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In the summer of 2022, information appeared on the Internet that North Macedonia had transferred its Su-25 attack aircraft to Ukraine. The government has now officially confirmed this. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of North Macedonia, Slavjanka Petrovska. These are three single-seat Su-25s and one two-seat Su-25UB. In addition, Macedonia has provided […]
Bulgarian Post, the national postal operator, has stopped shipping to Russia and Belarus. This is stated on the company’s website. “Bulgarian Post” informs its customers that due to a decrease in transport capacity, which causes the accumulation of mail at the transit airport, the acceptance of all types of shipments to Russia and Belarus is […]
Russian tourists there were affected by the sanctions. Russian tourists who have bank cards issued in other countries have started to have problems paying in Europe. Some car rental companies in Germany and Italy are introducing new rules requiring proof that the cards were issued to residents and not “card tourists.” This requirement is already […]
The first branch of Nova Post (the international name of the Ukrainian Nova Poshta) in Lithuania was opened in Vilnius. The company plans to open new branches in Estonia and Latvia. The Nova Post branch was opened in Vilnius at Žalgirio g. 92, LT-09303. This is a cargo office where you can send and receive […]
Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney have developed a flexible 3D bioprinter that can apply organic material to human body tissue from the inside. Unlike other approaches to bioprinting, this system is minimally invasive and will help avoid major surgeries or organ removal in the future. The F3DB printer is designed […]
Employees of the domestic policy unit of the Russian Presidential Administration are to get rid of their iPhones by early April. The first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergey Kiriyenko, who oversees domestic policy, set the deadline for giving up iPhones at April 1, 2023. The reason for refusing iPhones is called cybersecurity: the […]
The Japanese airline ZIPAIR was forced to repaint its planes to avoid being associated with supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Until the spring of 2022, the tails of ZIPAIR airliners bore a capital Z, the airline’s logo. This letter was used by the Russian military as an insignia on their vehicles entering Ukraine. Since the […]
Chery, Haval, FAW, represented in Ukraine, are in the “middle”, and Chery Jetour is one of the outsiders in the quality rating. The China Car Quality Network has published a quality rating of Chinese car brands for 2022 for ICE cars and electric cars separately. The lower the score, the higher the quality. The rating […]
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has presented a new drone. The model is called ANKA 3 and is a strike unmanned aerial vehicle. We first learned about the drone last year when illustrative images were published. Now the company has shown a real photo of the new drone. ANKA 3 is equipped with a turbofan jet […]
Google is facing opposition from some of its 12,000 laid-off employees. CNBC has learned that more than 100 former employees have formed a group called Fired on Leave, which is asking Google to pay them for all the leave they were entitled to take before the January 20 layoff announcement, including parental, medical, and sick […]