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All you need to know early in the morning of January 19
Good morning!
The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan won the case against Armenia-the court recognized his criminal prosecution for participation in protests after the 2008 presidential election. It was an illustration of the saying “good spoon for dinner”, and the news is:
- The meeting of the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry with Secretary of State will be held on January 21 in Geneva.
- The Gulagu.net project has published the first part of the video archive with mockery of prisoners in the colonies of the Omsk region.
- “Veterans of Russia” are accused of Viktor Shenderovich of “rehabilitation of Nazism”.
- Nazarbayev made a video message to the people: “I am on a well -deserved rest in the capital of Kazakhstan.”
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The White House spokesman Jane Psaki said during a daily briefing that Russia could attack Ukraine from a minute (or “at any time”, as Anytime is most often translated). In addition, she confirmed the message of The New York Times about the evacuation of families of Russian diplomats from Ukraine.
The Conflict Intelligence Team research group continues to talk about the transfer of Russian troops from Siberia to the West - it is now clear that they are heading to Belarus, where, according to official Moscow and Minsk, they will participate in joint exercises of the allied state troops. For external observers, the declared goal raises doubts: these movements can be the implementation of a military plan on a massive attack on Ukraine from different sides - according to experts, it is with this development of events that the Ukrainian army will be powerless. The general assessment of the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian armed forces is given here (spoiler: the Ukrainian army has been significantly modernized since 2014, but in any situation, Russia will maintain dominance in the air and at sea).
On Tuesday, the threat of Russian aggression against Ukraine was discussed at negotiations between the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov and his German colleague Annalen Berobok: Berbok said, as a textbook, all the right words about the “common European house” and received a statement by Lavrov that Moscow “could be forced to limit the work of the German media” due The editors of RT (how you are related to the German government, Lavrov did not explain). Immediately after these negotiations, it became known that on Friday Lavrov will meet in Geneva with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken (today he arrives on an official visit to Ukraine).
Against this background, the Russian stock market fell to the level of March last year, and experts do not see any other reasons for this, except for the foreboding of the war.
The whole world is wondering how to understand Putin’s actions, and in the choir of different opinions (for example: Dmitry Oreshkin , Grigory Yudin ), the words of the Finnish political scientist Marku Kangaspuro are significant that the continuation of the collapse of the Soviet Empire today, for the final disappearance of which is few years old: “The awareness of this fact is unlikely to help Ukrainians, but this, it seems to me, is a natural move. stories ”. Rudimentary imperial attempts to fix the sphere of influence can also be seen in the active activity of Russia in the collapse of Bosnia and Herzegovina - although, it would seem, where is Moscow and where is the Serbian Republic as part of the Big?
Meanwhile in Russia
- State Duma . The law on life punishment for sexual violence against minors has been adopted . Read about how the Duma factions are trying to reform the law on “foreign agents”, read here (it is better to watch the video to imagine how Russian deputies say and look).
- Torture. Gulagu.net published the first part of the video archive about torture in the colonies of the Omsk region - the founder of the project characterizes what is happening there as a “giant experiment to develop a model of totalitarian suppression of will”. In Orenburg, the court released three policemen, accused of torture by an 18-year-old young man, the victim of torture remains in the pre-trial detention center.
- ECHR. The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay 12,400 euros to the Chuvash National National Board Dmitry Karuev , who was arrested in 2012 for 15 days for spat in Putin’s portrait, and 20 thousand euros of the Mother of the Soldier Soldier from Transbaikal , who committed suicide due to grandfathers. The murder of the human rights activist Natalia Estemirova ECHR closed the case: for an ineffective investigation of the murder of Estemirova’s murder, a compensation of 20 thousand euros was previously determined, and the ECHRS considered the involvement of the Russian authorities unproven.
- Friendship of peoples is a reliable stronghold. The Dagestan, who declared during the conflict in the Moscow bus that “the time will come and the Russians will beat,” was arrested for two months in the case of emitting hatred and enmity. Residents of the village of Karavaevo in the Leningrad region threaten a rebellion due to the fact that they settled migrants from Uzbekistan who work at the Gazprom enterprise near Ust-Luga. Residents of Karachay-Cherkessia are outraged by the fact that, coming to Dombay, some Russian tourists are photographed in swimsuits against the backdrop of the snowy mountains of the Caucasus.
- Culture news. The St. Petersburg Police fired a obligation of the explicit of the Moscow artist Ivan Volkov (he is accused of abuse of burial places by creating a large snowstorm on the Field of Mars). By the Decree of the Government of the Rostov Region, when marrying the registry office, it is forbidden to laugh and drink champagne (the same norms are in effect in the Samara and Nizhny Novgorod regions, and here the head of the registry office of the Rostov Region Olga Isaenko convincingly justifies this ban - you will be obeyed).
- Arrests, fines, sentences. The Cassation Court in St. Petersburg canceled the conditional sentence to Kirill Bogdanov, convicted of “two blows to the policeman in the body of the body” to promotions in support of Navalny on January 31, the case was sent for a new consideration (“soft” sentences of St. Petersburg courts regarding the participants of these shares have long caused the anger of the city authorities). The lawyers of the journalist Ivan Safronov, accused of Gosizmen, filed two complaints against the FSB investigator of the chaban, who prevents them from getting acquainted with the case file (the shepherd openly threatens the protection - it was from his filing that a criminal case was opened against lawyer Ivan Pavlov). “Veterans of Russia” require the SK and the Prosecutor General’s Office to initiate a criminal case of “justification of Nazism” against the satirist Viktor Shenderovich. “New Gazeta” and its chief editor, Nobel Laureate Dmitry Muratov were fined 44 thousand rubles for the lack of labeling of a prohibited organization (which is unknown). The Kuban eco -activist was arrested for five days for the distribution of an “extremist song” (he created a petition demanding to protect the Caucasian reserve from development, which gained more than 50 thousand signatures).
- Internet. Tiktok began to comply with the requirements of the Russian Localization Law, Spotify too .
Elbasy on a well -deserved rest
The first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, made a video message to fellow citizens, in which he said that he was “on a well -deserved rest in the capital of the country”. According to political scientist Kazbek Beesbaev , this performance marks the end of the era of the “leader of the nation” in Kazakhstani politics, all power from now on - in the hands of Tokayev. According to the Kyrgyz service of Radio Liberty, the younger brother of Nazarbayev, along with his family, flew abroad through Kyrgyzstan.
The Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan reported on the initiation of 695 criminal cases in connection with protests (44 of them - on the “acts of terrorism”), almost 800 people were detained on them. More than a thousand participants in the protest are serving administrative arrest. Cases of abuse of powers in connection with the murders of civilians have not yet been excited, although there are more and more such stories: here are three tragic cases from Taldykorgan.
Around the world
- The International Civil Aviation Organization published a report on the enforcement of the Ryanair aircraft in Minsk. It says that Belarusian aircraft began to try to land the plane before they received an email about a bomb, but by planting a plane, they did not act on the protocol: they did not drop out passengers and the crew, and did not introduce the anti -terrorist operation regime. On January 31, a meeting of the organization will be held at which it will be discussed what actions should be taken in the light of this report.
- The largest American airlines announced that the 5G standard preparing for implementation can violate the work of navigation systems.
- The new chairman of the European Parliament - after the death of the previous speaker, the Italian David Sassoli - the representative of Malta, the conservative politician of Robert Metsol was elected .
Chronicles of Pandemia
The daily increase in new cases of the Covid-19 in Russia reached 31,252 (in Moscow this indicator has almost doubled), 688 deaths were registered throughout the country. The Russian authorities do not yet plan to introduce new restrictions (immunologist Nikolai Kryuchkov criticizes them here ), and coronavirus quarantine will be reduced to seven days.
Recently , the molecular biologist Olga Matveeva has learned about the new science about Omcron recently (she used to work in Novosibirsk, and now in the USA).
Six links
- Philosophical. The essay of Sergey Zenkin about the French thinker Rene Gerard (1923–2015) and his mimetical theory. Or a fragment from the book of Valery Plants “Until. After the fall. A brief story of a common feeling”, which goes posthumously in the “UFO” Publishing House.
- History of art. An excerpt from the book of the Italian historian Marcello Simonetta “Montefeltro riddle. Dynasty of Medici. Renaissance in Italy” (Publishing House “Word”)-about Boticelli. Or art history likbez in surrealism.
- Movie. The conversation of Anton Valley with Sophie Marso - to the release of the film by Francois Ozon about the euthanasia “Everything went well”, where she plays the main role. Or a big interview with Nikolai Khomerika, about the creative biography, the lessons of Philip Garrel and the difficulties of working in Russian cinema.
Sincerely yours,
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