In the outgoing year, despite the fact that the State Duma has already adopted the federal budget for 2022, there is still no clear understanding of who and by how much pensions will be increased. Formally, for today, the budget provides that The Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) should receive funds sufficient to increase old-age insurance pensions by 5.9% from January 1, 2022, and social pensions (they are usually indexed in April) – by 7.7%. However, the President of the Russian Federation instructed the government to consider increasing these percentages declared in the budget, since they are lower than official inflation, which is unacceptable, since by law the indexation of pensions should be higher than inflation. Exactly the same thing was repeated by President Putin during his press conference on December 23, 2021. Putin answered the question about the indexation of pensions above inflation The official response to the president’s words has
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In Scotland, a message was found in a bottle of Russian vodka
Workers repairing a Victorian market in Inverness, Scotland, found a bottle with a 54-year-old message inside. As it turned out, the author of the unusual “time capsule” was a 41-year-old bricklayer from Shetland named J. Thomson, reports UPI. In the note, he indicated his address, and also said that he was finishing construction and tiling on the market. “We expected to find something interesting at the demolition stage of the building, and we were not disappointed,” market manager Joe Murray commented on the find. It is noteworthy that the note was hidden in a “quarter” of Russian vodka. The Smirnoff brand was founded in Moscow in 1863 by Pyotr Arsenyevich Smirnov. After the October Revolution, vodka was produced abroad. New Year’s sale: discounts up to – 60% Anna Lysenko Even more interesting things about people
Ginzburg said that the antibody-based drug is effective with omicron
“A set of monoclonal antibodies has been tested on omicron and works very well,” he said. Ginzburg clarified that clinical trials are planned to begin after the New Year holidays, and they will be completed within three months. In November, Denis Logunov, Deputy director of the Gamalei Center, said that the antibody-based drug was “in a high degree of readiness” and expressed hope that it would be approved in the coming months. The drug is an analogue of the drug that was used to treat former US President Donald Trump when he contracted the coronavirus. This happened in the midst of the election race, when Trump was still the head of state and planned to remain him for a second term. The President was prescribed remdesivir and the steroid drug dexamethasone. In addition, he was injected with a cocktail of antibodies manufactured by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Four days later, Trump was
The former president of Korea, convicted of corruption, wants to pardon
According to the agency, referring to a government source, Park Geun-hye was included in the list of amnesties on the occasion of the New Year holidays. It is clarified that the 69-year-old former Korean president may be granted amnesty, primarily because of serious health problems. In 2019, Park Geun-hye underwent shoulder surgery, and since then her health has been steadily deteriorating. Park Geun-hye was ousted in 2017 as a result of impeachment for ties to conglomerates, bribery and abuse of power. She was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Earlier, the vice president of Samsung received a sentence for bribing the girlfriend of the ex-leader of South Korea. Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for paying a bribe of 8.9 billion won (about $8 million) to a close friend of ex-President Park Geun-hye in exchange for the government’s support for the merger of a
Kravtsov announced the return of schools to full-time education after the holidays
“As for the format [of training], the next year and after the winter holidays is a full—time format,” Kravtsov told reporters. He added that the remote format will be introduced only if the epidemiological situation requires it. Rosobrnadzor is not against leaving the Unified State Exam only for university applicants “But so far we don’t see any point in using this format [online] or extending the holidays. We will see how the holidays will go and what the epidemiological situation will be,” the minister said. In addition, Kravtsov answered the question about the day off on December 30 for teachers. According to him, this year the situation with the spread of infections, including coronavirus, is “not so acute”, which gives each region the right to declare this day a weekend or not. Earlier, on December 8, the Rospotrebnadzor gave recommendations to schools in some regions to switch to distance learning
Day in History: December 24
The Taking of Ishmael Russians celebrate the Day of Military Glory — on December 24, 1790, Russian troops took the Turkish fortress of Izmail. During the Russian-Turkish War of 1787-1791, it was considered a citadel of Turkish rule on the Danube. In November 1790, Russian troops under the able leadership of commander Alexander Suvorov began the siege of Izmail. After nine hours of fighting, the fortress fell. Christmas Eve On December 24, Catholics and Protestants celebrate Christmas Eve – the eve of the feast of the Nativity of Christ. Today, Christmas Eve in many Western countries, like Christmas, is a family holiday. Even those who do not attend church gather at the table in the evening with the whole family. The whole ritual of the Christmas Eve meal is headed by the father of the family. Before the beginning of the feast, they read a passage of the Gospel of
Mir-19: what is already known about the new cure for covid
According to experts, until the effectiveness of the drug is proven during a full cycle of clinical trials according to international standards, Russians are unlikely to trust it. Inhale, not prick The Mir-19 drug, as its developers say, blocks virus particles that are responsible for copying covid molecules and, accordingly, stops the spread of the virus inside the body. Mir-19 is injected through the respiratory tract by medical nebulizers. This contributes to the “targeted delivery of the drug to the upper and lower respiratory tract,” said Musa Khaitov, director of the SSC “Institute of Immunology” of the FMBA. It is allowed for use by people aged 18 to 65 years. It is contraindicated in pregnant and lactating women, patients with severe coronavirus infection and taking glucocorticosteroids, according to the instructions for the drug.
Cult writer and playwright Joan Didion has died
Didion passed away at her home in Manhattan. The cause of her death, as told in the Knopf publishing house that published the writer’s works, was Parkinson’s disease. Joan Didion became famous in the 1960s thanks to articles in such publications as Life, The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. She wrote about the California counterculture, Hollywood, American politics and the social chaos of that decade in a sarcastic style that earned her the status of one of the brightest representatives of the “new journalism”. Among the novels and collections of essays written by Didion are the books “Play as written”, “And wandered to Bethlehem”, “The last thing he wanted”, “The White Album”. In 2005, the writer’s memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking” became a bestseller, in which she told how she experienced grief after the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunn. Didion also
In Mexico, fish have learned to create a wave, protecting themselves from birds of prey
Observa cómo estos peces molly del Teapa (Poecilia sulphuraria) hacen una ola brillante para evitar el ataque de las aves. https://t.co/YxKyrGvkAN pic.twitter.com/hl5aipNf3i — Enrique Coperías (@CienciaDelCope) December 23, 2021 Researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Germany studied rare molly del Teapa (Poecilia sulphuraria) fish living in sulfide springs in Mexico. During the observations, experts noticed a strange behavior of fish that had never been seen before. At certain moments, hundreds of thousands of fish gathered together and, like fans at the stadium, made a “Mexican wave” — they took turns diving and returning to their seats. Scientists have estimated that about four thousand fish or more can take part in such a wave. And the waves themselves are very fast, noticeable and rhythmic. At first, this behavior of fish confused scientists. But after studying this phenomenon, they came to the conclusion that in this