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The US authorities are preparing to limit Russia’s ability to conduct cross-border operations with gold as much as possible. The soon-to-be-adopted bill provides for penalties even for foreigners who take part in gold transactions where Russia or its representatives act as counterparties. As a result, such transactions will not be able to be carried out, […]
The new, ninth package of European Union sanctions against Russia in connection with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is aimed at undermining the Russian military-industrial complex and will affect a number of branches of Russian industry. The Politico publication, which has the draft restrictive measures at its disposal, writes about the details of the EU […]
TSMC this week broke ground on a state-of-the-art facility in Arizona. Before the ceremony, the Taiwanese company made a statement in which it talked about its future plans. As it turned out, the manufacturer intends to build two factories in the United States at once. The first enterprise will appear by 2024 and will produce […]
Now the share of the Russian ruble will take 60%, the US dollar – 30%, the Chinese yuan – 10%. The board of the National Bank of Belarus decided to remove the euro from the basket of foreign currencies and replace it with the Russian ruble. This is stated on the website of the National […]
Chinese graduate students were able to create clothing that blinds video surveillance systems operating on the basis of artificial intelligence algorithms. The camouflage is called InvisDefense. It was developed by a group of graduate students from Wuhan University as part of a cyber security innovation competition, where they were able to take first place. By […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Wednesday that his ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine was taking longer than expected, but said Russia had succeeded in seizing new territory. ‘Of course, it can be a long process,’ Putin said of the war, which has been going on for more than 9 months. Despite this, he showed […]
Hyundai M.Vision TO and M.Vision HI are completely autonomous and are not equipped with any controls. They were equipped with innovative rotary motor-wheels. The first photos of the Hyundai M.Vision TO and M.Vision HI concept cars have been published. Prototypes of self-driving cars will be presented in January at the CES show in Las Vegas. […]
Uzbekistan is ready to sign commercial gas supply contracts with Russia, but has no intention of joining the gas union proposed by Moscow with Russia and Kazakhstan. This was stated by the Minister of Energy of Uzbekistan Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov, Reuters reports. According to the minister, Uzbekistan ‘will never accept political conditions in exchange for gas.’ […]
The USA is considering providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine with cluster munitions. CNN writes about it. It is noted that cluster weapons are prohibited by the international convention, which came into effect in 2010, but neither Ukraine, nor the USA, nor Russia joined it. American officials see the transfer of these weapons only as […]
At least 9 strategic bombers disappeared from Russia’s Diaghilev Air Base after a drone attack on December 5. Radio Svoboda writes about this with reference to Planet.com satellite data. It is noted that the air base is located 500 km from the front line. Il-76 refueling planes are stationed there, and the 43rd Center for […]