St. Andrew's flag "God and St. Andrew's flag are with us!" - with these words in the fleet of the Russian Empire, ship commanders addressed their crews before the battle. St. Andrew's flag is the main ship's stern flag of the Russian fleet. He...

​Cases when a person buys a plane ticket, but at the airport finds out that he is prohibited from flying abroad, can be classified as ordinary. This happens quite often. And all because many do not even know that restrictions apply to them...

Ecology of knowledge. Science and Technology: For over 20 years, China was essentially the plastic dumping ground of several countries, including the UK. Now this door is closed and no one knows what to do. For more than 20 years, China was essentially a plastic dump...

Dangers in Australia Let me tell you that living in Australia is not as dangerous as it seemed at first glance, every year no more than one person dies from the teeth of sharks, the last death from poisonous spiders was recorded in 1979, in cities you can...

The long-awaited summer has finally arrived! Do you want to know how many days off the first month of the warm season will give us? June marks several holidays, some of which have national and international status. From this article you will learn...

The resort island of Djerba is located just 120 km from the city of Ben Garden, which, in turn, borders Libya. As recently as March of this year, terrorists attacked barracks there, after which the authorities extended the state of emergency throughout...

Young Soviet Russia recognized the Portsmouth Treaty of 1905 as valid. It was concluded after the Russo-Japanese War. Under this agreement, Japan not only retained all the Kuril Islands, but also received Southern Sakhalin. This was the case with...

As we have already written (more than once), the labor market in Belarus is now quite tight: the number of vacancies has been declining recently, wages are not growing, and in some industries they are even falling. In this situation, many are thinking about going to...

65 years ago, on September 8, 1951, a peace treaty between the countries of the Anti-Hitler Coalition and Japan was signed in San Francisco. The USSR, however, refused to sign that agreement due to incorrect wording regarding the Kuril Islands: Japan admitted that it was transferring...

Tsunamis are giant and long ocean waves that arise as a result of an underwater volcanic eruption or earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 7. During an underwater earthquake, sections of the ocean floor shift, creating a series...