After welcoming tourists all summer, officials in Russia’s Kaliningrad region deny rising numbers of coronavirus cases Vitaly Nevar / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Kaliningrad City Hospital. December 5, 2020. In early December, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said the country’s coronavirus situation was most dire in two regions: St. Petersburg and the Kaliningrad region.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook. This was reported on the FTC website. According to the regulator, Facebook "illegally maintains a personal monopoly on social media" by adhering to a "systematic strategy" for many years, including the acquisition of "promising competitors".

The Golovinsky Court of Moscow sent Alla Laletina, the former director for corporate governance of the Rostec state corporation, under house arrest, who was accused of fraud. It is reported by TASS. According to the agency's source, Laletina is accused of embezzling a million rubles. The TASS interlocutor did not provide details of the case. about the investigation against Laletina also writes Kommersant .

Brazilian low-cost carrier Gol Linhas Aereas has become the first airline to resume Boeing 737 MAX flights , Business Insider (BI) reports. The airline operated a flight from Sao Paulo to Porto Alegre in southern Brazil. According to AFP, whose employees were on board, 88% of the seats on the flight were sold (the plane can hold 186 passengers). The crew did not mention that this was the first commercial flight of the 737 MAX after the ban.

Sergey Karpukhin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta In Moscow and the Moscow Region, they began to vaccinate from coronavirus. To do this, use the Vaccine “Sputnik V” of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamalei. Recently, news has appeared in the media that the use of a vaccine (two injections are needed) is incompatible with alcohol consumption. "Medusa" understands whether this is so.

St. Petersburg law enforcement raid local bars for refusing to comply with coronavirus restrictions Alexander Koryakov / Kommersant In the early hours of Wednesday, November 9, law enforcement officials carried out raids at several bars in St. Petersburg. The searches came after a group of several dozen local restaurants, bars, and cafes announced plans to disregard the city administration’s restrictions for the New Year holidays, which were introduced to counter the spread of COVID-19.

The racer apologized, the girl called everything a joke Sebastian Rozendaal / DPPI / Zuma / Scanpix / Leta The Russian car driver Nikita Mazepin was in the center of the scandal because of the video in which he grabs his friend by his chest. The Haas team, for which Mazepin should have performed in Formula 1 next season, called what happened “disgusting” and promised to conduct an investigation. The video appeared on the Storis Instagram Mazepin late on the evening of December 8th.

The network has flowed 300 thousand exhausted Muscovites. In the Kaliningrad region, even coffins end. Türkiye abandoned the Russian vaccine 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 . If you read this on the site, share a link on social networks.

The Investigative Committee has opened two criminal cases over three bars in St. Petersburg that, according to the agency, operate at night . This was reported on the agency's website. The cases were opened "on the fact of violations of sanitary and epidemiological norms." We are talking about paragraph a of part 2 of article 238 of the Criminal Code (provision of services that do not meet life safety requirements, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).

After 12 days, a Husky named Derek finally waited for his owners from the Belarusian detention centers in Akrestsina and Baranovichi. All this time, friends took care of the dog, but Derek still did not sleep and whined at night. When the Husky finally saw his beloved people, he almost knocked them to the ground. For joy, the dog barked, jumped and stood up on its hind legs, pressing its ears to its head.

Rossiya Bank earns at least 2 billion rubles (about $27 million) per year on housing and utility payments. This was uncovered in a new investigative report from Proekt and The Bell on Yuri Kovalchuk — friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rossiya Bank’s main shareholder . Approximately 150 organizations in different parts of central Russia collect payments for housing and utility services through Rossiya Bank.

In Ukraine, from January 8, 2021, strict restrictions will come into force to combat the spread of coronavirus infection. this at a government meeting . Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal announced “The situation is difficult, but we see some positive trends,” UNIAN quoted him as saying. “There are three weeks left until the end of the [2020] year, and for this period the government has decided not to introduce a strict quarantine.” Quarantine is introduced until January 24.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Roskomnadzor demanded that the Mediazone delete the article about the pandemic in prisons. Why? And what was the case in the text? We discuss with the author Maxim Litavrin On November 16, the Mediazona publication published an article “The invisible epidemic. As coronavirus walked according to the FSIN system - the study of the "zone of law". " It told how Koronavirus in 2020 spread in Russian prisons.

Türkiye has decided to reject the Russian coronavirus vaccine, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told Haberturk. According to the minister, the vaccine does not comply with the principles of good laboratory practice . Updated. Koca said on the evening of December 9 that Turkey is ready to buy the Russian vaccine if toxicological tests are successful. The minister's words are quoted by Interfax. The agency adds that, as Koca said, Turkish doctors have begun testing the Russian vaccine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has dismissed reports that President Putin has secretly been working from two, identical offices (one near Moscow and one in Sochi) as “nonsense” and “not true.” In conversation with journalists on Wednesday, December 9, Peskov maintained that in his opinion, these reports have emerged as part of an “information attack” on the president. It’s not true.