Search

Standard & Poor's agency confirmed Slovakia's rating at the lowest level in a decade, having lowered it from "A+" to "A" in April, reflecting concerns about the deteriorating public finance balance and rising costs of debt servicing in connection with pre-election expenditures. #verejnéfinancie #rating #Slovensko (translated)

The Environmental Protection Agency reported that the ammunition factory being built by Germany's defense industry giant "Rheinmetall" and its Lithuanian partners in the Radviliškis district will not have a significant impact on the environment. #Rheinmetall #aplinkosauga #gamyba (translated)

Goalkeeper Jaroslav Askarov captivated spectators in the NHL with his exceptional reaction in the match against Ottawa, as he prevented a certain goal with a fantastic save, and the AP agency labeled his performance as a candidate for save of the year. #NHL #JaroslavAskarov #ledníhokej (translated)

Vláďa Foltán wrote that Ukraine's access to Starlink (Starshield) was, in his opinion, in the hands of SpaceX and Elon Musk, not the White House. Citing The Wall Street Journal, he stated that Musk ordered the restrictions after discussing them with Trump and other administration officials. #Ukrajina #SpaceX #ElonMusk (translated)

Tomas Kapler rejected the claim that Europe cannot compete with Starlink because it cannot build rockets and satellites and does not have the money for it. He stated that SpaceX completed 165 Falcon 9 flights in 2025, while Amazon reserved 24 launches of the European Ariane 6, which has already launched 100 of its satellites. He also mentioned the German startup Isar Aerospace, the prototype of a reusable rocket in Sweden, and more than 900 million euros that the European Space Agency invested in a new generation of rockets. For comparison, he noted approximately 400 million dollars from NASA for the development of Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule. Kapler cited examples of European space technologies, including the Galileo navigation system, which he said is used by over 4.5 billion devices, the Finnish company ICEYE and its radar satellites, and the share of Thales Alenia Space in the living space of the International Space Station. He also wrote that Airbus, Thales Aerospace, and Leonardo are merging their space divisions into a company with 25,000 employees, while the EU network IRIS², with 348 satellites, moves towards full deployment. He challenged the claim of a lack of European capital by estimating that European households hold 12 trillion euros in cash and accounts, and Europeans own American stocks and bonds worth 8 trillion dollars. According to him, 300 billion euros in savings flow out of Europe each year. As a sign of change, he mentioned the creation of a single market for savings and investments and Danish pension funds, which he said began to divest from American government bonds. In the field of research and technology, Kapler reminded that three out of the last four Nobel Prize laureates in Physics were born in Europe and stated that the number of applications from scientists working in the USA addressed to the European Research Council has more than doubled. He also mentioned Italian designer Federico Faggin, the London origins of DeepMind, and co-founders of OpenAI born in Poland and Slovakia, and the Dutch company ASML, whose machines are essential for producing the most advanced chips for artificial intelligence. As further examples of European contributions to American space programs, he cited the NASA spacecraft module, which he said was assembled in Bremen, and the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope by an Ariane 5 rocket. Kapler concluded that Europe has been repeatedly written off and reminded that Airbus has been delivering more aircraft than Boeing every year since 2019. According to him, Europe has gradually approached greater self-sufficiency in rockets, satellites, capital, and technologies. #Evropa #technologie #vesmír (translated)

The Japanese space agency JAXA has launched an ambitious mission called Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) aimed at bringing back rock samples from the moon Phobos, which could fundamentally change our understanding of planet formation, the origin of water, and the conditions for the emergence of life. #Mars #Phobos #VesmírnáMise (translated)

Marats Kasems wrote that among Leonīds Ragozins' supporters was Anatolijs Golubovs, who, according to him, led the Russian-language version of Delfi for 25 years, as well as Berezovska, Buzajevs, the so-called "good Russians," and Sputnik employees. Kasems noted that he had researched the list of Ragozin's fan group members and published the first part of the article; he promised the second part would come later. He categorized the people mentioned in the list into three groups: the so-called good Russians, Sputnik employees, and journalists from the Russian-language version of Delfi. Kasems wrote that some of them were offended by Latvia or felt that they had been treated unfairly, while others had publicly expressed hatred towards the country for years. He also mentioned comments from Mamikins and former deputy editor of the Russian-language version of Delfi, Kim Kosmachev, noting that neither had signed Ragozin's statement of support. Golubovs, according to Kasems, had signed. In the list, Kasems mentioned Lev Kadik, describing him as a leftist anarchist and a former newspaper employee, as well as a former commentator for the Russian-language version of Delfi. He indicated Iļja Kozin as a former employee of Latvian public media. Regarding Mitrofan Slobodjans, Kasems wrote that he had been a member of the Harmony Center party and, according to KNAB data, had donated money to the party. He also claimed that Slobodjans, along with Antonina Nenaševa, had been an assistant to Saeima deputy Holostovs, and Holostov was evaluated very derogatorily. Kasems described Iļja Azars as a "good Russian" and claimed that in an interview, Azars had tried to convince him of Russian discrimination in Latvia. He also mentioned Delfi and LSM journalist Maria Kugela and Aleksandrs Giļmanis. Regarding Giļmanis, Kasems claimed that he had urged Latvian school students' parents to teach their children to fight against fascists, meaning Latvians. #Ragozins #vatņiki #sputnik #propaganda #delfi #Ragozins #propaganda #delfi (translated)

Democratic leader of the House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries stated on Sunday that the climate for the midterm elections remains favorable for the Democrats. "It's shocking, but not surprising, that the U.S. president is so severely undermining the struggle of the Ukrainian people for democracy, freedom, and dignity," H. Jeffries said to the AP news agency after services in Toledo. He stated that House Republicans are "out of touch with reality" if they believe, as Chairman Mike Johnson recently hinted, that the elections on November 3 will repeat the resounding Republican victory of 2024 that brought D. Trump to the White House and secured a Republican majority in Congress. "We are working tirelessly across the country and continue to demonstrate that we need fundamental change, not the preservation of the status quo, and that only Democrats will fight to make life in this country affordable," H. Jeffries said. "It will once again exceed all expectations." #Demokratija #HakeemasJeffriesas #Trumpas (translated)

Although the right has been waging a media war against TVN for 30 years (Jarosław Kaczyński called it a "Soviet agency," and Jacek Kurski coined the term "Tusk Vision Network"), today PiS politicians have a surprising problem with their friendly media. #TVN #PiS #DonaldTrump (translated)

The author of the entry referred to the definition of the Centre for Eastern Studies from 2017, according to which "active measures" included offensive disinformation, deceptive, diversionary, destabilizing, and agent actions. The quoted fragment cut off with the statement that these actions "result from." https://t.co/94PeNJBkzr #dezinformacja #wywiad #sztuka_dezinformacji #PL (translated)

The author suggested that the extensive coverage by the world's largest agency about the Czech Senate elections and the defeat of Andrej Babiš indicated that it was, from an international perspective, an exceptionally significant defeat. https://t.co/Q0HdPY2v0M #volby #Babiš #Česko #CZ (translated)

Already, the lifting of sanctions will continue. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is now pleased that U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order not to impose new sanctions on Russia, as stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a remote press conference on the WhatsApp platform, reports the news agency Unian. #Ukraina #VZelenskis #DTrumpas (translated)

Roman Giertych wrote that, in his opinion, the Russian agency was organizing an increasingly broad right-wing agreement in Poland. He assessed that to prevent Poland from becoming like Belarus, it was necessary to break what he called the "new Targowica Confederation." #Polska #Konfederacja #bezpieczeństwo (translated)

ČT24 reported that American President Donald Trump signed an executive order that suspended the implementation of a new extensive package of sanctions against the Russian economy. He informed Congress, according to the AP agency, that this step is in the national interest of the United States. #DonaldTrump #sankce #Rusko (translated)

A little over 10 percent of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic and 16.5 percent of the Zaporizhzhia region remain under the control of the Kyiv regime. The Luhansk People's Republic is fully under our control, "the Interfax agency quoted Putin's statement during a visit to the command post of the Russian troops, who have been fighting for the fifth year in the war against Ukraine. #Ukrajina #Válka #DoněckáOblast (translated)

Jānis Dombrava wrote that there was recently a ceiling plaster fall in the Jēkabpils police department, and work in the building was halted. He pointed out that the building had been in poor condition for years, even though several tens of thousands of euros had been spent on its maintenance each year, including staff salaries. Over a few years, the expenses had reached approximately one hundred thousand euros, he wrote. After visiting the building, Dombrava expressed that its condition indicated systematic negligence on the part of those responsible. He emphasized that the management system of the Properties State Agency must be changed immediately, as well as the person in charge of the building. Dombrava stated that a meeting with the responsible institutions is planned for next week to discuss solutions for improving the working conditions of the Eastern Zemgale department. He also pointed out that police officers must be provided with a safe and proper working environment. #Jēkabpils #Policija #Drošība (translated)