Russian Navy to Have 75 New Ships by 2020
President Vladimir Putin has announced that 51 new warships and 24 submarines, 16 of them multipurpose, and eight “Borei” missile carriers will be built by 2020.
In a conference regarding the state’s military order, Putin said that 4.40 billion roubles (some $136.64 billion USD), or 23.4 percent of the total for the Armed Forces modernization program in this decade, will be allocated for this purpose.
He stated that 49 ships will be built in local shipyards while he demanded an end to speculation that the country´s modern fleet is being built abroad.
In the next few years, the Naval Force will receive four Mistral heavy helicopter carriers, two of them to be built in France and the other two in local shipping companies under French license.
He considered that the resumption of production of the new ships and submarines calls for a thorough modernization of production techniques, and he demanded a serious expense estimate for this purpose.
Massive Evacuation in Oslo After Bomb Scare
Oslo police conducted a massive evacuation in the city center surrounding the U.S. embassy on Tuesday after a suspicious object, which later turned out to be a practice bomb, was found under a Ford car driven by a staff member of U.S. embassy.
People from the U.S. embassy, the royal palace and its surrounding gardens, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the parliament and other buildings within a radius of 500 meters were ordered to leave immediately at 11:50 local time in what was believed to be the largest ever evacuation operation in the city since July 22, 2011 when a car bomb hit the government quarter in downtown Oslo.
The suspicious vehicle, which had been used for bombing exercises at the embassy, was stopped by security staff at the entrance to the U.S. embassy compound on the Henrik Ibsen street in Oslo.
All streets leading to the U.S. embassy, which lies opposite to the royal palace, were closed to the public as police condoned off the area, sending public transportation on the road to a halt. Norwegian King Harald V was not in the palace when the incident occurred.
About 18 Million Unemployed in Eurozone
Over 123,000 people were unemployed in June in the euro zone and now the total figure for the area is 17, 800, 000, as reported today by the statistics community office Eurostat.
The countries with greatest rates of unemployment in the 17 nations using the euro as common currency are Spain with 24,8 per cent of the active economical population and Greece with 22,5.
In contrast, lower rates were recorded in Austria (4.5 percent), Netherlands (5.1), and Germany and Luxembourg, both with 5.4.
According to Eurostat, in the last 12 months the number of unemployed increased in a little more than 2,000,000 in all the eurozone.
One of the causes for the rising of unemployment are the drastic adjustment programs and the massive layoffs implemented in several countries to address the debt crisis.
According to the statistics community office, in the European Union as a whole, the rate of unemployment also increased in June, when it grew by 127, 000 people.
In the block of 27 countries, the total number of unemployed rises to 25, 100, 000.
Helicopters were hovering over the sky while a bomb team worked hectically on the ground to remove what was called a suspicious object under the car, which parked at the entrance to the heavily fortified embassy compound.
At about 13:30 p.m. local time, the embassy reopened and visa applicants returned to hand in their application materials.
The so-called suspicious object was found eventually to be a forgotten practice bomb left over in an internal exercise, police said in a statement.
The Oslo authorities said that the U.S. embassy must be expected to apologize and offer some financial compensation if negligence by the U.S. embassy was the cause of the drama
“The embassy has acknowledged that they are to blame in the matter,” Johan Fredriksen,a police officer told local reporters.
On July 22, 2011, eight people were killed in a strong car explosion set off by the then 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, who later went to the island known as Utoeya and started a shooting spree, killing 69 people, mostly the members of the youth wing of the ruling Workers’ Party.
Via PL