Category: Russia

Fedor Konyukhov postponed the start of the expedition on a catamaran across the oceans to March 2022 Russian navigator Fedor Konyukhov moved the start of the expedition from Australia to Australia catamaran, which was scheduled to start in December 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is stated in a press release from the headquarters for the preparation of Konyukhov, received by the editorial office of “Lenta.ru”. “The pandemic has adjusted the plans of the legendary traveler. The start of the world's first solo sailing across the oceans on the solar-powered catamaran Nova is being transferred from South America to Europe and is postponed until March 2022, “the message says. It is clarified that Konyukhov was forced to postpone another feat for later due to the inability to resolve a number of issues related to the construction of a vehicle remotely. “The assembly of the catamaran is carried out in

Three banks joined the SME Corporation umbrella surety program Alfa-Bank, Sovcombank and Ak Bars Bank as part of the second stage of the selection of banks participating in the program. This is stated in the message of the Corporation. The limit of guarantees of the SME Corporation at the new stage will amount to 8 billion rubles, which will be directed to new participants in the program, as well as to Otkritie Bank and Sberbank to increase the amount of support for entrepreneurs. The increase in the total volume of guarantee coverage of the umbrella mechanism from 8 to 16 billion rubles will allow providing loans to small and medium-sized enterprises in the amount of up to 32 billion rubles. Since September 2021, loans under the umbrella mechanism have been issued by six banks: VTB Bank, Otkritie Bank, SME Bank, Promsvyazbank, RNKB Bank, Sberbank. For two months, banks have issued

Vrublevsky said that Shubin sold one of his houses to the Tsapkov gang's lawyer Founder of the ChronoPay payment company, RNP.com fund, the first investor in habr.com Pavel Vrublevsky, who is in the process of litigation against businessman Vladimir Shubin, told in his blog about the latter's deal with Tsapkov's lawyer Eduard Churgulia. According to Vrublevsky, citing data from the cadastral register, in 2012 Shubin sold one of his houses to the lawyer of the Tsapkov gang, which had committed “one of the most monstrous, cruel, bloody and disgusting crimes.” “Among the people who, according to the media, were probably somehow involved in the gang, but for some reason escaped responsibility, or maybe the media were mistaken about him, since the enraged population of the country accused everyone who came to hand was permanent lawyer of the entire gang Eduard Churgulia. We must pay tribute to him for the stubbornness

Poland launched an advertising campaign to attract new residents to Auschwitz The Polish authorities launched an advertising campaign to attract new residents to Auschwitz. This was reported by the press secretary of the city magistrate Katarzyna Kvecheni, RIA Novosti reports. The politician said that the advertisement of life in Auschwitz was initiated by the local government. “Nine billboards with information about its merits appeared on all four access roads,” she said. Kvecheni stressed that the goal of the campaign is to urge citizens of all ages to choose Auschwitz as a permanent place of residence and demonstrate its strengths. It is noted that the boards contain information about affordable housing and infrastructure in the city, education and employment opportunities. “Why live in Auschwitz? Because it is a dynamically changing city, ”said Mayor Janusz Hwerut. At the moment, about 38 thousand people live in the city. On October 6, it was

Pfizer and BioNTech: COVID-19 vaccine effective for children aged 12 to 15 COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, it is 100 percent effective for children 12 to 15 years old. This is stated in a statement on the website of the developer company. According to a press release, the researchers analyzed data from observations of participants in the third phase of clinical trials, which involved more than 2.2 thousand minors. Everyone who eventually contracted the coronavirus (30 children) was given not a real vaccine, but a “dummy” – a placebo. death after suffering COVID-19. The studies involved 1.2 thousand patients with COVID-19, in whom the disease could develop in an unfavorable scenario.

Virologist Jones: the delta strain did not self-destruct, the incidence fell due to vaccination in Japan fell due to vaccinations and sanitary measures imposed by the local government. This opinion was voiced by Ian Jones, professor of virology at the British University of Reading, in a comment to Lente.ru. Related materials 00:01 – September 8 “Lack of vaccines is a shame” The acute phase of a pandemic could drag on for years. How can humanity defeat the coronavirus? 00:01 – 12 November “There will always be dissent” Some Russians deny the coronavirus and do not want to be vaccinated. How to convince them? The scientist suggested that this subspecies disappeared due to constant mutations, which “broke” the delta strain of coronavirus. Jones denied the assumption that the virus could mutate in some unique way only in Japan, which would lead to his self-destruction in this country, since he is in

A bill was submitted to the State Duma to reduce the marginal rate on loans to 0.8% per day The maximum rate on consumer loans and Russia may be reduced from the current one percent to 0.8 percent per day, follows from the bill submitted to the State Duma. Amendments to the law “On consumer credit (loan)” (353-FZ), which should save Russians from loans at 365 percent per year and limit the maximum value of the total cost of a loan to 292 percent, suggested a group of deputies headed by the chairman of the financial market committee Anatoly Aksakov. The document states that the draft was prepared “for the purpose of improving the protection of the rights of consumers of financial services ”. Annually in Russia about 35 million agreements are concluded at a rate in the range of 292-365 percent per year, and their share in the total

The cost of renting apartments since the end of summer 2021 has increased in all major cities of Russia the beginning of 2021 did not grow or even went down, but since the end of summer they have increased in almost all 15 cities with a population of one million, it follows from the materials of the Restate.ru portal provided to Lente.ru. It has become cheaper to rent housing in large cities than to buy with a mortgage, analysts say. This allowed the Russians to massively increase the cost of renting apartments. Most of the rates increased in Ufa (by 23 percent since the beginning of autumn), Krasnoyarsk (plus 15 percent), Yekaterinburg (13 percent), Novosibirsk (13 percent), Rostov-on-Don (12 percent), Kazan (12 percent), Volgograd (11 percent) and St. Petersburg (10 percent). The least noticeable prices for rented housing rose in Voronezh (by 3 percent) and in Moscow (plus 0.2 percent).