“It was like gifts from secret Santa: $ 20 million here, $ 40 million there ...” - wrote The New York Times on how the ex -wife of Jeff Bezos distributed about $ 6 billion for charity. Mackenzie Scott completely turned over the world of philanthropy, shaking hundreds of other American billionaires who also decided to share their wealth. How did she come to this? What does the usual charity of IT-Magnats and their wives look like?

Eight months after our previous conversation, the deputy director of the Levada Center (recognized in Russia by a foreign agent) Denis Volkov summed up the results of the 2020: the main events of the year, according to the respondents of the Russians, were pandemia and “abundance”.

There is nothing strange, amazing or even bad in the fact that the discussion of American politicians, elections and their results is so popular in Russia. Firstly, the US president is not just the head of a distant state, as the president of some France, but in some way-the head of the planet, Rex Mundi. With very limited real possibilities, but what is it.

By the way, we enter into a series of thirty years of anniversary of the events of 1991, and the first date is almost New Year, and, as it will later become clear, determining for the whole year, which will end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In Lithuania, this day is called bloody Sunday , and there is no exaggeration here - in Vilnius there were fights, people died. The Soviet Empire stopped on tanks to say goodbye to the almost already separated republic.

The events of January 6 in Washington will have significant consequences for both American democracy and the rest of the world. In a sense, the United States decided on an extremely dubious and risky experiment. For four years, the president of the most powerful power was a very unusual person, as if setting to turn all the ideas about unions, values, traditions and decency. And here is the result.

Alexey Navalny talks about the intention to return to Russia. Photo: Navalny / Instagram “January 17, Sunday, I will return home to the Victory flight. Meet. " Alexey Navalny wrote on his Instagram that he was returning to Moscow. The question of the return of Navalny to Russia, where, according to the Bellingcat investigation , he was tried to poison the special services, was one of the main intrigues in Russian politics.

In St. Petersburg, the vaccines from coronavirus ended-the record for vaccination has been suspended , all the remaining nine thousand vaccines have already been scheduled, said the chairman of the Health Committee Dmitry Lisovets. A new batch of 20 thousand doses to the city will be brought in a week, either on Thursday, or on Friday. In total, a little less than 14 thousand people are vaccinated in St.

This archive of negatives was acquired by collector Arthur Bondar in 2017 in the United States. He was found by the new owners of the house, which most likely belonged to an American soldier who participated in hostilities in Europe. The author, whose name is not known to us, removed the first days of the world in the cities of France and Belgium that have just begun and the recent days of the war in the territory of fascist Germany.