In the 86th year of his life, the director of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics, Honored Professor Anatoly Vishnevsky, died. This was reported on the site of the university. Photo: wikipedia / alexei kouprianov According to a colleague of Vishnevsky Mark Tolts, the cause of death was a coronavirus infection. “Anatoly Grigoryevich was an outstanding scientist, he was rightfully considered the main demograph in Russia and the entire post-Soviet space.

The main events of Friday, January 15. Review of "New" View of Vnukovo Airport.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 2 million people have died worldwide from the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The number of victims of coronavirus infection over the entire period of the pandemic reached 2,000,905. Most patients with COVID-19 died in the United States (389.6 thousand), Brazil (207.1 thousand), India (151.9 thousand), Mexico (137, 9 thousand) and Great Britain (87.4 thousand).

The Prosecutor of the Perm Territory appealed to the Court of Cassation with a motion to cancel the verdict in the case of "Putin's doll", reports "Apology of Protest".

The National Financial Prosecutor's Office of France launched an anti-corruption investigation against ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy, suspected of influence peddling. write about it Le Monde and Mediapart . According to the latest edition, in 2019 Sarkozy signed a contract with the Russian insurance company RESO-Garantia, controlled by brothers Sergei and Nikolai Sarkisov, to provide consulting services.

The Moscow prosecutor's office warned of the responsibility of people who are going to meet politician Alexei Navalny at Vnukovo airport. This was reported on the website of the department. The prosecutor's office said in a statement that information was posted on the Internet about the holding of a public event on January 17.

54 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences signed an appeal in support of graduate student Azat Miftakhov, accused in the case of a broken window in the Moscow office of United Russia. this on Facebook . announced Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Belavin The academicians expressed concern about the case against Miftakhov and called for the release of the graduate student.

The Presnensky court of Moscow arrested the operator of the Fund for Combating Corruption _ (the organization is included in the list of NGOs performing the function of a foreign agent - ed.) _ Pavla Zelensky until February 28. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta in the press service of the court. Zelensky is accused of calling for extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code) because of his tweets about the suicide of journalist Irina Slavina.

A criminal case has been opened in Moscow over the supply by a foreign company of more than 9.9 million disposable gloves that were previously used. This was reported by the press service of the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office. “It has been established that the delivered products do not meet the declared quality, there are characteristic signs that the gloves were previously in use,” the report says. The case was opened under Part 3 of Art. 30, part 1, art.

Boris Grachevsky died A man died, on the film magazine of which more than one generation has grown. "Eralash" was the matter of the whole life of Boris Grachevsky and the love of his spectators. A smile did not leave the director’s face, he wanted to carry joy and laughter into this world. Today, many, brought up on his work, hold back tears. Photo: Yuri Smityuk / TASS The writer Arkady Inin recalls his friend and colleague: “Gathering thoughts is quite difficult.

The former leader of the nationalist organization "Young Front" Dmitry Dashkevich was detained in Belarus, reported on Facebook. his wife Anastasia She told Mediazona that Dashkevich was detained at about 17:20 at the site of the Kurapaty watch (actions against the operation of the Let's Eat Restaurant near Kurapaty, a place of repressions), along with another person. Who the second detainee is not specified, as well as the reason for the detention.

A man with the voice of the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus spoke about the murders of citizens, new weapons from Russia and the creation of special camps “for Ostrokaya” Nikolai Karpenkov.

Head physician of the 23rd Hospital Elena Vasilieva about Covid-19 aircraft: video Photo: Elena Lukyanova / "New in St. Petersburg" Around the Covid-19 and the complications caused by it, many myths appeared. The low awareness of people and distrust of medicine created a favorable environment for the plan of self -medication.

Special episode of the podcast "What's New?" about the war for the minds of Soviet youth in the 1920s Gerlistan is a large special project of Novaya Gazeta . He tells about the fate of young people from the association of scouts in Soviet Russia. In 1926, many of them were detained and sent into exile, three were shot. In the new episode of the podcast "What's New?" the author of the project, Alisa Kustikova, talks about why the authorities disliked the Soviet scouts so much.

Report from modern almshouse near Rostov Prayer room in the shelter In the Rostov region, a shelter has been working for several years, in which homeless people help each other to survive: abandoned women take care of the old people who are unnecessary, and they are nursing with their children while mothers are at work or busy with households. All of them to one degree or another are not visible for state assistance, and some run from it like from prison.