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Аналізи переможця «Євробачення» не підтвердили підозри у вживанні наркотиків – EBU
Перевірку ініціювала італійська делегація, а сам Даміано Давід (на фото) добровільно здав тест, щоб «розвіяти чутки»
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By Gromada | 05/25/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У ЗНО з іноземних мов взяли участь 75,96% зареєстрованих на тестування
За оперативною інформацією регіональних центрів оцінювання якості освіти, участь у тестуванні взяли 2433 особи
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By Gromada | 05/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Одеські білоруси підтримали затриманого в Мінську журналіста
В Одесі білоруси вийшли на підтримку затриманого у Мінську опозиційного журналіста Романа Протасевича. Півтора десятки людей розгорнули банер із гаслом «The World protect Belarus» («Світе, захисти Білорусь») біля пам’ятника Дюку, повідомляє кореспондент Радіо Свобода.
За словами однієї з організаторок акції, яка попросила не називати її імені, частина учасників живе в Одесі давно, частина – переїхала після протестів влітку 2020 року.
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У грудні 2020 року уряд збільшив термін максимального перебування громадян Біларусі в Україні – з 90 до 180 діб, і це є гарним способом підтримати біларусів, вважає активістка.
«Я можу трохи помилятись, але, за нашими даними, з Білорусі після протестів 2020 року втекло близько 40 тисяч людей. Простіше всього їм їхати до України – сюди не потрібна віза. Ми бачимо, що багато європейських країн думають, щоб припиняти авіасполучення із Біларусью, припиняти літати над її територією. Було б чудово, якщо б термін перебування в Україні ще збільшили та спростили механізми легалізації», – заявила вона.
Ще одна учасниця акції, також неназвана, подякувала президенту Володимиру Зеленському за готовність закрити авіасполучення між двома країнами. На її думку, Протасевичу зараз загрожує реальна небезпека.
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«В Білорусі досі дозволена смертна кара, але я не думаю, що до неї дійде. Втім, вона може відбутись за нібито природних причин – серцевий напад, чи ще щось. Сьогодні, в 21 сторіччі, в середині Європи вбивають цілий народ», – каже дівчина.
Білоруські міліціонери 23 травня затримали опозиційного журналіста та блогера Романа Протасевича. Він був на борту літака Ryanair, що екстрено приземлився в Мінську через повідомлення про мінування, яке не підтвердилося. Також затримали його дівчину, росіянку Соф’ю Сапегу.
«Мене тут стратять!» – сказав Роман Протасевич під час затримання.
Протасевич – відомий білоруський журналіст і блогер, автор телеграм-каналу «Білорусь головного мозку».
Правозахисний центр «Весна» вже визнав його політичним в’язнем.
Країни Заходу розкритикували затримання Протасевича. Міністерство закордонних справ Білорусі водночас було «вражене поспішністю відверто войовничих заяв з боку низки країн і європейських структур». У відомстві заявили, що «правила авіаційної безпеки – це абсолютний пріоритет, до того ж скрізь і для всіх». При цьому у своїй заяві міністерство не згадало про затримання Протасевича.
your ad hereBy Gromada | 05/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Key Impeachment Witness Sues Pompeo Over $1.8M in Legal Fees
Gordon Sondland, the Trump administration’s ambassador to the European Union and a pivotal witness in 2019 impeachment proceedings, sued former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday in an effort to recoup $1.8 million he racked up in legal expenses.
Sondland alleges in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, that Pompeo had committed to reimburse his legal expenses after he was subpoenaed by House Democrats to testify in an impeachment case that accused then-President Donald Trump of withholding military aid from Ukraine while demanding an investigation into political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Instead, Sondland says, Pompeo “reneged on his promise” after learning the details of Sondland’s testimony.
“With the contractual commitment of Pompeo having been abandoned apparently for political convenience, Ambassador Sondland turns to this Court to reimburse his attorneys’ fees and costs and make him whole,” Sondland’s lawyer, Mark Barondess, wrote in his lawsuit.
A spokesperson for Pompeo called the lawsuit “ludicrous” and said Pompeo was “confident the court will see it the same way.”
In testimony that Sondland’s lawsuit describes as “highly fraught, highly charged and highly risky with tremendous consequences,” he described for investigators how Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, explicitly sought a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine, leveraging an Oval Office visit for political investigations of Democrats.
Trump was impeached by the House but acquitted in February 2020 by the Senate.
Sondland was fired days after Trump’s acquittal “simply for telling the truth,” according to the lawsuit. He says the unwillingness to cover his legal fees not only represented a breach of commitment and “normal convention” but was also “especially problematic in this instance because the amount of preparation needed to comply with the subpoenas was staggering.”
“Ambassador Sondland retained a Washington, D.C. law firm well experienced in Congressional investigations that possessed the capacity to assist him, along with his long-time personal counsel, in preparation for his critically important testimony,” the lawsuit states. “Ambassador Sondland continued to rely on Pompeo’s individual promise, on behalf of himself and the Government, in seeking outside counsel and incurred nearly $1.8 million in attorneys’ fees and costs.”
The lawsuit was first reported by The Washington Post.
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By Polityk | 05/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
У Держекоінспекції розповіли, скільки стягнули штрафів через незаконне збирання первоцвітів
За даними Мінекології, щороку в Україні за сезон знищують 20 мільйонів первоцвітів
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By Gromada | 05/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Українських роботодавців можуть допустити до управління вишами – Шкарлет
Шкарлет: на балансі державних вишів дуже багато соціальних об’єктів, на які потрібні кошти. МОН виступає за передачу їх у комунальну власність
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By Gromada | 05/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
«Укрзалізниця» повідомила про запуск поїзда, який з’єднає Волинь, Галичину та Прикарпаття
Поїзд заїжджатиме до Моршина, який, як кажуть в УЗ, був майже позбавлений зручного залізничного сполучення
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By Gromada | 05/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Початок тижня в Україні почнеться з дощів – синоптики
У Києві сьогодні вдень помірний дощ, температура упродовж дня 17-19°
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By Gromada | 05/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Київська поліція повідомила про підозру через підпал авто засновника сайту про ДТП в Києві
Підозрюваному загрожує від трьох до 10 років ув’язнення, стверджують у поліції
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By Gromada | 05/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Зеленський назвав «гідним» 5-те місце, яке Go-A посіли на «Євробаченні-2021»
«Чудова промоція України у світі», йдеться в коментарі президента щодо виступу українського гурту в Роттердамі
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By Gromada | 05/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Штаб: за добу на Донбасі – 12 порушень режиму тиші
Внаслідок обстрілів один із українських військових зазнав поранення, його стан у штабі оцінюють як важкий
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By Gromada | 05/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
МОЗ: в Україні зафіксували понад 2,5 тисячі хворих на COVID-19 за добу
За даними МОЗ, 1 701 хворого на COVID-19 госпіталізували, 3 104 – виписали з лікарень
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By Gromada | 05/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Переможцем «Євробачення» стала Італія
У пісенному конкурсі «Євробачення» перемогла Італія, яку представляв гурт «Maneskin» з піснею «Zitti E Buoni». Італійці здобули 524 бали.
Далі йдуть Франція (499 балів), Швейцарія (432) та Ісландія (378).
Український гурт «Go_A» отримав 364 голоси (97 від журі та 267 від глядачів) і посів п’яте місце.
your ad hereBy Gromada | 05/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Шанси України на перемогу на «Євробаченні» зросли – букмекери
Україна виступить у фіналі «Євробачення» під 19-м номером
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By Gromada | 05/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У Києві відбувся марш на підтримку трансгендерів
Кілька сотень учасників Транс-маршу в оточенні поліції пройшлися від Михайлівської площі до Поштової
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By Gromada | 05/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Сьогодні відбудеться фінал «Євробачення»
Букмекери прогнозують конкурсантам від України четверте місце
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By Gromada | 05/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden Announces US-South Korea Vaccine Partnership
COVID-19, climate change and cooperation in high-tech industries were the focus of a summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House Friday. While the leaders also discussed North Korea, prospects for a breakthrough on denuclearization appear dim. White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has this report.
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By Polityk | 05/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
White House’s New, $1.7T Infrastructure Offer Panned by GOP
The White House put forward a $1.7 trillion infrastructure counteroffer Friday to Senate Republicans, dropping from President Joe Biden’s sweeping $2.3 trillion proposal “in the spirit of finding common ground.”White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki disclosed the new offer as talks were still underway between key Cabinet secretaries and GOP senators at a crucial stage toward a deal. Skepticism had been rising on all sides amid complaints about the lack of significant movement off the opening bids. Republicans had offered a $568 billion plan.”This proposal exhibits a willingness to come down in size,” she said at the press briefing.According to a memo obtained by The Associated Press, the administration is cutting more than $550 billion from the president’s initial offer.But the memo makes clear Biden is not interested in the Republicans’ idea of having consumers pay for the new investments through tolls, gas taxes or other fees. Instead, the administration is sticking with his proposal to raise the corporate tax to pay for the new investment, which is a red line for Republicans.”Our approach should ensure that corporations are paying their fair share,” said the memo from the administration’s negotiators to the GOP senators.The White House and Republican senators have been in talks ever since Biden met with a core group of Republican negotiators over the possibility of working together on an infrastructure plan. The White House dispatched the transportation and commerce secretaries and top aides to Capitol Hill to meet with the Republicans earlier this week, and they had a follow up video-call Friday.The more than hour-long meeting was constructive and hopeful, said two administration officials granted anonymity to discuss the private talks.But Republicans dismissed the new White House offer as “disappointing,” according to a GOP aide familiar with the meeting and permitted anonymity to discuss it.The Republicans viewed the changed approach as “very marginal movement” on the topline and without much difference in policy, the aide said.The slog of the negotiations is certain to mean new worries from Democrats that time is slipping to strike a compromise. The president’s team is holding to a soft Memorial Day deadline it had set to determine whether a deal was within reach.Psaki said the new proposal drops the president’s proposed expenditures on broadband as well as roads, bridges and other major investments to meet the Republicans’ lower level. She said the administration’s proposal also involved “shifting investments in research and development, supply chains, manufacturing and small business” out of the infrastructure talks, since they could be considered elsewhere, noting in Endless Frontiers Act, which is a separate bipartisan bill pending in the Senate.But Psaki said the president’s team is still pushing for investments in new veterans hospitals, rail projects and green energy investments to fight climate change that Republicans have excluded from their offers.In all, the White House cut broadband from $100 billion to $65 billion, as Republicans proposed. It also reduced road and bridges spending by $39 billion, from $159 billion to $120 billion, to move closer to the GOP’s proposal of $48 billion in new funds.Removing the research and development funds would cut a whopping $480 billion, the aides said.The White House characterized the GOP’s initial $568 billion “Roadmap” proposal as amounting to an estimated $175 billion to $225 billion in “new investment, above current levels Congress has traditionally funded,” according to the memo.The GOP senators have not publicly disclosed their latest offer.Securing a vast infrastructure plan is Biden’s top priority as he seeks to make good on his campaign pledge to “build back better” in the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis and the economic churn from a shifting economy. With narrow Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, the president is reaching out to Republicans for support on a potentially bipartisan approach rather than relying simply on his own party to muscle the proposal to passage. But Republicans are refusing Biden’s idea of a corporate tax increase to pay for the package.Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday on Fox News that higher taxes on corporations or the wealthiest Americans are nonstarters. Republicans are unwilling to undo the 2017 tax cuts, the party’s signature domestic accomplishment under President Donald Trump. They reduced the corporate rate from 35% to 21%. Biden proposes lifting the corporate tax to 28%.”If they’re willing to settle on target an infrastructure bill without revisiting the 2017 tax bill we’ll work with them,” McConnell told Fox’s Larry Kudlow, a former Trump adviser. But McConnell, R-Ky., said a package topping $2 trillion or more “is not going to have any Republican support.”The new offer from the White House was intended to make a good faith effort at compromise, and to prod Republicans to put a more substantive counteroffer on the table, the officials said.In earlier talks, latest offer from GOP lawmakers left some dismay in the administration that there wasn’t more movement from their initial $568 billion proposal.The White House’s hopes for a bipartisan deal on infrastructure have cooled but they have not abandoned the effort, one of the officials said.Biden has reveled in the face-to-face negotiations, aides said, and has expressed hope to bring Republicans along. West Wing officials have been heartened by the public comments made by some of the GOP negotiating team, the official said.But outward talks of progress have not translated into the two sides getting much closer to a deal. Beyond the significant gap in the two sides’ visions for the size of the package, there has been little discussion of how to reach an agreement on how to pay for it.One GOP senator in the talks suggested tapping unspent funds from the massive COVID-19 aid package to help pay for the infrastructure investment. Other funds could be tapped from uncollected tax revenues or public-private partnerships.One strategy that had gained momentum would be for Biden to negotiate a more limited, traditional infrastructure bill of roads, highways, bridges and broadband as a bipartisan effort. Then, Democrats could try to muscle through the remainder of Biden’s priorities on climate investments and the so-called human infrastructure of child care, education and hospitals on their own.But, administration aides believe, if such an “infrastructure only” bipartisan deal is far smaller than Biden’s original proposal, the White House risks a rebellion from Democrats who could claim that the president made a bad deal and missed the moment to pass a sweeping, transformational package.
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By Polityk | 05/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
В Україні тестуванням з хімії стартувала основна сесія ЗНО-2021
У першому ЗНО взяли участь 9885 осіб, що становить 77,6% від загальної кількості зареєстрованих
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By Gromada | 05/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Лауреаткою премії Гонгадзе стала Мирослава Барчук
«Для мене ось ця премія – це найважливіше професійне визнання, яке тільки може бути», – сказала Барчук
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By Gromada | 05/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Кличко розповів, як проходитимуть останній дзвоник і випускні в Києві
«Вони відбудуться, але за умови дотримання всіх карантинних правил», – сказав мер
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By Gromada | 05/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Рада закликала президента присвоїти звання Героя України морпіху Ярославу Журавлю
Відповірне звернення підписали 60 депутатів
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By Gromada | 05/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Сьогодні розпочинається основна сесія ЗНО
На тестування з хімії зареєструвалися 12 744 людини. Проходитиме воно у 881 аудиторіях в 62 пунктах тестування
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By Gromada | 05/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US Anti-Hate Crime Law Provides New Enforcement Tools, but Will It Work?
A bill that President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday gives local and federal officials new tools and resources to combat hate crimes, while putting the spotlight on a surge in anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic. The impetus for the new law, known as the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, was a dramatic increase in attacks on Asian Americans since the start of the pandemic in Wuhan, China, more than a year ago. Dramatic surge Anti-Asian hate crimes in major U.S. cities and counties spiked by about 150% last year over the year before and 194% during the first quarter of 2021 compared with the first quarter of 2020, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino. President Joe Biden hands out a pen after signing the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, in the East Room of the White House, May 20, 2021.While highlighting the violence against Asian Americans, the law takes a broader aim at all hate crimes by calling for the appointment of a new Justice Department official to speed up a review of hate crime cases and providing resources for local police departments to improve the way they identify and report hate crimes. Quicker response “This new law will help speed our response to hate crimes and provide resources to law enforcement to improve hate crime reporting,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The law will assist law enforcement in targeting its efforts, which will help to prevent these devastating crimes and to respond efficiently and effectively to crimes, when they occur.” Attorney General Merrick Garland talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California before the signing of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, in the East Room of the White House, May 20, 2021.Among its key provisions, the bill: — Directs the attorney general to designate a point person to undertake an “expedited review” of hate crimes reported to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. — Directs the Justice Department to help local and state law enforcement agencies improve their hate crime data collection and reporting. The department is to issue guidance for local and state agencies to provide online reporting in multiple foreign languages.— Establishes grants for states to create hate crime reporting hotlines that would direct callers to law enforcement or local support services.— Allows a judge to require an individual convicted of a hate crime to take “educational classes” as a condition of supervised release. Under the law, Garland has seven days to task an official with speeding up a review of hate crime cases. A Justice Department spokesman said the attorney general has not yet selected anyone for the position. Just how much of a difference the legislation will make remains to be seen. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is responsible for prosecuting federal hate crime cases. Most hate crimes are prosecuted at the state level. Expedited decision-making The hope is that the appointment will increase the rate at which the Justice Department decides whether to pursue a case, said Steven Gilson, a former hate crimes prosecutor for the department and now an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. “The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act does not actually include data about whether or not there is a particular backlog [of hate crime reports], but to the extent that there is, there’s always a need to continue to review these reports,” Gilson said. Improving hate crime reporting Arguably more important than the creation of a new position is the law’s focus on improving how hate crimes are reported. Under a 1990 law, the FBI collects hate crime statistics submitted by thousands of law enforcement agencies. But the submission process is voluntary, resulting in a perennial undercount. A key provision of the newly enacted law, known as the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act, seeks to tackle this problem. The Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act is named after Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer, whose killings in recent years were prosecuted as hate crimes but not reported as such to the FBI. Grant applications Now, local law enforcement agencies can apply for Justice Department grants to conduct training related to identifying and investigating hate crimes and to set up statewide hotlines designed to encourage increased reporting of hate crimes, Gilson noted. Ultimately, though, the impact of the new law will come down to whether local agencies embrace it, according to Gilson. For example, any improvement in hate crime data collection will depend in part on whether local agencies apply for grants. “If these agencies take advantage of these grant opportunities to increase training, to increase awareness, and thus become subject to increased reporting requirements, it could make a substantial difference, because … the federal hate crimes reporting requirements as they stand are inadequate,” Gilson said.
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By Polityk | 05/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Signs Hate Crimes Measure Into Law
Hailing it as a rare contemporary example of bipartisan cooperation in Washington, President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation intended to fight anti-Asian hate crimes, which have escalated in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic.Hate and racism are “the ugly poison that has long haunted and plagued our nation,” the president said before signing the bill in the White House East Room.The law establishes a new Justice Department position to expedite the review of COVID-19-related hate crimes and provide support for local law enforcement agencies to respond to such violence. It also is intended to improve hate crime data collection and establish telephone hotlines and online reporting of such acts.U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington, April 26, 2021.”This new law will help speed our response to hate crimes and provide resources to law enforcement to improve hate crime reporting,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “The law will assist law enforcement in targeting its efforts, which will help to prevent these devastating crimes and to respond efficiently and effectively to crimes, when they occur.”Before the president spoke, Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black and Asian American to hold that office, told the audience the law “brings us one step closer to stopping hate not only for Asian Americans but for all Americans.”Only one U.S. senator voted against the bill, which also gained wide support from Democrats and Republicans in the House.”We simply haven’t seen this kind of bipartisanship for much too long in Washington,” Biden said Thursday.Anti-Asian hate crimes surged by 150% in major American cities in 2020, according to police data.The new law is just one step toward greater tolerance, Biden noted in his remarks, saying that during the past year, too many Asian Americans were “genuinely fearing for their safety.”The country, according to the president, still needs to change.President Joe Biden listens as Vice President Kamala Harris speaks before signing the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, in the East Room of the White House, May 20, 2021, in Washington.”But of all the good that the law can do, we have to change our hearts. We have to change the hearts of American people,” the president said. “Hate can be given no safe harbor in America.”Raising his voice in anger in front of the 68 invited attendees in the East Room, Biden said, “Every time we’re silent, every time we let hate flourish, you make a lie of who we are as a nation.”Biden, shortly after becoming president in January, directed the Justice Department to help combat hate crimes targeting the Asian American community. Following criticism that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were under-represented in his administration, Biden also appointed Erika Moritsugu as the White House liaison to those communities.”How we treat hate within our own borders impacts our relationships abroad,” said Alexander Feldman, head of the US-ASEAN Business Council. “As an organization committed to fostering understanding, goodwill and meaningful relations between the United States and Southeast Asia, we applaud President Biden for taking this necessary step to stand up for Asian Americans at home and rebuild trust with our friends and partners across Asia.”
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By Polityk | 05/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
У Києві відбулася церемонія вручення Національної премії імені Тараса Шевченка
Журналіст Станіслав Асєєв отримав премію Шевченка за книгу есеїв «В ізоляції»
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By Gromada | 05/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
