Day: April 18, 2024
BUSINESS INSIDER: Russia’s economy is expected to grow significantly faster than major developed economies this year, including the US, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The country’s war-time economy is forecast to grow by 3.2% in 2024, largely outpacing expected growth for other advanced economies including the US (2.7%),…
Reuters: A Colt .45 “Peacemaker” revolver, a symbol of the American Wild West, is at the center of actor Alec Baldwin‘s fight to avoid criminal prosecution for the 2021 fatal shooting of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico movie set.
Baldwin’s 15-month battle with New Mexico state prosecutors…
❗️МИД ФРГ вызвал российского посла после задержания диверсантов в Баварии. По данным таблоида Bild, требование вызвать посла исходило от главы министерства Анналены Бербок. Ноту связывают с задержанием в Баварии двух человек, которые, предположительно, шпионили за военными… pic.twitter.com/MsjjabcLIz
— DW на русском (@dw_russian) April 18, 2024
En la intervención, ocho agentes le dispararon en más de 60 ocasiones a Javier Antonio Cordero Nevárez por creer que los iba a atropellar y porque aparentemente tenía una pistola. Empero, en la pesquisa se halló que el menor no tenía arma alguna. https://t.co/NGpbBJPO4h
— NotiCentro (@NoticentroWAPA) April 18, 2024
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili vetoed amendments to Georgia’s Electoral Code that abolishes gender quotas for female MPs, the President’s Administration reported on April 18.
“As the Georgian President has said many times, she will veto all laws that contradict Georgia’s European path,” the official press release said.
“The abolition of gender quotas is another step backwards in Georgia’s European integration path, because the issue of gender quotas was included in the ninth part of the European Commission’s 12-point plan, which the European Commission considered fulfilled,” the press release said.
Despite the President’s veto, the parliamentary majority is expected to override the veto, as it has done in many other cases.
On April 4, the Parliament of Georgia abolished the mandatory gender quotas in an accelerated manner. 85 MPs voted in favor of abolition, while 22 voted against. Prior to this decision, the Electoral Code of Georgia required that at least one out of every four persons on a party list must be a woman.