Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Evgeny Yelin said that the city authorities expect three new waves of the spread of coronavirus infection after the end of the New Year holidays. His words are quoted by Fontanka: We are waiting for three new waves [of covid] after the end of the holidays: let's see what happens after the New Year, after Christmas and after people return from vacations. According to Yelin, due to the “holiday effect” in St.

On January 2, vandals attacked the home of US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Louisville, Kentucky, CBS News reports. The phrase "Where's My Money" was spray-painted on the front door of the house, and "Mitch Kills the Poor" was spray-painted on the window. A similar incident occurred in California on the same day: according to media reports, vandals attacked the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco.

A cyberattack by hackers believed to be linked to Russian intelligence agencies has affected more than 250 government agencies and large companies, writes The New York Times. About cyber attack In December, it became known about a cyber attack on federal departments and corporations in the United States, which had lasted at least since the spring of 2020. Among others, the Treasury, the State Department, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy and partly the Pentagon suffered.

Capital Pictures / Scanpix / Leta Frame from the movie "City of Cats" Attention, the perfect cast was discovered: Yes, in the screenshot-these are only cats. Well, except for one person, to whom KinoPoisk did not even make a picture for the profile - unlike cats. The documentary is called the City of Cats . He went out in 2016. It tells about the famous Istanbul cats, which are literally everywhere in the city.

During the New Year holidays of 2021, the maximum number of Russians sits at home. But the effect of presence at breakfast in a five -star hotel can also be simulated in your kitchen - however, you will have to get out of yourself. But, believe me, these recipes are worth it!

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the leader of the Belarusian Catholics, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk and Mogilev, the press service of the Holy See reported. Kondrusevich resigned due to the fact that on January 3 he turned 75 years old. Upon reaching this age, the Code of Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church obliges bishops to submit their resignations.

The head of the Moscow Transport Department, Maxim Liksutov, said that on January 3, women -driver trainers began to work in the Moscow metro. Trains under their control will walk along the Filevskaya metro line. Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS Machineter in Electrodedo "Fili" of the Moscow Metro In February 2020, Moscow opened training courses for women-machines of the Moscow metro.

Juventus and Portugal footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first person on Instagram on his account . to have more than 250 million followers In terms of the number of subscribers, Ronaldo's account is second only to the official page on the social network, to which more than 382 million users are subscribed. Instagram Following Ronaldo is the singer Ariana Grande, whose account was signed by 214 million users. One of Ronaldo's posts received the most likes on Instagram in 2020.

Tesla sold 499,550 electric vehicles in 2020, according to the manufacturer's report. The company has almost fulfilled the goal that Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk had previously set - he expected that 500,000 electric cars would be sold in a year. In the fourth quarter, the company delivered 180,570 vehicles, more than analysts expected, who had expected deliveries of 174,000 electric vehicles, according to the Financial Times. For the year, Tesla produced 509,737 electric vehicles.

The police of the Nizhny Novgorod region instituted a criminal case against a resident of the village of Zverevo Gennady Tolchonkov under an article on illegal cutting of forest stands due to the collection of valezhnik . Tolchonkov told the local television channel Che that the case was opened after he collected 13 trees trunks - “dry” and “rotten”. According to the man, he found several trees fallen by the wind, after which he drank roots and tops and took out the trunks home.

Paralisart / Shutterstock As you celebrate the New Year, so you will spend it. Well, our readers celebrated the New Year. We have chosen the most interesting stories of the celebration. True, judging by the stories, not everyone would like the 2021st year to go the same way as he was met. Our readers were lost in time Konstantin My wife and I did not meet at all.

Moscow has expanded the list of groups whose members will be able to freely get vaccinated against coronavirus, according to a blog post by the city's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin. Starting from January 4, employees of the banking and financial sector, as well as government agencies and budgetary institutions at all levels, will be able to sign up for vaccination. Vaccination against coronavirus in Moscow started on December 4. Vaccinations are given with the Sputnik V vaccine.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Over the year in the “text of the week” we discussed 47 reports, investigations and analysis of the “Medusa”.

We understand that last year I want to forget as a nightmare. But these episodes will be relevant for a long time Less than a year ago, on February 19, 2020, Medusa launched the daily news podcast “What happened”. More than two hundred issues have been published since then - about politics, once again about politics (it is strange if in the year of resignation, zeroing, poisoning of Navalny there were few); Of course, about pandemia.

Why are writers drinking? How does our brain change without reading? And what are the diets harmful? In 2020, due to Pandemia of Coronavirus, an important literary event did not take place-the Non/Fiction Fair, which usually presents the best representatives of the genre in a year. At the request of Medusa, the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich chose five non-fiction-book in Russian, which should pay attention to. Elena Motova. Food for joy. Notes of a nutritionist.