Before the war, the man was a successful businessman.
APU received all-terrain vehicles / photo facebook.com/TerritorialDefenseForces
A Ukrainian soldier with the call sign “Mountain” together with his partners purchased Pinzgauer armored all-terrain vehicles for the Armed Forces.
This is reported by the Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as reported by Violetta Orlova from unian.net.
Before the war, Gora was a successful entrepreneur. After the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the man went to defend Ukraine, supporting the army financially.
“All my help to the Ukrainian army is anonymous so that no one knows my last name or sees my face. I do my job, what I have to do in such times. I will be where my help is needed most. I know and understand all needs. After the victory I will definitely reveal myself,” he said.
This time Gora and its partners donated 2009 Pinzgauer armored vehicles to the needs of the army. These are multi-purpose military jeeps that can work both as tractors, and as medical vehicles, and as vehicles for deep reconnaissance, support, and communications.
“One such is dozens, or even hundreds of preserved lives. We are grateful for this powerful support,” the Terroboron noted.
Recall that earlier Andrey Grushko, a resident of the Kherson region, stole an enemy URAL to help the Ukrainian defenders.
Orthodox activist Oksana Ivanova from Yekaterinburg is collecting signatures against the initiative of the city authorities to make the ancient Shigir idol a symbol of the city, reports ura.news. The appeal is planned to be sent to Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev and Mayor Alexei Orlov. Information about this appeared on her personal page on the social network in VKontakte.
“Dear Evgeny Vladimirovich and Alexey Valerievich! I consider it my duty to express to you my concern about the plans to make the Shigir idol a symbol of our city and use its image during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of Yekaterinburg,” Ivanova wrote. “The case when silence can betray God. If you agree, please like and subscribe in the comments. <…> Remember that the more we are, the less likely it is to ignore our opinion,” the activist added.
According to her, the Shigir idol has nothing to do with the 300th anniversary of Yekaterinburg. “At the foundation of the city lies the laying of the Catherine’s Cathedral, the ironworks and the Yekaterinburg Fortress. In a situation where believers were illegally and hooliganously deprived of the opportunity to receive a restored cathedral for the 300th anniversary of the city, this also cynically continues the line of confrontation with the Christian history of Yekaterinburg,” the activist complained.
“No researchers can tell us what is the meaning of what is depicted on the idol. What meaningful message does the Shigir idol contain. I don’t understand what the authorities want to convey with it to the citizens, promoting the Shigir idol in the public field, ”Ivanova summed up.
Earlier URA.RU wrote that an international group of scientists stated that the famous Shigir idol is the most ancient image of evil spirits. In their opinion, the images on the Ural artifact may personify the devil. Wooden sculpture was discovered in the Urals in the second half of the 19th century. Initially, the height of the idol was 5.3 meters, but now, after the loss of the lower part, it reaches 3.4 meters.
Shigir idol from the Urals turned out to be the oldest personification of demons
An international group of scientists has stated that the famous Shigir idol is the oldest depiction of evil spirits. In their opinion, the images on the Ural artifact may personify the devil.
Wooden sculpture was discovered in the Urals in the second half of the 19th century. Initially, the height of the idol was 5.3 meters, but now, after the loss of the lower part, it reaches 3.4 meters. The body of the most ancient artifact is covered with a carved geometric ornament, and faces-masks are carved on its wide planes. In addition, scientists have found another mask on him, writes Gazeta.ru. According to them, they could personify evil spirits or even the devil, and the sculpture itself was used to perform rituals and scare people away from certain areas.
Recall that the researchers of the Shigir idol confirmed the age of the artifact. The Ural sculpture, which was made of wood, is more than 11 thousand years old. As a comparison, we can cite the oldest pyramid – the tomb of Pharaoh Cheops in Giza, which is only 4.5 thousand years old.
Letters from great French writers of the 19th century – Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, Georges Sand, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine – will be offered at auction in Paris, AFP reported.
They are part of the collection of the former university professor and lover of literature Jean-Luc Mercier and are offered for sale by the auction house “Cornette de Saint-Cyr”. The auction will be held on June 9.
Participants will be able to bid for a letter from Victor Hugo, written by Brussels in 1866 to journalist and admirer Auguste Vacquerie. The letter, a call against the death penalty, in which the author of “The Doomed” complains that “freedom is denied everywhere, the ideal is violated and reactionaryism thrives” is valued at between 8,000 and 10,000 euros.
Four letters from Gustave Flaubert to his ex-girlfriend, written between 1846 and 1853, were valued at up to 15,000 euros each. In one, Flaubert said of the writing of Madame Bovary: “No lyricism. No reasoning. The author’s personality is absent. It will be sad to read.”
In a letter from 1868 addressed to Flaubert, Georges Sand complained that he lived in isolation. “You, angry troubadour, I suspect you enjoy the craft more than anything in the world,” Sand said.
The twentieth century and especially surrealism are well represented in the collection. A collage by Andre Breton entitled “Ghost Team” is valued at between 10,000 and 15,000 euros, as well as a book in English about Salvador Dali with a dedication drawn by the Spanish artist.
The most expensive lot, valued at between 40,000 and 50,000 euros, is an original edition of Julien Grach’s novel The Shores of Sirte, accompanied by a letter from the author to Jean-Luc Mercier explaining his literary project.
Participants will also be able to bid for an original edition of Emmanuel Arsan’s novel Emanuela, with a nude photo of the author by Pierre Molinier, valued at between 7,000 and 8,000 euros.
A total of 345 lots will be offered at the auction.
On Earth, there are many species that consist of only females that breed without the participation of males. It is generally believed that this method of reproduction inevitably leads to negative consequences for the species. But a grasshopper living in Australia has shown that even after a quarter of a million years of life without males, nothing threatens the well-being of the species.
Biology
Most living beings on our planet have two sexes: male and female. This state of affairs seems natural and correct to us, but, as often happens in the wild, not always and not all species follow the beaten path, because there are many animal species in which intraspecific mating does not occur, but they do not die out, but safely still exist.
They continue their race through parthenogenesis, or “virgin reproduction”: unfertilized eggs develop in the bodies of females, from which new individuals are obtained, usually also females. Most often, invertebrate animals (for example, insects and crustaceans) reproduce by parthenogenesis, but it is also found in vertebrates: about 70 species are known, including lizards, frogs, and even some birds, in which reproduction occurs without the participation of male individuals. In mammals, such species are not known in nature, but under laboratory conditions, cubs have already been obtained from same-sex pairs of mice.
It is believed that this method of reproduction is unstable and loses in comparison with the usual sexual one: since daughters are, in fact, clones of their mothers, the genetic diversity of the species is extremely low, and if external conditions change, this can lead to the extinction of the species. However, nature once again decided to dispel our misconceptions: after eighteen years of studying the parthenogenetic grasshopper Warramaba virgo, scientists came to the conclusion that its species has existed for a quarter of a million years and is in no hurry to die out.
According to the results of the study, W. virgo was formed as a result of interspecific crossing of two other sexually reproducing species: W. flavolineata and W. whitei. Initially, scientists believed that the high viability of W. virgo was associated with repeated crosses of parental species and the effect of heterosis, in which hybrids have better characteristics than parental species (an eloquent example is the mule). However, a genetic study of all three species of grasshoppers has shown that this is not the case: W. virgo appeared as a result of a single “wrong” mating, judging by the number of accumulated mutations that occurred about 250 thousand years ago.
Also, W. virgo did not have any advantages over its parents in terms of physiological traits: this species did not stand out either in terms of resistance to heat and cold, or in terms of metabolic rate, or in terms of the number of eggs laid, the rate of development of offspring, and life expectancy. Nevertheless, for a quarter of a million years, W. virgo has successfully existed on the planet and even managed to spread throughout southern Australia, which its ancestors could not achieve.
It turns out that W. virgo has become a parthenogenetic species without any pluses and minuses for itself. But in this case, the question arises why the original species did not completely dissolve in each other, forming a single hybrid population. The scientists decided to test this by artificially crossing W. flavolineata and W. whitei and producing several hybrid females. None of them were able to produce viable offspring, which means that the unique mating that gave rise to W. virgo was also a very successful combination of circumstances, a kind of winning the genetic lottery, thanks to which the new species managed to hold out for so long .. A hybrid individual, obtained in the laboratory: unlike the “wild”, she laid only a few eggs that never hatched.
Further research into parthenogenetic species may allow us to answer questions about the benefits of not only bisexual mating, but avoiding it.
The results of the study are published in the journal Science.
The Swiss government has vetoed a request from Denmark to allow it to send Swiss-made armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, citing its policy of neutrality, under which it does not supply weapons to conflict zones, Reuters reported. in a statement from the Swiss television “SRF”.
The Swiss Secretariat of State for Economic Affairs (DIPC) has rejected a request from Denmark to allow Ukraine to provide about 20 armored infantry vehicles to the Piranha III, the television said, citing confirmation from the agency itself. DUIS has not yet commented on the information.
Neutral Switzerland requires foreign countries that purchase Swiss weapons to seek permission before re-exporting it. In April, it vetoed the re-export of Swiss-made anti-aircraft ammunition that Germany is sending to Ukraine. She also refused a request from Poland for weapons to help her neighbor Ukraine.
Switzerland has put an end to past practices and imposed EU sanctions aimed at punishing Russia for invading Ukraine, which Moscow describes as a special military operation to disarm and “denazification” the neighboring country. But Switzerland’s neutrality faces its most serious test in decades amid the country’s ongoing debate over how to implement a policy that prevented Switzerland from participating in the two world wars of the 20th century.
Chaos in the sphere of air transportation has also affected Israel, disrupting the plans of thousands of passengers
If you are going abroad this summer, you should not count on the fact that the trip will go according to plan. It may have to be cancelled. The chaos that has engulfed Ben Gurion Airport due to a labor conflict between pilots and the administration of the El Al airline is nothing compared to what could begin in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile in the world
In Europe and North America, low-cost airlines are canceling flights due to labor shortages. Demand for tickets has returned to pre-crisis levels, and there is no one to operate and service flights. This is not about isolated cases, but about the cancellation of several hundred flights a day.
Just last week, the British company EasyJet canceled 200 flights on European routes. Thousands of passengers are stuck at airports. Global chaos has also affected Israel: the Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air canceled the next flights on the London-Tel Aviv route, which is very popular.
Tickets to nowhere
Israelis literally every minute report on social networks about the sudden cancellation of flights of foreign airlines. “I just got a notification that my flight has been cancelled. Please help me contact Wizz Air,” writes one passenger. Another calls for no more contact with budget airlines. And such messages in just one day – hundreds, if not thousands. The reason is known to everyone: low-cost airlines sell tickets smartly, but cannot fulfill their obligations to passengers due to a lack of staff.
Pandemonium at London Gatwick Airport (Photo: EPA)
About 70 dissidents who left the Russian Federation for Germany due to Russian aggression against Ukraine on a 90-day visa will be able to obtain a residence permit from the German authorities. Spiegel reports.
The Federal Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs of Germany have developed a program for Russian citizens entering German territory on temporary visas and not wanting to return to Russia because of the danger.
The document prepared by the departments notes that Germany has “a special political obligation … towards people who in recent years have defended human rights, democracy and the rule of law contrary to the political course of the Russian leadership.”
The program provides for the possibility of granting a residence permit for Russians who:
• have been or are employees of German institutions and organizations abroad;
• work in the human rights field;
• are members of organizations recognized in Russia as “foreign agents” or “undesirable organizations”;
• journalists whose media were closed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Their temporary 90-day visas will be replaced with long-term ones, which, in particular, will give them the right to work. In addition, it is assumed that during the first year of their stay in Germany, Russian dissidents will receive financial assistance through grants.
Spiegel does not name the Russians who are planned to be granted permanent residence in Germany, but quotes Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, who stated problems with living on German territory.
Earlier, German media reported that the German federal government wants to make it easier for Kremlin critics from Russia to enter the country.
In addition, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser will present a report on the defense of the constitution, which will focus on the threat of Russian espionage.
The German government was urged not to give Ukraine heavy weapons.
This proposal was made by the leader of the faction of the Left Party in the Bundestag, Dietmar Bartsch, according to Welt.
“I am categorically against Germany exporting more and heavier weapons to Ukraine,” he said.
“I am convinced that there will be no military solution,” he said, adding that “in the end, Russia should sit down at the negotiating table.”
According to the publication, Bartsch also wondered “what does it mean when they say that Ukraine must win the war.”
Bartsch is a German “leftist”, served in the army of the GDR, called for the lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation.
Help for Ukraine:
On June 1, US President Joe Biden announced a new weapons package for Ukraine, including HIMARS highly mobile artillery missile systems, precision weapons that can hit targets up to 80 kilometers away.
In addition, the aid package will include: highly mobile artillery rocket systems and ammunition; anti-artillery radars; air surveillance radars; Javelin and command and launch modules for them; anti-tank weapons; artillery shells of 155 mm caliber; Mi-17 helicopters; tactical vehicles; spare parts and equipment.
Also on June 1, information appeared that Germany intends to supply Ukraine with four multiple rocket launcher systems (MLRS) from the Bundeswehr stocks.
On the same day, June 1, Germany clarified that the delivery of air defense to Ukraine would take months.
On June 2, the British Ministry of Defense officially announced the transfer to Ukraine of American M270 multiple launch rocket systems capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 80 kilometers.
In Ukraine, a large-scale write-off of loans from citizens may begin. Debts, of course, will not be written off for everyone. However, the government wants to release some borrowers from the obligation to pay on loans that were issued by banks for the purchase of real estate and movable property. In other words, for the purchase of apartments and cars. Loans will be written off only from those who lost this property due to the war.
Such news, encouraging for many unlucky borrowers, was published in his Telegram channel by the head of the tax committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Daniil Getmantsev.
“On behalf of the President, we agreed with the Head of the National Bank and the Prime Minister on the development of a draft law on writing off debt on consumer loans for the purchase of movable and immovable property that was destroyed during the hostilities,” the people’s deputy said.
He also writes that the draft law developed by them will be submitted to the parliament next week.
Graphologists study people’s handwriting, revealing the relationship between their writing style and character. It is believed that handwriting can be used to make a psychological portrait of a person and determine his main personality traits.
UNIAN will tell you what handwriting to the left means and other nuances of the epistolary manifestation of oneself.
What handwriting can tell – 4 main nuances
Character by handwriting with examples
The researchers say that before starting to study handwriting, it is important to meet the necessary conditions. Firstly, it is better to write with a pen or pencil – this way you can find out the pressure force. Secondly, for the purity of the experiment, ask a person to write something at different times, under different conditions and in his different states – this will allow you to find out his alternative sides of his personality.
The slope of the handwriting
If a person writes, tilting the letters to the left, then he is an individualist who does not care about the opinion of society. He will always put his own interests above anyone else’s. If the slope to the left is strong, then this indicates self-sufficiency and independence of the individual.
Tilt to the right – a sign of creativity, poise and sociability. There may be mood swings. A noticeable angle of inclination to the right warns of irascibility and jealousy, this handwriting is a clear sign of a leader.
Handwriting without an inclination reveals a person who thinks rationally. She is in harmony with herself and practically does not suffer from internal conflicts. Such people always make informed decisions, but their main drawback is stubbornness.
Pushing the handle
Scientists believe that a person who presses the pen or pencil too hard while writing is energetic and self-confident in life. He is sociable, independent and always has his own point of view.
Light pressure is a sign of a romantic and creative nature, incapable of excessive purposefulness. Such people do everything slowly, measuredly, carefully. Often a person with light pressure has a weak willpower and character.
handwriting size
This indicator can help to find out how sociable a person is. Large letters (more than 3 mm) indicate openness, increased emotionality and sensitivity. They can lead the crowd, convince and lead.
The medium and small size of the letters hints that you have a responsible and hardworking person. Such people can be trusted with important matters. The smaller the letters, the more prudence, secrecy and isolation in a person.
Wide letters, in turn, are a sign of good nature, sincerity and kindness, and narrow letters are pettiness and greed.
Roundness of letters
Angular and sharp letters give out a person who is selfish, narcissistic and independent. Such a person will always strive for independence and refuse situations where she is told what to do.
Round letters, on the contrary, are a sign of belonging to the company, responsiveness and friendliness. The owners of rounded letters come to the rescue more often than others, they know how to find compromises and become true friends.
European Parliament to discuss the resumption of hostilities in Nagorno Karabakh TheEuropeanTimes INFO
The agreed legislation aims to ensure that minimum wages in all EU countries guarantee decent living standards for workers.
With a deal struck on Monday night, Parliament and Council negotiators agreed on EU rules to set adequate minimum wages, as provided by national law and/or collective agreements. The new legislation will apply to all EU workers who have an employment contract or employment relationship. The EU countries in which the minimum wage is protected exclusively via collective agreements will not be obliged to introduce it nor to make these agreements universally applicable.
Adequate wages
According to the agreement, member states will have to assess whether their existing statutory minimum wages (i.e. the lowest wage permitted by law) are adequate to ensure a decent standard of living, taking into account their own socio-economic conditions, purchasing power or the long-term national productivity levels and developments.
For the adequacy assessment, EU countries may establish a basket of goods and services at real prices. Member states may also apply indicative reference values commonly used internationally, such as 60% of the gross median wage and 50% of the gross average wage.
Deductions from or variations to the minimum wage will have to be non-discriminatory, proportionate and have a legitimate objective, such as the recovery of overstated amounts paid or deductions ordered by a judicial or administrative authority.
Collective bargaining
EU negotiators agreed that EU countries will have to strengthen sectoral and cross-industry collective bargaining as an essential factor for protecting workers by providing them with a minimum wage. Member states in which less than 80% of the workforce is protected by a collective agreement will have to create an action plan to progressively increase this coverage. To design the best strategy for this purpose, they should involve social partners and inform the Commission of the adopted measures and make the plan public.
Monitoring and right to redress
The agreed text introduces the obligation for EU countries to set up an enforcement system, including reliable monitoring, controls and field inspections, to ensure compliance and address abusive sub-contracting, bogus self-employment, non-recorded overtime or increased work intensity.
National authorities will have to ensure the right to redress for workers whose rights have been infringed. Authorities must also take the necessary measures to protect workers and trade union representatives.
Next steps
The provisional political agreement reached by the EP negotiating team will now have to be approved first by the Employment and Social Affairs Committee, followed by a plenary vote. The Council also has to approve the deal.
Quotes
After the deal was struck, co-rapporteur Dennis Radtke (EPP, DE) said: “With the agreement on minimum wages, we are writing socio-political history in Europe. For the first time, EU legislation will contribute directly to ensuring that workers are getting fairer, better pay checks”.
Co-rapporteur Agnes Jongerius (S&D, NL) added : With this European law, we reduce wage inequalities, and push for higher wages for Europe’s lowest paid workers. They should be able to buy new clothes, join a sports team, or go on a well-deserved holiday. In short, they should have a decent standard of living”.
Dragos PÎSLARU, (Renew, RO), Chair of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee concluded: “The directive opens new opportunities for European citizens to avoid in-work poverty and gain access to social dialogue. It creates transparent and appropriate procedures as well as common enforcement measures at EU level while also balancing national particularities”.
Background
In the EU, 21 out of 27 countries have a statutory minimum wage, while in the other six (Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Sweden) wage levels are determined through collective bargaining. Expressed in euro, monthly minimum wages vary widely across the EU, ranging from €332 in Bulgaria to €2 202 in Luxembourg (2021 data from Eurostat).
