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Russia poses the greatest military threat to European security. This statement is contained in the new strategy for the modernization of the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom, published on the website of the Ministry of Defense of this state on Monday, March 22. The Forpost decided to find out whether the residents of Foggy Albion agree with such a definition.

When one speaks of relations between our country and Vietnam, the first thing that comes to mind is the Vietnam War, during which Moscow provided considerable support to the young republic. However, the ties are not limited to the events of fifty years ago.

This year’s most giant and fastest asteroid is headed towards Earth, approaching it shortly. On March 21, it will reach its closest distance to our planet. NASA experts inform the meteorite being a potentially hazardous object.

The collection of the Mining Museum has been enriched with a new exhibit directly related to the attacks of September 11, 2001. The bronze monument was created in three copies - one installed in New York, one in the Konstantinovsky Palace, and the third now in downtown St. Petersburg.

Denis Isupov, a graduate of St. Petersburg Mining University’s Department of Explosives Engineering (pictured far left) became one of three participants in Orica’s Young Professional Program. Representatives of the world’s largest manufacturer of explosives said that in two years they will turn the promising young man into a “real explosives engineer“. They explained their interest in adding recruits at the expense of recent students by the serious shortage of competent specialists in the industry.

Rector of St. Petersburg Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko had a working meeting with the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in St. Petersburg Stefano Weinberger. The parties discussed the preparation for the next Russian-German Raw Materials Forum, which will take place in April.

Hydrocarbon production accounts for 88% of Angola’s GDP. The country ranks second in oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, falling behind Nigeria only, and third in gas reserves, with Nigeria and Mozambique ahead. However, the Republic of Angola halted the production of natural gas in 2015.

21,000 tons of oil products in Norilsk, most of which found their way into the waters of northern rivers. Pollution of the ocean and the death of marine fauna in Kamchatka, one of the causes of which was named the Kozelsk pesticide landfill. And, of course, Usolye-Sibirskoye, where the bankrupt Usoliekhimprom poses a danger to the entire Irkutsk Region. Here mercury concentration exceeded the maximum permissible level in wastewater by 34 thousand times and in the air by 367 times.

Following the British QS, the second of the world’s three most authoritative companies for grading institutions of higher education noted the progress of St. Petersburg Mining University.

A delegation of the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas headed by Deputy Minister Tarun Kapoor paid a working visit to St. Petersburg Mining University. During the meeting with Rector Vladimir Litvinenko, they discussed such issues as training qualified specialists for the oil and gas industry and prospects of using hydrocarbons in the global fuel and energy balance