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State Duma Speaker Volodin: the Soviet elite, the USA and Europe benefited from the collapse of the USSR Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said the Soviet elite, the United States and Europe won. He named them on Telegram. “The former Soviet elite derived economic and political benefits from the collapse of the USSR. The United States and Europe have eliminated a strong ideological enemy, dividing it into separate countries, “the State Duma speaker emphasized. According to him, none of the 15 countries that were part of it won from the collapse of the USSR. Each of them is still facing the consequences of this tragedy. “Economic and industrial ties have been severed, industrial potential has been lost,” concluded Volodin. Earlier, Stanislav Shushkevich, in a conversation with Lenta.ru, said that the top officials and heads of government of the three Union republics, who on December 8 In 1991 they

Realtor Flutkov: the real cost of apartments in Sochi starts from 5 million rubles apartments. At the same time, the prices for objects in the ads start at 3.3 million rubles, local realtor Kirill Flutkov told Lente.ru. According to him, in reality, the cost of the cheapest studio apartments in Sochi starts at five million rubles. The expert warned Russians against buying apartments “on incomprehensible construction sites with promises.” “Any construction in Sochi that is not carried out in accordance with 214-FZ (the law on shared construction – comment of Lenta.ru ), if it is not reconstruction or major repairs, carries great risks, – emphasized Flutkov. “In view of the fact that now we are struggling with everything in the world, with illegal construction projects, land grabbing and the like, the risks when buying such lots are extremely high.” According to the expert, the main trend in the real estate

TASS: Brazilian authorities will introduce a five-day quarantine for unvaccinated foreign tourists open to Russians, a five-day quarantine will be introduced for unvaccinated foreign tourists. This is reported by TASS. According to the head of the Ministry of Health of the Republic, Marcelo Keiroga, the decision was made due to the potential stress on the healthcare system that may arise from the new strain of COVID-19. He clarified that on the fifth day of isolation, travelers must pass a PCR test – in case of a negative result, they will be allowed to move freely around the country. It is noted that a day earlier, the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court gave the government two days to make a decision on the introduction of compulsory vaccination for all foreigners arriving in the country. The National Sanitary Inspection Agency (Anvisa) urged the authorities to recognize only those drugs that are approved by

The wreckage of the sunken F-35 Lightning II fighter was lifted from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea the fifth generation F-35 Lightning II, which in November got there after a crash from the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, reports The Drive. The publication notes that Russia could be interested in accessing the fragments of the lost aircraft, so it was important remove its fragments as early as possible. “Successfully locating the aircraft wreckage and retrieving them was a top priority given the security risks that would arise if any part of the aircraft fell into the hands of a less friendly country, such as Russia,” the American edition writes. In total, it took two weeks to find the fragments of the F-35 Lightning II, and another one to retrieve them. The Drive notes that the most likely reason for the loss of a $ 100 million aircraft was human

In Kuzbass, doctors of an oncological dispensary removed a tumor the size of a watermelon for a Russian citizen that weighed seven kilograms. The grown tumor was shown in the Instagram account of the medical facility. They specified that the tumor of a 71-year-old man was 32 centimeters in diameter. The Russian went to the doctors in the summer. “A year ago, he noticed that his stomach began to increase, but he did not feel any discomfort or pain all this time. He only got worried after he saw blood in his urine, “says the dispensary's social network. Doctors found out that the patient's tumor is located in the retroperitoneal space. She occupied the space from the diaphragm to the small pelvis, and also moved the right kidney to the left. The man was operated on – he was already discharged from the hospital. Doctors are awaiting test results that