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Russia and NATO held talks in Brussels. Moscow began issuing “non-citizen passports.” Rossotrudnichestvo against the new minister in Kazakhstan

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The main thing for the day - point by point

• Russia and NATO held talks in Brussels. “There is a real risk of armed conflict in Europe,” said Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after their conclusion.
• The investigation group Conflict Intelligence Team reported that equipment from the bases of all four armies of the Eastern Military District is being transported to the west of Russia.
• Belarusian TV showed a man who allegedly supervised the dispatchers during the emergency landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk. Poland called him a KGB officer.
• Nursultan Nazarbayev's daughter Dariga did not come to the parliament meeting . The press service referred to health reasons.
• Russian retail chains have proposed limiting markups on socially significant products (bread, milk, butter, buckwheat, noodles).
• Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather were sued over advertising the EthereumMax cryptocurrency. They were accused of involving investors in a fraudulent scheme.

Texts of the day

Moscow began issuing “non-citizen passports.” Are there any non-citizens in Russia?

In a legal sense - no, such a category does not exist in Russia. We are talking about stateless persons - stateless persons. These are people who are not citizens of Russia and do not have evidence of citizenship of a foreign state. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are about 4.5 thousand of them in Russia. And they are one of the most vulnerable groups. Let's look at our cards in more detail.

A suspect in the murder of Alexander Solonik, perhaps the most famous killer in Russia in the 1990s, has been detained in Greece.

The suspect is 48-year-old Joakim Karsliadis, a native of Georgia who has the right to reside in Greece. A warrant for his arrest was issued back in 2005. But exactly what role he allegedly played in the murder of the killer is unknown. Alexander Solonik (also known as Sasha the Macedonian due to his two-handed shooting skills - Macedonian shooting) committed dozens of murders and escaped from custody three times. In 1995, he became the first person to escape from Matrosskaya Tishina. Two years later he was killed in Greece.

During the days of protests in Almaty, Kazakh soldiers wore blue helmets of UN peacekeepers

Although the UN, of course, has nothing to do with the operation in Kazakhstan. The organization's spokesman, Stephane Dujarric,expressed concern about the incident. Representatives of Kazakhstan told him that “this issue has been resolved.” Bonus: on the uniform of the Belarusian military in Kazakhstan, sleeve insignia reminiscent of the UN emblem were noticed. But in reality they are just similar.

Coronavirus

Russia is facing a new outbreak of morbidity. This was discussed today at a meeting between Vladimir Putin and the government. “We are in a very difficult situation today, on the eve of possible new outbreaks, especially since the holidays are big, communication between people was very intense at this time,” Putin said , adding that “there are at least a couple of weeks to prepare "

Yesterday, at a meeting of the government headquarters for the fight against coronavirus, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the increase in incidence will begin within 7-10 days . A government meeting with the regions is scheduled for early next week to discuss new anti-Covid measures. The State Duma started talking about a lockdown .

Scandal of the day

The head of Rossotrudnichestvo Evgeny Primakovsaid that his department will not work with the new Minister of Information and Social Development of Kazakhstan Askar Umarov, to whom, for example, the following quotes are attributed:

• When everyone gets drunk on vodka and celebrates an incomprehensible victory day, you will remember with prayer our unfortunate grandfathers who did not return from someone else’s war. Who did they win, what did they win?
• Don’t forget that you are an imposed diaspora here, not autochthons, and say thank you that your rights are respected, and no one is persecuting you, like colonialists in other countries.
• I am constantly convinced that if a business in Astana has a Russian owner, then the service there is disgusting, as if it had been caught in a scoop!! Is there something in their blood?

Primakov said that Rossotrudnichestvo “does not maintain contacts, does not work and does not cooperate with Russophobic rubbish.” Umarov asked not to demonize his image, but did not directly refute the authorship of these quotes.

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