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In the nine months of 2021, 43 foreign tourists visited Bali only 43 foreign travelers, up from 6.3 million in the same period in 2019. The Daily Mail writes about this. Thus, the villages and settlements of the island, which were once under the weight of an excessive tourist load, have turned into ghost towns – local entrepreneurs are struggling to “stay afloat”, as the flow of foreign travelers has not been able to recover in recent years. It is noted that over the past decade, Bali has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world among Australians, Europeans, immigrants from the Americas, and residents other Asian countries. From 2000 to 2019, the number of incoming foreign tourists quadrupled and exceeded the local population (about four million people). Entrepreneurs began to actively develop the hotel and restaurant business, relying on a large flow of travelers – about

The Moscow Exchange Index grew by 1.77 percent December. The Moscow Exchange index approached the level of 4000 points, completing trading at the level of 3959.29 points (plus 1.77 percent). The RTS index rose by 2.51 percent to 1,687.12 points. Blue chips from the Moscow Exchange showed significant growth. The shares of TCS Group (plus 4.58 percent, to 7440 rubles per share), Gazprom (plus 4.5 percent, to 349.28 rubles) and Sberbank (plus 4.39 percent, to 328.82 rubles) rose the most. ). In the red were securities of Polymetal (minus 1.42 percent, 1,337.5 rubles) and Polyus (minus 1.07 percent, 14,018.5 rubles). Oil quotes rose ahead of the meeting of the countries OPEC + on December 2, where the decision to increase production may be canceled due to fears of the consequences of the spread of a new omicron strain of coronavirus. At 18:45 Moscow time, Brent crude was traded at $

Arsen Avakov asked the Ukrainian government to refrain from attempts to curb freedom of speech The Ukrainian government should adequately respond to protest actions and not use them as grounds for fighting the opposition and infringing on freedom of speech. Former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov spoke about this during the 12th Kiev Security Forum, which is broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Open Ukraine Foundation. Related materials22:05 – July 13 Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov resigned. He took up a post under Poroshenko, supported the nationalists and the Russian language 00:02 – October 7 ” The crisis will come by spring “Zelensky gets rid of political competitors. Why won't this help him retain power? The ex-Interior Minister called on the Ukrainian leadership to be adequate and asked him to refrain from trying to “curb freedom of speech, or close regular TV channels, or declare a

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg: nuclear weapons will not be deployed in countries where they are not currently available NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg denied that the alliance has plans to station nuclear weapons in new European countries. RIA Novosti writes about this. “We have no plans to deploy nuclear weapons in countries other than those in which they have already been deployed as part of the containment policy for many years,” Stoltenberg said. Thus, he commented on the words of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who called on Russia to place nuclear weapons in his country if NATO deployed warheads in Poland. Thus, he assured that there will be no nuclear weapons in countries where they do not exist now. Earlier, Lukashenko warned that if NATO warheads appear in Poland, Belarus will be ready to provide its territory for the deployment of Russian strategic weapons … He also noted

Investigators have completed the case of three participants in the terrorist attack in Znamenskoye on trial. The completion of the investigation was reported to Lente.ru by the Investigative Committee of Russia. Rustam Buluev, Ruslan Namatov and Artur Ushaev, depending on the role of each, were accused of participating in a gang, committing a terrorist attack, kidnapping, encroachment on the life of an employee law enforcement agencies, attempted murder of two or more persons and illegal arms trafficking. According to investigators, no later than 2002, Supyan Arsanakayev and Viskhan Zaitov created a gang in Chechnya, which included the defendants. Buluyev was serving in the local internal affairs bodies at that time. On July 13, 2005, Arsanakayev, Zaitov, Tuntuev, Namatov and Buluev kidnapped a local resident, killed, dressed in military uniform and put in a car filled with explosives. p> On July 19, 2005, the attackers parked their car on one of

Lukashenko said that Yeltsin pressed him to withdraw nuclear weapons from Belarus The United States and the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin so that Minsk would transfer its nuclear weapons to Moscow. The head of state spoke about this in an interview with RIA Novosti. The Belarusian leader noted that the document, according to which Belarus pledged to withdraw nuclear warheads from the country, was drawn up not by him, but by the previous leadership of the republic. He assured that he would not have taken such a step on his own. “After that, I haven't withdrawn nuclear weapons from Belarus for several years. Do you know why I brought him out? In violation of the agreement, I left him in Belarus. Believe it or not, not only at the request of the Americans. But, first of all, under the tough pressure from Yeltsin and the entire team that

US Secretary of State Blinken said that Russia has a plan for a large-scale military operation Ukraine, as well as Moscow's efforts to destabilize the country from within and plan large-scale military operations. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke about Washington's fears, reports Reuters. “In recent weeks, Russia has stepped up planning for possible military action in Ukraine, including the deployment of tens of thousands of additional military forces near the Ukrainian border,” Blinken said. p> Earlier, the US Secretary of State held talks with NATO head Jens Stoltenberg, during which they discussed the situation on the Ukrainian border and cooperation in supporting Ukraine against “Russian aggression”. In addition, the parties considered the preparation of a new strategic concept for NATO, arms control and regional security.

Elon Musk: the orbits of some Starlink satellites have been changed due to space debris Elon Musk. The businessman's statement is quoted by Interfax. “We had to shift the orbits of some Starlink satellites to reduce the likelihood of collision [with space debris],” the businessman wrote. According to him, the cargo The Dragon spacecraft has a shielding to withstand the impact of small, high-speed space debris. In November, ArsTechnica, citing a FCC filing, reported that the first prototypes of Amazon's Kuiper Global Internet System spacecraft , which will compete with Starlink, is due to launch in the fourth quarter of 2022. The KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 satellites are planned to be launched from a mobile launcher in Florida on the never-before-flown RS1 rocket, developed by ABL Space Systems with the support of Lockheed Martin, into a near-earth orbit with an altitude of 590 kilometers.