Omikron officially replaced Delta and became the predominant option for SARS-COV-2 in the United States, US centers for the control and prevention of diseases (CDC) said . From December 12 to December 18, the share of infection with a new strain reached 73.2% (Delta now accounts for 26.6%) of new diseases. Until December 12, the alignment of forces was like this: 12.6% by 87%, respectively.

The collapse of the USSR is still ongoing. Evidence of this is more than enough and 30 years after the document signed on December 8, 1991 in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha, according to which the Soviet Union as a subject of international law ceased to operate-which was enshrined in the Declaration on the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States on December 21, 1991 in Alma-Ata.

Photo: pixabay.com The last census of the population marked the key demographic problems of the PRC and confirmed many pessimistic forecasts of scientists. All the attention of the media this year was focused on the rapid aging of the population and the record decay of birth rate , which threaten the world economy with a new crisis . The topic of gender imbalance remained not enough: men in China were almost 35 million more than women.

A strange place is the Urals. Being in the middle of the mainland, he was always a place where the roads crossed, peoples, religions and interests were mixed. The spirit of clashes and rebellion is due to tectonic earth's stress, which formed a single continent for many millions of years.

One person who, in general, is more or less versed in Russian politics, wrote recently, analyzing the trends of the year: “The very ideology of the late Putin regime - the ideology of confrontation with Europe and the USA under the slogan of“ struggle for sovereignty ” - does not imply the possibility of the existence of a real opposition, the possibility of criticism of the authorities, and the possibility of appeal to the voter as a kind of arbitrary judge.

Ilon Musk, who recently became the man of the year according to Time and FT, continues to be the main newsmaker in the world of business. Last week, he had a public brush on Twitter with Senator Elizabeth Warren, who accused him of non -payment of taxes and that he pays taxes on a minimum with the help of all kinds of tricks.

- Our magazine is dedicated to China and Asia in general, the east. And more recently, we published the beautiful E -Sse Vladimir Solntsev , dedicated to the anniversary of the ritual harakiri of an outstanding Japanese writer Yukio Misima. I know that you once played in the play according to his play, the name of which was cut in terms of the name Hitler. - Yes, it was very funny.

We bring to your attention the ⁠SERIA ⁠ interview with Russian philosophers and leading specialists from various scientific disciplines studying ⁠ political life. In the format of conversations, intellectuals answer several questions, ⁠ how purely academic, ⁠ also socially significant.

The Cuban authorities object to Cuba to be called Failed State - an failed state. “The scenario that should be the US government is to try to show Cuba as a failed state,” said Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilia in his speech before the diplomatic corps accredited in Cuba. How right are those who claim that the Cuban state is really Failed? Among the defining elements characterizing the failed state, economic characteristics are fundamental.

To provide people with rare diseases, the government increased the personal income tax rate for people with high incomes. Did this help solve the problem? And could it help in principle? Spinraz is a medicine for patients SMA. Photo: Sebastian Gollnow / DPA / Global Look Press The cost of one orphan drug can be calculated by millions, and far from always - rubles.