Digest: Russia fulfilled contracts for “Sputnik V” by 5%; opposition in Hungary chose rival Orbana
A guy from a good family
The British press, including the BBC, found out, 25-year-old Ali Harbi Ali, officially recognized in the murder of the member of the House of Commons David Emess – the son of a former high-ranking official from Somalia. Their family moved to Britain in the late 1990s.
“They are such a nice family. I am shocked that Ali was arrested for such a horrible act,” their neighbor, a resident of the Croydon area in south London, told the Daily Mail.
Ali’s father, Harbi Ali Kullane, was an adviser to the Somali Prime Minister and head of the government’s press office.
According to the Sunday Times, the British intelligence agency knew the name of Ali Harbi Ali.
Banning the “Male State”
A court in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, will consider a petition by the prosecutor’s office to declare it extremist and ban the “Male State”, an organization that has attracted attention with xenophobic and homophobic actions.
EU to discuss Eastern Partnership
At the meeting in Luxembourg, the EU foreign ministers will discuss, among other things, policies within the framework of the Eastern Partnership – cooperation programs with Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and, until recently, Belarus. The Eastern Partnership summit will take place on December 15. Representatives of the Belarusian authorities, against whom it imposed sanctions for falsifying the results of last year’s presidential elections and suppressing protests, will not be present at the summit.
Olympic flame kicks off from Greece to China
The ceremony of lighting the Olympic flame of the Winter Games in Beijing will take place in Greece. The day before, two activists, representatives of Tibet and Hong Kong, who were protesting against the Beijing Olympics, were detained in Athens. They were detained not for the protest in itself, but for staging it on the territory of the historical monument – the Acropolis.
The Hungarian opposition, having united, chose a leader, a non-partisan mayor of one of the country’s cities, Peter Marki-Zai for the primaries. Marki-Zai, 49, will lead the opposition to an election next year in which she hopes to topple Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party.
Belarus expelled French ambassador Nicolas de Lacoste. On Sunday he left Minsk.
Ambassador de Lacoste arrived in Belarus a year ago, but never presented his credentials to Alexander Lukashenko, whom the European Union does not recognize as the legally elected president of the country.
The Republic of Cape Verde extradited Alex Saab, adviser to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, to the United States. Maduro responded by canceling a new round with the opposition, which was supposed to start on Monday in Mexico City.
The US accuses Saab of using American bank accounts to launder money, which he and Maduro allegedly earned from the difference in the official and real exchange rates of the Venezuelan bolivar to the dollar, as well as under the state food aid program for starving Venezuelans.
Neighboring Colombia also accuses Saab of complicity in the drug trade.
Venezuela, as well as its ally Russia, is outraged and said that Saab, detained in Cape Verde at the request of the United States last year, had diplomatic status.
The Russian team Team Spirit won the final of the World Championship in the computer game Dota 2 and earned about $ 18.2 million. Two out of five players on the team are Ukrainians.
New York Times: why Nobel quarreled Russian oppositionists
American newspaper New York Times tells How Russian oppositionists quarreled on social networks of the international Russian-speaking audience over the award of the Nobel Peace Program to the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov.
The Moscow correspondent of the newspaper reminds that many supporters of Alexei Navalny, who is in prison, were outraged that their idol received the prize, and Muratov, who makes some compromises with the authorities, but supports his opposition and liberal newspaper.
“This moment brightly highlighted one of the many lines of division between various critics of the Kremlin: which line of conduct is best suited to those who want change – principled unbending resistance or attempts to bring about change for the better within the existing system?” – writes NYT.
Former head of Novaya Gazeta. hinders the unification of the Russian opposition.
“Unfortunately, this intolerance and aggressiveness of democratically oriented people,” – quoted Kolesnikov New York Times.
AP – about the disappointment of those who believed in “Sputnik V”
The Associated Press released the following weekend article on the problems with the supply of the Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus.
The agency writes that, according to the analytical company Airfinity, Russia has signed contracts with 62 countries for the supply of about a billion doses of Sputnik V, but in reality it has shipped only 48 million so far – that is, 4.8% of what it promised.
Iran has ordered 60 million doses, has received only 1.77 million so far. India was promised 125 million sets of two doses, but so far only 1 million inoculations with Sputnik have been made there. Venezuela ordered 10 million doses back in December and has received only four million so far. Turkey in April announced a contract for 50 million doses in August – that it could not start vaccination with Sputnik, because it does not know when the second will be received for a small amount (and Sputnik have different ones).
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which promotes Sputnik, assured the Associated Press that in August-September production of the vaccine was increased locally, in different countries, and now the problems with its supply have been completely resolved.
But the interlocutors believe that the task to raise the prestige of Russia by the producers of Sputnik V and RDIF has already failed.
“I think in some cases, in Iran, Guatemala, Argentina, perhaps in Mexico, Russia’s reputation has become, perhaps, even a little worse than it would have been if they did nothing or made more realistic promises from the very beginning. people are frustrated, “Professor Judy Twigg, an American health organization expert, told the agency.
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“Most of those who left abandoned the animals. They let go and left. Betrayal,” says 13-year-old Polina Kirilchuk from the Ukrainian city of Zolote.
She helps abandoned cats in this city, which is near the front line in eastern Ukraine.
Digest prepared Juri Wendik