While Putin is alive

All you need to know early in the morning of December 10

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In the annexed Crimea, the “dragon’s teeth” began to sell - concrete tetrahedron, which would have to make it difficult to penetrate Ukrainian tanks into private households. "The concrete brand, the thickness and weight of the product can vary depending on the customer's request," the announcement says to Avito. In the news, Crimea does not appear yet, but, apparently, the sled must be prepared in the summer, and the dragon’s teeth in winter: in winter:

• The court in Moscow sentenced Politics Ilya Yashin to 8.5 years of the colony for stream about Bucha.
• Putin said at a press conference that "he is his own way, everything is stable."
• According to British military intelligence, Russia received a new batch of drones from Iran.
• The Russian BBC and Mediazona service confirmed the death of more than 10 thousand Russian military in Ukraine.
• The United States and Great Britain imposed sanctions against several dozens of Russians, and the Russian Foreign Ministry for banned the entry into the country of 200 citizens of Canada.
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Latvia forbade the entry of the former leading "rain" to Alexei Korostelev, and Lithuania deprived the assumption of the alleged mother of the children of Shoigu.
• The IOC upheld the sanctions against Russia and Belarus - they will not be able to take part in the Olympics - 2024.

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Chronicles of Russian repression

The court in Moscow sentenced the politician Ilya Yashin to the 8.5 years of the colony under the article on Fakes about the Russian army. “Fakes” were discovered in his YouTube story about the murders of civilians in Buch. Immediately after the announcement of the verdict in Yashin's social networks, a peppy post appeared: “The authors of the sentence optimistically evaluate Putin’s prospects. In my opinion, it is too optimistic.” When the chief of Putin’s life, Andrei Kommersantskikov asked the Russian president if this was a brutal period, he first asked who Yashin was, and then said that he considered interference in the activities of the courts absolutely unacceptable-they say, he was taught at the University of Leningrad. Here is an interview with one of Yashin’s lawyers, Maria Aismont, but a selection of reviews for the verdict: the former deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Maxim Reznik proposed to designate such terms by the abbreviation of the PPZ - “while Putin is alive”.

But not the Russian Leviathan is alive by the Jashin one:

• The Ministry of Justice of Russia has made Mikhail Fishman, head of the ethics sector of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ruben Apresyan, the former player "What? Where? When?" Rovshan Askurov, a former employee of the administration of the head of Bashkortostan Rostislav Murzagulov, the Archangel Ecosinitivity “42” and all its employees, as well as the publication of The Bell and his editorial office. The Rybar’s telegram channel has hinted that The Bell was included in the list of “foreign agents” not without his assistance: recently The Bell deanonymized its authors, former employees of the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
• Rosfinmonitoring was included in the list of terrorists and extremists of the history teacher Nikita Tushkin, arrested in the case of justification of terrorism for anti -war posts.
• The Perm branch of the Higher School of High Service fired the associate professor of the Department of Humanitarian Disciplines of the faculty of socio-economic and computer sciences Dinar Gagarin for “immoral behavior”, that is, for anti-war posts in social networks. Earlier, the university closed the master's program, which Gagarina led.
• But glimpses of common sense are happening: the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, in response to the request of the St. Petersburg deputy Boris Vishnevsky, admitted that the demonstration of the Ukrainian flag or pictures in yellow-blue colors "in itself does not form the composition of the offense." Vishnevsky asked how the Russians could express dissatisfaction with the war in Ukraine, without falling under the persecution under an article on “discrediting” the Russian army.

Military reports

On Friday night, the Russian army subjected intensive shelling to the Donetsk and Kherson regions. In the Donetsk region, five people became victims of shelling per day, two more were injured; Eight people were injured in the Kherson region.

According to the head of the Donetsk region Pavel Kirilenko, Russia activated the fighting along the entire front line, the shelling almost does not stop. The same video from places also testify to the same - this is a selection of evidence from Bakhmut and Ugled. The President of Ukraine said that "the Russian army has turned Bakhmut into scorched ruins." Despite the fact that the battle of the city has been going on for six months, civilians still remain there- here the volunteer Ignat Ivlev York, who is engaged in the evacuation of people, tells why they do not want to leave. Often you have to leave when the trouble has already happened: here is the story of a 12-year-old Misha from Bakhmut, who miraculously survived after Russian shelling (his father died).

According to British military intelligence, Russia received a new batch of Dronov-Kamikadze from Iran. The American television channel NBC News states with reference to high-ranking sources in the White House, in exchange for “flying mopeds”, Russia supplies Irana helicopters and air defense systems, and also teaches Iranian pilots to Su-35 flights. Ukraine, for its part, announces its own shock drone with a range of up to a thousand kilometers - this is an interview with an employee of Ukroboronprom Oleg Boldyrem, he calls the new drone “Kamikaze with the possibility of a return”.

Why Putin does not comment on the penetration of Ukrainian drones into military airfields in the Saratov and Ryazan regions, the military expert Yuri Fedorov (spoiler: because he has nothing to say about this). It remains to continue to talk about the relics of Russian nuclear weapons: at a press conference, following a visit to Bishkek, Putin said that he was thinking of including a preventive “disarming” nuclear blow to the Russian military doctrine, and the general course of the war in Ukraine described this way: “It is its own turn, we have all the stably there, no questions there and there are no problems there.”

Stability looks like this:

• The Russian BBC and Mediazona service confirmed the death of ten thousand Russian troops in the war in Ukraine, 430 of them were mobilized. This calculation is carried out by open sources, the real figure of losses is obviously higher. Russian banks gave mobilized delay on loans of 45 billion rubles.
• The court arrested 38-year-old Pavel Nikolin, accused of shelling of police officers in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region. Nikolin said in court that he had served in Wagner's PMC (where he was recruited in the Ufa colony), and opened fire on the police because he thought that these were Ukrainians. Nikolin assures that he did not descend from the front, but “lagged behind the group” and did not notice how he crossed the border. Nikolin's father lives in the Lviv region- he was found by the BBC journalists .

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with Norwegian public television that in this war “everything can go wrong”, and if it goes wrong, then “scary is not so”: Russia's full -scale war with NATO, in his opinion, is quite likely. To prevent this from happening, the United States announced the allocation of new military assistance to Ukraine - this is what will be included in it .

Occupation and captivity:

• The report of the New Zealand journalist Tom Match from the village of Novopetrovskoye in the Nikolaev region, where he came immediately after the departure of the Russian military, but before the Ukrainian arrival.
• An interview with the representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross Alexander Vlasenko about visiting Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia (unfortunately, almost nothing can be found out of it, because the Red Cross fundamentally makes no public statements).

Russian (and Belarusian) everyday life

• On Friday night, the OBI large construction store completely burned down in Khimki near Moscow. The combustion was accompanied by powerful explosions of the gas cylinders stored there. It is known about one deceased. OBI hypermarkets closed in Russia by order of the German owner after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, but then opened again, changing the owner ( dark history ).
• As a result of the gas explosion, a two -story residential building in Ryazan was partially destroyed . The eternal explosions and problems with the “duplication” experienced by Russia, despite the abuse of gas in the country, is told here .
• The Moscow City Court granted the claim of journalist Ivan Golunov against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and recovered 1.5 million rubles in his favor as compensation for non -pecuniary damage for illegal detention.
• Putin's daughter Maria Vorontsov was appointed deputy dealership of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine of Moscow State University.
• The VKontakte social network began to mark the communities with the alleged LGBT contert with a special inscription that reads: "The community may contain inaccurate information. The community materials can be dangerous for your health. VKontakte offers to familiarize yourself with the official position of the World Health Organization regarding vaccination." I would like to know: vaccination from what?
• About how the painful chastity of the Russian authorities affects the spread of HIV in the country is described in this podcast , and about how the war will affect these processes is explained here .
• In Belarus, the licenses of lawyers Maria Kolesnikova and Sergey Tikhanovsky were deprived .

International Echo of War

• Today in Oslo will be presented with the Nobel Prize of the World. Here is an interview with the head of the Ukrainian Civil Freedom Center Alexandra Matviychuk and the Executive Director of the Memorial International Society Elena Zhemkova. It is impossible to talk with the third laureate, chairman of the Belarusian human rights center Vasna, Alees Behaletsky is now impossible, because he is in prison, but here's a conversation with his wife . At a press conference on the eve of the awards, the laureates supported the idea of creating an international tribunal for Putin for crimes in Ukraine.
• According to Bloomberg, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi canceled a meeting with Putin because of Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the Russian-Indian summit has been held annually and was canceled only once in connection with the pandemia Covid-19.
• The prime ministers of the three Baltic countries at a meeting in Riga confirmed the intention in the coming years to increase their military expenses to 3% of GDP.
• After the invasion of Ukraine, 46 automobile brands left Russia. Three Russian remained, the rest - Chinese. Russia introduced duties for the import of soap and shampoos from the "unfriendly countries". Despite all this cavard and strict economic sanctions, the Russian economy remains quite stable, and Putin will definitely have enough money to continue the war next year - this is a detailed analysis .
• One of the economic beneficiaries of war is Kazakhstan: Germany, in connection with the rejection of Russian oil, wants to purchase more Kazakhstani. It remains to understand whether Russia will allow such a substitution.
• Kazakhstan refused refugee status to Major of the FSO of Russia Mikhail Zhilin: in his homeland he provided the government’s government connection with the regions, but with the beginning of mobilization he fled the country. In Russia, Zhilin is accused of desertion, he was prohibited by departure. For the legally entering Russians, Kazakhstan remains a convenient place: the US Treasury allowed the banks of Kazakhstan to serve Mir cards so as not to create unnecessary problems for them. Although there are other continents: here are the stories of Russians who fled from the war to Argentina.
• Lithuania’s authorities deprived of a residence permitted mother of Choigu's children; The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Latvia forbade the entry of the former presenter of the Rain television channel Alexei Korostelev.
• The United States imposed sanctions against members of the CEC of Russia and officials of the Presidential Administration, who led the "filtration points" in the Donbass. Great Britain and Canada imposed sanctions against Russians involved in a violation of human rights. The Russian Foreign Ministry, for its part, banned the entry of 200 citizens of Canada-among them journalists, Slavist translator, politicians and even an ophthalmologist and badmintonist. Another 30 employees will leave the Russian Embassy in Washington-as the ambassador said, due to “visa restrictions on the part of the State Department”.
• The International Olympic Committee upheld the sanctions against Russia and Belarus - they will not be able to take part in the Olympics - 2024 in France.

Around the world

• The Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurahmanov is alive and is under the protection of the Sweden police, they say in the so -called Ichkeria government abroad. The Sweden police still do not report anything, but in Munich Abdurahmanov is expected as a witness in court.
• After a series of searches, the Belgian police detained at least four people close to the leadership of the European Parliament. They are suspected of corruption and lobbying for Qatar's interests. 600 thousand euros were seized in cash. One of the suspects is the vice-chairman of the European Parliament Eva Kylie, a member of the Greek Socialist Party Pasok. Earlier, at a meeting with the Minister of Labor, Kayli called Qatar "an advanced country in relation to the rights of workers."
• The non -governmental organization Border Violence Monitoring Network issued a report in which - on the basis of conversations with 733 refugees who tried to get into the EU in 2021–22 - tells about the “unprecedented growth of violence” on the boundaries of the European Union: people are beaten, poisoned, they are kept without food. At the same time, governments of border European countries exert pressure on activists who help migrants.
• In France, young people aged 18 to 25 years from January 1 will be able to receive condoms in pharmacies for free. This is due to the 30 percent growth of the number of new cases of sexually transmitted diseases. Since the beginning of this year, free condoms began to be issued to all women under the age of 26.
• Read a detailed analysis of Iranian protests from September.

Reading links

• In search of origins. The story of the Imperial costumed ball in the style of the 17th century, which took place in St. Petersburg in February 1903 and became the last large -scale social event on the eve of great changes. Or the history of the Scythian - the Donisian production of Russian nationalism.
• NOTTOKED about children's poets. Excerpts from the diaries of Korney Chukovsky with comments. Or a fragment from the book by historian Oleg Budnitsky “Red and White” (Publishing House of UFOs), dedicated to the early socio-political poetry of Samuel Marshak, which now sounds extremely topical.
• Forgotten books. The story of the novel by the Scottish poet and shepherd James Hogg “The Secret Confession of the Justified Sin” (1824), who, a hundred years after writing, pulled Andre Jew out of complete unknown. Or the love story of Nikolai Otsup and Diana Karen-to the reprint of Otsup’s novel “Beatrice in hell” in the Aquarius Publishing House.
• Art history. An excerpt from the book by Zinaida Bonim “Hervart Walden is the curator of new art and fate” (Garage Publishing House), which describes the interrogations of German criticism in Lubyanka and the following events. Or an interview with the author of the book.
• Childhood and old age. A fragment from the book of the ecologist and zoologist Karl Safina “Education of savagery: how animals create their culture, grow offspring, teach and study” (Publishing House of Alpina Non-Fixes), dedicated to the role of social training among the parrot Ara. Or an excerpt from the essay of the biophysicist Peter Fedichev “to hack aging: why now we can live longer” (Publishing House of Alpina Pablisher), which tells how the death of Franklin Roosevelt laid the foundation for the era of large medical data and demonstrated the importance of the prevention of diseases.

Sincerely yours,
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