Critics of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have been piling onto the populist after reports arose on Monday that his government had approved the purchase of more than 35,320 doses of generic Viagra for the country’s armed forces. Worker’s Party president Gleisi Hoffman condemned the “criminal spending spree” while presidential aspirant …
Read More »World Bank rips Microsoft purchase of Activision Blizzard in social justice rant
World Bank President David Malpass has questioned Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar takeover of video game developer Activision Blizzard, saying one has to wonder if it is “the best allocation of capital.” The American technology giant announced earlier this week that it was to pay nearly $69 billion for the game studio …
Read More »Turkey’s purchase of US F-16s & upgrade kits as compensation for being dropped from F-35 program moves forward – defense minister
Akar’s remark came after a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. He said the purchase of the warplanes and the modernization of older F-16s in the Turkish fleet “also means the strengthening of NATO defense.” The purported deal was first announced by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. On his return …
Read More »Amid fresh tensions with NATO states, Belarus to purchase $1bn worth of Russian arms, including S-400 missile defense – Lukashenko
“We are holding talks and are planning S-400 deliveries,” Lukashenko told journalists, on Sunday, as he attended the Zapad-2021 drills held jointly, on a quadrennial basis, by Russia and Belarus. The Belarusian president also said that security was a major issue on the agenda of his talks with Russia’s President …
Read More »Talks over, Sputnik V purchase possible: Austria’s Kurz says Vienna may buy a MILLION Russian vaccine doses
The negotiations on the contract to acquire Sputnik V have “de facto come to an end,” Kurz announced on Saturday. “It’s now possible to purchase it for us in Austria,” he added. A “million” doses of the vaccine from Russia, which boasts an efficacy of more than 91% percent and …
Read More »Venezuela signs deal with Russia to purchase 10 million Sputnik-V vaccines for FREE distribution
Announcing the deal in a televised speech on Tuesday, Maduro said that the vaccine would be “distributed free of charge to the entire population living in the country, be they Columbians, Portueguese, Italians, Venezuelans,” while taking aim at Colombia’s plan to exclude some 900,000 Venezuelan migrants from its own vaccination …
Read More »The Russians in may, almost halved the purchase of new cars
The Russians last month acquired approximately 62 thousand new cars, which was almost twice less than in the same period last year (118 thousand units), estimated by experts of “AUTOSTAT”. In January—may were sold in Russia 492 thousand new passenger cars — 17% less than the year before. “The fall …
Read More »The mayor’s office will purchase granite curbs another 16 billion rubles
The mayor’s office in the midst of a pandemic coronavirus managed to sign contracts or to declare a tender for the replacement tiles, asphalt, lawns, purchase concrete curbs not less than 20.5 billion rubles, but it is not going to stop there. The journalist of “Medusa” Ivan Golunov found in …
Read More »India has decided to purchase weapons from the United States
The US President Donald trump said that India had signed a contract to purchase American weapons at more than $3 billion. According to “Interfax”, trump said that among the future supply of attack helicopters AH-64 Apache and multipurpose helicopters MH-60. Indian and U.S. military are conducting joint exercises. According to …
Read More »Mexico will not purchase helicopters from Russia
Mexico will not purchase helicopters from Russia, although Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on negotiating the transaction. About it the newspaper El Universal, citing sources in the foreign Ministry, the Latin American countries. The publication reports that the U.S. government has threatened that in case of purchase against Mexico …
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