In September, inflation in Europe rose to 3.4% in annual terms. This figure is a record since 2008, when the world was going through the financial crisis.

Western supplies of weapons to Ukraine will not contribute to the settlement of the conflict, but may encourage Kiev to provocate in the Donbass. This was announced by the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.

Scientists this year, for the first time in 20 years, note a cooling snap in the Pacific part of the Arctic, unusual against the background of global warming, it allowed polar bears and walruses to return to their usual way of life on ice and not go ashore.

Ukraine's accession to NATO would be an extremely dangerous step, it would force Moscow to react, the alliance was warned of possible consequences, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said.

The decision of the EU regulator to use the Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus may be made in the first quarter of next year, as foreign media write.

In Russia, isolated cases of a variety of the strain of coronavirus delta AY.4.2 were detected.