Moscow’s authorities plan to use TikTok to promote Kremlin-backed candidates during the 2021 elections Konstantin Savusia / Shutterstock.com Political strategists working for the Russian authorities are planning to use the video-sharing app TikTok for campaigning in Moscow ahead of the 2021 State Duma elections. The hope is that a presence on the popular app can be used to encourage apolitical young people to vote for Kremlin-backed candidates.

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Nikolai Chub received the Vaccine from the Coronavirus Sputnik-V, Roscosmos reports. The employees of the Cosmonauts training center were also vaccinated, who directly interact with astronauts during training. YouTube/Roscosmos of astronauts began to be vaccinated from coronavirus Three weeks later, Artemyev, Chub and employees of the center will receive a second vaccine.

A Russian sapper was killed in Nagorno-Karabakh while demining roads near the city of Shusha, Interfax reported on Friday, December 18, citing the Russian Defense Ministry. “An explosive device was detonated. As a result of the explosion, an officer from the International Mine Action Center’s demining group was seriously injured. The serviceman was promptly given medical assistance.

A Russian sapper died in Nagorno-Karabakh while clearing a road near the town of Shusha, Interfax reports with reference to the Russian Defense Ministry. “There was an explosion of an explosive device. As a result of the explosion, an officer of the demining group of the International Mine Action Center was seriously injured. The soldier was promptly provided with medical assistance.

Germany is prepared to cooperate with Russia on the production of Russian vaccines against the coronavirus, German Health Minister Jens Spahn told his Russian counterpart Mikhail Murashko during a phone conversation on Friday, December 18. “According to the agreement reached, in the near future Russian and German experts will soon hold working talks to try to find production facilities for the joint production of Russian vaccines,” the Russian Health Ministry reported in a press release.

Russian lawmakers seek significantly harsher fines for Internet companies that fail to comply with censorship orders Russian State Duma The Russian State Duma’s state-building and legislationcommittee has approved amendments to a draft law on fines for Internet companies that fail to comply with orders from Russia’s federal censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, Interfax reports .

German Health Minister Jens Spahn informed Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko of his readiness to cooperate in the production of Russian coronavirus vaccines. This was reported on the website of the Russian Ministry of Health. “According to the agreement reached, in the near future, Russian and German experts will conduct negotiations on the issue of finding production capacities for the joint production of Russian vaccines in the near future,” the statement said.

The TNT channel announced the imminent closure of the reality show “Dom-2”, which was shown as many as 16 (sixteen !!!) years. During this time, more than 2,000 people participated in the program, and the audience matured, changed their jobs, married or married and made children themselves. The heroes managed to move to the Paradise Island in the Seychelles, away from the rest of humanity, and then return to civilization again.

Moscow lawmaker Yulia Galyamina’s final statement in court as she faces three years behind bars for protesting Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant On Friday, December 18, Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court held deliberations on the case of Moscow City Duma deputy Yulia Galyamina, who is facing criminal charges for repeatedly violating the “rules on conducting public events.” Galyamina, who is also a lecturer at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE), became the subject of a criminal case due to her

China and Russia are the two main threats to the United States at sea. This is stated in the new joint strategy of the Navy, the Marine Corps and the US Coast Guard. As noted in the document, China and Russia "use all possible tools to undermine international law to ensure their interests," as well as pursue revisionist policies and seek aggressive extraction of natural resources around the world.

Will love come up? Will everyone finally be happy? Alexey Kudenko / Kommersant 2020 ends with a complete collapse. The TNT channel announced that on December 30 the final of the reality show "Dom-2" will be held. The show came out on the channel for 16 years - and the finale, of course, should be special. But what exactly should happen? Let's come up with!

Only memes - about the closure of the longest show on Russian television Mitya Aleshkovsky / TASS On December 18, the TNT channel announced that the most long-playing project of Russian television-the reality show “Dom-2”-will be closed after 16 years of continuous broadcasting, the television channel received at Medusa said. The closing of the project was announced on the 6066th day of the "television" - the show is released since May 11, 2004.

“In the near future” new vaccines will appear in Russia. Austria is preparing for Lokdown, Spain for the third wave. Russians are still not allowed into the countries of the European Union 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 .

"Tell Gordeeva" Jan Ge - actress, director and singer. She was born in China, studied in Russia, starred in “Attraction” by Fedor Bondarchuk, participated in the projects of Kirill Serebrennikov, and also reached the final of the show “Voice”. With Katerina Gordeeva, Jan He talked about love for Russia - albeit not always mutual, about happiness and miracles that you are waiting for the New Year - and they will certainly be in this issue.

The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of a Russian diplomat suspected of collecting information constituting a state secret in order to pass it on to Russian military intelligence. He must leave the country within 72 hours, the ministry said in a statement. according to the Bulgarian prosecutor's office .