Afghanistan accused of money laundering with the help of “ghost soldiers”

BBC: Afghan generals took money from the Taliban and promised to surrender to them without a fight countries in the fall of the regime. They created “ghost soldiers” and used them to launder money received from the Taliban ( Taliban, a terrorist organization banned in Russia ), according to the BBC. According to the ex-minister, most of the 300,000 Afghan soldiers who were on the official lists do not actually exist. Thus, Payenda said that the data that the Afghan army outnumbered the Taliban is incorrect. The “phantom personnel” were listed on the lists by generals who appropriated the salaries of the soldiers. Existing soldiers were often not paid on time. Moreover, Afghan generals took money from the Taliban, promising to surrender to the militants without a fight. The Taliban announced the establishment of control over the entire territory of Afghanistan on 15 August. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani left the

Belarus has increased its air defense forces on the borders with the European Union

Belarus has increased its air defense forces at the borders and conducted patrols with Russian aircraft and the north-west of the country (that is, on the borders with the EU countries), according to the Ministry of Defense of the republic in its Telegram channel. By a decision agreed with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, air forces and assets “of the unified air defense system of the two countries. In particular, the parties worked out the interaction of fighter aircraft, patrolling the border of Belarus, in which two Russian TU-22M3 aircraft took part. At the estimated time, they landed at an airfield in Russia. The Belarusian Defense Ministry added that if earlier such flights of strategic bomber aviation were cyclical, then from November 10 they will be performed on a regular basis. They called such measures “an adequate response to the evolving situation both in the air

Russian Foreign Ministry responded to accusations of Poland in the migration crisis

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In a Russian city, schoolchildren suffered eye burns from a quartz lamp

Five schoolchildren got eye burns from a quartz lamp in Novosibirsk … The incident is reported by the Telegram-channel “Podyom” with reference to the regional children's ombudsman Nadezhda Boltenko. Parents reported that five children were diagnosed by doctors with conjunctivitis and eye irritation. It is not yet known who turned on the quartz lamp in the classroom. It is assumed that this could be a teacher or a cleaning lady. At the same time, the parents asked the school management not to punish the teacher. Boltenko appealed to the Investigative Committee of Russia and the prosecutor's office. Currently, the school administration is conducting an internal investigation. Earlier in Nizhny Novgorod, 17 cadets also received eye burns from a quartz lamp operating at the school. At that moment, the parents told the local media that the burns appeared due to the fact that someone forgot to turn off the quartz lamp.

The average debt of an American turned out to be almost 100 thousand dollars

American millennials owe an average of $ 87,000 93 thousand dollars, writes CNBC. Millennials (young people from 25 to 40 years old) owe 87 thousand dollars. The average debt on a credit card from Americans turned out to be more than $ 4,000, on a student loan – almost 39 thousand, on a car loan another 19 thousand, and on a personal loan – more than 12 thousand dollars. In terms of debt growth dynamics, millennials are second only to buzzers (people under 24) – year-on-year, their debt load is growing by 11.5 and 67.2 percent, respectively. at a fast pace in eight years – it increased by 2.1 percent, and the total volume of liabilities of citizens approached $ 15 trillion. The most significant contribution to the increase in the volume of debt was made by mortgages. At the same time, millions of Americans are unable to pay rent

The Russians who have recovered from COVID-19 told about the smell of carrion and swamps

Those who have had coronavirus complain of the smell of carrion and hair loss Residents of the Pskov region spoke about the symptoms in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets. Local resident Anastasia Novikova said that she had been haunted by strange smells for more than six months. “The most disgusting thing is that when the test came back negative and I was discharged, the smells began to return, but in some kind of perverted form,” she said. The girl explained that fresh milk began to smell like a swamp, and pork and eggs stink of carrion. According to Svetlana Volkova, a resident of the Velikoluksky district, her sister began baldness after the coronavirus: her hair began to fall out in clumps. The girl had to do a short hairstyle, although before that she had thick hair. The appearance of another resident of the Pskov region also suffered from the coronavirus.

The Federation Council reacted to the flights of Russian Tu-22M3 over Belarus

Senator Dzhabarov: Russia has no goal to react to the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border called the flights of Russian bombers over Belarus regular and not requiring special attention. The politician said this in a conversation with Lenta.ru. Earlier, RIA Novosti reported that two Russian long-range Tu-22M3 bombers were seen patrolling in the airspace over Belarus. The Russian Ministry of Defense explained this by practicing interaction with the command posts of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus and checking the air defense system of the Union State. The air defense system was checked, the department said, under the leadership of the Commander of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of Belarus. “All the tasks have been completed in full,” the Ministry of Defense emphasized, noting that at the moment long-range Tu-22M3 bombers have returned to the airfield based on the territory of the Russian Federation. The