Author: Impetriz

All men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service, or equivalent training during higher education, from the age of 18. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine spring conscription campaign, calling up 150,000 citizens for statutory military service, a document posted on the Kremlin’s website showed on Sunday (31 March). All men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service, or equivalent training during higher education, from the age of 18. In July Russia’s lower house of parliament voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be conscripted to 30…

The first stage of what is said to be the largest floating solar plant in Brazil has been inaugurated in the State of São Paulo. The UFF Araucária project is located at the Billings dam and is being developed by Empresa Metropolitana de Águas e Energia (EMAE) and KWP Energia. The first stage, coordinated by Brazil’s Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure and Logistics, was delivered on January 17. With 10,500 plates on the water surface and an initial investment of R$30 million (around $6 million), the plant has the capacity to produce up to 10 GWh per year, equivalent to the…

The Australian Submarine Agency has entered into a contract with Bisalloy Steels, for the qualification of Australian steel for use on Australia’s SSN-AUKUS conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines. The contract is for a term of approximately 16 months. The comprehensive qualification process, involving more than 4500 tests, is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025. Bisalloy Steels will perform the advanced heat treatment process on the raw plate steel to produce high grade submarine pressure hull steel that meets or exceeds both the UK and US standards. The raw plate steel will be supplied by BlueScope. Minister for…

The Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in San Francisco on the occasion of the APEC summit did not signify any meaningful breakthrough in their increasingly adversarial relationship. To alter the dynamics behind the deterioration of their ties, a redefinition of their interests and policies is needed. This is not on the cards. The US sees China as a rival, the only real one that can counter US global power, politically, economically and technologically. If the Chinese political and economic system was compatible with that of the West and China was seen as willing to become a part of the West dominated…

Two countries come together to face “immense challenge” for grapes worldwide Table grape industry organisations from Chile and Peru will meet for the first time at the 2024 Global Grape Convention to collaboratively seek solutions to the problems of the grape sector as well as provide market information. The grape producing and exporting industry worldwide has experienced a process of change and stress marked by climatic factors, the Covid pandemic, logistical issues in origin and destination, and the cultivation of new varieties that have not achieved expected results. For this reason, Chile and Peru, two world leaders in the production…

The day after commending Kazakhstan for not bowing to the Kremlin, French President Emmanuel Macron was in Uzbekistan declaring that Paris and Tashkent have agreed to form a strategic partnership. Suffice to say, all of this did not go unnoticed in Moscow. Both Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan pursue “multi-vector foreign policy”, a broad concept that allows the two biggest post-Soviet Central Asian countries to step up relations and cooperation with anyone they please. But it’s all very subjective and, in public, their leaders keep it that way, fully aware that for both Russia and China there are in fact red lines. The…

LIMA, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Tuesday appointed Victor Torres Falcon as interior minister, replacing Vicente Romero Fernandez, who resigned last week after being censured by Congress. Torres Falcon is a retired national police general, and held different positions such as head of the Special Unified Command of Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro River Valley. Noting that the new minister has “a difficult task” ahead, Boluarte said she is certain he will know “how to respond to the level that the citizenry and all of Peru demands.” His predecessor Romero was censured by Congress on Nov. 15…

Peru Police Chief Sarah Raymond is looking to add a couple additional license plate reader cameras in the city. Officials discussed the potential purchase of new license plate reader equipment near Interstate 80 and Route 251 during Monday’s Public Services Committee meeting. Raymond said the city has 10 of these Flock safety cameras around town, and it has been “extremely beneficial” in numerous investigations, including outside jurisdictions. The license plate reader cameras take a photograph of license plates and can trigger alerts on wanted, stolen or missing vehicles. They also can be used as a resource to catch fleeing suspects. “We’ve…

What is AUKUS? Established in 2021, the AUKUS is intended to be a strategic partnership among Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States to bolster their allied deterrence and defense capabilities in the Indo-Pacific. The trilateral partnership, which builds on their decades-long security cooperation, has two pillars. Pillar I revolves around the acquisition and development of conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy; and Pillar II calls for collaboration on advanced capabilities that will involve technology and information sharing. What is the submarine component? Pillar I of AUKUS focuses on Australia’s acquisition of conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines…

China on Tuesday unveiled its blueprint for a better world, raised by President Xi Jinping in 2013, through a policy paper on building a global community of shared future. China also said it will continue to push for green development in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects, rejecting accusations that it has outsourced its environmental pollution, a senior official from China’s top economic planner said at a press conference on the wide-ranging policy paper about China’s global vision. The White Paper titled “A Global Community of Shared Future: China’s Proposals and Actions” comes a decade after the vision was first…