The hydrometeorological center has extended the “yellow” level of weather danger in Moscow

The hydrometeorological center has extended the “yellow” level of weather danger in Moscow and the Moscow region due to strong winds and snowstorms, as evidenced by the data of the prognostic map on the agency’s website.

Before that, the ice warning should have remained relevant until 06.00 on Monday, December 20.

It is reported that wind gusts during this period can reach 17 meters per second, in places a blizzard is likely.

The warning will be valid until 21.00 tomorrow.

Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand warned Russians about the increase in the number of extreme natural phenomena. According to Roshydromet, over the last quarter of a century, the number of dangerous phenomena has doubled.

Before that, the weather forecaster reported extreme frosts in a number of regions of Russia. The deviation from the norm will be 16-20 degrees.

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SpaceX launched a rocket with a Turkish communications satellite

The American company SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which will deliver the Turkish communications satellite Turksat 5A into orbit. This is stated on the company’s Twitter page.

The launch was carried out at 22:58 East Coast time (06:58 Moscow time) from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome. It is planned that this communication satellite will be operated for at least 15 years.

Earlier, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a space laboratory.

Meanwhile, it became known that the only woman in the Russian cosmonaut squad, Anna Kikina, will make her first flight in 2022, she can go into space on the American Crew Dragon ship.

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MIA: when going abroad, you should come up with a conditional sign for asking for help

Specialists of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation recommended Russians to come up with a conditional sign for asking for help before traveling abroad, writes TASS with reference to the press center of the ministry.

“Before traveling abroad to work or study, you need to come up with a word or phrase that will mean that you are in danger and need help,” the agency’s interlocutor advised, explaining that in case of abduction or forcible detention, when a telephone conversation is under the control of criminals, the only way to report danger may be a code phrase.

An employee of the department clarified that it should be very simple, so as not to arouse suspicion among the kidnappers.

Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported a failure in the traffic police information system. Regional divisions of the traffic police were forced to suspend the provision of public services related to the registration of motor vehicles and the issuance of driver’s licenses.

It was also reported that in Russia they plan to create a mobile application with which you can complain about traffic violators.

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Vilfand warned Russians about the increase in the number of extreme natural phenomena

The scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, said that due to global warming, Russians are waiting for an increase in the number of extreme natural phenomena, the Parliamentary newspaper writes.

The weather forecaster explained that in the south of the European part of the country, the climate will become more arid, and in the north, on the contrary, there will be more precipitation.

“In addition, we are waiting for an increase in extreme natural phenomena. This is especially true for waves of abnormal heat in summer. According to Roshydromet, over the last quarter of a century, the number of dangerous phenomena has doubled,” he explained.

Earlier, Vilfand told what winter will be like in European Russia. He noted that the fluctuations are associated with global warming. According to the forecaster, temperatures are expected to be five degrees above normal in the central part of European Russia at the very end of November. At the same time, in the north of European Russia, frosts can reach minus 20 degrees.

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Should the passengers of the lower shelves of trains give way at the table?

Weekly magazine “Arguments and Facts” No. 50. Where are the new buildings going? 15/12/2021

I was riding on the train on the top shelf, so they didn’t even let me have a snack at the table. Does he also “belong” to the lower ones?

The Ministry of Transport has developed new Rules for the transportation of passengers, baggage, cargo by rail, which prescribe who and how long has the right to use the table on trains. However, the document will work only from September 1, 2022. There are 316 items in it, among which there is the following: “At the request of the conductor of long-distance train cars, a passenger passing on the lower shelf is obliged to provide a place at the table to a passenger passing on the upper one for eating”In the morning and evening hours no more than 30 minutes, at lunchtime no more than 1 hour”.

The rules also say that the passenger must occupy the seat indicated on his ticket, and the passenger passing on the lower shelf has the preferential right to use the lower seat for placing hand luggage (up to 36 kg), and the passenger passing on the upper shelf has the upper seat.

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“Don’t pinch yourself.” 24-year-old veterinarian Sergey Fadyushin preferred his homeland

Weekly magazine “Arguments and Facts” No. 50. Where are the new buildings going? 15/12/2021

Sergey Fadyushin, a veterinarian from Kozelsk (Kaluga region), forgot when he slept more than 5 hours a day.

Main job, private calls. Plus, he is the older brother in a family with three more children.

Incubator in gift

To get to the enterprise in time from Kozelsk to Przemysl, you need to get up at 5 a.m. From 7 to 16 hours – work. Then again an hour on the road. At home – dinner and rare moments of peace. And then private calls begin. There are a lot of cattle in the district. Dozens of farmers live here. Well, if you manage to manage by half a night. Then you can carve out 5 hours for sleep, although sometimes there won’t be 3 hours of rest. And so – 6 once a week. And  sometimes   no days off at all.

Sergey does not complain – you will not begin to sort out the difficulties, so there will be no time for the rest. And  he tries to do everything himself, not to ask anyone for anything, except for good advice. «In 12 years I got rabbits, but they made me sick. I found a veterinarian who explained what it was and how to deal with the disease. I became interested in studying animals. On my 13th birthday, I asked my parents for an incubator. I boughtthe neighbor has eggs and bred chickens: 2 cockerels and 5 chickens. Got rabbits again. In 5 years, the host has grown to 500 quails, 100 chickens, 80 ducks, 100 rabbits. My father helped to build a paddock: I got an old brick, dug out the foundation, and laid the stove. Dad bought a concrete mixer. He taught me how to make cement mortar. To lay a brick. The profit from the owner invested in the first car (then he was 18) and paid for the driver’s courses.

With such a troublesome host, he also managed to deliver newspapers. He learned how to fix the car and even shows his younger brother Egor how to manage it. “That’s what Father always did. He taught everything by example. He took me, a three-year-old, to the field, when he was working on a tractor, I was sitting in his cab.

I also paid for tutors myself. He graduated from the Agricultural College in Kaluga. After the couples, I went to the neighboring vet clinic to master practical knowledge: how to examine animals, do injections, take tests. He was given a condition there: gain some experience, but every evening you will wash the floors throughout the clinic. And he was washing. Then he entered the branch of the Timiryazev Academy in Kaluga.

«Realized that mamunado to save»

Shortly before entering the academy, trouble happened. The Fadyushins’ house burned down. ­Short circuit.

“My father and I were building the second floor the day before. It remains only to bring in the furniture. Parents took a loan for building materials. That night in the house were mom, younger brother, ­sister ».

Sergey remembers running towards the fire to get documents and things for the children. As the roof collapsed – and  he, falling on the floor, almost suffocated from carbon monoxide. He wonders how he figured out the first thing to take out a gas cylinder from the house. And  immediately drove a car from home, putting his brother and sister in it. It was freezing outside – the fire happened in December.

«It’s lucky that the eldest sister was with her grandmother   she is a disabled person of the 2nd group. My father is in Moscow, he works there in a shift mode.

In the evening of that day, when no one saw him, Sergey burst into tears – threw out the tension. Then they got a call from custody. With a suggestion: since your living conditions have become worse (the Fadyushins have moved to a city apartment), maybe it will be easier for you if the children are taken away from you for a while? The younger children in the family are adopted. “This is according to the documents of the reception. And  that’s how the family is. Nastya, when the fire happened, was 14 years old, they took her into the family at 4 years old, EgorMom needs to be taken care of, helped. Therefore, when I was offered a job in the Netherlands, in Belgorod, in Astrakhan, I refused. Family is more important: the older sister is disabled, the younger ones are still on their feet. My father is often in Moscow. So it turns out that I, like the Airborne Forces, have a motto: “No one but us”.

Baba Pasha’s rules of life

Such a solid core in Sergey’s character is thanks to his parents and great-grandmother, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War Praskovya Maksimovna Drovkina which he called Baba Pasha. “She went to the front at the age of 16 as a nurse, went through the whole war. After that, she worked as a calf, nursed young cattle on a farm. She was awarded in Ostankino as one of the best calves of the country, presented with a woolen blanket, which still serves, warm and prickly.  She had her own owner – kept a cow, pigs. Maybe also hence the choice of my profession. She and her great-grandfather, also a front-line soldier, raised five children. The eldest son is a captain of the 2nd rank, lives in Kaliningrad. The second son – tooNow I am working at an enterprise in Przemysl. My profile is artificial reproduction (insemination) of cows. The work is hard. It is necessary to rectalize (examine through the back passage. – Ed.) cows, and   not one or two per shift, but hundreds. My arm, neck, shoulder, lower back – everything hurts, even though  my age is young. But I remember my grandmother’s advice not to pinch myself.

And he doesn’t regret it. Yes, and together with the bride Vladoy, she is also a veterinarian, making plans: “We will take a preferential mortgage under the program of a young family of agricultural specialists. It takes 4 million to buy a plot and build a cool house.

And Sergey also says that he remembered the words of one professional: “A real specialist in his field always knows what the head of the department will do.” This, like Baba Pasha’s words, has sunk into my soul. That’s how I live: I know what I’m going to do tomorrow.

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Doctors explained the loss of appetite with the omicron strain

Plot The spread of a new strain of coronavirus “omicron”

Infectious disease doctor, pediatrician, professor of the Department of Pediatrics of the M.F. Vladimirsky MONICA Elena Meskina said that loss of appetite is observed in a patient with any infection, and not only with infection with the omicron strain of coronavirus, reports RBC.

“I can assure you that patients who are infected with any strain lose their appetite,” she said.

Larisa Popovich, Director of the HSE Institute of Health Economics, added that it is impossible to determine the exact strain of coronavirus based on this symptom.

“In general, COVID-19 causes fatigue, and, consequently, a decrease in mood, which may be associated with loss of appetite,” the medic explained.

Earlier, British researchers from the ZOE COVID Study published a list of symptoms indicating infection with the omicron strain of coronavirus.

In particular, an unusual sign of infection was named, which is slightly less common than the main ones: loss of appetite.

The new strain was first identified in late November in Africa: Botswana and South Africa. According to WHO, cases of infection with the omicron strain have already been recorded in 89 countries.

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What kind of new rocket for helicopters and drones has been developed in Russia?

Russia has developed a new guided aviation missile X-UAV. It will be used as part of a complex of weapons for drones and helicopters, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the military-industrial complex.  

Anti-tank missile system (ATGM) “Kornet-D”, on the basis of which the X-UAV was developed. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org

What is known about the new rocket?

Not much is known about the new rocket yet. It is reported that the X-UAV has become a further development of the line of guided munitions from the anti-tank guided missile system “Kornet-D”. 

The missile will be part of the armament complex of attack drones and the Ka-52M helicopter. Earlier, dozens of successful tests of the new rocket were carried out with the prototype Ka-52M. Its launches were also carried out from the drones “Pacer”, “Outpost” and “Altius”. 

X-UAV has a range of up to 10 kilometers. It can effectively hit both heavily armored vehicles and low-flying low-speed air targets.

The rocket can be guided not only in a laser beam, but also in thermal and television modes.

Source:

https://ria.ru/20211218/raketa-1764365384.html ?

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Fighters of the Russian Federation and Belarus conducted joint patrols

Fighters and bombers of the aviation of Belarus and the Russian Federation conducted another joint patrol of the air borders of the Union State, the Belarusian Defense Ministry reports in Telegram.

It was carried out by Tu-22M3 strategic bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces accompanied by a mixed tactical group of multifunctional SU-30SM fighters of Belarus and Russia.

Prior to that, the Belarusian Ministry reported on the increase in the composition of the air defense forces on duty and joint patrolling of the state border in the airspace by the Air Force and air Defense forces of the Armed Forces of Belarus and the Russian Aerospace Forces. The reason was the frequent cases of flights of various types of aviation near the Belarusian border.

Earlier, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Union State in 2022 will live in an unfriendly environment.

The Kremlin also told when a new meeting between Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will take place. It is planned to be held before the end of the year.

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