The rapid rise in inflation around the world in recent months has set off, among other things, a cycle of rising central bank rates
Over the past six months, the rate in the United States has increased by more than 1.5 percentage points, and growth in New Zealand and Great Britain turned out to be a little less — and all this against the backdrop of 7-9% inflation. Switzerland raised the rate from a deep negative zone to almost zero.
So far, only Japan has not changed the rates (well, inflation there is also small, less than 3% so far) and the Eurozone (despite inflation growth from 5% to 8%)
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Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon has been charged with abuse of power in the interests of an organized criminal group.
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The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has warned of another cut in aid to starving Yemenis
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Eight Greek diplomatic employees in Russia have been declared persona non grata as a response, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The Greek ambassador has been summoned to the ministry.
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The United States announced the introduction of increased tariffs on more than 570 groups of goods from Russia worth about $2.3 billion.
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American scientists have developed a new technology for artificial photosynthesis and grown plants in total darkness. They used top dressing — acetate, the main component of acetic acid. It was obtained from carbon dioxide and water. Thanks to him, plants were able to develop in the dark. Electricity for catalytic processes was generated by solar panels.
As a result, artificial photosynthesis was 18 times more energy efficient than usual. The method will help to significantly increase the energy efficiency of agriculture and feed more people by sowing less land. It can also be used in space
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The British company InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), which owns the chains of hotels Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza, announced the termination of all its activities in Russia. The statement was published on the company’s website.
In March, the operator InterContinental Hotel Group suspended investments, development activities and the opening of new hotels in Russia. The group has now officially announced their departure from the country.
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Iran and Argentina have applied to join the BRICS. This is reported by local media.
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The Swiss Federal Criminal Court found Credit Suisse bank involved in money laundering of the Bulgarian cocaine trafficking gang.
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Canada is imposing sanctions against 6 individuals and 46 legal entities associated with the Russian military-industrial complex, said in the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In particular, the Canadian authorities banned the export of advanced technologies to Russia, including quantum computers and industrial equipment.
In agreement with Japan, the United States and Britain, Canada is imposing a ban on the import of a number of Russian gold products.
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Opposition politician Ilya Yashin was detained in Moscow. This was reported by journalist Irina Babloyan in her telegram channel, and also confirmed by Yashin’s friend to the OVD-Info publication. According to the latter, the politician was taken to the police station in Moscow’s Luzhniki.
The Tushinsky Court of Moscow in May fined Yashin in the case of «discrediting» the armed forces for 90,000 rubles. In particular, he was charged with posting on a telegram channel with a photo of American hippies protesting the Vietnam War.
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The super-yacht Amadea, arrested by the US authorities, has arrived in the port of San Diego. The alleged owner of the $325 million yacht is Suleiman Kerimov, who is under sanctions. The vessel «will remain in the custody of the US administration until its expected confiscation and sale,» the US Department of Justice said.
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Einride, a Swedish startup, will begin operating its autonomous electric trucks on public roads in the US this year through an existing partnership with General Electric Appliances. Einride vehicles are built without a front human cab. The Einride capsule will operate on a mile-long mixed-traffic section of the road starting in the third quarter of 2022.
During the initial two-week experiment, a truck will carry cargo and coordinate loading and unloading with warehouse teams. A remote operator will monitor operations and assist or operate the machine as needed. The capsule will only operate during daylight hours on weekdays, and will avoid adverse weather and road conditions.
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The State Duma has postponed consideration of the law on contract service for school graduates. This was announced by the head of the committee on family, women and children, Nina Ostanina.
Earlier, the State Duma Committee on Defense approved amendments allowing young men who have received a secondary general education to enter into military service contracts immediately, and not after three months of military service, as is currently the case. Consideration of the law in the second reading was scheduled for June 28.
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The causative agents of viral intestinal infections survive in fresh water thanks to microplastics. They attach themselves to polymer particles and «hitchhike» down the drains for three days — perhaps more. That’s enough to get from the sewers to a public beach and stay contagious.
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Of the $3.15 billion budget for this year, only 47.3% has been contributed to the UN funds so far. The countries of Western Europe, India, Australia, Canada and a number of other smaller countries turned out to be the most disciplined — they made their payments on time. The UK, Italy, Spain, some countries in the Balkans and many countries in Africa have also contributed, albeit belatedly. Money has not yet been transferred by China, Russia, the USA and most of the countries of Latin America
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Gas supplies from Russia to Europe have now halved compared to last summer, European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said on Monday.
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German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG will buy U.S. software developer Brightly Software for $1.58 billion.
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is visiting Germany, where the G7 summit is taking place, has pledged $200 million to offset global food insecurity, NHK reported.
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Those who frequently work overtime spend an average of 28% more time at work than is stipulated in their employment contracts. Programmers and system administrators work the least
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Only 35% of Russians give work the amount of time set by the contract, and more than half — 54% — admitted that they often work overtime, the SuperJob service found out during a survey. At the same time, those who recycle work on average 28% more than they should.
Teachers and nurses have the longest overtime — they work an average of 40% longer. In second place are doctors and logistics managers — their overtime reaches 34% of working time, in third place are lawyers (33%). Drivers work 31% longer than expected, caregivers 29%, administrators 28%, HR managers, designers and skilled workers 27%. For programmers and system administrators, processing averages 18% of the normal working time.
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Trade in Russian diamonds has slowed sharply since the end of May as cutters meet demand for polished diamonds from other sources, independent diamond industry analyst Paul Zimniski told industry agency Rough&Polished.
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The Mercury Transfer Module of the BepiColombo mission photographed the surface of Mercury after its second approach to the planet. Until December 2025, BepiColombo must make four more approaches, and only then it will slow down enough to become an artificial satellite of Mercury and begin the main scientific mission to study the composition of the surface and the internal structure of the planet.
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Demand for electricity in Russia has moved from growth to a steady decline. According to Kommersant’s estimates, over the past week in the European part and the Urals, the planned consumption volumes decreased by almost 5% year-on-year. Consumption is reduced by more than 30 regions, among the leaders of the fall are the Samara, Vologda, Lipetsk and Chelyabinsk regions.
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Veon (the owner of VimpelCom) estimated the depreciation of Beeline’s business in Russia at $449 million in the first quarter of 2022.
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Google Hangouts will stop working in November. Messenger was replaced by Workspace users with Google Chat at the beginning of the year. Now the turn has come to users of the Hangouts application — they will be asked to switch to Google Chat in the near future. Existing user chats in Hangouts will be automatically migrated to Chat.
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French tire manufacturer Michelin leaves Russia. The company announced its intention to transfer its Russian division to local management before the end of the year.
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JSC Transmashholding (TMH) has sold its business in Hungary to its local partner Magyar Vagon Zrt, Vedomosti writes on Tuesday, citing Kirill Lipa, CEO of the holding.
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Turkish Arcelik signed an agreement with Whirlpool EMEA S.p.A on the purchase of its Russian assets — Indesit International JSC and Whirlpool Rus LLC. The transaction amount is expected to not exceed 220 million euros. The final parameters will depend on a number of factors, payments are planned to be stretched over ten years, Arcelik said in a statement.
As a result of the transaction, Arcelik will receive production facilities in Lipetsk, allowing the production of 2.8 million refrigerators and washing machines per year.
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The Board of Directors of Russian Railways recommended that the annual meeting of shareholders approve the decision to pay dividends based on the results of work for 2021 on preferred shares in the amount of 4.47 billion rubles, the company said.
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Russian resident Vladimir Putin signed a law on the centralization in Rosatom of the authority to manage navigation in the waters of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.
The adopted law provides for the organization of navigation of the NSR on the basis of the Federal State Budgetary Institution subordinated to Rosatom. At the same time, the mechanism for issuing permits for navigation in the water area is changing.
Previously, the authority to issue permits for passage along the NSR was under the jurisdiction of Rosmorrechflot, which, in turn, coordinated them with Rosatom.
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The manufacturer of elevators and escalators KONE has decided to transfer its Russian division (JSC KONE Lifts) to its top managers and the subsequent termination of KONE’s activities in Russia, the company said.
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In Udmurtia, the president of the Chamber of Lawyers of Udmurtia, Dmitry Talantov, who is one of the defenders of the adviser to the head of Roskosmos, ex-special correspondent for Kommersant and Vedomosti, Ivan Safronov, was detained.
According to Kommersant, he is suspected of committing a crime under Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code (public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, the exercise by state bodies of the Russian Federation of their powers), we are talking about the dissemination of data on the activities of the FSB.
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On Tuesday, the leaders of the G7 countries were able to reach agreements on the introduction of a price limit on imported Russian oil in the future, Politico reports, citing two sources. Now the G7 countries will have to work out specific measures on how to implement this agreement.
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Russia has added the names of 25 more people to the sanctions list against the United States, including, in particular, members of the family of US President Joe Biden, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The total number of sanctioned US citizens has reached 1,048.
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The Russian State Duma passed a law that allows agricultural producers to use animal by-products (dung) in agricultural production, now this involves obtaining many permits.
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Finnish Ponsse Plc, which manufactures harvesters and tractors, has agreed to sell 100% of its Russian subsidiary Ponsse LLC to Bizon LLC, a company from Khabarovsk businessman Alexei Voronkevich.
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Ramzan Kadyrov received the Order of the Dental Association of the Russian Federation «For Services to Dentistry», first degree. The award was presented at the opening of a new building of a specialized clinic in Grozny. In response, Kadyrov himself awarded Yunus Umarov, the chief physician of the polyclinic, the Order of Kadyrov.
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Chargé d’affaires a.i. of Sweden in the Russian Federation was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to announce the termination of the activities of the Swedish International Development Agency and the Swedish Institute in Russia.
The head of the Swedish diplomatic mission was informed that from now on the activities of these organizations are undesirable, and any attempts to promote their projects will lead to the declaration of employees of departments as persona non grata.
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Japanese company Iwatani Giken launched a hamster into the stratosphere to a height of 23 km. The rodent was placed in a sealed chamber 50×60 cm with optimal pressure and temperature. The ball gained altitude in an hour at a speed of 6.3 m / s, and then smoothly descended into the sea. During the flight, the hamster even slept from time to time and did not experience any inconvenience. Startup wants to make manned ascents into the stratosphere one of the entertainment for people, and the experiment with a hamster is proof of success
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The construction of a floating city for 20,000 people begins in the Maldives. The project should be a solution in case of sea level rise. The studio can be purchased for $150,000, while the cottage will cost $250,000. The city will begin accepting its first residents in early 2024, and the entire project will be completed by 2027
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The State Duma of Russia adopted in the third reading a law that allows representatives of the customs authorities to stop vehicles with a permissible maximum weight of 3.5 tons or more in the territory of all constituent entities of the Russian Federation and without the involvement of traffic police officers.
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The European broker Exante will introduce a daily commission of €25 for clients from Russia and Belarus with less than €10,000 in their account, RBC learned. The company urged them to sell securities by July 12 and withdraw money to any bank that did not fall under the sanctions.
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The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Kosovo will announce the cost of gasoline, diesel fuel and gas for the next 24 hours every day at 10.00, according to the KoSSev portal. Today in Kosovo the maximum retail price of gasoline is 1.74 euros per liter, diesel fuel — 1.85 euros, gas — 78 cents.
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The British company Diageo (producer of alcoholic beverages Smirnoff, Black Label, Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Baileys, Captain Morgan and others) leaves Russia. In March, the manufacturer temporarily suspended the shipment of finished products to customers in Russia.
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Ilya Yashin was arrested for 15 days. The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow found the opposition municipal deputy guilty of disobeying police orders (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Yashin was arrested on the evening of June 27 while walking in the park.
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A 101-year-old former Sachsenhausen concentration camp guard was sentenced to five years in prison. The court in Neuruppin (Germany) recognized him as an accomplice in the murder of thousands of prisoners. The man claimed that he did not serve in Sachsenhausen, but the documents say otherwise
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Finnish woodworking equipment manufacturer Ponsse is selling its business in Russia — Reuters.
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The Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) that controls Afghanistan on Tuesday announced the suppression of the rebellion of the Khazarian commander Mavlavi Mahdi in the province of Sari Pul.
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The leaders of the G7 countries at the summit in Bavaria agreed to explore the possibility of introducing a complete ban on services for the transportation of crude oil and petroleum products from Russia until they are sold at a price agreed by the international community.
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The State Duma adopted in the third reading a law allowing VTB to purchase Otkritie without bidding and prior consent from the Bank of Russia and the Federal Antimonopoly Service.
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Property owners who rent property to shops or catering establishments owned by owners from unfriendly countries will be able to demand an increase in rent (if its amount depends on the income and economic activity of the tenant) or termination of the contract without paying penalties. This is stated in the amendment to the bill No. 131315-8, which the State Duma adopted in the third reading.
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In the Kaliningrad region in the city of Sovetsk, a memorial plaque in memory of the Lithuanian writer Vidunas was dismantled from the wall of the house where he lived when the city was called Tilsit.
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Geologist Darryl Granger of the Purdue University College of Science and a team of scientists including researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (South Africa) and the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France) found that all cave deposits containing Australopithecus fossils found in the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, date from 3.4 to 3.7 million years old, and not 2-2.5 million years, as scientists had previously assumed.
The Sterkfontein Caves became famous for the discovery of the first adult Australopithecus, an ancient hominin, in 1936.
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The court acquitted ex-president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev in the case of organizing mass riots in October 2020, an Interfax correspondent reports from the courtroom.
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The US cargo spacecraft Cygnus undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday after four months of being a part of it, NASA said.
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