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Quarantine regime. Faced with mounting pressure on restrictions on small businesses, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė met with representatives of traders and held a press conference in which she announced that the Government should decide on a quarantine mitigation plan on Monday, but still has not provided specific details. Representatives of hairdressers and beauty salons organized a protest against the government, burned funeral candles and placed flower wreaths. President Gitanas Nausėda, who had previously met with representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises, called on the government to “seek a new safe balance between epidemiological and socioeconomic goals.”
Rokas Lukoševičius / 15min photo / Representatives of small businesses lit candles in the Government
Coronavirus situation:
* 654 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Lithuania, 19 people died. Hospitals are currently treating 1,300 COVID-19 patients, 140 of whom are in resuscitation.
* The Municipality of Vilnius has announced that it will carry out a pilot project when some primary school children return to Vilnius Duke Gediminas Progymnasium classes. It is planned to bring primates whose families will agree to be tested for the coronavirus to the school.
* The Latvian government has decided to tighten the conditions for contact-type trade from Monday, but will lift restrictions on the range of products in grocery and hygiene stores. Starting next week, it will be possible to come to Latvia only for urgent and important reasons.
* Israel, which has been vaccinating its population against COVID-19 very quickly, will gradually open up to tourism starting in March and plans to keep its borders normally open from mid-year.
Borrell’s visit. During a visit to Russia, the head of European Union diplomacy claimed that the Bloc’s relations with Russia had reached new lows due to the imprisonment of opponent Alexei Navaln. He said EU members would discuss further relations with the neighbor in the near future. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, for his part, said Moscow was used to its criminal sanctions and did not view the EU as a reliable partner.
Elimination of the Republican. The Democrat-led US House of Representatives voted to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right conspiracy theory defender, from two committees after weeks of controversy. The politician has received criticism from both parties for anti-Semitic, racist and Islamophobic statements, saying that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and voicing support for QAnon’s conspiracy theories that Donald Trump was at war with a secular pedophile who adored Mr. Satan.
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United States foreign policy. US President Joe Biden has cut off Washington’s support for the Saudi war in Yemen and dramatically increased the number of refugees expected in the country. It also froze former President Trump’s plans to redeploy a large number of US troops held in Germany, a position welcomed by the German government. The US president also promised a tough stance on China and Russia. “I made it clear to President Putin, unlike my predecessor, that the time for US concessions to Russia’s aggressive actions, interference in our elections, cyberattacks, and the poisoning of its citizens is over,” Biden said. The Kremlin called the rhetoric of the new United States aggressive and unconstructive.
Court of Navalno. A Moscow court has reopened another case against Kremlin critic Alexei Navaln. He is accused of defaming a World War II veteran when he described the veteran who supported President Vladimir Putin in a video on Twitter as a “disgrace to the country.” The opponent does not admit his guilt and claims that his prosecution is politically motivated.
Protests in Myanmar. As teachers continued to arrest officials dismissed during the military coup, 200 teachers and students protested at a university in Myanmar on Friday.
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