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Everything you need to know early in the morning of February 3

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In Rome, Monica Witti, the main actress Michelangelo Antonioni, died - she was 90 years old. The living like this:

• In Grozny, there was a thousands of rally against the Yangulbaev family: the audience trampled their feet and burned their photos.
• The Supreme Court of Russia recognized Columbine as a terrorist movement, although such a movement does not exist.
• The Spanish newspaper El País published the answers of the United States and NATO under guarantees of Russian security.
• The authorities of Belarus will not open abroad areas for voting at a referendum under the new Constitution.

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Inconsistent rally of state employees

On Thursday night, the press service of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov reported on her website that he had a “working meeting” with Putin, during which he reported on the successes of Chechnya on all fronts, including demographic. About the war declared by the Chechen leadership the family of former judge Sayy Yangulbaev and his son Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer of the Committee against torture, there is not a word in the message. The meeting with Kadyrov is not mentioned on the Kremlin’s website.

On Wednesday, a rally was held in Grozny against Yangulbaev. Only men participated in the action (allegedly inconsistent), and, according to the Grozny state television channel, there were 400 thousand of them, that is, half of the male population of Chechnya. According to the Caucasus. Reali, the state employees and students were driven to the main square, there were several thousand of them. The high -ranking Chechen officials and religious figures who performed at the rally called for the “new newspaper”, “Committee against torture” and the Rain TV channel, all as one cursed the Yangulbaev family, accusing them of betraying the bright ideals of Islam, and the ordinary participants of the action trampled the portraits of the “Speaker”, beat them with sticks and then burned them.

“Rain” awaits the reaction of Russian law enforcement agencies, “Echo of Moscow” calls on Putin to respond to the threats of the Chechen leadership. The press secretary of Peskov again performed on behalf of Putin, and again in the style of No Comment: “We would not want to intervene in this process.” The promise of the State Duma deputy from “United Russia” by Adam Delimkhanov “cut off the heads to Yangulbaev, expressed the day before, according to Peskov, to evaluate the commission on deputy ethics. This outraged the representatives of the Duma “opposition”: the Communist Arefiev said that the Prosecutor General’s Office should put Delimkhanov “to register”, and the just -Ross Mironov called on the same department “give a legal assessment” the words of Delimkhanov, and the FSB - to ensure security to the family of retired judge Sydi Yangulbaev. It will be possible to give a legal assessment for a long time, because almost all the highest Chechen officials recorded a video with similar threats. The youngest son of Sidi Yangulbaev Ibrahim says that a safe place for critics of Kadyrov on this planet is not yet open, and only Putin is able to restore Kadyrov. Russian political scientist Andrei Kolesnikov explains Putin's non -interference with his peculiar “malice”: get, they say, what is.

Against this background, the court in Grozny, in the framework of a criminal case of violence against the police officer, arrested Zarem Musaev for two months - the wife of the judge of retired Sayy Yangulbaev and the mother of Islam and Abubakar. There is no news from her. The Chairman of the Supreme Court of Chechnya Alawdin Gardaloev proposed depriving the judge Yangulbaev himself inviolability, and Rospotrebnadzor Chechnya reported that he could not establish the organizers of the rally, so it is impossible to punish them for violating covid rules.

It is difficult for a person to far from Chechen realities to imagine that the reason for all this is the 1adat telegram channel, of the moderation of which the Chechen authorities suspect Islam Yangulbaev. It explains why Kadyrov pays so much attention to online opposition.

“Peacekeeping” around Ukraine

The Spanish newspaper El País published the answers of the United States and NATO to Russia's proposals for “security guarantees”. The US State Department confirmed their authenticity. Where did they come from the newspaper is unknown. Here is the full text of documents in Russian: NATO , USA . The response of NATO emphasizes the defensive nature of the Union, its loyalty to the principle of open doors and numerous violations of international agreements from Russia. The US response says the same thing, but possible ways are offered for further agreements on control over weapons. Here, these documents are commented by the associate professor of the Department of International Relations of the University of Odessa Vladimir Dubovik (spoiler: he evaluates them as Putin’s victory in the sense of attracting international attention to himself, but the question of why he needed all this remains unanswered). Putin held a postponed telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson: he complained to him to “adequately react” to “Russian concern” to “adequately”, and in response received a traditional warning “not to make a tragic mistake” of attacks on Ukraine.

The Conflict Intelligence Team investigative group reports a large -scale transfer of military equipment of the Russian Guard throughout Russia, and satellite pictures taken by the American Maxar corporation show an increase in the group of Russian troops in Belarus (there are even “Iskander”), as well as the arrival of personnel in the Russian military camps near the Ukrainian Borders. The United States, for its part, transfer the additional three thousand troops to Poland and Romania. Here, the capabilities of the Russian fleet in the confrontation with Ukraine are evaluated (the spoiler: high) expert on the Russian naval forces, Eich Aich Sutton, and here the Ukrainian military analyst Igal Levin argues about the likely scenarios of Russia's invasion and the possibilities of Ukrainian mobilization.

Intra -Russian

• The Supreme Court of Russia recognized Columbine as a terrorist movement. On what grounds, it is not known: the court took place in closed mode, because the case file contained a certain secret. According to the researchers , there is no “Columbine” movement in reality - by it, Russian law enforcement agencies mean chats, groups and public “sculpting” topics, and their “terrorist” status will ultimately lead to an increase in the number of criminal cases against adolescents, long -term terms of conclusion and the termination of pedagogical work with children, which are interested in such topics.
• The court in Krasnoyarsk sentenced the 64-year-old witness Jehovah to the six years of the colony: participation in the activities of an extremist organization, consisting of "holding religious assemblies".
• The cassation court changed the video operator of Navalny Pavel Zelensky regime for serving a sentence from a general regime for a colony-settlement. Zelensky was sentenced to 1 year and 11 months in prison for “calls for extremist activity” (on Twitter); He must be freed in September.
• Former Omsk colony No. 7, Zafar Ilmuradov, told the human rights project Gulagu.net, how he recorded torture on a manner with a built -in camera, handed records through his wife to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigative Committee and the Federal Penitentiary Service, and after that he was tortured in his colony.
• The court in Moscow did not allow the lawyers of the former journalist Ivan Safronov, accused of Gosizman, to make extracts from his criminal case: they must remember all 20 volumes by ear, and until February 11.

Around the world

• Former State Duma deputy and Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya was appointed deputy head of Rossotrudnichestvo. It will be connected with “compatriots abroad”.
• The German media regulator banned the broadcasting in Germany of the RT de de in German, due to the lack of a license (which no one applied for). The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the transition to return measures against YouTube and German media.
• Russia forbade the entry of the Montenegro Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Secretary of State - because the country provided asylum to the former owner of the Cherkizov market.
• In Italy , the former general director of the antipinic refineries Gennady Lisovichenko, previously declared a criminal case of abuse of powers. Russia will seek his extradition. Antipian refinery is the largest independent plant in Russia with deep oil refining.
• The authorities of Belarus decided not to open abroad plots for voting in a constitutional referendum.
• The Belarusian Foreign Ministry announced the ban on railway transit of oil products, chemical and mineral fertilizers, immersed at Lithuanian railways stations. This is a response to the termination of transit of Belaruskali products due to US sanctions.
• “Ukrainian Pravda” published a video of a road incident with the participation of a deputy from the ruling party “Servant of the People” Alexander Trukhin. In the video, he asks the inspector to let him leave and then promises him to thank him. The accident occurred on August 23 last year; According to the inspector, Trukhin was drunk. Immediately after the publication, Trukhin was expelled from the party, and the prosecutor general instructed to initiate a criminal case against him about the proposal of a bribe. Why this case received a move only after a newspaper publication, no one explains.
• The Parliament of Kazakhstan adopted legislative amendments that allow not to coordinate with Nazarbayev the main directions of foreign and domestic policy. The first deputy chairman of the ruling Nur Otan party, Baurzhan Baybek (in connection with the “completely new tasks” set before the party), retired .

Chronicles of Pandemia

In Russia, the 13th day in a row, the record for the entire pandemic of the daily incidence of the COVID-19 is recorded -this time 141,883 new cases; The daily mortality has grown again-to 678. There are queues to clinics throughout the country- this is a detailed story about problems with access to doctors in the largest cities of the north-west.

The Ministry of Health of Belarus also recognized the “explosive growth of incidence” by coronavirus, but called for “not panic”. Employers were allowed to give employees a three -day vacation due to illness without sick leave.

Six links

• Literary. On the 140th anniversary of Joyce- the analysis of the Ulyssovsky subtext of one of the poems by Boris Ryzhekh. Or the story of the Pskov period of life Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam-to the 60th anniversary of her move to Pskov.
• Story. 11 questions about the baptism of Russia with the answers of the historian Peter Stefanovich. Or a story about the life of people with disabilities in medieval Europe.
• Animals. An excerpt from the Book of the Zoologist Aric Kershenbaum “The Guide of the Zoologist in the Galaxy: that earthly animals can tell about aliens-and about ourselves” (Publishing House of Alpina Non-Fixes), which explains why the animals will most likely be mobile on the other planet. Or a story about a shelter near Moscow for wolves affected by human cruelty.

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