Day: November 29, 2021

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary named “vaccine” as the main word of 2021 »The main word of 2021. This is stated in a press release of the service. Platform users were 601 percent more likely to search for the word “vaccine” in 2021, and the number of queries for this word increased by 1048 percent in two years. < p> In the top ten most popular also were the words “uprising”, “perseverance” (the name of the rover that became a sensation in 2021), “knowledgeable” (in the USA it is used to describe people who preach a vigilant attitude towards racial or social oppression), ” nomad “,” infrastructure “,” cicada “,” murraya tree “,” cisgender “,” guard “and” meta “. Vedomosti notes that in 2019 the title of the word of the year according to Merriam -Webster got the pronoun “they” (referring to people who do not identify themselves only as a

Tikhonov about the results of the Russians on the WC: Irina Kazakevich is great, the 109th was in the individual Four-time Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov appreciated the performance of Russian biathletes at the first stage of the World Cup in Ostersund, Sweden. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti. “Irina Kazakevich is great, she was 109th in the individual race, and already in the top hundred in the sprint,” said the main critic of Russian biathlon. Tikhonov noted that for many years Russian biathletes have not been able to achieve success at the world level. “As commentator Dmitry Guberniev says, ours are again in the top twenty and in the best thirty. How long can you expect success from ours? ” – he said. At the same time, the Olympic champion expressed confidence that the athletes will be able to return Russian biathlon to a high level. “Where there were

Russian President Putin will hold talks on November 30 with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Tuesday, November 30 with Vietnamese leader Nguyen Xuan Phuc. The meeting in Moscow was announced by the press service of the Kremlin, writes TASS. During the talks, the leaders intend to discuss topical issues of a comprehensive strategic partnership between the countries in various fields, including political dialogue, trade and economic, military-technical , scientific and technological cooperation, as well as humanitarian contacts. In addition, the presidents will exchange views on the regional agenda, the Kremlin specified. On November 25, Serbian President Aleksandr Vucic held talks with Vladimir Putin in Sochi. It was noted that the topics of partnership in the political, trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian spheres were to be discussed. In addition, it became known that Vladimir Putin will visit India on December 6. During the

The Governor of the Irkutsk Region Igor Kobzev proposed to recognize mining as a business of cryptocurrencies – the head of the region is ready to provide them with separate sites for industrial activity, Interfax writes. “As you know, I turned to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation [Alexander Novak] and consider [mining] as an entrepreneurial activity … The government has its own opinion on this matter, it looked at it, supported us, “Kobzev said. Recognition of mining as a business will oblige miners to pay for electricity at higher rates. In October, the governor complained to the authorities about the “underground” miners. Kobzev announced an “avalanche-like increase in energy consumption” in the region, the level of which has already increased tenfold compared to 2019. The head of the region expressed concern that the state of the networks does not allow such an increase in load. According to

Former Foreign Minister Ivanov: the USSR collapsed due to the lack of a plan for the transition to a market economy Former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said that the collapse of the USSR occurred not because of foreign policy, but because of economic problems within the country. He named this reason in an interview with Kommersant. As Ivanov noted, despite the popularity of the first and only president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, he lost popular support due to socio-economic policies and empty counters. “I believe that these are internal problems, primarily related to the economy. We actually did not formulate, at least I did not see or hear it, a clear plan for the transition from a one hundred percent centralized Soviet economy to a market one. There was a spontaneous collapse, which led to what it led to, “said the ex-Foreign Minister. Earlier, the head of the