Russian Reality

FSB Major General Mikhailov: NSA is interested in the correspondence of Russian security officials US intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA) correspondence in the messengers of the Russian security officials. On Wednesday, December 1, retired FSB Major General Alexander Mikhailov told the News.ru portal. According to Mikhailov, the NSA may have access to WhatsApp correspondence. The American intelligence services constantly “scan” some users, but do not tell about it. At the same time, he noted that they have no interest in representatives of the marginalized environment and the opposition, and that Americans are much less interested in politicians than in the security forces, but they can watch their correspondence. Mikhailov noted that the Americans can do this because of for a small amount of domestic software and instant messengers, with the exception of Telegram and VKontakte. On November 30, it was reported that American intelligence officers, including the

TV evangelist who has repeatedly opposed vaccination dies due to COVID-19 TV evangelist Markus Lamb who repeatedly opposed vaccination died after contracting COVID-19. This was reported on Twitter by the conservative Christian broadcaster Daystar Television, which Lamb founded. Lamb passed away at the age of 64. His wife said that after the infection, her husband developed pneumonia, but he kept everything under control. She noted that her husband followed the advice on treatment, which were allegedly voiced by experts in the programs of his television company, because he “believed 100 percent in everything they said.” Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Daystar Television has been spreading misinformation about vaccines. Some guests on airtime promoted conspiracy theories and treatments for COVID-19 that have nothing to do with medicine. For example, one of the doctors on the air advised the treatment of coronavirus with hydroxychloroquine. The Daystar Television Network, headquartered in Texas, is the

“Dom.rf”: 78 percent of families in Russia when buying new housing will choose apartments with finishing 78 percent of Russian families planning to buy an apartment in a new building in the next five years. The fact that Russians are targeting this type of property is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the development institute Dom.rf and VTsIOM (available to Lenta.ru). The majority (49 percent) of potential new settlers prefer a fine finish, another 29 percent would like to choose an apartment with a pre-finish (white box). At the same time, at present, the share of finished housing under construction in Russia does not exceed 40 percent, according to Dom.ru. and live. “This option is convenient for everyone: both for those families who have invested the last funds in the purchase of an apartment and no longer have additional money for repairs, and for business-class home buyers

Sociologists: more than 65 percent of Ukrainian citizens believe that the country is going in the wrong direction More than 65 percent of Ukrainian citizens are sure that the country is going in the wrong direction. Such conclusions were made by sociologists from the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) based on a study conducted at the end of November. A telephone survey of respondents – citizens of Ukraine over 18 years old – was conducted from 26 to 29 November 2021. The sample included 1,203 people from all regions of the country controlled by the Kiev authorities. The maximum error of the research results does not exceed 3.2 percent. Related materials00: 02 – October 7 “The crisis will come by spring Zelenskiy gets rid of political competitors. Why doesn't this help him to hold on to power? 17:26 – 23 November The DPR and Ukraine declare mutual shelling and

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to allocate money for salaries to some state employees Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to allocate funds for increasing salaries to certain categories of state employees. This is reported by TASS. The government will need to submit “agreed proposals on additional volumes of interbudgetary transfers to provide the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in order to increase the wages of certain categories of workers in the budgetary sector of the economy, taking into account the actual growth rate in the current year of the average monthly the accrued wages of workers employed in the economy. “