По
данным агентства Tempo, Украина попала в топ-10 стран с самым большим
объёмом мусора на каждого жителя. Тройку лидеров в этом рейтинге
занимают Канада, Болгария и США.
В Канаде на одного жителя в год
приходится 36 тонн отходов (считаются не только бытовые, но и
промышленные), а в Болгарии - 26,7 тонн. Дальше картина выглядит так:
Эстония - 23,5 тонны мусора на человека; Финляндия - 16,6 тонны; Армения
- 16,3 тонны; Швеция - 16,2 тонны; Люксембург - 11,8 тонны; Украина -
10,6 тонны; и Сербия - 8,9 тонны.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan look like provinces of China
Today Kyrgyzstan is swarming with thousands of Chinese farmers and ubiquitous eateries serving Chinese food. Hooked on low-interest loans given by Beijing, the Central Asian nation of 6.2 million people looks like the province of China.
As far as Sino-Tajik relations are concerned, in 2011 Tajikistan ceded 4% or 1,158 square kilometers of its land in the remote Pamir mountain range, the size of Albania, to China on the disputed section of the border between the two countries. Reportedly, 100,000 Chinese workers flooded this former Soviet state to build roads. In Tajikistan, a Chinese company is majority owner of the largest gold mine.
As far as Sino-Tajik relations are concerned, in 2011 Tajikistan ceded 4% or 1,158 square kilometers of its land in the remote Pamir mountain range, the size of Albania, to China on the disputed section of the border between the two countries. Reportedly, 100,000 Chinese workers flooded this former Soviet state to build roads. In Tajikistan, a Chinese company is majority owner of the largest gold mine.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
In Kazakhstan, Chinese investors buy oil, gas companies
Reportedly, China exports annually goods worth $15 billion to Kazakhstan. Chinese investors are actively purchasing oil and gas companies in this former Soviet republic.
According to various sources, 20-50% of Kazakh oil belongs to Chinese businessmen. At present, the Chinese produce more than 17 million tons of oil in Kazakhstan.
Chinese restaurants are mushrooming in the capital city of Kazakhstan, and they are not faced with a shortage of visitors. Over the course of one year alone, 12,000 citizens of China received the right to work in the former Soviet republic. The Chinese account for 38% of all migrant workers in Kazakhstan, while the rumor runs that 400,000 unskilled laborers with Chinese passports illegally penetrated into the country.
According to various sources, 20-50% of Kazakh oil belongs to Chinese businessmen. At present, the Chinese produce more than 17 million tons of oil in Kazakhstan.
Chinese restaurants are mushrooming in the capital city of Kazakhstan, and they are not faced with a shortage of visitors. Over the course of one year alone, 12,000 citizens of China received the right to work in the former Soviet republic. The Chinese account for 38% of all migrant workers in Kazakhstan, while the rumor runs that 400,000 unskilled laborers with Chinese passports illegally penetrated into the country.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
PACE lifts sanctions imposed against Russia
Recently, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) lifted sanctions imposed against Russia in 2014. Russia was readmitted by 118 votes in favor and 62 against, with 10 abstentions. Importantly, Russia has frozen 33 million euros worth of its considerable annual budget payments to the Council of Europe since 2017.
The fierce resistance of the Ukrainian delegation did not help the situation.
PACE has long been preparing to change the mechanism of sanctions, and the name of the winner of the presidential elections in Ukraine would not upset these plans. It is worth noting that voting in the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly during which parliamentary delegations from France and Germany voted to mitigate the sanctions took place after the visit of Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelensky to these countries.
During joint press briefings with the Ukrainian president who is a former comedian with no political experience, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel did not hide the fact that they were looking for a way to return Russia to PACE. Reportedly, the actions of the Europeans implied that Russia should reciprocate by releasing 24 captured Ukrainian sailors for the return of the delegation of the Russian Federal Assembly to the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly, ending the threat to expel it.
The events in PACE were followed by the Russia's note in terms of the return of the Ukrainian sailors, stating the condition that they serve the sentence, which was imposed on them in Russia, on the territory of Ukraine.
Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that the sanctions are partly related to Crimea, for 300 years a Russian province with a Russian population that voted by a 97% majority to rejoin Russia when the United States overthrew the Ukrainian government in a coup during the Sochi Olympics and installed a Washington puppet. The Western presstitutes treat this exercise in democracy as "Russian aggression".
The fierce resistance of the Ukrainian delegation did not help the situation.
PACE has long been preparing to change the mechanism of sanctions, and the name of the winner of the presidential elections in Ukraine would not upset these plans. It is worth noting that voting in the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly during which parliamentary delegations from France and Germany voted to mitigate the sanctions took place after the visit of Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelensky to these countries.
During joint press briefings with the Ukrainian president who is a former comedian with no political experience, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel did not hide the fact that they were looking for a way to return Russia to PACE. Reportedly, the actions of the Europeans implied that Russia should reciprocate by releasing 24 captured Ukrainian sailors for the return of the delegation of the Russian Federal Assembly to the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly, ending the threat to expel it.
The events in PACE were followed by the Russia's note in terms of the return of the Ukrainian sailors, stating the condition that they serve the sentence, which was imposed on them in Russia, on the territory of Ukraine.
Readers of The Ukrainian Times know that the sanctions are partly related to Crimea, for 300 years a Russian province with a Russian population that voted by a 97% majority to rejoin Russia when the United States overthrew the Ukrainian government in a coup during the Sochi Olympics and installed a Washington puppet. The Western presstitutes treat this exercise in democracy as "Russian aggression".
В КАЗАХСТАНЕ КИТАЙСКИЙ БИЗНЕС ПОКУПАЕТ НЕФТЯНЫЕ, ГАЗОВЫЕ КОМПАНИИ
Согласно сообщениям СМИ, Китай ежегодно продаёт в Казахстан товаров на 15 миллиардов долларов. Китайский бизнес активно покупает нефтяные и газовые компании - по разным данным, от 20% до 50% казахского "чёрного золота" принадлежат выходцам из Поднебесной. Сейчас китайцы добывают в Казахстане более 17 миллионов тонн нефти.
В столице Казахстана как грибы растут китайские рестораны, и у них нет недостатка в посетителях. Только за один год право на работу в республике бывшего Советского Союза получили 12 тысяч граждан КНР. Китайцы составляют 38% от всех трудовых мигрантов в Казахстане, и, по слухам, в Казахстан нелегально пробрались 400 тыс. чёрнорабочих с китайскими паспортами.
В столице Казахстана как грибы растут китайские рестораны, и у них нет недостатка в посетителях. Только за один год право на работу в республике бывшего Советского Союза получили 12 тысяч граждан КНР. Китайцы составляют 38% от всех трудовых мигрантов в Казахстане, и, по слухам, в Казахстан нелегально пробрались 400 тыс. чёрнорабочих с китайскими паспортами.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
PUT launches Doctoral School
1. Architecture and urbanism
2. Automatics, electronics and electrical engineering
3. Technical IT and telecommunications
4. Civil engineering and transport
5. Materials engineering
6. Mechanical engineering
7. Environmental engineering, mining and power engineering
8. Chemical sciences
9. Management and quality sciences.
Recruitment lasts until August 30.
More information: https://www.put.poznan.pl/en/studies-english/doctoral-school
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
ПАСЕ СНЯЛА САНКЦИИ С РОССИИ
Недавно Парламентская ассамблея Совета Европы (ПАСЕ) сняла санкции с России. Ожесточённое сопротивление украинской делегации не помогло.
ПАСЕ готовилась к изменению механизма санкций давно, и фамилия победителей президентских выборов на Украине эти планы не расстроила бы. Примечательно, что голосование в ПАСЕ, во время которого голоса за смягчение санкций дали парламентские делегации из Франции и Германии, произошло как раз после визита в эти страны Владимира Зеленского.
Президент Франции Эммануэль Макрон и канцлер ФРГ Ангела Меркель во время совместных брифингов с украинским президентом не скрывали, что ищут путь для возвращения России в ПАСЕ. Как сообщили потом украинские СМИ, действия европейцев подразумевали ответный ход России: возвращение делегации в обмен на освобождение украинских моряков.
После событий в ПАСЕ последовала российская нота о возвращении украинских моряков с тем условием, что они будут отбывать наказание, присуждённое им в России, на территории Украины.
ПАСЕ готовилась к изменению механизма санкций давно, и фамилия победителей президентских выборов на Украине эти планы не расстроила бы. Примечательно, что голосование в ПАСЕ, во время которого голоса за смягчение санкций дали парламентские делегации из Франции и Германии, произошло как раз после визита в эти страны Владимира Зеленского.
Президент Франции Эммануэль Макрон и канцлер ФРГ Ангела Меркель во время совместных брифингов с украинским президентом не скрывали, что ищут путь для возвращения России в ПАСЕ. Как сообщили потом украинские СМИ, действия европейцев подразумевали ответный ход России: возвращение делегации в обмен на освобождение украинских моряков.
После событий в ПАСЕ последовала российская нота о возвращении украинских моряков с тем условием, что они будут отбывать наказание, присуждённое им в России, на территории Украины.
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