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President of Belarus Lukashenko: Ukraine is under external control Today Ukraine is under external control. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said this in an interview with RIA Novosti. He spoke about the external leadership of the neighboring republic and accused the Ukrainian authorities of sabotaging his initiatives to resolve the conflict in Donbass. “The question is: why? Because they did not rule then, and even more so now, their country, “- explained Lukashenko. The head of state stressed that he was involved in what is happening in Ukraine not of his own free will, but at the suggestion of his Ukrainian and Russian colleagues. At the same time, the Belarusian president noted that even then he understood that it would be “hot” in Minsk. Lukashenka added that he intends to be with those “who want to save Ukraine and not turn it into a hotbed of aggression” against “ fraternal

University of Texas astronomers have discovered a giant black hole in the Leo I galaxy -satellites of the Milky Way, called Leo I. Its mass is comparable to a black hole in the center of the Milky Way, which could change scientists' ideas about the evolution of galaxies and their nuclei. The results of the study are presented in an article published in The Astrophysical Journal. Unlike most dwarf galaxies neighboring the Milky Way, Leo I does not contain a large amount of dark matter. Astronomers measured it by assessing the speed of movement of stars located at different distances from the center: the faster the stars move, the more dark matter is in their orbits. This allowed us to construct a profile of dark matter in the galaxy, that is, its amount depending on the distance from the center. The simulation results showed that, given the small amount of

27 percent of Russians will go to their relatives or friends on New Year's Eve January 9. This became known from a survey of the travel and travel service “Tutu.ru”, the results of which were received by the editorial office of “Lenta.ru” holidays to relatives or friends. The share of those who want to travel to one of the European cities was 16 percent, and 14 percent of the respondents named a trip to the country or the village as an ideal New Year trip. Another 17 percent of Russians said they dream of spending days off by the sea, but opinions are divided here: 13 percent want to visit Egypt, the United Arab Emirates or the Maldives, and four percent prefer walks along the coast of Sochi and Crimea. Also, ten percent of respondents would be happy to see the mountains, with seven percent want to go to the

Doctor Kondrakhin believes that for the disappearance of COVID-19, the whole world needs to be inoculated with “Lenta.ru” possible scenarios for defeating the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first scenario, humanity will take full control of COVID-19 and the virus will become on a par with seasonal flu, the doctor believes, and emphasizes that this requires a high level of herd immunity. “The following situation will happen: with each strengthening of immunity, the activity of the virus will decrease, and it will result in seasonal flu in our country. That is, we will not have a large number of people entering the intensive care unit, “Kondrakhin believes. According to the doctor, with such a development of events, some of the people who already have antibodies will not notice the disease at all if get infected, the other part will carry the disease easily, like a regular flu. People who will still

Meta: Chinese users invented a Swiss scientist to fake COVID-19 in the US Chinese Facebook users came up with the idea of ​​creating an account of the Swiss scientist Wilson Edwards, who for almost a month spread fakes about the coronavirus infection and the United States. In particular, the fictional researcher accused the American authorities of manipulating data on COVID-19 in order to accuse Beijing. Business Insider writes about this with reference to a statement from Meta. Related materials 17: 19 – 27 November A new a strain of coronavirus from Africa. What is known about the omicron and how dangerous is it? 12:50 – November 11 COVID passports, green passes and QR -codes. How citizens are controlled in different countries using electronic certificates The “scientist's” statements were especially active on Facebook and Twitter between July 24 and August 10. He published statements that the United States was intimidating its

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba rejected plans for Kiev to attack Donbass Kuleba. He is quoted by TASS. Thus, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry rejected plans to seize the territories not controlled by Kiev by force.

The Supreme Court proposed to collect tax debts from citizens out of court okay. This was announced by the chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev at a meeting of the Council of Judges, writes RIA Novosti. According to the document, debtors will be able to send a written objection to the tax authority within a month from the date of receipt of the decision to collect the debt. In this case, the collection can only be carried out in court. As Lebedev said, in the first nine months of this year, justices of the peace considered two million cases on the issuance of court orders for the collection of tax debts from individuals. Debtors wanted to raise objections only five percent of the time. Now it is possible to withdraw money without a trial from non-payers from among legal entities and individual entrepreneurs. In mid-October, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov

For humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the World Bank will unfreeze $ 280 million aid to Afghanistan. This is reported by Reuters according to sources. Related materials 00:01 – 28 November “We will kill you, wait for us” Thousands of Afghans fled from the Taliban to Tajikistan. Why are they still afraid for their lives? 00:01 – 21 November Why only the Taliban succeeded? According to the agency's interlocutors, in order to take such a step, the World Bank must obtain permission from 31 donors of the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, which is also managed by the bank's structures. The defrosted funds will be transferred to the accounts of the World Food Program and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Sources also said that the unfreezing of $ 500 million of the total Afghan assets of $ 1.5 billion was initially discussed within the World Bank. Donors to the Afghanistan Reconstruction