Supporters of Donald Trump, protesting against the results of the US elections, broke through the police cordon outside the Congress building in Washington, broke inside and disrupted the meeting, at which on January 6 members of the Senate and the House of Representatives were supposed to approve the election results. What's happened On January 6, before the start of Congress in Washington, tens of thousands of supporters of Donald Trump gathered for a rally called the March to Save America.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved the use of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine. Prior to this, only the Pfizer vaccine was allowed in the European Union. Once approved by the EMA, the use of the vaccine must be approved by the EU authorities. Work on this is already underway in the European Commission, said its head Ursula von der Leyen. Moderna is the second vaccine approved in the European Union. On December 21, they approved the use of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.

In 2020, 33,000 participants in peaceful protests were detained in Belarus, the Vesna human rights center calculated . More than 900 criminal cases were opened against the protesters. The conclusions of the public activists were published in a report on the non-observance of human rights in Belarus. The arrests began in May, during the election campaign, and continued until the end of the year, the report specifies.

The remuneration of Apple CEO Tim Cook increased by 40% in 2020 and amounted to $10.7 million compared to $7.7 million a year earlier, follows from Apple's reporting on the website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Apple shares in 2020 have risen in price by more than 80%, capitalization has exceeded $2 trillion. In 2020, in addition to $10.7 million, Cook received more than $1 million in cash bonuses and $3 million in salary, bringing his total income to $14.7 million.

Russians on average want to receive a salary of 158 thousand rubles, but expectations vary greatly depending on the region, RIA Novosti quotes the results of a survey by the Rabota.ru service. The average salary expectations in Moscow are 175 thousand rubles, in St. Petersburg - 164 thousand rubles, the survey showed. In total, 3,000 users over 18 from all regions of Russia participated in the study.

A small number of cases of infection with the new "British" strain of coronavirus have been detected in another 40 countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The list of countries is not given, but Rospotrebnadzor clarified that Russia is not among them, writes RBC. UK authorities announced the discovery of a more contagious strain in mid-December.

The day before, on January 5, Donald Trump signed a decree banning financial transactions with Chinese companies that control and develop applications for eight payment systems, writes Reuters . The list includes Alipay, owned by Jack Ma's Ant Group, as well as WeChat Pay, CamScanner, QQ Wallet, SHAREit, Tencent QQ, VMate, and WPS Office. The ban will take effect in 45 days.

US intelligence agencies - the FBI, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency (CISA) and the intelligence community (ODNI) - published the first findings about a cyber attack on government agencies that occurred in mid-December 2020. It follows from them that Russia could have been involved in the hacking. A dozen government agencies and about 18,000 users of the Orion program from Solar Winds in the public and private sectors were attacked.

The level of hope for economic prosperity in Russia has fallen to the level of 1998, writes RBC with reference to the results of a Gallup International study provided by the Romir holding. In 2020, the index of economic hope of Russians amounted to minus 41 percentage points, this is one of the lowest indicators in 23 years of observation. The lowest index was recorded in 2013 at minus 43 p.p. In 1998, the index was the same as now - minus 41 percentage points.