The United States has expanded the list of companies from China in which it is forbidden to invest in American citizens and organizations. The outgoing administration of Donald Trump entered the Xiaomi, Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment and seven more Chinese companies on the sanctions list. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal. Xiaomi, founded in 2010, ranks third in the world and China in terms of smartphone production. Since 2018, its securities have been traded on exchanges.

Marina Litvinenko The widow of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko calls on to award the Nobel Prize of the world to Russian opposition to Alexei Navalny and human rights activist Lev Ponomarev. The petition of Marina Litvinenko in the Norwegian Nobel Committee is published on the website Change.org . In the text Navalny and Ponomarev are called "two brave defenders of human rights and legality in Russia", whose authorities are compared with the Communists who have ruled in the USSR.

The Federal Department of Shipping and Hydrography of Germany on Friday extended the permit for the construction of the Russian North Stream - 2 gas pipeline until the end of May. According to the report on the regulator’s website, the operator of the gas pipeline can begin construction work immediately. Earlier, Bloomberg reported that the operator expects to complete the gas pipeline branch until June, despite American sanctions.

Upon returning to Russia, not only employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), but also representatives of the Investigative Committee, can meet with an airplane of the plane of the plane of Navalny. About this writes "Kommersant" with reference to lawyers. Both departments are interested in detaining the opposition before the court and not allowing him to move around the country, the interlocutors of the publication believe.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Memorial Day in Kazan, 2020 The Prosecutor's Office of Tatarstan sent a statement to the Supreme Court of the Republic on the recognition of the Extremist Organization existing since 1988. Information of the editors of IDEL. Reali was confirmed by the leader of the organization Farit Zakiev.

Are there any reasons for gloating in the Kremlin? Biden: vaccinated from illusions of the reboot lesson? More smart sanctions? Does anti -Americanism lose its effectiveness? Program guests - employee of the Atlantic Council Anders Awrand, political analyst Eric Shiryaev and RS observer Efim Fishtein

The number of dead from the Covid-19 in the world since the beginning of the pandemic exceeded two million. The relevant data are published on the website of the University of John Hopkins. Covid-19 fell ill with the beginning of the pandemic of more than 90 million people. Most dead patients in the United States are almost 390 thousand. In second place in the number of deaths of Brazil - more than 207 thousand. Third place is occupied by India. There are more than 150 thousand dead.

Anatoly Vishnevsky The demographer and economist Anatoly Vishnevsky died in the 86th year of his life. Death occurred due to coronavirus infection. This was announced by his colleague Mark Toltz. Anatoly Vishnevsky was born on April 1, 1935 in Kharkov. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Kharkov State University.

Protest Protest in Moscow, July 15, 2020 On January 15, 2020, President Vladimir Putin, in a message to the Federal Assembly, promised an increase in maternity capital and payments for child care. Then Putin suggested amending the Constitution. Allegedly expand the powers of the State Council, State Duma, the Council of the Federation, as well as consolidate the priority of the Constitution of the Russian Federation over international law.

Nicolas Sarkozy in Court The National Financial Prosecutor's Office of Friday confirmed that the preliminary investigation began in relation to the former president of the country Nicolas Sarkozy in connection with the contract of 3 million euros with the Russian insurance company RESO-Garantia. The case is investigated on suspicions of the "trade" and laundering of funds. This is reported by the French media - Mediapart and Le Monde.

The prosecutor's office demanded that the sentence be tightened by three local residents in the case of an action with a doll tied to a pillar with the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is reported by "Apology of Protest". One of the accused in the case of hooliganism, instituted after the action, was justified. One is sentenced to a year of conditional imprisonment. The third - to the two years of the colony, but the appeal replaced the deadline with a conditional one.

Joe Biden The elected US President Joe Biden received an official account on Twitter without subscribers. Biden’s team is unhappy with such a decision, since the ex-president of Barack Obama handed over his accounts to Donald Trump along with 13 million readers, writes BBC. Folks - This Will Be the Account for My Official Duties as President. At 12:01 PM on January 20th, it Will Become @potus . Until then, I%27ll be using @Joebiden .

Aircraft of the USA and Russia over the Baltic Sea Russia begins the procedure for withdrawing from an open sky. This was announced on Friday by the Russian Foreign Ministry. The Foreign Ministry referred to the US decision to withdraw from this contract in November last year.

Mark Rutte In the Netherlands, the government of Mark Rutte retired - after a loud scandal with accusations of illegally receiving children's benefits put forward against thousands of parents. The subsequent investigation showed that these charges were unfounded. The case was investigated by the parliamentary commission.