Correos has published this Wednesday in which it defends wanting to stabilize on the margins of debates that it believes “intend to undermine the communicated institutions and public services of the country”, after the president of the PP and candidate for the next general elections, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has addressed the company workers directly in a speech. Feijóo has asked the postmen to work “morning, day and night” to deliver the vote by mail “independently of their bosses”, ensuring that he will pay them overtime if he finally governs.

However, Correos defends that it already has all the necessary budget items to pay all the remuneration items related to the 23J general elections. “These are already approved and will be paid to the corresponding payroll,” the company has assured. In addition, Correos has stated that the “professionalism of the more than 45,000 employees is beyond any doubt”, assuring that they carry out their work “with pride and dedication” and knowing the process and the obligations that it entails.

“The process of voting by mail in Spain is safe and guaranteed.”

It has also cleared up any doubts about the guarantees of the electoral process: “The process of voting by mail in Spain is safe and guarantees. The Central Electoral Board, an independent body, is in charge of auditing the process and ensuring that it is carried out with all the guarantees for the citizenry.

Correos recalls that it is a public company with 307 years of history and that, during all its years of activity and at all stages, “it has demonstrated its commitment to Spanish society by providing those public services that have been entrusted to it efficiently and for the benefit of citizenship”.

Prices always react with a lag to the fall of the national currency

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“Look at Europe, where inflation is double!” – Just like to wink at the West in such cases, our officials. And formally they are right. But from this there is no money in the wallet anymore, and red caviar does not appear in a roll with butter.

So inflation in Russia for the first time in many months began to grow. On the evening of July 12, Rosstat reported: prices in June increased by 3.25% (compared to the first month of last summer). In May, annual inflation was notably lower: only 2.51%.

The main reason for the acceleration is clear – the depreciation (to put it mildly) of the ruble exchange rate. The fall began in May and accelerated with the arrival of summer. In June, the dollar jumped from 81 to 87 rubles, the euro from 86.5 to 95 rubles.

Why haven’t prices risen as much as the dollar and the euro? There are two points here.

1. Prices always react with a lag to the fall of the national currency. Until now, Russian sellers have old stocks of imported goods purchased at a more decent price. But little by little the range is being updated, and prices are also slowly rising.

2. Now it is summer, the harvest and fruits and vegetables are getting cheaper. And this does not allow the country’s average prices to grow much.

Speaking of fruits and vegetables. They are the leaders in price cuts in June. Tomatoes, onions and plantains fell the most in price during the month (for more details, see “Just numbers”). Among non-food items, televisions, USB sticks and vacuum cleaners fell the most. True, not by much: a maximum of 2%.

Curiously, prices are the ones that have risen the most… Also vegetables, carrots and potatoes. Which is also related to the harvest: these tubers will be massively harvested closer to autumn, now the old stocks are running out, imports are expensive, that’s why prices are soaring. But soon they will definitely fall.

And the cost of vacations has gone up. Trips to our Black Sea and the countries of the Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan) added 9% in price, vacations in Turkey rose in price by 6.6%. Everything is clear here: summer is in full swing, demand is high, and no one has lifted the sanctions. Airline tickets, hotels are becoming more expensive, vacations are becoming less affordable. It is true that trips to Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have fallen slightly in price (minus 1.6% and 2.7%, respectively). Yes, only who will fly there now, in these +40 …

What happens next is easy to predict. The depreciation of the ruble in July slowed down, but did not stop. Yes, and the June fall will haunt us again for more than a month; this will especially affect the prices of cars, equipment and vacations abroad. So by the end of the summer, the beginning of the autumn, inflation will accelerate, do not go to Rosstat.

Well at least potatoes and carrots should be getting cheaper soon…

ONLY NUMBERS

What rose the most in June…

Carrot +22.2%

Potato +21.5%

Lemons +16.1%

Beetroot +13.1%

Nursing home services, pensions +9.8%

Holidays on the Black Sea coast of Russia +9.2%

Trip to the Transcaucasian countries +8.8%

…and cheaper

Tomatoes -22%

Onion -13.5%

Bananas -12.4%

Cabbage -10.8%

Cucumbers -5.5%

Fresh herbs -4.4%

Grapes -4.2%

According to Rostat.

“NATO will soon become the thirty-second. There will be thirty-three free members. Three, two free members,” Biden said, quoted by RIA Novosti.

In April of this year the last extension of the alliance was carried out for the moment. Finland joined the organization, becoming its 31st member. Sweden’s application is currently under review. Stockholm can gain membership in the bloc no earlier than October. Then Sweden will become the 32nd NATO state.

Objectively, for combat operations in forest plantations, a very unpleasant ammunition, it allows you to hit groups of fighters in rotation, for example. But if everyone is in shelters, it doesn’t work well.

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Cluster shells of the 155-mm “NATO” caliber are already actively used on the fronts of the Northern Military District, although the consent for the transfer to Ukraine was received literally a day ago, and Western quartermasters do not yet have teleportation systems . This was announced by the legendary commander of the Vostok battalion, deputy. head of the National Guard in the DPR Alexander Khodakovsky:

“They report from the positions: they worked on us with cluster projectiles. Three times. Since the personnel are in the shelters, this did not cause any damage, but the situation is indicative: the day before there was a noticeable decrease in artillery activity, apparently caused by the shortage of conventional ammunition, and then the ammunition arrived in cluster (or were on reserve).

And nothing, “Vostok”, which has been fighting in the Ugledar direction since the middle of last summer, did not run after the shelling, did not leave their position. Furthermore, cluster munitions were used in Donbass in 2014 and their shortcomings are well known. Khodakovsky decided to remember this, it would not hurt:

“In the fourteenth, we first encountered cluster munitions heading towards Peski. The placement of positions in any stand helped us a lot: the treetops absorbed a significant part of the damaging elements. In general, this type of ammunition presents a particular hazard to equipment and personnel outside of shelters.

Personally, while working in the Soledarsko-Artemovsky direction already in February-March 2023, I asked our fighters about unusual weapons systems and ammunition. The answer was this: “a lot of unusual and incomprehensible things crawl here.” And they told me about the use of cluster shells – they work characteristically, you can’t confuse them. I saw it myself, from the Soledar-Artemovsk highway, on May 20. The projectile explodes in the sky with a blackish gray cloud, quite stable. And the sound is like a “poooooo”! Then like canned poured peas. Dirty pieces of cotton wool hung in the sky for a long time, traces of an explosion, and under them burned huts on the outskirts of Artemovsk.

What did your “good” Western friends bring to Ukraine? Washington promised to supply kyiv with M483A1 and M864 cluster rounds for 155mm guns. The shells are ordinary, ballistic, in this case, without adjustment and guidance. Due to the fact that 88 or 72 “small bombs”, the so-called submunitions, are hidden in the body of the projectile, its accuracy is lower, but this is compensated by a large area of ​​​​destruction. The range is also lower, almost twice as much, in contrast to conventional shells for “NATO” artillery – 23 versus 28 kilometers.

Objectively, for combat operations in forest plantations, a very unpleasant ammunition, it allows you to hit groups of fighters in rotation, for example. But if everyone is in shelters, it doesn’t work well. However, as a normal projectile.

The enemy continues to equip certain types of weapons with the divine personification. As the saying goes, he imagines ten years from now the face of a boy named Javelin.

Battles are won not by the “wunderwaffe”, but by the consistency of the actions of the military branches and the skill of the fighters and officers. In 1945, this was well explained to the spiritual and historical mentors of the current Ukrainian Armed Forces. Probably already forgotten.

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Former BSP Bulgarian Economy and Energy Minister Rumen Ovcharov called the actions of the authorities of the Balkan republic “Euro-Atlantic subservience, betrayal of national interests.”

“I protest against the hypocrisy of the managers, who literally yesterday declared the development of Bulgarian nuclear energy as a strategic priority, and today they call the project of the Belene nuclear power plant stuck in a swamp,” Atanas Zafirov, one of the leaders of the BSP. , he emphasized.

“We were the energy center of the Balkans and now we will become a country that will buy electricity from the states we sold it to,” said socialist Ivan Petkov.

The decision on the expediency of abandoning the power units, the cost of which is estimated at at least 600 million euros each, in favor of Kiev was made on the day of the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Sofia on July 6 this anus. The country’s authorities hope to receive compensation for the transfer of reactors from European funds to support Ukraine.

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In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky the satellite event of the All-Russian week of labor protection – “VNOT – the Far East” was held.

Representatives of the VNOT Directorate became organizers of the trade program and participated in the exhibition block of the event, within the framework of which they presented the main event in the field of labor, employment and labor protection – the week of all Russia. of labor protection, which takes place annually in Sochi. This year, the Forum will take place from September 26 to 29 in the federal territory of Sirius.

Representatives of the Russian regions took part in the Far Eastern Forum: Kamchatka Territory, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Astrakhan regions. In addition, the events were attended by representatives of the Russian Ministry of Labor, Rostrud and the Russian Social Fund.

The Forum opened with a large plenary session “On the implementation of state policy measures in the field of labor protection. Problems and solutions to labor protection issues in the Far Eastern Federal District. The main agenda of “VNOT – Far East” was labor protection in the fishing and mining sectors.

“We attach great importance to all aspects of labor relations in our region,” said Natalya Nitsenko, Minister of Labor and Human Resources Development of the Kamchatka Territory. – The issue of employment and the general well-being of a person within the framework of labor relations is an area for us that requires a lot of attention. And given the peculiarities of climatic conditions, the specifics and the direction of the economy of our region, these are issues of great importance. That is why we take an active part in organizing and holding the All-Russian Week of Health and Safety at Work here in the Far East and look forward to presenting our delegation in Sochi.”

Within the framework of the Forum, an industry exhibition of the largest Russian companies: suppliers of personal protective equipment, demonstration exercises of the forces and means of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, as well as a solemn awarding of the winners of a regional competition for the organization of labor on labor protection among enterprises of the Kamchatka Territory.

The VNOT-Far East forum is organized by the government of the Kamchatka Territory with the support of the Russian Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, and the operator is the Roscongress Foundation. The VNOT Organizing Committee is headed by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government, Tatyana Golikova.

“In Russia, every year there is an increase in the crime of foreign citizens,” Bastrykin said. He cited the following figures: during 5 months of this year, foreigners have already committed more than 18,000 crimes. At the same time, the number of serious and especially serious crimes committed by migrants, which cause damage to health, resulting in the death of the victim, sexual crimes, as well as crimes in the field of drug trafficking, has increased significantly.

In the Investigative Commission alone, in the first quarter of this year, more than 550 criminal cases have already been initiated for crimes committed by migrants, and more than 500 cases of this type have already been sent to the courts.

Most of the crimes committed by visitors are in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

But the department emphasizes that along with immigrant crimes in the UK, they are investigating criminal cases against Russian citizens. Those who have committed crimes in the field of migratory relations, including the acts of receiving bribes from visiting citizens, the fictitious registration of foreigners in the migratory registry, and the like.

The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia emphasized: “Now there is growing indignation in society over the illegal actions of migrants. This is a serious challenge for law enforcement, including the Investigative Committee.”

According to Bastrykin, the bulk of these crimes are located in Moscow, the Moscow region and St. Petersburg. A high level of migrant crime is observed in the Samara, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk and Tambov regions.

The head of the department heard reports about specific criminal cases that were on everyone’s lips, for example, in Kotelniki near Moscow. Bastrykin’s subordinates reported that the Lyubertsy city prosecutor’s office had canceled the decision to open a criminal case. But the head of the Investigative Commission instructed to reopen the criminal case. Bastrykin instructed the formation of a permanent group to counter immigration crimes and monitor the media and social networks “to identify acts of violation of the rights and legitimate interests of citizens by migrants.”

The National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) has intervened in the market by taking various measures to protect retail investors. Thus, it has limited the advertising of contracts for difference (CFDs) and the marketing of other leveraged instruments.

The Commission has released a report on Wednesday stating that between 70% and 90% of all retail clients who operate with CFDs suffer losses. In addition to the restrictions on these contracts and other leveraged financial products, the CNMV has announced new limitations on remuneration policies and sales techniques.

In the statement published by Efe, the Commission explained that the applicants “strengthen the protection” of retail investors and avoid some sales and advertising practices that have occurred in the CFD market and have “prevented the regulations and security measures from current intervention to date were effective.

High Risk Products for Retailers

Regarding advertising, in addition to prohibiting it from being addressed to the general public, sponsorship of events, brand advertising and the use of figures of public relevance are also prohibited.

Brokers that trade CFDs will be prohibited from certain remuneration practices of the commercial network (linking remuneration to the number of clients captured, to the income they generate for the entity or to the losses they obtain). The use of ‘call centers’, ‘webinars’ and ‘demo accounts’ that promote the distribution of these products to retailers is also prohibited.

CFDs are “complex and high risk” products and therefore generally “not suitable” for retail investors. For this reason, both the European securities market supervisor (ESMA), in 2018, and the CNMV, in 2019, adopted various intervention measures that established conditions for the marketing, distribution or sale to said investors. The approved measures are due to the fact that the CNMV considers that previous efforts have not been effective in protecting investors.

With respect to the rest of the leveraged products, the maximum leverage to which investors may be exposed has been limited and requires margin closing protection. This means that clients who use leverage will see their positions closed when they drop to 50% of the initial margin, limiting their losses.

These measures will mainly affect eight Spanish entities, which concentrate most of the trading volume of these derivatives, with some 60,000 clients who registered aggregate losses of 70 million euros in 2021, the date of the latest available data. The volume traded through CFDs in that year was 155,000 million euros.

Zhanna Friske, who did not even have outstanding vocal abilities, filled all her songs with her sparkling charm.

Photo: Mila Strizh

No, this is not “of the unpublished”, as it was, for example, after the death of Michael Jackson, when suddenly there were records that had not been heard before. We are talking about the proven hit “And the White Sand on the Sea” – this song by the composer Andrei the Terrible with the verses of Ekaterina Rakova Zhanna, released in 2009, when he was already performing solo.

Today it is hard to believe that this very simple and unpretentious song made it to the top of the charts. Probably, the whole point is in the performer – Zhanna Friske, who did not even have outstanding vocal abilities, filled all her songs with her bright charm.

The soloists of “Brilliant” Ksenia Novikova and Nadya Ruchka reported on their social networks that a new version of the song “And the white sand on the sea” will be released in the very near future. “Brilliant feat. Zhanna Friske (feat. – English presentation abbreviation – “with participation”. – Ed.). Coming soon on all platforms! – Novikova wrote. Both singers posted short videos of themselves listening to her performance of a fragment of the song. From Ksenia’s statement it is clear that the new version is performed by a trio – Zhanna will be the third. Obviously, the soundtrack of the original performance was used for the recording.

Paying tribute to the memory of a deceased legend by singing their song is a pretty standard trick. Mixing the voices of a live performer with the recording of an artist who no longer exists was not invented yesterday either. However, the retrograde subscribers of Novikova and Ruchka were outraged: they say, hands off the saint! However, a small scandal never stopped anything from being promoted.

To restart the bunting, mid-July is the perfect time. The memory of Jeanne, who passed away in 2015 (only 6 years after singing the sea, the sand and the carelessness of summer) is still alive in the hearts of her fans. And who better than the artists of “Brillante” to try to give an old song a new sound?

Imperceptible sadness and then hidden somewhere between the lines of the chorus. Now this sadness will obviously be more.

It is reported that “Gadfly” is constantly being improved and modernized. It was possible to use the drone at a long distance thanks to the use of repeaters.

Matches “Gadfly” are already being used in units of the group of troops “South” of the RF Armed Forces. The drones are capable of carrying high-explosive fragmentation and fragmentation ammunition. The cost of each such drone is about 40 thousand rubles.

Western observers noted that drones have become one of the most modern types of weapons used by the Russian Armed Forces to eliminate the military infrastructure and soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Earlier, a video appeared on the network of how an FPV drone of the Russian army flew towards a group of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Orekhov on the Zaporozhye front.

Prada is not limited to opening a cafeteria in the Harrods department store in London and opens a new establishment on the Italian coast, in Florence. Hypebeast writes about it.

Caffè Principe is a legendary pastry shop in the heart of the spa town, in Via Giosuè Carducci. The interiors of the restaurant have been carefully restored. The Florentine architect Michele Bonan assisted in this project.

In the space, vintage-style furniture, chandeliers, Formica chairs and tables, wicker chairs, and cute 1950s-style wallpapers. The restaurant’s menu features light and classic snacks, fresh salads, including Caprese, sandwiches, and traditional French pastries.

Let’s remember that this is not the first time that fashion houses have opened their cafes in Florence. Gucci has already launched the Giardino 25 cocktail bar in the central Piazza della Signoria. Read more here.

Barely a couple of weeks have passed since Royal Decree-Law 5/2023 came into force in Spain. Thanks to teleworking, new improvements were introduced so that workers achieve greater conciliation. Among the first novelties that we present, the extension of the option of requesting an adjustment in the working day to be able to better attend to the care of the children stands out. It is expected that thanks to remote work, new ones will be contemplated for family situations where you live with elderly people in our charge or dependent people.

While many companies have insisted that their employees return to the offices, many workers are not satisfied with this decision, since teleworking allows them to reconcile work with their personal and family lives by avoiding travel losses.

Teleworking has become one of the options most requested by workers to be able to make their workday more flexible and reconcile their personal life with work. This is especially important when you have dependent children or family responsibilities, since the hours lost commuting to the office or workplace make a big difference.

One of the most outstanding novelties of this new law is the elimination of the age limit, allowing the adaptation of the working day beyond the age of twelve of the children. In addition, this measure also applies to those people who are responsible for dependent family members, such as spouses or common-law partners, blood relatives up to the second degree and other dependent people who can prove they live at the same address as the worker requesting teleworking. .

With the implementation of the new Royal Decree-Law 5/2023, the possibility of requesting the adaptation of the working day to care for children is recognized, giving workers greater flexibility in this regard.

New changes in the law for teleworking

The new labor regulations introduce important changes and specific permits for situations considered to be of family urgency. As would be the case of caring for the elderly or dependents who reside at the same address. One of the outstanding novelties is the possibility of working remotely in these cases, which was previously considered voluntary. In addition, the new law also provides protection to those employees who request the adaptation of the working day for conciliation reasons. It is established that the dismissal of employees in these circumstances will be considered void, thus offering greater job security.

Likewise, companies are obliged to adapt the working hours of those employees who meet the established requirements. In order to comply with the law and satisfy the needs of the employee, it is proposed that hybrid work models be an adequate solution more adapted to family reconciliation.

How to request an adaptation of working hours to telework

To request an adaptation of the working day to telework for conciliation reasons, workers must submit their request in writing. Once the request is received, the company is obliged to start a negotiation process and must provide a response within a maximum period of 15 days.

The second day of the summit began with a consolation ritual for Volodymyr Zelensky

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The NATO summit in Vilnius ends on July 12, 2023. On the second day, the alliance members made a series of important statements on Ukraine, Russia and China. We summarize the main results and analyze the opinions.

Why Ukraine was not admitted to NATO?

The second day of the summit began with a consolation ritual for Volodymyr Zelensky, who had been so disappointed by Western leaders the day before by refusing to immediately invite Ukraine into the alliance.

Outwardly, everything looked pretentious. In the midst of the extras gathered in the city square, singing toasts in honor of the guest from Kiev, the President of Lithuania Nausėda personally raised the yellow and black flag of the independents on a high pillar. Then, melting from such an atmosphere, Zelensky was taken to meetings with NATO leaders. There they assured him that they would continue to support Ukraine with money and weapons, the main thing is that kyiv should in no case weaken hostilities, no matter what the cost. Well, membership in the block, they say, will definitely take place. So at some point…

At a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Zelensky said with a forced smile that he was, despite everything, satisfied with the summit results. Although he yesterday described as “absurd” the attitude of the members of the alliance to dictate conditions to Ukraine to join it without announcing specific dates. And Stoltenberg repeated word for word what had already been recorded in the summit communiqué. Namely: the question of admitting Ukraine to NATO can be put on a practical plane only after the end of hostilities, in which the independents should win.

Zelensky with a forced smile said that despite everything he was satisfied with the results of the summit.

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To sweeten the pill, the G7 countries on the sidelines of the summit agreed on common principles for providing security guarantees to Ukraine. They include deliveries of “modern military equipment by land, air and sea”, training of Ukrainian forces, intelligence sharing and cyber defense assistance. But in return, kyiv is forced to make reforms, including changes to judicial and civilian control over the armed forces.

But these guarantees will by no means guarantee Ukraine’s speedy accession to NATO. Whether Ukraine is ready to be admitted to the bloc will have to be decided by consensus of all its members. And among them, even now, there are many who doubt that the alliance is moving in the right direction.

A split between the allies

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addressed his compatriots in Vilnius with a televised address.

– Instead of sending weapons to Ukraine, we must achieve peace. It is necessary to cease fire and start peace talks as soon as possible, Orban said. – NATO is a defensive alliance, it was created to protect its member countries and not to carry out military operations on the territory of other states.

This clearly contradicts the attitude of Stoltenberg himself, who bluntly stated in Vilnius that “arms supplies to Ukraine are more important than NATO security guarantees”. If you fight, we will shake your hand.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivered a televised address to compatriots in Vilnius.

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But even here there is no agreement between the allies. It would seem that one of the leading Western hawks, British Defense Ministry chief Ben Wallace, suddenly resentfully told The Guardian newspaper that when he arrived in Kiev last year, he was given a huge list of weapons that the Ukrainian leadership demanded. From london. “You know, we are not Amazon,” the minister refuted. Note that this was a year ago, but Wallace remembered it only now, during the days of the NATO summit. Not otherwise, to slow down the stubborn Zelensky a little.

And today another unpleasant event happened for kyiv – Germany terminated the agreement with Poland on the repair of Leopard tanks transferred to Ukraine. The Poles broke the painfully high price. Such is the unity of the allies in the bloc. The question of who will now repair the destroyed German tanks (of which there are more every day) hung in the air.

chinese question

The press conference between Stoltenberg and Zelensky was drawing to a close, and Ukrainian flags were already being removed from prominent places in Vilnius. Leaders of several countries from the Asia-Pacific region invited to the summit flocked to the Lithuanian capital: Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. They were convened in the context of the West’s collective concerns about China, which allegedly could use force to resolve the Taiwan issue.

In the final declaration of the alliance summit, considerable attention is paid to China. The document notes that NATO countries are concerned about China’s nuclear arsenal buildup and, in their view, Beijing’s insufficient efforts in the field of nuclear arms control. The statement also argues that deepening the China-Russia strategic partnership is contrary to NATO’s values ​​and interests.

It seems that NATO members have finally lost their regional borders and now openly claim the role of global policeman.

As expected, China reacted instantly and angrily.

The main result of the summit is that the West openly showed the world community its intention to direct the political processes on the planet.

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbing urged NATO to “immediately stop distorting the truth and slandering China, fabricating lies, not making excuses for its own expansion, but playing a constructive role in peace and world stability”.

According to him, the final declaration of the NATO summit in Vilnius “calls blacks as whites” and is full of “Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice”.

Results of the NATO summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023

The main result of the summit is that the West has openly shown to the world community its intention to direct the political processes on the planet, according to certain rules invented by itself. And for those who disagree with this, he is willing to threaten the use of force with the help of NATO, which is growing in size.

Well, well, it doesn’t matter how the lip is broken. Inflated too much.

I want to say right away that it is impossible to completely exclude dog attacks on people. No one in the world has been able to do this. But you can drastically reduce their number and the severity of the consequences of them.

How to do it in practice? First, we must accept that the responsibility for attacks on people, including stray dogs, lies with the people.

Both those who throw their pets out into the street, leaving their summer home in the fall, and those who simply throw their annoying pets out the door. Boring, again, because the owners do not know how to raise dogs, and they become owners of a load. And on our streets there are up to 85% of those dogs that used to belong to someone else.

Human irresponsibility becomes the basis for the constant replenishment of the number of stray dogs on the streets, where they crowd into packs, at the head of which is always the strongest and most aggressive individual, after which the entire pack can attack people.

But even in this case, there is a way to drastically reduce, if not completely stop, the attacks of such a herd on people. Russia has a law “On the Responsible Treatment of Animals”, which establishes a model of OSVV (capture, sterilization, vaccination, release), which the authorities of the regions had to comply with everywhere. However, the regions often do not make sure that the program works. However, in those regions where it is performed as expected, the situation is quite favorable.

The main thing here is to understand that the complete isolation of captured dogs will not solve the problem, because new individuals will come instead of the captured ones, mostly expelled by their owners. Nature, where there is room for life and a food base, will always be full of one animal or another. It will be better for people if these are sterilized, non-aggressive dogs than angry, non-sterilized individuals who again come to an empty place and begin to terrorize the entire district until they are captured. Not to mention the possible rebound in the population of rats and other equally dangerous animals, whose reproduction, by the way, is restricted by packs of dogs.

Now about the number of attacks on people. Statistics show that people suffer from dog attacks with an owner and walking with him, in just over 64% of cases, with an owner, but walking without him, in around 35% of cases, and only around 0, 4% of attacks. in people, which caused their injuries, it falls on generally neglected dogs. But it is these cases that have the greatest resonance in the media.

To drastically reduce the frequency and severity of the consequences of dog attacks, it is necessary, first of all, to implant the mandatory chipping of all domestic dogs, so that it can be determined who exactly is responsible for a dog that has been expelled or attacked people. And secondly, correctly and honestly comply with the requirements of the law “On responsible treatment of animals.”

And then the pleasure of communicating with pets will be as safe as possible for each of us. And I am sure that the State Duma will return to the “dog” question.

The 20th international short film festival shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival will take place in Moscow in October. Until July 20, directors from Russia can apply to participate in the National and International competitions. Made in Russia this year will be held for the first time in a public review format without the participation of a jury. However, the tradition by which viewers choose their favorite movie from the MiR program will continue.

The winners of the International Competition will be selected by an international jury and announced at the closing ceremony in Amsterdam at the end of October. The shnit Shortfilmfestival was held for the first time in 2003 in Bern. Over the years of its existence, its permanent headquarters have become Cairo, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, San Jose and Hong Kong, and since 2014 in Moscow.

In Russia, shnit is not only a major screening of current short films, but also a platform for young authors, making it possible to show their films in international theaters. This is how the festival continues to fulfill its key function: it places Russian short films in the global context. In its twenty-year history, shnit allowed some participants to demonstrate their first steps towards mastering cinema, and others to show their achievements in working with the short form.

Authors working in Russia or making Russian-language films can submit their works. Films of any genre up to 40 minutes in length and films completed after July 1, 2021 are accepted. You can apply through Film Freeway. Detailed regulations in Russian can be found on the local festival website and in English on the international website.

Previously, VK Music Summer Stage published the July program. Guests are looking forward to performances by Ishome, ssshhhiiittt!, Saluki and Mayot. We talk about it in more detail here.

Turn of events in the VTC conflict. The Supreme Court has decided to withdraw its questions to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJUE) on the legality of the restrictions on VTC in Spain. He assumes the latest pronouncement from a case in Catalonia, in which he was knocked down but allowed the implementation of a second urban license such as the one that various autonomous communities have demanded based on the ‘Ábalos decree’. This could expedite the terms of the final judgment of the High Court.

In an order communicated this Wednesday to the parties, consulted by La Información, the Contentious Chamber of the Supreme Court assures that in view of the sentence handed down last June it agrees not to maintain the questions formulated in the prejudicial matter raised. “The issues can be resolved based on the doctrine set forth in the aforementioned sentence,” he concludes.

On June 21, the Supreme Court moved the CJEU ruling to the parties in the process and asked if the issues raised would not be stabilized. The representation of the National Taxi Association (Antaxi) and the Taxi Project 2.0 association agreed in their respective writings that they should stabilize the first and second issues of the ‘appeal’ to the European court. From Taxi Project, they insisted on their allegations that the analysis of the Luxembourg court started “at all times from a factual and legal photograph, undoubtedly partial and incomplete” of the regulatory situation in Spain.

The procedural representation of Cabify, which is another of the parties, presented a brief in which it stated that the resolution of the harmful issue raised by the Supreme Court proceeded, understanding that the questions answered in the CJEU ruling corresponded to a regulation of the Area Metropolitan of Barcelona and not on the Transport Law. In addition, he understood that the decree law approved a couple of weeks ago by the Government of Spain made it even more necessary, if possible, for an express resolution of the European court.

All the parties have taken the opportunity to raise their views on both the decree law and the previous ruling of the CJUE in their allegations. Taxi Project believes that the European court “superficially” examined a question that for the Supreme Court itself was key: whether it is possible to start from a premise that it is a legitimate option for the public powers to adopt legislative measures with the objective of ” ensure the maintenance of a certain urban transport service, such as the taxi, in guarantee of quality objectives, user protection, transport policy and environmental policy”.

G7 countries signed a declaration of support for Ukraine

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As a result of the NATO summit in Vilnius, the G-7 countries (USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada) issued a Joint Declaration of Support for Ukraine. Komsomolskaya Pravda cites the main theses of this document.

The main theses of the statement on support for Ukraine.

1. The G7 reaffirmed “an unwavering commitment to the strategic goal of a free, independent, democratic and sovereign Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, capable of defending itself and deterring further aggression.”

2. He announced “the start of negotiations with Ukraine to formalize support for the G7 countries.”

3. He expressed the intention of each G7 country to work “on specific long-term bilateral commitments.”

4. These commitments and agreements will include the provision of Ukraine’s military complex, including modern military equipment on land, water and air, training and education of the Ukrainian armed forces, intelligence sharing and cooperation, support for cyber defense initiatives.

5. In addition, the obligations of the G7 may include “strengthening Ukraine’s economic stability, including through its reconstruction” and “providing technical and financial support for urgent needs.”

Question about Russia

6. The statement reads: “In the event of a future armed attack by Russia, we intend to immediately consult with Ukraine to determine the appropriate next steps.”

7. In addition, the G7 plans to “work with Ukraine on an expanded package of security commitments and agreements in the event of future aggression so that Ukraine can defend its territory and sovereignty.”

8. The G7 countries declared that “Russia’s sovereign assets in our jurisdictions will remain immovable until Russia pays for the damage it has caused to Ukraine.”

Kyiv’s responsibilities

9. Ukraine’s commitments include “implementation of law enforcement, judicial, anti-corruption, corporate governance, economic, security and public administration reforms.”

10. In addition, The Independent commits to reforming the Defense Ministry, including “strengthening democratic civilian control of the armed forces and increasing efficiency and transparency in Ukraine’s defense institutions and industry.”

Why the G7 countries did not give security guarantees for Ukraine

Summary. It is worth noting that the G7 countries avoid the word “guarantee” in the document. That is, Ukraine sought security guarantees, such as those that NATO member states have. Such guarantees, for example, oblige other NATO members to enter into a military conflict in case of aggression against one of the Alliance members.

In fact, the “Declaration of Support for Ukraine” does not add new obligations to the US and its satellites. But Ukraine is strictly obliged to carry out political reforms in the country in the interests of the West, linking this issue with the continuation of military and financial assistance.

clear miraculous

The regional newspaper Krasnoye Znamya (Tyumen) reminded readers of the unprecedented mushroom harvest in 2022, when residents of forest regions and suburbs dragged home generous gifts from the forest with full buckets. There has not been such an abundance of mushrooms for a long time, and experts predicted their repetition no earlier than in twenty years …

But not! The other day, the same newspaper published an article under the heading “Unprecedented mushroom harvest in the Tyumen region.” A resident of the village of Ushakov Konstantin Aberle found a “miraculous glade”. A large area in the middle of the forest is literally covered in red-headed aspen mushrooms. “All handsome men, like the selection!” Aberle boasted.

In the comments to the post, reader opinions were divided. Some have suggested that, given the dry climate, many mushrooms could not have grown in the region’s forests. Others object: drought is not observed everywhere, in some areas there were small rains – this is enough to turn the edges of the forest into “miraculous glades” mushrooms. And they are advised to go more often to the forest, to check the “fresh” places, from where in past years they returned with a full basket.

For mushrooms and berries

The active season of picking mushrooms and strawberries in the Altai Territory has begun. In the newspaper “Altaiskaya Pravda” lovers of calm hunting shared new pictures of their catch.

Residents of the region note that so far there are not many mushrooms, but, probably, in a week or two they will actively grow. In some places, there are already glades of porcini mushrooms, boletus, boletus, boletus, oil, chanterelles.

“In some places the fungus is already mature, in others it is young, and in others there was no fungus at all. Butterflies are found in pine forests and in large numbers, but almost all are eaten by worms.” collectors share.

Residents of the region note that mushrooms actively grow near Barnaul towards Pavlovsk, in the Talmensky and Pervomaisky districts, in the Kasmalinsky tape forest, in Bobrovka and Ozerki.

Users also posted the strawberries harvested. It can be found in large numbers in the Troitsky and Kalmansky districts, near Berezovka and the village of Lesnaya.

Get rich!

“Silent hunting” is not just an opportunity to stock up for the winter, but a great way to replenish the family budget. Readers of the Pskovskaya Pravda newspaper received tips on how to do it.

Anastasia Gavrilovna (she refused to give her last name “so as not to curse her luck”) shared her personal experience.

– I go to mushroom places that only I know about. There I have my own bump, in which I will definitely take a dozen mushrooms. If a mushroom picker knows his cherished places, he can collect a full bucket in an hour and a half, and at the market price such a “catch” will bring out a thousand rubles!

Usually, the mushroom season lasts from mid-July to the end of September. But, according to the woman, this summer started earlier:

– Last year at this time we have already collected both chanterelles and russula. Now, too, there are mainly chanterelles, then russula, volnushki will begin. They will be replaced by boletus, boletus … We wait for the rains to completely soak the soil, then the most expensive mushrooms will go – porcini. The main thing is to bring a quality product to the market. Then you will not be left without a good profit.

red pay tax

Continuing the theme of the “mushroom business”, the newspaper “Krasnoyarsky Rabochiy” asked an interesting question: “Will Russia introduce a tax for collectors of wild plants?”

A bill has recently been submitted to the State Duma. If the annual income of pickers of mushrooms, berries and herbs exceeds 2.4 million rubles, then this is no longer just a hobby for their own pleasure and food, but a taxable business activity.

Now any resident of Russia can go to the forest to collect mushrooms, berries and herbs in unlimited quantities for their own needs. The surplus can be legally sold to a collection point or market, for the collector, said activity is not considered business, so it is not taxed.

According to the proposed changes in the bill, collectors will be able to receive the status of self-employed workers and apply to be included in the register of organic producers to receive support from the state and have more opportunities to develop their business.

Vladimir Morozov, chairman of the Rosleskhoz public council, believes that everything should be left as it is and that collectors should not be taxed. “In Russia, two thirds of citizens have an income of 30,000 or less per person in the family. You cannot deprive them of the opportunity to live on the gifts of the forest. This is not a luxury, but a way to survive. .”

Meanwhile

Some popular signs for mushroom pickers:

• The moon is waxing – it grows like a mushroom, the moon is waning – sit at home.

• Afternoon rain – expect mushrooms in the morning.

• How many rains – so many milk mushrooms.

• If the waves entered the forest, wait for the imminent appearance of milk mushrooms.

• If the smoky mist has spread through the forest, go mushrooming.

• Strong dew – for fertility and frequent mist – for harvesting mushrooms.

• Lots of mosquitoes: prepare baskets for mushrooms.

• If the rye is spiked, whites begin to appear with boletus boletus.

• Fluff flew from the aspen – you need to gather for the boletus.

• Where there is a red fly agaric, there is a white mushroom sitting nearby.

• If June is muggy, then don’t look for mushrooms.

•Where a butter dish was born, others fled side by side.

From July to September in Moscow, Moscow region, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladivostok, Yaroslavl and Gelendzhik, Power of the Wind together with Beeline will hold the Beeline Cup. The team that takes first place in the competition will have the opportunity to go to a professional international regatta in Turkey.

The first stage will take place at the Strogino sailing base on July 15 and 16. The regattas will be held on Powers of the Wind’s own produced SV20 class yachts, equipped with gennaker, staysail and mainsail and designed for a 4 person crew and instructor. She will give a short briefing before the start and will accompany the team during the race. No experience or special equipment is required to participate. In addition to regattas, the program also includes workshops on nautical knots and paper boats, toy yacht regattas, captains’ conferences, a competition observation area and other activities. You can find more information about the program and the conditions to participate in the cup at the link.

Recall that earlier the “Power of the Wind” launched a sailing season in Moscow. The first training sessions were held at the Strogino and Berezki bases. We talk about it here.

Renfe launches this Thursday, July 13, the service between the stations of Barcelona-Sants and Lyon, France, thus starting its first high-speed line that will operate in the neighboring country. The first train will leave the Catalan capital at 8:22 a.m. and will reach the third largest French city at 12:30 p.m.

During the five-hour tour, stops will be made in the Spanish cities of Girona and Figueres Vilafrant, as well as in various French towns, specifically in Perpignan, Narbonne, Montpellier, Nimes and Valence, before reaching their destination.

The inauguration of the new service coincides with festive dates set for the neighboring country, since the premiere takes place only one day before July 14, when the French National Holiday is celebrated. The first services will be offered at a price of 29 euros for the entire journey, 19 euros to cross the border or 9 euros for routes between French stops.

The first of two international services

In two weeks, on July 28, the Spanish public company will launch its other new service in Gallic lands, with the connection between Madrid and Marseille, a route that will stop in Zaragoza, Camp de Tarragona, Barcelona, ​​Girona, Figueres, Perpignan, Narbonne, Béziers, Montpellier, Nimes, Avignon, Aix en Provence and finally Marseilles, eight hours later.

In a first stage, the international AVE will only circulate from Friday to Monday, but in September –on the Lyon route– and in October –on the Marseille route–, Renfe will begin to operate its trains from Monday to Sunday, offering 28 weekly circulations.

The company thus continues with one of its most important international projects, after the French public operator (SNCF) broke its alliance with the Spanish company on the Spain-France international route. The two have now gone their separate ways, the gala with Ouigo in Spain and Renfe with these new services in France.

Two thousand units of military equipment and weapons have already been delivered to the repair and restoration units of the Russian Armed Forces.

Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The Russian Defense Ministry announced the start of the acceptance process for heavy military equipment from the private military company (PMC) Wagner, which it received for combat work in the zone of special military operations.

Two thousand units of military equipment and weapons have already been delivered to the repair and restoration units of the Russian Armed Forces. Some of it was previously removed from storage, but there is also something that did not have time to get into the NWO and smell the gunpowder. After the necessary checks and maintenance, all this will be transferred to the troops. Where necessary.

– Among hundreds of heavy weapons: T-90, T-80, T-72B3 tanks, Grad and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, Pantsir anti-aircraft gun and missile systems, 2S1 Gvozdika 122-mm self-propelled artillery mounts, 2S3 ” 152mm Acacia”, 152mm 2S5 “Hyacinth”, 240mm 2S4 “Tulip”, howitzers and anti-tank guns, mortar systems, multipurpose armored tractors, armored personnel carriers, as well as automotive equipment and small arms, – listed in the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

All heavy tracked vehicles, high-capacity self-propelled artillery mounts, and tanks are transported to field bases by wheeled tractors on special skidders to prevent damage to paved roads.

Only wheeled vehicles can be found on the roads. She arrives alone.

The military department noted that more than 2.5 thousand tons of various ammunition and about 20 thousand small arms were accepted.

According to the organizers, about 13 thousand participants and spectators visit the event every year. This year the Kolomna festival will take place on September 2 and 3 and will be dedicated to the home.

“The theme sounds like this: ‘The house that…”. This is an invitation to a joint conversation and reflection: what is a house, what is it like for us? Spectators, participants and festival heroes will give their answers, and they will become a continuation of the theme instead of an ellipsis,” the organizers say.

Kolomna will become a large and cozy house. Thus, the square will be transformed into a library, the boardwalk into a “musical room”, and the streets and squares will become “literary kitchens”, “canteens”, “home theaters”. There will be a garden near the house, here the organizers do not need to try very hard – Kolomna in September always attracts with the smell of cut grass, autumn flowers and fragrant Kolomna apples. “Apple Exchange” will also work, so you can enjoy not only smells.

The organizers of the festival also reveal the names of those on whom the “weather” in the Kolomna house will depend.

“The headliners of the festival will be the prose writer, philologist, rector of the Alexei Varlamov Literary Institute, the writer Maya Kucherskaya, the writer and literary critic Pavel Basinsky,” the Russian Cultural Foundation said in a statement.

The names of other festival participants are promised to be announced in the near future.

The official soundtrack for Mission: Impossible: Deadly Reckoning has been released. Part 1″. It was written by Lorne Balfe, a Scottish composer who composes music for many movies and games. NME writes about it.

The first installment of the new film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, follows Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and a group of agents in search of a key to disable a smart device known as The Entity. Along with actors Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales and Pom Klementieff will join the cast.

It is known that Lorne Balfe will write music for both parts of the movie “Mission Impossible: Reckoning.” He previously scored the sixth installment in the franchise, and Balfe’s other movies and TV series they’ve scored include Marvel’s Black Widow, Amazon’s Wheel of Time, and this year’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.”

Paramount Pictures released the trailer for Mission: Impossible: Deadly Reckoning. Part 1″. You can watch it here.

The European Commission has endorsed this Wednesday the acquisition of VMware, a company dedicated to cloud infrastructure and business mobility, by the semiconductor company Broadcom, although the operation, valued at 61,000 million dollars, is subject to a series of conditions . Specifically, Broadcom has agreed to provide access to its programs and interfaces, as well as to ensure interoperability with those developed by Marvell and “any other potential” competitor in the global fiber host adapter market.

Specifically, Brussels has concluded after an investigation launched in December last year that the transactions as conceived had had negative effects on competition in the world market for supplies of fiber ‘host’ adapters (FC HBA). For the community authorities, the risk was that the acquisition without conditions would give Broadcom the “capacity” and the “incentive” to “override” Marvell, its only rival in this market, restricting or worsening the interoperability between the programs of VMware and its competitor.

In addition, the US company has promised the community authorities changes in its internal organization to separate its teams that work with fiber “host” adapters from those that will be responsible for certification and technical support to third parties.

Brussels thought “carefully” about the effectiveness of these commitments, for which it consulted both Marvell and the companies that are “direct consumers” of these adapters, and concluded after obtaining “positive responses” from all of them that the operation “is no longer competition problems” in the FC HBA market. In any case, the Community Executive stressed that the green light for transactions is subject to “full compliance” with said commitments and their obligatory maintenance for a period of ten years.

Liya Akhedzhakova is now moonlighting abroad

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Liya Akhedzhakova recently celebrated her 85th birthday. I celebrated her anniversary at home, in the village of Vnukovo, near Moscow: with my husband and the closest friends of the family. The day before, Liya Medzhidovna returned from a foreign tour. We tell how the trip abroad of the artist Akhedzhakova went.

Why did the artist lose her job in her homeland? For the past few years, Liya Akhedzhakova has regularly given provocative and unpatriotic interviews. They were ignored, even at the Sovremennik Theater, where Liya Medzhidovna had been working since 1977. After the start of the SVO, Akhedzhakova’s unpatriotic interviews continued with new Russophobic tones, and attention was paid to them. Performances with her participation began to demand that not only bloggers active on Telegram channels be removed from the repertoire of the invited theater, but also public figures who wrote about it, including the theater. Liya Medzhidovna has recently performed in two or three performances, since the beginning of 2023 she had one performance, which was closed. But no one from the company fired her, the artist did not go to work, but she continued to receive a salary at the tariff rate. But in the spring of 2023, Akhedzhakova herself wrote a letter of resignation of her own free will: they say that she did not want to receive a salary “just like that.”

But what is it really? The artist’s colleagues say that even then Leah Akhedzhakova was offered to organize a tour of Europe. What happened after the dismissal from the state theater Akhedzhakova herself, after leaving, said in an interview that she was called for the first time in the USA: “Dima Krymov offered to go to the United States with him, where she would introduce me. But I don’t have the strength to do it. Not that age. The artist has no strength or desire to move. And it was enough for a tour of Europe. I just got back recently. Akhedzhakova is traveling with the play “My Grandson Benjamin” based on the play by Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Also in the play are the artists Gleb Puskepalis, Nadezhda Lumpova, Alexandra Islentyeva. They performed in Cyprus, Germany, the Czech Republic and Spain. The rooms are small, the tickets sold well, but not quite. It is impossible to earn a lot of money on such tours, since this is not a one-man show, but she must pay both the actors and the producer, and for renting the hall. To get more from private productions, the artists themselves produce projects and perform productions for one or a maximum of two actors. According to experts, for a traveling performance, the 85-year-old artist receives about 100 thousand rubles. By star standards, this is not much.

Schematic of Akhedzhakova’s performance hall in Geneva. Sold seats are marked in grey.

Leah Medzhidovna complains about her age: they say that she has no strength. However, a big tour is planned for the autumn with the same performance: in Germany, Switzerland and other countries. By the way, the artist has been traveling with this very “Beniamin” since 2016. However, people with difficulty sort through the tickets: they want to look not at the struggling artist, but at the actress, whom many remember and love for her roles in Soviet films, ignoring or “forgetting” their Russophobic attacks.

So, how are ticket sales for the actress’s performances going? For example, November 2023, Geneva, a room for 950 people. Ticket prices range from 59 Swiss francs (6,000 rubles) to 249 Swiss francs (25,000 rubles); the closer to the stage, the more expensive. Sold now – 40% of the room. The artist’s fee does not depend on the number of tickets sold, it is discussed with the organizer in advance.

So, the 85-year-old actress Akhedzhakova will continue her grand tour of Europe in the new theatrical season. Spectators are Russian-speaking residents of the cities where Liya Medzhidovna will entertain the audience with an ancient private performance. In addition, the actress receives a decent pension – about 60 thousand rubles, taking into account the Moscow increase of 30 thousand rubles for the title of People’s Artist.

Was it worth leaving your homeland and traveling the world for a penny? The decision is up to the actress, of course…

According to the official Telegram channel of the Kursk region, the incident occurred on July 8 on route No. 1A “Electroaggregate Plant – Moscow Square”. The passenger asked the driver to close the front door as the bus proceeded down the route. He objected: it was just hot in Kursk, so the driver decided to ventilate the cabin. It later turned out that the driver did not have a terminal for non-cash payments, and the passenger did not have cash.

As a result, a scandal arose, and the driver, cursing, threw the lady off the bus.

The regional Transportation Department considered the complaint described, and the fact of the scandal was confirmed. The driver was asked to apologize, but he refused, insisting that he was right. It turned out that this employee violated discipline more than once.

As a result, according to Alexander Vasilchenko, First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Kursk Region, the driver was fired, and the carrier apologized for the unpleasant incident.

Remember that a reform of public transport has begun in Kursk, which implies not only a new network of routes, rolling stock and two free transfers from bus to bus in an hour, but also strict adherence to the traffic schedule and a respectful attitude and polite towards the passengers. . That’s what the carriers are paying now.

Warner Bros. has released the official trailer for Wonka, which stars Timothée Chalamet as the eccentric chocolatier. Variety writes about it.

Paul King’s film tells of Willy Wonka’s youth and how he became the owner of a chocolate factory. In addition to starring Timothée Chalamet, the film stars Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Colman, Sally Hawkins, and Hugh Grant. The latter, judging by the trailer, got the role of Oompa-Loompa – a representative of a fictional tribe of pygmies working at Willy’s factory. The film will be released on December 15.

Let’s remember, previously Timothée Chalamet shared that in the movie about Willy Wonka he will have seven musical numbers. We talk about it in more detail here.

Pablo Isla will receive a little more than 27 million euros this year from Inditex, and his successor Óscar García Maceiras almost 8.5 million, according to the remuneration report recently approved by the shareholders’ meeting of the textile group and collected by Efe.

Thus, the former executive president of the largest Spanish company by market capitalization will receive more than 27 million this year, of which almost 23 million will be in compensation for his departure from the group, in April last year, and the rest for incentive programs still pending collection.

For his part, the current CEO of Inditex, Óscar García Maceiras, will receive 8.4 million, of which 6.9 will be in cash and the rest in shares. These amounts are around double what was received a year earlier in the case of Isla and around eleven times more in the case of García Maceiras.

This is what Marta Ortega will charge

Marta Ortega, the current non-executive president, kept her salary of 834,000 euros, similar to last year, when she took the reins of the group founded by her father, Amancio Ortega.

The Inditex textile group, owner of brands such as Zara or Massimo Dutti and with a workforce of around 165,000 employees, earned 4,130 million euros in its last full fiscal year (closed on January 31), representing 13.5 % more than the record net profit they repaired in 2019, before the covid pandemic broke out.

In addition, it has recently sealed its best first fiscal (February-April) in its history, when it earned 1,168 million, 54 more than in the same period of 2022, and billed more than 7,600 million, 13% more in the interannual rate.

A team of archaeologists working in the Santa Elina caves, in central Brazil, discovered artifacts that do not fit into the generally accepted theory of the settlement of the territory of South America. The age of the finds is at least 25 thousand years.

The study was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B and appears briefly in Live Science. The discovery made may force scientists to reconsider the theory of the settlement of South America. Until now, it was believed that people came to these lands a maximum of 10-12 thousand years ago. However, the age of the new findings is twice that indicated.

The fact is that in the caves of Santa Elina, archaeologists found the remains of an extinct giant sloth. These were bone deposits – osteoderms, which form a kind of protective armor on the skin of animals. Now armadillos or crocodiles can boast of such protection. Analyzing the bones, the scientists found traces of tools, including small holes. Later, stone tools were also found at the survey site.

The surface of the sloth’s bones was carefully polished. In their work, the researchers describe these artifacts in detail, focusing on traces of processing. They show that the small holes could not have been created naturally. This is important because, as the analysis showed, the artifacts were made 25-27 thousand years ago, that is, millennia before a person, according to the generally accepted theory, even appeared on the territory of modern Brazil. Previously, scientists had already found traces that indirectly indicated the presence of humans in South America 22,000 years ago. But there has been no reliable archaeological evidence so far.

Now in the hands of scientists were objects that, according to the authors of the study, could only be made by one person. They test it using a combination of microscopic and macroscopic imaging techniques. The most modern equipment made it possible to correct traces of incisions made with stone tools in the bones, as well as scratches on the artifacts.

For persuasion, the researchers performed a comparative analysis with the marks left on the bones as a result of bites. After all, it can be assumed that scavengers or rodents ate the carcass of a giant sloth. “Our observations indicate that these three osteoderms were turned into artifacts by humans, possibly as personal adornment,” the researchers wrote in their paper.

A new biopic starring Cillian Murphy has received positive reviews from the film community. The tape has already been described as “amazing” and “the most impressive in Nolan’s filmography to date.” NME writes about it.

On July 21, a film about the scientist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the American atomic bomb, will be released. The first criticisms appeared on social networks after the world premiere of the biopic. It took place yesterday in the largest cinema in Europe “Grand Rex” in Paris. The event was attended by Cillian Murphy, Christopher Nolan, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon.

“I’m torn between talking about ‘Oppenheimer’ with a mock mystique and just saying it’s a complete delight. The movie blew my mind like a plutonium nucleus and made me cry until the end of the credits,” shared the film critic. by Telegraph Robbie. Colin.

Jonathan Dean, editor of the Sunday Times, wrote: “A bold, innovative and complex film that is not so much about the bomb as about how doomed we are. It immediately went into the top three, in my opinion, Nolan’s films, along with Memento and The Prestige.

Total Film Associate Editor-in-Chief Matt Maytum wrote: “Oppenheimer is an epic historical drama delivered in Nolan’s signature style: tension, scale, jaw-dropping sound design, and gorgeous visual effects. Wow”.

Lindsey Bahr, film critic for the Associated Press, said the film features “an inventive story and meticulous performances from Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon.” She added that “Oppenheimer” is a serious, philosophical and adult drama, no less tense and exciting than “Dunkirk.”

We will recall, earlier, Christopher Nolan said that in “Oppenheimer” there will not be a single frame with computer graphics. We talk about it in more detail here.

The problem of real estate supply in Spain is already one of the problems that most worries the agents of the sector and the population. There is a great demand for apartments for rent or for the sale of homes; however, the lack of land or high prices have caused an imbalance in the sector. Now a new report carried out by the real estate agent Tecnocasa in conjunction with the Pompeu Fabra University, ensures that the Housing Law approved a few months ago by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, could increase this inequality and the offer could be reduced by up to 11.7%. , making some 100,000 properties ‘disappear’ from the market.

The study ”Impact of the new Housing Law on the real estate rental offer” also details that the limit on rents in stressed areas (22%) and legal uncertainty (66.3%) could lead to “many owners to withdraw their properties from the rental market and look for other business options”. Likewise, once the current rental contract has ended, 7.7% of the owners who have participated in the study consider selling the home, while 4% are considering other options, such as leasing for use other than of housing.

The price of used housing until June stabilizes

The price of used housing in Spain stood at 2,377 euros per square meter in the first half of 2023, 0.21% more than the figures for the same period in 2022, which reflects a path of stability in the real estate market sale, according to the conclusions of the XXXVII ‘Report on the housing market’, also prepared by the Tecnocasa Group and the UPF.

Along these lines, the highest price up to June was in Barcelona, ​​where it reached 3,145 euros per square meter, while the lowest was in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), with 651 euros per square meter. Madrid, for its part, reached 2,794 euros per square meter between January and June. Regarding the mortgage market, the average mortgage in the first six months of the year stood at 121,782 euros, 2.7% less compared to the import from a year ago, when it reached 125,186 euros.

Barcelona also had the highest mortgage amount up to June, specifically, it stood at 145,883 euros, followed by L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (135,788 euros) and Madrid (130,525 euros), while Malaga had the lowest amount (94,471 euro). Referring to the main risk indicators of a mortgage, the CEO of the Tecnocasa group, Paolo Boarini, has detailed that the evolution of these during the first half of the year shows “stability and is in line with the credit standards that the banks s apply the last years”.

Likewise, the real estate group has underlined that the ratio between the monthly mortgage payment and the income of the mortgagee was 35% in the semester analyzed, the maximum recommended to minimize the risk of non-payment of a mortgage and the highest percentage since 2011. Boarini has expressed the “important” change that mortgages have undergone in the last six months. In this sense, mixed interest rate mortgages more than doubled, from 14% in the first half of 2022 to 30% of the total in the same period of 2023, which reached 83% of the total in the first half of 2022, they now account for 51% of the mortgages granted in the first half of 2023.

Rents rise in Valencia, Barcelona and Madrid

The director of Analysis of the Tecnocasa group, Lázaro Cubero, has carried out in the presentation of the report a review of the rental market in Spain, in which he observes that it is increasing in the majority of the populations analyzed, highlighting Valencia (14.3%), Barcelona (11.9%) and Madrid (8.6%). Cubero has remarked that “the supply of rental housing has been reducing in recent years and that the new Housing Law will have an even greater impact on the reduction of the available supply.”