UN analysts believe that on November 15, 2022, the number of people on Earth will exceed 8 billion. At the same time, the growth rate of the world population is declining — now it is the lowest since the 1950s.
Where do most people live now?
Asia is home to 61% of the world’s population — 4.7 billion.
The world’s most populous countries are China (1.44 billion people) and India (1.39 billion people). They are home to 19% and 18% of the world’s population, respectively.
In Africa — 17%. That’s 1.3 billion people.
Europe is home to 10% of the world’s population — 750 million.
In Latin America and the Caribbean — 8%. That’s 650 million people.
Only 5% of people live in North America and Oceania — 370 million
Croatia will become a member of the eurozone from January 1, 2023, the Council of the European Union made such a final decision on July 12, according to a message on its website.
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Russians bought currencies on the stock exchange for 400 billion rubles in the second quarter of the year. This is noticeably more than it was in the same period in the previous three years.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has increased the number of deputy prime ministers in the government from ten to eleven, according to a presidential decree posted on the official Internet portal of legal information. The Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia will also be Deputy Prime Minister, the document says.
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«Yandex» capitalized a subsidiary bank by 100 million rubles, follows from the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.
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In the first half of 2022, the French automaker Renault SA reduced sales by 29.7% year on year, to 1,000,199 units due to a continuing shortage of semiconductors and exit from the Russian market, according to a press release from the company.
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The Federal Air Transport Agency has summed up the results of the selection of recipients of anti-crisis subsidies among cargo airlines: four carriers will receive a total of 2.9 billion rubles.
Aviastar-TU will receive 1.5 billion rubles, another 907.5 million rubles will be received by Volga-Dnepr, 341.5 million rubles — by Aviacon Zitotrans, 134.5 million rubles — by Abakan Air
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Spanish oil and gas company Repsol starts selling gas to consumers in Portugal, as well as 100% renewable electricity.
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In the second quarter of 2022, US companies again set a record for the amount of dividends paid. Dividend payments of companies whose papers are included in the calculation of the S&P 500 index amounted to $140.6 billion in April-June, according to calculations by S&P Dow Jones Indices. For comparison, in January-March they amounted to $123.4 billion, and in the second quarter of last year — $137.6 billion.
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The European Commission announced that the European Union will allocate more than 1.8 billion euros to 17 large-scale innovative projects in the field of clean technologies from the EU Innovation Fund. Projects from Bulgaria, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Finland, France and Sweden were selected.
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The leader of the terrorist group «Islamic State» (IS, banned in Russia) in Syria, Maher al-Agal, was eliminated during an airstrike by the US military, the US Central Command said in a statement.
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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz approved the delivery of a new batch of aid to Ukraine — equipment for rescue services and civil organizations, Yediot Ahronot writes.
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Anatoly Chubais left the post of co-chairman of the Association for the Development of Renewable Energy, and Viktor Vekselberg, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova Group, was elected instead.
Chubais himself wrote a letter of resignation. Commenting on the decision, he explained that his resignation would help the development of renewable energy in Russia.
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The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has announced the resumption of accepting applications for investment citizenship from residents of Russia and Belarus. This, however, applies only to those who do not fall under sanctions, as an individual, or are not associated with sanctioned companies.
You can get a passport of this state by making a non-refundable contribution of $100,000 or by purchasing real estate from $400,000 (or from $200,000 if there are two investors). The term for obtaining citizenship is several months.
Antigua and Barbuda has become the second Caribbean country with the CBI (Citizenship by Investment) program reopened to Russian and Belarusian applicants. Grenada has done this before.
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Neuroscientists have discovered a «power-saving mode» in the brain, in which the ability to see fine details is lost. They identified an energy-saving strategy in the visual systems of mice. When rodents were deprived of enough food for several weeks and they lost 15-20% of their weight, the neurons in their visual cortex decreased the amount of ATP by 29%.
ATP is a universal source of energy for all biochemical processes occurring in living systems, in particular for the formation of enzymes. A decrease in the amount of ATP led to a deterioration in the perception of details of the surrounding world in mice. Because neurons in low-power mode processed visual signals less accurately, mice with reduced power were less able to perform a complex visual task.
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German startup Terrein is gearing up to launch the first Ascent hiking shoe with ankle protection. The boots have a pair of hydraulic pistons on both sides of the foot, which are in the deactivated position in the standard, safe position. They take the form of elastic straps and do not squeeze the foot.
However, as soon as the foot begins to bend beyond the allowable limits, the piston works and firmly fixes the ankle, preventing it from moving in the wrong direction. Betterguards says their system has three times the reaction rate of a human, so the shoes will protect you from injury before you even feel anything.
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Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner called for the speedy repatriation of illegal migrants and proposed a model similar to the UK-Rwanda agreement, where they plan to send illegal migrants whose asylum applications are rejected.
According to the country’s Ministry of the Interior, Austria ranks second in the EU in terms of the number of refugees per capita. And in the first six months of 2022, the number of asylum seekers has grown by 185%. Moreover, the vast majority come illegally, writes Euractiv.
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Politician Ilya Yashin, who is ending his arrest under the article on disobedience to the police, has become a defendant in a criminal case.
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The European Space Agency has finally stopped work with Roskosmos on the ExoMars mission to explore the surface of Mars. In response, Rogozin said that he would give a command to stop the operation of the European manipulator ERA, which is installed on the Russian segment of the ISS.
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The rating of countries where wealthy Russians most often bought real estate over the past six months was headed by Turkey. The second line of the rating is occupied by the United Arab Emirates with a share of 17%. This direction is chosen by wealthy Russians, who are interested not only in obtaining a residence permit, but also in opportunities to do business in another country. The third most popular country was Thailand with a share of 16%.
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Alexander Shokhin became the chairman of the new RSPP Coordinating Council on Import Substitution and Technological Independence, and Katerina Tikhonova became the co-chairman
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Russian employees of an IT developer of ship navigation and control systems, owned by the Finnish corporation Wartsila, are creating a new company — EMCT. She will support previously implemented solutions and create new ones to replace them.
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In France, the separatist nationalist organization the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) has claimed responsibility for 16 arsons and bombings of non-Corsican summer residences, construction companies and police cars.
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country shortly before he was due to officially step down, CNN reported, citing a senior security official.
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In Yakutia, due to a dam break, all the streets and courtyards in the city of Verkhoyansk, Verkhoyansk district of Yakutia, were flooded, the press service of the district administration reports.
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In Spain and Portugal, high temperatures are recorded, abnormal heat will be established before the end of the week, and meteorologists warn of the risk of the outbreak and spread of forest fires, reports the Associated Press.
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The American missile destroyer Benford illegally entered Chinese territorial waters near the Xisha archipelago (Paracel Islands), said Tian Junli, spokesman for the Southern Zone of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Combat Command, according to the Chinese Ministry of Defense.
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Germany will completely stop buying Russian coal on August 1, and from December 31 it will also refuse Russian oil — Reuters, citing Jörg Kukis, economic assistant to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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Vladimir Putin signed a law on reducing fines for participants in foreign economic activity. The amount of fines for illegal currency transactions is reduced from 75-100% to 20-40%. Penalty for non-repatriation of proceeds in rubles by exporters — from 3-10% of the amount of uncredited funds to 3-5%. Fines for officials for violating currency laws have been changed.
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North Korea fired artillery into the Yellow Sea earlier this week, believed to be from a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a defense ministry source.
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American depository receipts of MTS PJSC have ceased circulation abroad since Wednesday.
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In the first half of 2022, China’s foreign trade volume increased by 9.4% year-on-year to 19.8 trillion yuan ($2.94 trillion), data from the General Administration of Customs of China showed, Xinhua reports.
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The National Bank and the government of Kazakhstan are planning to allow Kazakh commercial banks to export cash Russian rubles that have accumulated in cash desks until August 31, Deputy Chairman of the National Bank Aliya Moldabekova said.
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AvtoVAZ has resumed production of Lada Niva Legend in a simplified configuration, which has become the second model of the company currently being produced along with Lada Granta, which was restarted in June.
«Lada Niva Legend in the Classic’22 package includes a power steering, power windows for the front doors, ISOFIX child seat mounts, daytime running lights, an on-board computer, stamp-welded 16-inch wheel rims, steel crankcase protection, audio preparation (antenna and wiring harnesses for two front The car is equipped with a permanent all-wheel drive system with the ability to lock the center differential and switch on a reduction gear,» the company’s press service said.
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The organized recruitment of labor migrants from Uzbekistan to Russia has decreased since the beginning of 2022 by almost six times on an annual basis, 3,906 Uzbeks left to work in Russia through organized recruitment, the Agency for External Migration under the Ministry of Employment and Labor of the Republic reported.
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Russian specialists, when trying to independently turn on the German eROSITA telescope, will encounter technical problems that will not allow them to be controlled. This was stated to «Interfax» by the scientific director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Lev Zeleny.
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Roskosmos encountered a number of technical problems during ground tests of the Luna-25 station, but they should not affect the launch date, Alexander Bloshenko, executive director of the state corporation for science, told Interfax.
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Roskosmos is currently postponing work on manned flights to the Moon in order to focus on more pressing tasks, Alexander Bloshenko, executive director of the state corporation for science, told Interfax.
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The Tomsk Regional Court has begun considering the merits of the criminal case against Alexander Lukanin, a physicist from Tomsk, who is accused of high treason. According to the court, the case was received there on June 16, the first hearing was held on July 12, the next is scheduled for July 19.
As reported, Lukanin was detained in the fall of 2020, he is charged with high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). An informed source told Interfax that the scientist is «suspected of attempting to illegally transfer Russian technologies to one of the foreign countries.» According to some reports, we can talk about China. A court in Moscow arrested the scientist, then the term of arrest was extended.
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The construction of the international terminal «Grozny Airport» has begun in the capital of Chechnya, its appearance will repeat the shape of a crescent, said the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Russia is working with partners to create an independent rating agency, the Foreign Ministry said. According to the ministry, well-known Western rating agencies are extremely biased in their assessments. Moody’s at the end of June announced Russia’s default on external debt: the agency refused to recognize payments from the Ministry of Finance in rubles
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Deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Oleg Bocharov said that three Russian paper mills had organized the production of office paper without the use of bleach. According to him, this is not only more environmentally friendly, but also less harmful to the eyes. The deputy minister said that «interest is much higher in such paper now than in bleached paper.»
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Singaporean-Swiss exchange company Trafigura has sold its 10% stake in the Rosneft project to Vostok Oil Nord Axis Limited of Hong Kong, the company said.
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According to the results of the additional issue, the share of the Russian Federation in Aeroflot increased from 57.34% to 73.77% — the company’s message.
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Against the backdrop of the agreements between Yerevan and Ankara on opening the border for citizens of third countries, demining work began on the Armenian-Turkish border.
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About 500 employees of the IKEA Industry Tikhvin plant (Tikhvin, Leningrad region) of the Swedish company IKEA will be laid off by agreement of the parties, said Alla Astratova, head of the committee on labor and employment in the region.
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Chinese CAMCE becomes a partner of VEB.RF and Rockwell Capital in a pulp mill project
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In January-June 2022, the Bank of Russia identified 954 pyramid schemes, which is 6.5 times higher than in the same period last year, the regulator said in a statement.
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Warren Buffett’s investment company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. continues to increase its stake in US shale producer Occidental Petroleum Corp. In July, Berkshire bought 12 million shares of Occidental in two days, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Russia’s oil revenues in June exceeded $20 billion, despite the decline in supplies to the world market to the lowest level since August 2021. But due to the strengthening of the ruble, budget revenues from oil and gas decreased by 18% over the month and amounted to 717.9 billion rubles.
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Biden began his Middle East tour, his plane landed in Tel Aviv. This is Biden’s first visit to the region and will visit Israel, the Palestinian West Bank and Saudi Arabia July 13-16.
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The 2022 Emmy nominations have been announced. For the main nomination «Best Drama Series» will fight:
- Squid game
- Better call Saul
- Heirs
- Ozark
- very strange things
- Separation
- Hornets
- Euphoria
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A criminal case was opened against journalist Sergei Reznik because of the posts in his telegram channel.
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The US and Israel are launching a new High-Level Strategic Dialogue on Technology and Responding to Global Challenges. This is stated in a joint statement of the parties on the website of the White House.
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The US Navy strike group led by the nuclear aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan entered the South China Sea, the press service of the US 7th Fleet reports.
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Belsat journalist Yekaterina Andreeva was detained on November 15, 2020 for streaming from the Square of Changes and sentenced to two years in prison.
Andreeva was supposed to be released in September of this year, but in April it became known that another criminal case was opened against her and, as a result, she was found guilty of treason and sentenced to eight years in prison.
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Samuel L. Jackson is Hollywood’s highest-grossing actor, according to TicketSource research. Over the past 25 years, 63 films with his participation have earned more than $ 5.7 billion at the box office. The top three in this indicator also included Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson.
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