Relations of NATO and Russia continue to deteriorate. The other day, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu said: “Against the backdrop of calls for the military deterrence of Russia, NATO consistently tighten strength to our borders. How this has already ended for Germany and Europe, the Minister of Defense of Germany is obliged to know well. ” Is a military conflict possible between the North Atlantic Alliance and Russia possible?

On October 25, 1971, China’s place in the UN passed from the Chinese Republic of Generalissimo Chan Kayshi (under whose jurisdiction only the island of Taiwan remained after 1949) to the Chinese People’s Republic of the chairman of the Mao Zedong.

On October 18, 2021, the outstanding Hungarian economist Yanosh Kornai died. A person who most accurately described the economy of the deficit, the author of the concept of “soft budgetary restriction”, explaining the inefficiency of a planned economy, probably made more for the funeral of socialism than many more well -known measures. Nevertheless, in 1999, he did not become a Nobel laureate, contrary to expectations.

Biologists fought over the problem of folding (styling, formation of a spatial structure or simply folding ). Specially trained AI of DeepMind solved many difficult tasks in this area in 15 minutes. The prediction of the spatial structure of the protein of Alphafold software is called the first significant result of the work of AI and a significant step in its development.

On the eve of the Cop26 climatic summit (October 31 - November 12), the countries silent previously decided to clarify their position. This is not surprising, because the date of the planned achievement of carbon neutrality already has all the leading countries of the world - without this they simply are not allowed into a decent society, experts say Prince Muhammad Bin Salman with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 2015.

Latvia goes to the leaders of the European Union on the dynamics of the incidence of the Covid-19, tough restrictions are introduced in the country, so the Riga Film Festival closed this year ahead of schedule. It is symbolic that before closing, they managed to show the experimental film “Forest”, which was born during the first Locksa, and then arrived in time for the second.