According to the Gallup poll, the most harmless country is Finland: only 5% of the inhabitants of this country were very angry on the eve of the poll. In Estonia and Mauritius, there were 6% of such people, and in Portugal and the Netherlands — 8% each.
On the other side of the rankings, Lebanon is in the lead, with 49% of respondents there experiencing anger for most of the day before the poll. 48% of surveyed residents of Turkey were angry, 46% each in Armenia and Iraq, 41% in Afghanistan
In Russia, 11% of people who were angry for a long time somewhere on the eve of the survey — and this is very little compared to the world background! The level, for example, Norway and Mexico, and much lower than the figures in most European countries (19% in France and 21% in Germany, for example)
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The project for the construction of the scientific station «Snezhinka», which is called the analogue of the ISS in the Arctic, has risen in price by two and a half times, to 5.6 billion rubles
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A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel studied how smells affect friendships. It turned out that people are more willing to build friendships with those who smell the same as them. It was possible to prove this with the help of an experiment.
First, the researchers analyzed the smells of the volunteers. They chose pairs of close friends of the same sex, whose friendship, they said, developed very quickly. The scientists also took odor samples from the control group, which included people who did not know each other. The analysis showed that there is a lot in common between the smells of friends
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Solar energy in Germany will help replace gas. In 2021, German solar power plants produced 9.9% of electricity — well above hydropower (4.0%) and slightly above biomass power plants (8.8%).
Moreover, compared with the first quarter of 2018, the growth of solar energy amounted to 64.3%. In general, in Germany, according to the results of the first quarter of 2022, the share of «green» electricity from the combination of all renewable energy again exceeded 50%.
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The NASA space agency and the US Department of Energy have announced contracts to develop nuclear reactors for the exploration of the moon. Each installation must have a power of 40 kilowatts (kW) and work for at least 10 years in the harsh conditions of the lunar surface.
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In Europe, ETIAS, the pre-registration system for travelers who have the right to visa-free entry to the Schengen countries, begins to operate. Citizens of 59 countries, including Ukraine, the US and the UK, will have to log in and pay a fee of seven euros. Residents of the EU do not need authorization. As before, travelers will not be able to stay in the Schengen area for more than 90 days out of 180.
It is expected that the document will take only a few minutes to complete, unless the applicant’s details require additional security checks. It is for security that ETIAS is being introduced, entering will be checked through the databases of Europol, national border services and the Frontex agency.
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The sun is spewing more and more solar wind, generating flares and coronal mass ejections at an increasing rate. And the upper layers of the Earth’s atmosphere, as well as satellites, have already felt the consequences of this. The vehicles are descending to the atmosphere at an unusually high speed — up to 10 times faster than before
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Iran launched its Zol-Janah launch vehicle, Fars news agency reported. This is the second test of the rocket, the agency points out. Iranian Defense Ministry spokesman Seyyed Ahmad Hosseini noted that Zol-Janah is able to withstand competition: it consists of two stages with a solid rocket engine and one with a liquid one.
Reports of Iran testing its Zol-Janah launch vehicle came after European diplomacy Josep Borrell arrived in Tehran to resume talks on the nuclear deal.
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Swiss authorities have identified 18 cases of violation of sanctions imposed against Russia
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Turkey does not intend to join the sanctions that the West has imposed on Russia, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on the air of the Haberturk TV channel.
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The yacht of the Russian billionaire arrested in Gibraltar will be auctioned off. We are talking about the superyacht Axioma, allegedly associated with billionaire Dmitry Pumpyansky. According to Insider, the decision to sell the yacht is associated with high maintenance costs.
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Japan will expand anti-Russian sanctions to 70 individuals and 90 legal entities, as well as impose a ban on the import of gold and the provision of a number of services.
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Oil production in Ecuador is at a critically low level and will be completely stopped in two days if logistics at refineries and wells, disrupted as a result of mass protests, are not restored, the republic’s Ministry of Energy and Mining said on Twitter.
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The Russian Ministry of Finance is going to reduce payments to oil companies for the fuel damper this year — we are talking about the amount of 100 billion rubles — by adjusting the damper formula for gasoline.
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The Investigative Committee completed an investigation into the circumstances of the theft of almost 1 billion rubles. from the funds of the Industrial Regional Bank (Promregionbank). The money, according to the case, was stolen through fictitious transactions and transactions with High Standard mortgage participation certificates.
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81% of Americans are convinced that things in the country are “going badly”, only 19% — that they are “good”, the CBS channel found out.
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Scientists have come to the conclusion that new experiences that a person receives while traveling have a positive effect on brain function. This provides cognitive and sensory stimulation, and the need to adapt to new conditions while traveling makes the brain work harder.
Tourism also involves a lot of movement, which is also useful for various diseases — physical activity is directly related to mental well-being. The authors of a new study propose to rethink the role of travel in medical practice and treat it not just as entertainment, but as therapy.
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A number of European manufacturers of equipment for the pharmaceutical industry, including Syntegon and GEA, began to refuse to supply spare parts to Russia, although they did not fall under Western sanctions.
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Russian woman Sophia Sapega, convicted in Belarus, filed a petition for pardon in the name of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
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Hotel prices in Spain have reached a historic high. A sharp rise in prices was noted in 12 out of 17 autonomies, on average, prices in the country increased by 38% compared to the pre-pandemic 2019.
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Rostelecom-DPC freezes regional projects in favor of the Central District due to the unfavorable economic situation and the shortage of imported equipment necessary for the construction.
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Georgia temporarily closes the border with Russia due to heavy rains, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic reported.
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The G7 summit has not yet ended, but it is already known that the leading economies of the world have agreed on a ban on the import of Russian gold (export income of $15 billion a year) and agreed on indefinite support for Ukraine. $600 billion global infrastructure development package announced
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Toyota Motor Corp has joined a comprehensive initiative by US company Redwood Materials Inc to recycle and remanufacture electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
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Amnesty International has accused Lithuania of mistreating refugees from countries such as Iraq or Syria. They are often imprisoned or deported — although refugees from Ukraine are welcomed in Lithuania with open arms, human rights activists say.
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The Curiosity rover has published new photos of the surface of Mars, confirming life on the planet. The Curiosity Project Scientist gave an official comment after the images were released:
“We are seeing a lot of evidence of a drier climate, such as dry dunes around which streams once flowed.”
For the past six months, the Curiosity rover has recorded water-rich clay giving way to a transition zone filled with salty sulfate. It is in these zones, according to the researchers, that the places where the riverbeds once flowed were marked. Over time, the water dried up and left and gave way to sand dunes.
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Germany is ready to share gas from its storage facilities with neighboring EU countries, said the head of the Ministry of Economy and Climate Problems, Robert Habeck.
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According to analysts from Knight Frank Russia (available to Forbes), the demand for warehouse space in Moscow and the Moscow region, including sublease, amounted to 504,000 sq. m. m, which is 51% lower than the same indicator of the previous year, when the volume of transactions reached 1 million square meters.
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The gender gap in the wages of employees in the Russian labor market ranges from 5.3 to 69.9% with an average of 37.3%. This is stated in the article by scientists from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) “Meta-analysis of the gender pay gap in Russia”, which was reviewed by RBC.
Among the main causes of inequality are the “wage penalty” for motherhood, the dominance of men in large companies, and a higher willingness to take risks among men than women.
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Due to the hot weather in Uzbekistan, the temperature of the steel parts of the railway track will be much higher than usual. In this regard, the speed of trains is limited, the Uzbek Railways company reports. The company notes that trains may arrive at their destinations late.
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A Chinese company showed a robot dog that walks underwater. The machine is also capable of carrying loads of up to 80 kg, and its maximum load capacity is 100 kg. B1 is capable of walking at speeds up to 1.8 meters per second, and one battery charge is enough for 2-4 hours of operation. Rough terrain and stairs are not a hindrance to the robot
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Sam Schmidt, former Indy Racing League driver, paralyzed in a 2000 crash. However, technology works wonders — he already moves in an exoskeleton. And with the help of breathing and turning his head, he can control the McLaren 720S Spider in racing mode.
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Ukraine terminates two agreements with Russia in the field of nuclear safety, the state inspection of nuclear regulation reports. The department explained that we are talking about agreements on the exchange of information and cooperation in the field of safety regulation in the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
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Moldovan President Maia Sandu arrived in Ukraine. During the day, she will visit Irpen, Borodianka and Bucha, and will also meet in Kyiv with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
On June 23, Moldova, like Ukraine, the European Union agreed to grant the status of a candidate for EU membership.
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Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov filed a lawsuit against Russia with the ECHR. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, when asked about Akhmetov’s lawsuit against the Russian Federation in the ECHR, noted that Russia withdrew from the Council of Europe
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German company Wingcopter has signed an agreement to deploy 12,000 of its drones across Africa over the next five years.
Wingcopter 198 is a device with a wingspan of 198 cm and the ability to carry up to 6 kilograms of cargo. It can move at speeds up to 144 km/h for a distance of up to 110 km. The drone can carry up to three parcels in one flight. The Wingcopter is designed to operate completely autonomously, but the operator can also use the station software to control and control up to 10 drones at the same time.
Such operations make a lot of sense in Africa, where insufficient infrastructure is an obstacle not only to economic development, but also to issues such as health care. This fleet of drones will enable the rapid delivery of goods, medicines, laboratory samples and vaccines to remote areas.
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The State Duma of Russia proposes to toughen penalties for violators of the law on state secrets. The Committee on State Building and Legislation developed amendments to the Criminal Code, according to which:
7 years in prison for traveling abroad to Russians admitted to state secrets;
7 years in prison — for illegally sending media with data containing state secrets outside Russia.
In addition, the same amendments propose:
Restrict freedom for up to 4 years for the demonstration, production, distribution and propaganda of Nazi symbols;
Restrict freedom up to 3 years for a malicious violation of the rules for protecting the stability of the Internet in Russia.
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In Uzbekistan, the sovereign status of Karakalpakstan and its right to secede from the republic were excluded from the new version of the Constitution. According to the constitution, which was adopted by the Supreme Council of Uzbekistan on December 8, 1992, Karakalpakstan is a sovereign republic that has the right to secede from Uzbekistan on the basis of a referendum. The new amendments will deprive Karakalpakstan of this opportunity.
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A Polish scientist has created the world’s smallest ECG device. The 100-gram device, developed by Warsaw University cardiologist Lukasz Koltowski, can be put on in 15 seconds and used anywhere, according to Wyborcza.pl.
The technology is a special ECG patch that sticks to the body. It monitors the work of the heart for 48 hours and fixes abnormal heart rhythms. The single electrode in the device gives more accurate data than conventional hospital systems, the developers say
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The Lithuanian authorities have agreed with the European Commission (EC) on the basic principles of transit to Kaliningrad, Presidential Advisor Kestutis Budrys said, LRT reports.
On June 18, Lithuania stopped transit deliveries to the Kaliningrad region for a large list of goods (the list included iron, steel and other metal products, fertilizers, timber, etc.), explaining this measure by the implementation of European sanctions that entered into force on June 17.
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The United States will impose visa restrictions against about 500 Russian officials, according to the White House website.
The US Department of Commerce will restrict access to American goods and technologies (in particular, semiconductors) for companies supporting Russia, and the State Department and the Treasury will impose sanctions against individuals who help Moscow circumvent sanctions.
In addition, agencies will take action against supply chains in the Russian defense sector. Sanctions will be imposed against large state-owned defense corporations, as well as people and organizations associated with this area.
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Russia banned the entry of 43 Canadian citizens. We are talking about federal and regional officials, functionaries of the ruling Liberal Party and public figures in Canada. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the sanctions a retaliatory measure
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