In Crimea and Sevastopol, by 2023, they plan to build industrial seawater desalination plants to solve the problem of water shortage. This is stated in the plan ( .pdf ) for ensuring reliable water supply in the two regions, prepared by the government of the Russian Federation. According to the document, in 2021-2022, 8.2 billion rubles will be allocated for the construction of installations, of which almost 7.8 billion are federal budget funds, another 410 million are regional funds.

Vitaly Nevar / TASS / Vida Press The construction site of the new branches of the Bolshoi Theater and the Tretyakov Gallery in Kaliningrad. February 25, 2020. Russia’s National Cultural Heritage Fund has paid off its debts to its former employees, who were laid off during the coronavirus lockdown. The fund is responsible for a large-scale construction project aimed at creating four cultural-educational complexes in Kaliningrad, Vladivostok, Kemerovo, and Sevastopol.

Authorities in Navarra, an autonomous region in northern Spain, have announced that they will completely close entry and exit to the region to stop the spread of the coronavirus. People who travel for work, study, caring for relatives and other urgent cases will be able to enter and leave Navarra. The restrictions will take effect at midnight on October 22 and will be in effect for 14 days, until November 4, according to the newspaper Diario de Navarra.

Memorial plaques to victims of Soviet repressions removed from St. Petersburg building after residents complain In St. Petersburg, 23 Rubinstein Street — also known as “Dovlatov’s House” — used to have 16 memorial plaques with the names of victims of Soviet-era political repressions. All sixteen people used to live in this building. Now the plaques commemorating them are gone, reports the local news outlet Fontanka.

A court in St. Petersburg has rejected a defamation lawsuit by a man in Bryansk who accused the news outlet Fontanka of falsely identifying him as one of the Russian mercenaries who executed, dismembered, and burned a Syrian war deserter in 2017.

The Irish government has introduced new strict restrictive measures due to the spread of coronavirus infection. According to The Irish Times, for six weeks, from October 21 to December 1, Irish residents were required to stay within five kilometers of their homes. Residents will be able to travel longer distances if they need to go to work or to the hospital. In other cases, a fine is provided for violation.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has approved the decision to excommunicate former Schema-Hegumen Sergii Romanov. The ecclesiastical court of the Yekaterinburg diocese ruled in favor of excommunicating Romanov on September 10. The ecclesiastical court held three hearings on the matter, but the defrocked priest didn’t show up to any of them. Romanov was excommunicated for failing to comply with a ban ordering him not to conduct religious services and public sermons.

A ‘Meduza’ special correspondent continues cataloging her experience as a volunteer in Russia’s coronavirus vaccine trials Tatyana Makeeva / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA In August 2020, Russia announced the registration of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, named “Sputnik V.” However, to finalize the vaccine’s registration, its developers at the Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology have to conduct large-scale clinical trials involving tens of thousands of volunteers.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The Chechen, who killed the teacher near Paris, is far from the first Islamist immigrant terrorist in France. How does the integration system work (and fails)? On October 16, a 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Pati was killed and beheaded near Paris. The main and only suspect was killed by the police-this is 18-year-old Abdulah Anzorov.

The US Department of Justice has charged six Russians with cyberattacks in the US, France, Ukraine and South Korea, Associated Press reports, citing a statement by US Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers. Alleged Russian GRU officers are believed by the U.S. Justice Department to have been involved in hacking attacks against U.S.

In St. Petersburg, on October 26, they plan to limit the work of restaurants, bars and other catering enterprises due to the pandemic of coronavirus. They will be banned to work from 23 hours to 6 in the morning. According to the vice-governor of St. Petersburg, Evgeny Elin, first of all, the restrictions will be affected by “nightlife-disco and karaoke”, which work under the guise of catering. Photo: Alexander Demyanchuk / TASS / Scanpix / Leta

An emergency situation has been declared in the area around the Kharyaginskoye oil field in Russia’s far-northern Nenets Autonomous Okrug due to a recent oil spill, the state news agency TASS reports. The spill took place on October 17, after an oil pipeline belonging to the company Lukoil depressurized during technical work. The total volume of the oil spill is at least 0.9 cubic meters (that’s 900 liters or about 238 gallons of fuel).

What is wrong with the “letter of Belgian doctors” who write about the safety of Covid. We continue to talk about the test of the Russian vaccine on ourselves. Moscow does not want to quarantine Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here .

The company "Nestle Russia" was unable to transfer to the Moscow mayor's office data on employees transferred to remote work, as required by the city authorities. This was reported by Interfax, citing the company's press service. The Russian representative office of Nestle claims that more than 50% of employees in the Moscow office have switched to remote work.

Letters to the prosecutor's office and the government did not help Vitaliy Nevar / TASS / Vida Press at the construction site of the Bolshoi Theater branch and branch of the Tretyakov Gallery in Kaliningrad, February 25, 2020 The National Cultural Heritage Foundation paid for debts to its former employees. This fund is responsible for a large-scale project to create four cultural and educational complexes in Kaliningrad, Vladivostok, Kemerovo and Sevastopol.