The mass death of crows in the Novosibirsk region could be caused by poisoning. Such an opinion in an interview with Газетой.ги the ornithologist of the Bird Protection Fund Vadim Avdanin expressed his opinion.
Earlier, a video appeared on social networks with hundreds of dead crows in the village of Ust-Tarka, while other animals and birds were not injured.
According to Avdanin, the incident is not related to the epidemic, because in case of diseases, birds do not fall dead at once as a whole flock.
“Somewhere a flock has been pecked, and not necessarily in a landfill. They could also eat the pickled grain in the fields, ” the expert believes.
Recall that in August, an emergency mode was introduced in Taimyr after the discovery of more than 50 deer carcasses.
It was also reported about the mass death of cats in the UK.
Air Force (Air Force) The United States and the American corporation Lockheed Martin showed a video of tests of C-17A Globemaster III and EC-130J Super J aircraft dropping pallets with AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) cruise stealth missiles. Taking into account the capabilities of these missiles, the new technology will allow for massive missile strikes against strategic objects in Russia.
These tests took place in August at the White Sands Missile Range (New Mexico). Mock-ups of JASSM-ER missiles were launched from the C-17A transporter and the EC-130J Super J aircraft. The latter is a modification of the C-130J transport vehicle, designed for carrying out communication operations. This bomber is considered universal, so the concept of application is often changed for it.
During the exercises, the pallets with mock-ups of missiles were dropped with parachutes, and after stabilization they separated from the carriers. At the beginning of the exercise, the transporters received the coordinates of the drop point, after the release, a new target for the strike was determined, which required re-targeting of the missiles.
In the coming months, Lockheed Martin and the military will conduct additional tests, and at the end of the year they will test the JASSM-ER missiles themselves from the C‑130J transport vehicle.
In the comments to the video, it is reported that the Rapid Dragon concept turns aircraft into deadly platforms for cruise missiles, which will complement the strike power of tactical fighters and strategic bombers. It is noted that the use of flights allows you to strike from a larger number of airfields and hit a larger number of targets. & laquo;Rapid Dragon: bringing more mass to the fight & raquo;, —says the & nbsp; pathos caption to the video.
Western experts report that the shown method of using aircraft can be useful in a situation of war with an enemy that has large territories and large armies, for example, with China or Russia.
The US military in 2016 introduced the concept of “flying arsenals”. The military assumed that the B-1B Lancer, B-52H, C-130 or C-17 GLobemaster III bombers could be converted into “arsenals”. After the modernization, the aircraft will receive various sets of weapons. The flying arsenal will be located at a distance and launch the desired type of ammunition on command from a fighter or drone that will act as spotters.
Experiments with transport aircraft in the quality of rocket trucks under the Rapid Dragon program began last year. The military installed an autonomous system on them on pallets with roller lowering and rolling back. In May, the MC-130J Commando II transport aircraft was tested as a cruise missile carrier.
In June, it was also reported that the MC-130J Commando II aircraft of the US Air Force dropped a cargo simulating a pallet with JASSM-ER cruise stealth missiles.
In June 2020, American publications reported that the AGM-158B JASSM-ER missile is capable of reaching Russia without entering the area of airspace controlled by S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems. It was claimed that this is enough to attack the main strategic objects of Russia in the Arctic and parts of Siberia.
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Due to complaints about the air noise of residents of Moscow and the Moscow region, the take-off and landing schemes of aircraft were changed at Sheremetyevo Airport.
A few months ago, all the media wrote about the problem of residents of the districts of Mitino, Khimki, Tushino, and also Krasnogorsk and Solnechno Gorsk. It became known about it in September 2019, when a third runway was opened in Sheremetyevo, and in December 2020, the airport introduced new routes that began to run over densely populated areas. About the endless roar of engines, residents of Moscow and the Moscow region wrote to all instances of the Russian Aviation, Rostransnadzor, the State Duma, and also President Putin.
The Federal Air Transport Agency has adjusted the routes of aircraft to Sheremetyevo: since September 9, the departure and landing approaches have become more convenient and more cost-effective, and the noise level has decreased for local residents.
Scientists have found that over the past 20 years, the mortality rate of children under the age of five in Russia has decreased by 56% compared to 2000, writes The Lancet.
According to experts, by 2030, the mortality rate among newborns in the Russian Federation will fall to three cases per thousand.
To implement these plans, an increase in funding for the children’s healthcare system will be required, the study indicates.
Earlier, the Russian government approved a plan for implementing the concept of demographic policy in the country. The priorities are to improve the quality and accessibility of medical care, as well as care for the older generation.
The government gave a negative opinion on the bill on the resumption of indexation of insurance pensions to working pensioners, thereby rejecting it. The document is published in the electronic database of the State Duma.
Why did the Cabinet of Ministers reject the bill?
The government’s conclusion says that the return of indexation will require additional costs. At the same time, the authors of the draft law did not indicate in the financial and economic justification for the document from which sources and in what order funds should be allocated, the government commission on legislative activity said in its response.
What is the bill?
The bill in question was developed by a group of deputies of the LDPR faction and a senator Sergey Leonov. They submitted the document for consideration to the State Duma on July 26, 2021.
The initiative assumed that the indexation of insurance pensions for working pensioners would be resumed from January 1, 2022. To do this, it was proposed to amend part 12 of Article 21 of the Federal Law “On insurance pensions” and to recognize as invalid Article 261 of this Federal Law, according to which the insurance pension and the fixed payment to the insurance pension to working pensioners are indexed, but are paid without taking into account the amounts of adjustment of their size.
In the explanatory note to the document, its authors indicated that after the abolition of the indexation of pensions for working pensioners in 2016, the number of such pensioners in Russia decreased from 15.3 million to 9.6 million people. At the same time, most of them began to work illegally so that insurance premiums would not be paid against them. As a result, regional and local budgets received less personal income tax, and extra-budgetary funds, including the Pension Fund of Russia (FIU), received cash receipts.
The legislators also noted that the lack of pension indexation is unfair to working pensioners and contradicts part 6 of Article 75 of the updated version of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
The financial and economic justification for the draft law states that its adoption will entail additional expenses of the FIU in the amount of 524.6 billion rubles. It was proposed to finance them through the use of funds from the National Welfare Fund, as well as part of the federal budget surplus.
What does the rejection of the bill mean?
The recall of the government commission on legislative activity on the draft on the indexation of pensions to working pensioners concerns a specific document, and not the idea of pension indexation as such, the Ministry of Labor said.
The project was rejected because of its lack of development. The draft laws supported by the government should contain specific mechanisms for ensuring obligations, the ministry explained.
The Ministry of Labor added that the government is constantly working to analyze and improve forms of social support. If necessary, it introduces additional, targeted support measures.
How is the work being done to return the indexation of pensions to working pensioners?
Pensions of working pensioners have ceased to be indexed since January 1, 2016, in order to reduce the deficit of the FIU. Since that time, the issue of resuming indexation has been repeatedly raised, several draft laws have been prepared. Previously, the government issued negative opinions on such initiatives in 2017, 2019 and 2020.
Several bills on the return of indexing were prepared in 2021. In early April, the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol submitted a corresponding draft law to the State Duma. It is still under preliminary consideration.
On September 3, a similar bill was submitted to the State Duma by deputies of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. They also noted that the abolition of pension indexation provoked the termination of the work of some pensioners and turned out to be economically unprofitable for the state. They estimated the cost of resuming the measure at 681.3 billion rubles.
In January 2021, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin I instructed the government to submit proposals on the indexation of pensions of working pensioners. In February, the Ministry of Labor announced that it had sent them to the Cabinet of Ministers.
On July 23, RIA Novosti, citing a source in the Russian Trilateral Commission for the Regulation of Social and Labor Relations, reported that the heads of the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development Anton Kotyakov, Anton Siluanov and Maxim Reshetnikov was instructed to work out the issue of including the indexation of pensions for working pensioners in the federal budget for 2022
The Nazi criminal Helmut Oberlander died at the age of 98 in Canada, without waiting for deportation, the CBC TV channel reports.
According to available information, the Nazi accomplice died on September 22 at his home in Ontario, surrounded by relatives.
In Russia, Oberlander is accused of involvement in the murder of more than 200 children from an orphanage in 1942. According to the investigation, during the war he served as an interpreter in the SS-10 Sonderkommando, this unit was involved in a number of crimes in the Kuban in 1942 and 1943, in particular, in the mass murder of children in Yeysk.
In 2017, the court found Helmut Oberlander guilty of committing war crimes and deprived him of Canadian citizenship. Oberlander was supposed to be deported, in early September, the immigration department of the Council of Canada suspended hearings on his deportation from the country.
Earlier, the TFR opened a case on the fact of the execution of civilians by the Nazis near Orel during the Great Patriotic War.
Tests of prototypes of the new RPL-20 light machine gun have begun in Russia. It is made on the basis of a tape power supply, which somewhat reduces the mobility of the owner, but increases the rate of fire. The weapon will have to confirm the characteristics determined by the technical task. This was told by the chief designer of JSC “Concern ” Kalashnikov”, where the machine gun is produced.
The RPL-20 is based on military reviews collected during field tests of the RPK-16 machine gun, which was considered as a replacement for the Soviet RPK-74. Previously, Kalashnikov was also actively engaged in the development of a hand-held machine gun on magazine power.
The weapon was designed on the basis of solutions obtained during the development work on the AK-12 submachine gun and the RPK-400 light machine gun. In February 2019, limited batches of the RPK-16 machine gun began to enter the Russian army for trial operation. However, the results of military operation forced the Russian Defense Ministry to clarify the requirements for weapons. In particular, they demanded to change the store food to tape.
“Kalashnikov” is developing a new machine gun on an initiative basis: the first prototype of a belt-powered light machine gun was shown a year ago. The use of stores is not provided for in the terms of reference. Therefore, we can conclude that the machine gun will be designed for conducting a defensive battle, when it is not necessary to change the position often.
It is known that the RPL-20 is being developed for a 5.45 by 39 mm caliber cartridge. It is equipped with an adjustable polymer butt and a Picatinny rail, which allows you to install various types of optical and collimator sights on it. The remaining characteristics of the machine gun have not yet been disclosed.
The RPK-16 machine gun, which became the starting point in the development of the RPL-20, also uses 5.45 by 39 mm cartridges. The weapon provides a rate of fire at the level of 700 rounds per minute. The machine gun weighing 4.5 kilograms received replaceable barrels and a telescopic butt.
Currently, the developers have reached the stage of testing prototypes, which are carried out in order to confirm their compliance with the requirements of the tactical and technical task.
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The magazine in multi-shot firearms (carbines, rifles, pistols, machine guns, automatic guns, etc.) is a box, disk, drum or tube that serve to place cartridges in a certain order. The tape also serves to connect the cartridges together. With belt feeding, the supply of cartridges is carried out at the expense of the energy of the machine gun or with the help of a special drive.
The main advantage of the tape is its large capacity, usually from 50 to 300 cartridges. When connecting several tapes (usually metal) with a separate cartridge, the capacity increases. Sometimes the tapes are so large that they are even transferred separately from the machine gun. Although you have to pay for the capacity with the complexity of the product’s execution and linear dimensions, it’s worth it. Magazine power is more compact and convenient, for example, when using it, the tails of cartridge belts do not hang down. But the inevitable price for increased mobility is a clear decrease in the combat rate of fire.
However, the Belgian company Fabrique Nationale bypassed the problem of choice by creating a “Mini” machine gun equipped with a full set of receivers at once: for a metal loose tape for 100 or 200 rounds of 5. 56×45 mm and for a 30-charge standard box magazine inserted at an angle from the left.
Vaccination of animals has started in the zoos Franklin Zoo and Stone Zoo in the north-east of the United States. This is reported on the portal of New England zoos.
“Although we have not had cases of COVID-19 infection among animals at the Franklin Zoo and Stone Zoo, this vaccine is an important preventive measure to protect species that are susceptible to infection with the virus,” said a senior veterinarian at New England Zoos Chris Bonar.
Which animals are vaccinated in American zoos?
First of all, the vaccination will be given to animals that are at the greatest risk of contracting coronavirus. These are primates, cats (lions, tigers and snow leopards) and martens (ferrets and North American river otters).
Vaccination is carried out with a drug from Zoetis (a division of Pfizer). The vaccination consists of two doses, which are administered at intervals of four weeks.
Earlier, local media reported that bears, baboons, hyenas, etc. are also being vaccinated against coronavirus in other American zoos. It is noted that vaccination in zoos is carried out not only to protect the animals themselves, but also to reduce the risk of mutation of the virus in their body, and then re-transmission to people in a new form.
Which of the animals are vaccinated against coronavirus in Russia?
The Rosselkhoznadzor announced the start of vaccination of animals against coronavirus at the end of May. It is carried out with the drug “Carnivac-Cov”, which became the first registered vaccine in the world for the prevention of COVID-19 among animals.
The Rosselkhoznadzor Register of Medicines states that the vaccine is intended for the prevention of coronavirus infection in fur-bearing animals, dogs and cats.
You can vaccinate your pet in private and public veterinary clinics that have purchased the vaccine from the manufacturer.
The Rosselkhoznadzor previously reported that there is an increased interest in vaccination in the country among citizens with an active civil position,as well as among breeders, frequently traveling pet owners and those whose animals are on self-feeding.
This year’s Nobel Prize laureates will receive awards in their countries due to the coronavirus pandemic, the organizers said.
Only representatives of the local audience will be able to attend the ceremony in Stockholm, scheduled for December 10, and the fate of the event in Oslo has not yet been decided.
A number of events of the “Nobel week” will be held, including in an online format.
“The laureates will receive medals and diplomas of the Nobel Prize in their countries. The awards will be combined with an award ceremony at the Stockholm City Hall with the participation of the local public. The Norwegian Nobel Committee still leaves open the possibility of hosting the Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Oslo. In mid-October, the committee will announce the format of the Nobel Prize celebration in Oslo, ” the press release says.
Earlier АиФ.ги he wrote about how the Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, lived, whose 140th birthday was celebrated this year.
On September 23, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia a Syrian citizen Adin bin Adan Ramadan, a person involved in the case of the death of a Russian pilot in Syria. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the court.
As a preventive measure for the Syrian, the court chose an arrest in absentia for two months from the moment of his detention or extradition.
The Syrian citizen is accused in absentia on three articles: premeditated murder, abuse of the bodies of the dead, participation in an illegal armed formation.
The press service of the judicial instance also reported that Ramadan was declared an international wanted list.
Earlier, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the militants who shot down the plane of Russian pilot Roman Filipov on February 3, 2018.
