The executive director of MIA “Russia today” Kirill Vyshinsky received a government award in the field of mass media, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reported.
He was awarded “for courage in the performance of professional duties and personal contribution to the struggle for the rights of journalists”.
Previously, Vyshinsky headed the portal “RIA Novosti Ukraine”. He spent more than a year in custody in Ukraine, where he was accused of treason and support for the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass. In the summer of 2019, the Russian authorities secured his release, in the fall of the same year he returned to the Russian Federation and began to protect the rights of journalists.
So, in March of this year, the PACE speaker was given a letter by Vyshinsky about the persecution of journalists in Latvia.
In February, he staged a single picket before the meeting of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel.
In total, media representatives will be awarded 20 awards of one million rubles each. Nine employees of the press were awarded with personal awards this year. 11 journalistic teams will also be awarded.
The prosecutor’s office in Yekaterinburg will check the incident with the driver who kicked the pensioner out of the bus because she climbed the steps for a long time. This was reported by the regional supervisory authority.
Earlier, the media reported that the driver of the bus route 012 forcibly removed an elderly woman from the vehicle, angry at her long climb up the stairs.
Employees of the prosecutor’s office are going to interview employees of the transport organization serving the specified route. Based on the results of the audit, if there are grounds, the supervisory authority will take measures of prosecutorial response.
Earlier in Voronezh, a bus driver attacked a passenger.
Also in November, a Voronezh man broke his head during a bus ride.
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In Australia, they want to build a giant recorder in case of a global climate catastrophe. Who will need it if the “end of the world” really happens?
On the coast of the Australian island of Tasmania, by the end of 2022, a structure will appear whose task is to record data on the last decades of human civilization in the event of a global climate catastrophe. It will be a giant steel box with walls 7.5cm thick. Data storage devices will be placed inside, recording information about changes in the level of co₂ in the Earth’s atmosphere, ocean acidification, etc.
“If there really is a collapse on Earth due to climate change, an indestructible device will allow those who remain to learn a lesson from what happened,” says Jim Curtis, one of the authors of the project.. — In addition, „the black box “ will become evidence of the responsibility of world leaders for what happened».
Data recording on hard drives has already started. The project has its own website where you can monitor what the Earth’s black box is currently recording.
Snowfall is coming to Moscow, precipitation is expected on Sunday night. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the capital.
“In the period from 22:00 Moscow time on December 18 to 10:00 on December 19, snow is expected in Moscow, sometimes heavy. There is ice on the roads,” it follows from the message.
Due to adverse weather conditions, citizens are not recommended to be near power lines, trees and shaky structures, Rescuers also ask drivers to slow down and increase the distance, while avoiding sudden maneuvers.
Recall that on Saturday in the city it is predicted from minus one to minus three degrees. The speed of the west wind will be from five to ten meters per second.
Last year, more than 6 thousand medical workers became participants in the programs of the Zemsky Doctor and the Zemsky paramedic. In 2021, the number of specialists who have undergone professional retraining in various profiles, as well as in 2020, exceeded 5 thousand people.
Thanks to the national project “Healthcare”, by 2024 the staff of doctors and average medical staff in polyclinics will grow by 10%. The national project helps in the search and attraction of specialists, which contributes to the elimination of personnel shortages in medical organizations.
In 2021, 44 medical workers arrived in the Republic of Karelia under the “Zemsky Doctor” program. Since 2012, 235 medical workers of the most popular specialties have been attracted to work in the districts of the republic. So, this year 44 people became participants of the “Zemsky Doctor” program: nurses, paramedics of the FAP, paramedics of the ambulancemedical care, district pediatricians and therapists, cardiologists, surgeons, dermatovenerologists, anesthesiologists, otorhinolaryngologists, dentists, neurologists, traumatologists. For the first time, district nurses took part in the program. Specialists came to Karelia from Tver, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Vologda, Penza, Ryazan and Pskov regions.
In the Komi Republic, work is also underway to provide medical organizations with qualified personnel. After graduation, Ekaterina Tkachenko came to work as an ambulance paramedic in her native Udora district, the village of Koslan. Ekaterina decided to become a doctor back in her childhood, because this is exactly the profession where you can help people, be needed. In 2004, Ekaterina graduated from Syktyvkar Medical College in the specialty “Medical business”. Ekaterina admits that at first she thought to work here only the necessary 3 years. The main condition isIn the Samara region, convenient conditions are created at the ambulance stations, including a schedule that allows you to combine study with work. Currently, the staff of the visiting teams of the institution employs 3 anesthesiologist-resuscitator who have completed their residency in this specialty. There are 16 students of Samara State Medical University in the employment process for the position of visiting nursesbrigades. In the near future, 6 paramedics will be transferred from the operational department of the Samara province, which receives appeals from patients, to the staff of field teams. The Operational Department will be replenished with 7 candidates for the position of dispatcher for receiving and transmitting calls. As part of the creation of a new emergency department, 1 doctor and 2 paramedics have recently been employed in the institution, and 3 more specialists are also in the process of employment.
Providing medical organizations of the healthcare system with qualified personnel is one of the main directions of the national project “Healthcare”. It is aimed at eliminating the personnel shortage in medical organizations providing primary health care through the introduction of a system of continuing education of medical workers, including the use of distance education technologies, as well as staffing medical positions and attracting specialists.
In the coming days, the temperature in several regions of Russia will be 16-20 degrees below normal. This was stated in an interview with RIA Novosti by the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand.
According to the forecaster, such extreme frosts are waiting for residents of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
“From Sunday, cold air will flow into the North-Western Federal District, on December 20 to the regions of the Central Federal District. And from December 21, the cold will come to the center of European Russia,” the specialist noted.
It is specified that temperature deviations of 15-20 degrees below normal will be observed in Yamal and in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, cooling by 9-14 degrees below normal is predicted in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Arkhangelsk Region.
Meanwhile, in the Vologda, Leningrad, Pskov regions from Sunday to Wednesday, anomalies are expected to be 7-14 degrees below normal.In Central Russia, temperature anomalies will reach 16 degrees, and in the Moscow region, thermometer columns will drop to minus 26 degrees.
Earlier it became known about the weather on New Year’s Eve.
The Polish-Belarusian confrontation on the border, connected with the migration crisis, has received a new, rather unexpected turn. A serviceman of the Polish army from among the contingent involved in strengthening border protection from migrants has switched to the Belarusian side.
“A serviceman was stopped in the border strip”
“On December 16, at 17:50 near the Belarusian-Polish border, a serviceman of the Polish Armed Forces, Chechko Emil, was stopped by a Belarusian border patrol in the border strip near the Tushemlya border outpost of the Grodno Border Group .Born in 1996, according to a message posted on the official website of the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus, the man stated that he was a serviceman of the 11th Masurian Artillery Regiment of the 16th Pomeranian Mechanized Division named after King Kazimir, parts of which were transferred to provideprotection of a section of the border with Belarus during the period of the state of emergency in the border territories of Poland. In connection with the disagreement with the policy of Poland regarding the migration crisis and the practice of inhumane treatment of refugees, the serviceman asked for political asylum in the Republic of Belarus.
The headquarters of the 16th Mechanized Division of the Polish Army is located in the city of Olsztyn in the north of Poland. The division consists of the 16th Command Battalion, the 9th Armored Cavalry Brigade, the 15th and 20th mechanized brigades, the 15th Air Defense Regiment, the 16th rear Regiment, and also the 11th Artillery Regiment, in which Emil Chechko served.
The permanent base of the regiment is the settlement of Vengozhevo, a city popular with tourists near the border with the Kaliningrad region of Russia. The artillery unit was included in the number of forces that the Polish command involved in the operation against migrants on the border with Belarus.
“The absence of a serviceman was detected”
Journalist of the TV channel “Belarus”1” Ksenia Lebedeva published a photo taken during an interview with a serviceman. “I talked to Emil. Wait for the exclusive,” she said.
Within a few hours after the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus officially announced the transfer of a Polish serviceman to the territory of the country and his appeal regarding the granting of political asylum, the Polish Ministry of Defense remained silent.
The headquarters of the 16th Mechanized Division had to take the rap. Initially, a message appeared on the Twitter of the unit about the death of a serviceman of the 11th Artillery Regiment, which was then hastily deleted.
Then they published a message, which they adhere to now: “When performing tasks at the border, the absence of a serviceman of the 16th mechanized Division was discovered. Immediately, a large-scale search operation was undertaken, in which military personnel and all services operating on the border were involved. The investigation is ongoing.”
The Polish side claims that the soldier disappeared in the vicinity of Nareika, Semenovka and Lake Semenovsky.
“We do not confirm the information that appeared in some media outlets about the alleged escape of a soldier to Belarus,” the statement says.
Escape from under the nose of the minister
It looked rather ridiculous against the background of a photo published by a Belarusian journalist with a soldier, and also words about the fact that the defector had already given an interview. But, obviously, the official Warsaw needs time now to develop a line of conduct in the current situation.
It is known that Chechko is not a rookie. Judging by his dated photographs, he served in the Polish Army for at least two years.
The Polish edition of the newspaper Vyborcha writes: The escape took place almost at the same time when the Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak It was located in Sokulka, about a dozen kilometers from the Polish-Belarusian border. In the area of the local sanctuary famous for its miracle, he handed over new command vehicles to the 16th Division.
That is, in fact, a Polish soldier left literally from under the nose of his own defense minister. It is incredibly difficult to hold the blow to the Polish security forces, who talked about the unity of the ranks against the background of the hybrid aggression of Belarus and Russia. Because of this, there is a denial of the obvious.
The account of the Polish Ministry of Defense quotes the words of the commander of the 16th Division, General Krzysztow Radomski: “I do not confirm the information that the soldier escaped.”
“They just don’t want to admit that the soldier escaped”
However, the recognition of the obvious could not be avoided. The RMF24 portal reported: “The soldier left his pistol in the unit. Then he switched to the Belarusian side and was detained in the border zone. Colleagues described the fugitive as problematic. He had a few days left before the end of his service.
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, who came to himself after the first shock, wrote in a social network: “The soldier who disappeared yesterday had serious problems with the law, and he submitted an application for dismissal from the army. He was mistakenly sent to the service at the border. I have already demanded an explanation of who is to blame.
“I deserted through the barbed wire, tore my pants and injured my arm,” Emil Chechko himself said in the meantime on the Belarus 1 TV channel, “They just don’t want to admit that the soldier escaped. The only thing in their power is to make the worst person out of me, to tell them that I created problems.
The soldier stated that he could no longer put up with the way Polish counterintelligence officers behaved with refugees.
“Was under the influence of marijuana”
Realizing that Chechko’s revelations could have devastating consequences for the ruling Law and Justice party in Poland, the official Warsaw began to publish information that should prove that the soldier of the Polish Army standing on the border was just a criminal.
“The newspaper Vyborcha” reports: “According to unofficial information, this serviceman was arrested last Saturday in Gizhitsko for driving under the influence of alcohol, he had almost 1.5 ppm and was under the influence of marijuana. After this event, he returned to the service on the Polish-Belarusian border.
How is this possible, you ask? But this is not the limit — the inflated Polish Minister Blaszczak wrote that Chechko… retired from the army. How does all this fit in with the data published by the Polish security forces earlier? Yes, nothing. In the conditions of the prevailing panic, it is not possible to save the face of officials and generals.
“Lukashenka beats Blashchak as a 3-year-old child”
Meanwhile, Poles in social networks are actively discussing what happened:
«The boy was too decent to take part in criminal activity «Law and Justice»
«He chose an easier mode»
«Super! I admire the courage”
“Lukashenka is beating Blashchak as a 3-year-old child”
“Our party is drawing the right line”
“Oh. Cool. I understand. But why exactly in Belarus?”
It’s too early to put an end to this story. Surely we will hear a lot more interesting things from both sides.
Plot The spread of a new strain of coronavirus “omicron”
The risk of re-infection with coronavirus in the case of the omicron strain is five times higher compared to the delta variant, TASS reports, citing a study by epidemiologists at Imperial College London.
According to experts, before the appearance of omicron, a person’s natural immunity protected him from re-infection for six months in 85% of cases. However, after the discovery of a new strain, this indicator decreased to 19%.
Based on the indicators of infection and hospitalization, scientists claim that at the moment there is no evidence that “omicron” poses a lesser threat than the “delta” strain.
Experts claim that BioNTech, Pfizer and AstraZeneca’s two doses of the drug provide protection from infection only up to 20% against the omicron strain. However, it increases with the use of booster vaccination to 55-80%, the Imperial College added.
According to scientists, when infected with omicron, the level of antibodies after receiving a booster dose of vaccines used in the UK will be 4.5 times lower than in the case of the delta strain. At the same time, the probability of preventing a severe form of the disease with the omicron strain is 80.1%, whereas in the case of the delta, this indicator was 96.5%.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova said that the level of collective immunity to coronavirus in Russia was 58.2%.
A court in Samara found the nurse of a local boarding house for disabled children guilty of torturing teenagers from this institution and failing to fulfill their upbringing duties.
The woman was fined and sentenced to three years of probation with a probation period for a year, Novye Izvestia writes.
According to the investigation, in April of this year, a nurse tied three disabled children to their beds, she also beat them. A criminal case was opened against her under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
An inspection came to the boarding house, as a result of which the director of the institution was dismissed.
Volunteers stated that the children in this boarding school were very poorly fed, most of them were emaciated and poorly dressed.
In early December, it was reported that in Udmurtia, a primary school teacher bullied children. She used corporal punishment against second graders, in particular, put them on peas.
A diving cyclone is moving to the European part of the Russian Federation, because of which abnormal frosts are waiting for Russians. According to the Hydrometeorological Center, already next week the temperature outside the window will be on average minus 20 degrees.
“As this cyclone, which we call a diving cyclone, moves, even colder air will be drawn in. And on December 21, at night, the temperature will drop to minus 16-21 degrees, and during the day it will be in the range of minus 12-17 degrees. Next, different weather scenarios are considered. But many forecasters are inclined to the opinion that the frost will increase, Lyudmila Parshina, head of the laboratory of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, told the Russian newspaper .
In the coming days, the Atlantic cyclone will bring heavy snowfalls to the Leningrad and Arkhangelsk regions, to the south of Karelia.On December 16, wet snow will pass in the Moscow region. 40-degree frosts in the coming days will come to the north of Siberia. And in the south and south-east of Yakutia at night it is already over minus 50 degrees.
Why is a diving cyclone so called and where is it moving from?
The main feature of the “diving” cyclone is its trajectory. Unlike most cyclones that move along the latitude from the west to the east, this cyclone goes from the northwest to the southeast, and at an impressive speed (up to 50 km/h).
According to forecasters, the cyclone originates over the Greenland and Norwegian Seas (at the top of the geographical map), and then, as if bursting (diving) to the southeast deep into the Eurasian continent. Within a day, they are over the Lower Volga region (at the bottom of the geographical map). Therefore, meteorologists call it among themselves a “diving” cyclone because of the speed of movement.
How does a diving cyclone change the weather?
With «diving» cyclones are associated with sharp fluctuations in the weather. It changes from warm to Arctic cold, as forecasters say. Often such cyclones move one after the other. Then in the regions over which the “diving” cyclones sweep, an unstable temperature is established for several days (and sometimes weeks).weather. This is manifested in sharp and frequent fluctuations in atmospheric pressure, temperature, wind and precipitation (sleet, snow, blizzard in places, snow drifts on roads).
Sources of information: rg.ru/2021/12/15/nyriaiushchij-ciklon-prineset-20-gradusnye-morozy-v-centr-rossii.html gismeteo.ru/news/klimat/31061-chto-takoe-nyryayuschiy-tsiklon/ meteoinfo.ru/news/1-2009-10-01-09-03-06/4882-23032012-l-r-
