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Navalno Court. At a Moscow court hearing, the prosecutor asked Kremlin critics to imprison Alexei Navalna for two and a half years for violating probation because he did not show up to officials in time. Navaln said in court that he could not come because he was being treated in Germany for the poisoning ordered by President Vladimir Putin.
Navaln called the law enforcement actions an attempt to intimidate millions of Russians who were dissatisfied with the government. Western diplomats attended the court hearing and observers say Navaln’s imprisonment could worsen Western relations with Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry has described the participation of Western diplomats as undue pressure on the court. The decision is reported to be announced at 7pm Lithuanian time.
Photo by Scanpix / ITAR-TASS / Alexei Navalna in court
Coronavirus situation:
* 546 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Lithuania, 17 people died. 1,460 COVID-19 patients are currently being treated in hospitals, 161 of whom are in resuscitation. Population estimates show that more infections are recorded in other Baltic countries – Estonia detects 467 cases per day, Latvia – 775. Currently, the worst situation in Europe is in Portugal. The country successfully coped with the first wave of coronavirus in the spring, but since Christmas, morbidity and mortality have started to increase rapidly.
* The presidency says that in the near future Lithuania will start receiving more and more vaccines against COVID-19, with several hundred thousand doses arriving in Lithuania each week in March and April. Starting in the second half of February, 10,000 people are expected to be vaccinated. people per day.
* If a faster spreading strain of the virus is discovered in Lithuania, consider introducing additional restrictions for visitors and reinforcing the use of masks indoors.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Mobile coronavirus checkpoint
* In Latvia, the coronavirus was first detected in cats.
* Chinese police have arrested more than 80 people who have produced counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines. The gang has reportedly been pouring saline into bottles and selling it as a vaccine since September.
* Researchers reported in The Lancet that the effectiveness of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine was 91.6%, with no serious side effects during trials.
Layout of Čmilytė. The president of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen appointed lawyer Vytautas Mizaras to the judges of the Constitutional Court. V. Mizaras is active in the field of human rights, advocates for the expansion of the rights of the LGBT community.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Vytautas Mizaras
Masiulis’s career. Former Minister of Transport and Communications Rokas Masiulis won the selection for the position of General Director of the company that manages the Litgrid power transmission network, BNS sources reported.
Management of the prosecution. Prosecutors Gintas Ivanauskas and Saulius Verseckas have been appointed Deputy Prosecutors to Attorney General Nida Grunskienė.
Blizzard United States. A major snowstorm on Monday wreaked havoc on the US East Coast: Thousands of flights were canceled and coronavirus vaccination stopped. According to meteorologists, snowfall in New York State could be almost 60 inches, a state of emergency has been declared here.
The fate of the Olympic Games. Yoshiro Mori, president of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, said the Tokyo Olympics postponed by the pandemic would take place this summer, “no matter how the coronavirus develops,” clearing doubts about the event.
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Salaries on Google. US labor regulators said Google agreed to pay $ 3.8 million. US dollars to address complaints of discrimination against Asian female engineers and job applicants. Most of the fine will be imposed on more than 2.6 thousand. to cover unpaid salaries and interests of women working in engineering positions, as well as compensation of almost 3,000. women or candidates of Asian descent who have not been recruited. According to Google, the discrepancies were revealed by a routine internal analysis, and the company agreed to enter into a settlement agreement to remedy the situation, denying a possible violation of the law.
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