The Kolpino District Court of St. Petersburg banned the distribution in Russia of the anime Death Note, Inuyashiki, Tokyo Ghoul and Elfen Song, Mediazona reports . The prosecutor said that these animated films encourage children to commit suicide. “After we filed this lawsuit, several schoolchildren in our city committed suicidal acts, while the children were wearing items of clothing related to animated films, including Death Note,” he added. The United Press Service of the Courts of St.

US President Donald Trump pardoned 73 people on his last day in office. He did not include himself, his family members, or his lawyer Rudy Giuliani on the list of those pardoned . As Reuters clarifies , Trump was advised to refuse his own pardon by his advisers in the White House. They believed that in this case, it could appear that Trump was admitting guilt in committing offenses during his presidency.

Jack Ma appeared in public for the first time since Ant Group's planned initial public offering was cancelled. According to the Financial Times, he appeared in a short video calling for support for Chinese teachers. “My colleagues and I have been studying and reflecting lately. We have made a firm decision to devote ourselves to charitable activities in the field of education,” Ma was quoted as saying by Bloomberg. The video was shown live and its authenticity was confirmed by Ant Group.

Illegal bookmakers and online casinos have effectively stopped operating in Russia since mid-January, The Bell reported . They stopped accepting payments in any currencies except Bitcoin. Online casinos Admiral777, JoyCasino, Admiral888, Gaminator, when trying to pay, show a form for entering bank card data, but it is impossible to top up the account, the publication’s correspondent found out. Some, like Azino777, only accept Bitcoin.

Photo: Sergey Bobylev/TASS His supporters responded to the arrest of oppositionist Alexei Navalny by the film “Palace for Putin. The story of the largest bribe ” - it was watched almost 27 million times in a day, a record in the political segment of the Russian YouTube. Many facts presented in the film were already known, but they collected together and supplemented by new information about the Krasnodar residence of the president, they became a real political event in Russia.

Roskomnadzor demanded that the Chinese social network TikTok stop distributing videos that, according to the agency, are aimed at “involving minors in committing illegal actions.” We are talking about videos from Russian users in which they call for people to go to rallies in support of the arrested Alexei Navalny. The agency sent a corresponding request to TikTok.

Photo: Alexander Avilov/Agency "Moscow" The Levada Center decided to find out what mood the Russians ended with 2020. We got acquainted with the results of the survey. It turned out that 36% of Russians experienced irritability or aggression over the past month, in 30% this feeling rarely arose, 33% said that they did not have such feelings. 33% of Russians had fear of uncertainty, another 26% experienced such a feeling occasionally, and 39% did not have it.

During the fourth quarter of 2020, the Netflix streaming service attracted 8.5 million users - 2.5 million more than analysts predicted. Deadline reports this. By the end of the year, the total number of subscribers reached 203.7 million. The company's revenue also turned out to be higher than expected, reaching $6.6 billion. Earnings per share were $1.19—analysts had expected it to be 20 cents more. A year ago, Netflix's EPS was $1.30. Netflix shares are currently worth $501.77 per share.

Promotion in support of Navalny in St. Petersburg. Photo: Alexander Demyanchuk/TASS The question of the ratio of protest moods of the middle class and “lower classes” is one of the most difficult and important in political science. Moreover, he becomes relevant in a situation where the country's chief opposition is directly calling the country's population to go out.

Screenshot of the FBK video The Russian market languidly reacted to the crisis associated with Alexei Navalny - the detention of a politician, his call to go out onto the streets and the investigation of Putin’s palace for 100 billion rubles, which almost 22 million people watched in less than a day. The ruble on Monday in the moment lost 75 kopecks. To the dollar and 83 kopecks. To the euro (when oil falls by 0.6% on that day), but quickly began to play losses.

On the eve of Joe Biden's inauguration, Donald Trump left the White House. “It was a great honor, the honor of a lifetime,” he finally told reporters, according to NBC. After that, Donald Trump and his wife Melania left the White House grounds on a Marine One helicopter and arrived at the Andrews military base (an airfield in Camp Springs, Maryland, 24 km from Washington). In his farewell speech, Trump promised to return: “Our administration has not been ordinary.

Photo: sergei iLnitsky/epa/TASS The consideration of the case of Alexei Navalny by the visiting court in the police department in Khimki caused issues of legal nature. To start with the fact that formally outgoing court sessions, of course, are acceptable. Colonies, military units, even the wards of hospitals are common for this place. The lawyers who commented on the event noted that the practices of canceling court decisions only on the grounds that they were away do not know.

LG Electronics may exit the smartphone business in 2021. Company CEO Koo Kwang-mo announced this in internal correspondence with employees, The Korea Times writes . For several years in a row, this direction has brought losses to LG. Koo Kwang-mo pointed out that competition in the global smartphone market is becoming increasingly fierce, so it is time to make a “sober decision” to continue this business.

Joe Biden took the oath on January 20 and took office as president of the United States. The ceremony was held in special conditions not only because of coronavirus, but also because of the recent breakthrough of the supporters of the previous President Donald Trump into the Capitol. Trump himself decided to ignore the event.

Photo: Sofya Sandurskaya/Agency "Moscow" Economist Vladislav Inozemtsev in an article published by VTIMES , writes that in Russian protests of the late 1980s and early 1990s (until 1994), economic requirements played an important role, but since then, in his opinion, the situation has changed-more individualistic modern culture has suppressed the protest mood of society.