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From November 29 to 30, Chechnya will host the Rainbow of Talents children's creativity festival The Rainbow talents “. This is reported by TASS. The event will be organized from November 29 to 30 at the site of the Chechen State Theater for Young Spectators. According to the organizers, the festival is aimed at “creating conditions for creative competition, creative exchange, stimulating the aesthetic development of the participants of the festival-competition, strengthening creative ties between regions of Russia.” 2021 “is taking place within the framework of the regional project” Creative People of the Chechen Republic “. Pupils of children's art schools, children's music and art schools of the regions of the North Caucasus Federal District take part in it. Earlier in Grozny, an exhibition of children's drawings took place, which reached the final of the “Children paint the world” competition. It showed the works of children from Chechnya and Lugansk,

FT: UK Competition and Markets Authority will block Meta's deal with Giphy Competition and Markets Authority, CMA) may block the acquisition of the online platform Giphy for Meta (formerly Facebook), writes the Financial Times (FT), citing sources. The deal is estimated at $ 315 million, and the decision, as noted, is unprecedented – previously the supervisor did not interfere with the deals of tech giants.

Military expert Shurygin: the words of an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine about the flight of the Russian army are PR Nedzelsky about the ability to turn the Russian army to flight do not reflect the opinion of the current Ukrainian military and are a way of drawing attention to their own person. This is how the military expert Vladislav Shurygin assessed the words of the retired serviceman in an interview with Izvestia. According to him, the officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is promoting himself through such statements, and serious military and political figures are unlikely to think the same way. He stressed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are unlikely to be confident that they could easily achieve such an outcome of events. “We soberly assessed their combat effectiveness. And so – since there are no particular successes, then we need to come up with them,

Members of the KVN BSU team thanked for sponsoring the wanted businessmen Members of the KVN team of the Belarusian State University (BSU) on the air thanked for the sponsorship of businessmen Roman Semiokhin, Sergey Karshkov and Dmitry Kazorin, who were put on the international wanted list. The words were spoken during the festive release dedicated to the 60th anniversary of KVN. An excerpt of the program is available on YouTube. After the performance of the Belarusian team, the head and presenter of the program Alexander Maslyakov read out the gratitude of its participants to the entrepreneurs. “The KVN BSU team thanks Sergey Karshkov, Roman Semiokhin and Dmitry Kazorin,” he said. Semiokhin, Karshkov and Kazorin were put on the international wanted list for illegal organization and conduct of gambling using the Internet. Businessmen are the creators of a large illegal online casino 1xBet, which is banned in Russia. According to

Bloomberg: The International Maritime Organization has postponed decision-making on climate The International Maritime Organization (IMO), which regulates shipping during which the participants discussed climate issues. According to Bloomberg, the outcome of the negotiations jeopardizes the achievement of the goals of the Paris Agreement, the implementation of which is necessary to save the planet. IMO agreed to revise its decarbonization strategy only in 2023. The commitment to achieve zero emissions has not received formal approval, and the introduction of small fuel charges to fund the development of cleaner analogues has been postponed until the next meeting. That said, the current strategy falls short of the goals of the Paris Agreement. To achieve zero emissions, shipping will need to eliminate fuel from oil and use cleaner and more expensive alternatives. IMO planned to take a series of strict measures to achieve carbon neutrality, and significant progress was expected from the meeting. However,