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00:00:00because indeed the balcony is joint property, so the aesthetic
00:00:04appearance is to a certain extent important, yes, but
00:00:07here, relatively speaking, a decision of the general
00:00:10meeting is also needed, that is, the charter needs to be reviewed, that is, a person should
00:00:14ask permission from the apartment
00:00:17association and the residents should give their
00:00:20consent, yes, in certain cases indeed sometimes all residents
00:00:23must give their consent in certain cases, that is, just, just relatively
00:00:27speaking, the majority that voted, but...
00:04:34The day after tomorrow, the Riga Cog will consider in the second reading a bill
00:04:38providing for new requirements for animal
00:04:41shelters. In particular, it concerns mandatory
00:04:44activity permits and new rules for keeping
00:04:47animals. Well, we keep this animal. The authors of the changes
00:04:51hope to improve conditions in shelters, but some organizations
00:04:54fear that they will not be able to meet the new
00:04:58requirements. We have in our studio.
00:05:13what worries us is that they want to introduce conditions that cats
00:05:17must be kept in groups of six, one litter box for each
00:05:20adult cat, and if we explain this
00:05:24visually, we take six cats,
00:05:27put them on nine square meters, put six
00:05:30litter boxes, we won't be able to put houses, a running
00:05:34wheel, they will just sit there like in
00:05:37litter boxes, well, you could say that, yes, enclosed, tell us how life in the shelter
00:05:40is organized for you now? now life in the shelter is such that
00:05:44it is close to home, that is, there are
00:05:47sofas, there are beds, they can walk on
00:05:51window sills, they can jump on cabinets, there are houses everywhere,
00:05:55that is, when a cat gets home, he
00:05:58knows where to hide, where he can
00:06:01walk, and how he can generally
00:06:05exist in the wild, that is, in a large
00:06:07room, well, it looks like a good intention, yes, that
00:06:11cats and... their own litter boxes,
00:06:14that they can only be kept six in a
00:06:17group, to provide them with a good
00:06:20life, why do you disagree with this, that is,
00:06:24precisely because there will not be enough space to put
00:06:28both litter boxes and other
00:06:30accessories, that too, yes, but still cats
00:06:33are made to be in a colony, we, if
00:06:37we look at the trend, our cats they can lie in a pile of about 10
00:06:41pieces.
00:07:20cats, but that's better than they propose to keep animals in
00:07:24cages, you can keep them six
00:07:28or in cages, but life in cages is not life at all,
00:07:31they still need to move and
00:07:34walk, and if we have to do it,
00:07:38although we really don't want to, then we are very afraid that cats
00:07:42may...
00:08:42close down, because they may not meet the new requirements, what will happen to
00:08:46these animals, release them into the wild to breed homeless cats or euthanize
00:08:50them, what to do? Well, most likely yes, they will
00:08:53then multiply there, that
00:08:55colonies will grow, and if they call,
00:08:59other shelters will come, of course, who will have such
00:09:02an opportunity to keep animals, but they also have their own rules, 14
00:09:06days euthanasia, because we all know that
00:09:10most cats are unhealthy from the street,
00:09:13all this requires large resources, a lot
00:09:17of time, that is, if many cats arrive at once, then
00:09:20where will they put them all, now it is scattered among
00:09:24all non-profit organizations and
00:09:27we manage, yes, that is, for one shelter it will be
00:09:31too much, they simply won't cope, and do we
00:09:35have many homeless cats at all, because if we walk around the city,
00:09:38we very rarely see
00:09:41homeless cats now, unlike other countries where we
00:09:45come and see that there are indeed many of them, absolutely
00:09:48so, but unfortunately, if we go outside the
00:09:51city, there are people who
00:09:55take them, for example, to the dacha for the summer,
00:09:58for some reason, cats don't need to walk at all, they just sniffed the
00:10:01air through the window and that's enough for them, they
00:10:05unfortunately leave them there, many are not neutered, not
00:10:09sterilized, and if several of them are brought
00:10:12there, a colony starts to appear,
00:10:16the colony grows and grows, and
00:10:19it can all end very badly, well, the bill,
00:10:22if it is adopted, will become law,
00:10:26it also provides for a transitional period until January 1, 2028,
00:10:29to bring everything into compliance with the requirements, is this realistic? No,
00:10:33firstly, it will be too
00:10:37short a period, that non-profit
00:10:40organizations do not have the financial capacity,
00:10:44all this costs
00:10:45money.
00:10:48I don't know, there is another point about
00:10:51the veterinary point, yes, that we should always have
00:10:55a veterinarian on site, but unfortunately,
00:10:57for donations, for the fact that the shelter
00:11:00exists at all, volunteers do not receive a penny,
00:11:04the founder receives nothing, that is, all these funds go
00:11:07only to cats,
00:11:10and to maintain a veterinarian on
00:11:13site is simply impossible, well, or
00:11:16a volunteer veterinarian, it turns out, well, we
00:11:19have clinics we work with and it's
00:11:227-10 minutes drive from us. We see that the cat needs
00:11:26some help or a new examination, they accept us
00:11:29immediately, that is, having a veterinarian on staff is very
00:11:32expensive, we buy this service, and they also want
00:11:36a separate room for visitors, so that
00:11:40we take the cat to this room for знакомство, but
00:11:43this is stress for them, they sit in their room, yes, they know,
00:11:47people come in there, they see what kind of cat he is, and
00:11:51if we move the cat to the next room, he will be stressed and it's
00:11:55unclear, he will just hide in a corner and the owner will not understand,
00:11:58is he wild, is he afraid, or is he actually a loving, very
00:12:02affectionate cat, he was just driven into a small closet
00:12:06to show him off like in a zoo,
00:12:09what are your current conditions, how many litter boxes do you have,
00:12:13how did you organize the life
00:12:16of these wonderful cats, well, if we take one room, we have
00:12:2023 cats there at the moment, we have 11
00:12:23litter boxes, I note. Clean, because
00:12:29we clean in the morning and in the evening,
00:12:33cats don't need that many litter boxes, that is, the main thing is not many litter boxes, but regular
00:12:37cleaning, yes, and it's better if they come and check
00:12:40the conditions, Albus is already nervous,
00:12:43he feels that it's time to leave,
00:12:46our interview ends here, thank you, our guests
00:12:49today were the founder of the Caselou shelter, Alyona Meer, and the volunteer
00:12:53of this shelter, Kristina Pritsa.
00:13:36president in Estonia, negotiations on minimum wage. In Belgium,
00:13:40tens of thousands of people demonstrated against
00:13:43the climate policy of the European Union. The participants of the action demand to
00:13:47tighten it. There will be other news. And
00:13:51scientists had to create a new family of corals for
00:13:55one species that could not be assigned to any known
00:13:58group. A bright yellow eight-rayed coral was discovered on
00:14:02underwater mountains off the coast of Costa Rica. Its colonies
00:14:05resemble small trees and grow more than
00:14:08a meter. The problem with classification was discovered at
00:14:11the genetic level. Analysis of three standard markers gave
00:14:15contradictory results. Each of them indicated belonging to
00:14:19different families. Then researchers applied
00:14:21phylogenomic analysis, comparing hundreds of genes. It
00:14:25showed that the coral forms an independent evolutionary
00:14:28line. As a result, researchers from the University
00:14:31of Costa Rica, the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian
00:14:35Institute and other organizations, described
00:14:38a new genus and a new family, the discovered species received
00:14:41a name from two words in Quenya, a fictional
00:14:44elven language created by John Tolkien. Literally, this name
00:14:48means starry golden
00:14:50tree.
00:14:55A team of scientists deciphered the genome of the oldest land
00:14:58animal on the planet, the giant tortoise Jonathan, whose age
00:15:02is estimated at 194 years.
00:15:05Jonathan belongs to the Aldabra giant tortoise
00:15:09species and lives on St. Helena. In nature, the average
00:15:12lifespan of this species is about 80
00:15:15years. According to the results of the study, the lifespan
00:15:18of this reptile is due to a set of specific gene
00:15:22variants, maintaining stable regulation of
00:15:25mitochondrial function, characteristic of young individuals. To collect
00:15:28biomaterial, the veterinarian collected epithelial cells from the mucous
00:15:32membrane of the tortoise's mouth during feeding.
00:15:35DNA sequencing revealed
00:15:38287 individual gene variants
00:15:41absent in relatives. Analysis showed that they
00:15:44are involved in key mechanisms of anti-
00:15:47aging: repair of DNA damage, suppression of
00:15:51tumors, regulation of insulin metabolism, and
00:15:54control of inflammatory processes.
00:16:09Good morning, news is on air. Today, the President
00:16:13of Estonia will take office. First, the elected president, together with her
00:16:16spouse, will arrive at Kadriorg, where they will be met by President
00:16:20Alar Karis and Sirja Karis. Then they will together
00:16:23proceed to the square in front of the parliament building.
00:16:26President Alar Karis will greet the honor guard, after which both
00:16:30presidents will proceed to Toompea Castle. At 3:00 PM, Alar
00:16:33Karis will deliver a speech.
00:16:45Central unions of trade unions and employers will start negotiations
00:16:49today on the size of the minimum wage for 2027, according to
00:16:52the head of the central union of trade unions, Kask.
00:16:55Trade unions will advocate in negotiations for the work
00:16:59of a full-time employee to be adequately paid. In 2023,
00:17:03an agreement was reached between trade unions and employers,
00:17:06according to which the minimum wage should gradually reach
00:17:1050% of the average gross wage in Estonia.
00:17:13According to data for the second quarter of 2026, the average
00:17:16gross wage in Estonia was 2,243
00:17:19euros per month, the minimum wage since April 2026
00:17:22is 946 euros or about 42% of the average
00:17:26wage, notes Rusere.
00:17:29In the third quarter of this year, the number
00:17:32of registered unemployed in Estonia decreased to 38 thousand.
00:17:35According to the Unemployment Insurance Fund, such
00:17:37a low number of unemployed was last seen at the beginning of 2020.
00:17:41At the same time, the number of vacancies increased by more than
00:17:45a quarter over the year and amounted to 5,250.
00:17:48Most new offers appeared in manufacturing,
00:17:51trade and construction. Competition for
00:17:54jobs also decreased. If last year there were an average of 11
00:17:57registered unemployed per vacancy, this year there were
00:18:01seven. The board of the Unemployment Insurance Fund noted that the ability
00:18:04to find a job still depends on a person's skills and the field in
00:18:08which they are looking for work.
00:18:11The police again detained illegal migrants in the Tallinn district of
00:18:15Nõmme. Around half past six in the evening,
00:18:18the police received a report about two men on Valdeku
00:18:22Street. On site, it turned out that they were in Estonia
00:18:25illegally, and other illegals were hiding nearby. Law enforcement
00:18:29officers began searching with the help of police dogs and drones. Eight
00:18:33more men were found in the nearby forest, who tried to hide.
00:18:37One of them injured his arm while fleeing and was taken to the hospital.
00:18:40After receiving first aid, he was also transferred to the detention center. All ten
00:18:44men lacked legal grounds for staying in Estonia.
00:18:48Only one had an identity document.
00:18:51As a result of the latest Russian air
00:18:55strikes on Ukrainian cities, six civilians died. A grocery store
00:18:58was attacked in Kharkiv, three people died. Another 20
00:19:02were injured. Among the injured were two children.
00:19:05In addition, a thermal power plant was attacked. The strikes occurred
00:19:08against the backdrop of statements by US President Donald Trump about
00:19:12an energy truce between Russia and
00:19:14Ukraine.
00:19:16Iran released a video allegedly showing the destruction of a
00:19:20large oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. According to Iran,
00:19:24it is a supertanker 313 meters long, which
00:19:27can carry 2.5 million barrels of oil.
00:19:31According to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the tanker was
00:19:34destroyed by a sea mine after it attempted to pass through the Strait of
00:19:38Hormuz without Iran's permission and with its navigation system
00:19:42switched off. Iran again threatened to destroy all
00:19:45tankers that attempt to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in
00:19:49the same way. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated
00:19:53in Brussels against the European Union's
00:19:56climate policy. According to police estimates, 45,000 people took
00:19:59part in the action. Organizers speak of 60,000.
00:20:03Participants of the action put forward five demands, including raising taxes
00:20:06for fuel companies and ending subsidies for fossil
00:20:10fuels. They also demanded a just transition
00:20:13to an ecologically sustainable society and more
00:20:16active international cooperation in the fight against
00:20:19climate change.
00:20:23tax kerosene, put more trees in the cities, stop
00:20:27concreting everywhere, finally there are many measures, insulate buildings
00:20:31more, reduce CO2 consumption
00:20:34especially with transport, so also invest.
00:20:41At the end of the broadcast, the weather forecast: it will be cloudy during the day, it will rain, in the morning
00:20:45thunderstorms are possible in places, the wind is variable 1-7 m/s on the northern coast,
00:20:49gusts up to... 17 m/s. Air temperature from 8 to
00:20:5213° Celsius. Such
00:20:55is the news at this minute. Thank you for your attention, have a good day.