TOP-5 news February 17

Helicopter -bearer "Mistral"

Polit.ru offers your attention the five news of the day. The selection included the three most read news, one news selected by the editorial office, and the most unusual, in our opinion, news today.

1. France spends 5 million euros monthly on the maintenance of Mistral

The French shipbuilding corporation DCNS spends about 5 million euros per month on the maintenance of the Vladivostok helicopter carrier, the first of two ships of the Mistral type, built by Russia.

The corporation, which built the Vladivostok, has to pay for the cost of maintaining the ship since November 2014, when it was supposed to cross the Russian side, but due to the Ukrainian conflict was not transferred. “The company suffers losses due to the fact that the helicopter-bearer Vladivostok is still at shipyards in the Saint-Call,” said the official representative of DCNS, Emmanuel Godez.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Defense of France, Jean-IV Le Drian, said that the issue of the transfer of Russia “Mistrall” is not on the agenda. France President Francois Hollandes linked the program with the normalization of the situation in eastern Ukraine.

Editor commentary: The first of the two helicopters ordered by Russia in 2011 was ready for operation in November last year. Earlier, the Minister of Defense Le Drian allowed the option by which the ships "may have never been transferred to Russia at all." President Vladimir Putin stated that in this case, Moscow would demand the return of the construction for construction - about 1 billion euros . Including through European arbitration . “We need either a ship or money. In my opinion, the second option is preferable, ”the Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the Russian government in the Russian government, said at the end of December 2014.

Paris does not even call the approximate terms for the transfer of Vladivostok to Russian sailors. The Ministry of Defense of France reported that the department was “not authorized to speak about the possible transfer of Mistrals”.

2. Three suns have risen over Chelyabinsk

Residents of Chelyabinsk in the morning observed three sunrise of the sun at once on the city. A rare optical phenomenon is called pargelia (in Greek: False Sun) and is one of the varieties of halo (halo around the light source), which usually occurs in winter in frosty weather.

“In the Urals, it got colder to 23-25 ​​degrees of frost. Small ice hexagonal crystals formed in the air, which cannot be seen with the naked look. The rays of the sun are refracted through them. As a result, Galo’s optical effect is created, ”said Galina Sheporenko, the main weather forecaster of the Sverdlovsk region.

She noted that it is extremely difficult to predict the onset of such a phenomenon. At the same time, the weather forecaster did not exclude that it could repeat this winter several more times. The type of halo can be very different - rainbow or white stripes, spots, arcs and circles in the sky.

The effect of three suns in Chelyabinsk

Editor comment: Galo is observed in Chelyabinsk and other Ural cities regularly, but this time a sharp decrease in temperature made it especially spectacular. This year, residents of Chelyabinsk saw Galo for the first time. Moreover, the optical effect at different times and in different areas of the city was not the same. According to the site of the first regional television channel, a rainbow was clearly visible at the peak of the glow.

Residents of the neighboring Sverdlovsk region could observe such an optical phenomenon on January 24.

In Moscow, in January, one could see another rare atmospheric phenomenon - light poles. Light pillars are formed with severe frost as a result of reflection of sunlight and city lights from microscopic ice crystals scattered in the air.

3. The media reported the possible introduction of an additional contribution to the pension fund

The Ministry of Finance is working on the introduction of additional tax to the Pension Fund in the amount of 1% from the income of each employee. In addition, the agency offers to cut pensions to working pensioners, and since 2016 to gradually increase the retirement age.

According to the sources of Gazeta.ru in the Ministry of Finance and the social bloc of the government, in addition to 13% of the income tax, Russians, according to the initiative, will have to give 1% of the earnings.

In addition to the introduction of a new tax in the Ministry of Finance, it was proposed to remove the fixed part of the pension for working pensioners who earn more than 2.5 subsistence minimums more than the pension. For this category of Russians, it is proposed to maintain only the insurance part of the pension.

Photo: gtn-pravda.ru

Editor commentary: The Ministry of Finance proposed such measures back in September 2014 when discussing the draft budget for 2015. According to the department’s calculations, the cutting of a fixed part of pensions will save 30 billion rubles a year. Then the head of government Dmitry Medvedev said that this measure could contradict the Constitution and did not support the initiative.

In addition to increasing the tax burden, the Ministry of Finance proposes to gradually increase the retirement age, bringing it to 63 years for both women and men. It is supposed to increase age by retirement annually by six months until this value is reached. As a result, men will retire at the age of 63 not earlier than 2022, and women - no earlier than 2032. Now men in Russia are retired at 60, women at 55.

The proposals of the Ministry of Finance are still at the stage of study within the ministry, the department has not yet brought them to the government level. However, the main ideas are already known to Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, responsible for the social bloc in the government.

Meanwhile, the other day, Vladimir Putin discussed raising the retirement age with the former head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin and the current members of the government. There were no specific decisions, however, as previously stated by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alekseyulyukaev, raising the retirement age in Russia is inevitable.

Choice of the editorial office

Hard disk manufacturers rejected the version of the provision of data data

Companies producing hard drives for computers said they did not cooperate with the US National Security Agency for the installation on the hard drives of the agency’s spy program.

Earlier, the Kaspersky Lab reported the largest cyberataka, which affected more than a hundred banks in 30 countries of the world. For two years, criminals transferred to their accounts from 300 million to $ 1 billion.

It was also reported that the attack is connected with the Stuxnet spy program, which supposedly stands the NSA. At the same time, the computers of banks who were attacked worked on hard drives of different manufacturers, including Western Digital, Seagate, IBM, Toshiba, Micron and Samsung.

Meanwhile, representatives of companies producing hard drives said that the disk device excludes the introduction of foreign code into it. Western Digital specified that they never provided their source codes to government organizations.

Western Digital hard drive

Editor commentary: “Kaspersky Laboratory”, when opening cybergrackers, acted together with Europol and Interpol, according to the LC website. A criminal group called Carbanak did not make robberies with users, but directly from banks, which has become a new stage of this kind of crimes.

The largest amounts of money were stolen during the invasion of the banking network. For each such raid, criminals stole up to 10 million dollars. On average, the robbery of one bank - from the infection of the first computer to the theft of money and to notice the traces - occupied hackers from two to four months.

The scheme began with the penetration of one of the organization’s employees into the computer using Phishing (when the letter comes to the user's address with a request to indicate the login and password). After infection of the car with the virus, the attackers gained access to the Bank’s internal network, found computers of administrators of cash transactions systems and began to monitor their monitors. As a result, the criminals knew every detail in the work of the bank’s staff and could imitate the usual actions of employees when transferring money to their own accounts.

“These robberies of banks differ from the rest in that cybercriminals used methods that allowed them to not depend on the software used in the bank, even if it was unique. Hackers did not even have to break bank services. They simply penetrated the corporate network and studied how you can disguise fraudulent actions to legitimate. This is really a professional robbery, ”said Sergey Golovanov, an expert at Kaspersky Laboratory.

In addition to banking operations, criminals controlled ATMs and activated the commands to issue cash at the established time, when a gang participant approached the ATM and took the money.

The trick of the day

Saudi mullah announced the immobility of the Earth regarding the Sun

In Saudi Arabia, Mullah Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari spoke about the immobility of the Earth regarding the Sun. He gave his lecture in one of the educational institutions of the country.

As an argument, the clergyman cited a flight from the UAE to China as an example. “If the earth rotates, China will also rotate and the plane will never reach it,” Al-Hibari said.

In which educational institution a lecture was held is unknown.

Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari is the head of the Saudi branch of the Al-Haramain charitable organization, which is enlightening the poor population in poor Muslim countries. For this, the organization builds schools and centers for the study of Islam.

Mullah Sheikh Bandar al-Khaibari

Editor commentary: Video with a lecture by the clergyman was published by Al Arabiya, after which it was widespread in social networks. The hashtag #cleric_Rotation_of_earth appeared on Twitter (the churchman rejects the rotation of the earth). One of the users noticed that the publication of the video coincided with the birthday of Galileo.

Galileo Galileo was born on February 15, 1564. The Italian astronomer was the first to use the telescope to observe celestial bodies. In addition, he preached the heliocentric system of the world. The fact that the Earth rotates around the Sun, the Catholic Church of that time considered the heresy.

A survey of the day

Alexey Kudrin became the most popular Russian politician among readers Polit.ru

During the survey conducted by Polit.ru on the VKontakte social network, it turned out that the ex-head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin causes the greatest respect among our readers. It is supported by almost a third of the respondents - 30.3%.

The final voting results were distributed as follows:

Alexey Kudrin - 30.3%

Alexey Navalny - 28.6%

Your version (in the comments) - 16.6%

Sergey Ivanov - 9.1%

Vladislav Surkov - 7.4%

Igor Sechin - 5.1%

Victor Ivanov - 1.7%

Alexey Gromov - 1.1%

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