Five saboteurs and two infantry fighting vehicles that entered Russian territory from Ukraine were destroyed, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.< /p>
“The Russian army and border guards prevented the violation of the border of a sabotage and reconnaissance group from Ukraine, five violators were destroyed, it did not #39;There were no casualties among Russian soldiers, —The report says.
The Department of Defense added that two combat vehicles of the Ukrainian armed forces entered the territory of Russia to evacuate the saboteurs. Both were shot.
Earlier in the day, the FSB of Russia reported that a shell from Ukrainian territory hit a place of service of border guards in the Rostov region.The observation post is located 150 meters from the Russian-Ukrainian border.The building was completely destroyed it, no one was injured.
On February 19, two rockets fell on the territory of the Tarasovsky district of the Rostov region at a distance of 300 meters from the borders of the village of Mityakinskaya . The shells did not explode.
The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) has completed the investigation of a criminal case concerning the theft of approximately 15 million rubles from Roscosmos. It is reported by Kommersant. The former head of the Center for Technical Re-equipment of the Space Flight Control Service (CTP) Vasily Ikomasov and his deputy Eduard Rodych-Semencha are charged with fraud on a large scale. They were charged with a total of nine episodes of fraud
According to the investigation, the heads of the TsTP, acting as a subcontractor, imitated the execution of the work for Roscosmos; and stole about 15 million rubles from the state corporation.
What is known about the investigation of the criminal case into the theft of 15 million rubles from Roscosmos?
A criminal case has been opened against Ikomasov and Rodych-Semencha on a scale especially large fraud (part 4 of art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) on embezzling money from Roscosmos. The case has been conducted on the basis of FSB documents since April 2020 by the Central Administrative District Investigative Department of the Main Investigative Committee of the ICR in Moscow.
According to the publication, more than a year the case was investigated against unidentified persons. During this period, the investigation studied in detail the multi-billion dollar agreements between Roscosmos and Roscosmos; and Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Center for the Exploitation of Space Ground Infrastructure Objects” (TsENKI). TsENKI chose TsTP, then headed by Ikomasov and Rodych-Semencha, as a subcontractor to carry out some work.
Under which contracts were 15 million rubles stolen from Roscosmos?
According to TFR, flight tests with the Soyuz-TMA-M spacecraft in 2015, TsENKI allocated 3 billion rubles. In particular, under this contract, the TsTP was to carry out scientific and technical work. According to investigators, Ikomasov and Rodych-Semencha received 8 million rubles from these funds and “did nothing”.
Also in January 2022, the Investigative Committee found that, as part of the work program for the rotation of American astronauts to the International Space Station, an additional 5.4 million rubles were stolen by the defendants in the #39;criminal case. It is known that in 2012 the state corporation allocated 3.8 billion rubles for these purposes. Despite the fact that the general director of the TsTP, Ikomasov, submitted to TsENKI allegedly performed acts of work, the investigation is sure that no work was actually performed and 5.4 million rubles were embezzled.
When Vasily Ikomasov was arrested and Eduard Rodych-Semencha?
Ikomasov and Rodych-Semencha have been under arrest since June 2021. First, the two defendants, being in a remand center, requested the conclusion of pre-trial agreements. However, the prosecutor's office apparently refused to reach an agreement with the defendant, as the defendants laid down a number of conditions and only partially admitted their guilt, the newspaper writes. In particular, Ikomasov agreed to assist in the investigation only “in order to assist in the disclosure of the acts incriminated against him”. And Rodych-Semencha pleaded guilty only to causing property damage by deception or breach of trust (Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). It was for this article that the former deputy general director of the TsTP during the investigation asked for the requalification of his act.
According to Kommersant, the other day the accused began to familiarize himself with the elements of the criminal case. Lawyers declined to comment.
During the period of the special regime, citizens must continue to pay loans and mortgages. In accordance with the law, federal or regional authorities may, at their discretion, provide one-time material assistance to their citizens. But no matter how bad a family's financial situation is, debts on a loan or mortgage still need to be paid off.
Can the debts be restructured?
The Borrower can qualify the emergency as force majeure in order to reduce the amount of bank penalties or 39; be exonerated in court. At the same time, the restructuring of the debt depends entirely on the decision of the credit institution.
The borrower can agree with their bank to modify the agreement: for example, reduce the interest rate or increase the term of the loan by reducing the monthly payment amount. < /p>
For the bank to make a decision and complete the restructuring process, you will need:
documents confirming that the debtor has a difficult financial situation (certificate confirming the temporary incapacity of the payer, a copy of the work book, which contains reduction/dismissal records, documents on the need to pay, for example, sudden medical expenses or equipment repair which is a means of income);
application;
passport;
loan agreement;
refund amount information.
The Bank of Russia notes that the Central Bank recommends lenders to restructure loans to affected individuals and businesses, taking into account an assessment of specific circumstances. A request can be made indicating the relevant reason (urgency) and attaching the supporting documents. However, these are the recommendations of the Central Bank, and there is no law yet to cancel the debts. Last year MPs proposed amendments that would allow debt restructuring. According to Izvestia, the bill was titled “Amendments to some legislative acts of the Russian Federation (concerning the restructuring of credit debt of borrowing citizens affected by a natural or man-made emergency)”.
It is proposed to supplement the legislation with new rules allowing the revision of the terms of loan agreements (including mortgages) and loan agreements (including the cancellation of the debt), if the borrower is affected by a natural or man-made emergency.
To change the terms of a loan, a person will need to provide the borrower with a credit institution documents confirming his residence at the place of registration at the time of the emergency. The borrower must also be included in the list of victims of the emergency.
The French airline Air France has canceled two Paris-Kiev and return flights, scheduled for February 22, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the air carrier.
“Air France constantly monitors the evolution of the geopolitical situation of the territories it serves in order to ensure the highest level of flight safety. Due to the situation on the ground [fr Ukraine] and as a precautionary measure, flights AF1752 and AF1753 to and from Kyiv on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 have been cancelled, — said airline spokesperson Mathieu Guyot.
Flight AF1752 is scheduled to arrive in Kyiv tomorrow at 1:50 p.m. and leave at 2:50 p.m. for Paris. At the moment, on the online dashboard of the international airport “Borispol” in Kyiv, both flights are indicated. , flight AF3375 is scheduled for Paris at 9:45 a.m. and at 5:35 p.m. — arrival of flight AF3374 from the capital of France.
< p>On February 19, we learn that the German Lufthansa is canceling all its flights from Kiev to Frankfurt, Zurich, Vienna from February 21 to 28. In turn, the airline Vueling suspended all flights from Paris to Kiev until February 28.
Previously, flights over the territory of Ukraine were suspended by the Norwegian airline Norwegian.
Recall that since February 17, the situation in the online contact in the Donbass. The evacuation of DPR and LPR civilians to the territory of Russia has begun. On the morning of February 21, it is known that 61,000 refugees arrived in the Rostov region.
About two thousand children and adolescents among the refugees evacuated from the Donbass to the Rostov region will be enrolled in local schools. This was announced to the regional government on February 20.
By the evening of February 20, there were more than 6.7 thousand refugees, including 2,904 children, in the temporary accommodation centers ( TAP) from the Rostov region. Among these — 1,977 school-age children.
How and to which schools will refugee children be sent?
As the press service of the Rostov region explained to AiF.ru, representatives of the regional Ministry of Education work with refugees who were taken out in an organized manner from the LPR and DPR and placed in one of the 80 TAPs. They take into account every school-aged child. The children will be enrolled in schools located close to the TACs for the convenience of the refugees. Prior to this, a medical examination and a PCR test for the coronavirus are required.
“We are faced with the fact that not all parents are ready to send their children to school immediately. Many teenagers need time to recover. For these purposes, educational psychologists work in TAPs. Those who are ready to resume their studies are enrolled in the schools closest to TAP. Some of the guys already today, February 21, will go to school, », — reported the press service of the government of the Rostov region.
There is also a second group of refugees (they are the majority), it includes citizens with children who do not live in TAPs , but with their loved ones. These are those who independently left the territory of Donbass. For them, the regional Ministry of Education has established a different procedure for enrolling in schools.
“Citizens staying with their relatives” must contact the national education management bodies of their actual place of residence with a certificate. The children will be enrolled in local schools, », — told the regional news service.
How can Donbas refugees send their child to a Russian kindergarten?
Admission to municipal organizations of preschool education of children of refugees is carried out on an equal basis with citizens of the Russian Federation, the press service of the region stressed.
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“After a citizen receives refugee status or a temporary residence permit, as well as the child is registered in the automated information system of the electronic kindergarten, the The child can be allocated a place in a kindergarten if places are freed up in the appropriate age group in the order of the general queue”, &mdash ; the press service of the government of the Rostov region said.
The government stressed that refugee status can be obtained directly from the TAPs, and that citizens of the LPR and the DPR living with relatives should apply to the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the place of residence.
Recall that at present 30 regions of the Russian Federation are are declared ready to receive internally displaced persons. So, on the territory of 28 subjects of the Central Federal District, the Volga Federal District, the Ural Federal District, the North Caucasian Federal District and the Southern Federal District, 255 TAC of a total capacity of more than 28,000 people are ready.
In the regions of Russia, an emergency regime is introduced in connection with the arrival of refugees from the Donbass . Previously, the diet was introduced in the Penza, Rostov, Voronezh, Kursk, Volgograd and Saratov regions.
The rules of conduct which are mandatory for citizens and organizations during the introduction of a high alert or emergency (ES) regime were published on April 3, 2020. The Russian Prime Minister instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Emergency Situations, Rospotrebnadzor and Ministry of Health to prepare this document on March 25, 2020. And the term “alert mode high”, or emergency, is explained in the Federal Law of December 21, 1994 No. 68-FZ “On the Protection of the Population and Territories from Natural and Man-Made Emergencies”.
AiF.ru indicates what payments and compensation you can count on in an emergency.
What payments can I count on in an emergency?
There are no mass payments during the state of emergency. Federal and state authorities may approve some form of financial assistance for persons with special needs by separate order at their discretion.
In accordance with art. 18 of the Federal Law of December 21, 1994 No. 68-FZ “On the Protection of the Population and Territories from Natural and Man-Made Emergencies”, citizens have the right:
< li>to compensation for damage to their health and property due to emergency situations;
for medical care, compensation and social guarantees to live and work in emergency areas;
receive compensation and social guarantees for damage caused to their health in the performance of their duties during the intervention; emergency;
to receive free legal assistance.
The law does not mention any special benefit or payment in the form of financial assistance when introducing the state of emergency. There are no such payments.
How much can I pay?
The government and authorities can introduce payments at their discretion of an arbitrary amount. Payments and compensation are awarded on the basis of the emergency itself, not the introduction of the emergency scheme.
When the emergency scheme Is emergency introduced?
In accordance with art. . 1 of Law No. 68-FZ, an emergency is considered “the situation in a certain territory that has developed as a result of an accident, a dangerous natural phenomenon, disaster, the spread of a disease which poses a danger to others, a natural or other disaster which may cause or have caused loss of life, damage to human health or the environment, significant material losses and damage to the living conditions of people.As a result, the high alert mode is introduced precisely to eliminate the consequences of an emergency that has already occurred.
The drugs that people use end up in the rivers. Scientists from the University of York (UK) conducted a large-scale study and found that more than a quarter of the water arteries on the planet are contaminated with traces of drugs . This scientific work — as part of the Global Drug Monitoring Project.
Samples were taken and analyzed from 258 rivers flowing through the territory of 104 states (that is, in more than half of the countries of the world). The report included, for example, the Amazon, Mississippi, Thames and Mekong. Samples were taken from intact Indian settlements in Venezuela, where modern drugs are not used, and from densely populated metropolitan areas like Delhi, London, New York and Guangzhou. The climatic zones from which the samples were taken also varied — from the highlands and polar regions to the Tunisian deserts.
What were found in the rivers?
Water samples were tested for the presence of 61 drugs. It turned out that pharmaceutical contamination is present in rivers on all continents. The most common are carbamazepine (an antiepileptic drug, mainly used as an anticonvulsant), metformin (used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes) and caffeine.
However, other drugs were contained in potentially dangerous concentrations in water samples. There are four:
sulfamethoxazole (an antibiotic to treat bacterial infections);
propranolol (used for high blood pressure and heart problems – angina, tachycardia, etc. .);
ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic widely used in clinical practice);
loratadine (a very popular antihistamine used for allergies).
Where are the dirtiest rivers?
The highest concentrations of the drug are found in rivers in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in southern Asia and South America. The level of pollution was directly related to the low and middle income levels of the population, as well as the poorly developed infrastructure for sewage treatment and waste treatment. The higher the unemployment and poverty level of the country's population, the dirtier the water there.
Of the Russian rivers, only the Moskva River appeared in the study of British scientists. According to the number of drug traces on it, it was somewhere in the middle of the rating. In general, the scale of pollution of Russian rivers, according to scientists, cannot be called significant. Previous studies have shown low concentrations of — several micrograms or even nanograms per litre. And it wasn't regular pollution, but most likely one-time emissions.
How dangerous are these pollutions?
In about a quarter of the places where UK scientists took water samples, the concentration of at least one drug exceeded the safe level for living organisms in the rivers. As the researchers write, in some parts of the world this figure is so high that it “poses a global threat to nature and human health”.
First, high concentrations of pharmaceuticals in rivers can affect the reproductive functions, behavior and physiology of aquatic life. This can manifest itself, for example, in changes in heart rate. Secondly, the pollution of rivers with antibiotics leads to the fact that bacteria resistant to them develop in the water. And when they enter the human body, these types of antibiotics will no longer be able to destroy them, they will be ineffective.
“With drugs it usually goes like this: we take them inside, they produce the desired effect on our body and are excreted from it. Now we see that even the most modern treatment facilities are not able to fully break down these compounds, and they end up in rivers and lakes, — said study leader John Wilkinson.
Scientists hope that by strengthening the monitoring of pharmaceuticals in the environment, they can develop strategies to limit the negative effects caused by the presence of these substances in nature.
Going green in the energy sector is associated with the expected restructuring of energy markets and a decrease in imports of carbon products. In addition, work is underway to remediate the land, eliminate landfills and implement a waste recycling system.
To date, the “green” agenda has become a global trend. The “Green Deal” that the European Union approved in 2019, — is an economic development strategy that aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Its implementation will impact not only the EU economy, but also the economy and the foreign trade of its trading partners. This is due to the expected restructuring of energy markets and reduced carbon imports.
Russia is a leader in the movement towards “green” energy. Work is underway to sanitize the soil, water and air. Within the framework of the national project “Ecology” landfills are being eliminated and a modern waste treatment and disposal system is being built, the accumulated damage to old industrial sites is being eliminated, the territories of 12 cities where the situation is particularly difficult are reconquered as a priority.
< p>About what the “green economy” is and what are its current problems, Head of the Center for Bioeconomy and Eco-Innovation at EF MSU, Head of Department of Environmental Economics at Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University named after MVMV Lomonosov, Doctor of Economics, Professor Sergey Bobylev.
The scientist drew attention to the fact that three billion people in the world do not have enough fresh water. “To me, the water crisis may seem even more dangerous than the climate crisis. When hundreds of millions of people will have nothing to drink, in my opinion, it is a tragic problem. Back to the “green” economy… By the way, this term is thirty years old… Almost the entire economy of the world has promised to become carbon neutral by the middle of the century. Absolutely New Canonical Reality — it is that humanity must reach a degree and a half. It is a narrow logical hallway. What to do with GDP? What to do with income? What to do with the job? What to do with new technologies? In fact, in the world of awareness, this is a major problem. How to measure “green” transition? There's a wonderful expression in economics: you can't manage what can't be measured. The classic problem: what to do with consumption? Are we ready to reduce it? If everyone on Earth lives like the average American, we will need five planets, — he thinks.
Bobylev also pointed out that if we compare the carbon footprint of production and consumption, we can get an interesting picture. “Greta Thunbergfrom Sweden, a country that emits few greenhouse gases. But it imports a lot of products with a very long carbon chain, and this figure is minus 60! Maybe Greta Thunberg will teach her people, her government to change their consumption model? Here is the string of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals — change in the production and consumption model. Changing consumption patterns is psychologically much more difficult than changing production patterns. The production is more or less clear. Excellent example — Europe is moving towards low carbon technologies. A month ago, the Russian government adopted a strategy for transitioning to low-carbon development until 2060. Big question: what will it be? Humanity is trying to figure it out, but from the perspective of mainstream economics, there is a huge question: how do you get into this one and a half degree narrow ecological corridor?” — asks the expert.
On Monday, seismologists recorded an earthquake in Kamchatka. This was reported by TASS with reference to the local branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to experts, the magnitude of the earthquake was 5.0 on the Richter scale. The source was at a depth of 89 kilometers, the epicenter was 40 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Residents of the region felt an earthquake of up to three magnitudes.
During this time, a series of tremors occurred off the Philippines from magnitude 3.0 to 5.7. The epicenter of the most powerful earthquake was located 109 kilometers southeast of the municipality of Jose Abad Santos.
Detachments of warships of the Pacific, Northern and Black Sea fleets, as well as Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft of the naval aviation, carried out exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.
It should be noted that the main tasks of the maneuvers were the search and monitoring of; a fake enemy submarine, the exchange of information on targeted maneuvers, as well as the development of the use of aviation weapons.
Varyag missile cruisers participated in the exercises; and “Marshal Ustinov”, frigates “Fleet Admiral Kasatonov” and “Admiral Grigorovich”, anti-submarine ships “Admiral Tributes” and “Vice-Admiral Kulakov”, as well as the crews of aviation aircraft naval force of the Navy.
Recall that in the period from February 15 to February 25, naval exercises are held in the Eastern Mediterranean under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov .
Earlier it was reported that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Russian Navy exercises in Syria.
