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Senator Ryazansky: the decision of the Ministry of Labor to update the payment procedure will improve the life of pensioners .ru “said that the decision of the Ministry of Labor of Russia to update the procedure for payment of pensions will help facilitate the implementation of some of the procedures of the Pension Fund, which means it will improve the life of pensioners. Earlier, the department decided to update the procedure for paying pensions in Russia for two categories of citizens. In particular, the new rules will apply to Russians who receive a survivor's pension and disability pension. The second category will include those whose work experience is too short for the appointment of an old-age pension and there is a shortfall in pension points. Now, for a one-time payment of pension savings, these categories of citizens will need to submit an application on the portal of public services. The

State Duma deputy Kostenko proposed a unified system for detecting COVID-19 cases in schools 19 in schools. This proposal was made by Natalya Kostenko, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Tourism and Development of Tourism Infrastructure, Parlamentskaya Gazeta reports. Parents of pupils turned to Kostenko and told about the ineffectiveness of security measures taken in educational institutions. “At the federal level, a single algorithm for all regions has not been developed for the timely identification of patients with COVID-19 students, ensuring their isolation from healthy children, as well as (if the epidemiological threshold is exceeded) the transfer of a class or school to quarantine,” said the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on tourism. She intends to transfer her initiative to combat the virus to the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, the head of the operational headquarters Tatyana Golikova. In parliament, her proposal was received ambiguously. So,

Red Canary experts discovered the Windows installer stealing cryptocurrency The popular installer for Windows and other products from Microsoft turned out to be a dangerous virus. This is reported by the Bleeping Computer. Journalists refer to the report of the Red Canary firm, whose specialists found a fraudulent program in a widespread program for activating Microsoft products. According to them, the KMSPico utility is a popular pirated program for activating Microsoft Windows and Office. “We've seen several IT departments use KMSPico instead of legitimate Microsoft licenses to activate systems,” said analyst Tony Lambert. The pirate program is a self-extracting executable file. When the user clicks on the installer icon, the utility installs a virus on the PC. It turned out that KMSPico can access cryptocurrency wallets, steal funds and withdraw them to the accounts of fraudsters. Thus, the virus was able to receive data from Ledger Live, Jaxx Liberty, Electron

Military expert Frolov: SIPRI data on the fall in Russian arms sales are inaccurate , which speaks of another drop in Russian arms sales, is inaccurate and based on dubious data. The information of the Swedish researchers in a commentary to Izvestia was denied by military expert Andrei Frolov. According to him, the Russian data indicate a completely different dynamics, the Russian officials in charge of military-technical cooperation cite different statistics. There is no drop in it, the number of contracts remains stable. Frolov recalled that SIPRI experts may not know about new contracts and may not have accurate data on supplies. Separately, on their conscience, there is an assessment of the cost of a particular technique. Thus, the expert emphasized, the institute's methodology is speculative and has little to do with reality. According to the organization's estimates, published on December 6, in 2020, sales of Russian arms fell to

Trainer Alena Shpak: milk, rice, pickles and sweet alcohol cause puffiness in the morning Star trainer and writer Alena Shpak named four products , the consumption of which causes fluid retention in the intercellular space of the body. Harper's Bazaar provides a relevant list. First, in order to avoid swelling in the morning, dairy products should be excluded from the diet. The expert advised replacing cow's milk in pure form or in hot drinks with vegetable (soy or almond). Secondly, white rice has similar harmful properties. Instead, Shpak advised to choose brown, which, according to her, contains more useful minerals and vitamins. The list also includes pickles and canned foods. “One pickled cucumber, for example, inside a sandwich, is the norm. But if you eat five, then the next day you will have to work hard, “- the publication leads the opinion of the specialist. She also suggested giving up