Photos from Washington On January 6, 2021, at noon in Washington time, a joint meeting of both chambers of the US Congress began, which, by law, finally approve the results of the presidential election. But the list of states in alphabet (with the results of voting) managed to read only to Arizona, where the electors cast voted to the democrats Joe Biden and his vice president Kamale Harris. Several congressmen and senators from the Republican Party announced their objections.

Everett Collection / Vida Press Reconstruction of an attack on the meeting room of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, when Puertorician nationalists opened fire from automatic weapons and wounded five congressmen. March 1, 1954 On January 6, 2021, supporters of the current US President Donald Trump broke into the Capitol building, where a joint meeting of both chambers of Congress was held.

US President-elect Joe Biden called the clashes in the Capitol, where supporters of Donald Trump stormed, an "unprecedented attack on democracy." “Our democracy has come under unprecedented attack. We haven't seen anything like it lately. This is an attack on the citadel of freedom, on the Capitol itself <...> We see a small group of extremists who resort to lawlessness. This is not a disagreement. These are riots. This is chaos. This borders on rebellion.

Several people, including police officers, were injured in clashes at the Capitol. At least one of them has been hospitalized, according to CNN. The TV channel also reported that a woman was injured, she is in serious condition. On January 6, members of the US Senate and House of Representatives gathered in the Congress building to approve the results of the presidential election. They were won by Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

NBC reported that a woman injured in the clashes at the Capitol has died. She received a gunshot wound. Several more casualties are also reported, including police officers. According to CNN, at least one of the victims is in critical condition. This is a 24-year-old man who fell about 10 meters while trying to scale the Capitol wall.

What happened is very short. 2021 began: Trump (again) refused to recognize the results of the elections, his supporters broke into the Capitol. A little longer. On the afternoon of January 6, members of the Senate and the House of US representatives gathered in the Capitol to approve the results of the election of the American president, in which Democrat Joe Biden won.

On January 6, in Washington, supporters of current US President Donald Trump seized the Capitol building. They, like Trump himself, do not recognize his defeat in the elections held in the fall of 2020. President-elect Joe Biden compared what was happening in Washington to an insurrection. Here are videos taken on Capitol Hill. Here, Meduza talks online about what is currently happening in the US capital. Protesters at the Capitol Trump supporters at the Capitol Several people were injured.

Participants in the March to Save America protest, supporting Donald Trump, broke into the Capitol building in Washington on the afternoon of January 6, where the US Congress approves the results of the presidential elections in the country. Before that, the demonstrators entered into a confrontation with the police cordoned off the Capitol. They tried to disperse them with tear gas. Due to the actions of the protesters, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives stopped their work.

Jacqueln Martin / AP / Scanpix / Leta The current US President Donald Trump performed on January 6 at a rally of his supporters in Washington. The action entitled “Mars for Saving America” was arranged right before the start of the Congress meeting, which will finally approve the victory of the Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden in the November elections of the US president. “We will never give up, we will never recognize the defeat,” Trump said to the audience.

In the second round of elections in Georgia, both democrat candidates won. And now? Jim Watson / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Candidates of the second round of the US Senate John Ossoff (left) and Rafael Waronok (in the center) welcome the elected president Joe Biden (right) at the pre -election rally. Atlanta, Georgia, January 4, 2021 What's happened?

Musician Kanye West and model Kim Kardashian are divorcing after six years of marriage, American tabloid Page Six writes. As several sources told the publication at once, “a divorce is inevitable,” since Kardashian has already hired a lawyer, Laura Wasser, who handled the divorce proceedings of stars such as Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears and Johnny Depp. The couple's possible divorce is also being reported by TMZ and E!

Short guide "Medusa" in the republic, where there is almost everything Vitaliy Kaplin / Shutterstock Mountain village Gunib, Dagestan The head of the Rosturism, Zarina Dogusova, recently summed up the results of 2020, admitted that after the closure of the borders due to the coronavirus of paper, there was no tourism within the country-in general, the flow of tourists in the Russian regions decreased.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an executive order on establishing a foundation to support children with serious illnesses. As explained during a meeting on social issues on Tuesday, January 5, the foundation will be financed through an increase in personal income tax for citizens who earn more than five million rubles ($67,600) annually.

The index of economic hope of Russians at the end of 2020 was minus 41 percentage points. This is evidenced by the results of a survey by the sociological company Gallup International, which is published by RBC. According to the study, 6% of Russians surveyed called 2021 a period of economic prosperity, while 47% called it a year of economic problems. 40% believe that the year will be the same as 2020. The same level of the economic hope index in Russia as in 2020 was recorded in 1998.

More than one million people in Russia have been vaccinated against the coronavirus with “Sputnik V,” the vaccine’s developers announced on Twitter on Wednesday, January 6. Alexander Gintsburg, the director of the Gamaleya Research Institute, which developed the vaccine, gave roughly the same estimate in conversation with RIA Novosti yesterday. According to him, more than 1.5 million doses of Sputnik V will go into civilian circulation by the end of the New Year holidays.