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RIA Novosti: The Ka-52M Alligator will enter service with the Russian army in 2022 The first 15 Ka-52M Alligator helicopters “Will enter service with the Russian army in 2022. In total, the Ministry of Defense will receive 30 combat vehicles under the contract concluded with the Russian Helicopters holding at the Army-2021 exhibition. This is reported by RIA Novosti. It is noted that the first batch of helicopters will arrive in 2022, and the second in 2023, that is, the Ministry of Defense will receive 15 vehicles a year. For internal customers, each of the “superaligators” will cost 1.075 billion rubles. However, the indicated cost does not include ammunition, spare parts and other consumables. The Ka-52M is a modernized version of the Ka-52 Alligator reconnaissance and attack helicopter, which has been produced since 2010. The new machines will be equipped with an optical-electronic system with an increased range of detection

Softline: the number of fake online stores on Black Friday increased by 30 percent During the Black Friday discounts Russians began to face an increase in the activity of fraudsters and the emergence of new criminal schemes. The Russians were warned about this by Alexander Dvoryansky, director of strategic communications at Infosecurity a Softline company, quoted by Kommersant. In particular, cybercriminals have begun to actively create fake marketplace sites and take customers into chats. According to Dvoryansky's calculations, over 500 links to fake marketplaces were identified and blocked over the past month. Overall, the number of fake online stores increased by 30 percent. On such a site, the buyer is informed that to receive a discount, you need to contact the chat in the WhatsApp messenger. There a payment link is generated for the victim. “If you pay on the site itself, the attackers will have to copy the entire

BBC News: Dutch police arrested a couple who escaped from a quarantine hotel the Kennemerland region, where they were placed after testing positive for coronavirus. This is reported by BBC News. According to the newspaper, the couple was caught by law enforcement officers at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. The citizens were already sitting on the plane that was supposed to fly to Spain. They arrived in the Netherlands from the Republic of South Africa (South Africa), after which they were diagnosed with a coronavirus. It is noted that the fugitives may be prosecuted for violating the isolation rules when infected with COVID-19. Earlier it became known that at least 13 citizens who arrived in the Netherlands from South Africa were diagnosed with a new omicron strain of coronavirus. In total, the authorities checked 642 passengers. According to the test results, COVID-19 was detected in 61 of them. All infected are

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary named “vaccine” as the main word of 2021 »The main word of 2021. This is stated in a press release of the service. Platform users were 601 percent more likely to search for the word “vaccine” in 2021, and the number of queries for this word increased by 1048 percent in two years. < p> In the top ten most popular also were the words “uprising”, “perseverance” (the name of the rover that became a sensation in 2021), “knowledgeable” (in the USA it is used to describe people who preach a vigilant attitude towards racial or social oppression), ” nomad “,” infrastructure “,” cicada “,” murraya tree “,” cisgender “,” guard “and” meta “. Vedomosti notes that in 2019 the title of the word of the year according to Merriam -Webster got the pronoun “they” (referring to people who do not identify themselves only as a

Tikhonov on the results of the Russians on the WC: Irina Kazakevich is great, she was 109th as an individual Four-time Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov biathletes at the first stage of the World Cup in Ostersund, Sweden. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti. “Irina Kazakevich is great, she was 109th in the individual race, and already in the top hundred in the sprint,” said the main critic of Russian biathlon. Tikhonov noted that for many years Russian biathletes have not been able to achieve success at the world level. “As commentator Dmitry Guberniev says, ours are again in the top twenty and in the best thirty. How long can you expect success from ours? ” – he said. At the same time, the Olympic champion expressed confidence that the athletes will be able to return Russian biathlon to a high level. “Where there were traditions, victories will definitely return,”