Days out from his UFC 257 rematch with Dustin Poirier which will top the UFC’s latest Fight Island residency on Saturday night, one would be forgiven for thinking that Conor McGregor may well have gotten his hands dirty in an Abu Dhabi hotel lobby this week had he arrived for …
Read More »Siberia braces for close to record-breaking cold over New Year, with temperatures predicted to hit freezing -50 degrees
Earlier this year, in the height of summer, the highest-ever temperature seen above the Artic Circle was recorded, with the small town of Verkhoyansk seeing the mercury reach as high as +38. “Extremely cold weather in Siberia has not happened for a long time,” explained Roman Vilfand, the scientific director …
Read More »Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins close to $1bn in preliminary taxpayer funding to unleash broadband across rural US
Tesla tycoon Elon Musk’s space exploration company has netted $885,509,638 in government funding to be doled out over the next 10 years to beam high-speed internet access to hundreds of thousands of American homes, the Federal Communications Commission revealed on Monday. The agency published the results of phase I of …
Read More »Boris Johnson announces new local lockdown measures, will close pubs and gyms in Liverpool
Daily new cases of Covid-19 have quadrupled in England since last month, with nearly 14,000 cases reported on Monday. Additionally, hospitalizations are higher than they were when the UK went into national lockdown in March, and deaths are once again ticking up from their single-figure levels this summer. Against this …
Read More »Israel to enter full-blown lockdown, shut schools & close most non-essential businesses starting September 18 – report
The sweeping lockdown is set to take effect on September 18 at 6 a.m. local time, multiple Israeli media reported on Saturday. The Israeli cabinet is expected to approve the new stringent restrictions on the movement of people as well as on commerce as soon as on Sunday morning, Haaretz …
Read More »To fall in Russia may close a quarter of shopping centres
The Russian Council of shopping centers (non-profit organization representing the interests of the industry), wrote a letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin with a request to support, without which a quarter of the shopping centres may close in the fall. In the appeal we are talking about the need for …
Read More »St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church is not going to close temples despite the requirement of power
Temples of St. Petersburg diocese will continue its Ministry, “Interfax” with reference to the review of the diocese about the city authorities imposed a temporary ban on visits to religious sites. In a statement, the diocese argues that the clergy should “fulfill my pastoral duty in relation to all …
Read More »The end of the Russian economy. Close
Read the decrees, decisions and orders, and pass to a sad conclusion: it is not power, what in Russia. A gathering of some priblatnennoy punks, bad understanding of how to save the country was in a critical situation. To prehispanic windfall from oil and gas they can steal learned more …
Read More »Soon, firefighters will be able to close the company
Russia will be able to suspend legal entities for the repeated violation of fire regulations Amendments are proposed to the Code of administrative offences MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. The government on Thursday submitted to the state Duma a draft law allowing to suspend the work of legal entities in case …
Read More »Close to the Kremlin experts: the mission of the government is reduced to the system of execution of punishments
Experts of Fund “the Petersburg policy” analyzed the pattern of behavior of the Russian authorities. In the study “the Concept of good government,” they told why the government is losing the role of “defender” and what “costs” leads the way “evil power”. “Niche social good (in the sense of “generous” …
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