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The UK authorities have postponed plans to raise the retirement age to 68. This was reported by the Financial Times, citing government sources. Now in the kingdom, both women and men retire at 66. The reform was planned to be carried out in 2037-2039. The ministers decided to delay the decision due to a possible backlash from middle-aged voters - that is, those who will reach retirement age by the...

Both countries regard their relationship as an "alliance without borders", which is becoming a real problem for the West,Donald Trump's former national security aide Russia and China are forming an axis, which is becoming a real problem for the West, John Bolton, former US national security adviser to former US President Donald Trump, said in an interview with The Telegraph. “I believe that a Russ...

and Xi Jinping - in the material of RBCXi Jinping and Vladimir PutinXi Jinping and Vladimir PutinXi Jinping and Vladimir PutinXi Jinping and Vladimir PutinXi Jinping and Vladimir Putin How did the high-level meeting go? Tuesday was the highlight of Xi Jinping's three-day state visit to Russia. It began with a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at the White House. Tam Xi said that he inv...

Online retailer Amazon will cut about 9,000 employees, CEO Andy Jesse has announced. The reductions will primarily affect the structure of the AWS cloud platform, the People, Experience and Technology (PXT) division, which deals with personnel issues, as well as the advertising department and the Twitch division. Dismissing workers, according to Jesse, will begin in the coming weeks. Amazon began ...

Online retailer Amazon will cut about 9,000 employees, CEO Andy Jesse has announced. The cuts will primarily affect the structure of the AWS cloud platform, the People, Experience and Technology (PXT) division, which deals with personnel issues, as well as in the advertising department and the Twitch division. Dismissing employees, according to Jesse, will begin in the coming weeks. Amazon began l...

US President Joe Biden has signed a law that requires the administration to declassify some intelligence about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the White House press service reports. Biden recalled that in 2021 he instructed the US intelligence community to "use all the tools at its disposal" to investigate the emergence of the virus, and now this work continues. “We need to understand th...

In Moscow, 2.3 million packages of anticancer drugs were produced in 2022. This is 5.1% more than a year earlier, Mayor of the capital Sergey Sobyanin said in his Telegram channel. In just a year, medicines worth 33.6 billion rubles were produced in the capital, which is 13.9% more than in 2021. According to the mayor, providing medical institutions and the population with modern medicines and vac...

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The causative agent of COVID-19 could be transmitted to humans from an infected raccoon dog. This conclusion was reached by a group of virologists, gene specialists and evolutionary biologists from Europe, North America and Australia, writes The New York Times, citing a report that has not yet been published. Experts analyzed smears taken at the seafood and livestock market in the Chinese city of ...

Aeroflot and Biblio-Globus signed a contract according to which the airline will start providing the tour operator with seats on its flights for passengers purchasing tours.The company plans to transport 9 million tourists in three years Aeroflot and Russia's largest tour operator Biblio-Globus signed a three-year agreement on the implementation of a long-term transportation program: the airline w...

Araz Agalarov's Crocus Group is changing its main creditor: the group will refinance more than 100 billion rubles. loans from Sberbank to Gazprombank. Gazprombank will become a new financial partner of the Crocus Group, two sources in Sberbank, which until recently was the group's largest creditor, told RBC. This was confirmed by a source close to the developer. According to him, Crocus Group is "...

The 73-year-old artist said that he could not fully recover from the coronavirus suffered in the summer of 2021, and it is hard for him to work on stage.Boyarsky is now playing at the Lensoviet TheaterMikhail BoyarskyMikhail BoyarskyMikhail BoyarskyMikhail BoyarskyMikhail Boyarsky People's Artist of the RSFSR Mikhail Boyarsky told Channel Five that he was thinking about ending his career in the th...

Chinese consulates abroad from March 15 will resume processing and issuing all categories of visas to foreigners traveling to China From March 15, China intends to resume consideration and issuance of all categories of visas for foreign citizens to enter the country. This is stated in the statement of the Chinese Embassy in the United States in the WeChat social network. “In order to further impro...

The coronavirus pandemic will end "at some point" in 2023, but countries around the world should remember three lessons from what happened, the WHO chief urged: the importance of science,cooperation and public health The world is now in a much better position than at any time during the spread of COVID-19 , for the first time the weekly number of reported deaths from this infection is lower than a...

The National People's Congress, which worked for a week, re-elected Xi Jinping for a third term,updated the government and approved a number of decisions in the field of the economy and the work of the state apparatusXi Jinping (center)Xi Jinping (center)Xi Jinping (center)Xi Jinping (center)Xi Jinping (center)Xi Jinping (center)Xi Jinping (center) In Beijing, on March 13, the annual meeting of th...

Tourists in Bali have been banned from renting vehicles due to increased accidents. This was announced at a press conference by the governor of the island Wayan Coster. He explained that foreigners are "outraging and violating" the rules, which is why they will now be allowed to use only those modes of transport that are specifically provided by tourism services and meet the standards of "ensuring...

The official COVID-19 portal Stopcoronavirus.rf will no longer publish data on vaccination and herd immunity, since these statistics were used mainly for planning restrictions, and at the moment this practice is no longer needed, the deputy director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology told Kommersant Rospotrebnadzor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Gorelov. P...

The official COVID-19 portal Stopcoronavirus.rf will no longer publish data on vaccination and herd immunity, since these statistics were used mainly for planning restrictions, and at the moment this practice is no longer needed, the deputy director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology told Kommersant Rospotrebnadzor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Gorelov. P...

The Economic Times writes that the route proposed by Armenia will run parallel to the North-South transport corridor, and will also be built around Azerbaijan. According to the publication, Armenia has offered to provide India with a trade corridor across the Black Sea to speed up the flow of goods to Russia and Europe. The proposal was made during the visit of Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mir...

There are few areas where Washington's intentions fully coincide with the positions of Beijing and Moscow, but there are opportunities for cooperation in a number of areas in Afghanistan, the Middle East and even Europe,RAND analysts believe Experts from the American research corporation RAND have published a report on how Washington can cooperate with Russia and China in the field of security. Th...

One dose of the Sinopharm or Sinovac vaccine, which most people were vaccinated with, was 16 yuan. Total for vaccination Chinaspent 150 billion yuan Vaccination of the Chinese population against coronavirus cost the country 150 billion yuan (more than 16 billion rubles at the rate of the Central Bank of Russia on March 11), the South China Morning Post newspaper writes, citing data from the Nation...

In general, in 2022, 15.3 million Russians, or 10.5% of the population, had incomes below the poverty line. This is the lowest number of poor people since the early 1990s. In 2022, 15.3 million Russians, or 10.5% of the population, were below the poverty line in Russia, Rosstat reported. This is 0.7 million people, or ......

“This was the second year of Gulfood since COVID-19 , and attendance has not only returned to normal, but has grown substantially,” said USMEF President and CEO Dan Halstrom. “Attendance for five days was estimated at about 100,000 people, and when the final results are summed up, this may become an absolute record.” Gulfood promoted a wide range of American beef products. In some countries in the...

Rosselkhoznadzor, after consulting with representatives of pharmaceutical companies and at their urgent request, decided to conduct remote inspections. Thus, inspections were carried out: in 2020 - 16, in 2021 - 32, and in 2022 already 42, while only in November-December 2022 15 inspections were carried out. First of all, I would like to note that the members of the Association of Veterinary Pharm...

The decision was taken unanimously.Xi Jinping's re-election for a third term became possible thanks to amendments to the country's ConstitutionXi JinpingXi JinpingXi JinpingXi JinpingXi JinpingXi JinpingXi Jinping The deputies of the National People's Congress of China (NPC) have re-elected Xi Jinping as the leader of the People's Republic of China, according to the Xinhua news agency. He became t...

Nearly 300 passengers and 30 crew members of the cruise ship are showing symptoms of the disease.who performed a seven-day voyage At least 284 of the 2,881 passengers on the Ruby Princess cruise ship have contracted norovirus, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, 34 of the 1,159 crew members reported illness. The flight was operated from February 26 to...

The U.S. plans on Friday, March 10, to relax post-arrival COVID-19 testing requirements for tourists from China . This is reported by The Washington Post and Bloomberg newspapers, citing sources. According to publications, the decision to cancel testing was made by officials in the field of national security and health. Relevant departments will begin to notify US airlines, Chinese diplomats and o...

Reporting on different versions of the origin of the COVID-19 pathogenUS departments, House Intelligence Committee Democrat Jim Hymes admitted:for a clear picture of this "too few facts" China continues to obstruct attempts to find out the origin of the coronavirus, Democrat Jim Hymes, a member of the US House Intelligence Committee , said on NBC News. “We have so few facts because the Chinese reg...

refused to provide information about its armed forces under the OSCE Vienna Document. She called such a step a response to the actions of Western countries. However, How Moscow explains its refusal Russia has refused to participate in the annual data exchange on the armed forces, which is stipulated in the Vienna Document 2......

The first component of the vaccine has reappeared at all coronavirus vaccination points in Moscow, the press service of the Moscow City Health Department told RBC. On March 4, the city authorities announced that the first component of Sputnik V had ended in medical facilities. The portal of the mayor and the government of Moscow talked about the expected supply from the Ministry of Health. On the ...