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A military convoy of the Turkish armed forces, due to combat aircraft belonging to the Air-Space Forces (CCS) of the Russian Federation, was unable to enter Al-Bara in the Syrian province of Idlib. This is reported on Sunday, February 23, Telegram-channel Military observer. The report states that the Turkish military, for its own security, was forced to leave the area due to Russian aircraft strikes on targets of members of illegal armed groups. According to the news agency, earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin and T...

Minsk will calculate its losses from Russia's change in Russian oil legislation and bill Russian oil suppliers to Belarus. This was announced by Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Vladimir Semashko on February 21. According to the press service of the President of Belarus, before the meeting with Semashko, the Belarusian leader discussed with Vladimir Putin the issues of oil and gas supplies to the post-Soviet republic, as well as the conditions of Russian lending to official Minsk and the participation of Belarusian companies in Russian projects abroad. Earlier: Lukashenko announced Putin's promise to compensate for the tax manoeuvre In 2019, Russia and Belarus signed an indicative balance sheet for 2020, providing for the supply of 24 million tons of Russian oil, but Minsk did not sign contracts. Lukashenko said during a meeting with Semashko: After negotiations with Putin and his proposals, we will count now. This is a simple account of our losses from reducing the customs duty...

The box office collections of the film by South Korean director Pon Jun Ho Parasites abroad exceeded the 200 billion won mark (~ $168.9 million). This is reported by KBS with a link to the portal Box Office Mojo. According to published data, the cash collection of Parasites amounted to 201.6 billion won (~ 170.42 million). It is known that in North America the film collected $39.40 million, and outside it $131.02 million. It is noted that the South Korean film Parasites became the fifth foreign language film to...

In Tajikistan in 2019 there were two attacks, and two more attacks were prevented thanks to the work of special services of the republic. This was stated by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan Ramazon Rahimzoda during a briefing with journalists, Sputnik Tajikistan reported on February 14. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, last year more than 160 members of terrorist and extremist organizations were detained. A total of 1,211 terrorist crimes have been registered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan over the past year. Last year, two terrorist acts were committed in Tajikistan. In addition, two attacks were prevented thanks to the work of the special services of the republic. Read also: In Tajikistan, 540 convicted of terrorism were released under amnesty. According to the news agency, in November 2019, 540 persons who were convicted of terrorist crimes were released under amnesty in the Republic of Tajiki...

The Albanian Parliament has passed a law facilitating the procedure for obtaining a visa for persons wishing to work in the country. According to Albanian news agency Telegrafi, now the period of obtaining a visa has been reduced from 60 to 30 days, and it is now enough to complete online registration. The law was drafted by the Government. The formal reason for its adoption was the shortage of labour in Albania to deal with the consequences of the earthquake on 26 November in a short time. However, opposition deputy Ralph Joni states that his preparation began before the earthquake: If the earthquake became such a serious problem that we needed foreign workers, then forgive me why consultations (on this bill news agency) took place on September 19 and October 16. This is not at all related to the November earthquake. That seems like a wrong explanation to me. It's just a cover for perhaps the dark commercial targets of two or three commercial ventures in Albania that need foreign ...