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Portuguese authorities have launched an investigation into the legality of issuing a national passport to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, according to Reuters and Portuguese radio station Renascença. The investigation is conducted by the Institute of Registrations and Notaries (IRN). The Portuguese Ministry of Justice told the media that such an investigation is a standard procedure when information about “any possible violation” is received. “IRN intends to establish, excluding any doubts, whether there has been a violation,” the Ministry of Justice quoted Reuters as saying. A representative of Abramovich told the agency that the billionaire and his staff “welcome any verification, as it will demonstrate that citizenship was obtained in accordance with the rules.” The fact that Abramovich received Portuguese citizenship under the law on naturalization of Sephardic Jews, RBC was told in December by a source and later confirmed by Millhouse, which manages the businessman’s assets. According to the source,

“With the consent and approval of the Queen, the Duke of York resigns his military posts and royal guardianship duties,” the statement said. He also loses the right to be called “His Royal Highness”. A civil lawsuit has been filed against Prince Andrew in the United States. American Virginia Giuffre accuses the prince of sexual abuse. “The Duke of York will no longer perform any public duties and is defending himself in this case as a private individual,” the statement said.

Starting from January 13, tourists will be able to enter if one of four conditions is met: a negative PCR test no older than 72 hours, a negative rapid antigen test no older than 48 hours, a certificate that a person has had a coronavirus infection no earlier than six months ago, or a full vaccination, from which no more than six months have passed. The new requirements for the entry of tourists cancel the previous ones, according to which unvaccinated and unwell foreign citizens could not come to Montenegro, and vaccinated and those who had COVID-19 needed a PCR test. Such requirements were introduced at the end of December.

A team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark decided to look into the root causes of cruelty and came to unexpected conclusions. In their work, they studied nine papers, among which were surveys and studies of military personnel who are cruel to their colleagues; parents who are cruel to their children; school bullying and other cases of such antisocial behavior for pleasure. In total, experts studied the data of more than four thousand people from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark and other countries belonging to different age and social groups. After studying the results of these studies, scientists came to the conclusion that in most cases, people who show cruelty were bored at that moment and thus tried to compensate for unpleasant internal sensations. For example, participants in one of the experiments watched a 20-minute film about a waterfall one by one, while their smartphones were taken away

“We see that over the past 10 years, the average age of our mothers has increased from 27 years to almost 29 years. And this largely reduces the number of births,” Kotyakov said during a speech at the XIII Gaidar Forum (quoted by TASS). He stressed that the same trends are observed in Western countries. A survey of demographers conducted by RIA Novosti in June 2021 showed that the average age of births in Russia is shifting towards 30 years. They also stressed that the increase in the number of births at a late age may be associated with the development of reproductive technologies, and regional peculiarities may influence the earlier age of motherhood. One of the experts, Deputy Head of the International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital of the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEI) of RANEPA Sergey Shulgin explained that in In Italy, the average age of birth

Researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland, led by Nicole Chanche, have discovered a new exoplanet with a very unusual “elongated” orbit, moving along which the planet deviates from the circle almost 30 times more strongly than the Earth. According to experts, this is the most elongated trajectory that has ever been recorded around a “cold” star. A new exoplanet located outside the Solar System has been named TOI-2257 b. It makes a revolution around its red dwarf star in 35 days. Due to the elliptical orbit, the temperature on the planet during these few weeks varies from -80 to +100 degrees Celsius. Scientists have found out that the planet TOI-2257 b orbits a cold star at a fairly close distance in the “habitable zone”. This means that there may be water, and therefore potential life. However, further studies have shown that this planet is gaseous and similar to

The Russian leadership warns of the approach of a strong wave of infections with the Omicron coronavirus, which may begin within a couple of weeks. We looked at what is happening with COVID disease in the countries most affected by the new strain of the virus. Preliminary results of two clinical trials in South Africa show that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has a much higher level of “asymptomatic carrier” than the previous COVID variants, which may explain why the new strain has spread so quickly around the world, even among populations with a high level of previous coronavirus infection. South Africa has seen a spike in COVID-19 infections since late November, around the time its scientists alerted the world to Omicron. But new cases have since declined, and early indications show that the wave was marked by a less serious illness than the previous ones, Reuters reports.