Day: November 24, 2021

The Collins English Dictionary named NFT as the main word of 2021 , which translates into Russian as “non-fungible token”, the main word of 2021, writes The Guardian. The creators of the dictionary called NFT a buzzword that was regularly sounded throughout the year. According to Collins' definition, NFT is “a unique digital certificate registered on the blockchain and used to register ownership of assets such as a work of art or collectible.” the expressions “double-vaxxed” and “hybrid working”. The latter came up in the speech after people gradually began to go to the offices for several days a week after working remotely. Collins also shortlisted climate anxiety, which translates to “climate concern.” The Oxford Dictionary previously recognized vax as the word for 2021. The dictionary's compilers are confident that “no word captures the atmosphere of the year better than vax.” The root has spawned many derived forms that are

Exercises began in Chernobyl due to the migration crisis in Belarus , the press service of the National Police of the country reported. According to the head of the department, Igor Klimenko, on Wednesday, November 24, the exercises were conducted by officers and employees of the State Border Service, the National Guard and the National Police. “All scenarios of a possible escalation of the migration crisis in border towns and villages are being worked out,” he said. The measures are aimed at improving the coordination of the work of the security forces in the cities and districts neighboring Belarus. The trainings will last for two weeks, during which it is necessary to develop algorithms for possible actions of migrants. The head of the National Police of the Kiev region, Andrey Nebytov, recalled that military exercises are also held on the territory of Chernobyl. This, he said, complicates the task. The

The court arrested the general director of Gazprom Gazoraspredelenie Krasnodar Alexei Rudnev on the receipt of a commercial bribery in the amount of over 20 million rubles. Along with him, three other defendants in the case were arrested, RIA Novosti reports, citing data from the court file. The Investigative Committee (IC) reported that a criminal case was opened against Rudnev, his deputy Alexander Savostyanov and deputies directors of the company's branches in Sochi, Gelendzhik, Anapa and Krasnodar. They are suspected of commercial bribery.

Biologist Baranova: COVID-19 disappeared in Japan due to a “tainted” delta strain In Japan, the coronavirus disappeared because a “tainted” delta strain has spread across the country. Ancha Baranova, a biologist and professor at the School of Systems Biology at George Mason University (Virginia), said this in an interview with Lente.ru. Since there was one delta in Japan, mutations have accumulated in it, according to Japanese colleagues in the nsp14 protein. And this protein determines the ability of the virus to correct mutations. But since nsp14 itself “messed up”, it could not fix anything, errors began to multiply uncontrollably. And, in the end, the virus came to a sad finish for itself. Ancha BaranovaBiologist She added that the “spoiled” delta strain in Japan provoked the emergence of derivatives with weakened mutation-correcting functions. According to the biologist, in Japan, compared to European countries, there was not a great variety of strains

FP: US leader Biden in Congress seeks the elimination of sanctions against Nord Stream 2 Congress to remove sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from the United States defense budget. This is reported by Foreign Policy. According to the publication, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and other high-ranking officials of the Biden administration last week personally addressed some US Congressmen by phone with a call for the abolition of amendments to the defense budget, which suggest sanctions against the companies involved in the project. The publication notes that, in particular, in this way the US administration is trying to prevent the imposition of sanctions against companies from Germany involved in the project. This step “caused anger on the part of the Republicans in Congress.” According to the head of the press service of the State Department Ned Price, the new restrictive measures will be introduced on the basis

RBC: Google is moving servers to Russian data centers due to the data storage law The American company Google has begun Russian data centers. According to RBC, this issue was discussed at the end of March at a meeting in the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, dedicated to the preparation for the entry into force of the law on the storage of personal data. One of the participants in the meeting said that Google stores information on the territory of data the center of his company. “Google is [now] our client. We have a secure parastatal enterprise, “the source said, adding that at first Google” did not allow anyone to approach their counters “- only its own employees who came from abroad had access. According to Anton Platonov, General Director of StoreData, the company began to conclude agreements for the placement of equipment in Russia more than a year