According to the monthly Ipsos survey, inflation has held the palm among all the reasons for concern for the fourth month in a row: 38% of respondents speak of it (against 37% a month earlier and 20% in January this year). Note that the level of concern about inflation is still growing, but the growth rate is slowing down
Poverty and social inequality and coronavirus (!) have added 2 p.p. over the past month. Coronavirus, of course, is still very far from previous records, but the increase in the incidence in Europe and regular lockdowns in China still have some effect.
They began to worry about unemployment by 2 p.p. fewer respondents, while crime and corruption lost 1 p.p. The level of concern about corruption is now, by the way, at a record low level over the past two years — a joy for politicians
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Green energy requires, as a rule, and most of all land. On average, small and medium-sized hydropower plants are in the lead: to produce 1 megawatt-hour of electricity, they need an average of 33 square meters of land. At the concentration solar power plant — 22 square meters. Close the top three coal-fired power plants with 21 «square» — and then mainly due to the land required for the extraction and storage of coal (all this is also taken into account)
Wind farms: they take up very little building space — about 0.4 square meters per megawatt-hour of energy, but a lot of land is lost around — up to 247 square meters
And nuclear power plants turned out to be the most economical: 0.3 square meters per megawatt-hour. In second place — gas stations with 1 square meter, 3 square meters — solar power plants installed on roofs
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SpaceX conducted its 32nd Falcon 9 mission in 2022. The company managed to break its own annual record for orbital launches. SpaceX set the previous record in 2021 with 31 launches.
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The European Union, through the European Investment Bank, allocated €1 billion to Ukraine, another €590 million will be transferred later, the European Commission said.
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Gazprom stops the operation of another Siemens turbine, deliveries via Nord Stream from July 27 will be no more than 33 million cubic meters per day.
“In connection with the end of the time between overhauls before overhaul (in accordance with the instructions of Rostekhnadzor and taking into account the technical condition of the engine), Gazprom stops the operation of another Siemens gas turbine engine at the Portovaya CS,” the company said.
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Yuri Borisov, as the head of Roscosmos, will also become the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for international cooperation in the field of space.
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The volume of household funds on deposits in Russian commercial banks in June 2022 increased by 555 billion rubles, which amounted to 1.7% of the total assets of citizens stored in banks, follows from the analytical material of the Central Bank. Legal entities, on the contrary, withdrew more than 35 billion rubles from bank accounts in June.
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Companies for the collection and disposal of equipment and electronics note an increase in its collection in Russia in the first half of the year by 25–40%, depending on the category.
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JSC «Rosgeologia» has received a contract for the disposal of 500 environmentally hazardous abandoned wells drilled for the exploration and production of oil and gas, according to the materials of the public procurement website.
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Ships of the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1 — Standing NATO Maritime Group 1) arrived on Monday morning in the Old Harbor of Tallinn and the port of Muuga, BNS reports, citing the press service of the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Forces.
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Evraz Plc has applied to the UK Financial Sanctions Enforcement Authority (OFSI) for a license that would allow the company to make coupon payments on the bonds, the company said.
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American electric car maker Tesla Inc posted a loss of $170 million in the first half of this year due to the depreciation of bitcoin, according to company documents for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Rosneft has started development drilling at the Payakhskoye field of the Vostok Oil project in Taimyr. The Ichcheminskoye field is located on the left bank of the Yenisei River. Earlier, the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said that this year, when testing two wells, the company received an influx of oil on the left bank of the Yenisei and expects an increase in oil reserves of about 100 million tons.
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US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West and US Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls and Human Rights Reena Amiri will attend the International Conference on Afghanistan in Uzbekistan, according to the United States Department of State.
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The French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office has launched a preliminary investigation into the assets of Russian businessmen in the country, Le Parisien reported. The prosecutor’s office will study under what conditions entrepreneurs were able to accumulate «significant real estate assets» in France.
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The main parliamentary parties in Finland supported the refusal to issue tourist visas to Russians, parliamentarians were interviewed by the STT agency and the Yle television and radio company. Visa restrictions are supported by the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP), the Coalition Party, the True Finns party and the Finland Center.
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Russia ranked 2nd in terms of VPN downloads in the world, behind India.
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Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin distributed the curatorship of critically important technologies and individual high-tech areas among the vice-premiers. »
First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov will oversee the development of high-speed vehicles and intelligent control systems in the industry.
Victoria Abramchenko will supervise the creation of systems that are necessary for monitoring and predicting the state of the environment and are in demand by agriculture and the agro-industry to prevent natural emergencies.
Tatyana Golikova will be responsible for developments in the field of genetics, bioengineering, chemical and biological safety.
Denis Manturov will supervise the creation of a new generation of rocket and space technology, fifth generation mobile communication networks, an electronic component base and quantum sensors, and will also be engaged in technological and nuclear supervision.
Alexander Novak will oversee the issues of nuclear and hydrogen energy, the decarbonization of industry and transport based on natural gas, and the creation of smart energy systems and electricity storage systems.
Marat Khusnullin will be responsible for technologies for the prevention and elimination of environmental pollution.
Dmitry Chernyshenko is instructed to oversee the development of AI, quantum computing, computer modeling of nanodevices and nanomaterials, as well as software for distributed and high-performance computing systems
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In July, the business climate index in Germany fell from 92.2 to 88.6 points, while the index of business expectations fell from 85.5 to 80.3. This year’s July value is the lowest since June 2020. This is stated in the report of the research institute Ifo.
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The volume of deposits in banks in June decreased by 3.5%, the Central Bank said. Russians shifted money from deposits opened at record high rates to current accounts amid falling profitability
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European physicists have learned how to direct lightning with a laser. To do this, for two months, during a thunderstorm, they illuminated the space above the Sentis tower, located in the mountains of Switzerland, with a powerful laser beam. A preprint of the study can be seen at arXiv.org.
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The Russian government has canceled duties on the import of goods from Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, special envoy of the Russian president for cooperation with the Taliban, said on Tuesday.
Afghanistan is ready to supply Russia with vegetables, fruits and dried fruits, as well as minerals, and in return hopes to receive 2 million tons of grain and 5,000 tons of oil. According to Kabulov, the Russian side is ready to satisfy the requests of the Afghan side in grain and oil products.
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Google has unveiled a new programming language called Carbon, which could be the successor to C++. Carbon is fully compatible with existing C++ code. Therefore, the transition from C++ to Carbon was made as easy as possible for developers.
For example, you can rewrite a separate library in Carbon and use it in an existing C++ project. The compiler is written using LLVM and Clang, and the code itself is hosted on GitHub and is open to everyone.
Although Carbon originated at Google, the company believes that it should be «an independent project driven by the community.» They also noted that at present the new programming language is just an experiment, but some companies have already shown interest in it.
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Experts from the Institute for the Global Economy and Peace have compiled a ranking of the most peaceful countries for 2022. The most aggressive countries in the world Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan
The top five most peaceful countries are Iceland, New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark and Austria. In the top ten are Portugal, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Singapore and Japan.
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The European Union has extended the sanctions against Russia for six months. They will be valid until the end of January 2023.
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The UK imposed sanctions against the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation Konstantin Chuichenko and the heads of several Russian regions. They will be banned from entering the UK and their assets in the country will be seized. In total, 42 new positions were included in the sanctions list.
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Russia will withdraw from the ISS project after 2024, said the head of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov. By this time, according to him, the deployment of the national orbital station will begin.
“You know that we are working within the framework of international cooperation on the International Space Station. Of course, we will fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made,” Mr. Borisov said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
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FAS Russia fined Google 2 billion rubles. for «opaque and biased rules for blocking accounts and handling content on YouTube.»
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Tetra Pak transfers its Russian division to local management. The company cited the inability to maintain operations as the reason for the sale.
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A team of scientists from the United States found that overconfident people are more likely to trust anti-scientific views than those who are used to self-doubt.
‘Overconfidence interferes with learning,’ says study lead author Nicholas Light
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The new Afghan authorities guarantee that the territory of Afghanistan will not be used by terrorist organizations, the acting official said. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan Amirkhan Muttaki, speaking at an international conference in Tashkent. According to him, Afghanistan’s further goal is to establish diplomatic relations with all countries of the world on the basis of mutual respect.
The international conference «Afghanistan: security and economic development» in Tashkent is attended by delegations from more than 20 countries, including the delegation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (this is how the Taliban, representatives of a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation, call their government).
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Russian tourists were given the opportunity to withdraw cash in pesos in Cuba from cards of the Mir payment system. Juan Carlos Escalona Pelliser, tourism adviser at the Cuban Embassy in Russia, told Interfax about this.
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The United States is ready to help stabilize the Afghan economy, the issue of unfreezing state accounts is being worked out with the government of the country, said US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West
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China’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Yue Xiayon announced Beijing’s readiness to support the implementation of transport projects, including the Mazar-i-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar railway. According to him, the implementation of such mega-projects will contribute to the establishment of lasting peace on Afghan soil, as well as strengthening regional interconnectedness.
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The US Department of Energy will provide $2.5 billion to a joint venture between General Motors Co and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution to fund the construction of three electric vehicle battery plants.
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