This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results show that the problem of food waste can be found at different levels in each country and that our knowledge of it is limited by the current lack of studies in the area. The problem is primarily due to food waste generated by the manufacturing sector, mostly in the form of unused or inefficiently used by-products, as well as on a share of food thrown away by households that is still suitable for human consumption. The main reduction/prevention method, applied across the countries, is food donation; the remaining methods are the same ones used for biodegradable waste in the respective countries. The findings gathered in this study show a number of potential measures/methods for sustainable food waste management, which may be considered in future works in order to reduce the amounts of food waste generated in each of the aforementioned countries.
On March 14, 2022, Marina Ovsyannikova raised a banner on the main evening news of Russian television with the inscription “Stop the war. Don't believe the propaganda.” in English. She was immediately taken to the police station where various investigators interrogated her for almost a day. Working in the international newsroom, Marina Ovsyannikova has long known that the Kremlin was constantly lying to the Russian people. The war in Ukraine became a point of no return for her—it was impossible to remain silent any longer. In order to tell people the truth, she sacrificed everything: home, family, work, and a prosperous life. The daughter of a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother, Marina Ovsyannikova subtly felt the tragedy of the Ukrainian people. As a child, she experienced the same thing that Ukrainian refugees are now experiencing when her house in Grozny was destroyed during the First Chechen War. The live protest was the start of an incredible ordeal. Ovsyannikova continued to work as a journalist from abroad, trying to cover the conflict in Ukraine, but accidentally found herself in the midst of an information war. In Russia, she was accused of having links with the British Embassy, and in Ukraine, she was accused of working for the Russian special services (FSB). Ovsyannikova became the object of constant bullying on the internet, and her ex-husband, who works in the top management of RT (Russia Today), sued her to try to take her children away. Her son and her mother already turned away from her, so she had no choice but to put her life in incredible danger and fly back to Moscow to fight for her young daughter. Marina Ovsyannikova was arrested for speaking out against the war. She spent the night in prison, after which the judge placed her under house arrest. She faced up to ten years in prison under a new criminal article. A few days before the trial, by some miracle, Ovsyannikova managed to escape from house arrest with her daughter. The Russian authorities put her on the international wanted list.
This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results show that the problem of food waste can be found at different levels in each country and that our knowledge of it is limited by the current lack of studies in the area. The problem is primarily due to food waste generated by the manufacturing sector, mostly in the form of unused or inefficiently used by-products, as well as on a share of food thrown away by households that is still suitable for human consumption. The main reduction/prevention method, applied across the countries, is food donation; the remaining methods are the same ones used for biodegradable waste in the respective countries. The findings gathered in this study show a number of potential measures/methods for sustainable food waste management, which may be considered in future works in order to reduce the amounts of food waste generated in each of the aforementioned countries.
Little is known outside of Russia about the nation's musical heritage prior to the nineteenth century. Western scholarship has tended to view the history of Russian music as not beginning until the end of the eighteenth century. Marina Ritzarev's work shows this interpretation to be misguided. Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, she explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century, a period of especially intense Westernization and secularization. The book focuses on what is characteristic and crucial to Russian music during this period, rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive survey. The musical culture of the time is discussed against the rich background of social, political and cultural life, tying together many of the phenomena that used to be viewed separately. The book highlights the importance of previously marginalized sectors - serf culture, choral sacred culture, the contribution of foreign musicians, the significant influence of Freemasonry, the role of Ukrainian and West-European cultures and so on - as well as casting new light on the well-researched topic of Russian opera. Much new archival material is introduced, and revised biographies of the two leading eighteenth-century Russian composers, Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortniansky, are provided, as well as those of the serf composer Stepan Degtyarev and the Italian Giuseppe Sarti. The book places eighteenth-century Russian music on the European map, and will be of particular importance for the study of European musical cultures remote from such centres as Italy, Germany-Austria and France. Eighteenth-century Russian music is organically linked with its past and future and its contributory role in forming the Russian national identity and developing the Russian idiom is clarified.
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