study the biography of the father of Ramzan Kadyrov Akhmat. A textbook called “The Way Illuminated” was written by the head of the Department of Economic Security and Combating Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya Amruudi Edilov. Until 2018, this fellow villager Kadyrov and the son of a deputy of the Chechnya parliament Ibrahim Edilov traded in the market in Grozny.
• Today, the Moscow City Court will hold a second preliminary hearing on the suit of the prosecutor's office on the liquidation of the Memorial human rights center. Hearings on the claim for the liquidation of the Memorial International Society in the Supreme Court of Russia will continue in December.

Disaster

After the disaster at the Lithuanian Mine, whose victims were 51 people, the court arrested the director of the mine, his first deputy, the head of the site, as well as two inspectors of the local branch of Rostekhnadzor. The mayor of the nearby Prokopyevsk just took up the resignation by decree of the governor, because he did not cancel the banquet in connection with the death of people on the occasion of his appointment. At the same time, the region’s authorities impede the communication of journalists with surviving miners and refuse to call places and farewell time with the dead - supposedly at the request of their families. Previously, the surviving miners and their relatives said that security rules were systematically violated in the mine. Here is a report from the village in which the tragedy occurred - people speak extremely reluctantly.

At the ammunition factory in Dzerzhinsk, the Nizhny Novgorod Region occurred . There are victims, the dead were not reported.

Around the world

In Kyrgyzstan, a parliamentary election was held at a low apple. According to preliminary results, six parties went to the parliament, only one of which is opposition. During the counting of the votes on the CEC website, a failure occurred, due to which the leaders of parties that did not overcome the five percent barrier refused to recognize the results of the elections.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg again warned Russia against the escalation of tension on the border with Ukraine. Here is a conversation with the expert of the Berlin Center for the liberal modernity by Nikolaus von Twickel, in which he describes what is happening in the Donbass as the actual integration of the separatist republics with Russia, states a dead end of negotiations, but expresses the hope that the parties will still abstain from shooting.

Six links

• Soviet history. The story of the historian Alexander Gogun about the Xinjiang-Uyghur policy of Stalin in the 1930s and during the war. A selection of memories of people repressed in the 1930-50s, with stories about what they dreamed of in imprisonment.
• German wine. A fragment from the correspondence of Hannah Arenidt with Karl Yaspers (reached in the Publishing House of the Gaidar Institute). Or a story about the book of the military memoirs of Lali Horstmann, dedicated to the occupation of Berlin and is still not translated into Russian.
• Scientific progress. An excerpt from the book of Michael Gazanigi “Who is for the main? Freedom of will from the point of view of neurobiology” (Publishing House of Corpus)-about how the brain determines sociality (unless, of course, assume that it determines it). Or a fragment from the book of Cardiologist Eric Topol “Artificial intelligence in medicine: how smart technologies change the approach to treatment” (Publishing House of Alpina Plisher)-on the study of genomic diseases.

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