Joe Biden’s 1988 visit to the USSR Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Meet the interpreter who translated for Joe Biden during his 1988 meeting with the Soviet leadership Protests against ‘traitorous’ Nagorno-Karabakh settlement continue in Yerevan Russia’s Muslim Spiritual Administration at odds over ban on interfaith marriages News briefs: Putin’s peacekeepers, Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, and the Chaika family’s newly revealed real estate holdings Feature stories 🗣️ ‘I was there’ Viktor Prokofiev

In Belarus, since May 2020, 900 criminal cases have been opened related to the presidential elections in the country. This is reported by the Belarusian human rights center "Spring". We are talking about cases against candidates, employees of their headquarters, as well as against participants in protests.

Meet the interpreter who translated for Joe Biden during his 1988 meeting with the Soviet leadership Eduard Pesov / TASS Joe Biden, Viktor Prokofiev, and Andrey Gromyko at the Kremlin in 1988 Viktor Prokofiev worked as a Foreign Ministry interpreter for 10 years, bridging the end of the Cold War and the Yeltsin years in the early 1990s. He translated for the Soviet and then the Russian leadership during meetings with U.S.

Actor and TV presenter Sergei Svetlakov contracted a coronavirus infection, TASS reports. “There is a small lesion in the lungs from COVID and a temperature, the doctors convinced me to go to the hospital for therapy, globally everything is fine,” Svetlakov told the agency. How long he will stay in the hospital, Svetlakov did not specify. Baza writes that the actor was admitted to the hospital in a moderate condition. According to the publication, 24% of Svetlakov's lungs are affected.

In January-October 2020, the net outflow of capital from Russia amounted to $44.4 billion, follows from the data of the Central Bank. This is 1.7 times more than in the ten months of 2019 ($26.4 billion). In October, the Central Bank downgraded its forecast for net capital outflow from Russia in 2020 from $25 billion to $53 billion. The forecast figure approached the record of 2018, when the outflow amounted to $67.5 billion.

The state of Georgia will completely recount the votes cast for Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the US presidential election. It is reported by CNBC with reference to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. The calculation will be manual. According to Raffensperger, this is necessary because the gap between candidates is very small. 49.5% voted for Biden in Georgia, 49.2% for Trump. The state must approve the vote no later than November 20.

Wojciech olkusnik / epa / scanpix / leta On the Independence Day of Poland on November 11, the march of nationalists was held in the center of Warsaw, in which several thousand people participated. Initially, the organizers of the action urged supporters to take part in the event in cars, bicycles and motorcycles to observe the norms of social distance, but most of the audience walked along the streets on foot. Due to the pandemic, mass events in Poland are prohibited.

Egor Aleev / TASS / Vida Press Russia’s Muslim Spiritual Administration (DUM RF) is facing internal controversy after its Ulema council (advisory body of Muslim scholars) issued a decision banning believers from marrying followers of other religions. The decision — which has no legal implications — has provoked mixed reactions from other Muslim organizations, as well as within the leadership of the DUM itself at both the national and regional levels.

The Russian vaccine is supposedly more effective than the Pfizer vaccine. In Moscow, Christmas trees were canceled. There are less than 10% of beds for patients with a covid in St. Petersburg 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 COVID-19 epidemic has created “certain problems” for the Russian economy, believes Andrei Belousov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti. “COVID, on the one hand, of course, created some problems, because it threw us back about a year and a half,” the official said.

Ticket finder Aviasales has allowed all employees to choose whether to work from the office or remotely. According to the company blog, this offer will not be canceled after the coronavirus pandemic ends. Polina Gavra, HR director of the company, noted that the past six months, during which most employees worked remotely due to the pandemic, proved that their physical absence from the office does not affect the quality of work. Binding to a location is a rudiment. You have to work hard.

Protesters in the Aremnian capital, Yerevan, are demanding that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign by midnight tonight, reports RIA Novosti. The protesters have given Pashinyan until 12:00 a.m. local time to step down voluntarily. In the event that he refuses, the protesters have promised to “resolve the issue of his departure” independently, RIA Novosti reports.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Even the West cannot cope with the epidemic, and China practically defeated it. Has the surveillance system worked? And Russia can? China became a country where the world epidemic of coronavirus began. And the first state to take extraordinary measures in order to stop the infection. The PRC authorities closed the 12-millionth city of Ujan back in January 2020. Europe and the USA began to introduce their quarantine measures only two months later.

The Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre, and Cartography (Rosreestr) has made changes to the records on properties belonging to Artem and Igor Chaika, the sons of Russia’s former Attorney General Yuri Chaika.

Protesters in the center of Yerevan demanded that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The protesters gave Pashinyan until midnight (23:00 Moscow time) to voluntarily announce his resignation. In case of refusal, they promised , RIA Novosti reports, that they would "solve the issue of his departure" on their own.