Day: November 23, 2021

The Turkish lira exchange rate against the dollar fell record-breaking after Erdogan's statements The Turkish lira exchange rate against the dollar collapsed record-breaking, according to data on Tuesday, November 23 bidding. At 11:51 Moscow time, the dollar was given 12.48 lira (plus nine percent compared to the close of the previous trading session). An hour later, the Turkish currency strengthened slightly – the dollar was worth 12.19 lira. In early August, the dollar was worth 8.3 lira. The devaluation of the Turkish currency is due to the pressure of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the National Bank. The head of state, contrary to macroeconomic theory, believes that the key rate cut will help fight inflation, which reached 20 percent in Turkey in September. The Turkish Central Bank at the last meeting on November 18 lowered its key rate from 16 to 15 percent.

Deputy and TV presenter Popov called on the head of Chechnya Kadyrov not to impose conditions on journalists in the materials the nationality of the criminals, which was introduced to the State Duma by the parliament of Chechnya. Popov spoke about this in his Telegram channel. In particular, Popov answered the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, with an appeal not to impose conditions on journalists. The deputy reminded him that many of those who oppose the proposal of the Chechen parliament “were elected by the people of Russia.” There is no need to set conditions for journalists. The rules are – by the way, strict – and so clearly spelled out in the Law on Mass Media. Journalists themselves will figure out what, where and when to mention. The amendment of the Chechen Parliament will not work, even if the majority votes for it, which I deeply doubt. Evgeny

Oberon Director Pyatunin: to fight spam on Instagram, you need to set up a private mode Oberon IT Director Dmitry Pyatunin named ways to spam on social networks and messengers. He shared his recommendations for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram users to get rid of unwanted messages in a conversation with RIA Novosti. Methods of dealing with spam on Instagram for personal and business profiles are different, Pyatunin noted. “For personal accounts, setting up a private mode and rules for adding to groups is suitable, for example, only in the case of self-subscription to the account of the initiator of the community,” said the specialist. The interlocutor of the publication also advised the Russians to block unwanted follow-up requests and send a message to Instagram with the reason for the refusal. This helps the moderation system to block spam accounts, Pyatunin added. Instagram business accounts, according to the expert, can

The WHO representative considered self-destruction of the delta strain of coronavirus unlikely The World Health Organization (WHO) doubts that one of the coronavirus the so-called delta strain – could self-destruct, due to which the number of infected people in Japan decreased. A representative of the organization told Lenta.ru about this. According to the interlocutor, the disappearance of this type of virus is unlikely, since people in other countries are still infected with it. “This mutation can be found among another two million genetic sequences [of the delta strain, which are known to scientists,] around the world,” – added in a comment. In response to the question of what in this case could lead to a decrease in the number of infections in Japan, the interlocutor of “Lenta.ru” suggested: most likely, this happened due to the observance of measures to protect against infection and active vaccination of the population. At the

Expert Zheleznyakov: the Soyuz-2 rocket can set a record for the load delivered to the ISS a record could be set to the International Space Station (ISS) with the help of the Russian Soyuz-2 rocket, astronautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov told TASS. “Speaking of flights [with the Soyuz-2 rocket] to the ISS, then yes, this is indeed a record mass, “the expert said. The agency recalls that the maximum load put into near-earth orbit by Soyuz-2 is 8.25 tons, while on November 24 8.18 tons. In November, Roskosmos reported that the Soyuz-2 rocket, which is to launch the last module for the Russian segment of the ISS, was taken out and installed on the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome. The launch of the Soyuz-2 rocket with the Progress cargo spacecraft and the Prichal module is scheduled for November 24. The truck will deliver about 700 kilograms of cargo to the