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EFKO company analysts conducted a survey dedicated to Vegan Day. The survey results showed that a quarter of Russians already adhere to the principles of vegetarianism and flexitarianism. 8% classified themselves as vegans, that is, they completely abandoned any animal products. At the same time, 66% of Russians surveyed are thinking about giving up animal products. Most Russians are switching to ...

Finnish authorities have confiscated more than 40 Russian and Belarusian trademarks, including Sberbank, Kalashnikov and RT. The arrest was made as part of the application of EU sanctions to these companies . Russia calls sanctions illegalThe Finnish Debt Collection Authority has confiscated more than 4......

Geopolitics has a “contradictory” and “statistically insignificant” impact on global trade dynamics, IMF analysts say . It is determined by the size of the economies of partner countries, location and membership in trade organizationsThe end of globalization against the backdrop of geopolitical crises has been proclaimed many times, but none of these predictions have come true: this is proven by t...

The Central Bank of Kazakhstan explained the proposal to tighten the opening of bank accounts for foreigners by the fight against the sale of drugs. Kazakh banks are popular among Russians for opening Visa and Mastercard cards, and restrictions may affect thisThe National Bank of Kazakhstan identified about 1.5 thousand bank cards with a turnover of several billion tenge (1 ruble costs about 5 ten...

The day before, telegram channels began discussing Visa’s instructions, allegedly prohibiting the issuance of cards to Russians abroad. This document does not introduce such prohibitions, RBC sources and lawyers say, although the conditions for opening accounts have become more stringentMedia and telegram channels reported new restrictions for Russians on opening Visa cards in foreign banks. Initi...

Исследование, которое провели аналитики центра «Фидбэк», позволило оценить разницу в отношении россиян к отечественным и импортным продуктам. Исследование проводилось онлайн, участие в нем принимали 2 тыс респондентов по всей России, сообщает ТАСС со ссылкой на данные центра. Большинство из опрошенных отдали предпочтение продуктам российского производства, говорится в сообщении. По данным исследов...

VTB, which is under sanctions, launched cross-border transfers with cash withdrawal. This functionality can be used by recipients who do not have an account in a foreign bank or have problems servicing itVTB Bank began conducting international money transfers with the possibility of issuing money in cash without opening a bank account. Alexey Khranilov, head of the “translations” department of VTB...

Canada has imposed sanctions against six Moldovan television channels, accusing them of disinformation when covering Russia's military operation in Ukraine , the press service of the country's government reports. We are talking about the TV channels “First in Moldova”, RTR, Accent TV, NTV Moldova, TV6 and Orhei TV, whose broadcasting licenses were revoked in December 2......

According to Ryabinkin, the main price hike has already passed, and it amounted to about 35-40%. This means that such drastic changes are not expected this year. Beef prices , for example, have already begun to decline, but lamb prices have not yet fallen. Pork , despite low demand, has inexplicably risen in price. One of the factors influencing meat prices is imports . Beef supplies from Belarus ...

Russian restaurants are faced with a meat shortage. The relevant association cited a lack of employees at poultry farms, rising feed prices and logistics problems as reasons. Chicken prices hit records this summerThere is a shortage on the Russian chicken meat market, and all consumers are faced with a difficult situation, Unirest, which manages the KFC and Rostic's fast food chains in Russia, tol...

Major UK banks have begun preparing for the possible introduction of Western sanctions against China and have provided the British and American governments with a draft action plan for such an eventuality. This was reported by Reuters with reference to Neil Willey, director of sanctions at the banking and financial association UK Finance. UK Finance organized fortnightly meetings of major British ...

The Russian government must proactively respond to crises in the domestic fuel market, President Vladimir Putin said at the plenary session of the international forum “Russian Energy Week”. The President recalled that recently there has been a sharp increase in prices for gasoline and diesel, to combat which the government has taken a number of measures. “I would like to once again draw the attent...

The Skubianka recreation center, 40 km from Warsaw, seized from the Russian embassy last spring, was transferred to the needs of the Polish territorial defense troops, the country's Ministry of Defense announced.The Polish authorities handed over to the military a recreation center near Warsaw seized last year from the Russian Embassy, ​​the Republic's Ministry of National Defense said in a statem...

Shevchuk is undergoing rehabilitation and feels well, the DDT group reported. The team also announced the postponement of concerts Yuri Shevchuk DDT leader Yuri Shevchuk suffered a myocardial infarction and is undergoing rehabilitation, the group reported. It will recover until December. In this regard, the group announced the postponement of concerts to new dates: Dubai - January 3, 2......

Russia resumed oil supplies to Brazil in September, exporting the maximum 84.4 thousand tons in 13 years, RIA Novosti writes, citing customs data. At the same time, exports of Russian petroleum products decreased by 22% in September.After a two-year break, Russia resumed oil exports to Brazil in September, delivering the maximum in 13 years, 84.4 thousand tons, RIA Novosti reports, citing data fro...

The United States is imposing restrictions on 49 companies from China , Germany, Finland, India, Turkey and other countries due to support for Russian troops or the Russian military-industrial complex, the Bureau of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce reported. The measures will come into force on October 11. The document released by the bureau said that US authorities have reas...

Roshydromet will be allocated 1.6 billion rubles. in 2024–2026 to a supercomputer and the Russian system of area forecasts for aviation to replace the disabled global system. Authorities and carriers say the outage did not cause problems.In 2024–2026, the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) will be allocated 1.6 billion rubles for the preparation of avia...

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the global economy has lost $3.7 trillion, and economic fragmentation of countries threatens to further undermine its growth prospects, said IMF head Kristalina Georgieva .Global economic losses from 2020 to 2023 amounted to a record $3.7 trillion, and the only major state that managed to return to pre-pandemic production levels was the United States. T...

Vladimir Putin (right)The situation in the Russian economy is stable and sustainable, the country has overcome all the problems that arose due to sanctions, President Vladimir Putin said at the Valdai Forum. RBC broadcast. “We overcame all the problems that arose after the sanctions were imposed on us and began the next stage of development. On a new base, which is extremely important. It is very ...

MEPs call on the EU to impose sanctions against Baku, reduce dependence on Azerbaijani gas and immediately offer assistance to Armenia due to the influx of refugeesThe European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning Azerbaijan for the “forceful takeover” of Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as calling on the EU to impose sanctions and reconsider relations with Baku. 491 deputies voted for the document...

Переводы из России в соседние страны резко выросли после частичной мобилизации, но ситуация изменилась год спустя. Приток рублей в Грузию и Казахстан снизился, а Армения, наоборот, улучшила позиции Не все страны, получившие резкий приток средств россиян после начала мобилизации, сохраняют столь же высокий объем поступлений год спустя. Лидер по переводам из России — Армения: объем поступлений там с...

В Красноярском крае впервые выявили циркуляцию штамма коронавируса EG.5 («Эрис»), сообщила в своем телеграм-канале пресс-служба регионального управления Роспотребнадзора. «При этом значимых изменений в части тяжести заболевания коронавирусом с появлением данного штамма не ожидается», — говорится в сообщении. Первые образцы «Эриса» ученые выявили в феврале 2......

Ekimov’s work opens “a new era in quantum technologies,” the scientists noted . For him, a native of the USSR, now working in the USA , together with his American colleagues received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 (on screen) Mungi Bavendi, Louis Bruce and Alexey EkimovThe discovery and synthesis of quantum dots, for which scientist Alexey Ekimov and h...

Sales of Lada cars, despite the “increased sanction pressure,” have increased by 96% since the beginning of the year, to 242 thousand cars. The Lada Vesta and Lada Granta models have updated their sales peaksLada sales have increased by 96% since the beginning of 2023 - in total, over 242 thousand new cars were sold, the AvtoVAZ press service told RBC. At the end of September 2......

In 2023, the number of Russian pensioners will grow by 1.1 million, and in 2024 , by another 569 thousand. Such dynamics are expected for the first time since the beginning of the pension reform, including due to residents of new regionsIn 2023, the number of pensioners in Russia will increase by 1.13 million people, and in 2......

In January, a former member of the Bundestag filed a complaint against the Russia House in Berlin, accusing the cultural center of crimes committed under the protection of its diplomatic status. The prosecutor's office stopped the investigation, citing this statusThe Berlin prosecutor's office has stopped all investigations related to the activities of the Russian Center for Science and Culture (R...

The award was given to three scientists whose experiments “gave humanity new tools to explore the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.”The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Kraus and Anne L'Huillier for "experimental methods for generating attosecond pulses of light to study the dynamics of electrons in matter." An attosecond is one quintillionth (1.........

Nobel Prize-winning biochemists in medicine were able to make a messenger RNA vaccine against COVID-19 safe, but it cannot be ruled out that the negative aspects of this technology will not be known in the future Drew Weissman and Katalin KarikoBiochemists Katalin Kariko (Hungary) and Drew Weissman ( USA ), winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2......

The FT reported on a sick Ukrainian soldier with resistance to almost all antibiotics. Experts interviewed by RBC are confident that the increase in the incidence of such infections has nothing to do with the conflict, and advised against self-medicationAccording to WHO, the number of patients with antibiotic-resistant infections, which respond poorly or not at all to conventional antimicrobial dr...

The number of antibiotic-resistant infections has been on the rise in Europe since at least 2014. In recent months, when wounded Ukrainians began to be evacuated to European countries, such cases have become more frequent.In European countries, against the backdrop of military operations in Ukraine , the number of infections resistant to antibiotics is growing, the Financial Times reports, citing ...