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US Energy Secretary Granholm: Washington hopes oil prices will fall Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters at the White House, RIA Novosti writes. “We hope that prices will stabilize and begin to move down. We are not saying that there will be some dramatic difference [with current prices], “she said. Earlier, the White House assessed a plan to release additional oil reserves to reduce the rise in fuel prices in the country. Granholm said freeing up state oil reserves is a temporary strategy, while the long-term strategy remains clean energy.

Georgian Prime Minister Garibashvili said there was no progress in relations with Russia Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said there was no progress in political relations between Tbilisi and Moscow. He expressed this opinion in an interview with the First Channel of the Georgian Public Broadcaster. Garibashvili accused Russia of disrespect for the territorial sovereignty and unity of Georgia, as well as the occupation of 20 percent of the country's territory. According to him, this is the main barrier in establishing relations. At the same time, the head of the Georgian government noted that in 2021, when his Georgian Dream party came to power, there was no no contacts, including economic and cultural. According to Garibashvili, his party managed to achieve de-escalation with Russia. He pointed to the current format of the informal dialogue of the two countries “Abashidze-Karasin”, which concerns trade, economic and cultural relations. At the same time,

Deputy Sidorov explained with emotion the words about shootings for the purchase of covid certificates and sell certificates of vaccination against coronavirus, explained his words with emotion. This is reported by RZN.info. In an interview with the publication, Sidorov explained that his words were so emotional, since his wife died after being infected with the coronavirus, and he himself had been sick with COVID-19 for a month. At the same time, he did not abandon his position regarding the fact that those who buy and sell covid certificates and violate antiquity legislation should be “treated harshly.” Earlier, “Komsomolskaya Pravda Ryazan” reported that Vladimir During a meeting of the Regional Duma, Sidorov urged to shoot people who buy and sell certificates of vaccination against coronavirus. Honored Lawyer of Russia Ivan Solovyov warned that criminal liability for acquiring a fake vaccination certificate could come under Part 3 of Article 327 Of the

Infectionist Voznesensky: the next jump in the incidence of COVID-19 is expected in January Lente.ru “, when we can expect the next sharp jump in the incidence of COVID-19. ” If we focus on the increase in the incidence of other acute respiratory viral infections, which we track annually, the jump is observed in the second half of January, “the specialist said. The infectious disease specialist noted that this is due to the departure of schoolchildren and students for vacations and holidays in adults. “As a result, epidemic chains are formed and new cases of infection are formed, then everyone comes back and begins to actively transmit the virus from the infected to the healthy,” Voznesensky explained. Whether the fifth wave of coronavirus will come in Russia depends on the formation of herd immunity and on how widespread vaccination will become, the infectious disease specialist believes. He added that “today