The last of eight prototypes of the Challenger 3 tank has rolled off the production line of the joint British-German Rheinmetall BAE Systems plant. After completing the full test cycle, it is planned to begin creating 140 vehicles by upgrading existing Challengers for the army. A distinctive feature of the modification is the 120-mm L55A1 … Read more
If last year, having attributed some of the problems to the years of Covid and inflation, Latvia’s attractiveness for foreign investors could be described as mediocre, but this year the rating fell to “definitely bad.” The attractiveness of Latvia as a place for investment decreased sharply over the year – by 0.4 points, as a … Read more
And if on many streets, the width of which was determined by horse-drawn teams, modern, very large cars can still pass, then soon there will be nowhere to store hundreds of thousands of cars. Parking lottery “What a parking lot you have,” my son, who lives in the village of Ulbroka, critically assessed the courtyard … Read more
SpaceX has teamed up with military-industrial corporation Northrop Grumman to create low-orbit satellites for the US Department of Defense, allowing for high-definition images of the Earth’s surface, the quality of which can be compared with the images obtained by flying drones. Reuters reports this. We are talking about the development of a system of hundreds … Read more
There are 4,741 such citizens of the Russian Federation living in Latvia, who will now have to claim the status of a permanent resident of the European Union, for which they must pass an exam on proficiency in the Latvian language. However, 2,232 people over 75 years of age can be exempted from it. Over … Read more
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest electromagnetic events that occur in the Universe, when a few seconds of the burst release as much energy as the Sun would emit in 10 billion years. The powerful explosion, BOAT or GRB 221009A, occurred approximately 2.4 billion light-years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, and lasted … Read more
Chairman of the Daugavpils City Duma commission on social issues, people’s deputy, head of the structural unit “Russian Cultural Center” of the self-government institution “House of Unity” Natalya Kozhanova (“Concord”) regularly meets with residents of Daugavils whose documents have lost force in Latvia. These are residents of Latvia who once decided to become Russian citizens … Read more
Tragedy in the town of Soto de Rey, in Ribera de Arriba. Pablo MC, 46, has been arrested for allegedly murdering and beheading MAMC, his septuagenarian father. The son hit the victim with two machetes, one in the chest and another in the arm, before cutting off his head. He did it in front of … Read more