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beginning in October, Virgino said. Below-average monsoon rains are also likely to prevent Indian farmers from planting sugarcane, hurting future production, he said in an interview. Alvean also expects difficulties in Thailand, another key exporter, as higher profits from cassava cultivation continue to push farmers away from sugarcane.
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Roskomnadzor summed up the results of the half-year on website blocking: in the first six months, more than 885,000 websites were blocked or deleted in Russia, which is 85% more y/y. The reason for the growth is obvious - new grounds for blocking appeared (they began to block resources covering the course of the war in Ukraine). At the same time, the authorities are restricting ways to bypass blocking - VPN services are blocked. Experts fear that this will eventually lead to problems in the IT industry.
Popular crypto exchanges introduce new restrictions for Russian users in the first week of September. Binance left only one way for Russians to buy and sell cryptocurrency - for rubles. And another popular platform - OKX - on the contrary, limited all trading with rubles.
Binance, the largest and most popular crypto exchange in the world, has
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