The market for vegetarian and vegan meat alternatives is growing in Germany. Manufacturers produce much more of these products than before. In 2021, they produced about 98 tons of meat substitutes — almost 17% more than a year earlier. And compared to 2019, production increased by 62.2%. It is reported by Tagesschau with reference to the Federal Statistical Office.
Yet the meat market remains gigantic: in 2021, Germany produced €35.6 billion worth of meat products, about 80 times more than vegetarian and vegan alternatives.
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The Czech Republic is included in the UN Human Rights Council instead of the Russian Federation. To be elected, she needed 97 votes — the European state scored 157
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From May 11, the GTS operator of Ukraine will stop gas transit to Europe through the Sohranivka gas distribution station in the Lugansk region. The operator notes that almost a third of gas from Russia to Europe is transited through the station (up to 32.6 million cubic meters per day). According to the company, the transit is stopped due to the loss of control over the Novopskov compressor station.
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Estonia and Finland have signed an agreement under which they will help each other in case of interruptions in gas supplies.
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About 6.4 billion euros for 2022 and beyond were committed to allocate to help Syria by the participants of the EU-organized sixth Brussels conference «Supporting the future of Syria and the region,» the European Commission (EC) said.
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The American corporation Electronic Arts (EA) after 30 years decided to stop cooperation with the International Football Federation (FIFA), according to the Financial Times.
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China has published scientific data from the mission of the Chang’e-5 automatic interplanetary station to the moon, which delivered about 1.7 kg of lunar soil to Earth, follows from data published on the Chinese Lunar Program website.
In total, experts released 9.32 gigabytes of data collected by four instruments of the Chang’e-5 probe: a panoramic camera, a spectrometer for studying the mineralogical composition of the lunar soil, and a radar for surface sounding of the moon.
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US House of Representatives approves additional $40 billion aid package for Ukraine
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In Finland, within the framework of EU sanctions, payments related to the Russian company Faberlic were stopped, and the property of the editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev was also arrested, the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper reports.
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The Italian Foreign Ministry has decided to exclude Russians from the jury of the Italian literary award Strega, director of the Maria Bellonci Foundation (one of the organizers of the competition) Stefano Petrocchi told La Repubblica newspaper.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will suspend 14 lines at eight factories in Japan for up to six days in May due to problems with the supply of parts caused by a prolonged lockdown in Shanghai, China, Yonhap reports, citing the Japanese automaker.
Toyota has reduced its production plan for May from 750,000 vehicles to around 700,000. Work at the plants will be stopped from May 16 to May 21, the automaker specifies.
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New Zealand has imposed new sanctions against eight Russian businesses and citizens. The sanctions included the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov, the head of the main department of the General Staff Igor Kostyukov, the general director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Oleg Dobrodeev, the president of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding Alexei Pimanov, and the co-founder of the NewsFront news portal Mikhail Sinelin.
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The German authorities, within the framework of sanctions against Russia, detained the Luna yacht worth at least 400 million euros and 115 meters long in the port of Hamburg. Police claim ship belongs to Russian billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation put on the wanted list (https://rferl.click/kZvR) a participant in the TV show «What? Where? When?» Rovshan Askerov «under the article of the Criminal Code», follows from the department’s database.
Earlier, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against Rovshan Askerov after an appeal from the State Historical Museum.
According to the investigation, Askerov, no later than April 6, 2022, published on his Facebook page «deliberately false information insulting and discrediting the memory of the great Russian commander and defender of the Fatherland, Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov.»
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American scientists analyzed data from wearable fitness devices obtained from various sources from residents in eight countries — Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the United States. The research was carried out between 1995 and 2017. Despite the popularity of smart devices, the average level of physical activity in recent years has decreased, not increased — smart gadgets have not helped people move more and have not changed their lives.
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The volumes of Russian gas supplied in transit to Europe through the territory of Ukraine through the key point of Sokhranivka have decreased to zero. The State Customs Service reports that the gas flow is redirected through the junction station in Sudzha. Gazprom claims that such a switchover is technically impossible.
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Apple has announced that it has discontinued the iPod music player. The iPod was first introduced in October 2001.
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The founder of the Biblio-Globus tour operator, Alexander Tugolukov, abandoned a number of projects for the construction of hotels in the Kaliningrad region and the Caucasus. The entrepreneur failed to find suitable sites and calculate the economics of future hotels.
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The reserve fund of the Russian government will increase by 791.6 billion rubles. at the expense of additional oil and gas revenues received in 2022, the press service of the government reported
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As it became known to Kommersant, the Investigation Department (SD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation completed the investigation of the criminal case against the former head of the Moscow branch of the Asia-Pacific Bank (ATB) Tatyana Shablyko. The financier and her defense began to familiarize themselves with the case materials.
The ex-head of the ATB branch was changed from fraud to embezzlement: according to investigators, with her participation, about 4.7 billion rubles were withdrawn from the capital branch of ATB under fictitious loan agreements. Ms. Shablyko pleads not guilty, insisting that the disputed loans were approved at the head office in Khabarovsk, and she only signed the contracts, following the decisions of the higher management.
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Russian egg producers asked the antimonopoly service to check the pricing for these products. Poultry farmers claim that the pressure of retail chains has led to a decrease in selling prices for eggs to the level of cost, but prices on store shelves have not changed.
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US congressmen demanded that JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs provide lists of clients trading in Russian bonds. The request concerns numerous hedge funds and other investors who may have decided to take advantage of the collapse in the Russian debt market to profit.
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Consumer prices in Germany, harmonized with EU standards, increased by 7.8% in annual terms in April, according to final data from the country’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).
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Coinbase Global Inc., operator of the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, suffered a net loss in the first quarter and cut revenue by 27%
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Japanese automaker Toyota Motor cut its net profit by 31% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 and expects a further drop of 21% in fiscal 2023.
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In the first quarter of 2022, the net profit under IFRS of the Rusagro group fell by 66%, to 2.24 billion rubles.
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The Dutch gas transport company Gasunie has already contracted a second floating regasification unit for the future LNG receiving terminal at Eemshaven in the province of Groningen
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The French concern Alstom SA, which produces trains and trains, in fiscal 2022 (ended in March) increased its revenue by 76%, adjusted EBIT — by 19% against the backdrop of a large volume of orders.
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Sberbank and VTB are looking for investors to sell them their subsidiaries in Kazakhstan, Madina Abylkassymova, chairman of the Kazakh Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market (ARRFR), told reporters.
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China’s foreign exchange reserves, the world’s largest, fell by $68 billion in April to $3.120 trillion, according to data from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC).
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Researchers at the Institute of Biomolecular Sciences and Technology at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium) have developed a molecular mechanism that prevents SARS-CoV-2 from entering the cell, UCLouvain said.
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The court of the Swiss canton of Zug has suspended the bankruptcy proceedings of Nord Stream 2 AG, which is the operator of the Nord Stream 2 project. The procedure is suspended until September 10, 2022.
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As part of the state visit of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to Turkey, a number of documents «regulating bilateral military cooperation between Kazakhstan and Turkey» were signed, the Kazakh Defense Ministry said in a statement.
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