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[REGNUM] Latvia is ready to allocate 40 million euros as compensation to the country's Jewish community for communal property lost during the Holocaust. This was reported by the local "Radio 4".
It is noted that the corresponding bill, prepared by the budgetary and financial commission of the parliament, was submitted to the parliamentarians for the first reading.
The bill provides that the amount will be paid over 10 years from the state budget. The funds should be allocated as compensation for part of the property that belonged to the Jewish community of Latvia before June 16, 1940, that is, before it was nationalized by the Soviet government, and then the Jewish community was practically destroyed during the Nazi occupation.
Both the Legal Bureau of the Parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia expressed support for the bill.
MPs from the National Unity Party criticized the bill. In particular, MP Aleksandrs Kirshteins said that then the issue of payment of compensation to the Baltic Germans should be resolved and that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia are responsible for the consequences of the occupation, from whose "successors", the MP believes, compensation should be demanded, and not from Latvia.
It is noted that the Jewish community of Latvia has the right to claim the return of 270 real estate objects, which before World War II belonged to Jewish organizations, not private individuals, and was nationalized. Or get compensation for them if a return is not possible.
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A man of Revere, of means meager,
Identifies now, and seems eager --
"Just like me poor mom..."
[crosses self] "The pogrom..." --
As some real estate, regal, in Riga.
By Yuri Smityuk
[TASS] A Su-24 bomber crashed near the city of Perm in the Urals and its pilots ejected, the press office of Russia’s Central Military District reported on Friday.
"On August 27, a Su-24 plane crashed 95 km west of the city of Perm while making a flight to the Aircraft Repair Enterprise for scheduled repairs. According to the reports from the scene of the incident, the pilots ejected," the statement says.
A helicopter of the search and rescue service has been dispatched for evacuation from the crash site," the press office said.
The Central Military District told journalists that there was no destruction on the ground after a Su-24 bomber crashed under Perm.
"The flight was without payload. The plane crashed in a forest area. There is no destruction on the ground," the District said.
Also, according to the source in emergency services, crew of crashed Su-24 bomber was found, their lives are not in danger.
"The [rescue] team has found the Su-24 crew, their lives are not in danger," the source said.
The source added that the crew is being evacuated by a helicopter.
Follow up from this story three days ago by Sergey Karpuhin
[RBTH] The weapon has been created especially for stealth operations at night and is already going through battle tests in Spec Ops units.
The Kalashnikov Concern has created a new assault rifle for Russia’s Spec Ops units - the AK-12SP. The novelty was unveiled during the ‘Army 2021’ military expo outside Moscow in late August 2021.
"This one goes to 11" The weapon represents a later modification of the AK-12 platform that was adopted to the military back in 2018. To this day, there are already more than 100,000 assault rifles of this class in the army, but the Special Operation units needed a number of modifications to be integrated serially into the weapon to effectively conduct their operations.
The biggest focus was on increasing the weapon’s capabilities during stealth operations at night.
The differences between a classic AK-12 and the Spec Op version Ramil Sitnikov
The AK-12SP has advanced shooting characteristics compared to the mass-produced AK-12.
First of all, the new rifle has received a new sniper style stock. It has a special “cheek” for precision shooting, which also helps to adjust the weapon equipped with oversized optics.
The weapon has also been modified for right- and left- handed users, as its controls are duplicated on both sides, the safety in particular.
The AK-12SP also has new rails on top and a fully redesigned foregrip.
The weapon’s kit also includes all elements required for night skirmishes - a laser, flashlight and an easily detachable silencer.
As the company states, there were a number of internal design modifications made to increase the fire accuracy of the weapon - one of the most widely criticised characteristics of the AK assault rifles.
What the two rifles have in common Kirill Kalinnikov
AK-12SP has the same pistol grip with instruments inside of it needed for complete disablement of a rifle.
The magazines also have transparent windows that show the number of ammo left. Nevertheless, operatives will also be able to use standard AK-74 magazines on their missions.
The weapon’s length is 0.98 meters. It weighs 3.5 kg without ammo. The AK-12SP will be produced in two calibers - 5,45x39 mm and 7,62x39 mm. The action system remains the same - gas-operated long stroke gas piston with rotating bolt.
Its barrel is still 0.41 meters long. At the tip is a new muzzle break that allows operatives to smash windows and cut wires.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
