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☆ Front-line NATO allies are facing an unconventional Russian threat short of war but still quite dangerous
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Constantine Atlamazoglou | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"There are hybrid threats. NATO has also cautioned against intensifying Russian hybrid warfare in the region and in the rest of Europe that could include "disinformation, sabotage, acts of violence, cyber and electronic interference, and other hybrid operations." The murky nature of hybrid warfare can make it hard to identify and address potential threats. Yet, the Baltic countries are prioritizing hybrid threats and fortifying their institutions in response. And last week, writing alongside his Polish and Czech colleagues, Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs expressed "deep concern" over Russian hybrid threats.

Persons: —, Denmark –, Margus Tsahkna, Maria Zakharova, Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, Gitanas Nausėda, Yan Dobronosov, Dmitry Petrov, Gabrielius Landsbergis, Landsbergis, –, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Svetlov, Edgars Rinkēvičs Organizations: Service, West, NATO, EU, Business, Estonian, Russian Foreign Ministry, Getty, Kremlin, Lithuanian, Destabilization, 76th Guards Air Assault Division, Alliance Locations: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine, Denmark, Kyiv, Moscow, Baltics, Belarus, Soviet Union, Russian, crosshairs, Europe, Baltic, Finland, Narva, Tallinn, Vilnius, Poland, Pskov, Crimea, Tellingly, Czech, Latvian

☆ Inside Alef Aeronautics, the company trying to build a car you can both drive and fly
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Deirdre Bosa | Cristy Garratt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Alef Aeronautics is in the early stages of developing a vehicle it hopes will both drive on roads and fly above them. We're trying to build a car which can vertically take off and fly efficiently," Jim Dukhovny, Alef Aeronautics' co-founder and CEO, told CNBC Tech: The Edge in an interview. In 2015, the team behind Alef met for the first time in a coffee shop, where Dukhovny scribbled the idea for his flying car down on a napkin. Dukhovny told CNBC there are currently 3,000 customers on its waitlist. Watch the video above for the rest of CNBC Tech: The Edge's interview with Alef Aeronautics' Jim Dukhovny and Director of R&D Oleg Petrov.

Persons: Jim Dukhovny, Dukhovny, Tim Draper, Draper, Tim, Oleg Petrov Organizations: Aeronautics, Alef Aeronautics, CNBC Tech, Alef, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, National, Traffic Safety Administration, SpaceX, CNBC Locations: Theranos

☆ Russia’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Neil Macfarquhar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Why does this election matter? The presidential vote in Russia, which begins Friday and lasts through Sunday, features the trappings of a horse race but is more of a predetermined, Soviet-style referendum. President Vladimir V. Putin, 71, will undoubtedly win a fifth term, with none of the three other candidates who are permitted on the ballot presenting a real challenge. The main opposition figure who worked to spoil the vote, Aleksei A. Navalny, a harsh critic of Mr. Putin and the Ukraine war, died in an Arctic prison last month. Still, the vote is significant for Mr. Putin as a way to cement his legitimacy and refurbish his preferred image as the embodiment of security and stability.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, Aleksei A, Mr, ”, Nikolay Petrov Organizations: Kremlin, German Institute for International and Security Affairs Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Kyiv, Russian, Berlin

☆ Russia’s 2024 Presidential Vote: What to Know
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Neil Macfarquhar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Why does this vote matter? The presidential vote in Russia, which began Friday and lasts through Sunday, features the trappings of a horse race but is more of a predetermined, Soviet-style referendum. President Vladimir V. Putin, 71, will undoubtedly win a fifth term, with none of the three other candidates who are permitted on the ballot presenting a real challenge. The main opposition figure who worked to spoil the vote, Aleksei A. Navalny, a harsh critic of Mr. Putin and the Ukraine war, died in an Arctic prison last month. Still, the vote is significant for Mr. Putin as a way to cement his legitimacy and refurbish his preferred image as the embodiment of security and stability.

☆ Russian Prosecutors Seek to Nationalise Seized Car Dealership, Court Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has filed a lawsuit in a St Petersburg court seeking to nationalise car dealership Rolf, the court said late on Monday, just weeks after Moscow put the asset under the state's temporary management. St Petersburg's Moskovskiy District Court said it had accepted a lawsuit filed by prosecutors, which seeks the seizure of all shares in Rolf, Russia's largest car dealership, and affiliated companies as "property obtained in violation of anti-corruption legislation". Russian businessman Sergei Petrov, who owns Rolf, has long been accused by Russian authorities of illegally moving money abroad, charges he denies, and has had a warrant issued for his arrest. In December 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin placed Rolf under temporary state management, a move the Kremlin said was driven solely by "economic expediency and compliance with current legislation". The court said prosecutors had asked the court to hand over all shares, should they be seized fully, to the state.

Persons: Rolf, Sergei Petrov, Vladimir Putin, Petrov, Gleb Stolyarov, Alexander Marrow, Jason Neely Organizations: General's, Kremlin, Reuters Locations: MOSCOW, St Petersburg, Moscow, Petersburg's Moskovskiy, Rolf, Russia's, Russian, Austria

As Open AI employees celebrated the return of CEO Sam Altman with a five-alarm office party , OpenAI software engineer Steven Heidel was busy publicly rebuffing overtures from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Heidel was one of more than 700 OpenAI employees who's threatened exodus halted a would-be mutiny at one of Silicon Valley's most important AI companies. He was previously a scientist at Facebook AI Research and worked as a member of Google Brain under supervision of Prof. Geoffrey Hinton and Ilya Sutskever. Alec Radford: Radford was hired in 2016 from a small AI company he founded in his dorm room. Tao Xu : technical staff, worked on GPT4 and WhisperChristine McLeavey : technical staff, with contributions to music-related productsChristina Kim : technical staffChristopher Hesse : technical staffHeewoo Jun : technical staff, researchAlex Nichol : technical staff, researchWilliam Fedus: technical staff, researchIlge Akkaya: technical staff, researchVineet Kosaraju : technical staff, researchHenrique Ponde de Oliveira Pinto : technical staffAditya Ramesh : technical staff, developed DALL-E and DALL-E 2Prafulla Dhariwal : research scientistHunter Lightman : technical staffHarrison Edwards : research scientistYura Burda : machine language researcherTyna Eloundou : technical staff, researchPamela Mishkin : researcherCasey Chu : researcherDavid Dohan : technical staff, researchAidan Clark : researcherRaul Puri : research scientistLeo Gao : technical staff, researchYang Song : technical staff, researchGiambattista ParascandoloTodor Markov : Machine learning researcherNick Ryder : technical staff

Persons: Sam Altman, Steven Heidel, Marc Benioff, Heidel, Altman, Mira Murati, Murati, Brad Lightcap, Lightcap, Jason Kwon, Kwon, Wojciech Zaremba, Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, Alec Radford, Radford, OpenAI, Peter Welinder, He's, Github Copilot, Anna Makanju, Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI's, Michael Petrov, Petrov, Greg [ Brockman, Miles Brundage, Brundage, John Schulman OpenAI, Srinivas Narayanan, Scott Grey, Grey, Bob McGrew, Research Che Chang, Lillian Weng, Safety Systems Mark Chen, Frontiers Research Barret Zoph, Peter Deng, Jan Leike Evan Morikawa Steven Heidel Jong Wook Kim, Tao Xu, Christine McLeavey, Christina Kim, Christopher Hesse, Heewoo, Alex Nichol, William Fedus, Henrique Ponde de Oliveira Pinto, Aditya Ramesh, Hunter Lightman, Harrison Edwards, Yura, Tyna, Pamela Mishkin, Casey Chu, David Dohan, Aidan Clark, Raul Puri, Leo Gao, Yang, Giambattista Parascandolo Todor Markov, Nick Ryder Organizations: Business, BI, OpenAI, Khosla Ventures, Facebook, Research, Google, Tesla, U.S . Department of Energy, Oxford University, Safety Systems, Frontiers Research Locations: Albania, Canada, OpenAI

Four years after calling time on his playing career, Berbatov has grand ambitions of reshaping the football landscape in his native Bulgaria. “Bulgarian football is in major crisis,” Berbatov tells CNN Sport’s Amanda Davies from London in a recent interview. Mihaylov re-electedTwo years after submitting his resignation, Mihaylov stood again and was re-elected as BFU president for a fifth term when Berbatov was also a candidate. In the voting, 241 voted for Mihaylov, 230 for Berbatov, eight for a third candidate, and four did not vote. Dimitar Kyosemarliev/ReutersBulgaria last qualified for a major international tournament at Euro 2004, when a squad featuring Berbatov lost all three of its games.

Persons: CNN — Dimitar Berbatov’s, Berbatov, it’s, Amanda Davies, “, – Stiliyan Petrov, Martin Petrov, –, Borislav Mihaylov, Mihaylov, Mihaylov’s, Gareth Southgate, Boyko Borissov, Bulgaria “, ” Mihaylov, Borissov’s, ” Borislav Mihaylov, Georgi Paleykov, Georgi Ivanov, “ I’ve, ” Berbatov, Dimitar Dilkoff, Nikolay Doychinov, ”, Dimitar Kyosemarliev, hasn’t, Simon Holmes, Aleksander Čeferin, Čeferin, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, Bulgarian, –, Manchester United, Bulgarian Football Union, England, Bulgaria, ”, Guardian, Balkan Insight, FIFA, UEFA, CNN Sport, Latvia, Getty, Bulgaria’s, Hungary, men’s, Plovdiv’s Hristo Botev Stadium, Police, Vassil Levski Stadium, Hungarian Football Federation, Reuters, Croatia Locations: Germany, England, France, Greece, India, Bulgaria, Europe, London, Sofia, Bulgarian, “ Bulgaria, AFP, Plovdiv, Reuters Bulgaria, BFU

Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin delivers a speech during a ceremony unveiling the monument to founder of the Soviet secret police Felix Dzerzhinsky at the service's headquarters in Moscow, Russia, September 11, 2023. Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsMOSCOW, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A bronze statue of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror which followed the 1917 revolution, was unveiled on Monday at the headquarters of Russia's foreign spy service. Sergei Naryshkin, the chief of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), successor to the KGB's famed First Chief Directorate, marked the unveiling of the statue outside its Yasenevo headquarters in southern Moscow. Dzerzhinsky towered above Naryshkin, Putin's 68-year-old spy master, who stood with a group of other men - many of them unknown. The statue at the SVR looks remarkably similar to the one that once stood on Lubyanka Square.

Persons: Sergei Naryshkin, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Felix, Dzerzhinsky, Josef Stalin, Vladimir Putin's, Naryshkin, Nikita Petrov, Vladimir Lenin's, Lenin's, Putin, Guy Faulconbridge, Gareth Jones, Tomasz Janowski Organizations: Foreign Intelligence Service, Russian Federation, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Reuters, Russian, Commission, Cheka, State Political Directorate, State Political, NKVD, Internal Affairs, KGB, Federal Security Service, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russia, Vladimir Putin's Russia, Poland, Soviet Union, Dzerzhinsky, Soviet

☆ Ex-manager at Russian car dealer gets 8-1/2 years for sending money abroad
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A former senior manager at the Russian car dealership Rolf was sentenced on Friday to 8-1/2 years in prison for participating in a deal considered to constitute an illegal transfer of funds abroad, a Moscow court said. Anatoly Kairo, Rolf's director of business development, was found to have sent large sums abroad using forged documents as part of an organised group, the Cheremushki district court said. Russian media said Kairo, who was taken into custody in the courtroom on Friday, was a Ukrainian citizen. In 2021, Rolf, at that time Russia's largest car dealership, was bought by its rival Klyuchavto. Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov Editing by Kevin Liffey and Peter GraffOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Rolf, Anatoly Kairo, Sergei Petrov, Petrov, Kairo, Gleb Stolyarov, Kevin Liffey, Peter Graff Organizations: Russian Investigative, Austrian, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Russian, Moscow, Cheremushki, Russia, Cypriot, Austrian, Austria, Ukrainian

☆ There is little doubt that Putin had Prigozhin killed — which is almost certainly the point
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Kieran Corcoran | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While it's not confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead, or why, or how, it is not hard to figure out. Prigozhin publicly challenged Vladimir Putin and, not long after, his plane fell from the sky. President Vladimir Putin, of course, hasn't said a thing. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe BBC's respected security correspondent Franker Gardner noted Thursday: "Vladimir Putin does not forgive traitors nor those who challenge him." AdvertisementAdvertisementAlexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov told RT’s editor-in-chief they had nothing to do with the Skripals’ poisoning.

Persons: it's, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin, hasn't, GAVRIIL, Franker Gardner, Sergei Skripal, — Novichok, Luke Harding, Alexander Petrov, Ruslan Boshirov, Alexandr Litvinenko, Alexei Navalny, Boris Nemtsov, Putin Organizations: Service, Getty, Anadolu Agency, RT Locations: Wall, Silicon, Russian, Kursk, Russia, Moscow, Soviet Union, Britain, Berlin

☆ Nuclear War Could End the World, but What if It’s All in Our Heads?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Sarah Scoles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There is a longstanding psychological term for this: psychic numbing, coined by Robert Jay Lifton. And that compounds with the tendency to make a decision based on one or a few prominent variables. Dr. Slovic has also researched factors that tend to make people — including presidents — more likely to favor a nuclear launch. Colonel Petrov thought it could be a false alarm and decided not to send the warning to his superiors. Because the colonel feared a nuclear war fought under false pretenses more than he feared not retaliating, a third world war did not begin.

Persons: Robert Jay Lifton, they’re, ”, Slovic, we’re, —, Janice Stein, Stanislav Petrov’s, Petrov Organizations: University of Toronto Locations: Moscow, United States

☆ Exclusive: Kremlin aide who brings Ukrainian children to Russia associated online with neo-Nazism
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Anton Zverev | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Aug 9 (Reuters) - A Kremlin official involved in what international prosecutors call the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia was associated online as a teenager with white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements, Reuters has found. He deleted that link the day Reuters submitted its questions about his online activity to his employer. In a statement responding to Reuters questions, Petrov said: "Unequivocally, I never had, nor do I have, any links to neo-Nazi organisations. When Russia gave a presentation on April 5 this year to the United Nations Security Council to rebut allegations about its treatment of Ukrainian children, Petrov was among the speakers. In a video shared during that presentation, Petrov was shown alongside children at a Russian-organised camp for Ukrainian children.

Persons: Alexei Petrov, Petrov, Maria Lvova, Vladimir Putin, Belova, Adolf Hitler, Reuters couldn't, Hitler, David Lane, Anton Zverev, Christian Lowe, Daniel Flynn Organizations: Kremlin, Reuters, Skype, United Nations Security Council, Defamation League, Fare, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, London, Nazi, Russian

☆ Russia's world champion beach footballers pining for international return
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/11] Russian national beach football team's forward Fedor Zemskov attempts a bicycle kick during a practice session, at a training camp, held ahead of the Nations Cup 2023 four-team international tournament in Moscow, Russia, July 18, 2023. That applies to beach football too and, while the ban is clearly negative for Russia, captain Anton Shkarin believes the wider game has also suffered. "When you disconnect a national team such as ours, the class falls immediately," he told Reuters at a training session in Moscow. "We communicate well with the guys from Europe who play and everyone is upset that we're banned." Reporting by Alexey Petrov; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Ken FerrisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Fedor Zemskov, Maxim, Anton Shkarin, we're, Mikhail Likhachev, Stanislav Kosharnyi, Alexey Petrov, Alexander Marrow, Ken Ferris Organizations: Nations, REUTERS, soccer, UEFA, FIFA, Reuters, United Arab Emirates, Games, Thomson Locations: Russian, Moscow, Russia, Ukraine MOSCOW, Ukraine, Europe, St Petersburg, Iran, Senegal, Belarus, Brazil, India, China, South Africa

NUCLEAR WEAPONS? Amid today's Ukraine war, the biggest land war in Europe since 1945, the town is again being enclosed by the tentacles of distant tumult. "No one is ever going to tell you where the tactical nuclear weapons are stationed - you should understand that," Kasinsky said. He repeatedly refused to confirm or deny whether the nuclear weapons were outside Osipovichi. "You should not try to make some sort of horror story out of the tactical nuclear weapons," said Kasinsky.

Persons: Wagner, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Alexander Lukashenko, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Leonid Kasinsky, Kasinsky, Osipovichi, Hans Kristensen, Vladimir Lenin, Ilya Petrov, Lukashenko, Guy Faulconbridge, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Putin, Town, Bolshevik, Foreign, Belarus OSIPOVICHI, Red Army, U.S . Central Intelligence Agency, Federation of American Scientists, CIA, Communist, Thomson Locations: Belarus, Belarusian, Russia, Osipovichi, Tsel, Russian, Minsk, Ukrainian, Grand Duchy, Lithuania, Nazi Germany, Ukraine, Europe, Moscow, West

☆ Russian state TV attacks mutiny leader Prigozhin, says investigation still live
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

July 5 (Reuters) - Russian state TV on Wednesday launched a fierce attack on Yevgeny Prigozhin, the exiled mercenary leader of an aborted armed mutiny last month, and said an investigation into what had happened was still being vigorously pursued. Under the agreement which ended the mutiny, Prigozhin, whose aim had been to topple the defence minister and chief of the General Staff for what he cast as their incompetent prosecution of the war, was meant to relocate to neighbouring Belarus. Images of armed Russian law enforcement agents entering Prigozhin's office were shown. "I consider that the creation of Yevgeny Prigozhin's image as a people's hero was all done by media fed by Yevgeny Prigozhin," said Petrov, referring to media outlets financed by Prigozhin. The programme showed what it said were multiple passports which Prigozhin had used and which carried different names.

Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Wagner, Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Popov, Eduard Petrov, Petrov, Yevgeny, Putin, Andrew Osborn, Christopher Cushing Organizations: Wednesday, Kremlin, General Staff, Prigozhin, Thomson Locations: Russian, Rostov, Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Belarus, St Petersburg

☆ A flying car prototype just got an airworthiness certificate from the FAA
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Alef Automotive said that its vehicle/aircraft, dubbed the “Model A,” is the first flying vehicle that is drivable on public roads and able to park like a normal car. The FAA confirmed that it has issued the company a special airworthiness certificate, allowing for limited purposes that include exhibition, research and development. The FAA said that Alef is “not the first aircraft of its kind” to get a special airworthiness certificate. Alef Aeronautics' flying Car unveiling on October 19, 2022. But Alef said that it needed the FAA’s special airworthiness certificate to continue conducting the necessary research and development.

Persons: Alef Aeronautics Inc “, ”, Jim Dukhovny, Constantine Kisly, Pavel Markin, Oleg Petrov, Dukhovny Organizations: New, New York CNN, Federal Aviation Administration, Automotive, FAA, Alef, Alef Aeronautics, Alef Aeronautics Inc, National, Traffic, Administration Locations: New York, California

☆ Erdogan Hosts NATO Talks on Sweden Bid: Ukraine-Russia Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Ben Hubbard | Safak Timur | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Mr. Putin touched on virtually every aspect of the conflict in recent weeks. At one point he also suggested that the Russian army might have to again march on Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. More important, Mr. Petrov speculated that the remarks could be a prelude to seeking negotiations by implying that the Ukrainian counteroffensive was doomed. Mr. Putin said he backed the call for paramilitary organizations to sign such contracts. “It is his style before any negotiation to let his guy say something horrible in order to look better,” Mr. Petrov said.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, Mr, Nikolai Petrov, Petrov, ”, Wagner, Sergei K, Yevgeny V, Prigozhin, Alina Lobzina Organizations: Tuesday, Ministry of Defense, Defense Ministry Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukrainian, Kharkiv

☆ Putin wants China to think he can defeat Ukraine. But his expensive military gambit is yet to yield results
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Nic Robertson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The Kremlin claimed it had hit one of the United States’ prestigious Patriot missile defense systems. The Kremlin claimed it had hit a US Patriot missile defense system. The White House rebuffed Moscow's claims that the attack hit a Patriot missile defense system. Ankara on the diplomatic fenceXi isn’t the only leader with skin in the Ukraine war that Putin appears to be trying to sway his way right now. There is no guarantee either that Xi cares about Putin’s missile salvo targeting Kyiv’s Patriot missile batteries either, but he will have been paying attention.

☆ Can Ukraine use Patriot defense systems to knock out Russian hypersonic missiles?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Here is what you need to know about the Patriot:WHAT IS THE PATRIOT MISSILE SYSTEM? CAN PATRIOTS KNOCK OUT HYPERSONIC MISSILES? Ukraine has said it needs more air defense systems to protect against the barrage of missile and drones strikes from Russian forces. The United States has also provided a pair of National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to Ukraine. Raytheon has built more 240 Patriot systems and they are currently used by 18 countries, including the United States.

☆ Ukraine says it shot down 6 of the high-powered Kinzhal missiles that Russia boasted were unstoppable
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine says it shot down six of Russia's "unstoppable" Kinzhal missiles over Kyiv early Tuesday. In total, a barrage of 18 missiles were intercepted from land, sea and air, officials claimed. According to the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's army, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, six Russian MiG-31K jets launched the Kinzhal missiles overnight. "It was exceptional in its density — the maximum number of attack missiles in the shortest period of time," said Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv's military administration, of the barrage, per The Telegraph's translation. Firefighters work at a site of a vehicle parking area damaged by remains of Russian missiles, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 16, 2023.

☆ Analysis: What is Russia's policy on tactical nuclear weapons?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Guy Faulconbridge | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

WHAT ARE TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS? Academics and arms control negotiators have spent years arguing about how to define tactical nuclear weapons (TNW). The clue is in the name: they are nuclear weapons used for specific tactical gains on the battlefield, rather than, say, destroying the biggest cities of the United States or Russia. The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 was about 15 kilotons. The president is the ultimate decision maker when it comes to using Russian nuclear weapons, both strategic and non-strategic, according to Russia's nuclear doctrine.

☆ Blocul Electoral al Comuniștilor și Socialiștilor, susținut de persoane dubioase din Rusia
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-02 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +6 min

Sursa foto: facebook.com/dodon.igor1Blocul Electoral al Comuniștilor și Socialiștilor, susținut de persoane dubioase din RusiaInterlopul Grigore Caramalac, poreclit „Bulgaru”, s-ar implica din nou în campania electorală din Republica Moldova. Mișcarea a fost constituită de mai multe organizații obștești și activiști cunoscuți pe parcursul anilor prin pozițiile lor anti-europene, românofobe și pro-ruse. Principalul obiectiv declarat la constituire a fost susținerea și promovarea „consolidării forțelor politice pro-moldovenești în vederea alegerilor din 11 iulie”, pentru a stopa „românizarea totală” și a „întări suveranitatea statului”. Acesta a fost consilier al președintelui Comitetului Olimpic din Rusia. În 2012, Kulibaba a fost declarat nevinovat de către judecători, asta chiar dacă executorul omorului a indicat anume asupra lui drept organizator.

Persons: Caramalac, Igor Dodon, fugarul, Nazaruc, Pavel Voicu, Vasile Stati, Victor Petrov, Vladimir Kulibaba, Kulibaba, Viorel Țentiu, Totul Organizations: Comuniștilor, Socialiștilor, Interne, Uniunea Populară, PCRM, Blocul Comuniștilor, Uniunii, Partidului Socialiștilor, Organizația, Sputnik, Lupte, Presa, Olimpic, Poliția, Народный Союз Locations: Rusia, Republica Moldova, Chișinău, Comuniștilor, Ucraina, Uniunii Populare, Federației Ruse, Moldova, Kilibaba, St.Petersburg, Moscova, ruși, Republicii Moldova, socialist

☆ DOC/ Continuă lanțul cererilor de strămutare. Decizia CSJ la cea de-a noua cerere de strămutare a dosarului Șor de la Cahul la o altă instanță egală în grad
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-23 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +5 min

Încheierea în acest sens a fost pronunțatămiercuri, 23 iunie, de către Colegiul penal al CSJ, în componența magistraților – Iurie Diaconu, Ion Guzun și Liliana Catan. Decizia CSJ:Ultima cerere de strămutare, a șaptea la număr, a fost respinsă la 9 iunie curent. Dosarul se află în examinare la Curtea de Apel Cahul. La 30 iulie 2019, Ministerul Afacerilor Interne a declarat că Ilan Șor a părăsit ilegal țara și că a fost anunțat în căutare națională și internațională. La 15 august 2019, la solicitarea procurorului general interimar, Dumitru Robu, deputații l-au lipsit pe Ilan Șor de imunitate parlamentară.

Persons: Șor, Ilan Șor, Stamate, de Justiție, Iurie Diaconu, Ion, Liliana Catan, Aureliu, Denis, Maxim, Movilă, Nina, Ruslan Petrov, Ilan, Republicii Moldova Maia Sandu, Economii Ilan Șor, Ilan Şor, Dumitru Robu Organizations: Apel, Facebook, facebook, Interne Locations: Apel Cahul, Justiției, Republicii Moldova, relaţiile, Cahul, Republicii Moldova Maia, CA Cahul, Economii, Republica Moldova, Israel

☆ Lista candidaților la alegerile parlamentare anticipate, care au sub 30 de ani. Din ce domenii provin tinerii
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-15 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

Lista candidaților la alegerile parlamentare anticipate, care au sub 30 de ani. Din ce domenii provin tineriiMarea majoritate a candidaților cu vârste sub 30 de ani, care se regăsesc pe listele partidelor înscrise pentru alegerile parlamentare anticipate din 11 iulie nu au mai candidat până acum la această funcție. Echipa #diez vă prezintă o listă a tuturor candidaților ce au mai puțin de 30 de ani, care țintesc fotoliul de deputat, dar și din ce domenii de activitate provin dânșii. Treime”);# Dandara Alina, 1993 (asistent proiect AO „Fortius”);# Butuc-Guranda, 1991 Victoria (primară Dănceni);# Rusnac Iurie, 1993 (specialist ÎM „SCL Rezina”);# Iftodii Cristian, 2000 (student);# Eriomenco Nicoleta, 1999 (neangajată);# Smîntînă Nicolae, 1999 (student);# Grovaz Ana-Maria, 2002 (studentă);# Șevciuc Mihai, 1999 (student);# Rotaru Daniel, 1998 (student). Blocul Electoral al Comuniștilor și Socialiștilor:# Vanghelii Teodora, 1991 (consilieră în Cabinet);# Radvan Marina, 1991 (deputată);# Colomieț Daria, 1991 (consilieră locală);# Medvedeva Ecaterina, 1998 (studentă).

Persons: Plămădeală, Smirnov Eduard, Victor, Eugeniu, Nistor Marcela, Ana, Victoria, Maria, Rotaru Daniel, Teodora, Ecaterina, Sava Denis, Bodiul Natalia, Bogdan, Anghel Cristina, Nadejda, Irina, Renato, Moraru Dan, Vasili, Popa Irina, Ivan, Străinu, Pavel, Anastasia, Ursu Andrei, Eduard, Dinu, Daniel, Dmitrii, Petrov Magdalena, Cojocaru Adrian, Horea Pavel, Cristina, Munteanu Adelina, Adelina, Anna, Svetlana, Ilie, Gorea Tatiana, Croitoru Vlad, Adam Veronica Organizations: Uniunea Pensionarilor, Partidul, Comuniștilor, Marina, Tineret, Consiliul, Partidul Politic Locations: BECS, Rezina, Chișinău, Bălți, Orhei, Nisporeni

☆ Naționala Moldovei U19 va participa la un turneu internațional de futsal în Croația. Care este programul meciurilor
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Naționala Moldovei U19 va participa la un turneu internațional de futsal în Croația. Care este programul meciurilorÎn perspectiva pregătirii către meciurile oficiale, Naționala Moldovei U19 de futsal va participa la turneul internațional „Futsal Week Spring Cup”, care va fi găzduit de orașul Porec (Croația). Oleg Petrov, selecționerul Naționalei Moldovei U19 de futsal, a convocat următorii jucători: Artiom Cubani, Nichita Covali, Pavel Meleca, Jiyan Savaș, Igor Șevcenco, Maxim Pleșca, Oleg Morozan, Nicolae Guțu, Dumitru Cucoș, Maxim Galeas, Dumitru Bejenaru, Igor Gravriliuc, Gheorghe Platovschi, Ion Guțu. Acest turneu constituie o etapă de pregătire a reprezentativei noastre către preliminariile Campionatului European de futsal 2022 pentru selecționatele de juniori U19. Tragerea la sorți pentru desemnarea adversarilor Naționalei noastre va avea loc pe 7 iulie curent.

Persons: Oleg Petrov, Nichita Covali, Pavel Meleca, Igor Șevcenco, Maxim Pleșca, Oleg Morozan, Nicolae Guțu, Dumitru, Maxim, Bejenaru, Igor Gravriliuc, Ion Guțu Organizations: Naționala Moldovei U19, Naționala Moldovei, Naționalei Moldovei, juniori U19 Locations: futsal, Croația, Porec, Spania, Franța, Serbia, Moldova, Ucraina, Polonia, Muntenegru, Naționalei Moldovei U19, Maxim Galeas

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