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RIA Novosti: tangerines in Russia have risen in price by 25 percent due to a decrease in supplies from Turkey Tangerines in Russia have risen in price. Before the traditional season of high demand, the price for them for the year in wholesale increased by an average of 18 percent, in non-chain retail – by 25 percent. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to experts. Thus, the average price per kilogram of tangerines in November was 164 rubles, the Evotor company said. The experts studied the average prices of actual sales of non-chain retail in November of the current and last year. They used data from 800 thousand smart terminals in Russian regions. “The so-called” high season “, when the demand for this product category is at its maximum, is November-December,” said the executive director of the Association of Food Producers and Suppliers. of goods “Rusprodsoyuz” Dmitry Vostrikov.

The NTI project “Avineiro” has developed an anti-anxiety drug “Aviander” for survivors of COVID-19 High-tech project of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) Avineiro has developed and is testing a new anti-anxiety drug, Aviander, which should primarily help those who have recovered from COVID-19. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the press service. It is noted that anxiety disorders are among the most common consequences of coronavirus. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by persistent, excessive, and unrealistic anxiety about everyday things. The medical director of the Avineiro project, Elena Yakubova, said that as a result of eight weeks of therapy with Aviander, the overall Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HARS) score more than halved. She added that the drug “with high selectivity affects a number of adrenergic receptors and a group of serotonin receptors.” According to her, “Aviander” provides anxiolytic, antidepressant and procognitive effects. Yakubova also explained that in preclinical and

Scientists from the United States and Britain have found out why blood clots form after the AstraZeneca vaccination in some cases were recorded after vaccination against coronavirus infection with the drug company AstraZeneca. This is stated in a study published in the scientific journal Science Advances. According to experts, the formation of blood clots may be influenced by how the adenovirus, which is used in the AstraZeneca vaccine to transfer the genetic material of the infection into cells, binds to a specific protein in the blood known as platelet factor 4 (PF4). It is noted that the binding process causes a chain reaction in the immune system, which leads to the formation of blood clots. Scientists emphasized that thrombosis after vaccination appears in extremely rare cases, since a whole chain of complex events must occur for their occurrence . Earlier it became known that production of the drug for the

Political scientist Andrey Sushentsov called the “red lines” for Russia in relations with Ukraine Security of Crimea and Donbass, as well as the Russian community in Ukraine are the main “red lines” for Russia in relations with a neighboring country. Andrey Sushentsov, Acting Dean of the Faculty of International Relations of MGIMO, Program Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, spoke about this in an interview with Lente.ru. “Russia cannot afford to calmly watch monstrous disasters like the events in Odessa May 2, 2014. It was a fundamental event for the Russian public consciousness, it harmed Ukraine itself the most, but it also became an internal political issue in Russia, “the political scientist said. Sushentsov added that another important” red line “concerns Orthodox shrines , their preservation and safety. “These are issues that cannot be resolved remotely, and here one should rely only on the self-preservation instinct of the Ukrainian authorities,”