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Everything you need to know early in the morning of January 4

Good morning!

All enlightened humanity celebrates the 130th anniversary of the birth of Tolkien , and almost nothing happens in the world:

• Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsimbalyuk left Russia due to threats to personal security.
• In the west of Kazakhstan, protests continue for the second day due to growth in gas prices.
• According to Bloomberg, Vladislav Klyushin, extradited in the United States, knows something about GRU operations abroad.
• The five nuclear powers announced the inadmissibility of nuclear war.

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In the west of Kazakhstan - in Zhanaozen, Aktau and several villages of the Mangistau region - rallies do not stop for two days demanding to reduce liquefied gas prices, which are refueling most of the cars in the region. Since the beginning of the year, prices have doubled. The rallys spent the night of January 2 to 3 right on the city square. Protesters were supported in other regions of the country. The authorities have not yet dispersed rallies, conducting only point detentions. More than 20 people were detained. Prices promise to reduce.

Putin instructed the Russian government to make amendments to the Administrative Code, providing for the suspension of mines in case of violations. On January 3, it turned 40 days from the date of the accident in the Listeniyazzhnaya mine, where 51 people died. Over a hundred years in Kuzbass, 68 large emergencies occurred, as a result of which 1,400 people remained underground. Here is a story about the life of miners in the region.

Russia in the world arena

• The correspondent of the Ukrainian State Agency UNIAN in Moscow Roman Tsimbalyuk left Russia. In early December, he was summoned to the prosecutor in the case of the initiation of enmity and hatred, but then the challenge was recalled. Tsimbalyuk considered that for personal safety it is more reasonable to leave Russia, where he worked for 13 years.
• In Italy, at the request of Russia, the Ukrainian theater director Yevgeny Lavrenchuk was detained (now he is the Glavrezh of the Odessa National Opera and Ballet Theater, before that he worked, including in Moscow). Russia requires his extradition in a large -scale fraud case, in Russia he is arrested in absentia. What is connected with is not known - it is only known that we are talking about the events of eight years ago.
• According to Bloomberg , the Russian businessman Advisor Vladislav Klyushin, issued by the United States from Switzerland in the case of insider trade, may have access to documents on Russian intervention in the US presidential election in 2016 (we are talking about a disk server of the Democratic Party by GRU hackers). The agency refers to sources close to the Kremlin and Russian military intelligence.
• According to Bild , German Chancellor Olaf Sholts is preparing a meeting with Putin. He allegedly decided to keep relationships with Russia under personal control.
• The five nuclear powers - the USA, Russia, France, Great Britain and China - made a joint statement about the inadmissibility of nuclear war and the spread of nuclear weapons.

Around the world

• The Minister of Culture of Ukraine Alexander Tkachenko sent a letter to Netflix regarding the "insulting" image of the Ukrainian in the second season of the series "Emily in Paris" (there the heroine-Ukrainian stealing things from the store in Paris). The company in its response proposed cooperation to "prevent such cases."
• Google deleted the commercials of materials of Belarusian pro -government resources, which showed a video of interrogations of political prisoners. This happened after Svetlana Tikhanovskaya turned to the executive director of the corporation. In a letter, she noted that the testimonies received under duress are qualified as torture and to spread such videos means encouraging torture.
• Two adult children of the former US President Donald Trump, Ivanka and Donald Jr., as well as Donald Trump himself received summons from the Prosecutor General of the state of New York as part of a civilian case of fraud. They want to interrogate them in order to establish whether Trump Organization has been manipulated with estimates of their real estate. Another son of Trump, Eric, was questioned earlier. A civil investigation is carried out separately, but it is connected with the criminal case against Trump Organization, which is investigated by the District Prosecutor's Office of Manhattan.
• Apple was the world's first company with three trillion dollars.

Chronicles of Pandemia

The Russian operational headquarters recorded a sharp drop in new cases of Covid-19-up to 16,343 per day (official daily mortality increased-up to 835 people a day). Despite these optimistic manipulative figures, in St. Petersburg-while maintaining serious restrictions on the work of catering- they began to control cafes and restaurants, which from January 2 are required to demand QR codes from customers at the entrance (violators have already been found).

European countries, which canceled the total mask regime, hastily return it back in connection with the spread of Omicron. From January 9, Israel will allow tourists to enter - but only vaccinated or ill, and even then not from all countries.

Six links

• Along the edges of literature. The essay of Konstantin Lvov about the epistolary heritage of Zinaida Hippius. Or aphorisms of literary critic Miron Petrovsky, recorded from memory of his son.
• Art. A fragment from the article by Vasily Uspensky “The Revelation of the Dürer”, dedicated to the qualities that determined the special place of the Dürerovsky “Apocalypse” in world culture from the XV to the XXI century (the article complements the reproduction of the publication of 1511, which was published in St. Petersburg). Or a conversation with artist Viktor Alimpiev about the nature of art and a special case of contemporary art - with works from his last series.
• Female. Fragments from the letters of the public woman Teresa Grunwald Nikolai Dobrolyubov (from the collection “Ladies without Camellia. Letters of public women N. A. Dobrolyubov and N. G. Chernyshevsky”, he came out at the Higher School of House). Or a story about a commune created by lesbosrapists in Oregon in the early 1970s.

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