UKRAINE

The Czechoslovak Group Highlights the Benefits of Its Planned Acquisition of Vista Outdoor’s Sporting Products Business, The Kinetic Group

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Monday, April 8, 2024
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CSG also highlighted the benefits of its planned Acquisition:

Key Points: 
  • CSG also highlighted the benefits of its planned Acquisition:
    “CSG is a leading industrial technology company operating across strategic business segments including defense, aerospace, ammunition and mobility.
  • We look forward to successfully closing the Acquisition of The Kinetic Group and becoming the steward of such venerable American brands as Federal, CCI and Remington.
  • CSG understands the special importance to American consumers of the brands that are part of The Kinetic Group.
  • Working alongside Vista Outdoor, we are actively engaged in the process and believe we will secure all required approvals.

Alethea Raises $20M in Series B Funding for Disinformation Mitigation

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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WASHINGTON and SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alethea , the leading technology company in disinformation detection and mitigation, announced the close of a $20M Series B funding round led by GV , with participation from Ballistic Ventures , who led Alethea's Series A funding in 2022.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON and SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alethea , the leading technology company in disinformation detection and mitigation, announced the close of a $20M Series B funding round led by GV , with participation from Ballistic Ventures , who led Alethea's Series A funding in 2022.
  • Alethea is the leading technology company in disinformation detection and mitigation.
  • Alethea was represented by outside counsel WilmerHale in the Series B transaction.
  • Visit the Alethea careers page for more information on open positions across data science, product, engineering, finance, operations, and marketing and sales.

Consortium led by Xavier Niel clears regulatory approval to acquire Ukraine's #1 fixed telco Datagroup-Volia; Pursuing merger with #3 mobile operator Lifecell; Significant investment planned in Ukraine

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Monday, April 8, 2024
Growth, Supervisory board, Partnership, Trust, Internet, Artificial intelligence, Acquisition, Lifecell, Investment, Pierre Danon, Mykhailo, NJJ, Cryptocurrency

Once the transaction has closed, the consortium led by NJJ intends to merge Datagroup-Volia with Lifecell, the country's #3 and fastest-growing mobile operator.

Key Points: 
  • Once the transaction has closed, the consortium led by NJJ intends to merge Datagroup-Volia with Lifecell, the country's #3 and fastest-growing mobile operator.
  • The combined Datagroup-Volia-Lifecell entity will be led by Mykhaylo Shelemba, current Datagroup CEO, as Group CEO.
  • This historic transaction is the first major investment by a new market entrant since the full-fledged invasion, as well as a significant investment in domestic infrastructure in Ukraine.
  • We are confident that this deal will start a new page in Ukraine's telecom market and inspire others considering investing in Ukraine."

Consortium led by Xavier Niel clears regulatory approval to acquire Ukraine's #1 fixed telco Datagroup-Volia; Pursuing merger with #3 mobile operator Lifecell; Significant investment planned in Ukraine

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Monday, April 8, 2024
Growth, Supervisory board, Partnership, Trust, Internet, Artificial intelligence, Acquisition, Lifecell, Investment, Pierre Danon, Mykhailo, NJJ, Cryptocurrency

Once the transaction has closed, the consortium led by NJJ intends to merge Datagroup-Volia with Lifecell, the country's #3 and fastest-growing mobile operator.

Key Points: 
  • Once the transaction has closed, the consortium led by NJJ intends to merge Datagroup-Volia with Lifecell, the country's #3 and fastest-growing mobile operator.
  • The combined Datagroup-Volia-Lifecell entity will be led by Mykhaylo Shelemba, current Datagroup CEO, as Group CEO.
  • This historic transaction is the first major investment by a new market entrant since the full-fledged invasion, as well as a significant investment in domestic infrastructure in Ukraine.
  • We are confident that this deal will start a new page in Ukraine's telecom market and inspire others considering investing in Ukraine."

Community Healthcare Trust Announces First Quarter Earnings Release Date And Conference Call

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Friday, April 5, 2024
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Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated is a real estate investment trust that focuses on owning income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services in our target sub-markets throughout the United States.

Key Points: 
  • Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated is a real estate investment trust that focuses on owning income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services in our target sub-markets throughout the United States.
  • The properties are located in 34 states, totaling approximately 4.3 million square feet in the aggregate.
  • Thus, the Company's actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements.
  • Readers are therefore cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained herein which speak only as of the date hereof.

Press release - EU job seeker’s aid worth €3 million for 835 dismissed steel workers in Germany

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Employment, Aggression, Committee, Sale, Layoff, S&D, Parliament, EGF, Workforce, SME, Creative industries

On Monday, the Committee on Budgets approved Germany’s request for support from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF).

Key Points: 
  • On Monday, the Committee on Budgets approved Germany’s request for support from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF).
  • Following years of financial losses, a number of restructuring and downsizing measures and a dedicated recovery plan were launched in 2018.
  • The total cost of the proposed measures is €4.97 million, with the EGF covering 60% (€2.98 million) and the remaining funds provided by German national sources.
  • Tailor-made support for dismissed workers
    The support includes guidance, including counselling and vocational orientation, job search assistance like job scouting and participation in job fairs, as well as training offers.

Press release - Deal on trade support for Ukraine with more protection for EU farmers

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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These unilateral trade liberalisation measures will help stabilise the Ukrainian economy and facilitate the country’s gradual integration into the EU’s internal market.

Key Points: 
  • These unilateral trade liberalisation measures will help stabilise the Ukrainian economy and facilitate the country’s gradual integration into the EU’s internal market.
  • Quote
    Rapporteur Sandra Kalniete (EPP, LV) said: "The ripple effects of Russia's relentless targeting of Ukraine and its economy are being felt by EU farmers.
  • Under this new agreement with the Council, we have fortified safeguards to protect EU farmers in case of market turbulence sparked by Ukrainian imports.
  • The current trade measures expire on 5 June 2024, and new regulations should enter into force immediately following this date.

Ukraine war: why many Nato countries are thinking of introducing conscription and the issues that involves

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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While hundreds of thousands of British men did, indeed, volunteer to serve in the first flush of jingoistic patriotism in 1914, the manpower well soon began to run dry.

Key Points: 
  • While hundreds of thousands of British men did, indeed, volunteer to serve in the first flush of jingoistic patriotism in 1914, the manpower well soon began to run dry.
  • Despite this, however, some form of conscription does still exist today in most European countries.
  • But as the implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine come to be better understood, introducing or extending conscription is increasingly being discussed in European Nato states.
  • But, over the past few months, political leaders in both countries have been discussing the reintroduction of forms of conscription or national service.
  • In other countries in Europe, there has traditionally been a type of “conscription-lite” in operation.
  • Sweden, which joined Nato in March, had dropped conscription in 2010 but reintroduced it in 2018 as the country prepared to join Nato.
  • Finland, the other Nordic country that has recently joined Nato, could hardly expand its conscription net any further.

Conscription extended in Ukraine

  • The country already has conscription for 18-26 year-olds but only those above 27 were actually asked to serve in combat roles (although many volunteers under 27 did as well).
  • To replace those lost in the war and to maintain the ability to rotate troops in and out of the front lines, Ukraine needs a larger pool of military manpower.
  • But casting the manpower net wider is a toxic issue in Ukraine, and as ever, such conscription is not popular.
  • Accordingly, government spokespersons moved quickly to quash any notions that conscription was on any agenda.


Rod Thornton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Rwanda’s genocide could have been prevented: 3 things the international community should have done – expert

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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The Tutsi were targeted primarily due to long-standing ethnic tensions between the Tutsi minority and the majority Hutu population.

Key Points: 
  • The Tutsi were targeted primarily due to long-standing ethnic tensions between the Tutsi minority and the majority Hutu population.
  • As the mass killings were happening, the international community stood by in a stupor, even though the nations of the world had a legal and moral obligation to intervene in cases of genocide.
  • To its credit, the United Nations had already put in place a peacekeeping mission, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (Unamir).
  • In my view this was possible but would have required three main things: detailed intelligence, preventive measures and political will.

Detailed intelligence

  • Unfortunately, the UN mission felt deaf and blind in the field as it did not have the analytical capacity to synthesise these important pieces of evidence.
  • It was also prevented by UN headquarters from taking measures to secure more information and taking steps for prevention.

Preventive action

  • Had the UN taken deterrent actions early on, it might have been able to stop the genocide at the outset.
  • Later, a large deployment of troops would have been needed to bring a halt to the many senseless killings.
  • UN preventive actions should have dealt with people (both plotters and resisters), the genocide structures (networks) and the tools (weapons) of the genocide.
  • In response to illicit weapons flowing into Kigali, the peacekeeping force should have firmly applied the embargo.
  • Quick, decisive action by the UN might have isolated the genocide to the Kigali sector before it spread into the countryside.

Political will

  • The simple answer is a lack of political will.
  • The lack of US commitment was largely the result of a disastrous mission in Somalia the previous year.
  • Still, these peacekeepers managed to save 20,000 to 30,000 lives, showing what dedicated action from a small force can achieve.

Moving forward

  • Primarily it is a matter of fostering a sense of enlightened self-interest among all nations, linking human welfare around the globe with one’s own.
  • It means recognising that when crimes against one section of humanity are committed, no matter where, it is a crime against all of humanity.
  • If this isn’t enough, then the fear of inaction should also be a motivating force.


Walter Dorn receives a salary and funding from the Department of National Defence.

CCC, U.S. Army sign agreement for ramp-up in ammunition production

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Monday, March 25, 2024
National security, UCA, Partnership, DFARS, DND, General Dynamics, CCC, Arms industry

The agreement will help address the growing requirements to meet the U.S. and allied commitments to Ukraine and strengthens the resiliency of the integrated Canada-U.S. defence supply chain.

Key Points: 
  • The agreement will help address the growing requirements to meet the U.S. and allied commitments to Ukraine and strengthens the resiliency of the integrated Canada-U.S. defence supply chain.
  • Ukraine’s war effort depends heavily on 155mm artillery rounds supplied by Canada, the United States, and other allies.
  • This agreement underscores the profound interdependence of the US-Canada supply chain and highlights bilateral collaboration aimed at enhancing industrial capacity within the ammunition industry.
  • Under the Canada-U.S. Defence Production Sharing Agreement and DFARS 225.870, CCC acts as the designated contracting authority for U.S. DoD procurements from Canada.