Digest: Europe tightens antiquity rules.
New Antique Restrictions in Europe
Greece introduces additional anti-coronavirus measures to contain the Omicron option. From now on, respirators or double medical masks are required in supermarkets and public transport. Work as one of the vaccine workers until midnight.
Only 10% of spectators will be present at football stadiums; patients in hospitals and nursing homes must provide a negative PCR test done no later than 48 hours before visiting.
50% of staff in both the public and private sectors should move to work from home. These measures will be in effect until at least January 16.
In France From now on, it is compulsory to work from home at least three days a week for those who can work remotely. The number of spectators who attend public events in open and closed areas is decreasing.
It is prohibited to consume food and drinks on public transport, as well as in cinemas, theaters and sports facilities. Food can only be consumed by suggestions inside bars and restaurants. The new rules are expected to be in effect for at least three weeks.
V Britain during school holidays, school holidays have already been announced in school schools. Mandatory masks in the classroom are introduced until January 26. At the same time, on Sunday, the government said that while statistics on the situation with the coronavirus did not confirm the need to introduce additional restrictions.
Biden and Zelenskiy discuss the threat of a Russian invasion
US President Joe Biden on Sunday held a telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky, during which he promised to give a decisive answer in the event of a Russian attack on Ukraine.
“President Biden made it clear that the United States, together with allies and joint efforts, if Russia again invades Ukraine,” the US presidential administration said in a statement.
Biden also spoke out in support of diplomatic efforts to implement the Minsk agreements, the White House says that Washington will not make decisions of partners without their knowledge.
The Ukrainian president, after speaking with Biden, said that he appreciates Ukraine’s “unwavering support”.
Last week, Biden, in a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin, threatened with harsh sanctions and increased aid to Ukraine if Russia commits aggression. Agreement between negotiations and negotiations in the framework of the US-Russia talks in Geneva, the NATO-Russia Council and negotiations in the framework of negotiations, but agreement that progress in these negotiations can be achieved only if the situation around Ukraine is de-escalated.
Israel could achieve herd immunity – but not through vaccinations
A sharp jump in the number of cases of the Omicron coronavirus in Israel could lead to the country achieving herd immunity. True, this will not happen thanks to the successful vaccination program, as a result of the appearance of more and more people who have recovered from the coronavirus. It is estimated that by the end of January, about four million people in Israel could be infected with Omicron.
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How “Morozko” conquered Eastern Europe
The Soviet film “Morozko” has been an inevitable attribute of Christmas and New Years in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for many years. Generations of children have grown up on this tale. In the USSR, the film did not become so cult, although it was popular after its release. Maria Evstafieva He talks about the reason for the phenomenal success of “Morozko” in Eastern Europe.
What the new “Matrix” told about us
In December, the movie “The Matrix. Resurrection” was released – the fourth part of the cult franchise. More than 20 years after the release of the first film, ideas about the key issues for the “Matrix”, the study of technology and information control, have changed. Anastasia Golubeva spoke with experts about how the new “Matrix” portrays a new technological reality.
Times: closure of Memorial * – a terrible signal to the whole world
Putin’s attempt to silence critics of the Soviet regime is an attack on both the past and the future, writes Times columnist Edward Lucas, and recalls his first visits to Memorial’s Moscow office in 1998.
The cramped rooms were littered with pages scribbled in children’s handwriting – the fruit of a recent appeal to schoolchildren to ask grandparents to remember the Great Terror of the Stalinist era, Lucas recalls. By carefully documenting the stories of Gulag prisoners, Memorial was more than a historical research organization. He represented a significant part of what remained of the civic consciousness of Russia.
The Soviet regime tabooed the topic of repression – stories about denunciations, show trials, interrogations and deportations, torture and mass executions were whispered or not transmitted at all, writes Edward Lucas.
By chronicling its crimes, Memorial exposed lies and embodied the hopes of the late 1980s and 1990s for a country that would live in peace with its torturous past, but also with its neighbors.
Now those hopes are dead, writes the Times columnist. The legitimacy of President Putin is increasingly based on a nostalgic line for the glorious past of the Soviet Union, an obvious weakness in the operation of the Stalinist regime. The liquidation of Memorial restores the taboo on this topic, thus legitimizing the Putin regime, writes Edward Lucas.
The prosecutor’s office stated that Memorial created “a false image of the USSR as a terrorist state.” The whitewashing of the crimes of the Soviet regime is a terrible signal for people in all countries who have suffered from them. Putin is essentially saying – we do not regret what we did with you, we did it again, the Times concludes.
* The Human Rights Center “Memorial” and “International Memorial” were entered by the Russian authorities into the register of foreign agents and were liquidated.
The fight for the crown of Wales: continued
Still waiting for George Martin to finish the last two Game of Thrones novels? Read the rest of the story for now. Yana Litvinova about the real Game of Thrones in the British Isles. This series is dedicated to the medieval struggle for the crown of Wales, and this part – to the grandfather and grandson of the Hluellins: one of them was nicknamed the Great, the second became the Last, and both played an important role in the history of Wales.
Message to the world from shamans
In Peru, shamans performed a ritual and asked for peace and an end to the coronavirus pandemic in 2022, and also predicted the possibility of a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine.