​Lyap 2022: “We also have our own fools” ● Mircea Carterescu: I don’t want to become popular in the world and sell millions of copies. If I wanted to, I would have left a long time ago ● The tax office in Iasi caught the Austrian giant reducing its profits through intragroup contracts by tens of millions of lei ● The curse of multinational companies. What do Cluj-Napoca and Dublin have in common or how prosperity can also lead to poverty ● How great was the influence of Russian propaganda in Romania last year ● The research of the Romanian scientist Sergiu Paška was included in the top 10 world scientific achievements of 2022 ● Why the Russian economy did not collapse in 2022, as announced by experts ● Accident in Passaj Unirii. Who will pay for the victims and how much can the victims and the families of the dead receive? ● China will claim territory on the moon if it wins the new space race, warns the head of NASA

The blunders of 2022: “We also had our own fools. And we still have them”

The largest gathering of people this year was also recorded at Vodokhreshcha. On her way home from work, a retired teacher from Galati found a message sent by Apa Canal in her mailbox that sent chills down her spine. According to the document, she died!, but she also had to urgently go to the Apă channel to find out the fate of the contract that was left without an owner due to her death. Otherwise, he had to stop the water supply.writes Viața Libera.

Mircea Carterescu: I don’t want to become popular in the world and sell millions of copies. If I wanted to, I would have left a long time ago

From the statements of Mircea Carterescu:

When I return to the country, I feel good: I am home again.

The lesson for Ukrainians (no matter what happens from now on) is that evil, no matter how disproportionate, must be dealt with. And the more cruel and inhumane it seems, the greater the resistance must become.

Vargas Llosa was one of the great heroes of my youth, and I never dreamed of meeting him more than in his books. When I saw him face to face, I had a strange sense of distorted reality: it couldn’t be.

I believe that my mind, though it does not know how to write a book, can write one.

I don’t know and I don’t care how visible Romanian literature is abroad. I do not divide literature into nations, – says Cartarescu in PressHub

The tax office in Iasi caught the Austrian giant Egger reducing profits due to intra-group contracts worth tens of millions of lei

After an inspection carried out during 2018-2019 on enterprises in Romania belonging to the Austrian furniture, parquet and flooring group Egger, the Regional General Directorate of Public Finances of Iași decided to make them pay fiscal obligations of 3,363,754 lei, representing the additional established profit. tax and 4,306,181 lei, which represents additional VAT – a total of approximately 7.7 million lei. The audited period is October 2013-December 2018. Egger paid the money, and then applied to the Suceava Court of Appeal to annul the decision and return the money, as well as pay interest on the amounts established as additional and interest. is calculated from the date of payment of these amounts to him until the date of their return/compensation by the Department of Finance., writes ReporterIS

The curse of multinational companies. What do Cluj-Napoca and Dublin have in common, or how prosperity can also lead to poverty

They say that “everything is different in Cluj”. Transylvania’s largest city is a unique case in Romania, full of students and graduates with well-paid jobs, expensive rents and specialty coffee. But it is not the only one in Europe.

And Dublin, the capital of Ireland, was flocking to students and corporations (not only national elites, but also experts from all over the world), rents became expensive, and so did specialty coffee. This wave started faster and hit harder in the Irish city, which is now suffering from its own unsustainable success.

Ordinary people in Dublin can no longer afford to live in their own city, they are being pushed out by Google or Microsoft workers who are paid two, three, five, seven times more than they are, writes Free Europe.

How great was the influence of Russian propaganda in Romania last year

Former senator from AUR Diana Sosoake is one of them. They are joined by another series of politicians close to the Alliance for the Union of Romanians.

They did not promote messages of support for Moscow or the war, but they had many narratives that denied the aid provided by the European Union or Romania to refugees, they demanded that Romania use the conflict to achieve its revisionist goals, or they questioned Ukraine’s ability to participate in this wars or state existence.

Influencers in this field are also associated with supporting anti-vaccine or anti-authority narratives during the pandemic. writes Free Europe.

The research of the Romanian scientist Sergiu Pashka was included in the top 10 world scientific achievements of 2022

The research conducted by the scientist Serhiu Pashka was included in the 10 most relevant scientific achievements of 2022 worldwide in the rating of “The Week” magazine. the team of researchers from Stanford University in the USA, coordinated by Sergiu Pashka, ranks 9th in this top.

Previously, nuclear fusion, which for the first time produced more energy than it consumed, James Webb’s telescope, the creation of a universal vaccine or changing the trajectory of an asteroid were placed. The discovery, made by Sergiu Pashka, precedes another important achievement: obtaining embryos in the laboratory without using eggs or sperm, write the truth

Why the Russian economy did not collapse in 2022, as experts said, and what awaits it in 2023

University of California professor Oleg Itshokki explained to “Meduza” that this did not happen because the Russian authorities introduced unprecedented measures to keep the maximum amount of currency inside the country and stop the storming of banks. And at the end of March, it became clear that the inflow of export revenue is so large that it is enough for all foreign currency needs. This was facilitated by the fact that in the first months of the Russian invasion, the sanctions had almost no effect on the export of hydrocarbons: only the United States imposed an embargo on Russian oil, but supplies there were already small, and the European Union continued to buy Russian oil and gas. Svoboda writes

Accident in Passaj Unirii. Who will pay for the victims and how much can the victims and the families of the dead receive?

Insurance company Ydrogios Isurance&Reinsurance will have to pay compensation for bodily injury and death after a road accident that happened last week in Passaj Unirii, according to data used by Economica. The company is registered in Cyprus but has its most important activities in Greece, the main product sold is car insurance, especially RCA.

The condition for indemnification by the insurer is that the bus driver is found guilty of the accident. Claims management in Romania is to be handled by Imperial Claims Services, a company specializing in regular claims verification, which has been appointed by the Greek insurer as the correspondent for Romania in the Green Card system. writes Economy.

China will claim territory on the moon if it wins the new space race, warns the head of NASA

A former astronaut, the head of the US space agency believes that the US is in a “new space race with China” and warns that the “victory” of the Asian state could lead to the country claiming to “own” vast areas of the Moon, “to control its resources “. Nelson warned that it is entirely possible that China will “delineate the most resource-rich areas on the lunar surface if it establishes a presence there first.” “It is a fact that we are participating in the space race. And we better make sure that Chinese astronauts don’t go to the moon under the guise of scientific research and end up saying, “Don’t go, we’re here, this is our territory,” Nelson said. according to Svoboda.

Interception by special services can again be used as evidence in criminal proceedings

The Ministry of Justice proposes in a draft amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure to use records of special services as evidence in criminal proceedings, including in cases of corruption offenses, although the Constitutional Court declared two years ago that a similar provision in the CPP is unconstitutional.

However, the Court then left the door open to the Government for further regulation, showing in the reasoning of the decision that “by simply regulating the possibility of providing the quality of evidence as a means of proving these records, without creating an appropriate framework that would provide an opportunity to challenge their legality, the legislator introduced without complying with the requirements of clarity and predictability”, writes PressHub