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Kommersant: The Ministry of Digital Science proposed to oblige foreign services to pay compensation for online traffic the telecom industry proposes to oblige foreign streaming services and online cinemas to pay compensation to Russian telecom operators for online traffic. Kommersant writes about this. According to the department, operators are in a difficult situation due to traffic growth and do not have sufficient funding sources to upgrade their networks. Therefore, the Ministry of Digital Development wants to create a mechanism for foreign Internet companies to finance the development of telecommunications infrastructure in Russia and introduce payments for foreign OTT companies (technology for transmitting video over the Internet) for traffic “which they send to subscribers of Russian operators.” Director General of the Institute for Internet Research Karen Ghazaryan drew attention to the fact that the traffic of domestic online cinemas and streaming services does not differ from the traffic of foreign ones,

Nutritionist Ginzburg: the body needs less water in the cold season from radio Sputnik named the rate of water consumption during the cold season. According to him, the body needs less water in the cold season, when the amount of fluid released from sweat decreases. However, he advised not to consciously change your drinking regime depending on the air temperature. Ginzburg noted that in this matter you need to focus on your own feelings and make sure that water is always at hand. “A person drinks water individually, according to his perceived need,” he said. The doctor added that only people with certain heart and kidney diseases should purposefully reduce the amount of fluid they consume. Related materials00: 07 – 10 January “The more culinary expanse, the more we eat” How food changes our minds, behavior and interferes to lose weight – says a neuroscientist how common food kills Russians

Morgenstern's lawyer Zhorin: he is not involved in selling drugs, he is a musician Rapper Morgenstern's lawyer Sergey Zhorin responded TFR) Alexander Bastrykin in the drug trade. RIA Novosti reports this. According to the human rights activist, the performer's sphere of activity is limited to music. “This statement caused, to put it mildly, bewilderment. Morgenstern does not sell drugs. This is not his field of activity. He is a musician, “the agency's interlocutor said. Earlier, Zhorin said that he was afraid of pressure from law enforcement officers on his client after Bastrykin's statement. “What we think, how we will react, is of secondary importance here – it is more important how Bastrykin's subordinates will react to it. No matter how they take it as a call to action, ”said the lawyer. This summer, Morgenstern was fined for drug propaganda. The expertise was carried out in relation to his videos for

Russian teacher Lukhovitsky on Bastrykin's call to cancel the Unified State Exam: it will cause torture in an interview with “Lenta.ru” criticized the proposal of the chairman of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, to cancel the unified state examination (USE). According to him, Bastrykin is not an expert in the field of education, and “it is not clear why someone should listen to his opinion. ” I hope that it will not occur to anyone this or next year to suddenly take and cancel the Unified State Exam. This will cause such torment for the children, and for the parents, and for the teachers that it will take five years to shake the school. Probably, Mr. Bastrykin knows well what torture is, but as far as I know, most children, parents and teachers over the past 15 years have already got used to the form of the

Kommersant: OPI warned of a seasonal shortage of drugs for COVID-19, flu and colds Roszdravnadzor on the seasonal shortage of drugs for COVID-19, flu and colds in pharmacies. This is reported by the newspaper “Kommersant” with reference to a letter from the chairman of the OPI Oleg Pavlov to the supervisory department with a request to Roszdravnadzor to take measures to suppress the situation. – why prices for drugs are growing against the background of shortages. Pavlov notes that the situation is aggravated by the fact that 80 percent of pharmacies continue to freely sell prescription drugs. The OPI claims that interruptions have already begun in the supply of a number of drugs recommended by the Ministry of Health for the treatment of coronavirus (favipiravir, paracetamol, umifenovir, apixaban, rivaroxaban). According to the organization, the most difficult situation is in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Tatarstan, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk regions. Against