Ukraine and Russia turned out to be the most cryptocurrency countries in the world. The share of the population in Ukraine that owns cryptocurrencies or has at least some relation to crypto assets is 12.7%. In Russia, the figure is slightly lower — 11.9%. Venezuela closes the top three with 10.3%
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Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the murder of a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent in 1985, was captured Friday by Mexican forces.
He was on the FBI’s most wanted list and there was a $20 million reward for his capture. In 2018, he was added to the FBI’s top ten most wanted list.
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American Janile Thames filed a lawsuit against Mars Inc., which produces Skittles dragees. In the document, the woman claims that sweets harm the human body.
As of August 2022, titanium dioxide will be banned in the European Union as the food additive has been declared unsafe by the regulator due to its ability to alter DNA.
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The U.S. Navy announced it was upholding «freedom of navigation in the South China Sea» by sending one of its destroyers to the Spratly Islands, whose territory is disputed between Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei. China says it does not stop ships from passing and accuses the US of causing problems with such statements
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Scientists have debunked the popular hypothesis that why woodpeckers don’t get concussions when they bang their heads on wood. Previously it was believed that the structure of the skull absorbs shocks, but the researchers proved that the heads of woodpeckers are more like hard hammers, rather than protective helmets.
The authors of the new study believe this is because their brains are too small. The pressure ensures the safety of the woodpecker’s brain, and the force on it is below that which can lead to a concussion. However, these birds are not immune to traumatic brain injury. They can get it if instead of wood they mistakenly start chiseling metal
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Only six of the 27 EU countries are actively involved in the blocking of Russian assets in Europe, said the European Commissioner for Justice. We are talking about Germany, France, Ireland, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg, which account for almost €13 billion of the nearly €14 billion frozen across the EU.
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North Macedonia has approved an agreement with Bulgaria that will allow it to claim EU membership. The agreement was proposed by France, which presides over the European Union.
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The police of Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Great Britain and Estonia, under the leadership of Europol, carried out a large-scale operation. According to a Europol press release, as a result of the operation, the police found 11 groups of migrants who were brought into the EU. All alone are citizens of Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Syria. In general, during the investigation, 662 migrants were found.
According to investigators, the criminal group consisted of citizens of Syria and Turkey. They recruited migrants in Iraq. They paid from 10,000 to 13,000 euros to get through Belarus to Germany, so that the turnover of the criminal network amounted to at least 7 million euros.
Turkey was used as a transit country and logistics center. From there, migrants legally traveled to Belarus or Russia and then Belarus, through the Belarusian border they got to the EU countries, after which they were taken to Germany.
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Iran is «technically capable of producing a nuclear bomb» but has not yet decided whether to build one. This was stated by Kamal Kharrazi, adviser to the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in an interview with Al Jazeera TV channel.
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A heavy-duty Falcon 9 launch vehicle on Sunday successfully launched another batch of 53 mini-satellites to replenish the orbital constellation of the global Internet coverage network of the Starlink system, SpaceX said.
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Nigerian financial institutions are discussing with partners from Russia the possibility of using cards of the Mir payment system. This was announced by the country’s ambassador to Russia, Abdullahi Shehu, RIA Novosti reports.
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H&M will hold a sale in its stores in Russia. After that, the company will finally curtail its business in the Russian Federation.
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According to the results of the first half of 2022, the highest growth in vacant space in the office market of Moscow was recorded in premium properties, where vacancy increased from 9.3% to 13%, according to a study by Knight Frank. The largest share of vacant space was recorded on the central streets of the capital, where in the second quarter the vacancy increased from 16.4% to 21.1%. In business centers near the Belorusskaya metro station — from 12.2% to 16.3%, they add to IBC Real Estate.
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Sales of X5 Retail Group, the largest retailer in Russia (Pyaterochka, Perekrestok and others stores), increased by 18.6% in the second quarter of 2022 compared to the figure for the second quarter of 2021, to 647.276 billion rubles, the company said
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Kuzbass enterprises in the first half of 2022 produced 109.8 million tons of coal, which is 6.4% less than the same period in 2021, the Ministry of Coal Industry of the Kemerovo Region reported.
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Canada has already sent Siemens Energy a repaired turbine for the Portovaya compressor station of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, Kommersant reported, citing «sources familiar with the situation.»
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HeadHunter has received a minority stake in the company that develops the HR electronic document management platform HRlink, the recruiting company said.
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JSC «Zarubezhneft» has abandoned the moratorium on initiating bankruptcy cases on applications filed by creditors, follows from the company’s message in the Federal resource.
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In January-June 2022, the Kizlyar Brandy Factory JSC (KKZ) exported 3.9 thousand decalitres of products, 1.6 times more than a year ago, Yevgeny Druzhinin, general director of the plant, told Interfax.
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Arrested on charges of drug trafficking, Vice-Rector of the Russian Customs Academy (RTA) Zalim Kerefov committed suicide in a pre-trial detention center near Moscow, a case of negligence was initiated, said Olga Vradiy, a representative of the regional head office of the Investigative Committee (IC).
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In the primary market of St. Petersburg, a square meter of luxury housing has risen in price by 22% over the year, a study by Knight Frank St.
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Russia has handed over to Iran a draft treaty on comprehensive strategic cooperation, and Moscow expects that it will be signed soon, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told Iran’s state television and radio.
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The European automobile concern Stellantis NV will close the Chinese JV, engaged in the production and sale of Jeep brand vehicles in China, as it was unable to move forward in increasing its share in it to the controlling one.
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Since the beginning of July, the volume of passenger rail traffic in the southern direction has grown by 13.2% compared to the same period last year, amounting to 59.2 million passengers, Russian Railways reports.
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113.5 thousand commercial enterprises closed in Russia from March to June, when the most severe Western sanctions were imposed on the economy, analysts of the FinExpertiza audit and consulting network calculated based on data from the Federal Tax Service.
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Compared to pre-pandemic levels, the total debt of European energy companies has grown by more than 50%, to $ 1.7 trillion, Bloomberg calculated. Growth accelerated with rising oil and gas prices
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A special commission announced the return of about $48 million to the treasury of Kazakhstan in the framework of cases involving Nazarbayev’s relatives. The commission also stated that the Prosecutor General’s Office of the republic took special control over the investigation of the most high-profile cases «with signs of legalization of criminal proceeds on a large scale.»
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The population of the European Union has been declining for the second year in a row. The population of the EU reached its peak of 447.5 million people at the beginning of 2020 — and has continued to decline for the second year after that. During the pandemic 2020, the EU lost almost half a million inhabitants and at the beginning of 2021 its population dropped to 447 million. The decline continued further, and at the beginning of 2022, only 446.8 million people lived in the EU
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A court in Moscow fined Google 21 billion rubles for refusing to remove banned content. This is the second turnover fine for an American company: in December 2021, it was fined 7.22 billion rubles.
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Azerbaijan and the EU have signed a memorandum on strategic cooperation in the energy sector. The document provides for a significant increase in the supply of Caspian natural gas to the European Union. The parties expect to reach a turnover of 20 billion cubic meters annually by 2027.
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Bank of America Corp., the second largest U.S. bank by assets, increased revenue by 6% in the second quarter of 2022, but its net income fell by 33%.
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In the second quarter of 2022, the American bank Goldman Sachs Group sharply reduced its net profit. According to the bank’s report, its net profit in April-July amounted to $2.93 billion, or $7.73 per share, compared with $5.35 billion, or $15.02 per share, for the same period in 2021.
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