Most wine is drunk in France: the average Frenchman drinks 54 liters of wine a year — more than a liter a week! Portugal is just a little behind with 50 liters per year, and the gap with Slovenia in third place is already wider: 44 liters of wine are consumed per person per year
At the other end of the ranking are Muslim Turkey (1 liter per person per year), Ukraine (3 liters) and again partially Muslim Bosnia and Herzegovina (4 liters). In general, in Eastern Europe (including ours — only 8 liters per person per year) and in more Muslim regions of wine they drink much less than in Central and Western
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Every ninth Russian (11%) is convinced that knowledge of the Chinese language, among other foreign languages, is most important for building a successful career, according to a survey by the Research Center of the SuperJob.ru portal, received by Interfax on Sunday.
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Channel One started looking for employees on LinkedIn. The head of the Directorate of Public Relations and Internet Broadcasting, Larisa Krymova, told Podyom that for this, together with her colleagues, she registered on a social network.
“LinkedIn, as you know, makes it possible not only to search for a job, but also to search for employees, which is important for the digital division, which I also manage. My colleagues and I decided to investigate the effectiveness of this tool and registered accounts.
Despite the blocking of LinkedIn in Russia, the use of it, like other blocked social networks, is not prohibited. I’m not looking for a job, thanks for your concern.»
Previously, users from Krymova’s contact list received a notification about her registration on LinkedIn. The network suggested that she decided to get a new job.
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Several refugees from Yemen, Syria and Sudan crossed the Polish-Belarusian border, while Belarusian border guards threw stones at Polish colleagues, according to a tweet from the Polish border service. The incident took place on a section of the border near the village of Cheremkha, all the refugees were detained by the Polish security forces.
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Macron and his right-wing rival Le Pen are entering the second round of the French presidential election, exit polls showed. Before the elections, the ratings of both politicians were almost equal with a slight advantage of the incumbent president
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Elon Musk has decided not to sit on the board of directors of Twitter. Previously, he acquired 9.2% of the shares and became the largest shareholder.
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission specialists have released a new image. It shows a site near the lunar south pole that is being considered as a potential landing site for the Artemis III mission.
The South Pole of the Moon is a unique place. On the one hand, the bottom of its deepest craters is never illuminated by the Sun, which makes it possible for ice deposits to exist there. Future explorers of the moon could use them to obtain oxygen, water and fuel components.
On the other hand, the central peaks of the polar craters and the highest sections of their shafts are illuminated by the Sun for almost the entire year, which makes them an excellent place to place a solar power plant. It is the combination of these two factors that explains the increased interest of NASA and other space agencies in the south pole of the moon.
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The delegation of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation did not reveal violations in the presidential elections in South Ossetia that could affect the results of the vote, said an international observer, a member of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Konstantin Mazurevsky. In the presidential elections in South Ossetia, 82.07% of voters voted.
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Shaman Alexander Gabyshev was transferred from the Novosibirsk psychiatric hospital to a hospital in Ussuriysk, his defender Alexei Pryanishnikov said on Monday.
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During a telephone conversation with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the possibility of increasing gas supplies to Europe.
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Incoming cash flows in the production of crude oil and natural gas nominally fell by 47.8% in March, in February they fell by 29.6%, according to the monitoring of sectoral financial flows of the Central Bank. The growth of incoming flows of the Central Bank was recorded in all sectors, except for those focused on external demand — in them they decreased by 12%
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The mortgage rate at Sberbank for new buildings and secondary housing fell to 16.9. The bank has raised mortgage rates three times since the end of February
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Russia has a list of undesirable persons from the United States and the European Union, which Moscow can expand if necessary. This was stated by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel. According to the diplomat, we are talking about people who are seen «in bad deeds against Russia.» He did not provide other details.
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The Ministry of Education and Science obliged scientists to approve research topics from the heads of regions. So far, scientists are offered to coordinate only studies scheduled for 2023. After approval by the governor, the topic will be sent to the Russian Academy of Sciences. The measure will help meet the needs of the economy in the face of sanctions, according to the Ministry of Education and Science
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The German regulator banned VTB Bank Europe SE from following the instructions of the parent company, thus the bank lost its voting rights through the European division. On March 8, the European Union banned any transactions involving VTB
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The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation does not plan to enter the domestic and foreign debt markets in 2022. The head of the department, Anton Siluanov, believes that this is pointless, because the cost of such borrowing «would be cosmic.»
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State-owned operators will not be able to use Ericsson and Nokia equipment due to the fifth round of EU sanctions. In addition to Rostelecom, this may extend to its own mobile operator Tele2 and Transtelecom, which is building backbone networks based on the infrastructure of Russian Railways.
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The Russian Ecological Society asks to recognize Greenpeace and WWF as foreign agents. REO believes that foreign NGOs «form a negative public opinion about the actions of the Russian government and companies in the field of nature conservation.»
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Reuters reports that the Italian government has agreed with Algeria on the supply of natural gas. Italy, which gets about 40% of its gas imports from Russia, is trying to diversify its energy supplies
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Israel will build a 40 km concrete fence up to nine meters high on the West Bank of the Jordan River. It will replace a wire fence with an exclusion zone installed 20 years ago. The Department of Defense plans to install it in a few weeks.
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission specialists have published a picture of a crater located in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Its slope is covered with dry ice. It depicts a crater located at 37 ° south latitude
Dry ice is formed by the freezing of carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere. In the middle of winter, the polar caps can occupy the surface up to 50° in latitude. With the onset of summer, dry ice begins to sublimate and the visible size of the cap decreases.
However, in some cases, deposits of dry ice can form on Mars much closer to the equator. This most often occurs on pole-facing slopes, which receive less sunlight.
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Rosbank and its insurance subsidiaries, owned by the French financial conglomerate Societe Generale, will be sold to Vladimir Potanin’s Interros. The deal is expected to close within a week. Its amount is not named, it will still have to be approved by the antimonopoly regulator.
Rosbank was formerly owned by Interros, but in 2006-2011 the controlling stake in the bank passed to Societe Generale.
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The Swedish manufacturer of telecommunications equipment Ericsson suspends business in Russia for an indefinite period, employees will be sent on paid leave. In Russia, Ericsson cooperates with leading mobile operators, in particular, with MTS and Tele2.
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As it became known to Kommersant, last Saturday, the Basmanny Court of Moscow, at the request of the investigation, arrested Alexei Repkin, a former adviser to the general director of the United Instrument-Making Corporation (a structure of Rostec), for two months.
Mr. Repkin, who previously served in the Investigative Committee of Russia, is suspected of having received 15 million rubles, two Cadillacs from businessmen, and also obtained payment for his air tickets for 200 thousand rubles. under the threat of depriving entrepreneurs of the fulfillment of a state contract worth almost 3 billion rubles. for the supply of medical equipment for the central hospital in Nizhnevartovsk. At the same time, according to the investigation, Mr. Repkin had no opportunity to influence the execution of the contract.
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Russian electronics sellers are beginning to actively develop the secondary market. The buyback and resale of used smartphones was launched, for example, by Svyaznoy. Smart Bazar, controlled by MegaFon, became his partner in the purchase of gadgets. Citilink also has an iPhone resale project.
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The European Union, as part of the fifth package of sanctions against Russia, after April 16, closes its ports for the entry of ships flying the flag of the Russian Federation, according to an official publication of the EU.
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The European Union imposed sanctions on the supply of equipment for oil refining and natural gas liquefaction (LNG), the EU document says.
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The European Union has blacklisted 21 Russian airlines for air safety. Among them are Aeroflot, Pobeda, Rossiya, Utair, Nordwind, S7 and others. These airlines are prohibited from flying over Europe.
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Canada imposes sanctions against 33 Russian defense companies. The sanctions included, in particular, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Vympel shipbuilding plant, the Kurgan Machine-Building Plant, the Gagarin Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant, the Miass Machine-Building Plant and others.
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Croatia expels 18 diplomats and 6 administrative staff of the Russian embassy
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The number of identified illegal dumps in Russia in 2020-2021 increased by 30%. The regions began to reflect the real picture, thanks to a unified methodology for accounting for unauthorized landfills, they say in Rosprirodnadzor
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In Warsaw, Russian property seized on Sobieski Street. The building was assigned to the Russian embassy, but it was not used for its intended purpose and was abandoned. According to the original project, the residential complex was intended for Soviet diplomats. Most likely, after the repair, refugees from Ukraine will be settled there.
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EU countries have begun work on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia. Oil-related sanctions discussed
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The Chinese market fell by 3% after the release of inflation data, which exceeded expectations. The rise in prices in the country accelerated due to the rise in price of raw materials.
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Uzbekistan will introduce tax incentives in May and simplify the purchase of real estate by foreigners. In the capital region, for foreigners, the minimum amount of the cost of housing at which they can obtain a residence permit will be reduced
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The embassies of Denmark and Sweden have resumed issuing all types of visas, including tourist visas, to Russian travelers. Also, the authorities of the countries removed all coronavirus restrictions on entry.
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In the first week of April, offshore deliveries of Russian oil abroad rose to a year-to-date high of 4 million barrels per day, Bloomberg calculated.
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After counting 95% of the votes in the presidential elections in South Ossetia, the current head of the republic, Anatoly Bibilov, is gaining 33.5%, and his closest rival, the leader of the Nykhas party, Alan Gagloev, has 36.9%, the republican CEC reported. Thus, the gap is 3.4%. The second round will be held in the republic.
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The French Interior Ministry processed 100% of the votes after the first round of the presidential election. According to the results, the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron received 27.84%, and the leader of the «National Rally» Marine Le Pen — 23.15%.
In third place is Jean-Luc Mélenchon, head of the left-wing France Unsubdued party, with 21.95%, in fourth place is the far-right candidate, the founder of the Reconquest party, Eric Zemmour (7.07%), in fifth is the candidate from the center-right party » Republicans» Valerie Pekress (4.78%).
The second round of elections will be held on 24 April.
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Opposition candidate Shehbaz Sharif has been elected Pakistan’s new prime minister. On April 9, the country’s parliament voted for a vote of no confidence in former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The initiative was supported by 174 deputies out of 342.
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Since the beginning of the year, the number of VPN users in Russia has grown 53.5 times since January 2022, according to Yota research. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the mobile operator.
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The yacht of oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk will be transferred to the management of ARMA (National Agency for the Detection, Search and Management of Assets Obtained from Corruption and Other Crimes) according to a court decision. At the moment, the yacht «Royal Romance» is in the Croatian port of Rijeka.
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The Chinese company Space Transportation said it was developing a «winged rocket». It will accelerate to a speed of 4.184 km / h and will fly from Beijing to New York in a couple of hours. And at the same time, with its help, the Celestial Empire proposes to develop suborbital tourism
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The volume of the National Welfare Fund (NWF) as of April 1, 2022 amounted to 13 trillion 052.295 billion rubles (the equivalent of $155.227 billion), or 9.8% of GDP projected for 2022, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation reported; in March, the NWF increased by 117.187 billion rubles The volume of the fund as of March 1 amounted to 12 trillion 935.108 billion rubles (the equivalent of $154.82 billion), or 9.7% of GDP forecast for the year.
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In 2021, the net profit of the Russian «daughter» of Mastercard according to the RBS increased by 12% — to 7.5 billion rubles, follows from the company’s financial statements.
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Since the entry into force of the fifth package of EU sanctions against Russia and Belarus, about 250 trucks from these countries were not allowed into Lithuania by Monday morning.
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