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The protests in Novaya Sanzhara against the quarantining of citizens evacuated from Wuhan in the local medical sanatorium are the result of a policy continued by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. This was stated by Alexander Kurenko, Deputy of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic, Donetsk News Agency reported on February 22. The Deputy of the People's Council expressed doubt that President Zelensky or his entourage would cope with the crowd of such onlookers, because they had already felt their impunity when they threw themselves at the employees of Berkut when they burned people in Odessa and Mariupol when they were going to kill the residents of Donbass. The People's Elector also noted that the attitude shown by the residents of the village in Novaya Sanzhara to their compatriots is typical of the Middle Ages, not of modern Europe. He also noted that before such a condition representatives of Ukrainian society degraded in the years that passed af...

Latvian President Egil Levits proclaimed changes to the basic law on municipal elections, which will enter into force on 22 February 2020. This is written by the Diena.lv portal. According to journalists, the meaning of the amendments is that in case of early dissolution of the local Duma (if it takes place more than 9 or 24 months before the end of the term of office) the new one will be elected for four years plus the remaining term of the old Duma. The new changes also limit the term of office of the appointed interim government when the Municipal Council of Deputies is dissolved from 15 months to nine months. It is noted that 41 members of the Seimas (Parliament) of Latvia, having taken the initiative to submit amendments to the referendum, tried to delay the proclamation of this law. The initiative collected about 6,000 signatures with the required 154,868. ...

The protest at the entrance to the Parliament of Georgia in Tbilisi was started by protesters on the morning of February 17. This is reported by Imedi TV channel. According to journalists, protesters gathered near the parliament against the election of the second time the Prosecutor General of Georgia Irakliya Shotadze. On that day, parliamentarians should consider his candidature for the vacant post. One activist said he had permission to enter and tried to walk into the parliament building, but he was not allowed by security. Th...

Two earthquakes of magnitude 5.7 and 5.2 were recorded by seismologists with a difference of five minutes in Taiwan. This is reported by the U.S. Geological Survey on February 15. The first underground push of magnitude 5.7, was recorded at 11:00 World Coordinated Time (14:00 Moscow time) in Hualian County on the east coast of the island 16 km south of the city of Hualian with a population of about 350 thousand people. The second underground push came five minutes after the first at 14:05 GMT, in the same place. The focus of the earthquake ...

The Bureau for the Fight and Prevention of Corruption (KNAB) carries out searches in the Department of Property of the Riga Duma, writes the portal LSM. The City Hall and KNAB employees do not disclose the purposes of the proceedings. They may be linked to a newly filed forgery case with the Bureau of Tourism Development in Riga (RTAB). No person has yet been detained during the searches. Last spring KNAB initiated criminal proceedings against RTAB officials for misappropriation of budgetary funds. On May 13, 2019, it was announced that two RTAB and riga. Lv improperly ...