In fact, the United States did not ban abortion, but reversed the decision of the Supreme Court, which guaranteed the right to abortion throughout the country, so that now the states have the right to make their own decisions regarding abortion. And they began to actively do this (and in some, old laws that were adopted even before the overturned decision of the supreme court came into effect. In Wisconsin, for example, the law from 1849 began to operate again)
So far, a complete ban (with the exception of rape and a threat to the life / health of the mother) has been introduced in 7 states, in 7 more it is expected that the ban will soon be adopted. On the other hand, in the most developed western and northeastern countries, the right to abortion is protected by local laws and prohibitions are not expected.
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The State Duma of Russia adopted in the second, main reading a draft law on merging the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and the Social Insurance Fund of Russia into a single Pension and Social Insurance Fund.
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NATO summit adopts new strategic concept for alliance
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The US has frozen or blocked $330 billion in Russian assets over the past 100 days, the Treasury Department said.
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China will launch a swarm of 30 cm bee satellites to search for Earth 2.0.
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The Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) that controls Afghanistan announced a ban on foreign exchange transactions in the country, the Ministry of Internal Affairs warned of severe punishment for violators
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NATO leaders at the summit in Madrid announced new, more powerful measures to support partners, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and Moldova.
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Switzerland joins the sixth EU sanctions package
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Former Yukos shareholders secured 18 brands of Russian vodka, including Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya, in the Benelux countries. Now they will be able to sell brands at auction to pay compensation for $ 50 billion in a lawsuit against Russia
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Moscow is hosting an international documentary film festival about the new culture Beat Film Festival. Before each film, a plate appears on the screen «If the ground leaves under your feet, this does not mean that you are falling.» One of the main films of the festival — «We were kids» — a documentary about the heroes of the cult film of the nineties
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Sberbank failed to save its digital assets from sanctions. The new owner of SberZvuk, Okko, SberCloud and MDG was sanctioned by the UK for «benefiting from the Russian government in the information technology sector.»
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Scientists from the Vidyasirimedha Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand have found that microbes in human saliva produce an enzyme that can degrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET), according to the science information portal Phys.org.
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Russian mining and metals giant Norilsk Nickel has lost 50% of its traditional suppliers of spare parts and equipment due to anti-Russian sanctions, the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and logistical problems. According to Sergey Stepanov, vice-president of the company, Norilsk Nickel is now looking for an alternative, including hopes to start working with China in the field of equipment supplies.
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Egypt has become the main supplier of fuel oil to Saudi Arabia, while increasing its imports from Russia to a maximum in six years, Bloomberg wrote. The sanctions do not prevent them from re-exporting Russian fuel, analysts point out. Earlier, Estonia also significantly increased deliveries to Saudi Arabia
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The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill that allows the prosecutor’s office to ban the work of a foreign media outlet in response to «unfriendly actions» against Russian journalists abroad. The bill also allows media to be suspended for calling for sanctions or fake news about the military.
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France has sentenced the terrorists who took part in the attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, when there were explosions near the Stade de France stadium, the shooting of visitors to several restaurants and the massacre in the Bataclan concert hall, reports the French television channel TF1.
A total of 20 terrorists were convicted. Several of them received life sentences — this is the alleged organizer of the attacks Salah Abdeslam, as well as Mohamed Abrini, Fabien Klein, Jean-Michel Klein, Ahmad Alkhald, Osama Atar and Obeida Aref Dibo.
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The UK is set to provide Ukraine with additional £1bn ($1.2bn) military aid, which will, in particular, go towards air defense systems and drones, Bloomberg reports.
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Vedomosti learned about the termination of deliveries of Honor smartphones to Russia. At the same time, the publication’s sources emphasized that the Chinese company is currently looking for partners in the CIS to resume deliveries to Russia through parallel imports.
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The Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow, at the request of the investigation, sent Dmitry Talantov, president of the Bar Association of Udmurtia, who is currently defending journalist Ivan Safronov accused of high treason, under arrest.
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Russia in May reduced the production of rolled steel by 8% yoy and by 2% compared to April of this year, to 5.3 million tons, follows from the materials of Rosstat.
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The Egyptian authorities have issued a permit to the state corporation Rosatom to build the first power unit of the nuclear power plant in El Dabaa, the country’s Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority said in a statement.
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The Consulate of Belgium in Russia from July 1 suspends the issuance of short-term visas, including tourist visas, the Association of Tour Operators of Russia reports with reference to the operator of visa centers VFS Global.
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Canada is negotiating with European countries, including Spain and Germany, on the export of oil and gas, according to Western media, citing Foreign Minister Melanie Joly.
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By order of Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, checks were organized throughout the country in connection with fraud in the so-called rubber apartments. In Moscow, 70 such apartments have already been discovered, in which, including an area of several square centimeters, 14 thousand people are registered. In turn, living conditions allow them to regularly receive various social benefits, monthly estimated at tens of millions of rubles.
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The real wages of Russians, which showed growth since the beginning of the year, fell by more than 7% in April. Following Rosstat recorded a decrease in demand for consumer goods and a reduction in industrial production. This was especially acute in the production of passenger cars, which collapsed in annual terms by 96.7%
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The NATO summit approved a new comprehensive package of assistance to Ukraine. It provides short-term and long-term support. The new assistance package will include projects worth 330 million euros — they are being prepared
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On the night of June 28, the mining of the popular digital coin Toncoin officially ended. The official Russian-speaking cryptocurrency community reports that crypto miners have finally emptied the last remaining deposit contract with a PoW mining reward, completing the initial distribution of coins.
From now on, the extraction of TON tokens will be carried out exclusively through staking. At the same time, cryptocurrency developers plan to reduce the number of coins entering circulation daily by 75% in order to fight inflation.
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The world’s largest stock exchanges NYSE, Nasdaq and ICE will close access to their market data for Russians. Clients of brokers from Russia will not be able to receive exchange quotes, while they will be able to trade on them.
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Japan will allocate $100 million to Ukraine for the purchase of medical equipment, as well as for the construction of temporary housing for internally displaced persons
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Shares of «Gazprom» collapsed by 30% after refusing to pay dividends. A month ago, Gazprom announced that it would consider a record dividend — 52.53 rubles per share — 1.244 trillion rubles in total. This decision was approved by the board of directors. But on Thursday, Gazprom unexpectedly announced that it would not pay, but instead would give 400 billion to the budget through an increased severance tax and invest in gasification and «preparation for winter.» Last year, the company earned 2.09 trillion rubles in net profit — a record.
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The volume of interbank lending fell by 27.2%, according to the statistics of the Central Bank. Market participants have revised limits on each other and no longer lend in foreign currency, RBC sources in banks say
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More than 40% of Russians are dissatisfied with the technical characteristics of their computer, while every fourth would like to change it, but cannot because of the high cost of new devices, follows from the results of a joint study by VK Play and ResearchMe (available from RBC).
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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed to send about 430 Kazakh troops to the Central African Republic, Congo, Mali and Lebanon to participate in peacekeeping missions. Kazakh parliament supported the president’s initiative
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The trailer for Ron Howard’s 13 Lives has been released — about a teenage football team from Thailand and their coach, stuck in a flooded cave for two weeks.
The film is based on real events that took place in 2018. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell. The premiere will take place on August 5
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Chinese electronics manufacturer Honor has suspended deliveries of devices to Russia. This was reported to Vedomosti by a source in one of the distributors, this information was confirmed by an interlocutor in the telecom market, close to a large operator.
According to the sources of the publication, the supply of Honor equipment was reduced in March. However, there has been no official announcement from the manufacturer. According to sources, the company wants to import products to Russia through parallel imports. For this, Honor has already entered into agreements in Uzbekistan, and is also looking for partners in Armenia and Georgia.
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According to the decision of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, several hundred Russian and Belarusian students studying technical specialties at Czech universities will be forced to stop their studies or change their subject. In their decision, the country’s authorities refer to the sanctions adopted by the EU.
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The leadership of the EMERCOM of Russia is concerned that the departmental system «Atlas of Hazards and Risks» works on the Austrian platform ProxmoX Virtual Environment, and also receives data from the resources of the American NASA.
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More than a third of Russians (39%) reported that they did not have enough wages to cover basic expenses, another 38% admitted that they could hardly make ends meet. RBC writes about this with reference to the results of a survey by the recruiting service HeadHunter. According to them, the largest share of those whose salary is not enough to cover basic needs is among workers (60%), doctors and civil servants (51% each).
At the same time, 43% of IT professionals, 41% of employees in the mining sector and 37% of top managers reported that income from their main place of work allows them to fully satisfy their basic needs.
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Poland has completed the construction of a 5-meter fence on the border with Belarus, the Polish prime minister announced. The head of the border guard said that 49 thousand tons of steel were used to build the barrier, now the barrier is being equipped with electronic security systems, including 2.5 thousand surveillance cameras.
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The State Duma adopted in the third reading a draft law on extrajudicial deregistration of media outlets for disseminating «illegal, dangerous information, including unreliable publicly significant information,» according to the website of the State Duma.
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Sberbank shareholders have decided not to pay dividends for 2021. Shares of Sberbank on the Moscow Exchange fell by almost 7% — trading data.
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Rector of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Vladimir Mau was detained in a case initiated earlier against former Deputy Minister of Education Marina Rakova, director of the Institute of Social Sciences of the RANEPA, rector of the OANO «Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences» Sergei Zuev and other persons. It is reported by RBC.
According to the publication, he was charged with fraud on an especially large scale. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that searches were carried out in his apartment, as well as at other employees of the RANEPA. The investigation requires Mau to be placed under house arrest.
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Sanoat Energetika Guruhi (SEG), together with Kontiki-Exploration, discovered the Yangi Uzbekistan, the largest ultra-viscous oil and bitumen field in Uzbekistan, in the Zarafshan depression (Navoi region), the country’s Energy Ministry said.
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The Presnensky Court of Moscow has granted a petition to replace Pussy Riot member Lucy Stein with a sentence of restriction of liberty to real imprisonment in the so-called «sanitary case», Interfax was told in the press service of the court on Thursday
On May 16, the Russian Interior Ministry put Pussy Riot member Lyudmila (Lyusya) Stein on the wanted list. At the moment, Stein is not in Russia.
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The Swedish Riksbank raised its key interest rate by 50 basis points (bp) to 0.75%
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Indian rocket PSLV with three satellites launched into orbit. This is India’s second orbital launch this year.
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The number of Russians who went abroad in April-June was a record for three years. . Megafon experts came to such conclusions after analyzing the statistics of roaming use. However, this figure is still half that of 2019. Belarus became the most demanded destination, on the second and third lines — Turkey and Kazakhstan, respectively
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Scientists from Harvard have been able to create a computer chip in which signals are transmitted not with the help of electrons, but with the help of sound waves. Despite the fact that they are slower, some operations can be accelerated in this way not only in quantum, but also in conventional computers.
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Shareholders of the Rosseti Group decided not to pay dividends for 2021.
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The US Embassy in Moscow raised the LGBT flag in honor of Pride Month, a month of pride when LGBT prides, festivals and rallies take place around the world.
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