Day: November 17, 2021

Frank RG recognized Sber as the best bank in small business lending Sber became the best bank in the field of small business lending according to the Frank Small Business Loans Award 2021. The award was presented based on the results of the Frank RG study “Lending to Small Business in Russia – 2021”, according to the press service of the credit institution. “Recently we have made a lot of efforts to finance for small businesses it was available 24/7 and was provided to clients within minutes without visiting offices and providing paper documents. We managed to achieve this and we are not going to stop, “said Alexey Shashkin, Director of the Small and Micro Business Division of Sberbank. He also announced that Sberbank will continue to develop various lending formats and installments, including marketplaces of large companies. The organization also plans to implement government and its own business support

Developing countries' total debt hits a record $ 92.6 trillion quarter of 2021 hit a new record, rising to $ 92.6 trillion. China accounted for 80 percent of total growth, Reuters reports, citing a report from the Institute of International Finance. The Asian country's debt-to-GDP ratio has grown 25 percent from July to September from the end of 2019 and is now 330 percent. China's national debt remained at a record 63 percent of GDP. Total indebtedness of emerging market economies excluding China climbed to a new high of $ 36.4 trillion, mainly due to an increase in government debt. More than 95 percent of the growth in developing country debt since the end of 2019 has been in local currency bonds. However, the attractiveness of such securities for foreign investors has decreased – now non-residents own bonds in local currency in the amount of 19 percent of the debt

US scientists have developed an adjuvant vaccine based on the RBD domain SARS-CoV-2 US researchers have developed a coronavirus vaccine based on receptor-binding (RBD) domain of the S-protein SARS-CoV-2 and in the course of studies on mice selected the most effective adjuvants for it – aluminum hydroxide and protein CpG. The new drug has shown efficacy similar to mRNA vaccines and, according to the researchers, whose article was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, is intended primarily for the elderly. “RBD is a key target of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, but RBD itself is weakly immunogenic. This is why (in other vaccines – Lenta.ru's note) they used total S-protein, which is more difficult to mass produce, ”explains lead author David Dowling of Harvard Medical School. In order to find the best adjuvants – substances that enhance the effect of vaccines – the researchers tested various combinations of them with the vaccine

Host Dmitry Dibrov considers 80 percent of viewers to be idiots because of their love for TV series on Channel One, Dmitry Dibrov explained his words that 80 percent of viewers are idiots. The showman's comments were published by Gazeta.Ru. “They watch TV shows. Look how many people watch TV series, and how many people watch [TV presenter Vladimir] Pozner. (…) Those viewers who watch stories about fictional people whose actions have no cognitive and enriching meaning, name them something else, but still, unfortunately, 80 percent of them, “Dibrov complained about the love of Russians to serials. The showman called the series “TV vodka”. The presenter also added that his viewers are not idiots. According to Dibrov, they will be able to answer the question under which emperor the first railway in Russia was built. Cognitive programs, according to Dibrov, interest only 20 percent of viewers. According to the journalist,

A criminal stole 140 doses of vaccine worth 130 thousand rubles from a medical facility in Nizhny Tagil vaccines. This was reported to “Lente.ru” on November 17 in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, initially the hospital staff announced the theft of 280 doses, but later, when recalculating, it became clear that it was missing half as much – 140 doses. The total cost of the stolen is 130 thousand rubles. According to the Telegram-channel Ural Mash, the room in which the refrigerator with the vaccine was located was not equipped with an alarm or video surveillance system. The thief was able to avoid meeting with the guard, picked up the key to the office and entered it without noise and signs of burglary. To speed up the investigation, the

In Moscow, a court denied an SMA patient a free drug for treatment atrophy (SMA) to the 33-year-old associate professor of the Department of Theater and Cinema History, specialist in the history of musical theater, teacher of the Faculty of History and Philology of the Russian State University for the Humanities Petr Vorotyntsev. This is reported by the Takie Dela portal. Spinraza is a medicine that helps with SMA. The drug for a deadly disease should be issued free of charge, however, to obtain it, you need to go through a number of procedures. At the end of 2020, Vorotyntsev began collecting documents to provide the drug. He went to the polyclinic, from where he was sent for hospitalization. After that, on the advice of the SMA Families Foundation, which is involved in helping patients with this disease, he went to the Scientific Center of Neurology and after all the

Lukashenka's press secretary: talking with Merkel about recognizing the president's “below dignity” Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets, who earlier said that Alexander Lukashenko, in a conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, put forward an ultimatum: the migration crisis will end if the European Union recognizes the legitimacy of his power and lifts the sanctions. RIA Novosti reports this on Wednesday, November 17 “It would be beneath the dignity of President Lukashenko to raise such questions or put forward similar conditions during the conversation. Not a single word about sanctions, and even more so about some kind of “recognition” was not said during the conversations, “Eismont said. According to her, for the Belarusian society” such a question does not exist. ” The spokeswoman said that Liimets's comment testifies that Tallinn understands nothing about the solution of the refugee problem and means nothing in this process. “The Estonian Foreign Minister should bear

Head of EU border security agency: preparing for new migration crises The European Union should prepare for new border migration crises. Such a future was predicted by Fabrice Ledgerie, head of Frontex, the EU's external border security agency. His words are reported by Yahoo News with reference to AFP. “This is not the first time the EU has faced attempts at what can be called geopolitical blackmail or a hybrid threat,” Ledgerie said. According to him, states can easily manipulate migration flows for their own purposes and quickly provoke crises. The current situation on the border of Belarus and Poland, he compared with the crisis in February 2020, when Turkey allowed thousands of migrants to the border with Greece , and Greek border guards had to restrain them by force. Earlier in November, British Foreign Minister Elizabeth Truss held Russia responsible for the migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border. She

TikTok blogger showed her face before and after applying makeup and angered netizens The girl showed her appearance before and after applying makeup and pissed off network users. The post appeared on her TikTok page. Blogger @lashesandlosing showed off her beauty-free look. The video shows that the girl also lacks two front teeth on the upper jaw. In the next shots, the user applied makeup in nude tones to her face and eyes and painted her lips with pale lilac lipstick. In addition, she inserted her teeth, styled her hair and put on a translucent black longsleeve. The video went viral and scored 4.2 million views and 353.7 thousand likes. Subscribers felt that the blogger had changed beyond recognition, and scolded her for lying. “I think that with girls like that, you need to go to the pool on your first date”, “Witch!”, “This is too much. It is unlikely