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Lukoil is “choking” with fuel oil: plants are on the verge of shutdown

Lukoil company has warned the authorities about the possible termination of the work of its oil refineries (refineries). The corresponding letter was sent by the beneficiary of the organization Vagit Alikperov to the Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak on March 25, 2022. The reason was Western sanctions, which led to a significant decrease in the volume of shipped fuel oil. According to Kommersant, the fuel storage facilities of Lukoil plants are overfilled. The volume of exported fuel oil decreased...

Yenisei chemical plant demands millions from the Ministry of Industry and Trade

More than 10 years have passed since the recognition of the Krasnoyarsk chemical plant ‘Yenisei’ as bankrupt. However, the enterprise continues to apply to the Ministry of Industry and Trade with applications to the capital's arbitration with enviable regularity, demanding multimillion sums. In August 2020, the company's claims amounted to 65 million rubles, in February 2021 - to more than 70 million rubles. This time, the amount of the claim exceeded 133 million (case No. A40-44801/22). The...

Experts predict liquidation of 20% of clothing stores in Russia

The pandemic, which reoriented the Russian consumer to online shopping, revealed a number of trends in the clothing market. Experts point out that one of them is conscious consumption. This trend, in their opinion, can ‘bury’ up to 20% of the current clothing market by 2035. Alexey Bazhenov, the head of the NTI WearNet group, made a similar forecast. According to the expert, in 2020-2021, about 40% of clothing stores, which did not have time to adapt their business to e-commerce technologies,...

Students are suing Apple over the absence of chargers in iPhone packages

Students of Beijing University of Chemistry and Technology and Donghua University have filed a large class action lawsuit against Apple. The students are demanding that the company include a charger in an IPhone set, rather than selling it separately for big sums of money. The fact is that new smartphones do not come with chargers. The plaintiffs applied to the court back in September, claiming that Apple was violating the rights and interests of consumers. At the moment, the case is being supplemented...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle turned out to have multimillion-dollar debts

The media found out that the fund, previously owned by the representatives of the British royal couple, owes almost 79 thousand pounds sterling to NPO. According to the Daily Mail, the Sussex Royal Foundation was supposed to transfer funds to a certain non-profit organization, the name of which was not specified. Under the agreement, the fund was obliged to return 213 thousand pounds (about 22 million rubles) for a year, but transferred only 134.5 thousand pounds (13.5 million rubles). In terms...

ISRAEL BANNED SALE AND IMPORT OF ANIMAL FUR

Israel has adopted a rule introducing a ban on the sale and import of fur in the country - this is the first case of refusal to sell fur at the state level. The rule will affect the fashion industry, but there will be an exception for the purposes of science, education and religion. According to the Minister of the Environment of Israel, the fur industry kills and makes suffering a huge number of animals, and the use of the resulting products is meaningless and immoral. Critics of the amendment...

ELON MUSK SAYS TESLA HAS SUSPENDED ACCEPTING BITCOINS FOR VEHICLE PURCHASES

The day before Elon Musk made a statement on the suspension of the sale of Tesla cars for bitcoins. The entrepreneur linked this decision with the mining of cryptocurrency, which is now carried out, including with the help of coal. Musk expressed his concern over the fact that environmentally damaging fossil fuels are increasingly being used for Bitcoin transactions. Musk mentioned the promising future of cryptocurrency, adding that Tesla cannot afford to harm nature in this way. In addition,...

ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST MINING COMPANIES FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY

Samarco Mineracao SA, owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale and the BHP Group holding, has filed a lawsuit seeking legal protection against bankruptcy. The appeal to the court of the state of Minas Gerais to restructure the company’s debt, according to Reuters, is similar to the application usually filed by bankrupt companies in the United States, citing Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code. Samarco is the second largest mining and iron ore pellet company in the world. Until 2015, the company's...

PUBLIC HYDROGEN TRANSPORT WILL BE LAUNCHED IN MOSCOW

New hydrogen buses may appear in the capital in the next 30 years. This will help improve the ecology of the city by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to RBC, referring to the head of the Moscow Department of Transport Maxim Liksutov, the Russian Federation is in the Paris Agreement on Climate, and therefore by 2030 the country is ...

BILL GATES CALLS FOR RICH COUNTRIES TO SHIFT TO SYNTHETIC BEEF

One of the richest people in the world, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that the shift to synthetic beef would help to avoid a climate catastrophe. Gates believes that rich countries should pay heed to this proposal. In an interview with Technology Review, Bill Gates said that artificial food did not taste like natural food, but people would get used to it over time. At the same time, he noted that synthetic beef can have a beneficial effect on the environment - by eliminating methane emissions...

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