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On Mars will send microbes that should make the planet habitable
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Scientists will send microorganisms — possibly algae or bacteria — during the Rover 2020 mission in an attempt to create air suitable for human consumption.
According to the idea, microorganisms will find nutrients in the Martian soil, and oxygen will be released as a by-product.
If the experiment is successful, so on Mars will be able to get oxygen for people and as rocket fuel for flight to Earth.
This will be an important step towards turning Mars into a habitable planet for human colonies.
The atmosphere of Mars contains only 0.13% oxygen, compared to 21% on Earth.
American scientists also have plans to build a magnetic shield around Mars and install a nuclear reactor on the planet.
In addition, they hope to launch a space station near the moon, which could serve as a starting point for missions to the other ends of the solar system.
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In Italy, in the wall of the museum found a painting stolen 22 years ago worth 60 million euros
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In the Italian city of Piacenza found a picture of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt “Portrait of a woman ”, the cost of which is estimated at 60 million euros.
This is reported by “European truth ” with reference to the air force.
The painting was stolen in 1997 from the Galleria Ricci Oddi and was included in the list of the most wanted art objects in Italy.
The frame of the painting was then thrown out on the roof of the building in an apparent attempt to show that the thieves had penetrated through a window in the roof.
This was not the case because the window in the roof was too small for the painting to pass through it.
On December 10, the painting was discovered by an employee of one of the municipal enterprises of Piacenza, who cleaned the walls of the gallery of ivy.
He found a cavity in the wall covered by an iron door, and inside lay a painting wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag.
Employees of the gallery identified it as "Portrait of a woman" Klimt.
They studied the seals and stamps on the back of the canvas and assumed that the find was the original.
However, its authenticity will be determined by the examination.
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Kasikorn saw a shift in the medical tourism market
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Analysts at the Kasikorn Research Centre note that medical tourism from the states of the Middle East has declined, it should be replaced by countries in Europe and Asia.
The growth rate of medical tourism in Thailand slowed in 2017, but this segment will still bring the Thai economy 48-49 billion baht for the year.
This forecast is given in the report of analysts Kasikorn Research Centre, reports TTR Weekly.
If last year the growth rate of medical tourist flow from abroad was 8%, then this figure will increase by 3-4%, Kasikorn predicts.
According to analysts, this year Thailand can count on 2.4 million “medical visits ”.
Another 900 thousand times the services of local medical institutions should be used by expats living in the Kingdom.
As the main trend, Kasikorn analysts note a decrease in medical tourist flow from Middle Eastern countries amid “changes in health policies there and improvement in the quality and standards of health systems in these countries. ”
Such wording is contained in the report of Kasikorn specialists.
According to the expert center, medical tourists from Asian countries should replace patients from the Middle East.
For five of them – China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam – the Thai authorities have introduced a 90-day visa-free regime.
For medical tourists from Middle Eastern countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman), such an initiative has been in place since 2013.
Also, the increase in income from the provision of medical services to foreigners should contribute to the introduction of ten-year pension visas for citizens of the UK, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, France, Australia, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Denmark and Canada.
At the same time, the availability of medical insurance to pay hospital bills is a mandatory requirement for those wishing to obtain a ten-year visa.
At the same time, analysts of Kasikorn Research Centre remind that Thailand has competitors, also claiming the status of a regional hub in the market of medical tourism.
“Despite the positive outlook, the Thai medical business may face stiff competition from new providers of such services in the domestic market and Asian competitors such as Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea.
All of them claim to become regional leaders in the medical field, ” the Kasikorn Research Centre said in a report.
In order not to lose in this fight, Thai medical institutions “need to cement their strengths, in particular, the quality of services and the level of standards. ”
Also, according to Kasikorn analysts, a positive effect should be given by the entry of medical institutions into the wide market of health in general (wellness).
However, in this segment in Thailand already has its leaders with a well-established name and reputation.
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Vladislav Kurash | A touching story of one great love
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Dedicated to my wife, Alyona Gordienko-Kurash Postmodernism is a painful marginal state of modern culture, a rush between the obsolete past and the unmarked future, dragged on for many decades.
For the most part, the futile chaotic search for new revolutionary forms of self-expression and reflection of reality.
An attempt to escape from traditional conventional systems and categories of perception and thinking.
Trying to create a new order of things.
Attempt of a coup and reorganization of public consciousness.
An attempt to rethink the moral foundations and reassess universal human and cultural values.
Attempt to reorient the spiritual aspirations of man.
The father of “minimalism ” and, accordingly, spun off from it at the beginning of the second millennium and formed as an independent artistic direction of“ artistic documentalism ”, many contemporaries consider Ernest Hemingway.
He once argued with Francis Scott Fitzgerald that he could write a very short story.
Hemingway won the argument, and wrote a story in which there were only six words, a tiny touching story of the life of one little boy: “For sale are children ’ s shoes.
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn".
After Hemingway, many famous masters tried themselves in this direction.
And Raymond Carver, and Charles Bukowski, and Aram Saroyan, and Mary Robinson.
The list of famous names can go on indefinitely.
Speaking of minimalist writers, it is impossible not to recall Vasilisk Gnedov and his "Poem of the End".
This “poem ” is a blank sheet of paper and nothing more.
However, to assert that the poem is wordless and meaningless I would not, there is a title in which the deep idea of the author is enclosed.
I would like to say a few words about the novel by Vladimir Blinov, which consists of one phrase: “Do not!
“Me ” is just four words.
Nevertheless, Vladimir Blinov defines his creation as a novel, considering it multifaceted and multivariate, opening up a rich space for the imagination of the reader.
As a minimalist writer, one day I too wanted to write my own tiny touching story, as multifaceted, deep and multivariate as Hemingway and Blinov ’ s.
And this is what I got.
I wrote a six-word story that contained a life-long story: “I don ’ t want to live without you. ”
I called the story “A touching story of one great love. ”
After that, I realized that I simply had to formulate, at least for myself, some theoretical aspects of my work.
Of course, nothing super original came of it, but there was a clear awareness of what I was doing, what I was killing all my free time for.
Minimalism is an artistic direction in literature, based on the minimization of the use of materials, tools and means of artistic expression in the creative process, on the minimization of the number of words used in the transmission of maximum information, on the desire for simplicity and uniformity of forms.
Heroes in minimalist works are usually faceless and do not have characteristic features.
Minimalist works depict only the most necessary, basic features and details.
The author, instead of describing every detail or detail, gives only the basic context, offering the reader ’ s imagination to “finish ” the story.
Artistic documentalism is an artistic direction in literature, which is based on the creation of a document that reflects a particular feature of reality.
Artistic documentalism is based on eleven principles: Credibility of the artistic image. Laconism.
To create a full-fledged authentic artistic image, a minimum set of means of artistic expression is sufficient.
The unity of typification and individualization of the artistic image.
Character is the central, dominant image of the artistic work.
Detail of the artistic image.
Every detail is important for creating a full authentic artistic image.
The object of the artistic image is the person and the world around him.
Ideological content is an integral component of an artistic work.
A work of art is a system of value orientations.
Cognitive, educational and aesthetic functions of a work of art.
The pathos of the artwork.
Emotionality is the core element of any artistic image, any character and the entire work of art as a whole, the most effective means of influencing the reader.
At the heart of any work of art is fiction, which is the author ’ s way of reflecting reality.
Documentalism.
Every work of art is a kind of document, in an artistic form fixing certain features of reality.
Vladislav Kurash Warsaw August 5, 2017
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Aggressive behavior of fans in relation to cyclists is unacceptable, says Belkov
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TASS, September 1.
Fans who behave aggressively towards cyclists in competitions behave unacceptably, they should control their behavior during the race.
This was stated by the Russian cyclist team Katusha-Alpecin Maxim Belkov, whose words are quoted by the press service of the team.
The fan pushed the Russian from the bike during the 12th stage of the multi-day race “Vuelta ”.
“At the 12th stage on the last climb 1-2 km before the finish line I was pushed off the bike by one of the“ fans ” in a red T-shirt, – said Belkov. – I flew over the fence and fell into the pit.
This is unacceptable for drivers. ”
“I ’ m healthy and not injured, but it could have ended worse.
Cycling is a very contact sport and we have to keep that in mind.
I just hope that this incident will open the eyes of many fans.
Please never touch the riders, do not run with them and watch out for those who are with you. ”
The winner of the stage was the Pole Tomasz Marczynski from the team Lotto Soudal, in the general classification leading Briton Chris Froome from the team "Sky".
The Vuelta, which is the third and final Grand Tour of the season, will finish on September 10 in Madrid.
Reaction of @ belkovmaxim to aggression in today's stage # LV2017.
Respect for not having reacted in-race, Max.
Crazy world today.
@ lavuelta pic.twitter.com / X6aYdxgz6D — Team KATUSHA ALPECIN (@ katushacycling) August 31, 2017
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The racer from the Russian Federation was pushed from the bike in a ditch at the race in Spain
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The fan pushed the Russian cyclist Maxim Belkov from the bike at the competition “Vuelta España ”.
About the incident the driver of the team Katusha-Alpecin Maxim Belkov wrote in his Facebook.
The incident occurred on Thursday, August 31, during the 12th stage of the prestigious cycling race “Vuelta España ”.
According to Belkov, a fan in a red jersey ran to him when he was riding a bicycle and pushed him, causing the athlete to fly over the fence and fall into a ditch.
Belkov called the incident outrageous.
The athlete did not specify whether he was injured as a result of the injury.
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In Italy found “Portrait of a woman ” Klimt, stolen 22 years ago
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In the Italian city of Piacenza found a picture of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt “Portrait of a woman ”, the cost of which is 60 million euros, reports the BBC.
It is noted that the painting was stolen in 1997 from the Galleria Ricci Oddi and was included in the list of the most wanted art objects in Italy.
The frame of the picture was then found on the roof of the gallery, and the work of art itself disappeared.
On December 10, 2019, the painting was discovered by an employee who cleaned the walls of the gallery from ivy.
He found a cavity closed by an iron door in the wall, and inside in a black plastic garbage bag lay a picture.
The gallery staff found out that this is Klimt ’ s “Portrait of a Woman ”.
They studied the seals and stamps on the back of the canvas and believe that the find is the original.
However, finally its authenticity will be established by experts.
Gustav Klimt painted Portrait of a Woman in 1916 or 1917.
In 1925, the painting was bought by the aristocrat from Piacenza Giuseppe Ricci Oddi.
The collector bequeathed his collection of art to the city, and after his death they were exhibited in the gallery in his name.
"Portrait of a Woman" was the most valuable exhibit of the Ricci Oddi Gallery.
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China is the first developing country to master the technology of generation of neutron radiation
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BEIJING, September 2.
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China is the first among developing countries to master the technology of generating neutron radiation, the China Daily newspaper reported on Saturday.
Now the country, along with some developed countries, is able to make important discoveries in such areas as the latest materials, clean energy and advanced medicine.
"This is an important event for Chinese science.
With the help of such technologies, our laboratory is able to solve a number of the most difficult research problems, "Chen Hesheng, head of the project, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, commented in an interview with journalists on this event.
According to him, with the help of a new scientific achievement in the future, it is planned to improve the production technologies of some enterprises in the south of China, where experiments were conducted with the release of neutron beams.
“Now our chemists will be able to master new technologies, which will create more powerful electronics, durable materials for engines, ” added Chen Hasheng.
The scientist noted that the new equipment will be available to the general public and companies interested in its experimental operation - it will be enough to pay a relatively small amount of money.
Generation of neutron beams is not an easy task, because with the help of the latest equipment it is necessary to accelerate the smallest particles to the speed of light.
Then, when colliding with a special tungsten partition, neutrons are released from atomic nuclei.
The level of radiation at the same time is minimal - this technology is extremely useful in the study of subatomic materials.
Until recently, the technology for generating neutron radiation was owned by only a few developed countries, in particular the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan.
On the government project of the Chinese source of secondary neutrons, the Chinese authorities spent 1.8 billion yuan (about $280 million), it took more than six years for the construction of the laboratory and related facilities at the organizers of the project.
In the near future, with the help of the latest technology, China plans to implement about 70 important government projects, applications for which have been submitted by more than 20 universities.
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The yacht from Primorye "Hope" was detained by North Korean border guards
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VLADIVOSTOK, September 10.
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A North Korean border vessel detained the seaside yacht Nadezhda, which was sailing from Vladivostok for an international regatta, Yana Konoplitskaya, press secretary of the Seven Feet yacht club, told TASS.
"We have received a corresponding message from the yacht, we are clarifying the circumstances," the interlocutor said.
She clarified that, according to the report received, after the detention of the yacht with two armed border guards on board is moving towards the DPRK.
Earlier, TASS reported that in June, the DPRK vessel detained the yacht Katalexa in the Sea of Japan, which was ferried from Taiwan to Vladivostok, to Russky Island.
It was later revealed that the yacht was detained "due to a misunderstanding".
According to the version of North Korean diplomats, local fishermen showed “excessive vigilance ” in the campaign against poachers and reported the vessel allegedly violating the border of the DPRK, the border service.
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North Korean border guards released the previously detained Russian yacht
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VLADIVOSTOK, 10 Sep — RIA Novosti.
The border guards of the DPRK detained the Russian yacht, but then released it, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Vladivostok told RIA Novosti on Sunday.
“The coordination center at 13: 00 local time reported the detention of the Russian yacht.
The Consulate General of the Russian Federation in the DPRK was informed.
The Korean border guards, most likely, decided not to tow the yacht to the port, but let it go, ” the source said.
In June, it was also reported that North Korean border guards detained a Russian yacht in the northwestern part of the Sea of Japan.
According to the Consul General of the Russian Federation in North Korean Chongdin (Chongzhin) Yuri Bochkarev, then the DPRK mistakenly took the yacht for a poaching schooner.
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Selfie City. "Zaryadye" is a new and unusual face of Moscow
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Photo: Victoria Odyssonova / “New ” Mikhail Belov architect, professor of the Moscow Architectural Institute — I went to see this park with a big fig in my pocket.
For my garden and park preferences and ideas tend more to some neo-Gothic, neoclassical, and the so-called "modern architecture", from which many people are delighted, now do not sting.
She was tired: “glass nuts ” are not“ candy lamb ” – you will choke on excessive consumption, and uncomfortable. And what?
I came and see that Zaryadye inadvertently just turned the idea of Moscow ’ s status in the world ’ s global population of capitals.
Such an amphitheater overlooking the center of the old city, such a detailed idea of urban life is not in New York, nor in London with Paris, nor in Singapore with Hong Kong.
Praised by intellectuals, the High Line Park in New York is a thread along the bay on concrete pillars instead of the subway, although the authors are the same as in Moscow (American bureau Diller Scofidio + Renfro. – Ed.).
It ’ s cute and funny, nothing more.
And here it is scalable!
Real gestures happen by accident.
And this one may have turned out inadvertently, but it can not be ignored.
In the midst of the ideological struggle against America, under the walls of the Kremlin, a huge space appears under the project of the Americans, in which Russia appears in all the vastness of its territories.
Let and through convention, almost landscape caricature a la new "Anna Karenina" with Keira Knightley.
Crowds will walk here, foreigners will be photographed, surprised, admired.
Of course, Zaryadye Park is not really a park.
This is a city vanity fair without a fair.
This is a multi-row promenade where you can look around, show yourself.
Although I am a champion of silence, it seems appropriate to me on stage in front of a huge amphitheater to provide round-the-clock play of orchestras: classical ones are replaced by balalaikas, already glamorous Cords are replaced by tougher punk bands.
Let them know our freedom.
This is not a space of peace and quiet, not a quietly gurgling Andersen pot, it is a noisy curiosity that should rumble like an empty saucepan in the middle of the city.
Everyone is angry at everything: the tiles, the trees planted, the wide streets, the endless repairs – everything has already happened here and it ’ s too late to be angry.
It was necessary to do this on such a scale (money costs are already being discussed in full on the Internet) - another question.
But as long as there is a global world that has replaced sacral values with secular values, we will respond to this kind of thing.
And if you do not want to have the reputation of a picnic on the sidelines, even imaginary, but civilization, then you must show them urbi et orbi in all its glory and absurdity, including.
When you get there, it can delight you or cause irritation, but it will not leave you indifferent for sure.
From an architectural point of view, the buildings are not too interesting - standard trend solutions of class A, made (by the way, quite) qualitatively.
Worse than the North European quality, but better than the French, in my opinion.
It's kind of like America.
But there are also original solutions.
Everywhere glass covering shells are usually made at high altitude, here a low shell, no more than three meters, practically creeps over the green carpet, repeating the profile of the hill.
In the winter, when the heating is turned on, it will be alpine meadows of twist-turn: snow lies below, and children ride on sleds, and at the top there is a green lawn from which you can admire Moscow.
All at once.
Here you and the Kremlin and the City in the same panorama.
Mama, don't grieve!
I am tired of the promises of paradise communism, capitalism and sovereign democracy in a separate country, I want to see the R-E-Z-U-L-T-A-T-S, and at the opening of Zaryadye I trampled them with my own feet.
I was amazed at the scale of what was happening in every possible way.
I understand that on City Day the density of rejoicing was increased.
But I hope that such a universal attraction will transform our everyday life.
Russia is a monocentric country.
If the capital was transformed in this way, then in five years and provincial cities will start their own versions of amphitheatres and promenades.
And in ten years, the counties will come alive.
It is only necessary to organize a new commission of Betsky and call a new matushka-sovereign, at least in her pants - it will also be useful if effective and sharpened for the result.
Photo: Victoria Odyssonova / Novaya Photo: Victoria Odyssonova / Novaya Photo: Victoria Odyssonova / Novaya Photo: Victoria Odyssonova / Novaya Photo: Victoria Odyssonova / Novaya Photo: Victoria Odyssonova / Novaya Photo: Victoria Odyssonova / Novaya Photo: Victoria Odyssonova / Novaya / "New"
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Volunteers ‘ return from Mars ’ after eight months of isolation
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On a remote volcano in Hawaii ended a NASA experiment in which six volunteers spent eight months in isolation, simulating work on Mars.
The experiment, involving four men and two women, is part of a study designed to better understand the psychological implications of a long-term space mission for astronauts.
“I am very pleased to think that the knowledge gained from our mission will contribute to the future exploration of Mars and the future exploration of space in general, ” said researcher Samuel Pailor on Sunday.
The data they obtained will help NASA recruit a team with the right combination of signs to best cope with the stress, isolation and danger of a two-to-three-year flight to Mars.
The US space agency hopes to send humans to the red planet by the 2030s.
The crew was quarantined for eight months on a vast plain beneath the summit of Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world.
The conditions here, as the researchers decided, are most similar to those of Mars.
At the end of their stay on Mars, the participants enjoyed fresh fruits - pineapple, mango and papaya.
During isolation, crew members wore space suits and left their living quarters only in groups.
They ate mostly canned foods, and mission biologist Joshua Ehrlich grew fresh vegetables (almost like in the movie The Martian).
Communication with the outside world took place with a 20-minute delay - this is the time it takes to receive signals from Mars.
The crew was tasked with conducting geological surveys, mapping studies and maintaining their self-sustaining habitat as if they were actually living on Mars.
The crew played games designed to measure their compatibility and stress levels, and kept diaries about their well-being, including psychological ones.
Crew members ’ moods were also assessed by specially designed sensors that measured voice levels and proximity to other people in a 111-square-meter residential area.
“We learned, first of all, that conflicts will arise even in the best teams.
So it is really important to recruit a crew in which there will be psychologically stable people who can overcome differences, ” says the lead researcher of the project, Professor Kim Binstad of the University of Hawaii.
The study also tested ways to help the crew cope with stress.
When the team members were overwhelmed, they could use virtual reality devices that sent them to a tropical beach or other familiar landscapes.
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British services intercepted a record number of migrants off the coast of the country
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British services on Tuesday intercepted more than 80 migrants trying to reach the shores of the United Kingdom by boat through the English Channel.
As reported by Day.Az with reference to RIA Novosti, this is reported by the Telegraph newspaper.
According to the newspaper, a total of 86 migrants were detained by customs services in one day, which is a record figure.
According to the Interior Ministry, citizens of eight countries - Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Vietnam and Ethiopia - crossed the English Channel in six boats.
At the same time, two groups of migrants managed to swim to the shore and land in the area of East Sussex County.
According to the Telegraph, a total of 1,256 people have arrived in Britain by sea since the beginning of the year.
Illegal migrants often look for any opportunity to cross the English Channel and find themselves in the UK, where they are attracted by the social program, the possibility of obtaining refugee status and financial benefits.
15 000-dək krediti 15 dəqiqəyə əldə et!
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In Italy, a gardener accidentally found a stolen painting worth $60 million
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In the Italian city of Piacenza, a gardener peeled ivy off the wall in the Ricci Oddi gallery and accidentally found a painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt “Portrait of a Woman ” stolen 22 years ago from the same gallery.
This is reported by “Snob ”.
The cost of the painting is estimated at 60 million euros.
She was lying wrapped in a bag in a stash.
The canvas was handed over to the police.
Investigators suggest that the kidnappers wanted to return and take the work of art when the hype in the media subsides, but for some reason did not.
The painting was stolen on February 22, 1997 from the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Contemporary Art as preparations for the Klimt exhibition were underway.
“Portrait of a Woman ” was to take a central place in the exhibition.
Klimt painted this picture in 1916-17 as one of the last.
“Portrait of a Woman ” was painted on top of another canvas by the artist, which no one has seen since 1912.
Originally, the canvas depicted a girl from Vienna who died suddenly when the work was ready.
Learning about her death, Klimt was very worried and eventually painted another picture on top of the portrait of the girl.
Earlier in France, a painting by artist Cimabue, found in the kitchen of a pensioner, sold at auction for 24 million euros.
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On vacation for a new body: where do beauty-tourists fly to the best plastic surgeons
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Plastic surgery can radically change not only the appearance of a person, but also the whole life.
After all, many suffer from self-doubt due to complexes about some features of their body.
But where to find the best masters of plastic surgery, so that the procedure is exactly successful?
We already know the answer to this question and are ready to share it with you.
Plastic or injections To begin with, let ’ s deal with one very popular misconception.
Not all changes in appearance are operational.
For example, to enlarge the lips, correct the cheeks or cheekbones, change the shape of the chin and nose, remove wrinkles and various fatty deposits can be with the help of injections.
This is not done by plastic surgeons, but by cosmetologists.
Such "beauty injections" are several times cheaper than operations, they are much less painful and do not require a long time for healing.
And, of course, this pleasure is much cheaper than surgery.
But remember that when choosing a master, it is very important to clarify if he has a medical education and a license.
In any case, do not seek such services in ordinary beauty salons, because any injections and other similar manipulations should be performed only by a doctor with the necessary education.
Where to find the best surgeons So, back to the topic of operations.
If we are still talking not about small corrections of appearance, but about something large (for example, breast augmentation or rhinoplasty, when the nose changes dramatically), you need to find a good surgeon.
Among the people who have been using such services for a long time, a whole thematic tourist movement has appeared.
It's called "beauty tours."
Patients from different countries travel the world to find the best masters of plastics.
It is interesting that many of the destinations for such trips are not so far from Ukraine.
One of the most popular clinics in Turkey are Estetik International and Liv Hospital.
They carry out about 50 types of various operations, from exclusively cosmetic, to recreational and necessary.
Patients receive a single room with three meals a day, constant monitoring of the condition and professional care.
And, of course, the work of certified specialists of the highest class.
Thousands of people come here every year.
Many of them are citizens of Ukraine and the nearest foreign countries.
It is said that many Ukrainian stars go to these clinics.
However, their names are not mentioned for ethical reasons.
In South Korea, the most famous place among plastic lovers is the JK Plastic Surgery Center.
It offers a variety of types of operations, as well as an aesthetic center for rehabilitation and care.
In 2018, the clinic received from patients the title of the best clinic of the year in all of Asia.
Joo Kwon, the founder of JK, has 25 years of experience.
He is also Vice President of the Korean International Medical Association, a member of the Korean Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the Korean Society of Craniofacial Surgeons, the Korean Society of Aesthetic Surgery and the Korean Association of Clinical Plastic Surgery.
Among beauty tourists, the Czech Republic is known for its FORME clinic.
She specializes in breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, liposuction and suspenders.
You can also ask to perform several procedures at once.
Patients are offered package services that include surgery, anesthesia, accommodation, meals, post-operative care and transfer.
The largest number of clients come to this clinic from the United States, Great Britain and Western Europe.
Here one of the best is considered to be the Medical Center Teknon.
According to the clinic, 80 percent of all plastic surgeries in Spain are performed here.
Hollywood stars also often visit this institution.
In 2018, patients and experts named Teknon the best clinic of the year.
There are more than 30 types of operations, and patients are offered wards for every taste and budget - from more budget to luxury apartments.
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Heavenly surprises. How to minimize losses in an unpredictable climate – Agroinvestor
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The problem of weather forecasts is largely due to the vast expanses of our Motherland - weather stations can be located hundreds of kilometers from the fields of farmers, which negatively affects the accuracy of forecasts.
At the same time, the local weather on the field according to the indications of the state weather station remote for 100-150 km may differ significantly from both the predicted and the actual one.
To obtain objective factual data, farms often establish their own private weather stations.
“It can rain all the neighbors, but at the same time bypass your fields.
Its weather station allows you to accurately understand how much moisture a particular field received, ” explains their popularity, the development director of ExactFarming (information technology in agriculture) Yegor Zaikin.
By connecting your own weather station to online forecasting services, it becomes possible to update the short-term forecast for the installation site of such a station and maintain your own local log of weather observations, which means that you can obtain accurate values of such important agronomic parameters as accumulated precipitation and the sum of active temperatures.
Specialized agricultural weather stations, in addition to meteorological parameters, as a rule, allow measuring specific environmental parameters that are not involved in weather forecasting - soil temperature and moisture content, leaf moisture.
Many stations are able to create around themselves entire measuring networks of sensors that allow you to see what is happening on each field individually.
All this is transmitted in real time to any device of the agrarian – modern stations are equipped with SIM cards and can transmit information on-line.
In the middle of the last century, humanity began to make active attempts to influence the climate.
Many countries, in particular the United States and the USSR, conducted research aimed at the formation of clouds and fog, as well as the challenge of artificial precipitation.
Soon, the military became interested in research conducted for peaceful purposes.
The first recorded use of climate weapons in the 20th century can be considered Operation Popeye, which the United States conducted in Vietnam during the war.
In the rainy season (March to November) from 1967 to 1972, silver iodide was dispersed from aircraft in the rain clouds, which provoked precipitation three times higher than normal.
As a result of this operation, the Ho Chi Minh Trail was blurred, along which South Vietnamese guerrillas received weapons and equipment.
However, at a huge cost, and about 5.7 thousand tons of silver iodide was consumed, the effect was quite short-lived and ineffective.
At the initiative of the USSR in 1977, the UN adopted a convention banning the use of any climate weapons, which the United States joined.
Today, studies of the impact on climatic conditions are conducted by several countries of the world, including the United States and Russia.
The most famous objects are the American HAARP, located in Alaska, and the Russian Sura, located near Nizhny Novgorod.
According to some experts, both of these objects are climatic weapons that can change the weather on a global scale.
HAARP (High Frequency Radio Wave Ionospheric Scattering Program) is an American research project to study the interaction of the ionosphere with powerful electromagnetic radiation.
The project was launched in the spring of 1997 in Alaska, located on an area of 13 hectares, the estimated radiation power is from 3.6 to 4.8 MW.
According to the US government, HAARP was completely stopped at the end of 2014.
The facility "Sura", located 150 km from Nizhny Novgorod, has a more modest size and is now not in the best condition.
According to experts, at best, the consequences of the use of climate weapons can affect the aggressor itself, its allies, as well as neighboring neutral states.
At the same time, it is problematic to calculate in advance what the result will be.
In the worst case, the rash use of such technologies can lead to a catastrophe of a global scale.
Numerous meteorological stations, sensors of humidity and soil temperature, which have recently appeared in farmers, can help to survive the heat or floods in farms, says the head of the Center of competence of agrotechnologies GC Softline Grigory Portyankin.
All this technology connected to the Internet and exchanging information is called the Internet of Things (IoT).
“New technologies make it possible to achieve such a level of agriculture, at which the agrarian has the opportunity to apply all the necessary arsenal of equipment and technologies in the current situation at the optimal time for them, ” the specialist explains.
For example, agricultural applications that exist now can give advice on how to fertilize, what technology to choose, and at what time and at what distance to sow the selected crop.
And although they will not be able to give an accurate weather forecast, “smart ” technologies will help to avoid mistakes in agricultural technology and suggest how to minimize the risks from changing the weather.
In addition, agricultural equipment connected to the Internet and satellites, much more accurately introduces fertilizers and sows seeds, which increases the stress resistance of plants.
Imagination painted bananas and mangoes in the south and wheat in the north.
However, the reality turned out to be more prosaic: agriculture, although advanced to the north, but slightly, and in the rest of the country it became impossible to predict the weather.
In addition, droughts and floods have become more frequent, as a result of which a good harvest has become more difficult to obtain.
Nevertheless, as the magazine “Agrotechnics and Technologies ” found out, it is still possible to cope with such weather.
This year, employees of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) were banned from using the term “global warming ”.
Instead, it is recommended to use more neutral phrases like “weather change ”.
This is due to the US withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to prevent global warming.
Indeed, the very fact of climate warming raises doubts among many meteorologists - not only American, but also Russian.
“It is too early to talk about climate change, since we have been professionally observing the weather for only about a hundred years.
But we can say for sure that the duration of cyclones and anticyclones has increased - it can rain for a long time, and then a long dry period will come, "says Egor Berezovsky, head of the Field Experimental Station at the Timiryazev Regional Agricultural Academy.
In fact, there is no escaping the fact: the weather is becoming less predictable, and farmers have to deal with both drought and unprecedented rainfall during one season.
Contrary to popular belief, global warming has not led to the fact that in the north began to grow apple trees and grapes (although experts note a slight shift in agriculture towards the northern latitudes), its consequences are in the unpredictability of the weather and in the constant losses of farms.
But this does not mean that you need to silently suffer losses.
In recent years, agriculture has learned to deal with the effects of climate change and minimize losses from changing weather.
Although most often the influence of human activity on the weather is characterized as "climate warming", in reality there is not warming, but a sharp change in weather.
So, the average air temperature since 1980 has risen by only 1 ° C, and by 2100, according to forecasts, will rise by another 3 ° C.
It would seem that it is not so much.
But in practice, even such a slight warming leads to sharp changes in weather.
“There have never been such frequent severe droughts during the growing season.
At the same time, in the arid zone, they became even stronger, and Europe was in the zone of severe arid phenomena, ” said Nikolai Sukhoi, chairman of the Union of Water Workers and Land Reclamators.
As a result, the amount of rainfall increased.
The rains have become stronger - in a few days the monthly norm falls immediately.
Accordingly, this has resulted in a problem for many old meliorative structures.
“We see an increase in the load on existing facilities.
Many of them require restructuring, ” warns Nikolai Sukhoi.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report does not bode well for warming.
Based on the data of this document, with an increase in the average temperature by 1 − 3 ° C, the yield of some crops in the middle zone may slightly increase, but in general, farmers are waiting for losses.
In hot countries, any increase in temperature will immediately lead to a drop in crop productivity, which will exacerbate the risk of hunger in poor regions.
There is no need to go far for examples of losses from the heat: in 2012, a drought in our country led to a rise in the price of some products by 20%.
In particular, increased the price of buckwheat, which began to sweep off the shelves.
It is not possible to predict sharp changes in the mood of nature in Russia.
Moreover, it is well known that the remote forecast is less accurate.
This opinion is shared by Roshydromet and foreign meteorological organizations that warn about this on their websites.
“Accurate forecasts were always given for a maximum of three days.
With longer term weather forecasts, accuracy drops significantly.
In addition, in principle, we can not predict precipitation, ” says Yegor Berezovsky.
However, the farmers themselves do not hope to get an accurate forecast.
For such a service, rarely anyone pays, and usually farms rely on publicly available free forecasts on sites or look at the weather in applications that are connected to agricultural machinery.
For farmers, the quirks of the weather mean additional costs and crop losses.
Especially bad is that the change of weather began to occur during the agricultural year, when the plants go through the stage of vegetation or ripening.
After all, even mild heat or rain causes stress in plants, which leads to a decrease in yield.
“The climate has become generally more sharply continental: in vegetation periods, prolonged heat is immediately replaced by a flood.
This stress weakens the plants.
The changes affected the course of day and night temperatures, the difference of which already reaches 10 − 15 ° C. Because of this, dew falls on the plants at 4 − 5 o ’ clock in the morning, in which spores of pathogens appear, further leading to epiphytotics, ” explains Elena Sokolova, director of technical expertise at Syngenta.
The heat, of course, has a negative effect on animals.
Everyone knows the so-called season of big milk, which falls on the summer.
At this time, the weather is warm and cows (when walking) are on pastures.
However, heat is good in moderation, because animals do not tolerate heat well.
“With an increase in the temperature of the external environment, they have reduced activity, appetite and sexual desire.
As a result, the cow consumes less feed, her milk yield decreases and the quality of milk (the content of fat and protein decreases).
For animals, this is heat stress, and stress is always accompanied by a decrease in productivity, ” says Alexei Voronin, head of the analytical department of the National Union of Milk Producers (Soyuzmoloko).
By the way, heat negatively affects forage plants, which become less valuable for animals.
In hot weather, the feed loses its juiciness, the expert states.
And yet, over the years of unpredictable weather, agriculture has developed a number of measures that allow you not to depend on the weather forecast, but to work “in fact ”, as in the good old days, when farmers could know exactly whether it would rain today, just looking at the sky.
The most important rule in conditions of unpredictability is not to apply all fertilizers at once.
“It is better to add half of the recommended dose before sowing, and then add it, depending on the situation.
For example, if there was a lot of precipitation, to fertilize less, and if there is little – more, ” advises Yegor Berezovsky.
Further, if the climate in the region is usually arid, it makes sense by leaving stubble to protect the soil from direct sun exposure and thereby prevent moisture loss.
As in the case of fertilizers, there is nothing new and difficult in this - you just need to use a long-known mulch.
“In an arid climate, mulching and direct crops give a good result.
First, mulch creates an additional layer on the soil and thereby obscures it.
Secondly, over time, the mulch rots, forming another layer of soil, earthworms settle in it, which process plant residues and create additional channels, thanks to which moisture is better absorbed into the soil, ” says the head of the export department for Russia Amazone Dr.
Victor Buxman.
This method in the framework of the SASCHA project was tested in the Tyumen region, where it showed a good result.
By the way, as Buxman notes, climate scientists have revealed that in the Tyumen region there is a noticeable shift of agriculture to the north - there were more farms, and began to grow previously not peculiar to the region of culture.
According to Elena Sokolova, plants can be prepared in advance for stress.
For example, this can be achieved by doing architectonics, that is, first of all, to create the optimal ratio of the root and vegetative system, as well as the best ratio of the length of the stem and leaves (this is especially true for cereals).
The correct formation of the root system, the specialist continues, is when both the surface (at a depth of 4 − 5 cm) root system is developed, which helps to survive strong prolonged rains, and the deep (30 − 40 cm or more), which gives the plant the opportunity to survive drought.
“To do this, you can use retardants, ” says Sokolova. – Even in precision agriculture, there are machines that allow you to apply nitrogen fertilizers in rows deep into the soil.
Nitrogen fertilizers in this case stimulate the formation of the root system at depth. ”
In addition, she advises the use of varieties of dwarf or semi-dwarf type.
The fact is that the so-called sucking force (the ability of cells to absorb moisture) in the upper leaves is stronger than in the lower ones, so dwarf plants are less whimsical.
If they are not, you can use retardants that reduce the stretching of cells, thus preventing the growth of plants in height.
There are also special drugs of physiological action that can, for example, accelerate the opening and closing of the stomata, which helps to resist sudden changes in weather (from rain to drought).
Finally, Elena Sokolova recommends a cautious approach to the use of tank mixtures (a cocktail of plant protection products, fertilizers and growth stimulants, which are introduced at a time, thereby reducing costs).
“After them, the plants are often weakened and are not able to effectively resist various stresses.
In addition, herbicides can adversely affect subsequent plants in crop rotation, ” warns the specialist “Syngenty ”.
As for animal husbandry, there, due to the fact that animals are adapted to a certain climate, it will be necessary to apply non-standard approaches.
For example, in the farm "Farm of Growth" (Moscow region) found an unusual solution - built rare for Russia barns made of natural timber.
“Cows are always cool in them because the tree breathes.
In addition, we have loose housing, that is, cows move freely around the room, and do not stand in a stall, as usual.
Thus, animals are comfortable in barns even on hot summer days, ” explains farm specialist Alexandra Pogodina.
But in hot countries on farms it is advisable to install industrial air conditioners.
Of course, this will greatly increase the cost of producing raw milk.
However, it makes sense to do this, otherwise cows may stop giving milk altogether.
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About a hundred graphic works by Klimt and Schiele will be presented at the exhibition of the State Museum of Fine Arts
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MOSCOW, October 2 — RIA Novosti.
About a hundred graphic works of the largest representatives of Austrian art of the early XX century Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele will be presented at the exhibition in the State Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin (GMII), which will open on October 10, the press service of the museum on Monday.
“At the first large-scale exhibition of works by Klimt and Schiele in Russia, about 100 sheets from the collection of the Albertina Museum (Vienna) will be shown – 47 works by Gustav Klimt and 49 by Egon Schiele.
These works belong to different periods of artists' creativity and represent different types of drawing - sketches of figures associated with paintings, portraits, independent sketches of a naked female model, "the museum said.
Gustav Klimt, the main representative of Viennese Art Nouveau, enjoyed a reputation as a phenomenal draftsman, who secured a very special place not only in Austrian, but also in world art.
His drawings influenced the work of younger artists, primarily Egon Schiele, who began his career at a time when Klimt had already reached the pinnacle of his work.
Having mastered the experience of his predecessor, Schiele very early found his own unique style, which marked the transition from modern to expressionism, the report says.
Klimt revolutionized the depiction of nude women.
In a frank interpretation of eroticism, he went much further in his drawings than in painting.
Some studies of this kind arose in connection with the work of Klimt on picturesque compositions, but most of them have an autonomous character.
At the same time, the earliest drawings of Schiele, relating to 1906 (“Self-portrait ”,“ Bust of Voltaire ”), presented in the exhibition, set a starting point for assessing the rapid evolution that his work underwent in subsequent years.
“I think that for many Russian viewers this exhibition will be the opening of new aesthetic horizons.
It will expand the usual ideas about beauty, expressiveness and, perhaps, even the boundaries of what is allowed in art, ” said the curator of the exhibition Vitaly Mishin.
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NASA: When expeditions to the moon and Mars need to set standards for private companies
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NEW YORK, October 17.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in preparation for an expedition to Mars, should set technological standards for commercial companies involved in the project, as well as ensure that none of them have a monopoly on any important components of the equipment.
As reported by NBC, this opinion was expressed at the ended in Las Cruces (New Mexico) international symposium on commercial space flight assistant Director of NASA William Gerstenmaier.
From Gagarin to ExoMars Unified standards, he noted, are necessary, in particular in terms of life support systems.
“It is necessary to maintain the same level of atmospheric pressure and the same composition of the atmosphere in spacecraft, so that everyone can take into account these data, ” he said.
Thus, he noted, private companies will be able to participate in the process of creating and modernizing space technology and cooperate with NASA in the implementation of various projects.
“We don ’ t interfere with how individual companies build their own systems, ” said the assistant director of NASA.
- They can subsequently offer them for commercial use, they can find them other applications.
But NASA ’ s role is to define basic safety and health standards. ”
At the same time, he said, NASA should reserve the development of a common plan for the exploration of the moon and Mars and make sure that no company has a monopoly in any one area of the technical support of the expedition.
“It is important that certain elements are owned by the government so that they can be provided to other representatives of industrial companies, – he stressed. – For example, flights to the moon should be prepared and carried out in accordance with the needs of NASA, and when it comes to the maintenance of equipment used in such expeditions, these issues can be transferred to private companies. ”
At the first stage of such a project, Gerstenmaier stressed, NASA will act as the main customer, but later "we should move away from such a model and see if there is market potential."
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Uzbekistan-Turkey: Is it love?
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) warmly welcomes his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Ankara on October 25.
(Photo: Press Service of the President of Turkey) NEWS / ANALYTICS.
The recent Uzbek-Turkish summit in Ankara resembled a meeting of old friends who had not seen each other for a long time.
“We can see from our eyes how we missed each other during the 20-year break, ” Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said during a joint briefing with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, stressing at the same time that at the talks they“ understood each other not from a word, but without words, from a glance. ”
Mirziyoyev ’ s trip to Ankara at the end of last week took place at the initiative of Erdogan and was the first state visit of the Uzbek president to Turkey in 18 years.
At the joint briefing, the leaders of the two countries were in a good mood.
“We are pleased with the ongoing initiatives in Uzbekistan.
We have instructed all ministries and [non-governmental] organizations to develop full-scale relations with Uzbekistan, ” Erdogan said.
During Mirziyoyev ’ s visit, Uzbek and Turkish companies signed 30 documents worth $3.5 billion.
Agreements have been concluded in a wide variety of industries, including energy, transport, textiles, electronics, construction and agriculture.
The goal, according to the authorities, is to increase bilateral trade from $1.2 billion in 2016 to $3-4 billion in the coming years.
Mirziyoyev set the tone by signing a decree on simplifying the visa regime for Turkish citizens before the flight.
Now Turkish entrepreneurs will be able to obtain visas for a year without an invitation, and the processing time for visa applications will be reduced to three days.
Tourists will be able to get visas for 30 days.
Visa problems have been one of the major obstacles to the development of relations, especially given that citizens of Uzbekistan can travel to Turkey without visas at all.
“The days will come when there will be no visas between our friendly and fraternal peoples.
We will definitely strive for this, ” Mirziyoyev told reporters in Ankara.
The wall of mutual distrust was broken after the death of President Islam Karimov last September.
As a gesture of goodwill, Erdogan visited his grave in Samarkand on November 18, before publicly stating that he wanted to start relations with Uzbekistan from a new leaf.
The history of Uzbek-Turkish relations began very positively.
Turkey was the first state to recognize the independence of Uzbekistan in the last days of 1991.
Just a few days later, Karimov was the first Central Asian leader to pay a visit to Ankara.
“My country will move forward along the Turkish path, ” he said at the time, apparently confirming fears that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, many southern republics will automatically move into the orbit of Turkey, with which they are brought together by common Turkic roots.
Karimov liked the Turkish model because of her secularism, as well as in connection with the possibility of receiving Turkish financial assistance.
In the first year of independence, Turkey provided Uzbekistan with 2 million tons of grain and a loan of $590 million for three years.
But the euphoria soon ended.
When Muhammad Solih, Karimov ’ s opponent and main rival in the 1991 presidential election, fled the country, he first took refuge in Norway and then settled in Turkey, where he escaped criminal prosecution.
Ankara rejected Tashkent ’ s appeals about his deportation, raising suspicions among the Uzbek side that Turkey prefers this pan-Turkic politician to the communist apparatchik Karimov.
Karimov last visited Turkey in 1999.
In 2003, Erdogan, then prime minister, paid a return visit.
Relations completely soured in 2011, when the Uzbek authorities expelled Turkish companies from the country, including the owners of the Turkuaz hypermarket and the Demir supermarket chain.
A year later, Uzbek television aired a critical report claiming that Turkish entrepreneurs evaded taxes and opened illegal factories where workers received extremely low wages and worked in harsh conditions.
In Uzbekistan, even banned Turkish soap operas.
It got to the point that due to the display of Turkish TV series, the Uzbek authorities stopped broadcasting on local cable television of the Russian TV channel Domashny.
“Karimov was very disappointed in Turkey.
Because of the cooled relations with Turkey, even slowed down the transition to the Latin alphabet, ” said political scientist Rafael Sattarov.
- Moreover, the power elite [in Uzbekistan], which squeezed out Turkish investors, added fuel to the fire.
They presented this development as a struggle between various forces seeking to destabilize Uzbekistan.
Turkey took it as a slap in the face. ”
Mirziyoyev ’ s rise to power almost immediately led to a warming in bilateral relations.
Trade turnover with Turkey in the first nine months of 2017 increased by almost a third.
Turkish enterprises registered 20 companies in Uzbekistan, and another 53 received permits to establish local representative offices.
Mirziyoyev also took some preliminary steps to provide compensation to the owners of Turkish Turkuaz and Demir supermarkets.
The contract for the construction of the Tashkent City business center was awarded to the Turkish company Tabanlıoğlu Architects.
Uzbek media again began to talk about Turkey on a regular basis.
One local television station even began broadcasting the popular Turkish soap opera Black Love.
Uzbek media actively covered Mirziyoyev ’ s state visit to Turkey.
When the Uzbek leader watched the military parade traditionally organized as part of state visits, he greeted the soldiers with Turkish words “meraba asker ” (“ my greeting to the soldiers ”).
The video of this moment, which many interpreted as another manifestation of a thaw in relations, became a sensation in Uzbek social networks.
But some analysts are somewhat wary of the thaw, especially as Turkey has gradually lost its secular identity in recent years and gained a more Muslim identity.
“I am personally concerned about the development of relations with Erdogan, as he will use this as an opportunity to promote his religious and political agenda in Uzbekistan.
This may lead to the strengthening of political Islam in Uzbekistan, ” said Pulat Akhunov, an Uzbek political scientist living abroad.
But Sattarov believes that Mirziyoyev has no choice, and he will attract investors from wherever he can.
“Mirziyoyev needs a lot of economic growth to ensure the stability of his regime.
He does not hide the fact that he wants to go down in history as a reformer who significantly increased the standard of living of Uzbeks, ” Sattarov said.
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Foreigners go to Russia to change their appearance
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The President of the Russian Association of Medical Tourism Konstantin Onishchenko announced an increase in the flow of foreigners who came to Russia for medical purposes.
In the first half of 2017, the number of foreign patients exceeded 20 thousand people, and this is a third more than last year.
At the same time, 20% of medical tourists have had plastic surgery in our country.
Most popular were facelift, rhinoplasty and mammoplasty.
About the causes of the phenomenon and prospects for the development of the industry Dni.Ru talked with plastic surgeons.
According to the candidate of medical sciences, plastic surgeon, member of the society The New York Academy of Science Andrey Kovyntsev, 80% of arriving foreign medical tourists are Russian-speaking people – those who do not have a language barrier.
They come thanks to "word of mouth", on the recommendation of people who were satisfied.
“I have not heard of anyone offering organized medical“ tours ” to foreign citizens, providing interpreters, accompanying and supervising such patients.
But this is not a problem in a world where every smartphone has the Internet.
Foreign patients come to us first of all not through advertising posters, but by recommendation.
Based on my own experience, I can say that we first contact via the Internet for a preliminary consultation.
During the first conversation, we discuss desires, options, amount, opportunities, important details.
The patient can also send me photos and ask any questions that concern him, ” Kovyntsev says.
Modern methods of plastic surgery reduce the time of rehabilitation, and yet after surgery, a doctor ’ s supervision is necessary.
“Our doctors and medical staff are trying to help as much as possible and prevent possible complications.
It happens, we correct the mistakes of foreign colleagues, ” says the plastic, maxillofacial surgeon, cosmetologist of the BIOS clinic Lyubov Akrum.
According to her, in the West, the level of plastic surgery is determined by the price.
"Experienced surgeons and exorbitant prices are waiting for the customer of the level of celebrity.
Affordable, budget surgery offers questionable quality.
Therefore, taking into account the exchange rate of the dollar to the ruble and the skill of Russian plastic surgeons in large centers, our country becomes a profitable option, "the expert believes.
Akrum is sure that medical tourists can become even more.
“I think in order to expand the flow of foreigners to Russia, it is worth investing more educational and financial resources in this industry.
At the same time, the medical community should approach the Western mentality in terms of the quality of service and the approach to the patient itself.
After all, we are going to a new level.
Stereotypes are crumbling, and the fact that in Russia there are not only bears, but also medicine, becomes known and obvious to an increasing number of foreigners, which can not but rejoice.
I think this is a good sign for our country.
And if now our state had the opportunity to provide our clinics in accordance with international standards, perhaps we could become competitive.
After all, golden heads and hands in Russia have always been in abundance, ” the surgeon noted.
“Despite the decent level of our specialists and clinics, patients still come to us, rather by accident. – thinks associate professor of the Department of Plastic Surgery of the Faculty of Advanced Training of Medical Workers of RUDN University, head of the Department of Plastic Surgery of the BIOS Clinic Andrei Voroshkevich. – No one is engaged in special advertising of Russian clinics abroad.
In addition, the level of development of our medical institutions is very uneven. ”
The expert believes that for 20 years, Russian surgeons have come to the world level of standards in aesthetic medicine, and a number of clinics and surgeons are not inferior to the world.
Saving on plastic is a real story.
Therefore, the number of foreigners coming from abroad to operate in Russia has increased, and these are mainly our former citizens, who are many abroad.
Patients come to visit relatives for two to three months and do large combined operations.
In this case, the determining factor is the price.
In Russia, they make expensive modern operations for a modest amount, compared with foreign clinics.
It is most advantageous to do large operations, advanced facial plastics using endoscopic technologies.
Abroad it is expensive.
For example, the cost of facelift with SMAS (facelift) in the United States starts from an average of $5,000, we - from $2,000, "Voroshkevich calculated.
Cost savings definitely affect the increase in the flow of patients.
The second important factor is the accumulated experience, practice, good professional level.
According to the observations of surgeons, mainly patients come from Europe: Italy, Spain, France.
In the border areas of foreigners doing plastic, a little more.
Colleagues from Kaliningrad, for example, take many patients from Poland.
As for preferences, young women, as a rule, come for liposuction, prosthetics, correction of the shape of the nose.
After 40 years go for eyelid plastic surgery, endoscopic lifting.
After 50 years come to do facelift and body lift.
Experts expect that medical tourism will continue to develop.
President of the Russian Association of Medical Tourism Konstantin Onishchenko believes that the growth of the market will be about 20% annually.
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Pandora ’ s Box – N.Ya.Azarov and E.Y.Spitsyn in MPGU studio. “Betrayal in power as an important factor in the coup d ’ état ”
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Much more important in life and work are not abilities, but character, not mind, but heart, not genius, but self-control, patience and discipline, subject to sober judgment. – Hemingway Ernest Miller
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Stolen more than 40 years ago painting Aivazovsky found at auction in Switzerland
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The painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, stolen in 1976, was found at auction in Switzerland.
About it reports Lenta.ru with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
“It was reported that on the territory of Switzerland at the auction house KOLLER exhibited a painting by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky“ View of Revel ”, written in 1845 (the original name is “Sea ”), ” — said the official representative of the Department Irina Volk.
She explained that in the course of interaction through the channels of Interpol with Swiss partners, the lot was withdrawn from bidding.
The painting with an estimated value of more than a million dollars was stolen from the collection of the Dmitrov Kremlin Museum-Reserve.
Currently, work is underway to return the work to Russia.
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Pandora ’ s Box – GMO Analysis
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V.A. Dragavtsev Analytical report on the use of GM plants, organisms and products in crop production and possible consequences for agriculture in the case of adoption of Federal Law No. 714809-6.
(Response to the request of the Government of the Leningrad region) 1.
Is GMOs a scientific technology?
It is not, because the most important criterion of science – the ability to accurately predict the results – is not maintained: it is unknown on which chromosome the transgene will “sit ”, whether it will fall between genes or inside any gene.
It is not known what the “position effect ” of the transgene will be (which genes of the host will be its neighbors), and the manifestation of the transgene in the phenotype of the transgenic plant depends on this, i.e. nothing can be predicted.
All the genes of a normal plant are subject to the "locks of correlations" of the whole organism.
Transgene - does not obey the commands of ontogenetic development.
It works always and everywhere - in all organs and tissues of the plant, i.e.
behaves like a cancer cell, which, having come out of the subordination of the whole organism, begins to divide unrestrained and forms a tumor and metastases that lead the organism to death.
Is “genetic engineering ” really engineering?
It is not, since engineers who design a bicycle or a T-50 fighter plane use specific holes, bolts and nuts when attaching parts, and "genetic engineers" shoot at the cell with gold particles with a "stuck" transgene to them, which is unknown where it will go and how it will work.
"Genetic engineering" is more similar to the story of Baron Munhausen, when, in the absence of a buckshot, he loaded a gun with cherry stones, shot a deer, and 3 years later met a deer in the forest, whose back grew a cherry tree with fruit.
Can “genetic engineering ” increase crop yields?
It can not, since the signs of productivity are determined by dozens or even hundreds of genes (polygens), and “gene engineers ” can work only with single“ large ” genes of G. Mendel. Acad.
In Soviet times, Baev described “genetic engineering ” as an overhyped approach, too unpredictable, and possibly dangerous.
And it is not very necessary, because today we have new breeding technologies that, due to the control of the “genotype-environment interaction ”, can raise yields by 70-90% without any“ genetic engineering ”.
Can GM plants be cost effective?
Can, like, for example, transgenic soybeans, cotton and corn, but at what cost?
The field is filled with the herbicide Roundup (a relative of the “orange ” with which US aircraft watered the jungles of Vietnam to destroy Vietnamese patriots), and then transgenic soybeans resistant to Roundup are sown.
The first 3 years are a powerful economic effect, but then the weeds cease to die from roundup (more stable forms arise), farmers are forced to increase the consumption of roundup, and this is a lot of money.
Monsanto gained control of 95% of the transgenic cotton seed market in India in 10 years, as a result, prices for seeds and processing technology increased by 8000%.
As a result, 250,000 cotton farmers in India committed suicide.
GMOs as weapons of biological warfare and terrorist acts.
Monsanto alone pours more than 115 million tons of roundup into the Earth ’ s fields every year, killing earthworms and other beneficial animals and bacteria.
It earns about $15 billion a year, and is able to form any lobbyist groups that advocate for free access to GMOs in Russia.
Professor W. Barry (USA) writes: “Genetic engineering is a useless science, the purpose of which is to develop and promote a product on a political level, so it is made by people with personal interests, people greedy.
Their ultimate goal is to ensure that all farmers are dependent on corporations for everything. ”
Recently, the United States promised to give Ukraine a $17 billion loan if Ukraine sells or leases to Monsanto the best black soil for growing GM plants and selling GM products to Europe and other countries.
This is a real diversion against the Russian Federation, since transgenic pollen does not fly 100 m, as Monsanto experts say, but tens and even hundreds of kilometers (many Siberian larch pollen from Chukotka is found in the ice of Antarctica), which, with the predominance of western winds in the south of the Russian Federation, can infect all zoned varieties of cross-pollinated plants of the Russian Federation with American transgenes.
But the main danger from herbicide-resistant transgenic varieties is the gradual overgrowing of arable land in Russia with herbicide-resistant weeds, which will completely destroy the plant growing of the Russian Federation in the future.
More information on the negative effects of GMOs: 1.
Consolidated report of public organizations and independent experts.
The situation in the use of genetically modified organisms: false promises, failed technologies.
Moscow, 2012. 100 pp.
Collective monograph written by employees of organizations: Social movements "Navdanya" and "Navdanya International" (India), International Commission on the Future Development of Food and Agricultural Systems (FAO, Rome), Center for Food Security USA.
William F. Engdahl.
The book “Seeds of Destruction – the Secret Background of Genetic Manipulation ”, Moscow, 2015.
Publishing house "SELADO", 335 page 2.
Collective letter to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev about the dangers of GMOs.
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Interpretation of Classics
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If on the street you come across nose to nose with the Austrian photographer Inge Prader (INGE PRADER), you are unlikely to recognize her.
Say only the duty “hello ”, and, without turning around, run further on your business.
Indeed, in the image of Prader there is nothing memorable.
Short blond hair in the color of classic platinum, neatly combed back, round glasses, giving her face comic notes, an ordinary jacket in the style of casual, but worn jeans.
That, it would seem, is all.
But not for her clients.
Prader ’ s creativity is well in demand in the world of advertising.
She collaborates with MILKA, the Vienna Technical Museum.
Her original photos are featured on the booklets HOTEL IMPERIAL, WOLFGANG JOOP PARFUM, the website of the famous gourmet uniform store MEINL AM GRABEN.
Every day, more and more customers are coming.
Their long list can be found on the page of the photographer.
The work of Inge is also laid out there.
But not only those that were made specifically for buyers.
The Austrian woman tries to carve out time and create her own works.
No censors or bills.
Her photographs are a complete time machine.
With the click of the camera shutter, viewers are instantly transported to the Baroque, Rococo era and witness lush costumed balls.
Here, in anticipation of the cavaliers, one after another, young representatives of noble families line up in a row.
They then squat with a shy smile, then gracefully lift up, straightening the camp, then thoughtfully looking into the distance.
There are gorgeous dresses of all kinds on the tzemannitsy.
Here you can see the wide maxi U-shaped, decorated with marvelous flowers.
Also attract the attention of lush dresses on the knee.
They are richly embroidered with satin and matte ribbons.
On the heads of girls high powdered wigs, colorful feathers or flirty hats.
After a second, a completely different era appears before the eyes - muscular strong men, dressed in heavy armor or without it at all.
Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and this is exactly them, in the view of Prader - a wild combination of wealth and injustice.
From here, two contrasting colors - blood-red and hunky-gold.
However, the photographer does not want to completely plunge into the era of antiquity deep.
Therefore, almost every picture contains modern accessories.
For example, the legs of models are neatly dressed in platform shoes or ordinary sandals with a low heel.
Hairstyles are sometimes just like the punk style.
In other words, the Austrian clears an endless field for fantasies and imagination, allowing the contemplator to dream and independently think of the plot.
There is a lot of theatricality in my works, ” admits Inge Prader.
I don ’ t want to completely recreate the era.
I just play with time.
And I have to admit, I love it so much!
I feel like a real creator with a capital letter.
I will reveal a tiny secret: I create costumes and scenery with my own hands.
To this end, I look through a lot of literature, talking to fashion designers.
My friends help me with makeup.
Then a lot of effort goes into the collection of schedules.
But I think the end justifies the means.
In 2015, one of the charitable foundations asked Inge Prader to help raise money for people with AIDS.
For the announced action, the photographer decided to carry out an unusual flash mob.
The Austrian undertook to “rewrite ” the paintings of the greatest artist Gustav Klimt (Gustav Klimt).
The fact that Inge would choose him was quite predictable.
For Austria, the master is a true standard of painting and an icon of style.
His works have long been a visiting card of the country.
They are actively used in the design of souvenirs.
From primitive plastic magnets to chic expensive umbrellas and chiffon scarves.
Klimt ’ s canvases are often found on the windows of buses or on the canvas of an advertising banner.
The native of Bohemia hardly counted on such a deafening glory.
The second child in the family, he learned to draw early.
At first he sketched the house under the guidance of his jeweler father.
And later entered the art school at the Austrian Museum of Art.
There, the maestro zealously studied the painting of architecture.
And a few years after graduating from a prestigious institution, he painted the theaters in Rijeka and Karlovy Vary with frescoes.
For his fruitful work, Klimt even received an honorary award - the "Golden Cross" from the then Emperor Franz Joseph.
In 1897, the artist opens the "Vienna Secession" - a society without a special doctrine, which included representatives of realism, naturalism and symbolism.
The purpose of the organization was to hold exhibitions and promote young avant-garde artists.
The government supported the idea and leased a piece of land on which it was planned to build an exhibition center.
Klimt himself is fond of the landscape.
On Lake Attersee, he spends more than one day, developing sketches for his future paintings.
From natural puzzles, the master makes his personal mosaic, where orchards, birch groves, carpets of multicolored wildflowers serve as an ornament.
I'm an artist.
An artist who writes every day from morning to evening.
Figures, landscapes, portraits from time to time.
I'm not good enough at the word to take up the story of my work...
If you really want to know more about me as an artist, take a closer look at my paintings, ” Klimt writes in his diary.
And then there will be Italy...
The modernist will enthusiastically consider to the smallest detail the symbolism of the buildings of Venice and Ravenna.
So there will be the most famous period of the painter – the golden one.
It was he who promised to interpret Inge Prader in his own way.
One of the most significant works of the golden direction is considered to be the cycle "Beethoven frieze", dedicated to the ninth symphony of Beethoven.
The panels were presented to the public in 1902 and were placed on three walls at once.
Which, in fact, is not surprising: the length of the canvas was thirty-four meters, and the height of two!
They depicted the struggle between good and evil.
The central composition was called “Hostile forces ”.
Its main character is Typhon - an ancient Greek giant, born of the goddess of the Earth Gaia and the god of the dark abyss Tartarus.
The terrible giant in the form of a gorilla is surrounded on one side by gorgons - symbols of death, madness, disease.
On the other hand, women personifying lust and voluptuousness.
Klimt has many ornate lines, smoothly intertwining one with another.
The Prader variant is more direct.
To the already existing characters, she added new ones - men with smeared faces and sloped hair.
They stand with their mouths open, as if singing with a full voice shamanic motifs.
The tone of the Austrian woman chose a little brighter.
They feel the power of fire, clashed with viciousness.
In another painting, Danae, the master recreated the ancient Greek myth of how the king Acrisius was prophesied that he would die at the hands of his own grandson.
Fearing a terrible death, Vladyka put his daughter Danaia in an underground tower.
But prison did not protect us from the prophecy.
Zeus himself fell in love with the girl.
On Klimt ’ s canvas, a young lady was forgotten in sweet dreams, surrounded by a golden rain – a product of the creator of heaven and thunder.
A modern reading from an Austrian photographer sets an even greater emphasis on the brilliance of the precious metal.
Inge has it all over the place.
From this alloy, clothes of Danai of the 21st century were created, as well as a blanket on which, curled up, the heroine lies.
The main god of Olympus is presented in the form of coins falling in abundance from somewhere above.
“It seems to me that in Danae Klimt expressed his personal feelings, – says the Austrian. – If you look closely at the canvas, it is impossible to find any unnecessary detail.
Everything is concise and accurate.
The proportions are deliberately distorted.
It makes a girl more attractive.
It also distanced itself from the viewer.
In my version, I did not play with proportionality, deciding to leave everything as it is. ”
Another canvas that did not escape Prader ’ s tenacious gaze is called “Death and Life ”.
Klimt literally built it on allegorical motives.
Death is shown as a sluggish solitary figure with a bare skull instead of a face.
Life, on the contrary, is filled with multiple outlines of men and women who embrace each other.
In their hands they gently hold the baby - a new sprout, a continuation of the genus.
Inge Prader decided to dilute the inequality and added a fallen angel to the death.
He froze with his shoulders down.
His black wings hung lifelessly down.
The forehead is covered with a dark wreath from which the veil falls.
This is a kind of personification of human vices.
Although the photographer believes that the interpretation can be absolutely any.
To criticize her creations, she is always ready and happy to hear other people ’ s opinions.
Inge is sure that a different point of view is always useful and can lead to the creation of new works.
They may one day become masterpieces of the highest brand.
Photographer 's website: http: / / prader.at
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Shadrin compared himself with Putin and said that he will not leave until he decides.
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Director of the Central Park Shadrin compared himself with Putin and said that he will not leave until he decides the Director of the Mayakovsky Central Park, Deputy of the city Duma of Yekaterinburg Roman Shadrin, as promised, held another live broadcast on Instagram, answering questions from readers.
However, the former military and current deputy preferred to bypass uncomfortable topics or answered ambiguously.
But it became clear that in the near future Shadrin will not leave his post, despite the collected thousands of votes in favor of his resignation: “For Putin, too, signatures collect and what? ” – parted the Director of the Park of culture, adding that he will write a statement about leaving when he decides.
Roman Shadrin, as well as the last time, organized a live broadcast on the page of the Central Park of Culture and Culture on Instagram.
Communication with subscribers lasted exactly 30 minutes.
Despite promises to answer honestly, Shadrin repeatedly tried to evade uncomfortable questions - for example, about how he got to this position, whether he is going to resign, whether rumors about his dismissal are true.
He said the questions were “incorrect. ”
But under the pressure of some users who reproached Shadrin for cheating, he still answered a question that worries many residents of Yekaterinburg: at the moment, the director of the Central Park is not planning to write a statement about leaving.
When asked whether Shadrin was embarrassed by the fact that the residents of Yekaterinburg had already gathered more than 3,800 votes against him, the director replied: “3,800 people, not even a person, but electronic signatures, and I have not seen people alive.
There are 1.5 million people living in Yekaterinburg.
That's a very small fraction.
For Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich is also periodically collected signatures and what? ” – said Roman Shadrin, later trying to justify that he did not compare himself with the President of Russia, but only drew an analogy.
On the question “Who is protecting you in the city administration? ” (recall, earlier the director said that he was offered several MUPs) Shadrin laughed and remembered Chernomyrdin:“ Do you want me to do as Chernomyrdin? Nope.
I don't have a roof.
You have some kind of thieves' idea.
Maybe someone from the area is squeezing? ”
Shadrin also responded to complaints related to the poor development of the park.
To all such attacks, he countered that there is little funding and the park ’ s employees are doing everything possible in these financial conditions.
"The park together with the budget earned 100 million rubles, of which 92 went to pay for utilities, pay for employees and security," Shadrin said.
At the same time, Shadrin admitted that the Mayakovsky Central Park was stuck far in the 1990s, but allegedly compared to the parks in neighboring cities in Yekaterinburg, everything is not so bad.
When asked if Shadrin was in at least one modern park in European cities, the director of the culture park said that no, he was not very long ago.
We add that although Roman Shadrin frankly and did not brag to the viewers of the live broadcast, but repeatedly made it clear that the word in the pocket will not fit.
To persistent requests to answer uncomfortable questions and reproaches of deceived expectations, Shadrin said that it is easy to be brave, hiding behind a nickname on Instagram.
Brave he invited to a personal meeting to discuss all the claims face to face.
“If you want to be rude, don ’ t hide behind nicknames like that.
Come here, eye to eye, we will decide everything, ” Shadrin said for the first time.
“Let ’ s not be rude.
I'm not going to get a word in my pocket either.
Given my age, position, past regalia, I will not allow anyone to discredit their honor and dignity.
If you have any questions, come to visit, ” the deputy said again later.
Video with the loudest statements of Roman Shadrin will appear on our channel in the near future.
Ekaterinburg, information service RIA "New Day" Ekaterinburg.
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The problem of yard parking in the hands of Kerchan
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The problem of yard parking in the hands of KerchINFO readers are interested in the organization of parking in the adjacent territories.
An example was the residents of the house No1 on Karl Marx Street, who at their own expense organized a parking lot in their yard.
Recall that this courtyard area is landscaped within the framework of the program “Formation of a modern urban environment ”.
Earlier, we wrote about the fact that the residents of this house offered to equip a parking lot at their own expense, then the deputy head of the executive committee Yevgeny ADAMENKO, specified that if the residents of Kerch do not have time to organize in time, another playground will be placed in the yard.
Read: In the Kerch yards install "floating hatches" However, the tenants still had time.
According to KerchINFO, the head of the Housing and Communal Services Department Vyacheslav KARPOV, parking has already appeared in the yard: “The owners of the common vote came to the conclusion that there should be a parking lot on their adjacent territory.
Having coordinated this decision with the Administration, the tenants organized parking at their own expense. ”
The specialist noted that residents of other houses, the yards of which are not included in the program, can also organize parking on their adjacent territory, having previously negotiated all the conditions with the Kerch Department of Housing and Communal Services.
Kerch residents living on the Industrial Highway No1, also intend to undertake the improvement of their yard.
According to one of the residents, they have already discussed the possibility of installing a parking lot in the yard (since the yard is a pass): “We wanted to make a“ pocket ” for 15 cars, a green zone with flowers behind the pocket, etc.
Everything at your own expense. ”
Now, with their initiative, residents will apply to the Housing and Public Utilities Administration, although after the New Year.
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Refugee ’ s story: Turkish university job ends with accusations of supporting terrorism
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Mehmet (name changed) is a Turk who was brought to Latvia by business activities.
However, with the beginning of the regime ’ s repression, a return to Turkey is no longer possible.
“Working in the field of education was the reason why I came to Latvia and stayed here, ” he says.
While he was here, the Turkish government launched a “political purge ” against the Gülen or Hizmet movement and other similar groups that promoted education locally and internationally and were also critical of Erdogan ’ s government.
The leader of the Gulen movement is the Turkish preacher M. Fethullah Gulen, who has been living in the United States since the late 1990s.
About a million people belong to the movement, and it owns schools, businesses and banks in Turkey and around the world.
The Turkish government blames Gülen and his followers for the July 15, 2016 coup attempt.
Gulen denies this and calls the events of last year a “coup ”, with which Erdogan tried to concentrate power in his hands.
EU anti-terror coordinator Gilles de Kerchove said this week that the EU does not consider the Gülen movement a terrorist organization, and "significant" evidence is needed to change that view.
Mehmet believes that the persecution of the movement began in order to write off the sins of the Turkish government - corruption scandals and even cooperation with terrorist organizations.
“We had to find the culprit, ” he says.
Mehmet graduated in Turkey as a mechanical engineer.
He considers education to be a great value, and so does the Gülen movement.
"The three pillars - the fight against poverty, the fight against ignorance and the fight against war" - this is how Mehmet characterizes the movement, which he has supported since the 90s.
The remedy for ignorance is, of course, education.
Following this ideal, Mehmet works in the field of education outside of Turkey.
“The reason I stayed here is because the current Turkish government, led by Erdogan, has started to persecute such movements, especially Hizmet.
Erdogan declared him a terrorist organization, and all his followers were terrorists, ” Mehmet said.
“People who create intercultural dialogue or educational organizations in Turkey and abroad are persecuted, arrested, detained.
So [the family] decided to stay here, because it is not safe to return. ”
Mehmet worked for several years in the organization of a Turkish university.
Government repression began against an educational institution supported by the Gülen movement.
As a result, a criminal case has been opened against Mehmet in his homeland and a travel ban has been applied - thus, if Mehmet returns to Turkey legally, he will no longer be able to leave it.
Mehmet says that in Turkey, such criminal charges have been brought against thousands of people - including many members of the academic community.
Many of them left Turkey, and those who did not have time, went to prison.
Persecution does not always end with crossing the border of Turkey.
When Mehmet was already in Latvia, a Turkish news agency republished a newspaper article with his photo - as a "target of persecution", again pointing to his connection with the Gülen movement.
Threats were also received from “trolls ” on Twitter, as Mehmet reported to the Security Police of Latvia and other structures.
Mehmet and his family were advised to ask for refugee status in Latvia.
The situation in Turkey is unfavorable not only to the followers of Hizmet and other movements, but also to women whose rights are not respected, and even to young children - now there are about 700 babies in Turkish prisons who are there with their imprisoned mothers, Mehmet said.
The judiciary is also influenced.
“The legislature is in great danger.
It doesn ’ t work, ” he says.
“It doesn ’ t allow us to come back and defend our rights. ”
Mehmet ’ s parents and brothers remained in Turkey.
He is worried that the persecution of his family may begin in order to secure his return to his homeland.
However, in Latvia, he is not worried about his security – as an EU member state, the risk is “very low ”.
Mehmet and his family live in the capital.
“We think that Riga is a good place to live, it is a good environment.
It ’ s a safe and good place for my wife and children, ” he says.
“We are friends with our neighbors.
We want to show people around the world that people can get along with each other despite the fact that they represent different cultures and have different views. ”
A safe and honest attitude on the part of the authorities is one of the main arguments why Mehmet ’ s family wants to stay in Latvia and then if the situation in Turkey changes.
However, he does not have high hopes for this.
For the situation in the homeland to improve, three things are needed - free media, education and an independent judiciary.
“In the near future in Turkey, I do not see this, since now more than 100 journalists are behind bars and waiting for trial, some have been imprisoned for ten or twenty years.
Most do not belong to any movement, they just pointed out something that is wrong, criticized the ruling party, ” Mehmet said.
“The same thing is happening in education and justice.
There were media that supported the government, and there were those that did not.
There's nothing like that now.
If a journalist says a word about Erdogan, a criminal case or a prison sentence will not take him long. ”
“It ’ s the same with the judges – if they don ’ t decide in favor of the government, they are accused of supporting some movement and start a case against them, ” Mehmet points out.
No one believes the court anymore.
Hundreds of schools and universities have been closed, many of them prestigious and popular, where the political elite of Turkey and their children studied.
Former teachers and teachers are looking for ways to leave the countries, and this is a great loss.
The remaining schools are overcrowded, there are not enough teachers, many children do not attend school at all.
For this reason, Turkey ’ s education system is on the verge of collapse, Mehmet said.
It will take a long time to rebuild what has been destroyed in recent years.
“We need to look at which countries Turkey is now getting closer to – if Russia and Iran, then the situation does not look encouraging, ” he said.
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The construction of the ITER fusion reactor has overcome half the way to its completion » DailyTechInfo
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Thermonuclear fusion reactions are an ideal solution to the ever-increasing energy needs of mankind, they can ensure the production of unlimited amounts of energy without harmful emissions into the environment and without the formation of highly toxic radioactive waste.
Unfortunately, scientists have not yet managed to create a fully functioning fusion reactor, despite a lot of efforts being made in this direction.
One such effort is the international ITER project, a huge experimental tokamak reactor currently under construction in southern France.
The first experiments at this reactor should be carried out in 2025, and recently representatives of contractors reported that the construction of the reactor is completed by 50 percent, and this is quite consistent with the completion date planned for 2021.
The project is funded by seven participants, mainly the European Union, with relatively small investments from the US, India, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea.
Construction began in 2013, but a series of delays led to a shift in the timing of the completion of construction.
At the same time, the price tag of the project, which has already been spent 22 billion US dollars.During the first experiments, which, as mentioned above, will begin in 2025, the ITER reactor will produce hydrogen fusion reactions, i.e., in fact, copy the processes occurring in the depths of the Sun and in the epicenters of thermonuclear explosions.
The nuclei of deuterium and tritium will combine and merge into one helium nucleus.
At the same time, a large amount of energy will be released, which will be absorbed by the walls of the reactor chamber, which will lead to their heating to a high temperature.
The ITER reactor will not produce electrical energy, it will be used only for research and development of technologies for initiating and maintaining fusion reactions.
This method of generating electricity has long been used in thermal and nuclear power plants, but thermonuclear power plants will differ in that as a result of their operation there will be no harmful by-products and they will be safer than conventional nuclear power plants.
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Thermosyad: how to extract the energy of stars on Earth
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MOSCOW, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti, Tatiana Pichugina.
The world ’ s largest experimental thermonuclear reactor ITER is half built, said theoretical physicist Bernard Bigot (Bernard Bigot), the general director of the project.
Tests with hydrogen plasma are scheduled to begin in December 2025.
The assumption that helium from hydrogen is synthesized in the depths of stars was first made in 1920 by the British physicist Arthur Eddington.
It is now known that a cascade of reactions takes place in the stars, leading to thermonuclear fusion, as a result of which a large amount of energy is released.
Launching a thermo-poison on Earth is a long-standing dream of mankind.
The problem, however, is that maintaining fusion requires too much energy and careful selection of conditions, otherwise it fades quickly.
Closest to the solution of the controlled thermonuclear came Soviet physicists, who invented to control it "toroidal chamber with magnetic coils."
From the initial syllables of this expression was born the term "tokamak", which is now used all over the world.
As a fuel, heavy isotopes of hydrogen — deuterium and tritium — are injected into the chamber, and then a gas discharge is given to tear electrons away from them.
Ionized, plasma-converted mixture is heated to 150 million degrees Celsius, which is ten times the temperature inside the Sun.
In the hot plasma, the nuclei of deuterium and tritium give rise to helium nuclei.
This reaction is accompanied by the emission of fast neutrons.
Their energy, given to any coolant, such as water, can serve to generate heat and electricity, as in a thermal power plant or nuclear power plant.
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev announced to the world community the idea of building a new generation fusion reactor.
It took a long time before the ITER project – International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor – was launched.
It was decided to implement it in the south of France, near Marseille, at the nuclear research center in the city of Cadarache.
In 2006, the construction of a huge installation with a height of nine-storey house began.
In the first stage, the tokamak will work on hydrogen, then on deuterium to test the modes.
Then deuterium-tritium fuel will be used, with the help of which a thermonuclear reaction will be launched.
The reactor is planned to be turned on in the "kettle" mode, sessions of 300 seconds, then run continuously.
The fast neutrons produced as a result of the thermonuclear reaction will heat the water in blankets - special modules with which the tokamak is laid out inside.
Hot water is then poured into the pools, where it just cools down.
The reactor will not power the network, because it is experimental.
© RIA Novosti / Alina Polyanina Powerful electromagnetic fields hold the hot plasma in the tokamak © RIA Novosti / Alina Polyanina Powerful electromagnetic fields hold the hot plasma in the tokamak We invest brains and equipment On the scale of tasks and costs ITER is compared with space programs and the Large Hadron Collider.
It is being built by 35 countries, of which seven, including Russia, make the largest contribution, and they own all the scientific and technological results of the project on an equal footing.
The cost of the installation is estimated at 20 billion euros, most of which is offset in the form of equipment supplies.
© Photo: ITER Galette for toroidal coil of magnetic field PF-1, made in St. Petersburg © Photo: ITER Galette for toroidal coil of magnetic field PF-1, made in St. Petersburg This year Russia supplied the first of the 23-ton nozzles for the vacuum chamber, told RIA Novosti Anatoly Krasilnikov, Director of ITER Center.
At the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard in St. Petersburg, the fifth galley for a toroidal magnetic field coil was manufactured.
In total, eight biscuits are needed, of which a 300-ton module will be assembled by 2021 and a tokamak will be installed at the top.
According to Krasilnikov, in the outgoing year, Russia delivered several batches of switching equipment.
Now in Kadarash unload the last machine with devices.
Our country will continue to supply pipes and switching equipment next year.
In the past, Russian specialists have manufactured and shipped many parts for ITER, including superconductors for coils.
“ITER is a very complex construction.
All its systems are unique because they are created for the first time, ” Krasilnikov explained.
In his opinion, there are no fundamental obstacles to the implementation of the project, as for technological and scientific problems, they are solved.
For example, Russian scientists are working on the problem of plasma disruptions - this is the phenomenon of sharp cooling of fuel and its splash on the reactor wall, which can cause it to suffer and even melt.
This threatens to stop the tokamak for many months for repairs.
"There are signs by which physicists recognize that a breakdown is being prepared in the plasma.
A method for predicting disruptions and preventing them is under development.
Scientists from the Kurchatov Institute are calculating models of different disruptions and impacts on them to mitigate.
The task is to stretch the breakdown of the plasma in time and spread over the area to extinguish, ” said Anatoly Krasilnikov.
It is assumed that in the operating mode, the installation will give 500 megawatts of energy.
That's five times as much as she consumes.
If ITER proves to be effective, it will launch the commercial fusion reactor DEMO in 2040.
Enthusiasts of thermonuclear energy note its environmental advantages compared to traditional and nuclear.
Tokamak does not pollute the environment with carbon dioxide, is not dangerous from the point of view of radiation, on the contrary, it can be used to dispose of spent nuclear fuel.
And yet it will not be a source of cheap energy, at least as long as we have large reserves of fossil fuels at our disposal.
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In China, the world's largest amphibious aircraft began its first test flight
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The world's largest Chinese amphibious aircraft AG600, designed to extinguish fires, on Sunday began the first test flight, broadcast take-off was led by CCTV, RIA Novosti reports.
The plane took off from Zhuhai airport in southern Guangdong province at 09.40 local time.
It is expected that the flight will last about an hour, its maximum height will be 3 thousand kilometers.
The aircraft is accompanied by another aircraft, which is a team of technical staff.
China completed the assembly of the AG600 in July last year.
The plane came off the assembly line in Zhuhai city.
The aircraft is the largest among samples of such equipment not only in China, but also in the world.
It is designed to extinguish fires and carry out rescue operations on the water.
In addition, the AG600 can be equipped with additional equipment for monitoring the marine environment, passenger and cargo transportation, as well as field exploration.
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How Moscow innovators help implement national projects
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By 2024, the goals set for 12 national projects should be achieved in Russia.
What is the contribution of capital innovators to the implementation of key areas of the federal scale?
National projects of the federal scale were adopted in 2018 and are designed for the period 2019-2024.
They are divided into three areas: “Human capital ”,“ Comfortable environment for life ” and “Economic growth ”.
Directions, in turn, are divided into specific projects.
Thus, "Human capital" consists of "Health", "Education", "Demography" and "Culture".
The "Comfortable environment for life" includes the projects "Safe and high-quality roads", "Housing and urban environment", as well as "Ecology".
Finally, "Economic growth" is divided into the projects "Science", "Small and medium-sized enterprises and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative", "Digital economy", "Labour productivity and employment support", "International cooperation and export" and "Comprehensive plan for the modernization and expansion of trunk infrastructure".
The participants of the innovation ecosystem of Moscow are already working on their implementation.
According to Timur Bronitsky, Director of the Department of Monitoring, Analysis and Forecast of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Moscow accounts for a third of the country ’ s total domestic spending on research and development.
This potential should be used in the framework of all the main activities for the implementation of the national project "Science", he said.
“Innovations are impossible without scientists, including very young and yet unknown, are impossible without the interaction of large industrialists with universities and microcompanies, whose own resources are limited, ” confirms the head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of Moscow Alexei Fursin.
However, innovators of the capital are not limited to "Science" alone.
According to Deputy Director of the Department of Strategic Development and Innovations of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Nikita Ponomarenko, the participants of the innovation ecosystem will become a driver of increasing exports of high-tech products and increasing labor productivity - and these are significant parts of the relevant national projects.
Also, he believes, such companies will help to implement the national project “Digital economy ”.
"Innovations are impossible without scientists, including very young and yet unknown, impossible without the interaction of large industrialists with universities and microcompanies, which have their own resources are limited," - the head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of Moscow Many innovators are now engaged in developments in the field of health care.
For example, the company "Generium" has launched the first in the country, specializing in regenerative technologies, which is licensed under the new rules for conducting clinical trials of biomedical cell products.
The technology will scale cartilage tissue to treat joint injuries and osteoarthritis.
The same company created the first biosimilar of the most expensive drug in the world.
And with a number of drugs, Generium is exported: some drugs have already been registered in a number of countries in Latin America and the Middle East.
As for the national project “Small and medium entrepreneurship and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative ”, the participants of the innovation ecosystem show noticeable results.
Among the goals that are expected to be achieved in this area by 2024 are the creation of a digital platform focused on supporting the production and sales activities of businessmen, the creation of a system of acceleration of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as the modernization of the support system for exporters and the growth of their share (among SMEs) in the total volume of non-resource exports to at least 10%.
A number of activities are already under way.
Accelerators allow technology companies in promising industries to scale and enter global markets.
With the help of Internet services, you can find partners, product suppliers or customers; quickly get the required support measures (including subsidies for the engineering of production processes or access to sites for piloting innovative products); present your products on the marketplace or sell products of intellectual activity.
Alexey Gusev, Innovation Ecosystem Development Director, RVC: Alexey Gusev, Innovation Ecosystem Development Director, RVC.
When I first heard about the plans of the Moscow government to create an innovation cluster in 2018, my first thought was something like this: “What defiant old-fashioned, why call it a cluster?
It is no longer a modern concept. ”
Indeed, in public administration, as in other areas, there is its own changing fashion.
The fashion of how to lay a theoretical basis for practical solutions.
And the term "cluster" survived its peak in popularity in the first half of the 2010s, when the Ministry of Economic Development launched several programs to support various clusters.
Several years have passed, the federal money for the support of clusters has ended, and the term itself has occurred, to put it scientifically, "proliferation".
And to put it simply, the concept was boring, sounded at every forum and discussion, not necessarily on the case.
There was a temporary rejection, and now within the framework of the federal scientific and technological policy it is not very customary to remember about clusters.
Although the centers of cluster development, founded then in the regions, still exist, and face the need to rethink their purpose.
“If my first thought in 2018 was ‘ Why cluster? ’, then my second thought was ‘ Finally! ’ ”
Because such a format has long been brewing, and required only the correct regulatory and administrative design, "- Alexey Gusev, Director for the Development of the Innovation Ecosystem of RVC JSC, Moreover, the clusters themselves continue to exist - spatial and sectoral points of concentration of economic activity.
The real sector of the economy does not depend on terminological fashion.
And here I would like to return to the Moscow cluster.
If my first thought in 2018 was “Why cluster? ”, then my second thought was“ Finally! ”
Because such a format has long been brewing, and required only the correct regulatory and administrative design.
The creation of the Moscow Innovation Cluster is an attempt to collect all the best that is available today in the Moscow innovation infrastructure and formalize it into a single system.
The traditional "pain" of federal development institutions is that different measures to support technology and innovation are designed in different departments of a large state organism.
As a result, they often duplicate each other, and sometimes even contradict each other.
It is absolutely logical that it is at the regional level (and in this case Moscow acts as a subject of the federation) that an attempt is made to “link ” various support measures among themselves in a“ single window ”.
Separately, I think it is very correct that the mechanisms of the Moscow innovation cluster are immediately trying to translate into a digital platform.
Creating such a platform is a priori a task for the city as a whole, because individually the cluster participants themselves would not be able to create such an infrastructure.
“It is logical that it is at the regional level (Moscow as a subject of the federation) that an attempt is being made to“ link ” various support measures into a “single window ”.
Separately, I think it is very correct that the mechanisms of the cluster are immediately trying to translate into a digital platform.
Creating such a platform is a priori a task for the city as a whole, because individually the cluster participants themselves would not be able to create such an infrastructure, "- Alexey Gusev, Director for the Development of the Innovation Ecosystem of RVC JSC When in 2014 the Russian Venture Company actively participated in the cluster program of the Ministry of Economic Development, the task of creating the so-called" management dashboard "was often discussed.
Such a data visualization tool, where program curators from the ministry could, like airplane pilots or power plant operators, see all the information about the implementation of the program in real time.
Then, five years ago, the idea was abandoned due to doubts about the reliability of the information that the clusters sent about themselves as part of the reporting.
Now, it seems to me that the idea is experiencing a rebirth, and I very much hope that within the framework of the digital platform of the Moscow innovation cluster, such a "dashboard" will be created, in fact, a "digital twin" of the economic activity of the cluster participants.
The function of the cluster as a "single window" is extremely important for our organization.
RVC, being the project office of the National Technological Initiative (NTI), is very interested in the Moscow cluster becoming a regular "supplier" of promising projects for us.
For us, this is a very clear channel through which potential projects of the National Technology Initiative can get to our platform.
In 2018, RVC and the Moscow government signed an agreement on the implementation of the National Technology Initiative.
If we manage to multiply the incoming flow of high-quality high-tech projects using the cluster mechanisms, this will be the most relevant embodiment of the ideas laid down in that document.
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The world ’ s largest amphibious aircraft made its first flight (video)
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The world's largest amphibious aircraft made its first flight (video) (12 news and 2 videos) "AG600 designed and built in China" In China, the world's largest amphibious aircraft AG600 made its first flight.
This is reported by Reuters.
In particular, it is indicated that the plane took off from Zhuhai airport on the coast of the South China Sea.
The Chinese army plans to use the aircraft for patrol purposes.
Reportedly, the flight lasted about an hour, the plane landed at the airport of departure.
Towing the aircraft in the hangar was carried out to the accompaniment of the orchestra, the landing of the aircraft was observed by the audience present at the airfield.
Chinese media called the plane “a defender of the seas, islands and reefs. ”
China is one of the countries claiming disputed islands in the South China Sea.
In Boryspil, the plane came off the runway.
It is noted that the development of the aircraft for seven years was engaged in the state Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC).
The aircraft can carry 50 people during maritime search operations, and can also scoop up to 12 tons of water in 20 seconds to extinguish fires.
The maximum range of the AG600 is 4.5 thousand.
Km, takeoff weight - 53.5 t, the length of the hull - 39.3 m, wingspan - 38.8 m The most floating aircraft is considered Hughes H-4 Hercules (wingspan - 97 54 m, disabled in 1947), but it was not equipped with a landing gear, so can not be considered an amphibian.
Updated at 11: 08 China made the first test flight seaplane AG600, which is the largest in the world Updated at 11: 20 The aircraft is designed for civil aviation: it will help extinguish fires and conduct search and rescue operations.
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The world ’ s largest aircraft made its first flight
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Today, December 24, the world's largest seaplane AG600, designed by Chinese engineers, made its first test flight.
As the journalists of “Phrases ” found out, the testing was successful.
The flight took place from the airport of Zhuhai city of Guangdong province.
The plane was in the air for about an hour, according to UNIAN.
According to official data, the aircraft is intended for civil aviation: it will help extinguish fires and conduct search and rescue operations.
The device is equipped with four turboprop engines, has a length of 39.6 meters, wingspan - 38.8 meters.
The aircraft can carry up to 50 people on board or 53.5 tons of cargo, fly at speeds of up to 500 km / h and continuously stay in the air for 12 hours.
The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), which developed the world ’ s largest seaplane, already has 17 orders for it from various companies and the Chinese government.
Earlier, "Phrase" reported that on June 1, 2017 it became known that one of the largest aircraft in the world "Stratolaunch" for the first time left the hangar in California (USA).
At that time, the plane was not ready for flight.
The creators of the flying vessel plan to begin testing all the aircraft systems in order to conduct the first demonstration flight in 2019.
The aircraft weighs almost 226 tons and can accommodate a payload weighing about 250 tons.
The wingspan of the record holder is more than 117 meters, and the height is 15 meters.
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INP SB RAS launched a new scientific installation SMOLA
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It will make it possible to test a fundamentally new concept of improved retention of thermonuclear plasma in linear magnetic systems.
The Institute of Nuclear Physics named after G.I. Budker SB RAS has launched a new scientific installation of SMOLA, the press service of the Novosibirsk City Hall reported.
It is noted that for the third year the Institute has been implementing a comprehensive scientific program “Development of research and technological potential of INP SB RAS in the field of accelerator physics, particle physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion for science and society ” within the framework of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation. — The Institute of Nuclear Physics conducts fundamental research in several areas, one of them is the study of controlled thermonuclear reaction.
This is a global task.
Its solution will provide an almost inexhaustible source of energy, — said the mayor of Novosibirsk Anatoly Lokot. — The direction that is being developed at INP is unique.
This is the so-called “Budker bottle ” – an open trap.
No one is conducting research in this direction.
This is a promising idea, including for application.
In particular, to create a plasma engine, for interplanetary flights, the efficiency of which will be much higher.
The launch of the SMOLA plant is another step forward, which, I hope, will bring us closer to solving the tasks set.
As noted by Academician of RAS, Director of INP SB RAS Pavel Logachev, “SMOLA (Spiral magnetic open trap) will test a fundamentally new concept of improved retention of thermonuclear plasma in linear magnetic systems. — Successful implementation of the proposed experimental program will open up opportunities for using this principle of plasma retention in the project developed at INP SB RAS large-scale research facility – gas-dynamic magnetic trap.
Its creation, in turn, will be a major step towards an environmentally attractive fusion reactor, including without the use of tritium as a fuel, the academician noted.
Also among the most important results of the third year of work on the grant of the Russian Science Foundation is the creation of a mock-up and the beginning of tests of a powerful klystron (high-frequency generator, which is an important part of the particle acceleration system in the collider).
There are no analogues in the parameters of such a generator in Russia today.
Previously, klystrons with such parameters were purchased in Japan (Toshiba) and Western Europe (Thales).
According to Siberian developers, at present, Japanese and Western European manufacturers have stopped selling them, and for Russian researchers, the priority now is to develop a technology for self-production of these devices.
Klistrons are needed by INP for the implementation of the project "Super S-Tau factory".
Photo: Science in Siberia magazine, photo by Ekaterina Pustolyakova
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15 quotes from Alexander Lukashenko
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On December 22, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko met with representatives of business circles of our country.
We offer fragments of the speech of the Belarusian leader at this meeting.
The role of business.
“We have addressed the issue of entrepreneurship several times.
However, this is the first time we meet in such a broad format.
Among those present are representatives of the authorities, from all spheres of business - from artisans to owners of large private companies.
One thing unites us all – a clear understanding that small and medium-sized businesses are the most important component of sustainable development of the economy, and therefore the existence of the state. ”
On the formula of contacts between the government and business.
“My demand to officials at all levels, from the chairman of the village council to the minister: observe not only the letter, but also the spirit of the decisions taken.
You can't write it all down in the law.
Each head representing the state power, when making contacts with business, should follow a single formula.
If the law allows you to help - help!
If the law does not allow you to help - do not interfere!
If the law calls for intervention, then act. ”
About self-employment.
“The main thing is not to limit the initiative of people.
A man wants to bake rolls and sell - let him do it if there is a demand for pastries. "
Development of services in rural areas.
“At the same time, it may not be necessary for a person to immediately register as an individual entrepreneur, to take on serious obligations.
It is likely that at first it will be enough to work just like that, for yourself, to see whether his services will be in demand.
For this purpose, a decree was issued on the regulation of the activities of individuals. ”
Tax benefits in rural areas.
"Regional Councils of Deputies will determine specific territories with such a preferential regime, that is, on the ground.
We need a sensible approach.
So that it did not work like this: the border of Minsk or the regional center crossed, and there is already a tax paradise.
It is not for this reason that such significant reductions have been made.
By the way, if in remote areas they will be used by foreign business, for example, from the border Bryansk, Smolensk, Lithuanian or Ukrainian regions, then this is only a plus.
It is important to preserve the village and give it a new life. ”
About tax advisors.
“I want to warn the tax authorities: do not try to shift your work to tax consultants or impose their services on business.
The head of the enterprise must decide for himself whether he should contact a tax intermediary. ”
About the halo-stick system.
“It is high time to eradicate the so-called haloch-stick reporting system, when the focus is on the amount of fines, the number of identified offenses and criminal cases. ”
The new tax code.
“The government, on my instructions, will form a special group in January and begin a large-scale revision of the Tax Code.
It should be simple and understandable.
But the main thing is to be able to support economic activity, and not to force economic entities to look for loopholes to avoid financial and tax obligations. ”
initiative and risk.
“Our task is not to create obstacles for bona fide entrepreneurs, not to restrain business initiative, not to limit the right of businessmen to reasonable risk. ”
Decree No. 7.
“The key of the adopted documents is the decree, which is about giving people the opportunity to develop their business, and not to think about the numerous bureaucratic formalities.
If you want to do business, go and work!
There are no more obstacles to this.
It is enough to submit a single notification to the Executive Committee - everything!
You can start working the next day. ”
About decision making.
“There should be no half-hearted decisions if we know where to go and how to go.
I am not a supporter of that.
Naturally, life changes.
We even at the beginning of the year could not talk about some mining, blockchains and this new cryptocurrency.
And today it becomes a reality.
Therefore, life and, of course, the regulatory framework will change. ”
Introduction of the latest financial instruments and technologies.
“The world ’ s leading economies are still looking at this new phenomenon.
Belarus is actually becoming the first state in the world that opens up wide opportunities for the use of blockchain technology.
We have every chance to become a regional center of competence in this field. ”
Decree “On the development of the digital economy ”.
“This decree, along with a package of decisions taken for business, should allow Belarus to embark on the path of advanced development. ”
List of administrative procedures for business.
“With individual procedures, it is generally unclear to whom and for what they were needed.
You need to get rid of them without any regrets.
And we got rid of them.
You know that the annex to the relevant document that I signed spelled out all the procedures.
There won't be any more.
This is an exceptional list.
A new, shortened list of procedures for business, if necessary, will be approved by me personally. ”
About the responsibility of business.
“Initiative, integrity, transparency and maximum responsibility to your employees and society should be the basis of your activities.
All this implies a decisive rejection of any gray schemes.
I believe that criminal cases, when officials and businessmen are in the same dock, cast a shadow on both the government and the business community.
Criminal activity is a shame, it must be strictly stopped!
I hope we are like-minded.
Otherwise, you and I are not on our way. ”
Source of citations - BELTA
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Intolerable Faulkner
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Archive project "Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago".
The most interesting and significant from the archive of Radio Liberty twenty years ago.
An unfinished story.
Still living hopes.
Could Russia have gone the other way?
The classics of American and world literature are told by Stephen di Madio - professor of literature, Lev Losev - poet and professor of Dartmouth College, Alexander Genis - writer, I.G. Marshall - actor.
Author and presenter Marina Efimova.
First broadcast on September 25, 1997.
Marina Efimova: Writer William Faulkner is known to have altered the map of the American South by adding to the state of Mississippi the nonexistent county of Yoknapatof with the main city of Jefferson.
It was in this typical, unremarkable, absolutely ordinary place that William Faulkner created an American epic, comparable in power to Greek tragedies.
Most American literary scholars recognize that William Faulkner, winner of the Nobel, Pulitzer, National and many other literary prizes, is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, American novelist of the 20th century.
But the same literary critics, and without any exception, consider Faulkner the most difficult to read, and, perhaps, rarely read American classic.
This is what American literature professor Stephen Di Madio said when I asked him if Faulkner was a popular writer in America.
Stephen Di Madio: Faulkner can be called a writer extremely popular in a narrow circle of serious readers.
For a mass audience, not only Faulkner ’ s language, but his style of presentation in general is too complex.
In novels such as Noise and Fury or Absalom, Absalom!, it is even difficult for the unsophisticated reader to follow a plot that develops in a bizarre and not necessarily chronological sequence.
Therefore, the school curriculum, for example, includes only Faulkner ’ s stories, even for first-year students, Faulkner ’ s works have to be provided with solid explanatory comments.
In short, he never had a large readership.
Marina Efimova: The period of non-recognition and rejection of Faulkner even the literary world was so long that his fate can be compared only with the fate of Joyce.
Only his fourth novel, Noise and Fury, written in 1929 by a 32-year-old writer, was highly appreciated by critics.
Unfortunately, their assessment did not convince readers at all - the novel was not bought in the same way as the writer's earlier books.
It is impossible to say that in other spheres of life young Faulkner has achieved much.
This is what his biographer Frederick Carl writes.
Announcer: "He dropped out of school after the 10th grade, and the university after the first year.
He tried to work in the newspaper, then in the post office, but was monumentally unfit for regular work.
In 1918, William Faulkner tried to enlist in the army, but he was not accepted because of his thinness and short stature - 162 centimeters.
Then he went to Canada, was accepted into the Air Force and became a military pilot, however, only nominally, because the war was over and Faulkner did not have time to make a single combat flight.
He began to travel, changed places, friends, classes, and remained faithful to only one cause that brought neither money nor fame – writing.
Marina Efimova: On the country of Yoknapatofu and its inhabitants Faulkner came across in his third novel "Sartoris".
And it seems that his literary Virgil was his elder friend, an extravagant man, an exquisite novelist Sherwood Anderson.
Faulkner remembers.
Sherwood once said, “If you don ’ t choose your path, you ’ ll never write anything good.
We need to have a place to start.
You're a country boy, all you know is a tiny piece of land in Mississippi, where you come from.
But that ’ s enough, it ’ s also America.
Let the farthest and most unknown corner of it, but pull it out like a brick from the wall, and the wall will fall apart. "
Marina Efimova: And since 1928 colonel Sartoris, Compsons, Maccaslins, Snoops have settled in Yokanapatof – characters who have become as alive as the Bolkonskys, Bezukhovs, Karamazovs and Bobchinsky with Dobchinsky.
However, according to American literary scholars, between Faulkner and the reader stood his style, his language.
"... colonel Sartoris, Compsons, Maccaslins, Snoops - characters who have become as alive as the Bolkonskys, Bezukhovs, Karamazovs and Bobchinsky with Dobchinsky" Steven di Madio: Every time a new phrase appears, it should be explained by the following phrase, and that, in his line, new.
To understand one story, you have to learn and understand many stories that are inextricably linked to the first.
Marina Efimova: This is what Professor Lev Losev of Dartmouth College adds about Faulkner ’ s language.
Lev Losev: This is the case when there would be no happiness, but unhappiness helped.
This is what we read Faulkner in translation.
This means that we read it not only in another language, but also outside its national cultural context.
And Americans, with few exceptions, perceive Faulkner inevitably as a regional writer, as a southerner writer.
Primarily because of Faulkner ’ s language, which is replete with dialectics.
The first reaction is very often, when you start talking as a Russian reader about your love for Faulkner, a little skeptical – say, but how can you even read Faulkner when he is completely untranslatable?
And he immediately in the minds of Americans becomes on a certain shelf of great, but regional literature, which is also somewhat tarnished in the minds of modern Americans by its certain political incorrectness.
Of course, everyone knows that Faulkner was a humanist and by no means a racist, but still the very means of expression he used are the language of the Southerner and his generation, a language in which a modern, very sensitive reader can catch some shades of racial arrogance, and so on.
Marina Efimova: Does this somehow reduce the value of Faulkner compared to our perception?
Lev Losev: I think it is going down.
As I said, for Americans, he is still one among many outstanding writers.
For us, Faulkner was, of course, a writer of the first magnitude.
But probably not only for us, because often quote the answer of Jean-Paul Sartre.
Asked how he judged Faulkner, Sartre, who was not so enthusiastic at all, said, "Faulkner is a god!"
Marina Efimova: If the style of Faulkner scares the general reader, then it attracts readers of the elite, critics, writers.
Including our colleague Alexander Genis.
Alexander Genis: The South on the literary map of the United States undoubtedly prevails over the North or the West of literature.
The Southerners took revenge for the Civil War.
Therefore, it is not with the northerner Hemingway, as long thought in Russia, but with the southerner Faulkner that the idea of true American literature is connected.
His characters can never be confused with the characters of Jack London, O'Henry or the same Hemingway, but they are close to the founder of all American literature, Mark Twain.
The combination of the scary and the funny here creates that sudden effect, the ethical shift that is characteristic of the entire culture of the Southerners.
Here, even meat is eaten with a stuffing seasoning.
Faulkner always talks about the terrible, but he definitely has elements of pure American black humor.
It turns out that a superficial look, noting only minor details of life, masks the tragedy unfolding implicitly.
The text here is built on the premonition of a double bottom.
Faulkner artificially escalates the tension, accumulates it with small strokes, until, finally, something terrible falls on the characters.
But just at the moment of this climax, the writer turns to the ridiculous humor in such a situation.
The conflict is built on the discrepancy of style to the content.
Due to this contradiction, Faulkner achieves a special effect - the text moves beyond the plot, breaking the logic of the narrative, it introduces elements of the absurdity that turned the children's book about Huckleberry Finn into a great novel.
Marina Efimova: I would like to give an example of the story so beloved by my generation "Full Turn Around", where for a good half of the story Faulkner only hints with the help of small details that young English officers, always lying drunk in one of the port cities in the midst of the Second World War, are not just rich idlers and burners of life.
That something's not right.
And it is only at the very end that it becomes clear that these boys go on high-speed torpedo boats in suicidal raids against German warships.
Alexander Genis: The life that Faulkner portrayed never seems banal, ordinary, because behind the flow of philistine existence lies the abyss.
Faulkner does not have small characters, they are all hyperbole people, just like we used to meet in Hollywood westerns.
Faulkner did not invent his heroes, but wrote off his ancestors who came to these lands to become the patriarchs of the new world.
A tall man, full of Protestant commandments and whiskey.
An absurd shift reversing signs helps Faulkner portray the complexity of a human personality in which the most extreme, wildest extremes are simultaneously present.
He does not say whether man is good or evil, he says: man is infinite, inexhaustible, unpredictable.
Faulkner did not invent his heroes, but wrote off his ancestors who came to these lands to become the patriarchs of the new world.
A tall man full of Protestant commandments and whiskey "Marina Efimova: By the way, the story" The Bear "is remembered.
Hunter Boone is ashamed in front of his dog named Lion.
The lion is the only hound in the entire county that is not afraid to chase old Ben, the old and believed immortal bear.
But finally, the lion overtakes the bear and fearlessly rushes at him.
Boone shoots and misses.
With ten steps.
And he can't ask for it.
Boone doesn't shoot well at all.
As the narrator explains not without humor, he once with four steps could not get into a negro - missed and shot a negro standing at a distance.
So when the dog catches the bear a second time and clings to it again, Boone, in order not to let the dog down, rushes at a giant beast with only a hunting knife and kills it.
Alexander Genis: Of course, Dostoevsky immediately comes to mind, without whom both Faulkner and the entire southern school would be impossible.
Remember, in the "Brothers Karamazov"? - "Two abysses, two abysses, gentlemen, at the same moment - our existence is incomplete without that."
However, the abyss of Dostoevsky in Faulkner unfold in the souls of completely different heroes.
I would say this: Dostoevsky ’ s problems are solved in the application to the characters of Mark Twain.
In his stories you will never find an ideologue hero, which are full of Dostoevsky ’ s novels, there are no famous philosophical and religious dialogues.
Faulkner, in a purely American way, shifted the emphasis from an ideological word to a word gesture, to an act, to a special literary plasticity.
Accordingly, his heroes are not able to articulate their innermost thought.
These are simple people.
Only, as the reader finds out, there is nothing simple in them - all the same horror of being lurks behind the facade of everyday existence.
Marina Efimova: The abyss opened under the feet of Faulkner himself.
The story of his marriage seems to have descended from the pages of his own novels.
In his youth, he ceded his beloved girl Estella Old to a more persistent groom only to marry her 11 years later, after her divorce, when she was already an alcoholic, completely broken life, with a child in her arms.
During the honey butcher with Faulkner, Estella tried to drown herself.
Life with her was not only not happy, full of quarrels, enmity and opening of veins, but also ruinous, although Faulkner earned quite a lot in Hollywood, where he wrote dialogues for other people's scripts.
At one point, it came to the point that he published an advertisement in a local newspaper stating that he refused to bear any financial responsibility for his wife and pay her bills.
Books almost did not sell, including the novel “Noise and Fury ”, which is now considered the best in American literary criticism.
And Faulkner, desperate, wrote "Sanctuary."
Stephen Di Madio: The Sanctuary was Faulkner ’ s only really popular work.
In this novel, a girl from a good family, a college student, begins to prostitute after a rogue named Papai rapes her and suppresses her will.
Critics wrote about the book with contempt and called Faulkner almost the author of a tabloid reading.
This scandal ruined Faulkner's literary reputation for fifteen years.
In the mid-1940s, The Sanctuary was Faulkner's only novel to be reprinted.
Marina Efimova: In 1946, the literary critic Malcolm Calvey compiled a series of one-volume books of the best modern writers and included in the plan a collection of Faulkner.
The editors cut that out.
Recall that by this time Faulkner wrote "Noise and Fury", "The Day I Died", "Light in August", "Absalom, Absalom!", "Get Down, Moses", "The Village" and three collections of stories, not counting those published in 1940 and 1941.
Calvey convinced the publishers, insisted on including Faulkner, and carefully selected the things that the average reader could master.
He called the collection "Portable Folkner", that is, "portable", "compact" Faulkner.
The 1946 anthology became Faulkner ’ s most famous publication, because it actually started the writer ’ s fame.
In the 50th year of life, in the 20th year of creative activity.
Three years later, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize.
You are listening to a report by Rai Weil from the celebration of the centenary of Faulkner's birth on September 25, 1897.
Raya Weil: I ’ m in the lobby of New York ’ s oldest and perhaps most elegant hotel, the Algonquin.
It is not by chance that it is here in the famous Oak Room that the anniversary of Faulkner is celebrated.
Every time he came to New York, Faulkner stayed only in this hotel, wrote his Nobel speech here, worked on the novels “Noise and Fury ” and“ The Day I Died. ”
In the center of the hall, designed for two hundred people and completely clogged, although tickets cost $60, actors sit in a circle.
The performance consists of reading Faulkner ’ s prose, his mother ’ s letters and students ’ questions to him, to which the famous theater and film actor E.G.Marshall answers in the role of Faulkner.
"I.G. Marshall is always good, but in the role of Faulkner is simply incomparable," a young man from the audience told me in the intermission. - He absolutely conveys his manner of speaking, his soft southern accent. "
The two-hour performance ended, among those coming out of the hall - I.G. Marshall.
The audience surrounded him with a dense ring, continuing to ask questions, as if in front of them is indeed William Faulkner himself.
I asked, too.
What's the point of this evening?
You can read Faulkner at home.
J.J. Marshall smiled and without Faulkner ’ s Southern accent said: “I think some of Faulkner ’ s letters and some of the students ’ questions will help to better understand what he wrote, why.
Faulkner always said that he was not interested in ideas, he was only interested in people.
And that ’ s what we wanted to show in today ’ s presentation.
RAYA WAIL: Well, what do the viewers say?
Austin Pedletown, physicist.
Austin Pedletown: Faulkner is my favorite writer, and it ’ s not true that he ’ s hard to read.
It is necessary to dive into it completely, not to try to analyze, then re-read, and then there will be answers to the questions.
Reread again and you will realize that you have never read anything better.
Raya Weil: My interlocutor, 26-year-old pianist Alex Soiber, was one of the students who asked Faulkner what poetry was.
Alex Sawber: I came because in America there is still not the attitude to Faulkner that he deserves.
Thousands of Faulkner fans were supposed to come here today, not the 1,500 spectators who gathered in this hall.
Faulkner is our Shakespeare.
Marina Efimova: As we have already said, the fame of Faulkner began with the collection "The Portable Folkner".
The word "portable" means in English not only "portable", this word has another, outdated meaning - "portable", one that can be endured, mastered, sustained.
I remembered this when I talked with Professor Lev Losev about the difference in the perception of Faulkner by Russian and American readers.
Lev Losev: Quite a long time ago I had a student here in America, who perfectly, completely incomparably mastered the Russian language and with considerable literary makings, a very capable person.
And one day he began to admire the Russian colloquial expression - "hang on!"
Like sometimes we just use it when we say goodbye, "Well, hang on!"
And we began to talk about how to translate it into English, and found out that the closest English word would be "endure", which, as he immediately recalled, generally Faulkner's favorite verb is "to stand", "to withstand".
This made him laugh terribly, because he imagined how Americans would say goodbye or in a simple conversational situation to each other: "Endure!"
It doesn ’ t sound at all in English.
"... he imagined how Americans would say goodbye or in a simple conversational situation to each other, 'Endure!'"
And this, in my opinion, is one of the keys to the difference in perception of Faulkner by Russians and Americans.
In itself, the American reality of our time is separated simply by an abyss from the Faulkner era, this pathetic attitude to reality, in which it is necessary to stand, to endure.
This abyss between the years 1920-30 and the end of the century does not exist in the Russian consciousness, in Russian civilization, in Russian history.
For Russian readers of my generation, the 60s, when they began to get acquainted with Faulkner in Russia, Faulkner came precisely in such an aura of existentialist philosophy, a philosophy of personality left to itself, thrown into the abyss of despair, when the only principle becomes this – to stand, to endure.
No wonder Faulkner was one of the favorite writers of Joseph Brodsky, who is very significant epigraph to his book "Stop in the Desert" chose just the words of King Lear - "man must stand."
Marina Efimova: In his Nobel speech in 1950, at the height of the Cold War, Faulkner said.
The tragedy of our time is animal fear.
Of all the questions of the human spirit, one is left – when will we be destroyed?
Therefore, modern young writers have forgotten about the struggle of the human heart with itself, and only it gives rise to real literature.
I believe that man is immortal, and I believe that man will not only survive, but will triumph, because by nature he is capable of compassion, self-sacrifice, and intransigence.
It is the duty of a writer to help a person survive. ”
Marina Efimova: Some critics, and even biographers of Faulkner wince at his Nobel speech.
The English literary critic Martin Seymour Smith writes.
“His Nobel speech is nothing more than a tribute to duty, a set of clichés that resemble the speech of a politician rather than a talented writer.
Morality is not his domain.
Faulkner goes too deep into the souls of his characters, both winners and losers, to say with certainty that man will triumph.
Marina Efimova: We talked about the fact that it is difficult for an unsophisticated, unprepared reader to perceive the complex style and language of Faulkner.
But there is something else in this writer that is difficult to perceive just aesthetes.
Faulkner wrote of Sherwood Anderson: "He was so eager to perfect his style that he had only one style left."
Perhaps when Faulkner speaks directly, rather than figuratively, about the spiritual and moral essence of literature, he does so to ensure that it is not interpreted or reinterpreted, fitting it into an intellectual fashion.
Each person can be saved not by the mass of man, not by the system, not by society, but only by himself, endowed with the ability and desire to distinguish good from evil.
Only he himself, who did not allow him to be forced by fear, deception or handouts to give up the right and the duty to distinguish justice from injustice, courage from cowardice, sacrifice from greed, compassion for selfishness.
If you are not afraid to notice these differences and make your choices, then you will change the world. "
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Russia became a key partner in the International Thermonuclear Project ITER
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Osamu Motojima, General Director of ITER, speaking at the International Forum "Electric Networks" in Moscow, confirmed the exceptional importance of broad international cooperation in the campaign for the acquisition of thermonuclear energy.
And Mr. Motojima called Russia the leading partner (a leading collaborator) of the project.
Kadarash is getting closer to the sun...
And the very place of construction of the first thermonuclear reactor became a Mecca for adherents of nuclear energy from around the world.
Photo: Press service ITER On the eve of this, a representative delegation from Russia headed by the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy Pavel Zavalny visited the site of the ITER construction near the city of Kadarash in France.
"We can be proud that Russia occupies one of the key positions in the implementation of the International Thermonuclear Project ITER," he said during a working trip.
According to Pavel Zavalny, in the horizon of 40-50 years, the basic branch of energy may not be RES, but nuclear, then thermonuclear generation.
And the future of nuclear energy itself is associated with the closure of the nuclear fuel cycle, the involvement of plutonium in the fuel cycle and the reduction of nuclear waste.
This way provides qualitatively different safety principles, and the growth of the competitiveness of nuclear generation in comparison with other sources.
"Russia is the only country in the world that operates fast neutron power reactors," the Russian parliamentarian reminded. - This is a future that can already be reached. "
And the ITER project by the very fact of its existence and development contributes to the solution of key technical problems arising from the use of thermonuclear fusion as an energy source.
This is a truly international project in which Russia occupies one of the key positions.
Meanwhile, the specialists of Moscow NIKIET (Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering named after N.A. Dollezhal) together with the company "Composite" began to produce the first batch of unique equipment for the blanket ITER.
Blanket ("blanket", "protective coating" - translated into Russian) is a very responsible mission - to protect the entire installation from plasma radiation: thermal, X-ray, neutron and fast particles.
Bimetallic pedestals will be located on the inner wall of the vacuum chamber.
In the future, when assembling the reactor, electrical connectors of blanket models will be installed on pedestals, which are also developed and will be manufactured by NIKIET.
As specified in the Moscow office of ITER, the enterprises of our country are entrusted with the manufacture of more than 1000 so-called pedestals for electrical connectors in blanket modules.
Their delivery to the assembly site is scheduled for 2020.
And the first plasma, we recall, is planned to receive in 2025.
The scale of ITER can be compared with projects such as the International Space Station and the Large Hadron Collider.
The Russian side has been instructed to manufacture and deliver 25 high-tech systems of the future installation.
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Contractors instructed to strengthen work on cleaning sidewalks and parking pockets in Perm
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15: 51 | 5.01.2018 The head of Perm Dmitry Samoilov conducted an unscheduled detour of the city ’ s territories.
In general, the road network is in a regulatory state.
The head of the city instructed to strengthen the work on cleaning sidewalks and parking pockets. – The passing part of the main highways has been cleaned for a strong four, although there are shortcomings in some areas and the heads of the territories have been given appropriate instructions.
More actively, you need to remove snow and ice from sidewalks, bring parking pockets to a normative state, ” Dmitry Samoilov noted.
In the coming days, contractors will concentrate on these types of work.
As reported in the management of external improvement, from January 1 in Perm per day, on average, 190-200 units of equipment, mainly at night, so as not to interfere with the movement of cars and public transport during the day.
Since the beginning of January, according to UVB, the following amount of snow has been removed from the districts of Perm: Leninsky district - 4.6 thousand cubic meters, Industrialny - 1.4, Sverdlovsky - 5.4, Dzerzhinsky - 3.9, Motovilikhinsky - 2.6, Kirov - 1.9, Ordzhonikidzevsky - 3.0.
Control checks, including unscheduled ones, will continue in the coming days in all areas of the city.
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Pandora ’ s Box – Dmitry Goblin Puchkov about the series “Zuleikha opens his eyes ”, the second series
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I have always believed that a person who has begun a more serious inner life begins to live outwardly easier.
In an age of extravagance and extravagance, I would like to show the world how small our true needs are. – Ernest Miller, Hemingway
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Review of RIVA case 8365 Black. For the most active users
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Many users perceive the word “journey ” with thoughts of long trips across the country or a flight to another continent.
However, you can travel around your city - from work home is also a journey, just shorter.
And in such everyday journeys, you want to get maximum convenience, comfort and reliability, in order to carry all your devices, books and other items with you, enjoy life and understand that everything you need is at hand and you can safely use it.
I am quite an active user, without a doubt, and carry a laptop, camera and book with me in any case - even if I just leave the apartment to shoot another smartphone for review against the background of urban high-rise buildings.
So for me, an important element of life is the backpack and its capacity, quality and thoughtfulness of the departments - if the developer has tried and applied his abilities, then I am happy and will use this product every day with a smile on my face and a positive attitude.
Fortunately, I already know RivaCase products very well and understand that the company is doing everything well, that the team is not just designers, but professionals in their field with an understanding of how and what to do.
Today we have a review of an interesting backpack for everyday life called RivaCase 8365 Black - it is ideal for metro trips, walks in the park or attending a variety of events.
It looks cool, inside there is a darkness of space for your device and necessary things, plus everything is sewn securely.
Let 's take a look at what this backpack is! In most cases, manufacturers of backpacks or bags for transporting laptops and other items use not the most suitable materials.
For example, I often met on backpacks from other brands inserts made of suede - it looks very expensive, very beautiful, but literally a week after use you need to go to the store and buy a suede cleaner and a special brush, because the material quickly wears out and looks bad, especially if it is inexpensive suede.
Here, the manufacturer decided not to play with materials and just made a backpack of pleasant to the touch fabric.
I ’ m not a great specialist in fabrics and I can ’ t say anything in detail, but the characteristics on the site indicate polyester and that ’ s all.
The fabric in my case is dark gray, it looks quite beautiful and feels chic in the hands, plus the walls are quite strong inside and because of this, the backpack does not become a bag in the hands, the shape is held even if there is nothing inside the backpack, this is also important.
It is worth noting a small plus from the experience of operation - even if you somehow stain this product, you just need an ordinary dry wipe in order to wipe dust or wet wipes, if the "damage" is more serious.
That is, I did not use any cleaning products - the most ordinary napkin is enough and the coating becomes clean.
This is all the fabric - it does not absorb dust, dirt and other options, everything is easy to wipe and in everyday life this is a chic advantage, for which you can already put a big plus to the product.
On the front side of the backpack there are no bright elements or logos - the developer decided to place the company logo in the lower right corner, it is quite discreet.
This is a plus, since large and bright logos sooner or later get dirty and the product loses its attractive appearance, the logo was added here, and it does not spoil the look of the backpack at all.
Also on the front side there are several pockets - one at the bottom of the backpack, it is small, but roomy.
Personally, I use it for small things - charging cables, replaceable batteries for the camera, memory cards and so on.
Of course, you can store something else there.
Above we have a fairly large compartment, which was divided into two sections - one is closed with velcro (this is a one-piece section, without pockets and other pieces inside) and a pocket on the lock (here inside there are two pockets for documents, a smartphone, batteries and so on).
This allows you to have easy access to some necessary items that you need to get out often, but, at the same time, you do not need to open the main section of the backpack.
Then we have the main department, we will talk about it a little later and in more detail, there are their chips.
By the way, one of the chips is an external output for USB - it is also located on the front side, or rather a little on the side, and, as you guessed it, through this port we will charge your smartphone.
Closer to the back (the one that comes in contact with your back), we have another department - inside there is a spacious space and a small pocket for half the department.
Here I carry a laptop and although the main department also has this place, yet the rigidity of the back allows you not to worry about the safety of the laptop and for this reason I chose this department for my MacBook.
The back side is really very tough and reliable - there are several black panels that do not allow the backpack to bend.
I can not assure, but there is a feeling that such panels will not allow you to hunch and earn scoliosis during everyday walking (this is an important thing for schoolchildren and students, by the way).
Plus, there is also a pocket for installing the backpack on the handle of the suitcase - if you travel a lot with a huge suitcase on wheels, you can lighten your carrying and pick up the backpack on the handle.
Separately, I will like the manufacturer for the extruded logo of the company on the back side - very pleasant to the touch.
The straps of the backpack turned out to be very classic - from the outside they are made of the same material as the whole backpack, inside there is a fine mesh for better grip with the user.
The straps are adjustable quite flexibly, you can choose the length for almost any height.
And, a little trifle - on the side faces of the backpack there are small pockets on the elastic band.
Here you can stick water bottles and have easy access to them, plus you do not need to worry that the water will spill and pour your laptop inside.
It was very good, but I didn ’ t notice these pockets right away.
Departments In general, I am satisfied with the design of the product completely - looks attractive, the backpack is very practical to use for every day, many departments and pockets for quick access to important things.
It seems nothing surprising, but everything is so interesting and qualitatively implemented that the emotions from the use remain the most positive.
For design I put ten out of ten, no doubt. Let 's start with the main, as I call it, department.
This compartment is located on the back of the backpack, that is, as close as possible to your back and stiffness plates.
The compartment opens for vertical loading of the laptop, the lock opens only a little more than you need to load the device.
Perhaps this was done so that the laptop did not fall out or just the design itself did not allow you to make the pocket lock more, but, in general, there are no complaints to the department - you can safely put the laptop and it will be under reliable protection, plus there is a small pocket for half the case for charging or tablet, for example.
True, there is a drawback - there is no branded Velcro that fastens the laptop tightly.
Next thing you know, we have a little pocket for the little things, that's where they usually put the keys or something.
Actually, the pocket did not surprise you with anything remarkable - it is convenient, it is easy to use, and that's all.
On the other hand, some backpacks remain without such a pleasant addition, and here the developer decided to make everything convenient for everyday use.
Next we have a department with a twist.
The department itself is quite roomy, here you can also put a laptop, tablet, books or something else.
Here, in addition to the huge space for your gadgets, we also have two additional pockets.
One is in the upper part of the department, it is with a grid and here you can throw all sorts of trifles or objects that are not needed so often, but you do not want to lose them in the depths of the main department.
The second pocket is much more interesting - there is enough space inside for you to put the portable battery and connect it to the power cable.
This cable comes from an external outlet that you can find on the right side of the backpack.
You connect a portable battery to the cable via USB, put it in your pocket, and connect your charging cable to the external output.
You can walk with a smartphone in your hands, charge it through the cable and do not feel shy in movements.
This is a cool feature that has just begun to gain popularity. Also, we have a small department on the front panel, inside which you can also wear some additional things.
And, what is most pleasant, inside there are two more pockets for smartphones or replaceable batteries, personally I, as a person with a ton of paverbanks, liked this feature very much.
The next Velcro pocket is already without unnecessary features, here you can throw headphones after listening to music and go to work.
It is suitable for any small thing that you have in your pockets quite a lot, but you want to wear it all in a more decent form.
At the very bottom of the backpack is another small pocket, yes, it is also for small things and you can there something important, but not very popular throw.
When choosing a backpack for an active user or a geek, you need to look at many factors - the quality of materials and seams, the thoughtfulness of the departments, the convenience of placing small items, the straps, the back, locks and design.
And, of course, you also need to look at the cost, it is important in any situation.
This backpack pleased me first of all with its quality - quite expensive and pleasant to the touch materials are used, which are not so easy to stain or spoil their appearance.
Plus, there are several color options so that you can choose something for your style of clothing.
Add here reliable seams and get a chic option for the most active users.
In addition to the quality of the assembly, the backpack is very pleased with its departments - you can comfortably use the backpack both in office conditions, and in travel or sports.
For example, I tried to ride with a backpack on the subway or in buses, tried to shove all my gadgets inside and even went to the gym - in all these scenarios, the backpack showed itself simply chic and I did not feel any problems with packing things.
The cost was also pleasant - buying a backpack, you will not worry about a strong blow to the family budget.
Plus, it is worth understanding that you buy this kind of products not for a year, but for several years, so the costs will be completely ridiculous after time.
I can recommend this version of the backpack to everyone - the company RivaCase once again showed itself from the best side.
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Russia does not consider the possibility of withdrawal from the WTO
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МОСКВА, 9 янв — RIA Novosti.
Russia is not considering the option of termination of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in connection with the claims of the European Union on the supply of pork, the press service of the Ministry of economic development reported.
The Ministry explained that the request of the European Union does not imply any penalties or compensation for losses already incurred by the plaintiff.
The plaintiff may only be entitled to suspend his assignments.
This means that it will be able not to fulfill its obligations under the WTO agreement against the defendant.
The Ministry of Economic Development also called the claims of the European Union unfounded, since the Russian side has fulfilled all the requirements of the WTO to lift restrictions on the supply of pork and live animals from the European Union, introduced in connection with African swine fever (ASF).
Earlier, the first Deputy head of the economic Committee of the Federation Council Sergei Kalashnikov said about the possibility of Russia ’ s withdrawal from the WTO after reports that the European Union can collect from Moscow 1.39 billion a year, saying that the very fact of the introduction of sanctions against Russia by the European Union is contrary to the principles of the organization.
Earlier, Politico reported on the intention of the European Union to demand from Russia payment of 1.39 billion euros annually in connection with the restriction on the import of pork.
The request of the European Union was submitted to arbitration, which will decide on the fairness of the claim.
In the case of a positive decision, the court will determine the possibility of collecting this amount from Moscow.
A source of RIA Novosti in the European Commission confirmed that the claims of the European Union have indeed been transferred to the arbitration court.
And the European Commission explained that we should not expect immediate measures.
"The case has now been referred to arbitration in accordance with WTO rules.
Immediate action should not be expected.
This is a purely procedural step taken in order to preserve our rights at this stage of the dispute settlement and to preserve our choice, ” the source said, calling what is happening the usual procedure that occurs in any dispute in the WTO.
The publication also refers to the decree of the World Trade Organization, which refers to the “illegal ” ban on the import of pork from the EU.
The ban on European meat has led to particular losses for farmers from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
However, for Russia, such a measure became an impetus for the development of meat production.
“Sanctions have become an opportunity for Russia to increase meat production after competition with foreign companies in the market disappeared, ” the article says.
In its turn, Brussels by its actions “begins to actively challenge the legality of politically motivated food sanctions against the EU. ”
The compensation that the European Union expects is equal to the total cost of pork supplies to Russia in 2013.
At the same time, the amount of penalties will increase every year by 15%.
Moscow banned the import of pork from the European Union in early 2014 due to the outbreak of African swine fever in Lithuania and Poland.
In 2016, the World Trade Organization decided that the measures introduced by Russia do not comply with the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the organization.
In turn, Moscow ’ s appeal was rejected.
At the end of 2017, the Ministry of Economic Development announced compliance with the WTO requirements and the lifting of the ban on the import of meat, except pork, which has been under embargo since 2014 after the introduction of mirror measures against EU sanctions.
According to Maxim Medvedkov, Director of the Department of Trade Negotiations of the Ministry of Economic Development, the Russian side intends to convene a new panel of arbitrators to recheck the already fulfilled WTO requirements for the supply of pork from the EU.
“The EU has not yet explained its decision to us.
In December, we demonstrated to the WTO and the EU that we have implemented all the decisions, lifted the ban on pork imports due to ASF (African swine fever. — Approx. ed.), it operates only under the prodembargo.
We sent copies of all decisions of the Rosselkhoznadzor in compliance with the decision of the arbitrators.
But the EU believes that we did not fulfill these requirements, and did not agree with our arguments, ” Medvedkov said.
He also noted that the European Union does not require direct monetary compensation from the Russian side due to the pork embargo.
Medvedkov explained that the EU wants to get permission from the WTO for retaliatory measures, “which compensate for their losses, for example, to increase tariffs on Russian goods. ”
As told RIA Novosti a source in the institutions of the European Union, the EU can go to “retaliatory measures ” against Russia, if the dispute over pork will not be resolved within the WTO.
According to the interlocutor of the agency, we are not talking about "automatic decision, and it is not accepted."
“It has not come to this yet, we are far from it, ” the EU official said.
However, he stressed that “in the event of a decision (of the EU) to apply retaliatory measures against Russia, the permission of the WTO will be required. ”
"This is not a one-sided issue that we will resolve exclusively by ourselves," the source said.
According to Valery Vanin, a member of the International Union of Lawyers, if the arbitration of an international organization decides to recover compensation from the Russian side, and Russia, in turn, files a counterclaim, then Moscow will have a 100% right to compensation for all losses.
Vanin explained that it was the Russian economy that suffered damage from the introduction of sanctions on a much larger scale, “Moscow ’ s claim will be much higher, and this case will have a precedent value, ” he added.
Deputy Chairman of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Chairman of the International Law Commission of the Russian UN Association, Professor of RUDN University Aslan Abashidze, in turn, expressed the opinion that Russia's membership in the WTO does not give the Russian side anything but harm.
“This is a paradox, but I believe that the great hope that was built with Russia ’ s accession to the WTO has not been justified and our membership does nothing but harm.
This is a real trade war.
There is no fair competition, ” the expert said.
He also noted that Moscow needs to build trade relations on the basis of bilateral agreements with other countries.
“If the European Union wants to cooperate with Russia, it must sign a large agreement with us, including on trade.
Why is the EU not moving in this direction, but turning to the WTO?
This mechanism reflects something else, as the EU continues to be a favorite of the United States and in support of them harms Russia, ” concluded Abashidze.
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World Tour Teams 2018: Movistar Team (MOV) - ESP
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Kitsune-taichou Greg Lemond about the case of Chris Froome (55) can, do not whip the fever, but? just wondering, why the rules do not require the immediate removal of the rider who got caught in this violation? maybe just because it happens?
veloster Australian Championship-2018, group...
(6) On the relief of the championship of Australia, Porto does not shine.
VeloVelo Australian Championship-2018, group...
(6) And it could be the other way around) Rokka Domenico Pozzovivo will be borot...
(12) And in my opinion Pulichcino will be an excellent helper for Nibali.
No wonder he called him.
Of course, it is difficult to talk about your own chances for the Giro, but it is not enough, suddenly he will take a beautiful stage, or indeed he will come to the prizes:) marketbk Domenico Pozzovivo will be borot...
(12) People, let 's at least rejoice that the messenger to the age of 35 sets a goal - the podium of the native Giro)) You remember, earlier he had a goal of 5 on the Giro)) Seitmemetov seitkhalil World Tour Teams 2018: Mi...
(2) Quote: Seitmemetov Seitkhalil Hamilton signed for three years Probably a typo???
Hamilton signed for three yearsProbably a typo???
Seitmemetov seithalil Domenico Pozzovivo will be bord...
(12) Quote: Earl57 Quote: Seitmemetov seitkhalil Please excuse and what investigation?
I missed something.
In early October, FDJ driver Sebastian Reishenbach accused Gianni Moscone that the Italian deliberately pushed him at the Tri Valle Varezine race, because of which Reishenbach received a serious injury.
An official complaint was filed with the UCI and a lawsuit was filed in the Italian civil court.
Moscone claims that Reishenbach slipped himself and fell without his participation.
There is no video, but there are witnesses - the riders who drove near Reischenbach.
Contrary to Moscone ’ s expectations, the UCI listened to them attentively.
In the civil court, the case is also not closed.
In early October, FDJ driver Sebastian Reishenbach accused Gianni Moscone that the Italian deliberately pushed him at the Tri Valle Varezine race, because of which Reishenbach received a serious injury.
An official complaint was filed with the UCI and a lawsuit was filed in the Italian civil court.
Moscone claims that Reishenbach slipped himself and fell without his participation.
There is no video, but there are witnesses - the riders who drove near Reischenbach.
Contrary to Moscone ’ s expectations, the UCI listened to them attentively.
In the civil court, the case is also not closed.
Quote: Seitmemetov seitkhalil Quote: Earl57 Quote: Seitmemetov seitkhalil Excuse me please and what investigation?
I missed something.
In early October, FDJ driver Sebastian Reishenbach accused Gianni Moscone that the Italian deliberately pushed him at the Tri Valle Varezine race, because of which Reishenbach received a serious injury.
An official complaint was filed with the UCI and a lawsuit was filed in the Italian civil court.
Moscone claims that Reishenbach slipped himself and fell without his participation.
There is no video, but there are witnesses - the riders who drove near Reischenbach.
Contrary to Moscone ’ s expectations, the UCI listened to them attentively.
In the civil court, the case is also not closed.
In early October, FDJ driver Sebastian Reishenbach accused Gianni Moscone that the Italian deliberately pushed him at the Tri Valle Varezine race, because of which Reishenbach received a serious injury.
An official complaint was filed with the UCI and a lawsuit was filed in the Italian civil court.
Moscone claims that Reishenbach slipped himself and fell without his participation.
There is no video, but there are witnesses - the riders who drove near Reischenbach.
Contrary to Moscone ’ s expectations, the UCI listened to them attentively.
In the civil court, the case is also not closed.
thanks for the information, very unrestrained rider.
He had problems before, made racist statements in the peleton colored rider, after apologizing said that he was misunderstood.
It's a pity, all these blunders don't paint him.
Not only are the results appreciated by the rider but also by the actions.
It's a pity, I hope to get better, or it'll end badly.
thanks for the information, very unrestrained rider.
He had problems before, made racist statements in the peleton colored rider, after apologizing said that he was misunderstood.
It's a pity, all these blunders don't paint him.
Not only are the results appreciated by the rider but also by the actions.
I wish I could get better or it would end badly.
VeloVelo Greg Lemond on Chris Froome Case (55) Golden Words Astanaforever World Tour Teams 2018: Mi...
(2) Lukasz Hamilton left and did not leave?
Earl57 Domenico Pozzovivo will be boron...
(12) Quote: Seitmemetov seitkhalil Excuse me, but what investigation?
I missed something.
In early October, FDJ driver Sebastian Reishenbach accused Gianni Moscone that the Italian deliberately pushed him at the Tri Valle Varezine race, because of which Reishenbach received a serious injury.
An official complaint was filed with the UCI and a lawsuit was filed in the Italian civil court.
Moscone claims that Reishenbach slipped himself and fell without his participation.
There is no video, but there are witnesses - the riders who drove near Reischenbach.
Contrary to Moscone ’ s expectations, the UCI listened to them attentively.
In the civil court, the case is also not closed.
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Bayer and J & J obtained the cancellation of a fine of $28 million due to Xarelto « Russian Pharmaceuticals
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A federal judge in Pennsylvania overturned a lower court decision to recover from Bayer and Johnson & Johnson (J & J) a fine of $27.8 million in favor of a patient who, in her opinion, suffered as a result of taking the drug Xarelto (rivaroxabana).
More than 20,000 people accuse these pharmaceutical companies of failing to warn doctors and patients about the risk of internal hemorrhage when taking Xarelto, but the plaintiffs have not yet succeeded in court.
The lawsuit against Bayer and J & J in 2015 was filed by American Lynn Hartman, whom Xarelto was prescribed to prevent strokes against the background of atrial fibrillation.
According to Hartman, she took the drug for about a year and in June 2014 was hospitalized with severe gastrointestinal bleeding, which she believes is the result of taking Xarelto.
In December 2017, the court ordered the company to pay the victim $1.8 million in damages and $26 million in penalties.
This decision was the first case of a successful lawsuit against Xarelto and threatened companies with large losses if Bayer and J & J could not cancel it.
In total, victims in the United States because of taking the drug filed 21.4 thousand similar lawsuits.
The plaintiffs argue that the drug companies did not warn patients about the risk of developing severe uncontrolled bleeding, and Bayer and J & J insist that the warning on the drug ’ s label adequately reflects this risk.
So far, the plaintiffs' complaints have not been successful.
In October 2017, the Supreme Court of Los Angeles (USA) reversed an earlier decision to pay J & J compensation of $417 million to a 63-year-old woman who claimed that she contracted ovarian cancer after using talc-based powder produced by J & J. In total, more than 2.4 thousand lawsuits against J & J. were filed at the end of August 2017.
The plaintiffs also accused the company that it did not warn buyers of talc-based products about the risk of developing cancer.
Source: Reuters vademec
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In the capital of Kazan killed two women after plastic surgery
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In the first case, surgery was associated with a change in the volume of the stomach.
Such operations are carried out by patients who want to reduce excess weight.
It is noted that Roszdravnadzor for 2017 received only about 50 complaints about the services of cosmetologists, but plastic surgery in Kazan does not lose popularity, even on the contrary, continues to grow.
Basically, the deputy head adds, patients of the capital and St. Petersburg go to the capital of Tatarstan, since highly qualified specialists work here, whose services are cheaper.
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Turkmenistan bans all sex on TV
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KIEV, 18 Jan — RIA Novosti Ukraine.
Turkmenistan has passed a law banning sex, violence and bad habits in movies and TV programs.
The law, signed by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, is due to the protection of national interests, Radio Azatlyk reports.
In Turkmenistan, all types of local media, and especially TV, are owned and controlled by the state.
Even the content of cable TV channels is strictly censored and any movie scenes that censors consider obscene are cut.
The only way to bypass state censorship was satellite television, which also became inaccessible to citizens of Turkmenistan.
However, the law does not specify clearly what is meant by "bad habits" and who will determine it.
Content on Turkmen channels mainly consists of programs praising the president himself and his "era of power and happiness."
On guest channels, for example, there are programs in which broadcasters read books written by the president or as Arkadag drives a sports car.
The Law on Television also calls for the creation of television and radio programs that increase the authority and positive image of Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan occupies the last positions in the rankings of freedom of speech and the press.
Reporters Without Borders ranked the country 178th out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom.
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Supersonic flight to the "citizen"
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On January 25, tests of the unique supersonic strategic missile carrier Tu-160M2 began.
His first flight was personally observed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The M2 is not just a modernized car.
In fact, this bomber was built from scratch.
The Strategist received modern navigation equipment, a sighting system and onboard avionics.
In the future, its arsenal will include the latest missiles, including hypersonic ones.
The Russian leader praised the aircraft and offered aircraft manufacturers to make its civilian version.
The first flight of the Tu-160M2, which received its own name "Peter Deinekin", lasted about seven minutes.
At an altitude of 300 m, the crew of the missile carrier performed several maneuvers to check the stability and controllability of the machine in the air. – This is a serious step in the development of high-tech sphere and in strengthening the country ’ s defense capability, because this is one of the elements of our nuclear triad in the air, – said Vladimir Putin in an interview with employees of the Kazan Aviation Plant named after Gorbunov.
On the beginning of the construction of updated strategic bombers Tu-160M2 in 2015 said the Minister of defense of Russia Sergei Shoigu.
Rolling out of the hangar "Peter Deinekin" took place on November 16 last year.
This machine was completed due to the stock of hulls and engines left over from the times of the USSR.
As the United Aircraft Corporation told Izvestia, the deep modernization will increase the combat effectiveness of the Tu-160 by more than 60% by expanding the functions and improving the characteristics of the on-board equipment, as well as improving the accuracy of navigation systems, using new means of self-defense and countermeasures.
A new information and control system will be installed on the Tu-160M2, the main advantage of which is the collection, processing and output of flight information in a single system.
Also, the missile carrier will be able to use new types of weapons.
According to Izvestia, tests of the latest aircraft weapons for the Tu-160M2 are already underway.
The machine, in particular, will receive strategic cruise missiles with an increased range.
And in the future, its arsenal will include hypersonic weapons: missiles that fly at a speed of about 7.5 thousand km / h.
After the completion of the first test flight, Vladimir Putin made an unexpected offer to Russian aircraft manufacturers.
To create a civilian aircraft on the basis of the Tu-160.
Earlier in the Soviet Union already produced passenger supersonic liners Tu-144.
But after about 100 flights, these machines were removed from transportation. — Why did the Tu-144 go out of production — the ticket had to correspond to some average earnings in the country, — said the President. — Now the situation is different.
Now large companies have appeared that could use this aircraft.
The head of state noted that such a machine will be in demand taking into account the size of the territory of Russia: from Moscow, according to him, it is not much longer to fly to New York than to Vladivostok.
In the United Aircraft Corporation "Izvestia" said that they are working on a number of promising projects.
Including over a supersonic passenger plane.
In it, explained in the UAC, the developments and technologies used in the Tu-160 can be used.
The editor-in-chief of the magazine “Vzlet ” Andrey Fomin told“ Izvestia ” that after the end of commercial operation of supersonic aircraft Tu-144 in 1978, attempts were made in our country to develop supersonic passenger aircraft.
- Now another situation - the progress of aviation science, primarily in the field of structural materials, aerodynamics, engine building allows us to hope for the creation in the foreseeable future of a supersonic administrative passenger aircraft for corporate transportation, for businessmen, - said the expert.
The editor-in-chief of “Air Transport Review ” Alexei Sinitsky explained to“ Izvestia ” that in the segment of air transportation there is a constant struggle between speed and comfort. — Supersonic aircraft of the first generation — the European Concord and the Soviet Tu-144 — could not offer the level of comfort of conventional aircraft, — said Alexey Sinitsky. — Win in the speed of supersonic aircraft does not bring obvious advantages for passengers.
Therefore, in the new machine, aircraft manufacturers will have to solve two tasks at once: to make the flight fast and at the same time quite comfortable.
The situation around the Crimea At a meeting with employees of the plant, the President was asked to equate work at important defense enterprises to military service.
The head of state promised to think about this, noting that such a measure can be introduced with a further increase in the army of contract servicemen.
Employees of the enterprise were also interested in how the Russian leader maintains physical shape. — I communicate with people like you, with promising, result-oriented, active.
It's charging.
I charge from people like you, like a battery, ” the president said, adding that the main thing is sports.
The President also spoke about the situation around Crimea.
According to him, it will soon stabilize, and the socio-economic development of the region “will only gain momentum. ” — Today I do not think that the situation around the Crimea is dramatic, on the contrary, I am sure that everything will gradually stabilize, — said the head of state during a teleconference with leading universities of the country, held during his visit to Kazan.
On the same day, Vladimir Putin visited the student forum “Together Forward ”, where he congratulated young people on the Student Day. – Thanks to students, thanks to young people, Russia always remains young, young, daring, looking to the future, – said the President. – I want you to be always the same as I just said – looking forward, bold, bold advantages that you take advantage of all the opportunities. of our huge, huge country.
You are people who have grown up in new times.
Believe me, you have great advantages over those who grew up in previous years.
You can now create freely, without thinking about anything, new meanings, new fashion, new music, new art, new technologies.
Do not be afraid of mistakes, always look for an opportunity to overcome them and come to the solutions you need, and then you will certainly be a happy, successful generation.
The student topic continued at Kazan Federal University, where the head of state through a video bridge contacted universities in Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Simferopol, Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg and Stavropol.
During the conversation, Vladimir Putin supported the idea of using QR codes in diplomas to make it easier for graduates and employers to find each other. – It is necessary to ask the leadership of universities to provide as much information as possible about possible employers, including in electronic form, from future specialists, the President stressed.
Nevertheless, according to the head of state, employment is primarily the concern of the students themselves, not the leadership of universities.
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In these hotels were written masterpieces of literature
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“My Planet ” and OneTwoTrip travel service tell about the hotels where literary masterpieces were written.
This cute colonial-style hotel inspired Stephen King to one of his most popular and scary novels.
In 1974, King and his wife stayed here for one night.
Late in the evening they were driving through Estes Park, came across this hotel and decided to spend the night there.
At the reception, it turned out that they were the only guests - very soon the hotel was closed for the winter.
King was very impressed by the empty corridors and the huge dining room, where all the chairs were raised on the tables and only their table was ready to receive guests.
At night, King had a dream about his three-year-old son, fleeing in horror along a long corridor from a fire hose.
The writer woke up from this nightmare, sat down by the window and, looking at the mountains, in a few minutes composed the plot of “The Shining ”.
The novel was published in 1977, and it immediately became a bestseller.
The 1980 film was shot in a different location, but in the 1997 mini-series you see exactly “Stanley ”.
And, of course, the Overlook Hotel in the book is completely inspired by the Stanley Hotel.
And the number 217 is not accidentally chosen for the number in which some of the most frightening events take place - it was in it that King and his wife stayed.
In Stanley, this room is booked more often than others.
And they say that after the publication of "The Shining" in the hotel really began to happen strange events: sometimes they see ghostly children running along the corridor of the fourth floor, and in the music room occasionally appears the late Mrs. Stanley, the wife of the founder of the hotel.
Agatha Christie "Murder on the Orient Express" The great writer and author of a huge number of detectives traveled a lot, and many trips inspired her to new bestsellers.
During a trip to the Middle East, Christie wrote one of her most famous detectives, Murder on the Orient Express.
She traveled several times on this express from Istanbul to London and knew firsthand what it was like to be on a blocked train away from people: in 1931, the Orient Express with Christie on board stood in the field for several hours due to a snowstorm.
Note that in her trips the writer always took a typewriter, so perhaps the beginning of the novel originated on that day.
Christie completed Murder on the Orient Express in more comfortable conditions: in room 411 of the Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah in Istanbul.
Today, the room is named after Agatha Christie, and it carefully recreates the atmosphere of that time.
The hotel was also loved by another famous writer - Ernest Hemingway, according to rumors, could sip whiskey for hours at the Orient bar.
Also at the Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah stayed Queen Elizabeth II and King Edward VIII, Sarah Bernard and Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, Jacqueline Kennedy and Mustafa Ataturk.
The final part of the famous story about the boy who survived, J.K. Rowling wrote in the ancient hotel The Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh.
The building itself looks as if descended from the pages of the saga: in such a Victorian mansion, a school of sorcerers could well be located.
Rowling was writing a book in room 552 on the fifth floor.
On the door of the room hangs a sign The J.K. Rowling Suite and a small owl figurine.
Behind the door is a huge suite with a bedroom, a dressing room, a spacious bathroom and a large living room.
In the living room there is a table at which several chapters of Harry Potter were written.
As admitted in one of the interviews, Rowling herself, to finish the book at home, someone constantly interfered with her, and she remembered the “Balmoral ”, where she had already stopped a couple of times.
So in August 2006, the writer moved to a hotel.
About who lives in a large corner suite, knew only a few people from the hotel staff.
They did everything possible so that no one disturbed the famous writer, so she lived in the room for six months and finished her famous story.
Today it is impossible to rent the same room in the hotel, but there are another 167 rooms - from classic to deluxe.
And a spa, sauna, Turkish bath, fitness room and chic restaurant Number One.
Ian Fleming, James Bond books In truth, when Ian Fleming wrote James Bond books in the Golden Eye mansion, the hotel was not here yet.
The house belonged entirely to the writer: he bought a piece of land in Jamaica in 1946 and built his house on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
But these days, any traveler can stay here - if, of course, you book one of the 22 rooms in advance.
The main house, where the stories about the great agent are written, was built according to Fleming ’ s sketches.
The writer spent more than 20 winters here.
Noel Coward, Catherine Hepburn, Errol Flynn, Cecil Beaton, Princess Margaret and British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden were also guests.
And after Fleming ’ s death in 1964, the mansion was bought by the famous music producer Chris Blackwell, and a whole series of famous musicians visited the villa: Sting, Bono, Michael Kane, as well as Johnny Depp and the Clinton couple.
By the way, many star guests planted trees on the site - this tradition began in 1956, Sir Anthony Eden.
The main house has only three bedrooms, the rest of the rooms are located in the later built cottages.
But if you want to catch inspiration, ask to settle you in the room of Fleming himself, where even there is a table at which he wrote books about agent 007.
He, by the way, specially stands with his back to the window overlooking the sea, so as not to be distracted.
Ernest Hemingway was generally very respectful of good hotels, and dozens of hotels around the world have rooms where he stayed or even lived for a long time.
But the honor of being called the hotel where Hemingway worked fell to few.
Ambos Mundos is one of them.
This is one of the oldest hotels in Havana, built in the late 1920s.
And already in the early 1930s, the number 511 was removed by Hemingway.
He lived here for seven years and wrote three books during this time: “Death in the Afternoon ”,“ The Green Hills of Africa ” and “To Have and Not to Have ”.
Also here he wrote some chapters of one of his most famous novels, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Today, room 511 is a small museum, which houses a typewriter and some personal belongings of the writer.
The bed in the room has also been preserved since that time.
In addition, one of the restaurants of the hotel is called Hemingway.
And another restaurant, Plaza de Armas, serves Hemingway's favorite dishes.
If you stay at Ambos Mundos, be sure to go up to the rooftop bar: it offers stunning views of the historic center of Havana.
Rudyard Kipling "The Jungle Book" Brown's is a respectable and at the same time luxurious five-star hotel located in the heart of London, between Piccadilly Square and Regent Street.
It was here that Rudyard Kipling wrote his most famous work, The Jungle Book.
Of course, the inspiration for the stories included in the book was not foggy London, but India, where Kipling spent his childhood.
But it is possible that the comfort and convenience of the room in Brown ’ s played a role and helped the writer to create a work that both children and adults love today.
The hotel has a special suite named after Kipling.
The room has a unique atmosphere of colonial India.
On the walls there is a unique wallpaper with a pattern in the form of flowers and leaves.
The suite also has a huge marble bathroom and a spacious living room with a comfortable desk.
Brown ’ s Hotel didn ’ t just love Kipling.
Agatha Christie, Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander Bell (who, by the way, made the world ’ s first phone call from here) lived here.
Sir Winston Churchill said, “I don ’ t stay in a hotel.
I'm staying at Brown's. "
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Media of Russia: the list of presidential candidates is reduced
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In a review of Russian newspapers for February 1: "Kommersant", RBC: "the feeling of clowning will not add advantages to the elections", the Central Election Commission of Russia completed the reception of signatures from those wishing to compete for the post of President of Russia, writes "Kommersant".
The signatures were collected by six: self-nominated Vladimir Putin, Grigory Yavlinsky from Yabloko, Boris Titov from the Growth Party, Ksenia Sobchak from the Civic Initiative, Maxim Suraykin from the Communists of Russia, and Sergei Baburin, who was nominated by the Russian National Union.
Pavel Grudinin (CPRF) and Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR) nominated from the Duma parties and have already registered as candidates.
After verification of signatures, candidates can be registered.
Experts believe that the procedure for collecting signatures remains "unreasonably expensive", this led to the fact that candidates were forced to focus almost exclusively on collecting signatures, without engaging in election campaigning.
Several potential participants of the election campaign could not collect signatures, because, according to the Golos Association, not everyone was guaranteed equal opportunities.
Thus, Yabloko appealed to the management of railway stations, airports and shopping and entertainment centers, where the collection of signatures in support of the nomination of Vladimir Putin, with a request to free allow the collection of signatures at these sites and for Grigory Yavlinsky (about 70 points).
But in most cases, the “apples ” were refused.
The Russian Public Institute of Electoral Law (ROIIP), which is headed by ex-CEC member Igor Borisov, talk about the increased interest of potential candidates in the elections and "the growth of confidence in the electoral system of the country."
The ROIIP report on the legal conditions and practice of nominating and registering candidates for presidential elections noted that the society has formed a "clearly expressed request for the emergence of new persons and ideas in politics", increased political activity of citizens, including young people.
This, according to the experts of the Institute, is consistent with the creation of means of communication between the authorities and society, such as "Active Citizen" in Moscow, "Dobrodel" in the Moscow region, etc.
Igor Borisov believes that the campaign in 2018 is “noticeable ”.
Despite the large number of candidates, according to the expert, they all understand that they can hardly compete with Vladimir Putin.
“There is a serious struggle in the parliamentary elections.
But none of the parties is ready to make an alternative in the election of the head of state, "Borisov said.
RBC recalls that the intention to participate in the elections of the Central Election Commission notified 64 potential candidates, now there are 8, and not all of them will be able to pass the verification of signatures, according to two sources close to the Central Election Commission.
Putin, Yavlinsky, Titov and Sobchak will be included in the final ballot, they believe.
There is a great chance of registration and Suraykin.
"They should have clean signatures, collectors have been seen in the regions, there is recognition, almost all of them are serious candidates," one of the interlocutors of RBC comments.
“A list with seven or eight names, no strange candidates, is really better than with them.
The feeling of clowning will not add advantages to the elections in the eyes of voters, ” political scientist Abbas Gallyamov is sure.
The greatest chances to get on the ballot from Putin, Grudinin, Zhirinovsky, Yavlinsky, Titov, Suraykin and Sobchak, agrees political consultant Dmitry Fetisov.
This configuration is beneficial to the authorities, says political scientist Gallyamov.
"On the one hand, there are new faces, on the other hand, there are enough veterans, against which even Putin looks like a newcomer, there are liberals, there are leftists, there are radicals, there are moderates," he says.
At the same time, Gallyamov doubts that with the help of this set of candidates the Kremlin will be able to remove all claims regarding the "predetermined result".
"Vedomosti": legal entities-creditors will be collected in the register On the basis of the Central Bank can be created a single register of credit dossiers of legal entities, write "Vedomosti".
According to experts, such a registry is needed to combat fraud and increase transparency.
The bill on the register is planned to be introduced in the spring, said the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the financial market Anatoly Aksakov.
The credit dossier contains all the calculations on the financial analysis of the borrower, full credit conditions, documents on the pledge, etc., explains the top manager of a large bank.
The loss of credit dossiers in individual banks and the possible repetition of this situation creates risks for the financial market, according to the materials of the expert council of the State Duma Committee on the financial market.
From Promsvyazbank before it was sent to sanation, lost or destroyed the credit files of corporate borrowers in the amount of 109.1 billion rubles, said in late December, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Vasily Pozdyshev, recalls the publication.
About the same amount, the bank financed its subordinated obligations through repo transactions, Pozdyshev recalled.
Now, when banks approve a loan to large businesses, it is relatively easy for them to check the loan load of the borrower, as for small and medium-sized businesses - there is a problem, says ACRA analyst Kirill Lukashuk, for such purposes, the new register will also be useful for banks.
The idea looks useful both for the regulator and for the market as a whole, says Alexander Chibisov, director of the Small and Medium Business Credit Risks Department at Binbank: a single register will reduce the risks of information distortion and make information more accessible in general.
The transfer of loan agreements or dossiers will increase the operational burden on the bank, warns Lukashuk.
As for supervision, now the Central Bank can request any information about the borrower, he continues: "But, I think, the need to transmit this data online will somewhat limit the banks' ability to manipulate the categories of quality of loans and the size of reserves."
The idea of such a registry was discussed some time ago, several bankers said, but its application for any of them was not fully understood.
Recently, the Central Bank has a lot of ideas of a commercial nature, says the interlocutor of Vedomosti in the bank from the top 10, to take at least the Fund for the consolidation of the banking sector, when the regulator ’ s employees participate in the management of commercial banks.
This is not a healthy situation, he concluded.
The promised by the President of the amnesty of capital will last until March 2019, writes RBC.
It will be more effective than the previous one due to the exchange of tax information between countries, experts say.
The authors of the amendments to the first and second parts of the Tax Code were deputies Andrei Makarov (head of the budget and taxes committee), Anatoly Aksakov (head of the financial markets committee), Pavel Krasheninnikov (head of the state construction and legislation committee) and Alexei Didenko.
The package of bills is supported by the government, Makarov told reporters on Wednesday after an additional meeting of the State Duma Council.
The first capital amnesty law was passed in 2015.
According to him, any Russian could disclose information about his property and accounts in foreign banks without any additional payments and taxes.
In exchange, he received exemption from criminal (for a number of economic structures), administrative and tax liability.
The law on controlled foreign companies (CFC) was also adopted, according to which Russians are obliged to declare their participation in foreign business and pay taxes on income from it.
Subject to the liquidation of the CFC until December 31, 2017, its owner was exempted from paying personal income tax in Russia for property received during the closure of the company.
The new laws essentially extend the validity of the past.
But the procedure for action in the new bills is more clearly spelled out, says Ekaterina Vlasova, a lawyer at BGP Litigation, and the conditions are better than in the previous deoffshorization campaign.
Senior tax manager of IPT Group Ilya Burtsev believes that the main "pitfall" of the new amendments is the possibility of tax-free receipt of funds as a result of the liquidation of a foreign company: "The difficulty lies in the fact that crediting funds from a foreign company as a result of liquidation to an account of a natural person opened in a foreign bank will most likely require amendments to the recently amended legislation on currency regulation - now such a named operation is not directly“ It ’ s as if it ’ s allowed, ” Burtsev said.
The new amnesty will be more successful than the previous one, Vlasova believes.
“Unlike in 2015, the procedure for declaring assets and foreign companies is now regulated and painted much more clearly, ” the lawyer says.
According to the author of the bill Andrei Makarov, the adoption of the amendments will protect Russian business and Russian citizens in the framework of the exchange that is now taking place between the tax services of foreign states.
He noted that all materials on the draft laws have been sent to the FATF (International Financial Action Group against Money Laundering).
"Any country should coordinate all amnesties with the FATF, this is a very important moment in the fight against money laundering," Makarov said, noting that the previous text was also coordinated with the FATF.
Another co-author of the project Pavel Krashennikov stressed that "the amendment to the Criminal Code says that the return of capital will not be prosecuted."
“Now is the time to come back, ” he said.
Ksenia Sobchak in an interview with RBC told why she decided to warn Vladimir Putin about her decision to go to the polls, how many sponsors her election campaign and what she would consider a good result of the vote.
Review prepared by Olga Karaulova, BBC Monitoring Service
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Nature Research holds the first scientific conference in Russia
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MOSCOW, 11 september - RIA Novosti.
The first conference of the world famous scientific publisher Nature Research on the topic "Advances and Applications in Plasma Physics - AAPP 2019" will be held at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) on September 18-20.
The conference will bring together experts and young scientists from various fields of plasma physics, including thermonuclear fusion, space plasma physics, and the use of plasma in industry.
Presentations will be made by representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rosatom, ITER, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and others.
“I am particularly pleased that the topic of our first joint conference was plasma physics, an area in which Russia was rightfully considered and is considered one of the world ’ s leading experts, ” said Bart Verberk, regional executive editor of the Nature Research journal line.
The key issues of the conference are controlled synthesis and the Russian thermonuclear program.
Russian researchers are the founders of scientific developments in the field of plasma physics and are actively engaged in obtaining energy from controlled thermonuclear fusion.
Currently, an international experimental thermonuclear reactor ITER – tokamak (installation with magnetic plasma retention) is being built in France.
The authors of the concept of tokamak are Soviet scientists - Igor Evgenievich Tamm and Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov.
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Lost drawing of Gustav Klimt found in closet
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The painting “Two Lying ” by the artist Gustav Klimt was found in the closet, according to Kurier.at.
As it turned out, a resident of Austria for many years illegally kept work at home.
She died in December 2017.
According to the will, the drawing will be handed over to the city of Linz.
In 1951, the owner of "Two Lying" Olga Eger transferred this work of Klimt and three paintings by Egon Schiele to the Museum of Modern Art in Linz.
In 2006, her heirs decided to take these works of art, but it turned out that the canvases were missing.
The trial began, and the heirs were awarded a total of more than €8 million plus interest.
About what happened to the works of Schiele, is not yet reported.
Earlier, the authors of the film about Kazimir Malevich said that the artist was born on the wrong street in Kiev, which was later named in his honor.
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In the closet of the Austrian pensioner found the lost picture of Klimt
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The lost picture of Gustav Klimt was discovered after the death of a pensioner in Austria, who for many years illegally kept it and bequeathed it to the city of Linz, reports ORF radio.
The former secretary, who retired in 1977, kept Klimt's work called Zwei Liegende ("Two Lying") in her closet.
In 2017, the woman died, and her last will was carried out.
In 1951, the owner of the work, Olga Eger, loaned this picture, as well as three others belonging to the brush of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele, to the Museum of Modern Art in Linz.
In 2006, the heirs of Jaeger wanted to take their property, but it turned out that the paintings were missing.
The owners filed a lawsuit against the city administration with a demand to pay compensation, in parallel with this, a large-scale trial began.
The injured party was paid in the total account more than eight million euros plus interest, writes RIA Novosti The fate of the remaining lost paintings is not specified.
According to Krone, the painting and the will of the deceased was delivered by her lawyer in January of this year.
According to the last confession of the woman, one day at work, she found that the exhibits transferred to the museum for temporary use were incorrectly documented.
She reported this to the manager, who demanded that she keep it a secret.
He "gave" her a picture of Klimt.
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Bayer sues FAS over Monsanto merger deal
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Moscow.
February 13.
INTERFAX.RU - Bayer sued the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation because of the transaction with Monsanto, said the head of the FAS Igor Artemyev.
"We have just been sued by the largest German company Bayer, which merges with Monsanto," Artemyev said at a meeting with United Russia deputies in the State Duma.
“We demand from them, in exchange for the consent of the antimonopoly authority, the transfer of a significant part of the technologies for our agricultural industry, because they have such bigdata that if they are launched in a combined form, we will have little left of agriculture, ” he said.
"This is our first trial with them.
They filed (the lawsuit - IF) last week and said that they are ready not to make this deal on the territory of Russia, in general they will leave, "- said the head of the FAS.
In turn, Bayer later on Tuesday said that the lawsuit against the FAS does not exclude the coordination of terms for the transaction with Monsanto.
Bayer exercised his right to appeal the order and went to court.
This step is procedural in nature and will not affect the possibility of negotiations to reach a mutually beneficial agreement in order to support the further innovative development of Russian agriculture, "the company's press service told Interfax.
According to the file of arbitration cases, Bayer ’ s lawsuit against the FAS was registered on February 8.
The company seeks recognition of "decisions and actions (omissions) illegal."
The third parties in the proceedings are Monsanto CJSC, Monsanto International and Monsanto Rus LLC.
The lawsuit will be considered in the Arbitration Court of Moscow.
“We hope to win in this court, as we defeated Google, Apple, others, because we found some still not very standard solutions, ” said Artemyev.
In November 2017, the FAS announced that it could agree on a Bayer-Monsanto deal if Bayer meets behavioral requirements, including the transfer of breeding technologies.
The deadline for consideration of the application of the German Bayer AG for the purchase of 100% of the shares of the American Monsanto has been extended for three months.
The Antimonopoly Service concluded that the transaction could create significant risks for competition in the Russian market, which should be excluded at the stage of its approval.
The deal affects seed markets, plant protection products, in particular non-selective herbicides, as well as digital proposals for agricultural producers.
Behavioral requirements for the approval of the transaction include the transfer of breeding technologies necessary for the creation of new varieties and hybrids applicable in Russian agro-climatic conditions, on the basis of a non-exclusive license, as well as access to databases in the field of digital farming to Russian companies.
In January, Artemyev held a meeting with the leadership of Bayer, the parties expressed their readiness to continue negotiations "on all controversial points to achieve a mutually acceptable solution," the FAS reported at the time.
Deputy head of the FAS Andrey Tsyganov was also positive: the antimonopoly service continues to discuss with Bayer the details of the technology transfer and expects that the process will be completed in the scheduled time.
"We still have time, this deal is being considered not only in Russia, it is being considered in many foreign jurisdictions, in almost all major ones, including the United States, the EU, China, India, and Brazil.
Decisions in these jurisdictions have not yet been made.
In fact, it seems to me that the global closure of this deal may happen in the spring, but not in the beginning.
I think that in the terms that we have outlined, we will complete this process, ” he said in an interview with Interfax at the end of January.
Bayer and Monsanto signed a definitive merger agreement in September 2016.
The value of the transaction is $66 billion ($128 per share of Monsanto).
Bayer will finance the acquisition with its own and bank funds.
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Love, encrypted on the canvases: Bryullov hid the lady of the heart in the paintings, and “Unequal marriage ” was happy
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TODAY 01: 20 2018-02-13T23: 19: 09 + 03: 00 Valentine 's Day, February 14, has already become quite a familiar holiday for us.
And let's not quite usually mark it, remembering the love stories that are hidden in famous works of art Change the size of the text: A A "Over the city" Marc Chagall, 1918 Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow You have seen this picture many times - if not in Tretyakov, then in reproductions: Marc Chagall and his beloved wife Bella fly over Vitebsk.
Well, they fly and fly - Chagall has many who fly over cities and weights.
But have you noticed that the couple has two hands for two?
Not four...
Mark and Bella met in 1909.
They were inseparable until her death in 1944.
"The eyes are shining on the pale face.
Big, bulging, black!
These are my eyes, my soul, ” Chagall wrote in his book My Life.
All his life he perceived his wife and himself as parts of one whole.
And one creature needs two hands, not four, right?
"Unequal marriage" Vasily Pukirev, 1862 Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow "Unequal marriage", Vasily Pukirev All who come from the USSR, remember how on the example of this picture we were told about the powerlessness of women in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Here, they say, look: in front of you a girl - the purest poverty, the purest sample, she is forced to marry a rich old man.
Feeling her terrible fate, the unfortunate one lowered her eyes to the floor, and he, shameless, looks arrogantly at her...
In fact (according to one version, but the most common) the picture depicts the wedding of a merchant, an honorary citizen of Moscow, patron of arts Andrei Karzinkin.
By the time of the wedding, he was 37, and his wife Sophia (by the way, not a poor girl at all, but the daughter of a merchant and the owner of a cloth factory - hello to the propaganda of the USSR!) was only 13 years younger.
One of the Moscow estates owned by the Karzinkins was (and is: their descendants still live there) in Moscow, on Pokrovsky Boulevard, 18.
It was here that Andrei and Sofia arranged on Wednesdays famous throughout the capital literary and musical evenings, which were visited, for example, by the playwright Ostrovsky, and in 1884 for the first time Konstantin Alekseev (the future Stanislavsky).
Later, the descendants of the Karzinkin will visit Gorky, Bunin, Bryusov, etc.
In general, you can imagine the hopeless everyday life of the unfortunate Sophia Karzinkina, who had to live in such inhuman conditions.
Why does the 37-year-old look so old?
Moscow historians say that in fact the artist depicted his portrait as a cartoon.
Because he was in love with Sophia.
"The Last Day of Pompeii" Karl Bryullov, 1830 - 1833 The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg "The Last Day of Pompeii", Karl Bryullov Karl Bryullov, passionately in love with the socialite (as it would now be called) Countess Julia Samoilova, perhaps, surpassed all his brothers in brush and easel, depicting his mistress in one picture as much as three times: 1 - mother and daughters (by the way, the skeletons of three women in this position were really found during the excavations of Pompeii); 2 - a girl with a vessel (just behind her, by the way, the artist depicted himself - you see, saves a box of brushes and paints from an erupting volcano?); 3 - a woman who fell to the ground.
Carl and Julia met in 1827 in Italy, in the salon of Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya.
Samoilova is an aristocrat, Bryullov is an artist.
Their relationship began with a tragedy: as soon as Samoilova appeared in the workshop of Karl, one of his models committed suicide, jealous of a new passion.
But Julia and Carl were not jealous, and both, being passionate people, gave each other freedom.
Their romance has been trying for almost 20 years and forever entered the love story together with the paintings.
And, in particular, with “The Last Day of Pompeii ”, which made Bryullov famous.
"Portrait of the Unknown in the Triangle" Fyodor Rokotov, early 1770s Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow "Portrait of the Unknown in the Triangle", Fyodor Rokotov It is believed that before us is a portrait of Count Bobrinsky, son of Empress Catherine II from her favorite Grigory Orlov.
But once researchers thought: why does a young man on canvas have such a feminine face?
They dragged the canvas onto the x-ray, and it was under the top layer of paint that highlighted... the image of a young woman.
They say that this is the first wife of the publisher and bibliophile of the XVIII century Nikolai Struisky.
He, they say, ordered Rokotov portrait of his young wife.
But the woman died in childbirth, and the twin children died.
The portrait is unfinished.
Nikolai Yeremeyevich, meanwhile, married again.
And he asked the artist to remake the girl into a young man, so as not to arouse the jealousy of his new wife...
"Kiss" Gustav Klimt, 1907 - 1908 Belvedere Gallery, Vienna "Kiss", Gustav Klimt The name of the count who ordered this picture to the Austrian artist Klimt, history is silent.
For the time being, no one knew why these gilded man and woman do not kiss on the lips.
But this is how the order sounded: the artist had to portray the count and his beloved merged in a passionate kiss.
The customer gave Gustav Klimt a medallion with the image of his beloved girl - and left on his count's business.
He comes after a while to pick up the painting.
Where is the passionate kiss on the lips?
Klimt explains: you, they say, do not understand anything, count your head, I portrayed passion! Mood! Agility!
The customer agreed, paid and gave the picture to his beloved.
She was fascinated - and immediately agreed to marry the count, who never found out that she had another admirer - Klimt himself, who fell in love with the girl while writing Kiss!
That ’ s why he didn ’ t let her kiss another man – at least on his canvas.
It was a small revenge to the count, which Klimt himself soon told his friends.
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Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). 1. Help
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KIEV, 15 feb — RIA Novosti Ukraine.
The Berlin International Film Festival opens on Thursday.
Background information is provided below.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Berlinale) is a great cultural event for the international film industry.
Along with the Cannes and Venice festivals, the Berlin Film Forum is considered the largest and most prestigious in the world of cinema.
As a rule, about 400 films are shown at the Berlinale, mainly international and European premieres.
More than 330,000 tickets are sold for the festival.
The festival attracts more than 20 thousand film professionals from more than 120 countries.
The decision to hold the film festival was made on October 9, 1950 at a meeting of a special committee convened at the initiative of the American officer Oscar Martey.
In addition to Martheus and his British counterpart George Turner, the committee included two representatives of the Berlin Senate administration, four representatives of the German film industry and a journalist.
At this meeting, the dates of the first festival and the name “Berlin International Film Festival ” were agreed upon.
Film director Dr. Alfred Bauer was appointed director of the festival.
The first festival was held from 6 to 17 June 1951, and the award ceremony took place on 18 June.
In the first year of the festival, the awards were presented by a German jury, in 1952-1955 the winners were determined by the audience vote, since 1956 the decision to award the awards began to be made by an international jury.
Until 1978, the festival was held in June-July, then the dates were moved to February.
The program of the Berlin International Film Festival in addition to the main competition includes short film competitions (Berlinale Shorts); independent art-house cinema "Panorama" (Panorama); competition for youth audience "Generation" (Generation); "Perspective German cinema" (Perspektive Deutsches Kino).
The program of the festival includes the "Forum", organized by the Institute of Film and Video Arts.
Also in the official program of the Berlin Film Festival includes a special program Berlinale Special (combines screenings of works by modern directors, films that have become notable events in cinema).
The festival presents a thematic retrospective of Homage (a program dedicated to the creative heritage of an outstanding filmmaker), Berlinale Classics (screenings of restored films), etc.
The Berlinale is an accredited festival of the International Federation of Film Producers FIAPF and follows its recommendations.
The competition program of the festival includes feature feature films and short films created within 12 months before the start of the festival and not shown at other festivals.
Preference is given to world premieres.
The main award of the festival is the "Golden Bear" (the bear is the heraldic symbol of Berlin).
"Golden Bear" is awarded the best film of the main competition, "Silver Bear" is awarded to the winners of the Grand Prix nominations of the international jury, they are awarded to the best director, for the best female and male roles, for the best script, as well as "for outstanding contribution in the field of art", which is awarded to the cameraman, editor, composer, costume designer.
The Silver Bear of the Alfred Bauer Prize celebrates films that open new avenues in film art.
In 2006, for the first time, the prize for the best film debut was awarded.
The festival has two honorary awards, which are awarded for achievements in the field of cinema - the honorary "Golden Bear" and the Berlinale Camera Award.
See also: In a swimsuit and without.
At the Berlinale, independent jury awards are awarded: the prize of the ecumenical jury, the prize of the International Federation of Film Press (FIPRESCI), the prize of the Guild of German arthouse cinema and other awards.
Since 1978, there has been a film competition for children and teenagers called Generation.
The winners of the Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus nominations receive Crystal Bears.
In different years, the Golden Bears were awarded to films by such world-famous directors as Ingmar Bergman, Zhang Yimou, An Lee, Sidney Lumet, Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Milos Forman and others.
In 2017, the Berlinale was held in the German capital from 9 to 19 February.
The main prize of the 67th Berlin Film Festival - "Golden Bear" received the Hungarian film "On Body and Soul" (On Body and Soul).
"Silver Bear" for best director was received by Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki, who presented the film "The Other Side of Hope".
The best actress at the Berlinale was Kim Min-hee from South Korea, who played in the film Hong Sang-soo “Night by the sea alone ” (On the Beach at Night Alone).
“Silver Bear ” for the best male role was received by the Austrian Georg Friedrich thanks to his work in the film of the German director Thomas Arslan“ Bright Nights ” (Bright Nights).
The award for the best screenplay went to the film “Fantastic woman ” (A Fantastic Woman) Chilean Sebastian Lelio.
The prize in honor of the founder of the festival Alfred Bauer was received by the Polish film director and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland for the picture “The Trail ” (Spoor).
The Grand Prix of the international jury went to the film “School number 3 ” by Ukrainian Elizaveta Smith and German Georg Jeno about schoolchildren of Donbass.
See also: Love is unearthly.
The best short film was the documentary work of director Diogo Costa Amarante “The Little City ” (Cidade Pequena).
In 2018, the Berlinale will be held from 15 to 25 February.
The international jury this year is headed by the famous German film director, screenwriter, composer and producer Tom Tykwer.
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Winemaker: All alcoholic products on the shelves are safe!
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Leonid Popovich on the air of NSN drew attention to the fact that individual violations of cognac producers can not draw general conclusions.
The Russian government intends to develop changes in legislation by the end of the year, which will exclude the possibility of selling surrogates under the guise of cognac and champagne, RIA Novosti reported.
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin said that it scares him when instead of cognac on the shelves there is pure alcohol with dye.
According to him, the country has a lot of products that do not comply with GOST, which he calls to fight at the legislative level.
The President of the Union of winegrowers and winemakers of Russia Leonid Popovich on the air of NSN urged not to make categorical conclusions about the share of poor-quality products.
“Recently, a lot of statements and assessments about what we sell with the label“ cognac ”.
As a rule, these estimates are based on the fact that some organization conditionally took 10 bottles from the shelf of a certain store, checked them and determined that 4, say, contains something not quite right.
The percentage is calculated and a completely insane, in my opinion, conclusion is made, which is broadcast in print - in the country 40% of products of inadequate quality.
Although it would be correct to specify that 40% of those 10 bottles bought there.
The press throws out these very important details, and in vain, ” he said.
According to Leonid Popovich, products first of all should be considered from the point of view of safety for life.
“All products sold in our stores are 100% safe for those who drink it.
That's what matters.
Perhaps someone in order to cheapen something is doing with the product.
This may not always be in accordance with the rules of any document.
But these producers need to be dealt with individually.
You need to go to the company and understand in detail and deeply what the reason is.
It can be both a single human error and a system forgery.
The bad ones should be punished.
But I cannot agree with the conclusions about a large number of low-quality products in the sale, ” he added.
Earlier it was reported that alcohol producers supported the transition to Russian equipment, stressing that the implementation of such a project requires a long time and high costs.
Recall that on November 22, 2017, Alexander Khloponin complained that about 40 percent of cognac in the Russian market is fake.
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How the Ukrainians of illegal immigrants in the “Tazik ” through the English Channel
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The owner of the illustration Sparkes Marina Image caption Confiscated "Tazik" in the port near Portsmouth Ukrainian Vladislav Kurtoglu in his youth was engaged in ballet.
By the age of 50, he had six children and, following his brother Gennady, became interested in traveling on a yacht through the English Channel.
On Wednesday, he was sentenced to six years in prison for transporting illegal migrants to the UK.
The boat of Gennady with six Ukrainians without visas was detained off the east coast of England at the end of April, and three weeks later Vladislav on the yacht “Tazik ” caught off the southern coast with exactly the same cargo.
He was assisted by Dmitry Kryuk, who was sent to prison by the court of Portsmouth on Wednesday for three years and nine months.
Judge Stephen Clymee, when announcing the verdict, called the crime well-planned and very similar to the one for which 48-year-old Gennady Kurtoglu received four years in prison in July.
Unlike his younger brother, the captain of the Tazik Vladislav pleaded not guilty, and the judge ’ s indulgence was only granted to the 29-year-old sailor Hook, who repented in November after six months of pre-trial detention.
Seafarers listened to the first sentence in their life, standing behind the glass in the company of a Russian translator.
The short-haired Hook looked depressed; Kurtoglu grinned, shaking his light curls.
Image caption The hearing took place in the court of Portsmouth Rare luck The UK immigration authorities were satisfied with the outcome of the proceedings.
"It was a carefully planned criminal operation," said Lin Sari, who is in charge of investigating immigration violations at the Home Office.
A modest achievement in the fight against illegal migration – 12 deported Ukrainians and three convicted – is unlikely to pacify those who are unhappy with the influx of foreigners into the UK.
The problem has long dominated the public debate and was one of the reasons for the decision of the British to leave the European Union.
There are no exact statistics, and the liberal traditions of the country practically guarantee illegal immigrants a quiet life without documents.
“If you ’ re already here, no problem: you have free access to medical care, your children can go to school, and the chances that we ’ ll catch you are extremely, extremely small, ” Lucy Morton, head of the union of British immigration workers, told the Sun newspaper.
Public services refrain from assessing the extent of illegal immigration, citing the inability to even roughly determine the number of people detained in the UK without permission: from 1998 to 2015, the documents of foreigners were checked only at the entrance, and how many left is unknown.
As a result, newspapers and officials operate with estimates of a decade ago with a gigantic spread: from 400 to 800 thousand people.
Of these, only about 12,000 are deported each year.
Image caption The deserted beaches of the east coast of England attract seals and smugglers A much more serious problem for the 66-million country is legal migration: about 300 thousand a year, and half - from the EU countries.
Which year the authorities can not keep the promise to reduce it to less than 100 thousand a year.
Crossing the English Channel on a Ukrainian yacht is more of an extravagant than a traditional way to sneak into the British Isles.
However, it is popular among Ukrainians: in October 2014, four were convicted of trying to land six compatriots ashore in Suffolk County, and three years later, four more were caught transporting 19 illegal immigrants.
However, the lion ’ s share of illegal border crossings is accounted for by refugees from Afghanistan, Africa, Iraq and Syria.
And they prefer to hide in trucks and on transport ships - the British authorities annually catch more than 50 thousand people in ports.
There are less adventurous ways of illegal growth of the diaspora.
In November 2016, the Spanish police arrested 115 Ukrainians and accused them of organizing the delivery of illegal immigrants to the UK via Ireland.
According to investigators, they took those who wished to Poland and Romania, where they were made false documents of EU citizens, put on a plane to Ireland, and from there - by ferry to the target.
Kurtoğlu and Hook were carrying six people to the Tazik.
Six thousand Ukrainians arrested in Spain were transferred to the UK.
The owner of the illustration Home Office Image caption In the phone Hook found a selfie and a route.
Kurtoglu photographed already in the UK Selfie Lawyers asked the judge to show leniency to the defendants.
They rested on the artistic and artistic talents of Captain Kurtoglu, his love for open spaces and six children, as well as on the difficult life situation of Hook: all in debt, no work, hired sailors for 2000 euros, but then repented of what he had done and learned English in prison.
The judge took into account the lack of criminal records of the defendants and the fact that the illegal May voyage was the only proven in their career, but noted as aggravating circumstances the thorough preparation of the crime and attempts to mislead the coast guard after the yacht was detained.
The captain claimed to have left France on a boat trip with friends, but lost his way due to a storm, and the engine broke down.
The weather service and the examination showed in court that the weather on that day was fine, and the engine is in perfect order.
In Kurtoglu ’ s phone, investigators found a video in which he inspects a parking lot near a beach in France, discusses the details of a meeting with illegal immigrants and notes the lack of security cameras.
And Hook's phone has a map of the English Channel crossing and a selfie aboard the Tazik.
“The selfie of the relaxed Hook taken on the way to the UK shows how confident they were of the success of the venture, ” said Lin Sari of the Home Office.
The judge ordered both to be deported after serving their sentence, and Tazik to be sold under the hammer.
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The flight of the world ’ s first flying taxi showed Internet users
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(Kazan, February 23, "Tatar-inform").
The flight of the world ’ s first flying taxi became available on YouTube thanks to the company Airbus.
This is reported by RIA Novosti.
Trial take-off was made in the United States, Oregon.
The taxi was in action for 53 seconds.
The taxi is designed for only one passenger, while the maximum weight that the car can handle is 745 kg.
They will be able to raise to a height of 5 thousand m Aerotaxi is fully electric, it is equipped with several engines.
It is expected to be on the market by 2020.
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RAN shared a forecast for future winters in Russia
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Head of the Laboratory of Climatology of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Semenov estimated the current winter and predicted climatic changes in the near future.
According to Semenov, the general trend of Russian weather this winter is an anomaly.
He noted that this December well reflects global warming.
The scientist said that “we are moving towards the European winter ”.
The climatologist suggested that the winters in Russia will gradually become milder, and the temperature differences between summer and winter will decrease.
“That is, the temperature will be about zero in the winter, minus five, well, frosts – minus ten.
Soon, in fact, it will become a reality.
Because the climate is changing and we are moving in this direction, ” he added.
Semenov stressed that agriculture will need to be adjusted to climate change.
“On the one hand, of course, changing the timing of the transition of temperature through zero, very important for agriculture.
And, of course, it has to adapt, ” he said.
According to the scientist, the existing level of mechanization and technology allows you to tolerate changes.
And the growth of greenhouse gases, which partially affect temperature changes, has a positive effect on plants.
Semenov drew attention to the fact that plants need carbon dioxide, therefore, an increase in greenhouse gases helps crops.
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Video of testing the world ’ s largest aircraft
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MOSCOW, 27 feb — RIA Novosti.
In the Network appeared a video of tests of the prototype aircraft Stratolaunch, during which he made several runs on the runway.
The video was published on Twitter by one of the project ’ s leaders, Paul Allen.
Testing took place on February 24 and 25.
To check the operation of engines and on-board systems, the device performed several trips.
On the runway, Stratolaunch reached a speed of 46 miles per hour (74 kilometers per hour).
Captured new video of @ Stratolaunch plane as it reached a top taxi speed of 40 knots (46 mph) with all flight surfaces in place on Sunday.
The team verified control responses, building on the first taxi tests conducted in December.
pic.twitter.com / OcH1ZkxZRA — Paul Allen (@ PaulGAllen) February 26, 2018 Stratolaunch is planned to be used as an aerial launch platform to launch launch launch vehicles to deliver cargo to low Earth orbit.
The wingspan of the aircraft is 117 meters, the weight is 230 tons.
According to preliminary calculations, the device will be able to lift up to 250 tons of cargo into the air.
The first test flight is expected to take place in 2019.
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Video of testing the world ’ s largest aircraft
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TODAY 00: 12 2018-02-28T00: 16: 19 + 03: 00 Stratolaunch drove on the runway at a speed of 74 km per hour [video] Resize text: A A Video shot during the testing of the prototype of the world ’ s largest Stratolaunch aircraft appeared on the Internet.
The video in his microblog on Twitter was published by one of the leaders of the project Paul Allen.
Paul Allen on Twitter The test tasks included checking the operation of engines and on-board systems.
To do this, the aircraft made several departures on the runway, accelerating to 46 miles per hour (74 kilometers per hour).
The tests were conducted over the weekend – 24 and 25 February.
The site kp.ru in may last year wrote that Stratolaunch for the first time left the hangar.
To the device was able to go to the runway, the creators took several weeks to disassemble the slipways height of a three-storey house, on which the aircraft was assembled.
Stratolaunch should become an aerial platform for launching launch vehicles to deliver cargo to low Earth orbit.
The scheme of delivery of the rocket to Earth orbit with the help of Stratolaunch.
PHOTO Stratolaunch / Facebook It is two fuselages with a length of 72 meters each, connected by a common wing.
The wingspan of the record holder is more than 117 meters.
The weight of the aircraft is 250 tons, and with a full load - 590 tons.
It is powered by six Pratt & Whitney PW4056 engines.
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The most long-winged aircraft tested with a fully assembled glider
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The American company Stratolaunch Systems has tested a prototype Stratolaunch aircraft with a fully assembled airframe.
About this in his Twitter wrote the founder of the company and co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen.
According to him, a fully assembled aircraft with the world ’ s largest wingspan on February 24-25, 2018, performed a series of runs on the runway.The Stratolaunch aircraft began running in December last year.
Until now, the airframe of the aircraft was missing some elements, including the leading edges of the wing in the area of attachment of the engines.
At the pre-flight test stage, this is permissible especially at the stage of the first prototype.
The aircraft with a fully assembled airframe during jogging in February of this year developed a speed of 40 knots (74 kilometers per hour).
The span of its wing is 117.3 meters.
The length of both fuselages is 72.5 meters.
The aircraft has a mass of 226.8 tons and a maximum take-off weight of 589.7 tons.
The promising aircraft will be used as an air launch platform - small rockets will be launched from it in the air to bring the payload to low Earth orbit.
Stratolaunch will be able to carry a payload weighing 249.5 tons.According to the current plans of Stratolaunch Systems, the first demonstration flight of the new aircraft with the launch of a carrier rocket will take place in 2019.
It will launch a Pegasus XL cruise missile with a mass of 23.1 tons.
What kind of payload the rocket will carry is still unknown.
In general, Stratolaunch can provide simultaneous launch of three missiles of the Pegasus type, reports the scientific portal "N + 1".
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In the United States tested the largest aircraft in the world: there was a video
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On February 24 – 25, 2018, a prototype of the Stratolaunch aircraft was tested, during which it made several runs on the runway.
This was announced by the founder of the Stratolaunch Systems team, Paul Allen.
During ground tests, the Stratolaunch Model 351 was accelerated to a record speed of 46 miles per hour (74 km / h).
The developers have not yet reported the date of the first flight, but they have something to boast about.
Stratolaunch is made according to the duhfuselage scheme.
The span of its wing is 117.3 meters.
The length of both fuselages reaches 72.5 meters.
The aircraft weighs 226.8 tons.
Its maximum take-off weight is 589.7 tons.
It is planned that small rockets will be launched from this aircraft in the air for their further launch into low-Earth orbit.
In fact, it is a carrier aircraft.
Note that the aircraft began to run in December 2017, but then the speed was only 45 kilometers per hour.
On the eve of Israel and the United States conducted a successful missile defense test to intercept missiles in space.
Earlier it was reported that US President Donald Trump intends to increase US defense spending and strengthen the missile defense system.
According to the American president, new means will be developed that will not allow the enemies of the country to strike first.
"We are committed to expanding and improving our missile defense system to shoot down missiles in the air," he said.
As reported, in the US missile defense system found a vulnerability.
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Stratolaunch, the largest aircraft to date, successfully passed one of the latest tests » DailyTechInfo
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Over the weekend, the Stratolaunch, the world ’ s largest aircraft to date, successfully passed one of the final tests in preparation for the giant ’ s first attempt at takeoff.
We remind our readers that the purpose of the Stratolaunch project, founded by Paul Allen, is to create a space launch system capable of launching payloads weighing up to 230 tons into low Earth orbit using conventional runways, a giant aircraft and single-stage launch vehicles. It has a length of 72.5 meters and a wingspan of 116 meters.
The aircraft has two fuselages, in the right of which crew members are located, and the second fuselage serves as a place where navigation systems, flight systems and other aviation electronics are installed.
Both fuselages are connected by a reinforced wing, which serves as a mounting point for the rocket that will rise to the height of its launch.
During these tests, the suspension, brake system and a number of other related technologies were tested.
All these tests were carried out at low speed, despite the operation of all six Pratt and Whitney turbojet engines, the plane moved at a speed of no more than 45 kilometers per hour.The latest tests of the Stratolaunch aircraft were carried out on Saturday and Sunday in the traditional place, on the lanes and taxiways of the Mojave Air & Space Port in California.
This time the plane was allowed to accelerate to a speed of 75 kilometers per hour, a speed that is the limit at which this giant aircraft will have to start take-off in any case.
This, unfortunately, does not mean that the first attempt to take off the aircraft will be made in the near future.
According to the company ’ s plans, this moment should come only by the end of the current decade.
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Kazakhstanis spend two hours in front of TV screens every day - Dauren Abayev
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Kazakhstanis spend two hours in front of TV screens every day - Dauren Abayev ASTANA.
KAZINFORM Minister of Information and Communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan Dauren Abayev made a report on the possibilities of television in strengthening national identity, Kazinform correspondent reports.
“In the formation of the national code within the process of spiritual modernization, the role of the media is great.
According to the results of research conducted by the Ministry of Information and Communications, Kazakhstanis spend 120 minutes per day watching television to get information.
And the viewing of information posted on Internet resources and media pages, Kazakhstanis devote 60-45 minutes daily, ” said Dauren Abayev, speaking at a meeting of the Miras Republican Public Council under the Nur Otan party.
The minister also noted that in this regard, within the framework of the state order, programs are being prepared that promote our history, traditions and customs on domestic and commercial TV channels.
On the TV channels "Khabar 24" and "Qazaqstan" 30 program videos "Inzhu-Marzhan", consisting of 100 cycles, were rotated.
In addition, the projects “Bolashaqka bagdar ” and“ Sana ” were published on the Khabar TV channel.
Kazakh TV channel broadcasts daily for our compatriots abroad.
The Ministry, together with the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, implemented the project “100 New Faces of Kazakhstan ”.
Films about the project participants are broadcast on state TV channels.
The attention of the audience was presented with documentary films “Zhangyru Zholy.
Zhana turpat ”, dedicated to the implementation in 2017 of the main directions indicated in the article “Rukhani zhangyru ”.
Much attention is also paid to the preparation of social videos dedicated to the modernization of spiritual values.
In 2017, 131 social videos were produced.
Author: Aizhan Serikzhankyzy
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Named the TOP-5 most famous cosmetic procedures
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Doctors from the United States have summed up the results regarding cosmetic operations for 2017.
According to this report, over 17 million procedures were performed in the country last year.
Surgery was required in 2 million cases last year among the population of the United States, the most popular surgical interventions for breast augmentation.
There were over 300,000 of them.
This is almost 3 percent more than in 2016.
Second place is liposuction.
About 218,000 people decided to change the shape of the nose.
So did the restoration of the proportions of the abdomen and the transformation of the eyelids.
Between minimally invasive procedures, soft tissue fillers and botanical toxin type A.
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The aircraft ’ s thermonuclear reactor will carry 500 passengers
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Technically, the design is represented by portable equipment installed on board and generating electrical energy, which can serve as a power source for a 4-engine aircraft.
The airliner developers gave the name Magnavem, in the exact translation - "Big Bird".
And the design strongly resembles the shape of a spacecraft.
On board the huge aircraft can be transported about 500 passengers, which in three hours can be transported from London to New York, at a maximum speed of up to 1800 km / h.
The construction of the first such thermonuclear reactor, ITER, has just started, the specific date of its full commissioning is not specified.
These circumstances significantly hamper the progress of the entire project, which may require time from 10 to 15 years.
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Engineers have tested the fastest aircraft Stratolaunch Model 351
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The Stratolaunch Model 351 is the largest aircraft in the world.
The wingspan is 117 meters.
Due to the two-fuselage design, its weight together with a full tank of fuel is 340 tons, and the height of the apparatus is 15 meters.The aircraft must be tested many more times, and then next year it will be put into operation.
It is expected that the Stratolaunch Model 351 will deliver small launch vehicles to an altitude of 9100 meters, from where they are sent to Earth orbit.It is worth noting that the Stratolaunch Model 351 is the brainchild of the company Stratolaunch Systems, the founder of which is registered one of the founders of Microsoft Paul Allen.
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Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $55 million to a woman who developed cancer
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KIEV, May 3 — RIA Novosti Ukraine.
A Missouri jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $55 million to a woman who claimed that the company ’ s products allegedly caused her ovarian cancer.
According to Reuters, Gloria Ristesund used the company ’ s products for several decades as a means of hygiene.
After that, doctors diagnosed her with ovarian cancer and she had to undergo various operations.
J & J spokeswoman Carol Goodrich said the company intends to appeal the ruling because it runs counter to 30 years of research into the safety of its products.
A court in St. Louis, Missouri, ordered Johnson & Johnson (J & J) to pay $72 million to the family of an American woman who died of cancer that she allegedly developed as a result of the use of the company ’ s products.
Earlier it was reported that the two largest American companies - hedge fund SAC Capital and cosmetics concern Johnson & Johnson - agreed to pay compensation totaling more than $4 billion as part of the settlement of the investigation launched against them.
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607 The Law on Television calls for the creation of television and radio programs that increase the authority and positive image of Turkmenistan.
In Turkmenistan, all types of local media, and especially TV, are owned and controlled by the state.
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WRITER MOUNTAIN SEEKS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER CARLE BISSINGER Farrell Williams recorded a song that can be heard only in 100 years Next In the Triumph gallery was the ceremony of awarding the Cosmopolitan Beauty Awards One warm New York day in 1949 to us with Tennessee Williams The editor of the new magazine Flair.
Will we let Carl Bissinger take a picture of us in the garden of Cafe Nicholson with ballerina Tanakil Leclerc, artist Buffy Johnson and Tennessee ’ s old friend, writer Donald Windham?
And for more than half a century, if people start asking me about the times immediately after the war — about the second half of the 1940s, I always say, “Look at our photo in the first issue of Flair — that ’ s what we were. ”
Although it is black and white, thanks to the magic of Bissinger, the light that illuminates us seems golden.
And we're young.
We survived the Great Depression and World War II.
And literally blossomed in the three peaceful years that passed between the end of the war and the moment when the picture was taken.
They thought that this was only an overture to the golden age, they could not even think that in another two years the war in Korea would begin, and the air would wither, the glow would go out.
In the context of a century during which the war almost did not stop, Bissinger ’ s portrait irresistibly attracts the eye.
We seem to be people from a bygone era — more of 1848 than 1948.
Did I know what was going to happen next?
But I noticed that in the photos of that period, it is I who always look to the side, at something that remained behind the scenes.
What was I looking at?
I am still confused myself.
Bissinger can be considered the court photographer of Truman Capote, the writer who, in the years of our brief golden age, was clearly the most photographed.
Studying Bissenger portraits, I am amazed that on them Truman ’ s face does not express anything.
In life, he was an avid, if not always trustworthy gossip with an extremely lively physiognomy.
And here is a frozen mask.
But then I remember who he imagined himself to be at the time.
When he told me that his new novel (never written) would be about a young and beautiful young lady from New York high society, I asked: “What do you really know about such young ladies? ” —“ Everything, ” he answered, proudly raising his chin. — I ’ m a young lady from high society. ”
Along the way, he adopted the manner of holding, which is associated not so much with young ladies who are going out for the first time, but with great photo models and other beauties - he learned to make a stone face.
(Remember Ingrid Bergman ’ s last close-up in Casablanca.)
Fortunately — or unfortunately — almost everyone had already been privy to Truman Capote ’ s immense mystery.
FEMINIST GERMEN GRIR TALKS ABOUT THE ARTIST FIELD RIGO If we talk without hesitation, then I believe that portraits are a secondary genre of painting.
To almost any artist, I would recommend: “Draw from a photo. ”
But it never occurred to me to say that to Paul Rigaud.
I knew I had to pose for her in person.
Later, everyone said: “Pay attention, you hold your hands in the portrait so much that a hole appears between your fingers – in exactly the place of your vagina! ”
So what?
And King Henry VIII is depicted in pants with a gulf.
A sexless portrait would have pissed me off.
Portraits can be divided into two groups: with some people looking at you, and with others - somewhere past.
In this case, the model looks to the side, but her vagina is at you!
When the portraitist spares the model, portrays her better than she is, it is humiliating.
This portrait is strong because it was created by two personalities who communicate on an equal footing.
The face on it is constantly changing, just flickering, and I literally feel how inside, in the head of the model, there is a continuous work of thought.
If I were flattered by embellishing my skin or chest in a picture, lengthening my legs and the like, I wouldn ’ t know where to go.
But when the portrait flatters my intellect, it's wonderful.
PHOTOGRAPHER CECILE BITON TALKS ABOUT ARTIST FRANCIS BAKON Francis opened the door, smiled and announced: “The portrait is ready!
Sit down in that chair and look at it. "
In front of me was a huge newspaper caricature (although painted), depicting a completely bald, abominably decrepit - not only that, a businessman who had survived his mind.
The face was not even a face, but a clue that: ugly blurry, as in a person who suffers from elephant syndrome, swollen, more like a pile of pieces of raw meat and scraps of fat.
The nose, like a polyp, pulled the tentacles in all directions, but its main part fell to the cheek.
His mouth was like a boil that was about to burst.
The hooked fingers were depicted with emerald green strokes - real claws.
The body and hands were spelled out with clear dry smears, in a different technique than the head - raw, lubricated.
The head and shoulders were surrounded by an uneven contour of some moist mucus.
Francis said if I don't like it, I don't have to buy it.
I left crushed, my legs crumpled, it felt like I had lost something important.
(At the behest of Beaton, the artist destroyed the portrait.
There is a photo of Cecil Beaton, who took Bacon while working on the unpreserved canvas.
THE DIRECTOR OF THE MOSCOW PHOTOGRAPHY HOUSE OLGA SVIBLOVA TALKS ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER NIKOLAY BAKHAREV The specificity of my work obliges me to give interviews that require photos.
I often have to act as a model.
I don ’ t like it because I learned from childhood that I ’ m not photogenic.
All the photographers told me the same thing: my face lives in life.
When it is fixed, it is more difficult with it.
But I understand that if I already agreed to participate in the production, it is not me who is in charge.
And I can honestly stand it if I'm being run.
The only thing I'm not allowed to do is make me makeup.
Once, while I was being made up, I fell asleep, and during that time I managed to shave my eyebrows.
By the way, the photos are not bad.
The longest and most painful was shooting with Nikolai Bakharev, a photographer whom I love very much.
The shooting lasted nine hours.
I almost fainted.
He put me up, put me down, hung me up, made me change into different outfits, teased these outfits so that, as he said, the waist could be seen...
In the end, he joyfully said, “You were very disciplined and very correct. ”
After he left, I tried to stand upright for three more days.
It turned out to be my favorite photo.
I sit on the stairs in a white shirt, which is rarely the case, because I am always in black.
This is the first, and perhaps the only, time I have agreed with the way I see myself.
THE HISTORY OF ART OLGA SEVERTSEVA TALKS ABOUT ARTIST VLADIMIR WEISBERG Working with Weisberg was difficult.
He said he would paint my portrait for a certain number of days.
One of the conditions was not to be late.
He said, “I can ’ t get into the right place. ”
When he was working, the room had to be completely empty and white.
He was incredibly accurate: he calculated the number of strokes applied to the canvas.
For a long time we could not find what clothes to write me in.
In the end, he chose a light coat.
It was white on white.
There was a podium, there was a chair on it, I sat on it, cursing everything in the world.
It was impossible to move, but he gave a respite.
Weisberg - and he was already a heavy man - put the canvas so that it was at the same distance from the model and the easel.
In fact, it was the center of this circle.
The palette was in hand.
He painted with small dotted strokes: he looked at me and threw himself exactly, poked his brush at the right place on the canvas.
He was so tired of jumping.
He had to take a few steps to the easel, then back off again.
It was physically difficult.
In the room there was a narrow bed with a gray soldier ’ s blanket so that the eye would not get stuck on anything, and sometimes it almost fell on this bed.
When he wrote, I was afraid to distract him with conversations, because I could get out of this state, and then I would collapse all day.
And indeed, he finished the work, as promised, exactly on the day he appointed.
SISTER OF THE ARTIST MARGARET HOKNEY TALKS ABOUT THE ARTIST DAVID HOKNEY He always had with him a paper and a sharpened pencil.
If we were on the bus, he would paint all the time, even when he was very young.
He first painted me in his Malibu home in the late 1970s.
Then he did a lot of portraits - the whole workshop was hung with them.
He said to everyone, “I ’ ll write you tomorrow. ”
I was just one of many of his models.
He sees through people, portrays them as they really are.
And you're starting to see yourself, too.
You think that you have such a gentle smile on your lips, and nothing like that on the canvas.
And then you realize: yes, in my heart I am exactly that, the mask is torn off, and here it is, the truth about me.
He wrote to his parents all his life.
The first painting he sold was a 1955 portrait of his father.
He had to call his dad and ask, “Is it okay if I sell you? ”
I think he felt it was his duty to paint their portraits.
Especially his mother, she was always ready to pose for him, dressed as he asked.
The 1977 film My Parents is brilliant.
Mom looks him right in the eye, enjoys every minute of the session - exactly fulfills his request.
My dad is busy reading a book.
Yes, they were in life: I remember we come home, and my mother always stands by the window, guarding us, and my father appears, maybe, in half an hour.
Or, for example, the painting “Margaret and Ken, Bridlington, 2002 ” (on the illustration. – Esqure).
I lived with Ken for many years.
In this portrait, we are both deceiving ourselves.
We pretend that we have years and years ahead of us, although we know perfectly well that it is over.
Ken was sick with cancer, losing weight right in front of his eyes.
The painting was painted in August 2002, and in July 2003 he died.
Stoicism is felt: we sit and pretend that everything is normal, but, in my opinion, the truth is visible.
THE PHILOSOPHIST ANTONIO NEGRI TALKS ABOUT THE ARTIST MAXIM CANTOR We sat in a rather large company in a cafe on the square of Santa Maria Formosa in Venice.
We were talking, and at some point Cantor just took out a large piece of paper and started drawing.
It was evening and it was getting dark.
He painted no more than half an hour, right there, on the street, in the square.
This did not require any special concentration, on the contrary, I continued to talk with friends who were sitting at the table.
Of course, I felt something special, but not that an angel came down from heaven with the message “Blessed are you among men. ”
The artist worked, minute-by-minute staring.
He was constantly shifting his gaze: he was looking at me, he was concentrating on the drawing.
In Kantor ’ s eyes there was some special vivacity, so strong that it seemed that it could be felt physically.
His gaze naturally combined attention and irony.
It dawned, so he painted in the dark.
He was in a hurry to make sure we didn't finish all the wine without him.
To a certain extent, I am happy with the portrait.
I like the upper part of it, the lower part is harsh.
Portrait as a genre is certainly a bourgeois phenomenon.
But it's not so clear.
On the one hand, there is a bourgeois portrait, it can be great, from Titian to the Dutch.
And on the other hand, there is a grotesque and portraits that relate to folk comedy, praise the bodily.
It is a materialistic portrait.
Revolutionary.
This is the top part of the portrait.
DIRECTOR OTAR IOSELIANI TALKS ABOUT VALERIA PLOTNIKOV Arrived brazen type...
We fed him, we got him drunk, and suddenly he took out the camera: "Sit down there in the corner..."
I sat down, he took a picture, then apologized and left.
I didn ’ t know him at all, and I still don ’ t know him.
But if a person comes to Tbilisi and knocks on the door, how can you not let him in?
I was not offended, I just thought: some Russian man ill-mannered came.
He's the only one who's interested in snapping you.
I clicked and disappeared.
That's all I can say.
As I understand it, he mostly takes off with guitars.
But in all cases, I do not like Carpenters as a photographer.
ART CRITICISM MARTIN GAFORD TALKS ABOUT ARTIST LUCIANA FREYDE
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Letter from Jerome D. Salinger
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The name of Jerome Salinger first appeared in Esquire in 1941 - then the magazine published in the section "satire" one of the first stories of the writer called "The Soul of an Unhappy Story".
Four years later, his story came out - about the life of Vincent Caulfield in a training camp for recruits.
Vincent remembers his younger brother Holden, who went missing in the war.
In six years, he will become the main character of Salinger ’ s only novel, Over the Catcher in the Rye.
Sending the story to the editor, the author accompanied it with a letter - it is published in the same issue.
I am now twenty-six and have served in the military for the fourth year.
I spent 17 months in Europe.
I landed on the bridgehead of Utah with the Fourth Division and met the end of the war in the 12th Infantry Regiment of the same division.
In the story “There ’ s No Mayonnaise in a Sandwich, ” I write about the guys from the Air Force, because I myself served in the Air Force.
I was also in the Signal Corps and graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy.
After the war, I would like to join some good respectable corps de ballet — that would be life.
I ’ ve been writing stories since I was fifteen, but I can ’ t get them to be simple or natural.
My mind seems to be holding something together, like a black tie at an official reception.
I pull these ties one by one, but they don't see the end.
Besides, I ’ m so used to short distances that I ’ m unlikely to ever be able to write a whole novel.
In today ’ s novels about this war there is a lot of strength, maturity and skill – in short, everything that critics love so much.
Probably too much.
But they all lack those ingenious roughnesses that alone can shake the soul and which only the best minds can do.
The men who served in this war deserve a book that will become a kind of song sung with trembling in voice, but without embarrassment or regret.
I hope to wait for such a book.
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Donna Tartt's Rules of Life
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Books are written by loners.
The art of the narrator is an innate gift: a person either has it or does not have it.
The books that I loved as a child, the very first I read, I read so many times that I learned them really hard.
Now they live inside of me rather than outside.
My favorite book?
"Lolita".
But ask me about it tomorrow, and I'll probably name another one.
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
I wrote three novels in my life, and each took me ten years.
But today, most people believe that new novels, like any other product, should come off the assembly line every year.
Everything in the world takes more time than it seems at first glance.
That is the sad truth of life.
The job of a writer is to come up with: color, embroider, inlay, and generally make things better.
When I write, I concentrate entirely on the details: the color in which the room is painted, or the path of the drop that rolls off the wet leaf after the rain.
My favorite smell is the smell of hot asphalt.
I like the Dickens method.
He has even the most insignificant character becomes convex, real and alive.
The main duty of a writer is to entertain.
People who read your books are sick, sad, they go somewhere for a long time or just sit in the hospital lobby when one of their relatives dies.
My worst profession is a waitress.
When I was seventeen, I worked as a waitress for a few weeks, and it was a nightmare: I dropped glasses and overturned food on visitors.
My personal hell is a housewife's life filled with worthless people and worthless events.
Stay away from those who love you too much.
That love will probably kill you.
I am convinced that innocence is something that adults attribute to children and that children do not seem to have.
I do not understand the concept of childhood innocence.
Children — if you remember well what it is to be a child — lie almost all the time.
Kids love secrets.
They love secrets even where there is no need for a secret.
It is very dangerous to deny the existence of the irrational.
My most expensive purchase is a Land Rover, which I don ’ t know how to drive.
Sometimes you do the right thing, but you don ’ t succeed.
This is one of the hardest lessons of fate.
Everything in the world can be called great.
You just need to find the right scale of measurements.
Writing a good novel is like painting a picture the size of a wall with an eyelash brush.
No, really, I get a lot of pleasure when I write long novels.
Romanticism is terrible: it takes a person away from the harsh and ugly truth about life, which is necessary to know.
Murder, it seems to me, is the main tool of a good storyteller.
A good detective is not “who killed, ” but“ why killed. ”
I hate it when the phone rings.
I can only work alone.
I tried to write faster once, and I didn ’ t like it.
the ability to tell stories and the ability to tell them elegantly do not always go hand in hand.
Morning light sometimes makes the ugliest things in the world truly beautiful.
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Immortal souls of whales
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Whale hunting is an incredibly ancient activity.
At 4 thousand years, scientists estimate the age of rock paintings found in Norway.
In Alaska in the places of nomads of ancient Eskimos found whale remains of the age of 3,500 years.
I really want to believe that our ancestors were more humane and hunted these sea giants not too actively, but only picked them up in shallow water, but it is difficult to believe it.
Especially when you consider the estimated number of these marine animals in polar waters after global warming.
Evidence of systematic whaling in Europe is known from 800 to 1000 AD from Norwegians from the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Basque sailors were the first whalers.
There are data dated to the XII century, about fishing in the Bay of Biscay on Greenland and smooth whales, as they are rather slow, and a thick layer of fat does not allow the dead body to drown.
The result of the extermination of these marine animals was the complete disappearance by the 18th century of gray whales that once successfully existed in the waters of the North Atlantic.
After the Bay of Biscay, whalers moved along the entire northern European coast up to Greenland, then reached the Arctic waters.
By the 17th century, hunting did not bypass even the North American coast.
Whalers used sailing boats, and killed whales with huge harpoons from boats.
The carcass was sometimes butchered right on the ship.
In 1600, this fishery was replenished by Japanese whalers.
On modernized ships, hunters began to catch more agile whales - sperm whales.
By the beginning of the 19th century, British and Dutch whalers, as well as New England sea hunters, moved first into the Atlantic Ocean, and later turned west to Pacific waters and Cape Horn.
They also hunted in the Indian Ocean.
In the early 19th century, South Africa took over fishing, destroying sea giants near the Seychelles.
Meanwhile, Arctic whalers have deepened into Greenland ’ s icy waters, ruthlessly exterminating smooth whales and humpbacks.
Not left without attention the waters of Australia, Zealand, and by 1840 even the Pacific north - the Chukchi, Bering Sea and the Beaufort Sea.
The huge popularity of whale meat led to the collapse of commercial fishing in the North Atlantic by the end of the 18th century, and by the middle of the 19th century in the North Pacific.
And after the invention of the whaling harpoon gun in 1868 and the change of sailing ships to steamships, the situation worsened.
Large whale populations have been eliminated.
Smooth, bowhead whales and minke whales were so rare that it was not known if they existed at all.
In 1912, British whaling ceased altogether.
However, in 1905, numerous forages of the blue whale, fin whale and seywala were discovered in Antarctica.
In 1925, the floating base, a very convenient modern platform for cutting, joined the work.
By 1938, about 45,000 carcasses were produced in one season alone.
As a result, these populations were destroyed.
Only in 1965, a strict ban on the fishing of blue whales was introduced.
As the animals were destroyed and their numbers fell, whalers turned their attention to smaller relatives.
Extraction of expensive meat spurred industrialists to increase volumes.
While Greenpeace, WWF, WWE and other international public organizations did not take the sperm whales under their care, active hunting for them continued until 1985.
Until the middle of the 20th century, industrial companies from Albion and Norway led the whaling industry.
They were followed, slightly behind, by the United States and Holland, but after World War II these states stopped whaling.
However, their place was taken by the USSR and Japan.
Recently published real figures on the production of whale meat by the Soviet Union, and until that time, all the data submitted to the International Whaling Commission, specially created for the control of whale populations, was most unceremoniously falsified.
The ruthless hand of man ’ s destruction of these giants, born of our common mother Earth, must eventually cease once and for all.
Author: Sergey Orkush
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The video shows the test of the aircraft with the largest wingspan in the world
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A few days ago, the next ground tests of the Stratolaunch prototype took place, during which it “ran ” along the runway.
This news was published by Paul Allen, the founder of the company engaged in the development of the aircraft.
As part of this run, the designers checked the performance of the engines and other components of the aircraft.
As a rule, these tests are the last stage before conducting a full-fledged test in the air.
It is not clear when the first flight of this giant will take place, however, according to preliminary data, it will begin to be used for its intended purpose next year.
Recall that this aircraft is being developed to deliver missiles to the stratosphere - this will significantly increase their carrying capacity.
It is for this reason that engineers have equipped air transport with huge wings, the span of which exceeds 117 meters.
It is able to lift a cargo weighing more than 360 tons into the air.
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Chinese Sun: scientists from China are preparing to launch a unique reactor
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Science News: China is going to start work on the “artificial sun ”.
"Artificial Sun" is a nuclear fusion device that produces energy by reproducing reactions occurring in the center of the Sun.
If successful, the device could bring scientists closer to achieving the ultimate goal of nuclear fusion - almost limitless, cheap and clean energy.
The device, called HL-2M Tokamak, is part of the National Tokamak Superconducting Experimental Project, which has been underway since 2006.
In March, a spokesman for the China National Nuclear Corporation announced that it would complete construction of the HL-2M by the end of the year.
Duan Xuru, head of the Southwest Institute of Physics, announced that the device will start working in 2020.
At the China Fusion Energy conference, he told attendees how the new device will reach temperatures above 200 million degrees Celsius.
Nuclear fusion is the reaction that feeds the sun.
It consists of merging two lighter atomic nuclei into a heavier nucleus.
This reaction releases a huge amount of energy.
To recreate this on Earth, scientists must heat the fuel to temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius.
Despite the fact that stable nuclear fusion has been achieved, the amount of energy required to conduct reactions exceeds that produced.
James Harrison, senior fusion physicist at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), said that the Chinese Tokamak HL-2M differs from other devices by the flexibility of the magnetic field.
Scientists will be able to adapt it to protect the inside of the device when it is running at high power.
Fusion devices such as the tokamak tend to remove exhaust heat and particles from the fusion producing core into a very narrow layer between centimeters and millimeters wide, resulting in very high thermal loads and particle loads that can damage the surfaces lining the inside of the device in the reactor; the flexibility available on the HL-2M will allow researchers to find new solutions to this problem. problems.
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Problems with breast size also occur in men
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As statistics show, the change in the size of this part of the male body for the second year in a row is the fastest growing in popularity service in cosmetic surgery, reports Dvorec.ru with reference to the BBC.
The number of such operations has increased by as much as 80 percent - from 323 in 2008 to 581 in 2009, according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS).
According to surgeons, the dissatisfaction of men with their figure is a consequence of the harmful influence of modern glossy magazines that promote hard-to-reach standards of male beauty.
At the same time, the financial crisis did not affect the demand for plastic surgery, the total number of which increased.
Nine out of 10 surgeries in 2009 were performed on women, with breast augmentation being the most popular procedure.
However, the largest increase was demonstrated by male plastic surgery: in general, the number of operations that were performed by BAAPS employees for a strong half of humanity increased by one-fifth in one year.
“Many men feel the pressure of men ’ s magazines, which did not even appear in print 5-6 years ago.
In addition, they understand that they can fix something, ” says plastic surgeon Rajiv Grover.
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Ukraine is preparing a spacecraft for Saudi Arabia – media
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At the beginning of the year, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau showed a presentation of blueprints for a spacecraft that looks more like an airplane than a traditional rocket.
Sources told Popular Mechanics that the unusual “space plane ” is actually part of a reusable satellite installation being developed at Yuzhnoye Design Bureau for Saudi Arabia.
These images could just be a hypothetical picture on a computer screen, but the same presentation also showed active work on Ukrainian test sites and even some experimental hardware that was clearly associated with the unusual spacecraft.
“While the two countries appear to be strange allies, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia have cooperated on a number of aerospace projects, including the Thunder 2 tactical ballistic missile, a scientific probe missile, and an anti-aircraft missile, ” the Popular Mechanics article said.
The most interesting detail in the proposed project is the 30-ton aircraft, which will serve as the first stage of the two-stage launch system.
It is assumed that the aircraft will be equipped with a turbojet engine and a direct-acting engine.
The carrier aircraft will be able to reach an altitude of 25 to 30 kilometers, where the seven-ton carrier rocket will separate and launch its own traditional engine.
Sources familiar with the matter say that while the Ukrainian space industry makes high-class rockets, this type of vehicle is not a specialization of Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, as engineers would have to solve new problems with the engine, aerodynamics and heat-resistant materials.
The Ukrainian space industry will also need a large-scale testing and manufacturing base to build full-scale prototypes, gliders and engines.
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The world ’ s largest aircraft was accelerated to 74 km
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The world ’ s largest aircraft, which has a wingspan longer than a football field, two-body Stratolaunch Model 351 on tests accelerated on the runway to a speed of 74 km / h.
In the last tests, the aircraft passed through the runway at a speed of 74 km / h.
All six engines were involved, according to the Daily Mail.
The test was conducted at Mojave Air and Space Port, California.
Stratolaunch Systems Corp has tested steering, braking and telemetry systems.
In December, during a similar test of the aircraft was developed at a speed of 45 km / h.
Stratolaunch is expected to fly for the first time in 2019.
On board there will be a crew of three people - a pilot, a co-pilot and a flight engineer.
All of them will be located in the right fuselage.
The six-engine aircraft has a wingspan of 117 meters, which is longer than the length of a football field.
Stratolaunch is designed to launch small rockets from the stratosphere into low Earth orbit.
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The main myths about plastic surgery
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In our world, plastic surgery is widespread - almost all girls at least once in their lives thought about what could be corrected in themselves.
We tell you why many myths about plastic surgery are wrong, how long ago the idea to correct appearance appeared and analyze the statistics.
A surprising thing, but operations to change their appearance originated before our era.
The first mention of such procedures dates back to 1500 BC, the time of the invention of papyrus in Egypt.
Interventions to change the shortcomings were also practiced in ancient India - according to the surviving documents, it can be concluded that as early as 800 BC there was a procedure for changing the shape of the nose.
European aesthetic medicine began to develop actively only in the 17th century - the founder is considered to be the Italian Gasparo Tagliacozzi, who restored damaged noses and developed his own technique.
The First World War gave a new impetus to the development of practical surgery.
After the wars, millions of crippled soldiers returned from the front, who wanted to correct their appearance from defects and return to normal life.
Now medicine is developing at leaps and bounds, so technology is developing every year and is only becoming safer.
We often hear about plastic surgery various stories designed to discourage us from it - and here are our top 3 misconceptions. 1.
It is not necessary to consider the "victims" of this industry as illustrative examples of all plastic operations in general.
Some of them are made so skillfully that, without deliberately looking for signs of operations, you will not distinguish their results from the results of successful mixing of the genes of the parents.
Plastic is made only by people who have mental problems No, no and again no.
In the 21st century, you should not judge a person just because he decided to do, for example, rhinoplasty.
If a person needs to redo something to achieve harmony with himself, then this does not signal that something is wrong with him - a person simply seeks to please himself and others.
After implantation of the mammary glands, you can not breastfeed the child / cancer may appear / you can not fly on an airplane Also incorrect - modern methods of implantation do not affect the ability of a woman to feed.
Even if the shell of the implant is damaged, the silicone does not look like a liquid, and therefore will not leak from the implant and enter breast milk.
The implant could not be damaged due to high pressure on board the aircraft; also no relationship was found between the appearance of breast cancer and the presence of implants in women.
In Russia, unfortunately, there are no official statistics on aesthetic operations - there are only meager surveys of the Levada Center, in which only 0.2% of women openly admitted that they lay on the table to the surgeon.
Let ’ s look at statistics from the United States.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons publishes many different statistics, which they carefully collect from the end of the last century.
So, statistics say: the most popular operation in 2000, and in 2016 remains breast correction — braces, implants, change of shape — since the beginning of the century they are treated 30% more often.
It is also interesting that of all operations, only 8% of the total number is done by men.
According to the general trend, since the beginning of the century, people have increasingly turned to surgeons to correct their shortcomings.
There is nothing wrong with this - if a person is sure that after the operation he will feel better, then no one should blame him for his decision to change his appearance.
The main thing is to find a really good surgeon and not skimp on the surgical center.
The only contraindications to such procedures are the presence of mental illness and too strong a craving for constant change in oneself.
If a person does one or two really necessary operations, then no one has the right to forbid him; if this becomes mania, then you should first contact a psychologist.
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Where and who can not be photographed without permission
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“I promote my site and take photos and videos of people, different objects, etc. Often I come across the fact that I ’ m expelled or banned from shooting.
It was the last time we damaged expensive equipment.
Who can be removed, and who can not, and is there a way to compensate for the repair of equipment? "- Kirill Plotnik, Kiev.
Answers Igor Likhosherst, lawyer: Photo and video shooting in public places is completely legal and does not require the consent of people who got into the lens.
Such places are streets, markets, catering establishments, train stations, airports, various departments, health organizations, shops, etc. That is, in places where a person does not hope to retire or believes that no one sees him and there are strangers to him.
And shooting is legal, even if the leaders of any of these places it is prohibited.
The reason is simple: if the place is open for free visiting, then a person with a camera / camera, etc. can be there and conduct their activities.
It is possible to shoot without the permission of the police during the execution, as well as prosecutors, judges, etc. at work.
However, if they claim that it prevents them from working, they need to stop.
Or if they are no longer performing and prohibit any fixation (in this case, they "turn" into individuals, which, according to Art. 307 of the Civil Code of Ukraine, can not be removed without their permission).
Also, if you are shooting in a public place that is legal, any individual may require him not to shoot.
In this case, it is this person who will not have to get into the ready-to-release material.
If no one came to you and did not forbid you to remove it, the principle of "tacit consent" works.
READ ALSO How to claim compensation for posting your photos on the Internet without your permission Often we can watch TV scandals arising from shootings in stores.
And here it is worth noting that shooting in a public place is not prohibited, but any fixation can be limited / prohibited if the store is private property (a sign should warn about the ban).
At the same time, if we are talking about fixing the sale of a bad product, then they do not have the right to prohibit shooting (a thin line of legislation).
You may also be prevented from filming if you are filming workers without their consent (performance of work duties is not a public event).
For the same reason, the employer, by the way, can not without notice and permission (oral / written) to shoot at work.
Private individuals and individuals can not be removed in places of personal use, such as bathrooms, baths, saunas, showers, changing rooms, toilets.
There's one more thing.
If at first you shot everything with the consent or tacit consent of the person / people, but then he / they changed their mind and forbade / -whether to show part of the shooting (namely part, not all), then you will be obliged to "cut" it.
In the latter case, you can claim compensation for the costs associated with dismantling (real losses and lost income, moral damage).
It is difficult to say about compensation for the repair of equipment, without the details of the exact incident.
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Controlling the mass consciousness: the invisibility of soft power does not cause resistance
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Millions of people will always be under someone ’ s watchful eye, their behavior will not be ignored.
At first it was religion and ideology, prescribing what the right words and actions should be and what the wrong ones should be.
By the way, remember that any religion and ideology is very tough to fight violators.
The main difference between soft control methods and hard ones is their invisibility.
Joseph Nye spoke of soft power as attractive, not coercive.
We may add that hard methods work with the body as an object, and soft methods work with the mind as an object.
Soft control methods Hard control methods Mind-oriented body Noticeable no yes Type of action attract force The invisibility of soft power does not cause resistance, unlike coercion, so such rules try to mount into the human mind with the help of a background, not the main message.
For example, entertainment can be a primary message and behavior programming input as a background.
States are actively studying mass behavior in order to be able to manage it.
For example, the UK is investigating the behaviour of football fans to reduce the likelihood of violence between police and fans.
After any outbursts of spontaneous behavior, they become the subject of study.
For example, the riots in London were actively studied: what was the demographic and social structure of the protesters, what areas they came from, schools, what level of education they had.
By the way, most of them were among those who received free breakfasts at school, that is, from poor families.
And after the explosion in the London subway began to study the behavior of people who were at the scene, in particular, they helped each other or not.
Cinema and television have unified the emotional reactions of the population not only of their countries, but also of the whole world.
Further unification came with the internet.
The Internet has become an indirect product of globalization, which some countries have perceived — and rightly so — as Westernization.
This was the reason for the cooling of relations between the United States and a number of Muslim countries that perceived this development negatively, since in their system the state and religion are a single organism.
Iran, for example, responded by making its childish animation and its Barbie, defending itself not by the method of prohibition, but by creating its own symbolic product.
Barbie doll carries three hypostases: on the physical level it is a baby doll in a specific type of clothing, a specific physique and race.
At the virtual level for the Iranian family, it turned out to be too liberated, symbolizing a different type of behavior than is customary in a Muslim family.
Since at the information level, the bearer of Muslim culture reads one information, the bearer of Western culture reads another, as a result of which the conflict is formed.
Such value management is largely the result of today, where the main plot was the struggle of good heroes against villains.
Researcher Katherine Nichols notes that in the original folklore there was no such value background: “In old fairy tales, no one fights for values.
Individual stories may show valor of honor or hospitality, but in fairy tales there is no agreement as to which actions are good and which are bad.
When heroes receive retribution for not obeying advice, for example, there is always another close story where the hero survives only because he disobeyed him.
The defense of a coherent set of values is so central to the logic of the latest plots that the narrative itself is often altered to create values for heroes like Thor or or Loki, who in the Icelandic Eddas of the 16th century possessed characters rather than consistent moral orientations.
From this it follows that modern moral systems are more ordered and understandable, which leads to the mandatory of certain types of behavior, and it is they that modern society tries to program in citizens, using all the means available to it.
The effect of film on behavior change has been studied many times.
This is due to the so-called process of immersion in another reality, from where the viewer adopts some rules of behavior.
He immerses himself in the life of the hero, accepting his model of the world.
Of the latest examples of this kind, we can mention the “repentance ” of actor Pavel Maykov in participating in the TV series“ Brigade ”, since the romanticization of crime in it led young people to crime.
In addition, the researchers saw that the film “300 Spartans ” reinforces authoritarian tendencies, while the film“ V for Vendetta ” has the opposite effect.
Gierzynski A. Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation (Baltimore, 2013).
60% of people who read books in the US presidential election voted for Barack Obama, while 83% did not appreciate the work of his own administration.
However, it should be remembered that students and professors in principle profess more democratic values.
In the 2016 Trump election, there was also an attempt to “tie ” candidate Hillary Clinton to the fans of Potter, as Time magazine reports.
On the one hand, we have “Harry Potter ” as a model of the world, allowing its readers to transfer this model to reality.
On the other hand, as noted by The Guardian, these books have brought up a new generation, more open, who simply see the world differently.
In addition, there was a general concern, which was expressed, for example, in the jump in sales of the novels “1984 ” by George Orwell and“ The Handmaid ’ s Tale ” by Margaret Atwood at the time of the presidential election in America, because they depicted a negative image of the approaching future.
Researcher Diane Matz tested the impact of not only books, but also Harry Potter films, concluding that Potter fans will most likely not vote for Trump.
The serious impact of industrial-type virtuality, where one message is instantly received by millions, began with television.
It strengthened the model of “stars ” that came with cinema, as well as all the processes of globalization and connectivity.
As a result, the Western heroes of the films began to displace local products.
Harold Innis wrote that religion is interested in communication in time, and the state in space [Innis H.A. Empire and communications. — Toronto, 2007].
Paradoxically, television also works to transcend space, not time.
Hence the disappearance of almost the entire television product over time; but with its help the desired effect of coverage is achieved, which is very interesting to politicians and the state.
It is often recalled that when the Mexican series “Just Maria ” was going to the USSR, the streets were empty – everyone hurried home to watch it.
Soviet viewers looked at this series, as well as on “Santa Barbara ”, with the eyes that watch the news: after all, this viewer had no other experience.
Then they applied this television experience in life when the perestroika began, considering virtuality to be a reality.
Television news, of course, is necessary for a person to survive.
Of course, first of all, local news, for example, the weather forecast.
But the state has changed the real interests of people to artificial ones.
From the TV screen you can constantly hear the thoughts of politicians, which have no meaning for everyday life, and serve only to maintain a political image.
This is an artificial attraction of attention, an attempt to create “picket vests ” from people who will discuss news that does not exist.
Since television had no competitor, it captured both individual and mass consciousness.
And, as Hossein Derakshan notes, it went even further, affecting our world and causing irreversible consequences: “The dominance of television is not limited to our living rooms.
It has destroyed all the habits of the mind, fundamentally altering our experience of the world, influencing the conduct of politics, religion, business and culture.
It has reduced many aspects of modern life to entertainment, shocking stories and commerce. ”
Today, however, the old model of watching TV with the whole family has collapsed, as young people prefer to use their mobile devices for this.
The Internet appeared as a stream of text, that is, it was the opposite of television.
A striking example of this phenomenon can be considered “Wikipedia ”.
Its analysis showed a high level of objectivity comparable to the Encyclopedia Britannica [see here and here].
The error rate is almost equal: 3.86 errors per article in the first and 2.92 in the second.
Emotional transformation of social media is interpreted as actions on the model of television.
Hossein Derakshan writes: “Social media has colonized networks in favor of television values.
Media from Facebook to Instagram has shifted our focus to videos and pictures, rewarding emotional appeals rather than rational ones.
Instead of seeking knowledge, we engage in an endless search for approval from the audience, and that ’ s why we constantly act unconsciously. ”
Attention not only to the information space, but also to the virtual space (movies, TV series, video games) stems from the fact that “emotional information ”, by which we will understand information placed in emotional contexts, is better stored in memory and has a stronger impact.
This is a strategic option of influence, as opposed to pure information, which in most cases is of a tactical nature.
Newspaper information changes daily and hourly, whereas virtual information can live for decades.
The world today is striving to master all the intangible.
Previously, religion and ideology also stood higher in the hierarchy of values.
But they carried purely virtual values.
And today in the first place comes what can be designated as a certain connection of the material and virtual.
These are social networks, video games, even television series, since they all take a person from the material world, sitting for long hours in front of the screen.
The season of the TV series can now be watched at least the whole day without a break, and with video games it happened even earlier.
It is no longer a one-time connection to the virtual, but permanent.
Scenarios of these products are constantly rewritten and corrected by representatives of the material world.
When it happened to Soviet cinema, we called it propaganda.
But what can you call it now?
All law enforcement agencies have their representation in Hollywood, actively correcting virtual reality.
One such example is the cyberdrama Disconnect [see here and here].
Director Henri-Alex Rubin says of this collaboration with the FBI: “They understand that perception is everything.
The more people will perceive them well, the easier it will be for them to work. ”
American TV series “Mind Hunter ”,“ Scorpio ”, “Perception ” reflect another important feature of the impact on mass consciousness.
In addition to being tied to the FBI, the powerful and powerful, they destroy the perception of people with mental disabilities as strangers or unnecessary to society.
In these series, it is such people who stand in the center of the investigation, seeing what is inaccessible to an ordinary person.
Many series create a hero from a normal person, as it happens in a series like Quantico (see some comments on such films from consultants from the FBI here).
However, in the aforementioned series, “stigmatization ” is removed, pushing such a person out of the norm.
It's just different, but just as necessary for all of us.
Such series do not repel the viewer, but attract.
This is due to the lack of direct attempts at “how good we are ” storytelling.
Emotions shut down rational messages.
With purely propaganda attempts, when such interventions are presented not only in the form of a background, but also as the main message, the creators are waiting for the rejection of the film by the audience.
It should be strategically canonical, and tactically different options are possible.
In Russia, for example, there were devastating reviews of the film “Crimea ” directed by Alexei Pimanov and the series“ Sleeping ” directed by Yuri Bykov (it showed the Kremlin ’ s First channel), even from the “right ” critics.
This demonstrated the complexity of connecting the two beginnings — strategic and tactical.
The film as a virtual product cannot be agitation, since it is a product of a tactical order.
The director of “Sleeping ” Bykov under a barrage of criticism in general announced that he was leaving the cinema:“ I will have to go for a long time in the shadows – and not even in order to forget my crimes, but in order not to irritate the surrounding world and even more so not to confuse people who really want to believe that something can be changed. ”
What was that criticism?
For the most part, people did not want to see the Soviet propaganda model.
And this is understandable, because Soviet and post-Soviet propaganda functioned in different conditions.
In the past, direct propaganda worked, but today only an indirect approach can work.
Let ’ s take some feedback from critics.
Colta.ru: "What is the danger of this series?
Do we not know from the news that Russia is in the ring of enemies, and the oppositionists kill themselves, just to annoy the native state?
But the news doesn't have that kind of feeling.
The series is an opportunity to drive ideological maxims into the heart of the viewer under the cover of kisses.
The bearer of harmful liberal ideas will, of course, be the villain.
The viewer will not even really listen to his arguments - what good can be expected from a person who is an okay CIA agent, but cheating on his wife with the wife of the hero Fyodor Bondarchuk, it is more terrible.
While a positive efesbashnik with a gentle baritone will explain to her beloved that the world conspiracy against Russia is true and only he and his comrades can save the country from disaster.
Sputnikipogrom.com: “This is not even a free retelling of the great work“ Behind the Scenes of Diversion ”.
It's anime.
Moreover, the anime is unique - in the form of a production novel.
Well, you know, in the USSR there was a popular literature about how the whole plant strives to fulfill the plan, and the main character, Brigadier Semyon, heroically overcomes the difficulties in order to still have time to pump the right number of rails for the Soviet homeland.
In the absence of a confrontation of values and ideologies, Minaev had to make the main spy intrigue the next one, I will now retell it again, just do not fall off my chair.
Russia and China sign a contract for the construction of the “Power of the Dragon ” gas pipeline (that is,“ Power of Siberia ”), and the Americans are trying to disrupt the contract, for which they arrange an attack on the Russian Embassy in Libya, and then kill 32 people in Moscow in the hope of organizing a Maidan, because the Chinese Maidan will be afraid and the gas pipeline will not be built. ”
Znak.com: “The classic of the genre takes its toll: the Knights of Lubyanka must certainly let the stingy men ’ s tears, UPA-UNSO and other detachments that fought on the side of the militants in the second Chechen are mentioned.
And it goes without saying that all the scoundrels will go to Kiev.
And the traitor Ivan is pumped up in the smoke of whiskey and will begin to scream that he is for democracy and freedom.
Well, what is not a frame from the as-yet-unreleased, but already mounted continuation of "Anatomy of Protest"? ".
While the author of “RIA Novosti ” wrote:“ Perhaps the indignant intelligentsia is right, and her image in the series is unfairly hyperbolized in a negative sense.
That ’ s just her close-knit reaction to “Sleeping ”, the shameful harassment of the director, demonstrated intolerance to other people ’ s opinions and totalitarian thinking give grounds for the whole country to think that the creators of the series had serious reasons to draw just such a portrait of her. ”
Today, emotions began to be investigated more objectively [see, for example, here].
On the one hand, it is a request from business and the military to give an emotional picture of the mass consciousness with its reactions to specific events.
Today, scientists, having studied photos on Instagram, identified 70% of users with depression [see here and here].
Other researchers analyzed 280,000 tweets and identified nine out of ten people with post-traumatic stress disorder.
On the other hand, all commercial projects that cinema and literature have turned into today need to objectify their approaches in order to be able to predict the financial success of their virtual product (this, for example, is discussed in the book “The Bestseller Code ” by Jody Archer and Matthew Jokers).
At the same time, technology can make our future even more gloomy than today.
If books like The Bestseller Code reflect a certain automation of the role of the author, then we are waiting for the automation of the role of the reader, when emotions can not only be generated, but also controlled.
According to scientist Yuval Harari, “We still don ’ t have the technology to get under our skin.
But this is a question, perhaps 5-10 years.
A brilliant example.
Imagine that you live in North Korea.
And you have a bracelet on your hand that constantly monitors the processes inside your body.
So you walk into a room with a portrait of a highly respected leader.
And the bracelet will record what happens to your brain, pressure, body when you see this photo.
This is what is meant by the term “electronic dictatorship ”.
Such a future can hardly be called attractive.
But we don ’ t always get what we want.
In any case, you should not look at the future as something uniquely positive.
It can bring anything.
Author: Georgiy Pocheptsov, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, expert on information politics and community technologies; MediaSapiens
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Rosaviatsia has issued permits for charter flights to all airlines that plan to fly under this program in April.
On Friday, March 16, reported in the "Association of Tour Operators of Russia".
Charters can significantly reduce the cost of travel.
But there are risks here.
Will the charter flight be delayed?
Will it be cancelled at all?
Are you lucky with your neighbors on the plane?
Portal iz.ru dealt with the question and found out how to avoid trouble.
Find out the name of your airline Find out about a particular carrier in several ways.
When buying a tour via the Internet, this information is usually indicated on the page with the description of the tour.
In offline travel agencies, the manager does not always inform customers about the carrier on his own - you need to ask.
In addition, the name of the airline is indicated in the vouchers that the tourist receives when making the tour.
Another option is to call the hotline of the tour operator and clarify all the details about the flight.
However, it should be borne in mind that the tour operator has the right to change the air carrier without the consent (but with notification) of the tourist.
Charter flights in Russia are carried out by several airlines.
Some specialize only in the transportation of tourists, others also carry out regular flights.
The second is usually more reliable.
Among those who specialize in charter flights, Azur Air (operates flights in favor of Anex Tour), I Fly (TEZ Tour and TUI), Royal Flight (Coral Travel and Sunmar), as well as Pegas Fly and Nordwind Airlines (owned by Pegas Touristik).
It is worth noting that most of these carriers also operate regular flights, but in small volumes.
Among the regular airlines that also carry tourists to the resorts, it is possible to note Ural Airlines, Aurora, Saratov Airlines and Nordstar.
When flying these airlines, the risk of delays and cancellations of flights is much less, although not completely excluded.
Recently, Rosaviatsia began to publish the results of daily monitoring of charter flights.
On a special page of the department, information is collected about all delays, indicating the reasons.
Source: Reuters Among these may be the late arrival of the aircraft.
Or late maintenance.
Or late loading of onboard power.
But most often delays occur due to the insufficient size of the fleet, when the number of charter flights of the airline is several times higher than the number of aircraft.
By the way, Rosaviatsia prohibits airlines from gaining too many charters.
For example, in mid-January, the agency demanded that Azur Air, Nordwind and Pegas Fly reduce the number of tourist flights by 30%, from Royal Flight - by 20%.
The reason is the discrepancy of charter programs to the reserve of ships.
Such measures are designed to minimize the number of delays and cancellations of flights.
Beautiful descriptions of the merits, awards and benefits of the airline can be found on the official websites of carriers.
Of these, tourists are primarily interested in data on the size of the fleet.
If the airline has only a few ships at its disposal, this is a reason to think.
However, as you know, the main source of information in the modern world is Wikipedia, and airlines are no exception.
In addition to the same size of the fleet (sometimes the information in the online encyclopedia is even more relevant than the official one), here you can read about all the incidents that occurred with the aircraft of a particular company, get acquainted with the route network and types of aircraft, as well as learn about the history of the carrier and passenger turnover.
For example, from Wikipedia it turns out that in January 2017, the Pegas Fly charter, en route from Perm to Cam Ranh, was forced to urgently land in Krasnoyarsk due to clogging of the toilet compartment.
In the same "Wikipedia" you can find not only the quantitative composition of the airline's fleet, but also their registration data - a letter code such as VQ-BPE or VP-BSP, by which you can find all the data about the aircraft.
Source: Reuters There are several resources on the Internet that store this information.
Planespotters, for example.
So, about the board VQ-BPE it is known that since January 2012 this twin-engine turboprop ATR 42 belongs to the airline NordStar.
The liner is 12 years old, during which time he managed to work on Czech Airlines and Finncom Airlines flights.
Made a plane in Toulouse.
In addition, if there were any incidents with a particular board, this information will also be displayed.
Read the news It is definitely worth listening to the available information in the media regarding the airline.
It is easier and more convenient to search for news through specialized services.
They are a storehouse of useful information, which is unlikely to write Rosaviatsia or Planespotters.
In the news, you should pay attention not to delays, cancellations or breakdowns of ships - this information is easier and more convenient to get from other sources - but to reports about the crews, the attitude of flight attendants to passengers and the condition of the cabins of liners.
For example, from them you can learn about “rude flight attendants ”, the absence of children ’ s belts or dirty seats.
Another source of such information is blogs and forums.
However, messages at such sites should be treated critically - many passengers, disappointed in the whole vacation, associate airlines with specific tour operators and blame the first for all the spoiled second rest.
News is written by journalists, information about delays is published by officials, but the opinion of ordinary people - ordinary tourists is best sought on specialized sites.
In Russia, reviews on airlines can be found, for example, on Turizm.ru.
On Airlines Inform, in addition to reviews, you can read full reviews, and on the website of the Tutu.ru service, you can also learn about baggage allowance, pets and departure terminals.
Usually for charter flights is prohibited pre-online registration - you will have to come to the airport in advance and stand in line.
However, even in this case, it is possible to choose better seats in the cabin.
You can, of course, rely on the opinion of an airline employee and ask for “what ’ s more comfortable, ” but it ’ s better not to.
On the Internet, there are several sites (for example, Aviacompany.com), which collect data on the location of seats in the cabin of airliners and provides information about the best places in a particular type of aircraft of specific carriers.
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UN: Poor farmers need protection from extreme climate events
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Natural disasters such as drought and floods caused $96 billion in damage to crops and livestock in developing countries between 2005 and 2015.
Half of this amount came from Asian countries, according to a study by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Experts said that there is a need for greater protection of low-income farmers.
According to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“Asia in terms of natural disasters is the most affected region simply because it has been hit by a lot of tropical storms and heavy monsoon rains, ” explained one of the study ’ s authors, FAO risk adviser Stefan Baas.
In addition to rainfall, Asian agriculture has also been hit by earthquakes, tsunamis and extreme temperatures.
According to the study, drought alone caused $29 billion in damage to the agricultural sector in all developing countries.
In Africa, the loss of agriculture from natural disasters amounted to $26 billion over the past decade, and in Latin America and the Caribbean - $22 billion.
Drought has become the most costly natural disaster for crop and livestock production in these two regions.
Due to crop pests and animal diseases, African farmers suffered $6 billion in damage.
According to FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, climate change could exacerbate the effects of natural disasters Efforts to reduce such hazards and better manage them must become part of modern agriculture to achieve sustainable development.
According to FAO estimates, around 2.5 billion people worldwide depend on agriculture.
Measures to limit risks include the use of drought-resistant or flood-resistant seeds, early warning systems for extreme weather conditions, and farmers' access to insurance and financing.
The study, which excludes industrialized countries, Ba ’ ath promised, will be updated every two years and used as a tool to monitor global commitments to combat poverty and climate change.
The material was provided by the project "+ 1".
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Alexey Paevsky: “The main problem is how to light an artificial star on Earth ”
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In Surgut, since last autumn, the Popular Science project has been held, within the framework of which well-known Russian educators, scientific journalists and scientists speak with their popular scientific lectures in our city.
Another guest of the project was the editor and co-founder of the portal neuronovosti.ru Alexey Paevsky, who told Surgutyans about biofuel and its varieties.
The correspondent of siapress.rutalked with the lecturer and learned about whether something can replace oil, whether the Earth will work thermonuclear energy, and when electric vehicles will take over the world.
On a vegetable course - What is biofuel?
- Biofuels are something that is used to produce energy for cars, power plants, fuel cells and is based on plant or animal origin.
It can be anything from firewood to animal waste. - Where can biofuel be used? - Now it is most often used as fuel for cars or even aircraft and ships.
It can act as a substitute or supplement for gasoline.
Also now begin experiments on the creation of small fuel cells to generate electricity for household appliances. - The topic is fashionable and someone even expresses the idea that biofuel can become a substitute for oil.
How close to reality are such ideas? - In principle, no one bothers to replace gasoline with biofuel.
Theoretically, there are no restrictions here, but another question is that biofuels, like any other type of energy, have their own problems.
The main thing is that for its production, biomass is needed, which must be taken from somewhere.
If we are talking about a vegetable source, then we have two options: either we take the farmland on which food was grown for these needs, which increases the number of hungry people in the world, or we will cut down forests.
It is generally believed that biofuels were invented to reduce carbon dioxide emissions or at least to create a closed cycle, that is, the biomass that fixes CO2 (carbon dioxide – approx. ed.) is burned.
If we cut down forests, we reduce the area of carbon dioxide absorption, thereby increasing emissions.
During your lecture, you mentioned a study that compared emissions in two similar cities: Osaka, where gasoline is used as a fuel, and Sao Paulo, where a large number of cars are driven by biofuels.
According to its results, there were more emissions in the Brazilian city.
- This is not about the amount of emissions, but about those substances that enter the atmosphere.
If cars run on alcohol, and this is the main type of biofuel, then there is a problem with its incomplete afterburning.
As a result, ethanol is not completely oxidized to CO2 and toxic substances such as acetaldehyde and formaldehyde are formed.
Their pollution is many times higher than when using gasoline.
In some countries (e.g. Nepal), biofuels are used as kizyak - compressed manure - you said that increasing the necessary biomass can lead to deforestation.
- Yes, now developing technologies of the third generation of biofuels, in which algae are used as biomass.
But for this, it is necessary to massively dig artificial ponds, and the technology is still being worked out.
A breakthrough may well happen, but it is not a matter of the near future.
Another thing is that again, this technology can not be used everywhere.
In addition, we are already living in an era of shortage of something, somewhere water, somewhere food and the use of large amounts of water for artificial ponds can turn into problems.
From your words it turns out that biofuel is another element of the energy market, which is no better than others... - It is.
Biofuels will not be able to completely replace oil, this is too optimistic.
It has not become a panacea, as politicians and journalists try to imagine.
I personally hope that in 20-30 years will work thermonuclear energy.
This is a complex thing and requires large financial investments, both at the level of states and at the level of the world community, but if it works, it will be able to provide us with affordable electricity.
In fact, all energy on Earth has a thermonuclear origin in one way or another.
Photosynthesis, geothermal and even electricity, all of this initially comes to us from the Sun, and there it is born as a result of thermonuclear fusion - four hydrogen atoms are converted into a helium atom, then three helium atoms form a carbon atom.
The energy output of this process is truly huge.
We have more than enough hydrogen on the planet, the main problem is how to light an artificial star. - You will not put a fusion reactor in a car... - Why?
It is enough that a fusion reactor produces almost free electricity, which will charge electric vehicles.
It will be necessary to solve the issue of energy storage, and this requires a breakthrough in the development of batteries.
It is necessary to replace lithium-ion batteries with something else, maybe graphene, with which they are now trying to experiment.
The next step is to provide charging stations for electric vehicles and reduce refueling time.
- One of the main projects in thermonuclear energy - the ITER reactor in France - is now rumored to be experiencing difficulties, and its participants are sure that nothing will work.
- About ITER rumors are different, but so far no one has officially said that the reactor will not start.
And then – they will not succeed, they will succeed in others.
Fundamentally thermonuclear fusion works, the same Japanese managed to get more energy during the experiment than it was required to start the reaction.
Ignition technology is known, for this use several powerful lasers focused at one point.Here the problem is in the other - how to keep the plasma in a magnetic field.
Schemes are offered different, someone offers a stellarator, someone - tokamak.
Some kind of scheme has to work.
36 countries take part in the construction of the reactor of the ITER project, and its total cost has reached 20 billion euros - In the event that fusion succeeds, will cars with internal combustion engines replace electric cars? - This is fundamentally possible.
Moreover, I think that an electric car in the city will very quickly become the norm and in ten years will completely replace cars with internal combustion engines in megacities.
So far, the problem of mileage in electric cars remains relevant, it still lags behind conventional cars.
The latest Tesla model has a range of 500 kilometers, but in fact it is less.
And let ’ s not forget that the energy cells used in electric vehicles are actually just a bunch of batteries.
We have to wait until they find a replacement.
This is especially true for our country, where, unlike in Europe, you can drive two thousand kilometers and not see a single gas station.
Do not forget that there is little lithium on the planet and already now the needs for the production of electric vehicles in this metal exceed not only the proven, but also the theoretical reserves on the planet.
And it is not clear where to get it, because lithium is a diffuse element, it was formed a little during the Big Bang, and now it occurs only in cosmic rays, as well as beryllium and almost all boron.
Therefore, much will depend on whether the next stage of the technical revolution we are witnessing will come.
A tokamak is a type of thermonuclear reactor in which the plasma is held not by the walls of the chamber, but by a specially created combined magnetic field - a toroidal external and poloidal field of current flowing through the plasma cord.
A stellarator is a type of thermonuclear reactor in which the magnetic field to isolate the plasma from the inner walls of the toroidal chamber is completely created only by the outer coils, which distinguishes it from the tokamak.
ITER is an international experimental fusion reactor project.
Its mission is to demonstrate the commercial use of a fusion reactor and to solve the physical and technological problems that may occur along the way.
The site of the reactor is the Cadarache research center in the south of France, 60 km from Marseille.
The next lecture within the framework of the project "Popular Science in Surgut" will be held on March 24 at the Humanitarian building of Surgut State University at 8 Energetikov str., at 16: 00.
The next lecturer will be the famous popularizer of science, chemist-technologist, flavorist Sergey Belkov, who will give a double lecture: "Food chemistry or chemical food.
Who is to blame and what to do ” and “Smart food for smart people.
“Organic vs Inorganic. ”
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Inside the Istanbul daughter-in-law. Turkish TV series threaten Uzbekistan
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Inside the Istanbul daughter-in-law.
Turkish TV shows threaten Uzbekistan 00: 11 21.03.2018 Not everyone knows that Turkish TV shows in Uzbekistan are banned with enviable regularity.
In this process, we can conditionally distinguish three stages: the ban of the 2000s, the ban of 2012 and, finally, the current period, which began in February this year.
Curiously, there are prohibitions, and no one knows the reasons for them.
In any case, no one gave any clear official explanations on this matter.
However, some TV viewers still know something about something.
It seems that one of the reasons for the bans is the periodic deterioration of relations between Uzbekistan and Turkey.
Another reason is the discontent expressed about the series by the national clergy.
Bet on the rating Digital broadcasting made the series available to the widest segments of the population of Uzbekistan – first of all, of course, for women.
Among all the series, the first place here is confidently held by the Turkish.
In popularity in Uzbekistan, they have long overtaken both Korean and even local Uzbek.
It is not surprising that many TV channels in Uzbekistan are betting on the “Turkish horse ”, hoping to raise ratings and expand the audience.
It is considered that Turkish TV shows, despite their "foreignness", in the sense of depicting life, culture and mentality are very close to a simple resident of Uzbekistan.
Fergana talked with representatives of the reference group, and, more simply, with fans of Turkish TV series.
Housewives, pensioners, state employees and other viewers, hooked on Turkish soap, admit that they worry about the fate of screen characters sometimes more than for the fate of their real friends.
It is not surprising that they are amazed and upset by the bans on Turkish films, from time to time descended by someone unknown from the very top.
“When my favorite TV series“ The Magnificent Century ” was removed from the TV network together with the Russian TV channel “Domashny ” in 2013, I began a real depression, ” recalls the lover of Turkish soap operas, the dispatcher of Nargiz from the village of Kibray, Tashkent region.
- I then with great difficulty reached the television, and they told me that the series was removed for technical reasons - it is clear that they were lying.
After that, I heard that the case had to do with politics. ”
According to Nargiza, she and other viewers received the same blow after learning about the termination of the broadcast of the scandalous series "Black Love" (on the private TV channel ZO "RTV).
Now she finds solace in watching other Turkish series, which are broadcast on the state channel Toshkent.
Former literature teacher Shoira Saidovna from Tashkent believes that if you really want, you can find fault even with the classics.
“The clergy have spoken out against Black Love, accusing the series of spreading debauchery, ” she says.
- Then why not demand to ban "Anna Karenina" or "Quiet Don"?!
After all, following their logic, there are also many things in these books that "do not correspond to the Uzbek mentality."
Spectator debauchery is not afraid At the moment, almost half of the 13 state TV channels broadcast Turkish TV series.
In addition, they are shown on four of the six private TV channels.
Of the state channels, Turkish TV shows show the most on "Tashkent", "Cinema", "Uzbekiston" and "Yeshlar" ("Youth").
Among private channels in this category are Milliy (National) and Sevimli (Beloved).
Here are some of the most popular Turkish TV series in the country, which are on the TV channel "Sevimli" almost daily: "Ickarida" ("Inside"), "Istanbullik kelin" ("Istanbul daughter-in-law"), "Onamning yarasi" ("My mother's wound"), "Ezo"...
A shot from the series "Istanbul daughter-in-law" Some series continue for months, they are watched by whole families.
An employee of the TV and radio company, who asked to be called Muyassar, believes that the current celebration of Turkish TV series is due to the “resuscitation ” of relations between Uzbekistan and Turkey.
The impetus for improving relations was the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Uzbekistan in November 2016 and the return visit of Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Istanbul in October 2017.
It was after this that the private Uzbek television station ZO "RTV began broadcasting the Turkish soap opera" Kara sevda "(" Black Love ").
Before that, in the time of Islam Karimov, Turkish television production, as well as all Turkish, had a strict taboo.
Not surprisingly, when Black Love was banned last month, it sparked a flurry of outraged comments on social media.
It is believed that the series fell into disgrace due to a series of critical articles on the Islamic website Azon.uz and negative statements of the scandalously famous Tashkent imam Rahmatullo Saifuddinov.
According to the mullah and the authors of other critical publications, such films are alien to the Uzbek mentality, since they contradict the dogmas of true Islam and corrupt young people.
However, the audience is not afraid to be depraved and demand the resumption of the show.
Here are some of their comments on ZO ’ RTV ’ s Facebook page.
“If you think this film is ‘ vicious ’, why don ’ t you remove another Turkish TV series from the air – ‘ Inside ’, which will be worse than ‘ Black Love ’? ”
"ZO" RTV, you are losing your audience - many people do not want to watch you already! "
"Return the series, let those who are not satisfied with the content of the film, watch movies to their liking, they are teeming with other channels!"
(The style of the words is preserved.)
"Fergana".)
Some believe that the removal of the series from the air is not accidental: the Uzbek clergy thus trying on the role of a religious censor.
However, to understand the hostility to this series is difficult.
Marriage of convenience, adultery, premarital sex, unwanted pregnancy, murder out of jealousy and blackmail - all these stories are found in any melodrama, especially stretched over hundreds of episodes.
So why are Turkish TV shows a threat to the Uzbek nation?
The fight with TV series on television seems all the more strange that any of the movies you like today can safely watch online on the same YouTube, not to mention the numerous torrents.
So the ban on television will not save anyone from anything, but it can show the prohibitions in a very disadvantageous light.
In 2017, the Turkish TV series Black Love became the first Turkish melodrama to win an international Emmy Award in the Best Telenovela category.
It is clear that the audience was waiting for him with special interest.
However, the show of "Black Love" on the Uzbek TV channel ZO "RTV on February 16 was suspended.
This was preceded by an article written in a threatening tone and published two days earlier on the Islamic website Azon.uz.
The article was directed against Uzbek artists who duplicated the series.
The author of the article Ziyavuddin Rahim threatened the actors with the punishment of the Almighty, because, in his opinion, their activities fall under the concept of "haram", that is, it can be considered sinful, vicious and cursed.
Rahim called the Uzbek artists involved in the dubbing of the series, "the most ardent traitors of the nation, troublemakers, duplicitous and hypocrites," and urged to fight against them, threatening that otherwise there will come, no less, the end of the world.
Footage from the TV series "Black Love" Following the clergy against the series, the media monitoring center at the Press and Information Agency of Uzbekistan spoke.
The conclusion of the center refers to the contradiction of the series to the national mentality and traditions, as well as to the family values of Uzbeks.
However, here the scythe unexpectedly found on the stone.
The website Azon.uz, which posted Ziyavuddin Rahim ’ s controversial opinion, in turn, was criticized by Uzbek officials.
According to Ozodlik, Bobomurod Rustamov, an employee of the Committee on Religious Affairs under the Government of Uzbekistan, said that the author of the publication "violated the boundaries of what is allowed."
For this reason, Rahim ’ s article was sent for examination.
Moreover, Jamshid Nabiyev, head of the licensing department of the Uzbek Press and Information Agency (UzAPI), believes that the publication contains extremist appeals, so appropriate measures will be taken against the Islamic site.
It is not yet clear whether there has been any punishment for those who posted the aggressive publication, but it seems that it has been removed - an error message appears when you try to open the page.
According to the employee of the NGTRK Muyassar, for many years of work on television, employees have already become accustomed to various kinds of force majeure and bans.
Repressive measures in periods of "thaw" successfully coexist here with positive undertakings.
"Remember, in the early 2000s, religious radicals intensified and terrorist acts occurred in different parts of Uzbekistan," Muyassar said. - Then, too, mass bans began, including on Turkish film production.
Even CDs with Turkish films on religious themes were banned.
Few people understood then that all this was the result of the complication of our relations with Turkey.
Do you seriously think that after watching the film, people will rush to buzz on the streets or wander around in brothels?
No, bans can't solve the problem.
For that matter, the main causes of any discontent and problems in society should be sought in mass unemployment, lack of money for living.
Migration, infidelity, divorce, "love triangles" and unheard of crimes (murder of children by mothers or, conversely, parents by children) - all this came from life in the series, and not vice versa.
And there are a lot of such series – why did you stick to “Black Love ”?
I think that both the good and the bad come from family, upbringing, values instilled in the human environment.
And movies and books, at best, only teach the difference between good and bad.
That ’ s what our clergy should think about. ”
On the private TV channel "Milliy", where the Turkish historical melodrama "Empire of Qesem" is now successfully being performed, they hold a slightly different point of view.
Poster series "Empire of Kesem" "This is called to make a fly of an elephant, - says the employee, who wished to remain unnamed. - The real ban affected only the melodrama" Black Love "on ZO" RTV.
It will take some time, and everything will return to normal again.
At one time, in 2012-2013, the series "Magnificent Century" also suffered - it was closed together with the Russian TV channel "Domashny".
This happened after a wave of arrests and expulsion of Turkish businessmen from the country.
One of the big bosses saw then in the characters of the films the spirit of rebellion.
We, it happens, also call unknown persons from the street, demand removal from the air of this or that picture, scolded for the "unbridled" of the plots.
People are different.
Previously, while working on the state channel, we were forced to cut out even kissing scenes from films.
We translated our own films, omitting "indecent" or overly emotional language.
Then there was a whole department of censorship, now it is gone.
Today, all issues related to ethics on state channels are decided by the Art Council.
Private channels make their own decisions.
By the way, the same "Black Love", it seems, even in Turkey itself at some point was banned - there are many scenes in it that clearly do not fit with the Muslim mentality.
I was still wondering: how this series can be watched together in the same room, where not only the daughter-in-law with her husband, but also the father-in-law or mother-in-law...
Perhaps the imams were outraged by this fact, and not something else. "
Either way, history repeats itself.
A few years ago, Turkish melodramas were banned in Uzbekistan for "unacceptable" content.
Then they were rehabilitated - and here is a new round of bans.
Local imams are again trying to resist their introduction - and in this struggle, it seems, any methods are used.
Poorly affect the gene pool In recent years, the topic of confrontation between spiritual, religious and secular norms has become increasingly relevant in Uzbekistan.
This is especially clear if we take into account the aggressive attitude of the local clergy, concerned with the struggle for the morality of society.
Sometimes it gets funny.
Thus, the imam-khatib of the cathedral mosque "Mirza Yusuf" of the Yunusabad district of Tashkent Rahmatullo Saifuddinov said that Turkish series adversely affect the gene pool of the nation.
This was said on March 2 during the Friday sermon.
According to the minister of the cult, from women who think during sexual intercourse not about their husband, but about beautiful actors from Turkish TV series, gay children are born.
Despite the obvious absurdity of this statement, it caused fierce controversy, dividing the Internet audience into two opposing camps.
To be fair, most commentators made the imam laugh.
Saifuddinov has already made quite strange statements - including about men involved in gynecology and obstetrics.
His calls to “stop it, ” that is, to actually deprive doctors of the right to a profession, immediately dispersed on social networks, causing a storm of indignation among users.
However, later he refused his statements that a male gynecologist is a shame, but from the song, as they say, the words can not be thrown out.
As for "Black Love", here, as already mentioned, opinions diverged.
Opponents of the series, in particular, wrote on the page of the channel ZO "RTV on Facebook the following:" husband and wife, although married 5 years, sleep in different rooms ";" married woman continues to date her beloved ";" married man meets other women ";"... wants to kill his mother ";" he is a cheater, and wants to blame everything on his wife ";" naked women "One woman doesn ’ t have a scarf on her head. ”
Finally, a sacramental question was asked: “What spiritual food do you intend to draw from this series? ”
Ozodlik commented: “The ban on a Turkish television series that angered Muslim leaders in Uzbekistan is seen as part of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev ’ s broader effort to adopt a new approach to Islam – at least with regard to moderate Muslims. ”
If this is the case, as Ozodlik believes, it is obvious that this is an unprecedented turn in relations between the state and the Muslim clergy.
The fact is that “Black Love ” is broadcast in more than 70 countries around the world, including such countries as Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan.
And only in Uzbekistan, in fact, much more secular, the clergy saw in the series almost a call for debauchery.
How should such processes be interpreted?
Perhaps these are the fruits of the rising "Islamic democracy", which finally felt its strength after the end of the brutal control of spiritual life in society by the punitive Karimov structures.
It is also possible that the removal of Black Love from the air is a step by the Uzbek government towards the official clergy in order to calm and direct its activity in the right direction.
The reforms initiated by current President Shavkat Mirziyoyev are unprecedented for Uzbekistan.
Especially impressive is his actions against the once powerful National Security Service (NSS).
It is considered that the positive changes for the Muslims of the republic are counted from January 31 - from the very day when Mirziyoyev managed to dismiss the permanent head of the National Security Service Rustam Inoyatov.
For the sake of justice, it must be said that the strengthening of the influence of the clergy in public life takes place not only in Uzbekistan.
Fergana has already told that with the approval of the government, erotic scenes will be cut out of all domestic and foreign films shown in Tajikistan in the near future.
A month earlier, a ban on the demonstration of such scenes was introduced in Kyrgyzstan.
Relevant amendments were also made to the Kyrgyz law "On State Support for Cinematography".
The fact that Uzbek Muslim leaders are becoming more active can be seen even in their social media posts.
Increasingly, they talk about the need to ban certain works of film art, criticize the scenic outfits of artists that do not meet the norms of Islamic morality, demand the introduction of hijabs, and also allow minors to attend sermons in mosques.
Thus, the imam of the Tashkent mosque, Shermurod Togay, is indignant at a certain film on the Uzbekiston TV channel (obviously, we are talking about a domestic historical picture), in which they undeservedly laugh at "respected ashons".
"In Russian films, despite the fact that their kings (finished) drunkards, engaged in adultery, they are always exalted..." - indignant priest.
Togai criticizes the filmmakers, saying they distorted the story by portraying Uzbek women performing a "belly dance" in royal palaces.
And this is in the “post-temur ” times, when our women could not think about removing the veil from their heads – and then suddenly they dance half-naked!
He is no less outraged by the fact that Uzbek men are depicted with hair hanging below the ear.
Whatever it was, one thing is obvious: individual representatives of the clergy are increasingly trying not only to influence people ’ s lives, but also to build the whole society in accordance with their ideas about good and evil.
The question is how far they will go in these attempts and to what extent the state is ready to meet them 20.03.2018 Source - fergananews.com Permanent address of the article - http: / / www.centrasia.ru / newsA.php? st = 1521580260 News of Kazakhstan
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Presented the world 's largest liner
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Worldwide, new flagships and innovative aircraft are produced annually.
What is the most popular among the characteristics of aircraft?
Of course, this is the maximum range and kilometers of non-stop flights.
But the dimensions also deserve attention!
The title of the world ’ s largest liner gets Stratolaunch.
Stratolaunch broke into a new phase of development in the world of air transport - it descended to the runway at a speed of 46 miles per hour.
It may seem that the numbers are not so large, but given the large dimensions of the liner, it becomes clear that the figure is impressive - you just have to look at the giant body of the aircraft with double fuselages sliding on concrete.
Stratolaunch did not immediately acquire these chic indicators for him - first tests and subsequent modifications were carried out.
In December 2017, a low-speed test recorded a speed of just 28 miles per hour.
Obviously, it was necessary to improve the aircraft, especially the opportunities were.
Actually, they were used - now the speed reaches 46 miles, as already mentioned.
Still, the tests of the liner are not finished - in 2019 Stratolaunch expects another test flight.
Before that, the massive liner and its 6 turbofan engines have already been tested. Where?
The Mojave air and space ports in California were provided.
Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, plans to send the world ’ s largest liner beyond passenger and commercial operation — he would like to bring Stratolaunch closer to space.
Why not?
The use of an aircraft can significantly reduce the cost of access to low Earth orbit - a team of enthusiasts also suggests that the reliability of the aircraft will not yield to professional equipment.
The development of Stratolaunch was engaged in the Californian company Scaled Composites, specializing in conceptual liners.
What is it remarkable for?
The company was awarded the Ansari X Prize – it allowed to design the first private spacecraft.
Launched in 2004 with the participation of SpaceShipOne, it is designed for reusable manned operation.
Getting closer to the stratosphere What exactly would Paul Allen want to achieve?
His concept reveals the use of this large-sized aircraft as a platform to lift rockets into the stratosphere.
Predominantly this would be carried out before launching rockets directly into space.
Here, the massiveness of Stratolaunch plays into the hand - its dimensions allow you to carry a load of up to 550,000 pounds.
Six huge turbofan engines Pratt & Whitney are included in the equipment of the liner.
As for the wingspan, here the figure reaches 385 feet.
The development of Stratolaunch is not over yet - not all tests have been carried out, now work is underway on a series of tests for low and medium speeds.
The date when it will be possible to commercially use the liner, has not yet been specified.
Nevertheless, there are already those who want to - the co-founder of Microsoft has high hopes for the implementation of new products.
Perhaps, Stratolaunch will be used not only in space – its launch as a civil aviation vessel is not excluded.
Plus in its dimensions is again obvious - such dimensions will allow you to accommodate a large number of passengers on board, but this may be too costly in terms of resources.
The idea of air launch rockets is not new — it flashed in the world of aviation before.
However, together with Stratolaunch, there is an opportunity to find a new approach to the existing “old ” idea.
The Pegasus XL rocket, which was created by aerospace contractor Orbital ATK, is now launched from a modified Lockheed TriStar jet liner.
Confirmation that the projects are not unique can be found from NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA is the Department of Defense ’ s Advanced Research Projects Office) and Richard Branson ’ s Virgin Group.
They are also developing similar concepts.
The project “Buran ”, a native of the Soviet Union, also provided for the sending of air missiles with the help of an aircraft, namely from its rear part.
A subsequent return to Earth was also contemplated.
Despite the fact that developments similar to Stratolaunch existed before and exist now, no one can equal this air giant.
On the Stratolaunch there is a separate space between the fuselages - there can be suspended missiles from the central part of the wing.
The company engages in business relationships with other businesses.
For example, already started cooperation with Orbital ATK, which will help to launch not only Pegasus XL, but also other models.
The project may seem unnecessarily ambitious, but these ambitions are justified.
Experts in the field of space technology are confident that the project has a successful future — in part thanks to funding from Allen.
In that case, if the subsequent development and improvements of Stratolaunch are successful, and the tests end with favorable indicators, the company will be able to provide crew services and transportation of light cargo to Earth orbit at affordable prices - much lower than current ones.
The option with certain difficulties and failures is also considered - then it will be a bright fragment in space history, captured as the creation of the world's largest liner.
It is worth noting that the Stratolaunch project and its implementation is really a dream for Russian aviation and the country as a whole.
Previously, many similar concepts were put forward, but they remained only ideas that did not go beyond discussions and minimal technical feats.
Stratolaunch is a serious and, above all, a bold project that Russian state corporations could not decide on for at least ten years, or even more.
Many people know Paul Allen as an important face of Microsoft — for a time it really was.
The developer played an important role in the history of the company, which he founded in 1975.
Bill Gates helped him.
Having worked not so short term at Microsoft, he left the company in 1983, but his share remained.
This is only part of Allen's success, but it definitely led to the absolute financial dependence of the businessman - the co-founder became a billionaire.
The future of Stratolaunch is cloudless or gloomy...
If the plane is not launched as planned, it could become another "Spruce Goose" (flying boat made of wood, built in 1947 and used only once; in the foreign version - "spruce goose", in the Russian-language - "white elephant".
This is a property that is extremely expensive for its owner, but it is not possible to get rid of it).
The key moment in the fate of Stratolaunch will be the first flight in 2019.
This will help to understand whether the liner should count on a commercial future.
It will also determine whether the aircraft will be in active service or go to the museum to "Spruce Goose".
This racing flying boat belonged to Howard Hughes, who tried to keep it in working order, spending a million dollars annually until his death.
After the death of the owner, the ship was transferred to the Long Beach Museum, in California.
Now it is in the Aviation Museum of McMinnville (Oregon).
It is worth noting that the famous Spruce Goose never entered commercial circulation - only once Hughes H-4 Hercules was able to make the first and last flight on November 2, 1947.
However, the developers of Stratolaunch hope for a cloudless fate of the liner - they believe that the enthusiasm of Paul Allen, combined with positive forecasts and expert reviews will give a good result.
Now a whole team of experienced and highly qualified specialists is working on the aircraft, who are doing everything to ensure that the efforts involved in the success of Stratolaunch are not in vain.
Perhaps right now, Paul Allen and his team are taking an important and innovative step towards space exploration.
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New standards for the improvement of modern megacities will be discussed at the 100 + Forum
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New strategies for the spatial development of cities are one of the main topics of the forum.
The rhythms of life of modern megacities suggest a new approach to the formation of public spaces, transport systems, above-ground and underground objects.
“The organic combination of high-rise buildings and the road network with public spaces – parks, embankments, streets and squares – is the need of time.
Modern cities need new solutions.
We need a balance between the interests of society and business.
Today, urban upgrading is a national priority.
How should the city center be filled, what should be the share of park areas, how to organize the transport system as efficiently as possible, how to use urban space, combining high-rise construction with green areas - these questions will be answered by our speakers, "said Vera Belous, head of the working group of the 100 + Forum Russia organizing committee. o, Canada).
He will talk about the planning of architecture and urban design in the framework of the author's lecture "Psychology of high-rise construction".
He collaborates with scientists, architects, planners and artists, and is the director of the Urban Realities Laboratory at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
His book is Habitat.
How Architecture Affects Our Behavior and Feeling ” has been translated into Russian: “At the Urban Realities Laboratory at the University of Waterloo, we are conducting experiments aimed at understanding the influence of the urban environment on human behavior.
In my speech, I will describe the results of our research with a focus on the psychological impact of high-rise structures, ” explains Colin Ellard. The implementation of the program for the improvement of Russian cities, funded by the Urban Environment Development Fund and AHML (Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending), will be discussed in the section “Comfortable Urban Environment.
"Parks of Russia".
The program has already started in 40 cities of Russia, the work is planned to be completed by 2022.
Its interim results will be presented at the forum by the Strelka Architects design bureau, which is engaged in the implementation of the project throughout the country.
As an example, the case of improvement of the center of Yekaterinburg will be disassembled.
The experience of creating iconic public spaces in Moscow and Russia will be shared by the co-founder of WOWHAUS bureau, candidate of architectural sciences Oleg Shapiro.
An open lecture by the architect, the author of the Gorky Park revitalization project, will help answer the question of what is needed to create a modern public space, which will become “love-marks ” for the townspeople. New opportunities for the development of central recreational and park zones and boulevard ribbons will be considered on the example of cases“ Tatyshev Park ” in Krasnoyarsk (Alexey Myakota, design and educational studio “Architecture ra-Design Methodology ”) and“ Boulevard Ribbon of Yekaterinburg ” (Miroslav Shtuka, founder of the landscape bureau Sztuka & Partners).
Architects will talk about how the potential for further development of public spaces is laid, when they are organically included in the character and rhythm of life of the city.
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Hundreds of court cases against Monsanto are awaiting a verdict on the carcinogenicity of the Roundup herbicide
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Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto for injuries and premature death are moving forward after a scientific analysis (1) was heard in court detailing the carcinogenicity of the Roundup herbicide.
An expert opinion on the toxicity of glyphosate included in the Roundup may be allowed in the trial against Monsanto pending the final decision of the judge.
The first trial in the Roundup case is scheduled for June 18, 2018 in the Superior Court of the District of San Francisco.
The stakes are high for hundreds of farm families who have lost loved ones to a particular type of cancer called non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Cancer is more common among farmers.
More than 365 lawsuits are pending in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
People who filed lawsuits against Monsanto claim that the herbicide Roundup caused cancer in their loved one and that Monsanto concealed these risks.
The court promised to consider the cases as one, only if there is enough evidence of the carcinogenicity of glyphosate.
The second week of March was important in this regard.
The court devoted the entire week to hearing the scientific evaluation of glyphosate, the main component of Roundup.
Epidemiologists, toxicologists and biomedical statistical analysts testified in court, presented and presented evidence of the harm of glyphosate to humans.
Judge Vince Chabria presided over the case and now has to decide whether the trials against Monsanto can move forward.
The implications of these lawsuits are enormous, as more than 3,500 cases are pending in state courts, which say Monsanto concealed the risk of cancer due to Roundup.
A video of the trial has been made public and is available on USCourts.gov (2).
So far, the whole world has trusted Monsanto ’ s words that Roundup is 100 percent safe for humans.
Now, this massively used herbicide is finally being questioned by experts, grieving families, and most importantly, the courts.
The greatest amount of evidence came from Dr. Chadi Nabhan, an oncologist with 17 years of clinical practice and academic research on lymphomas.
He discussed the results of a study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (2015) and the reasonable procedures they adopted, starting in 1965.
After careful examination, an independent research body classified glyphosate as a “probable carcinogen ” in 2015.
Dr. Nabhan said the IARC findings are compelling, and that ’ s what “patients need to know. ”
This is a very important issue for Monsanto, as the company does not recognize the carcinogenicity of glyphosate.
Almost a third of Monsanto ’ s revenue comes from glyphosate products.
If the megacorporation is found guilty, agriculture will be changed around the world, especially in the US, where Monsanto ’ s genetically modified seeds (GMO seeds) are systematically modernized to resist its glyphosate.
Finally, the world can witness a court decision that will acquit the victims of the Monsanto herbicide.
Finally, people will be able to learn the truth about Roundup, that it is the poison of daring cancer in humans.
If Monsanto is found guilty in the face of growing evidence, it will only be the beginning for the collapse of Monsanto ’ s empire.
Roundup is already found in organic products and human breast milk, it is already poisoning the last corners of our world, destroying not only plant life, but also destroying the protective microorganisms that live in our gastrointestinal tract. Summary.
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Known contraceptive declared invalid
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The other day, trading in Frankfurt, shares of Germany ’ s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer Bayer AG fell by 5.6% to an annual low, reducing the company ’ s capitalization by 2 billion euros, to 36.5 billion euros.
The reason was the decision of the American court in the case of the patent for the popular oral contraceptive Yasmin, which was declared invalid.
Cheaper copies of the drug are now available to generic companies, including Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc., which challenged the validity of the patent.
The court verdict forced Bayer to reconsider plans to increase profits for 2008.
A district court in New Jersey ruled that the Yasmin contraceptive was not an invention in its pure form and any other company could have created something similar.
“Bayer did not invent this contraceptive, as at the time of the research, many of the necessary discoveries have already been made, ” Birgit Kulhoff, an expert at Rahn & Bodmer, told RBC daily.
U.S. sales of Yasmin are key for Bayer.
In 2007, the company sold 321 million euros ($487 million) of these contraceptives in the United States.
Last year, Yasmin contraceptives became the main and largest line of Bayer, with revenues of 1.04 billion euros ($1.58 billion).
Barr ’ s competitors can now begin parallel sales without waiting for Bayer ’ s patent to expire in 2020.
Many of Bayer ’ s patents, as well as those of other brands including Pfizer Inc., Novartis AG, GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Sanofi-Aventis SA, will expire in 2011.
The $150 billion market will be flooded with copies of their drugs, and it is already clear that cheaper generics will instantly bring prices down by 80-90%.
Unplanned trouble with a key drug forced Bayer to revise downwards its profit growth forecasts for 2008.
“The company is now assessing the impact of the court decision on another product of the YAZ contraceptive line, which the US Federal Drug Commission approved for market launch in 2006, ” Bayer said in a statement.
Despite the invalidity of the key 531 patent, German pharmacists will retain exclusive rights to sell YAZ in the United States, and no generic copies will appear in pharmacies until March 16, 2009.
It is also assumed that Bayer will simultaneously slow down the entry into the market of generic from Barr.
“Bayer will not waste time and file an appeal, ” Mitra Thompson, an expert at the analytical agency Global Insight, told RBC daily.“ The review will greatly delay the launch of the drug from the Barr laboratories, while there is no guarantee that Bayer will win the appeal. ”
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Asians go to Russia to treat their teeth
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TODAY 14: 39 2018-03-30T14: 39: 01 + 03: 00 Resize text: A A In 2017, medical institutions in Russia were visited by 110 thousand foreign tourists, 44% of them used dental services.
To treat teeth in Russia came mainly citizens of Vietnam, South Korea, China and Japan.
In just a year, the external tourist flow amounted to 24.5 million foreigners.
Other popular medical services for foreign tourists were gynecology and urology - 25%, as well as plastic surgery - 10%.
The most popular routes, as they say in Rosturizm, are Moscow, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Krasnodar and other large cities.
In addition to Asians, Europeans, especially citizens of Finland and Germany, also use medical services in Russia.
Treatment in Russia is cheaper, write “Izvestia ”, on dentistry foreigners can save up to 80% in dollar terms.
The state supports the development of medical tourism, at the end of 2017 adopted the corresponding state program.
According to it, until 2025, the medical tourist flow should be 500 thousand people annually, which can affect the country's economy by an additional 13 billion rubles.
Earlier, the website kp.ru reported that in 2017 the total tourist flow to Russia reached a record high, in Moscow it grew by 65% over seven years.
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Medical tourism brings $1.4 billion to Jordan for the year
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This was reported to the newspaper Jordan Times the head of the Association of private medical institutions Fauzi Hammuri, write Israel News.
Since each patient was accompanied by two more people, thanks to local doctors, about 750,000 people came to the kingdom.
According to the representative of the industry, medical tourism in the past year brought the Jordanian economy a billion dinars – 1.4 billion US dollars.
This amount includes expenses for medical procedures, housing, transportation, etc.
The interlocutor of the publication noted that a number of factors harm the competitiveness of Jordanian doctors in the international arena.
First of all, these are electricity tariffs, which have increased by 50% over the year.
He noted Hammuri and the unstable situation in Syria and Iraq.
However, the number of tourists has not decreased.
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Named the timing of the launch of an artificial sun on Earth
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Earlier, Chinese researchers said that the tokamak will be built before the end of 2019.
Recently it became known that the installation will begin to function in 2020.
Tokamak HL-2M can help scientists solve the main problem of thermonuclear fusion in terrestrial conditions: until now, there was no cost-effective way to keep hot plasma in a confined space and stable state.
If researchers can still solve this problem with the help of HL-2M, then a powerful source of clean energy will finally appear on Earth.
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The most popular rejuvenation procedure in the United States
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According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, most often local women turn to beauty clinics to get rid of wrinkles.
They choose, mainly, minimally invasive procedures that do not require surgical intervention.
Last year alone, American women left almost $11 billion in aesthetic surgery salons.
83% of this amount - payment of contour plastic ("beauty injections": Botox and various fillerops).
However, experts are forced to state that not every patient is ultimately satisfied with the result obtained, since before starting the course of injections it is necessary to consult experienced specialists (dermatologist and / or plastic surgeon), which women sometimes forget.
A clear example of the sad consequences of excessive independence is the new face of Sharon Osborne.
Not only that after a disease (bowel cancer), the wife of a world-famous musician can not do not only plastic, but also rejuvenating procedures, she also overdid it with Botox.
Now the face of the 61-year-old TV presenter is even more like a mask: there is not a single wrinkle on it, but it itself has acquired puffiness.
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Paris through the prism of novels of the XX century
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Paris through the prism of the novels of the XX century The image of Paris for many years finds its reflection in the pages of books.
Generation after generation, French writers meticulously recreated the image of the French capital and its inhabitants, gave Paris the main roles in their works, portrayed it either as the ruler of destinies, then as an outside observer and inconspicuous decoration.
It was not just the French who wrote about Paris.
Foreign writers, who came to France for a variety of reasons, contributed to the creation of the image of Paris in their books, and he in turn influenced them.
Ernest Hemingway.
Paris never ends, and the memories of every person who lived in it are different from those of any other.
We always went back there, no matter who we were, no matter how hard or easy it was to get there.
He is always worth it and always pays us back for what we brought him. ”
“The holiday that is always with you ” is a kind of declaration of Hemingway ’ s love for Paris, where the very opportunity to live and create in your favorite city prevails over all life ’ s troubles.
Hemingway doesn ’ t care about low-paying jobs, lack of money and hunger.
On the contrary, hunger makes the writer more tolerant, makes it possible to be more attentive to the details and the people who surround him.
Poor youth is one of the main leitmotifs of the whole work.
Describing the room in which Hemingway lives with his wife, he writes that everything in the room “talks about poverty, ” but what difference does it make if the window offers a wonderful view of Paris?
Despite the difficulties, Hemingway remembers Paris with warmth and a certain sentimentality.
For him, it is the capital of culture, a place where you can meet the most talented people and write your best works.
A special place in creating the image of Paris is occupied by cafes.
For Hemingway, Parisian cafes became a home, a “desk ” and a place where he met his fellow writers.
Hemingway only casually describes the appearance of these institutions, all his attention is focused on visitors and character, their behavior and taste preferences, the description of which helps to create a full-fledged image of the cafe.
George Orwell.
“Paris slums are a collection point of eccentric personalities who fell into their special, almost delusional rut, who even abandoned to pretend to be normal or at least decent.
Poverty gets rid of general rules just as money gets rid of labor. ”
The master of dystopia, George Orwell, before his name shocked the wider literary community, created the novel “Pounds of Dashing in Paris and London ”, in which he talked about his experience of living in two world capitals.
The first part of the book is dedicated to Paris, where Orwell worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant.
Money the writer was sorely lacking, so in Paris he first gets acquainted with poverty and poverty, taking them for granted.
Paris for Orwell is a never-ending, ever-changing gallery, which is entirely made up of diverse slum dwellers.
Orwell describes in detail his neighbors, the diversity of nationalities, professions and lifestyles.
In the book, we also see the background of famous French cuisine, where chefs are able to spit in your soup, bread boxes are teeming with cockroaches, and waiters do not need to wash their hands and faces in the same water where they rinse the dishes.
However, Orwell tried to describe everything he experienced and saw with his inherent British humor.
Yes, Orwell ’ s Paris is full of bedbugs and slums, but the writer is young, he has friends and the black streak in life tends to end, giving way to white.
Henry Miller.
"Tropic of Cancer" "Eternal City, Paris!
More eternal than Rome, more magnificent than Nineveh.
The navel of the earth, to which you crawl on the carts, like a blind, feeble-minded idiot.
And like a cork, brought by currents into the very center of the ocean, you hang out here among the mud and garbage, helpless, inert, indifferent to everything, even to the passing Columbus.
The cradle of civilization is the rotting cesspool of the world... "
In his scandalous novel “Tropic of Cancer ” no less scandalous Henry Miller completely debunks the myth of Paris as the center of European culture.
Miller is an American, a man far from European culture and upbringing, who ended up in France with ten francs in his pocket.
His beloved woman remained in America, he is tormented by hunger, he wanders behind the scenes of Paris, on those routes that are not indicated in the usual guidebooks, exploring the very bottom of the city and its inhabitants.
Miller compares Paris to a contagious patient whose main streets look beautiful just because all the pus has been pumped out of them.
In the descriptions of Miller there is no enthusiasm and sentimentality, throughout the book he tries to dispel a romantic halo over the city, showing it from the worst side.
The writer compares Paris of his time with Paris during the reign of Charles the Mad, where the city is similar to a massacre engulfed by plague and death.
The usual cultural events with which Paris is full appear in Miller ’ s descriptions in a completely different light.
The exhibition of paintings by Matisse, which the writer visits, serves only as an occasion to remind the reader that the world is falling apart, and the French capital is full of dirt and debauchery.
Barry Miles.
Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris Number nine on the rue Gy-les-Coeur, or Beat Hotel, is a legendary address, the same as the Chelsea Hotel in New York or the Château Marmont in Hollywood - the place where the bohemians of different countries lived.
These names are found in poems, appear in fuzzy avant-garde films, they become names for huge abstract paintings, representing a pile of colors, they appear in the lists of addresses in poetic magazines.
English writer and journalist Barry Miles is perhaps the greatest connoisseur in the universe of the so-called, broken generation and beatniks.
Beat Hotel is a documentary novel about the Parisian period in the life of the main representatives of the movement.
This is another image of Paris as a haven for creative bohemia, a direct confirmation of the words of Henri Murget that a real bohemian can exist only in Paris.
And it exists, judging by the Beat Hotel.
Here secular gossip skillfully intertwines with the analysis of the most iconic works of the broken generation, Burroughs experiments with the expansion of consciousness, Corso in a suit of white alpaca writes The Bomb, and Ginsberg tries to translate Russian poets, simultaneously waiting for another Beat prophet, Jack Kerouac, whose presence in the book we feel through correspondence with Gus Innsberg will pay him back $225 in debt.
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Deputies tightened the issuance of loans and increased the rights of borrowers
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The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law providing for mandatory verification by a credit institution of the borrower ’ s creditworthiness, mandatory informing the borrower about the effective interest rate, as well as changing the order of repayment of parts of the loan in case of its delay.
Read alsoBP appealed to the EU regarding the risks of building gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine For the adoption of the bill No. 2455 “On consumer lending ” as a basis and in general, 247 deputies voted with the required minimum of 226 votes.
Deputy Head of the Committee on Financial Policy and Banking Ruslan Demchak said, reporting on the bill, that Ukrainian legislation on consumer protection does not take into account the specifics of the financial sector.
In particular, there is no regulation of advertising consumer loans, assessment of consumer creditworthiness, informing the consumer about the effective interest rate and other terms of the contract, as provided for in European legislation.
“The purpose of the bill is to create a consumer lending mechanism that will protect the rights of both consumers and lenders, create an appropriate competitive environment in the financial market, increase the level of confidence of the population in relation to it, ” Demchak said.
He added that the norms of the bill have long been working in the European Union and Ukraine has committed to implement them within 3 years from the date of signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.
This draft law is designed to implement the EU rules on credit agreements for consumers, as well as unify existing in Ukraine separate laws on lending.
It is also noted that the study of consumer lending in Ukraine, conducted in September 2011, showed that lenders do not comply with the requirement to disclose information to potential borrowers in the period before the conclusion of the agreement on real interest rates on loans.
The results showed that in some cases the real annual interest rate was 135%.
In other cases, it was not even possible to calculate the interest rates that were applied, as there was no information about the additional fees and any payments.
The bill provides for a mandatory check by a bank or other financial institution of the borrower ’ s creditworthiness.
Today, such a need is established only by the regulatory legal acts of the National Bank.
The obligation to assess the creditworthiness of the borrower for non-bank financial institutions has not yet been established.
The obligation of the financial institution to assess the creditworthiness implies the obligation of the borrower to provide relevant documents.
Credit institutions will be required to report an effective interest rate.
The calculation of the effective rate will include all interest on the loan and payments for other services of the lender.
This requirement will apply only if the advertising materials contain any data on consumer spending.
It is proposed to change the order of repayment of claims under the consumer loan agreement: first of all, the amount of overdue debt will be paid, in the second - current payments of the loan body and interest, in the third - the amount of penalties.
According to the current legislation, the principal amount of debt (the body of the loan) is paid in the third place, and penalties in the second, which leads to the fact that consumers find themselves in a situation where all their cash is sent to repay the already accrued penalties, and the debt itself is not reduced.
In addition, before the conclusion of the contract, the creditor must notify the consumer of the estimated cost of services of third parties (insurers, appraisers, etc.), if it is known to him.
At the same time, the draft law does not oblige to include the cost of services of third parties in the calculation of the effective interest rate and the total cost of the loan.
As UNIAN reported, the Verkhovna Rada on December 9, 2015 adopted in the first reading the bill No. 2455.
At the same time, the parliamentarians refused to adopt in the first reading the draft law No. 2456 “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Improving the Protection of the Rights of Financial Services Consumers ”, which is aimed at implementing the draft law No. 2455.
Bill No. 2456 was sent to the committee for revision.
This document provides for the right of the National Bank of Ukraine, the National Commission carrying out state regulation in the field of financial services markets and the National Commission on Securities and Stock Market to protect the rights of consumers of financial services and apply financial sanctions to violators of such rights.
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Japan will try to prove the need to kill whales – media
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The corresponding statement was made by the Minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries of Japan Yoshimasa Hayashi, reports Gazeta.ru.
On the Australian beach found a carcass of a rare whale Earlier, Japan changed the rules of the whaling mission in Antarctica after the UN court.
Hiding behind research activities, Japanese whalers hunted whales and used their meat, in particular, in the diets of school canteens.
The International Court of Justice has upheld a complaint by Australian authorities that Japan illegally kills more than 900 whales of the species "minke whale", which is listed in the Red Book, every winter.
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Consumer protection: what ’ s new?
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Media reports about how the courts of the EU and the United States make decisions on compensation of tidy sums for damage caused by poor-quality products, works or services do not cease to amaze the Ukrainian consumer.
Indeed, in the judicial practice of Ukraine, it is unlikely that you will find a decision to recover several hundred hryvnias in such claims, while US citizen Stella Liebeck in the lawsuit against McDonald ’ s managed to recover $640,000 just because of spilled coffee.
Of course, the guarantee of high-quality consumer protection from harm caused by low-quality goods is, first of all, a clear settlement of this issue at the legislative level.
Finally, we can note an important step by our legislators to bring national norms closer to civilized standards.
Thus, from September 17, 2011, the Law “On Liability for Damage Caused as a Result of Product Defect ” (No. 3390-IV), adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on May 19, 2011, came into force.
This document regulates relations in connection with liability for damage caused due to a defect in products that are put into circulation in Ukraine.
This legal act contains almost in full the provisions of the Council of the European Communities Directive No. 85 / 374 / EEC of 25 July 1985 on the unification of legal and administrative rules on producer liability for defective products.
The date speaks eloquently about the distance that separates us from the European community - about 25 years!
Before the adoption of the law, the relations between the manufacturer and the consumer for compensation for harm were regulated mainly by the Civil Code and the Law "On Protection of Consumer Rights" (hereinafter - Law No. 1023-XII).
What can the consumer expect today?
On the concept of "products" First of all, let's find out what is meant by the term "products".
Products, according to Law No. 1023-XII, are any goods, work or service that are manufactured, performed or provided for the satisfaction of public needs.
Products within the meaning of Article 1 of Law No. 3390-IV - any movable property, including finished products, raw materials and component products, including property that is an integral part of other movable or immovable property.
The term "product" also includes electricity.
Therefore, the concept of products used in the new law is narrower, and therefore the requirements for compensation for damage caused by poorly provided services or poorly performed works within the framework of the Law "On Liability for Damage Caused as a Result of Product Defect" cannot be presented.
Article 16 of the Law "On Protection of Consumer Rights" (which is now set out in a new edition) warned that the harm caused to the life, health or property of the consumer by defective products or products of inadequate quality is subject to compensation in full.
At the same time, the definition of defective products this law does not give, so the consumer, indeed, could claim compensation only in the case of the purchase of goods of inadequate quality.
Under the concept of “proper quality of goods, works or services ”, Law No. 1023-XII understands the property of products that meet the requirements established for this category of products in regulatory legal acts and regulatory documents, and the terms of the contract with the consumer.
Thus, in order to receive a refund, the consumer had to prove the non-compliance of the product quality with the established requirements or terms of the contract.
If no such discrepancy is found, there is no basis for redress.
Now, Law No. 3390-IV establishes what is a defective product, namely: “a product is defective, in the case when it does not meet the level of safety on which the consumer or the user is entitled to rely, based on all circumstances, in particular, related to the development, production, circulation, transportation, storage, installation, maintenance, consumption, use, destruction (recycling, processing) of these products, as well as the provision of prevention information and other information about such products."
In turn, safety, according to Article 1 of Law No. 1023-XII, is the absence of any risk to the life, health, property of the consumer and the environment under normal conditions of use, storage, transportation, manufacture and disposal of products.
As you can see, the concept of defective products is much broader than the concept of products of inadequate quality.
Consequently, the victim can count on compensation even when the product, despite compliance with certain standards and terms of the contract, was dangerous and caused harm to his health or property.
The consumer and the user of the products also deserves attention that both natural and legal persons can protect their rights in accordance with the procedure established by Law No. 3390-IV.
Law No. 1023-XII protects only natural persons.
Thus, the Law “On Liability for Damage Caused as a Result of Product Defect ” combined under the concept of“ injured ” the consumer and the user who suffered damage as a result of a product defect.
If the consumer is an individual who purchases, orders, uses or intends to purchase or order products for personal needs that are not related to entrepreneurial activity or the performance of the duties of an employee, as defined in Article 1 of the Law "On Protection of Consumer Rights" and only such person could be considered a victim of harm, now the victim can also be a "user" - an individual who purchases, orders, uses products for the implementation of entrepreneurial activity or performance of the duties of an employee, or a legal entity purchasing, ordering, using the products.
Article 5 of the Law “On Liability for Damage Caused as a Result of a Product Defect ” establishes the right of the victim to receive information about the product.
Particular attention should be paid to the right to know the time when the product was put into circulation.
Introduction of products into circulation - any first paid or free delivery of products for its distribution, consumption (use) in the Ukrainian market.
It is from this moment that the ten-year period for compensation for damage begins, according to this law.
Previously, this period (Article 16 of Law No. 1023-XII) corresponded to the established period of service (shelf life), and only if such a period was not established - ten years from the date of introduction into circulation of such products by its manufacturer.
This term should not be confused with the expired limitation period, which is three years and is calculated from the day when the plaintiff became aware or should have become aware of the existence of damage, product defect and the identity of the manufacturer.
As you can see, in contrast to the procedure for calculating the limitation period under the Civil Code, which starts from the day when a person learned or could learn about the violation of his right or about the person who violated it, the limitation period under the law No. 3390-IV begins from the moment when the victim became aware of a number of circumstances: the presence of harm, the presence of a defect; the person of the manufacturer.
Who is the manufacturer For the damage caused as a result of a defect in the product, its corresponding manufacturer is responsible.
This is established by Article 7 of Law No. 3390-IV.
A manufacturer is a manufacturer of finished products, raw materials or component parts of products and any person who, placing his name, trademark or other sign on the product, declares himself as a manufacturer.
If the products were manufactured outside Ukraine, the liability as a manufacturer shall be borne by any person who imported products into the customs territory of Ukraine for the purpose of their sale, lease (lease), lease or distribution in any other form in the course of economic activity.
It is important to establish the identity of the manufacturer is the inclusion in Law No. 3390-IV of the following norm: “In the event that the manufacturer of a product cannot be identified, each supplier (seller) of it is responsible as a manufacturer in accordance with this Law, if he does not inform the victim of the name and location of the manufacturer or the person who supplied him with this product within 30 days. ”
Of course, this article will encourage every person who acts as an intermediary between the manufacturer of a product and its end user / user to assist the latter in identifying the manufacturer.
Otherwise, such a person will have to bear responsibility for the damage caused by the defective products to the victim.
According to Art. 16 of the Law "On Protection of Consumer Rights" as amended before 17.09.11, the manufacturer was exempted from liability in cases where: he did not put the product into circulation; product defect arose as a result of compliance with the requirements of the legislation by the manufacturer or the fulfillment of the binding orders of state authorities; the damage was caused by the fault of the consumer due to violation of the established rules of use, storage or transportation of products or the action of insurmountable My strength.
With the entry into force of Law No. 3390-IV, the manufacturer will not be liable for damage caused by defective products, also if the defect arose after the introduction of the product by the manufacturer into circulation, unless the occurrence of such a defect was due to the design or composition of the product, and should not be liable if the product was manufactured or distributed by the manufacturer not in the course of its economic activity.
In the event that the damage is caused as a result of a product defect, and through the fault of the victim or any person for which the victim is responsible in accordance with civil law, the liability of the manufacturer may be reduced.
However, the manufacturer cannot expect a reduction in liability if the damage is caused both as a result of a product defect and as a result of the actions or omissions of a third party.
This only entitles the manufacturer to seek redress from a third party.
In general, these restrictions are quite logical and fair both in relation to the manufacturer and in relation to the victim.
Undoubtedly, the adoption of the Law “On Liability for Damage Caused as a Result of Product Defect ” can be considered a positive shift in the sphere of consumer protection.
However, observing a qualitatively new approach to solving a number of issues at the legislative level, I also want to make sure of the effectiveness of these norms.
How real it will be for the victims to bring the manufacturer of defective products to financial responsibility, we learn from judicial practice.
I wonder if it will surprise the European?
Mariya Melnyk, lawyer at Jurimex Law Firm (for UNIAN)
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Expert: US mobile fusion reactor is a “statement of intent ”
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In the United States, a project is being developed to create weapons with thermonuclear engines, the media write.
On Sputnik radio, Boris Rozhin, an expert at the Center for Military-Political Journalism, expressed the opinion that the United States wants to show that they have something to respond to Russia.
The American company Lockheed Martin has patented the creation of a compact fusion reactor that can fit on a ship or in a combat aircraft, reports RT.
The company claims that it has achieved a breakthrough, to achieve what scientists around the world have been fighting for decades – to make thermonuclear energy available.
It is alleged that the company is close to solving the problem of using fusion energy.
Such energy has been used in hydrogen bombs since the middle of the 20th century, but it has not yet been used for peaceful purposes.
On Sputnik radio, Boris Rozhin, an expert at the Center for Military-Political Journalism, recalled that the very concept of creating a compact fusion reactor came from the 60s – 70s of the last century.
"Then, during the cold war, against the background of the development of thermonuclear weapons, they tried to solve the problem of creating peaceful thermonuclear nuclear power plants and various types of weapons.
The main problems encountered at that time were the issues of heat dissipation, the safety of the crew, if it is a manned device.
These problems were not solved either in the USSR or in the United States.
Although some progress was made, but they remained at the level of concepts that were shelved, ” said Boris Rozhin.
He says these concepts are coming back.
Recall the recent statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin related to the development of advanced unmanned weapons using nuclear reactors.
It is hard for Americans to admit that Russia is ahead of them in some areas.
The Americans thus answer: they also have their own developments.
So far, it is not mass production.
Rather, it is a statement of intent, that there are plans to create such weapons, work is underway, money is allocated.
And how successful this will be depends not on politicians, but on scientists who work in this field.
Plus, it should be borne in mind that in the United States there is a constant battle for an increase in the defense budget.
And companies engaged in high-tech weapons are trying to “join ” it at the expense of advertised projects, ” the military expert said.
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Russia promised Ukraine military rebuff in case of detention of ships
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The Russian Foreign Ministry invited the Chargé d ’ Affaires of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, where he was handed a note with a strong protest in connection with the detention of the state border service of Ukraine in the Sea of Azov of the Russian fishing vessel “Nord ” together with the entire crew, reports RT.
The arrest took place on March 25.
There was a captain and nine sailors on board.
The ship was escorted to the port of Berdyansk and is still being held in custody.
Kiev explains what happened by the fact that the people on the ship are Ukrainians, although, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, they are all citizens of Russia.
“The attention of the Ukrainian side was drawn to the fact that the crew of the ship is being held in inhuman conditions, Russian consular officers were not allowed to visit it.
It is stated that such actions do not comply with the provisions of the agreement between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on cooperation in the use of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait of 2003 ”, — stated in the commentary of the Russian foreign Ministry.
Also, the Ministry called what is happening a gross violation of the agreement between the Committee of the Russian Federation on Fisheries and the State Committee of Ukraine on fisheries and the fishing industry on fisheries in the Sea of Azov of September 14, 1993, reports FAN.
The Russian side demanded the immediate release of illegally detained Russian citizens, the return of the Nord ship to its rightful owner and the prevention of similar provocations in the future.
We are outraged by the next provocative actions of the Ukrainian side in relation to the captain of the ship “Nord ” Vladimir Gorbenko, who on April 4 was taken by the SBU officers in a service car to Kherson, ” the communique explains.
The consular department of the Russian Embassy in Ukraine has already contacted the lawyers of the Russian and found out that the Kherson SBU Department for a certain “Autonomous Republic of Crimea ” will petition the court for the election of a preventive measure in the form of arrest.
The Russian man is accused of illegally crossing the state border.
“According to lawyers, currently the team“ Nord ” was forced to leave the ship due to unbearable sanitary conditions on it (as all the catch has become unusable) and go down to the pier, where it is under the sights of gunmen, ” — explains the Russian foreign Ministry.
The Consulate General of Russia in Odessa was instructed to continue to seek a meeting with the captain.
The Ukrainian side refuses to allow Russian diplomats to visit the Russians, claiming that all the crew members, including the captain, are from Kerch.
Russian lawyers drew the attention of local human rights organizations to the excesses of the Ukrainian authorities.
"We continue to insist on the innocence of our compatriots who are subjected to illegal, aggressive actions by the security and judicial structures of Ukraine," the Russian ministry said in a statement.
It is known that on the morning of April 4, Gorbenko was removed from the ship and taken away — “without even notifying the lawyers about it, ” said Dmitry Shcherbin, Gorbenko ’ s lawyer.
According to the lawyer, the captain was put in a gray Škoda car.
At seven o ’ clock in the morning, representatives of the border service of Mariupol – detachment of the marine guard No. 23 – approached the arrested fishing seiner and asked Captain Gorbenko to “come out for a second ”.
At the same time, the Ukrainian border guards warned that “in case of what ” they would open fire to kill.
Gorbenko went ashore, after which he was invited “to clarify the details ” on the warship of the Ukrainian Navy, which detained the Nord earlier, the lawyer said.
The court hearing is scheduled for April 4, reports NSN.
Soon, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine announced that it would detain all ships entering and leaving the Crimean ports.
This was told by the representative of the department Oleg Slobodyan.
According to him, law enforcement agencies of the country will immediately respond to violations of the order of entry and exit of ships from the territory of the Crimea.
“As for what Russia can do, it can do a lot of things, but if it does, we will look.
We will not rush to conclusions and negative forecasts, ” Slobodyan said.
He added that the capabilities of Ukraine in this region are adequate to the existing threats.
In response to this, the Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Crimean region Mikhail Sheremet promised that Russia will not allow the detention of Crimean vessels by Ukrainian border guards, all subsequent provocations will be rebuffed, RIA Novosti reports.
“These are unreal and unreal threats.
The incident with the ship "Nord" will not happen again.
Our border guards will not allow this.
We did not think that Ukraine would descend to the level of Somali pirates, to the violation of all conceivable and unthinkable norms and agreements.
This is a water area for joint use and it could not have occurred that there would be such seizures.
But if such provocations are repeated, our naval forces will give a worthy rebuff, ” the parliamentarian said.
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The daughter of the chief mechanic of the ship “Nord ”:“ Nerves are running out. Situation SOS » — Rambler
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The daughter of the chief mechanic of the ship “Nord ”:“ Nerves are running out.
The captain of the Russian court “Nord ”, detained by Ukrainian border guards, on April 5 will be elected a measure of restraint.
Vladimir Gorbenko had a hypertensive crisis earlier, he was taken to the hospital.
When the captain's condition stabilized, he was brought back to the detention facility.
Here are the details of Business FM told the lawyer of the crew Dmitry Shcherbina: - The captain is currently in the detention center - What is his condition?
You see, the fact is that yesterday they called an ambulance three times, and then after that they decided to hospitalize him because of the pressure.
At the hospital, he's already been seriously stabbed.
But after all, you understand that just a question related to pressure, but in order to avoid the risk of a heart attack, you need to undergo a thorough examination.
One thing I can say: they will definitely not let him die there, it is not in their interests. - But if we talk about the position of defense, do you have any main directions? - There are many.
But, first of all, you see, the fact is that the article is incriminated – it is a medium-gravity crime, it is not a serious crime, it is not murder.
And under such articles, the measure of restraint in the form of detention, it is in principle not elected, it is not provided for by law at all, he has a sanction from 3 to 5 years.
This is the first.
Second, the only thing they can talk about at the moment is that he needs to be taken into custody because he was hiding from the investigating authorities.
But if we talk about the legal plane, it breaks down.
Well, it's just clear to everyone that it's absurd.
Well, how did he hide if he wasn't allowed to get off the ship?
The article itself implies a violation of the order of entry and exit from the temporarily occupied territory.
The order of crossing is established only for land traffic. – There is information that it seems that the crew members are required to accept the citizenship of Ukraine – On the contrary, they refused.
First, they said, bring your passports.
The crew members say: we do not have them, here we consider ourselves citizens of the Russian Federation, here we have given passports that were issued in the Crimea.
They say, “We don ’ t recognize these passports. ”
“Okay, then let the consul in, the consul will give us temporary ID cards. ”
The consul is not allowed.
And they say, no, you are citizens of Crimea.
Yes, indeed, people came to them, it was only once.
They were offered: write a statement about depriving you of Ukrainian citizenship. – I would like to clarify with you about other crew members, what is now with them.
You said that the conditions there are terrible: there is no food, no water, the fish began to die. - Water is delivered, that is, there are no problems with provisions.
Although while we received permits for a day, this day people did not have provisions.
Why they came ashore - because the fish is rotting.
This issue was also resolved yesterday.
That is, it should be taken out from there today, because people are already there for the second day actually sleeping on the deck, it is simply impossible to stay in the cabins.
Seiner "Nord" with a crew of ten people was detained in the Sea of Azov on March 25.
Now the ship is in the port of Berdyansk The daughter of the senior mechanic of the ship Evgenia Chempalov told Business FM that she spoke with her father on the phone the day before in the afternoon: - They do not give any information.
We only communicate with him - "as health, ate, did not eat, how you slept, how you feel, there is pressure, no pressure, high, not high and that's all."
And he asks similar questions: as children, as a granddaughter, as a brother.
When it comes to what is happening there, they say absolutely nothing.
As for food, that's all that lawyers can bring in their hands, they bring, at a minimum.
They come, they bring something every day. - And now, I understand, you only get information through a lawyer? - Yes, the information that is in the media, or the information that lawyers have. - But nothing concrete? - Absolutely nothing, absolutely.
The head goes round, we don ’ t know what to think.
We're running out of nerves.
They're running out of nerve.
He's been working on this ship all his life.
Their team is relatively new, but specifically my dad on this ship has been working for a very long time. – Do you know anything, maybe he said how they were treated when they were detained, how they are treated now? – Dad did not say anything about this.
What the media wrote here, I do not know where they got the information that they were detained with automatic rifles.
They went on board and turned off all the radios, turned off the external communication, took them on a rope and dragged them to the Berdyansk port.
Now they are also guarded under machine guns, on land, on the shore they are not allowed to go out, they are only on the ship.
Business FM also spoke with a representative of the fishing Kolkhoz named after the First of May "Anna Sheveleva - this company owns the ship. - These are ordinary ordinary fishermen who have been going to the sea on this ship for four years.
This is not a warship - a small fishing seiner.
So it is not clear why to mock people so. – And where did they go, were some territories marked, where they caught fish?
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