Putin Ally Warns 'Most Companies' in Russia Face Collapse

A longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has predicted that the majority of Russian companies could go bankrupt due to the increasingly high interest rate.

Chemezov criticized the Russian central bank's elevated key interest rate, which, following his comments, was raised by an additional two percentage points on Friday to a record 21 percent.

"There is no 20 percent profitability anywhere. Maybe in the drug trade, but even the sale of weapons does not bring such a profit," he said.

Chemezov said that the high key interest rate drives up borrowing costs for businesses, which hurts their profitability, including Rostec's.

"It is simply not profitable for enterprises to use borrowed funds, as I have already said many times. It is just that if we continue to work like this, then practically the majority of enterprises will go bankrupt," he said.

He added that high-tech companies with longer production cycles are particularly impacted, as they only receive advance payments of 30 to 40 percent from customers and have to cover the rest with a loan.

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For other uses, see Mockingbird (disambiguation).
Mockingbirds are a group of New World passerine birds from the family Mimidae. They are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds and the sounds of insects and amphibians,[1] often loudly and in rapid succession and for being extremely territorial when raising hatchlings. Studies have shown the ability of some species to identify individual humans and treat them differently based on learned threat assessments.[2]

Mockingbird
Northern mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
Northern mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos
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Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Superfamily:
Muscicapoidea
Family:
Mimidae
Genera
Melanotis
Mimus

The only mockingbird commonly found in North America is the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos). The Greek word πολύγλωττος : polyglottos means ‘multiple languages’. Mockingbirds are known for singing late at night, even past midnight.[3]

They are opportunistic omnivores, feeding on insects, fruits, seeds, and occasional greens.[4]

Duration: 5 minutes and 31 seconds.5:31
audio recording of mockingbird, note the variety of vocalizations
The northern mockingbird is the state bird of five states in the United States, a trend that was started in 1920, when the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs proposed the idea. In January 1927, Governor Dan Moody approved this, and Texas became the first state ever to choose a state bird. Since then, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee have also adopted the Northern Mockingbird as their official state bird.[5]

Taxonomy
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There are about 17 species in two genera, although three species of mockingbird from the Galápagos Islands were formerly separated into a third genus, Nesomimus. The mockingbirds do not appear to form a monophyletic lineage, as Mimus and Melanotis are not each other’s closest relatives; instead, Melanotis appears to be more closely related to the catbirds, while the closest living relatives of Mimus appear to be thrashers, such as the sage thrasher.[6][7]

Fledgling stage of the northern mockingbird
Species in taxonomic order
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Mimus:

Brown-backed mockingbird, Mimus dorsalis
Bahama mockingbird, Mimus gundlachii
Long-tailed mockingbird, Mimus longicaudatus
Patagonian mockingbird, Mimus patagonicus
Chilean mockingbird, Mimus thenca
White-banded mockingbird, Mimus triurus
Northern mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos
Socorro mockingbird, Mimus graysoni
Tropical mockingbird, Mimus gilvus
Chalk-browed mockingbird, Mimus saturninus
Formerly Nesomimus (endemic to the Galapagos):

Hood mockingbird, Mimus macdonaldi
Galápagos mockingbird, Mimus parvulus
Floreana mockingbird or Charles mockingbird, Mimus trifasciatus
San Cristóbal mockingbird, Mimus melanotis
Melanotis:

Blue mockingbird, Melanotis caerulescens tite
Blue-and-white mockingbird, Melanotis hypoleucus
Charles Darwin
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The Chilean mockingbird, Mimus thenca
When the survey voyage of HMS Beagle visited the Galápagos Islands in September to October 1835, the naturalist Charles Darwin noticed that the mockingbirds Mimus thenca differed from island to island, and were closely allied in appearance to mockingbirds on the South American mainland. Nearly a year later when writing up his notes on the return voyage he speculated that this,[8] together with what he had been told about Galápagos tortoises, could undermine the doctrine of stability of species. This was his first recorded expression of doubts about species being immutable, which led to his being convinced about the transmutation of species and hence evolution.[9]

References
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“What is a Mockingbird? - 10,000 Birds”. April 24, 2007.
Levey, Douglas J.; Londoño, Gustavo A.; Ungvari-Martin, Judit; Hiersoux, Monique R.; Jankowski, Jill E.; Poulsen, John R.; Stracey, Christine M.; Robinson, Scott K. (2009-06-02). “Urban mockingbirds quickly learn to identify individual humans”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (22): 8959–8962. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.8959L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0811422106. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2690012. PMID 19451622.
“Northern Mockingbird Sounds, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology”. www.allaboutbirds.org.
Featherstone, Nicky (2022-10-18). “What Do Mockingbirds Eat?”. Forest Wildlife. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
Goulet, Brianna (1999-11-30). “What Is Texas State Bird? Interesting Facts & ID”. Birdzilla - Enjoyin’ Birds. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
Hunt, Jeffrey S.; Bermingham, Eldredge; & Ricklefs, Robert E. (2001): “Molecular systematics and biogeography of Antillean thrashers, tremblers, and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae).” Auk 118(1): 35–55. DOI:10.1642/0004-8038(2001)118[0035:MSABOA]2.0.CO;2
Barber, Brian R.; Martínez-Gómez, Juan E. & Peterson, A. Townsend (2004) “Systematic position of the Socorro mockingbird Mimodes graysoni.” J. Avian Biol. 35: 195–198. doi:10.1111/j.0908-8857.2004.03233.x
Mockingbirds, finches: origins of Darwin’s theories
The Natural History Museum (2009-10-07), Darwin’s mockingbirds knock finches off perch | Natural History Museum, retrieved 2018-07-17
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