Firmy získajú prehľadné náklady, nulovú akontáciu a kompletný balík služieb.

Tón: : mierne pozitívny
#slovakia #gdelt #ots #financovanie #firemnéVozidlá

https://www.teraz.sk/ekonomika/tatra-leasing-rozsiruje-svoju-ponuku-o/947313-clanok.html

#GLOBAL2000 / #OTS:
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15 Jahre danach: Warum Fukushima noch immer dringende Warnung sein muss
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"Europäische Kommission setzt dennoch verstärkt auf Atomkraft und plant, EU Haushaltsmittel für neue AKW zur Verfügung zu stellen"

https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20260309_OTS0004/15-jahre-danach-warum-fukushima-noch-immer-dringende-warnung-sein-muss

9.3.2026

#AKW #Atomkraftwerk #Atomkraft #Dukovany #EC #Europa #Kernenergie #NPP #Österreich #Paks

Počas slávnostného podujatia boli udelené ocenenia TOP prevádzkam za rok 2025.

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#slovakia #gdelt #ots #vivo! #ihrysko

https://www.teraz.sk/ekonomika/ihrysko-je-top-kamennou-prevadzkou-za-r/944852-clanok.html

Pre veľký záujem sa výstava Tutanchamon – jeho hrobka a poklady predlžuje až do 31. mája 2026!

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#slovakia #gdelt #výstava #ots #tutanchamon

https://www.teraz.sk/kultura/vystava-tutanchamon-jeho-hrobka-a-p/944818-clanok.html

Taktiež čerstvý víťaz zo Sundance zavíta do Bratislavy na 13. ročník Visegrad Film Forum.

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#slovakia #gdelt #ots #visegradFilmForum

https://www.teraz.sk/kultura/tvorcovia-terminatora-i-jamesa-bonda-za/943415-clanok.html

Návrat geniálneho detektíva.

Tón: : mierne negatívny
#slovakia #gdelt #ots #sherlockHolmes #ikar

https://www.teraz.sk/import/sherlock-holmes-proti-zlu-vacsiemu-ne/943398-clanok.html

How The US-Azerbaijan Partnership Threatens Russia’s Southern Flank

How The US-Azerbaijan Partnership Threatens Russia’s Southern Flank

By Andrew Korybko

On the pretext of securing critical mineral and energy supply chains from Central Asia via the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity”, Azerbaijan is poised to become the launchpad for expanding NATO influence across the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, and Central Asia.

Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Azerbaijan, which is the last part of his South Caucasus tour that also took him to Armenia, saw the signing of a strategic partnership charter between them. Three parts stand out: the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP) will connect with the “Middle Corridor across the Caspian Sea in Central Asia; critical minerals and energy will be among the goods that’ll transit through them to the West; and the US and Azerbaijan will strengthen security cooperation.

They respectively challenge Russian interests by: injecting Western economic influence into the South Caucasus and Central Asia; creating critical supply chains that the West accordingly has an interest in securing; and establishing a launchpad for expanding NATO influence in the region on that pretext. Expanding upon the last point, Azerbaijan announced last November that its armed forces completed their conformation to NATO standards, therefore enabling them to serve this military-strategic purpose.

Shortly after, “shadow NATO” Azerbaijan’s and NATO member Turkiye’s “Organization of Turkic States” (OTS) partner Kazakhstan announced that it’ll begin producing NATO-standard shells, which might place it on an irreversible collision course with Russia. This was elaborated on here, which detailed how TRIPP optimizes the Azeri-Turkish Axis’ (ATA) military logistics for helping Kazakhstan’s armed forces conform to NATO standards in coordination with the US and swiftly supply them in the event of a crisis with Russia.

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces’ successful conformation with NATO standards was already concerning enough from the perspective of Russia’s national security interests, but Kazakhstan’s following their lead would be even more concerning due to them sharing the world’s longest border, thus possibly sparking a crisis. Even if one doesn’t break out over this issue, it could break out over Kazakhstan reducing its export dependence on the Russian-transiting Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which could take two forms.

Conor Gallagher wrote here in early November about how this could manifest through either an underwater Trans-Caspian Pipeline, which would risk Russia and Iran’s ire due to a regional convention prohibiting unilateral work on this, or a tanker fleet for the same purpose. Strengthened US-Azerbaijani security cooperation, particularly through the US’ initial dispatch of an undisclosed number of ships, is meant to deter Russia and could easily expand to include Kazakhstan and gas-rich Turkmenistan.

On the pretext of securing critical mineral and energy supply chains from Central Asia via TRIPP, which respectively help the US and the EU diversify from dependence on China and Russia, Azerbaijan will become the launchpad for expanding NATO influence along Russia’s entire southern periphery. Just like Azerbaijan became a member of “shadow NATO”, which refers to de facto membership without Article 5 guarantees (like Ukraine arguably has), so too might Kazakhstan soon try to follow in its footsteps.

The ATA is expected to follow US guidance in helping fellow OTS partner Kazakhstan’s armed forces conform to NATO standards as well as militarize the Caspian Sea as part of their encirclement of Russia. In that event, Central Asia would follow the South Caucasus and the Caspian Sea in becoming the next new zone of competition between US-led NATO and Russia, therefore spiking the risk of transregional instability across this vast space and associated chances of a Ukrainian-like conflict breaking out.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

Vance’s South Caucasus Trip Tightens The West’s Strategic Encirclement Of Russia

Vance’s South Caucasus Trip Tightens The West’s Strategic Encirclement Of Russia

By Andrew Korybko

The timing amidst continued US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine suggests that the US expects this ramped-up pressure to raise the chances of coercing concessions from Russia.

Vice President JD Vance’s trips to Armenia and Azerbaijan were aimed at advancing several interconnected strategic goals. The most immediate was making progress on implementing the “Trump Route for International Peace & Prosperity” (TRIPP), which is the planned trade corridor across southern Armenia unveiled after last August’s White House summit that ended the decades-long Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict. TRIPP isn’t just economically significant, however, since it’s also highly strategic.

To begin with, it replaces Russia’s plan to pioneer a corridor along the same route that would be guarded by its forces, therefore challenging the Kremlin’s political influence in the post-war South Caucasus. Second, TRIPP serves as the means for optimizing Western logistical access to the resource-rich but landlocked Central Asian Republics on the other side of the Caspian, which is of interest for the US due to its critical minerals. The US signed MoUs with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan about this last November.

On that topic, Vance proposed the creation of a critical minerals trading bloc during the inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial that was attended by representatives of more than 50 countries, thus further contextualizing his trip to the South Caucasus a week later. His progress on implementing TRIPP will help to logistically open Central Asia’s critical mineral supply chain for the US. Having explained the political and economic aspects of TRIPP’s strategic significance, it’s now time to segue into the military one.

By replacing Russia’s planned corridor across southern Armenia with one in which the US will have a controlling stake for the next 49-99 years and preventing the Kremlin from monitoring traffic across it, Turkiye can now clandestinely optimize its military-logistics to Central Asia. Four of its five states have some formal relationship with the Turkish-led “Organization of Turkic States” (OTS), while two of its members are also Russia’s CSTO mutual defence allies, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

The OTS is increasingly taking on more security responsibilities, which can be interpreted as means of challenging Russia’s security influence along its vulnerable southern periphery. To make matters even more concerning from the Kremlin’s perspective, Kazakhstan announced its plans late last year to produce NATO-standard shells, likely emboldened by TRIPP facilitating the US’, Turkiye’s, and ultimately NATO’s military logistics to it in the event of a crisis with Russia. This was elaborated on here.

Making progress on TRIPP’s implementation, which is assessed to be the purpose of Vance’s trips to Armenia and Azerbaijan, therefore tightens the West’s strategic encirclement of Russia along its entire southern periphery through the political, economic, and military means that this corridor unlocks. Vance undertook his voyage there amidst continued US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine, which suggests that this was timed to ramp up pressure on Russia for coercing concessions from it.

Be that as it may, while Trump 2.0 has indeed intensified pressure upon Russia along its southern periphery as explained, along its western one via support for the EU’s militarization, and along the financial front by pressuring India to reduce its import of Russian oil, Russia still insists on achieving its goals in full. If it ever compromises, however, then that would be due to the US’ carrot and stick policy of a proposed resource-centric strategic partnership and the aforesaid tightening encirclement campaign.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.