The 36 OneWeb communications satellites launched from Baikonur are in orbit

British OneWeb communications satellites launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome have been launched into target orbits. This is stated on the Twitter page of & nbsp; Roscosmos.

“The sequential separation of nine groups of spacecraft from the Russian upper stage took place in accordance with the cyclogram”, & ndash; follows from the message.

Thus, the total number of British company spacecraft in orbit rose to 394 units.

Soyuz-2.1b launcher; with 36 communication satellites on board OneWeb was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 27. & nbsp; It was the first launch & nbsp; with so many British satellites, & nbsp; before the rocket orbit a maximum of 34 vehicles.

In the meantime, it was known that the first two Russian navigation satellites of the new generation “ Glonass-K2 & # 39; & # 39; will be launched into orbit in the second and third quarters of next year.

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In Syria, a soldier was injured in the bombing of militants

A Syrian soldier was injured as a result of gunfire by militants from positions of government forces in Aleppo province, TASS reports, citing deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the Parties belligerents in Syria Rear Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev.

Terrorists fired at the Syrian army in the area of ​​the Urum-es-Sugra settlement from positions in the Kafer Khani area from a system portable anti-tank missile (ATGM)

Details on the condition of the injured are not given.

Zhuravlev added that the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Belligerents calls on the commanders of illegal armed groups to abandon the provocations and take the path of a peaceful settlement of the situation.

Earlier it was reported that the Russian commander in Syria received a personal standard. The ceremony took place at Khmeimim Air Base.

It also became known that Russia offered Turkey assistance in the fight against terrorists in Idlib. Turkish officials have assured the Russian Federation that they will leave Syria when the opportunity arises.

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Users reported global outage in Telegram

Users of the Telegram messenger around the world have reported malfunctions in its work, which stem from data from the Downdetector website, which monitors disconnections of popular internet resources.

As of 8:18 pm Moscow time, 789 complaints have been registered.

45% of users complained about issues with the app, 36% & ndash; problems sending messages, 19% said they had difficulty connecting to the server.

The failures affected residents of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Netherlands and other countries.

Earlier today it was reported about a failure in the work of the social network “ VKontakte & # 39; & # 39 ;. Basically, users have complained about issues with the site.

Last week it became known that Twitter in Russia had been fined an additional three million rubles. The court imposed such a sanction for the refusal of the social network to remove prohibited content.

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Putin congratulated de Gaulle's son on his 100th birthday

Vladimir Putin congratulated French Resistance veteran Admiral Philippe de Gaulle, who is Charles de Gaulle's son, on his 100th birthday, reports TASS.

“ I would like to express my admiration for the courage and heroism you have shown during the years of fighting against the fascist invaders, as well as my gratitude for your kind attitude towards our country '' , & ndash; said in a letter from the Russian leader, which was forwarded today in Paris by Russian Ambassador to France Alexei Meshkov.

Putin wished the French veteran health, prosperity and good humor, and also thanked him for the book about Charles de Gaulle given to him. p>

On behalf of the de Gaulle family, the grandson of the founder of the Resistance Pierre received congratulations. He was given letters in Russian and French in a gift box with a statue of Philip. Also, as the agency reported, he was presented with a “ Moscow '' office writing set. & ndash; several boxes made by hand with lacquer painting in the form of a panorama of the capital of Russia.

Pierre de Gaulle, in turn, expressed his infinite gratitude to Putin for his attention and gifts and promised to proudly pass them on to his father. He also wished health and prosperity to the President of the Russian Federation and all the Russian people.

Earlier, AiF.ru spoke about the citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Zinovia Peshkov & ndash; friend of Charles de Gaulle and adopted son of Maxime Gorki, who became a French general.

Last summer, the City Council of Veterans of Moscow received congratulations from the representatives of the French Republic on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

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Corvette “Soobrazitelny” licensed for exercise in the Baltic Sea

Corvette 'Smart' fired at a target in the Baltic Sea as part of an exercise, writes Interfax; with reference to the Baltic Fleet press service.

The crew of the corvette performed the task of repelling a missile strike against a complex air target mimicking an anti-ship missile of a conventional enemy.

The firing was carried out using a sea-based “ Redoubt '' anti-aircraft missile system (SAM).

Earlier it was reported exercises of airborne forces in the Crimean and Krasnodar Territory. They were carried out by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Also in December, the Navy conducted a covert deployment of ships for the first time.

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It is prestigious to be a scientist again. The main results of the Year of Science and Technology

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The end of 2021 has been declared the Year of Science and Technology. From his findings, it's safe to say that scientists and their developments are in the spotlight again. More and more parents want their children to fulfill themselves in science. According to surveys, 62% of schoolchildren are proud of Russian science. In six months, this indicator has increased by 10%.

Support for promising projects, integration of universities and companies to bring the developments of scientists into the real sector of the economy, creation of new opportunities for young researchers & ndash; All these tasks are carried out by the national Sciences and Universities project.

We talk about the results and the main achievements of this year within the framework of the national project.

New World- Class CER

The program of building world-class Research and Education Centers (CERs), which began in 2019, continues. In 2021, five other regional science centers were added to the list of these centers.

These are innovative platforms for interaction between universities, scientific organizations and businesses to create and commercialize promising developments of national scientists. Thanks to modern research resources and infrastructure, scientists working there will be able to implement promising projects and implement them in real sectors of the economy.

As part of the implementation of the national project “ Sciences and Universities '' The President of Russia has made it his mission to create 15 world-class RECs by 2024.

Youth Labs

120 youth labs were opened during the Year of Science and Technology. The Ministry of Education and Science has allocated 1.8 billion rubles for this purpose over the past year. The support measure is aimed at those who are studying in postgraduate studies, as well as those who have already stood up for themselves and are taking their first steps in the sciences.

In total, since December 2018, thanks to the national project “ Sciences and Universities & # 39; & # 39; 380 youth laboratories were established on the basis of scientific organizations and universities. They employ graduate students, research engineers, teachers and scientists, researchers from industrial departments and companies. They operate in the field of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, medicine and other sciences.

In 2021, a number of Youth Labs were opened as part of organizations participating in world-class science and education centers.

'Priority-2030' Program

One of the most significant achievements of this year was the launch of the Priority 2030 program. It is the largest academic development program in Russian history.

The Priority 2030 goal & ndash; form more than a hundred modern and progressive universities, which will become centers of scientific, technological and socio-economic development of the country. The estimated implementation period of the program is ten years, it will take place in two stages: from 2021 to 2025 and from 2025 to 2030. Its financing involves the payment of the basic part of the grant, from a amount of 100 million rubles for each university selected based on the results of the first stage of the defense, as well as a special part, the amount of which was determined under separate competitive selections – “ Research leadership & # 39; # 39; & # 39; and “Sectoral (territorial) leadership”.

At the end of September, the commission of the Ministry of Education and Science selected the program “ Priority-2030 '' 106 universities from 49 cities. They will receive the basic part of the grant, 15 more universities have become applicants to participate in the program. It should be noted that more than 60% of the universities included in the program are regions. Only 28 universities are located in Moscow, 11 & ndash; in St. Petersburg. The other 67 are spread over 47 Russian cities.

All the participants in the Priority 2030 program have strategic projects. Their total number is 409. More than half of them focus on digital transformation, monitoring and control of greenhouse gas emissions.

Technology transfer centers

In 2021, 18 universities in the country won the competition for grants from the Ministry of Education and Science for the establishment of Technology Transfer Centers (TTC). Through these centers, it will become easier for scientists to patent developments and interact with partners to create promising technologies. TTC's tasks include multidisciplinary work to provide support in the area of ​​protecting the results of the intellectual activity of scientists and the legal registration of their developments for further commercial use. Developing a culture of protecting intellectual property rights will increase the well-being not only of scientists, but also of the country as a whole. Thanks to the measures of the national project “ Sciences and Universities '' at least 35 CTTs will appear in Russia by 2024. & nbsp;

Today, universities have a large number of technologies that can be useful, but for their correct introduction to the market it is necessary to ensure reliable protection of intellectual property. This is important: it happens that the incorrect registration of patent documentation or its absence leads to unscrupulous manufacturers or competitors taking ownership of someone else's development. . In this case, the university and the researcher working there struggle to resolve the issue with the 'stolen technology'. judicially. The Technology Transfer Centers will help create a culture of legal registration of development rights in universities and help scientists save time by coordinating all rights registration processes, as well as by looking for potential investors.

The mega-grants program

This year, the mega-grant program continued. In 2021, support has been given to establish 42 laboratories – this is the largest number of world-class laboratories under the leadership of leading scientists in the past 5 years under this program . In total, in 2021, 101 projects were funded from the federal budget for a total amount of 2.8 billion rubles.

There are three Nobel Laureates among the leaders of the supported projects – they are Sydney Altman, Osamu Shimomura and George Fitzgerald Smoot. Among others, it is worth mentioning the winner of the Fields Prize Stanislav Smirnov, the laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize Jean Jouzel and Ricardo Valentini, the Charles H. Townes Prize of the Optical Society of America Gérard Mourou, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2018, already head of the laboratory of the megagrant program, bioinformatics guru Pavel Pevzner, a recognized specialist in the field of plasma physics Friedrich Wagner, the strongest national biologists Sergei Lukyanov and Pyotr Chumakov , the legendary physicistVladimir Zakharov, very high citation indices, physicist Yuri Kivshar from Australia and biomedical scientist Boris Zhivotovsky from Sweden, Russian scientists the more cited & ndash; Alexandra Kabanova, Artem Oganova, Alexandra Pukhova, Gleb Sukhorukova.

Carbon polygons

During the Year of Science and Technology, a program for the development of carbon polygons was approved. This is the name of the Single Ecosystem Territories, created for the implementation of climate active gas control measures. Carbon polygons enable the most important research in the field of ecology to be carried out and create a basis for the domestic greenhouse gas monitoring system based on remote measurement and data processing methods obtained with the help of artificial intelligence.

In the first year of the project, carbon polygons were opened in the regions of the Chechen Republic, Krasnodar Territory, Kaliningrad , Novosibirsk, Sakhalin, Sverdlovsk and Tyumen. They are created with the participation of universities, scientific bodies and large companies; world-class scientific and educational centers will participate in many projects for their deployment. To date, 9 universities are participating in the pilot project.

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Apocalypse 2022. Ukrainian print media condemned to death

With the development of electronic media in the world, the question of the future of conventional paper press has become acute. True, the immediate end of the dailies and weeklies has not happened, but the topic is far from exhausted.

“In ten years the question of the 'Russian language' will finally lose its relevance”

The first country on our planet, where the history of familiar publications will end in the very near future, maybe Ukraine. Moreover, it will happen in less than a month.

The Law “Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as a State Language”, also known as the “Total Ukrainization Law”, was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada and signed by Petro Poroshenko in April 2019, i.e. just before the latter's presidential powers expire.

The document provides for the exclusion of the Russian language from all spheres of life, except for religious rituals and everyday communication.

Despite the fact that voters expected from the election winner Volodymyr Zelensky if not the abolition of the law, at least the introduction of serious adjustments, this did not happen. is not produced. The implementation of its provisions is carried out with rigor.

In 2020, the deputy leader of the pro-presidential party “Servant of the People” in the Verkhovna Rada Galina Yanchenko wrote on his page on the social network: “I think the language problem in Ukraine is artificial and is exacerbated exclusively by pro-Russian political parties, which today are trying to challenge and repeal the law that protects the Ukrainian language in the Constitution Court of Ukraine. Every year Ukrainian becomes more and more popular, and in ten years the question of the “Russian language” will finally lose its relevance for our country. “

” Even if, apart from the compulsory ones, no other Ukrainian copy can be distributed “

It's hard to call this popularization – we are talking about forced implantation, when people just have no choice. This is particularly evident in the situation of the written press.

According to the “Total Ukrainization Law”, of January 16, 2022, all print media in Ukraine must be published on “mov”. An exception was made for the regional press: these publications are allowed to print material in Russian until the summer of 2024.

As for the national media, they can theoretically publish a broadcast in Russian, but only by duplicating in the same amount in Ukrainian.

“Circulation in Ukrainian must be made and legal copies must be sent in accordance with the law, although apart from the legal copies no other copies in Ukrainian can be distributed,” said the State Committee for Television and Radio of Ukraine.

Thus, the Ukrainian print media published in Russian have a double burden imposed on them: they must publish prints in the Ukrainian language, which will certainly not be requested. That is, publishers are forced to work at a loss. Or accept the inevitable by switching to “mov”. It is very expensive to publish Ukrainian and Russian versions of the newspaper, as the main costs are paper, printing and sales. That is, the costs will double if you do two versions. at the same time, “said the editor of the newspaper in Strana. KP in Ukraine” Oksana Bogdanova . Thus, the Ukrainian “Komsomolskaya Pravda” will address readers exclusively in the official language. This will inevitably lead to the loss of a significant number of regular readers.

Newspapers in Ukraine are mostly read by the older generation, who are not going to change their ways. People who have read the press in Russian for most of their lives would rather give up newspapers altogether rather than get used to the Ukrainian version.

At the same time, over the past two years Ukraine has already lost a fifth of the daily press due to financial problems. Now a complete collapse of this market is predicted.

The truth is, the majority of Independent's population, despite everything, continues to choose Russian-language content. This applies to books, music, TV shows, etc. But if the television with its big budgets manages to solve the problem, then for workers of the print media and book publishers, the provisions of the “Total Ukrainization Law” which come into force sound like a sentence. .

Some newspaper executives are now considering the possibility of moving to the regional level, which will postpone the problem for the next two years.

Let the Ukrainians forget how to read. As long as they don't do it in Russian

However, most Ukrainian experts are convinced that without amending the law, the situation will lead to the rapid extinction of paper editions.

Conservative-minded readers will either ditch newspapers altogether or still use the Internet versions of their favorite media. However, in the near future the “cleaning” will reach the electronic press – this is also required by the “Total Ukrainization Law”. I am for people to learn Ukrainian language, but I am against being broken in this way by the knee, ”Ukrainian media expert Larisa Drozdova told Strana.

Note from the experts: printed products in Ukraine are not totally unprofitable only because of the Russian-speaking segment. Ukrainian-language publications in most of the country remain a drag that pulls this sphere down.

But the authorities don't care. Since the “Total Ukrainization Law” was tasked with ousting the Russian language, anything that helps this process is considered correct.

The representatives of the Kiev regime are guided by the following principle: if the Ukrainians stop reading altogether, then it is fine – the main thing so that they do not read Russian.

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ISS astronauts will make herring under a fur coat for the New Year's table

Russian cosmonauts have said what products their New Year's table will be made of, TASS reports.

“ All the most delicious will be on the New Year's table & mdash; black caviar, tangerines. We're going with Peter [Dubrovnik] to do herring under a fur coat & # 39; & # 39 ;, & mdash; Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov said during a video call with reporters, promising to film the process of making the salad on video.

On December 31, the International Space Station will make 16 orbits around the Earth. The crew members of the station will celebrate the New Year as many times as the countries are represented at the moment, the cosmonaut clarified.

In turn, Roscosmos said that Russian cosmonauts are coming together. would rest on January 1 and 2. . From January 3, they will begin preparations for a spacewalk.

Currently there are seven people at the space station: cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Peter Dubrovnik, American astronauts Mark Vande Hai, Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, as well as the astronaut German Matthias Maurer.

Earlier it was reported that NASA is ready to do anything to keep the ISS operational until 2030.

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Autoexpert commented on the idea of ​​reducing alcohol ppm

Autoexpert Igor Morzharetto did not agree with the proposal to reduce the maximum number of ppm of alcohol in the blood of drivers, reports RT.

The expert recalled that according to traffic rules it is forbidden in Russia to drive if there is alcohol in the blood. The current ppm value does not mean that the driver can drink a small dose of alcohol. It is necessary to exclude the influence of the measurement error.

“ We have the device error, as technically recorded, and it allows the presence of vapors of up to 0.16g per liter of exhaled air, approximately 0.3 ppm & # 39 ;, & mdash; Morzharetto said, adding that a similar threshold exists in many countries around the world.

Recall that the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin urged to reduce the permitted number of ppm of alcohol for drivers.

Previously, the Interior Ministry of Russia developed a project, according to which it is planned to make a number of changes to the rules for controlling drivers for the alcohol poisoning and inform them of the results of the exam.

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Russia revealed minimum number of COVID-19 infection cases since September 30

In the past 24 hours, 23,210 new cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Russia in 84 regions, according to the operational headquarters to combat the spread of the coronavirus. This is the lowest figure in the past three months.

In addition, 33,715 people have recovered during the day and 937 have died. For four consecutive days, the death rate is recorded below a thousand people.

Most of the new diagnoses in the past 24 hours were made in Moscow (2,628 cases), Moscow (2,062), Samara (1,267) and the regions of Voronezh (1,257).

A total of 10,415,230 cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in the Russian Federation. Since the start of the pandemic, 9,293,486 people have recovered and 305,155 have died.

The day before, it became known that France had an anti-daily coronavirus incidence record & mdash; more than 104 thousand cases. Experts attribute this to the spread of the omicron strain. As of December 21, 41 cases of infection with the new strain had been detected in Russia.

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