Author: Keto Amiranashvili

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…

Lawyer Goran Petronijević said that High Representative in BiH, Christian Schmidt, who is not recognized in Republika Srpska, carried out a coup d’état in BiH. As he stated, being hosted on Prva TV, he did so by the imposed decisions, because by his actions he breaks the laws and destroys democracy. Schmidt is not recognized in Republika Srpska because his mandate was not confirmed in the UN Security Council as stipulated in the Dayton Peace Agreement. Petronijević pointed out that this can be clearly seen from the trial of the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, before the Court of…

The Security Service of Ukraine claims that the Ukrainian authorities refused to release the former President of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada deputy Petro Poroshenko, abroad, since the Russian special services planned to use his meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for provocations against Ukraine. According to the SBU, Russian intelligence services are preparing provocations against Ukraine in order to influence support for Kyiv from its allies and force Ukrainian politicians to say that negotiations with Moscow are necessary. The department said that Russia is going to involve pro-Russian politicians abroad, as well as Ukrainian politicians during their visits abroad, in provocations.…

Experts say crackdown on abortion drugs and services is part of a project to instil ‘certain values’ in society. Russia has long touted itself as a country home to what President Vladimir Putin often calls “traditional family values”. The Federal Assembly has cracked down on the LGBTQ community, passing legislation outlawing gender-affirming surgeries and banning “gay propaganda”. Now social conservatives have a new target: reproductive rights. Terminating a pregnancy is a legal and widely available procedure in Russia, but in recent weeks and months, a flurry of new laws appear to limit abortion access amid fears of further population declines and a…

A total of 8 professional lyceums will be built in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region, said Jeyhun Karamov, Director of the State Agency for Vocational Education under the Ministry of Science and Education. “Currently, the foundation of a professional lyceum has been laid in Fuzuli. Our goal is to cover the entire Azerbaijan. Vocational education serves the economy. When building the institution, the economic needs of a particular region are firstly taken into account. It is planned that each of the new buildings will have dormitories,” Karamov said at a seminar on “Effective Communication”. He also mentioned that a new building of…

Amid the ongoing sanctions and growing trade tensions with the collective West, Russian businesses are looking for new markets. Singapore, with its unique investing advantages and strategic location, is especially attractive as the country is seen in Moscow as a door to the wider prosperous South-East Asian and ASEAN regions. Yet Singapore joined the collective West in imposing sanctions (control of exports of military and technological goods to Russia and measures against Russian financial entities) against Russia in March 2022 following the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine. Moreover, sanctions imposed on Russia by the West led to a freeze…

A protester is in a critical condition after lighting themself on fire at the Israeli consulate in the US state of Georgia in what police called an “extreme act of political protest”. Police said the demonstrator used petrol, and a Palestinian flag was found at the scene, outside the mission in Atlanta. The person’s gender and age remain unclear. A security guard who attempted to intervene was also injured. According to police, the protester arrived at the facility at 12:17 local time (17:17 GMT). “We believe this building remains safe and we do not see any threat here,” Atlanta Police…

Georgia drivers are likely to begin paying higher prices for gasoline and diesel as state motor fuel taxes return on Thursday. Gov. Brian Kemp’s rollback of the state taxes of 31.2 cents per gallon of gasoline and 35 cents per gallon of diesel ends at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. The Republican Kemp began waiving the taxes in September when he issued a novel legal declaration finding that high prices were an emergency. Georgia’s governor can suspend tax collections during an emergency as long as state lawmakers approve the action the next time they meet. But because the General Assembly is beginning a special…

The question of whether Georgia’s electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws that amount to a violation of voters’ constitutional rights to cast their votes and have those votes accurately counted is set to be decided at trial early next year. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg issued a 135-page ruling late Friday in a long-running lawsuit filed by activists who want the state to ditch its electronic voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. The state had asked the judge to rule in its favor based on the arguments and facts in the case without going to trial, but Totenberg found…

North Georgia is currently in various stages of drought, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In counties like Fulton, Cobb and DeKalb, that drought is “moderate,” NOAA said. But it’s “severe” in Cherokee and Bartow counties, “extreme” in Pickens and Gordon counties and even “exceptional” in Walker and Dade counties. Overall, droughts are impacting 5.4 million Georgians. Low rainfall and higher temperatures are to blame, according to the NOAA. In Atlanta, there were less than two inches of rain in the past month, or 52% less than normal for this time of year. So what does the drought…