Get quality reporting directly into your inbox Aidar Khalikov alleged that Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov  and his close associates of unlawfully profiting by taking over businesses and demanding money through extortion Screenshot of Youtube video shared by @AytAytdese a former advisor to Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov Khalikov is wanted in his home country after accusing the president of corruption and election rigging Khalikov served as an advisor to the Kyrgyz president until September 2024 he called Japarov a “corrupt leader” and accused him of bribing voters to secure his election victory Khalikov alleged that Japarov and his inner circle were illegally enriching themselves by seizing businesses and extorting money He also accused the president of accepting funds from various businessmen who has been implicated in corruption scandals The former advisor further claimed that Japarov’s press secretary oversees a team tasked with shaping pro-Japarov narratives on social media and spreading hostility toward political opponents and human rights activists Khalikov also alleged that the president uses fabricated charges to imprison and silence his critics The day after the interview was published, Orunbekov issued a statement denying Khalikov’s accusations He claimed that Khalikov had been fired for abusing his power and acting as an intermediary in questionable deals and now he has become a tool in the hands of Bolot Temirov,” Orunbekov said was arrested in Kyrgyzstan in January 2022 for drug possession The arrest occurred just a day after his outlet Temirov LIVE published an investigation into the business dealings of the family of the head of the National Security Service Temirov continued his investigative work and authorities later added three more charges of falsifying documents to receive a local ID and a Kyrgyz passport they also charged him with illegal border crossing when he traveled abroad an interior ministry investigator annulled Temirov’s documents and in November 2022 a court ordered his deportation Police officers took him to the airport right from the court room and accompanied him on the flight to Russia Khalikov is currently in detention in Chisinau “The said person is wanted by Kyrgyz authorities on suspicion of committing fraud that caused significant financial damage. The foreigner is currently detained for extradition in accordance with an issued international arrest warrant,” the General Migration Inspection of Moldova’s Ministry of Internal Affairs stated on its website “Moldova’s decision to extradite him is troubling because there is nothing good waiting for him in Kyrgyzstan,” Temirov told OCCRP This is about him criticizing the authorities and exposing facts and evidence he gathered while serving as an advisor,” he explained Support from readers like you helps OCCRP expose organized crime and corruption around the world you’ll be directly supporting investigative journalism as a public good You’ll also gain access to exclusive insights and benefits Former Kyrgyz Customs official Raimbek Matraimov implicated in embezzling $700 million and sparking nationwide protests in.. 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This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page on the defendant's bench are 18 individuals held in investigative isolators in Rostov-on-Don Most of these prisoners of war ended up in Russian custody in March or April 2022 shortly after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began they are accused of forcefully seizing power changing the constitutional order of the DNR and participating to a terrorist organization “commander of a mortar platoon” “commander of the 2nd platoon of an assault company” the “intelligence chief and assistant chief of staff” Taras, 23, is the son of Igor Radchenko, who’s name has been mentioned before the same court, when a deputy commander of Aidar, Denis Muryga, said according to TASS Russian news agency that he ordered him to blow a bridge that resulted in the deaths of members of militia men in the Luhansk People's Republic to 16 years in a top-security prison for his involvement in an “illegal armed formation” Among the other accused are “grenade launchers” Vitaliy Gruzinov (also known in Ukraine as a journalist and activist under the pen name of Kozak Vedmenko) and Sergey Nikityuk “drivers” Yevgeniy Pyatigorets “drone operator” Semen Zabayrachny “assault trooper” Nikolay Chuprina “assistant to the grenade launcher” Vyacheslav Bayduyk as well as “snipers” Vladimir Makarenko Justice Info’s could attend one of the hearings Half an hour before the start of the hearing two large trucks and two vans with law enforcement officers wearing black masks on the front seats arrived at the tribunal with flashing lights who represents the interests of Dmitry Fedchenko the convoys are adhering to unprecedented security measures Male defendants are transported in handcuffs joined together and to the others by iron chains In total, the court only hold four hearings in the case, aimed at reading out the indictment and reclassifying the charges from the Donetsk Criminal Code to the Russian one. According to TASS Russian news agency, the defendants also expressed their stance on the accusations: only two battalion members pleaded guilty the prosecution starts to present evidence “The majority of the accused ended up in the battalion through mobilization,” Kuptsova explains most of the defendants do not understand what is happening and do not believe in the administration of justice She adds that her client was tortured in detention in the DNR and that they will testify about this during further hearings smile during conversations with their lawyers The trial of the Aidar case is taking place in the same courtroom where members of the Azov battalion are being tried - only the composition of the court differs the mothers of Taras Radchenko and Yevgeniy Pyatigorets a blonde woman in a baggy black sweater and glasses that she cannot submit any documents to the court as she is not a participant in the process The hearing starts and the prosecutor says he received written statements from six witnesses stating that they cannot attend for various valid reasons He requests that their statements given during the investigation stage is described as "an acquaintance of Chuprina." Nikolay Chuprina objects: "It's impossible Let her come to court and give her testimony." The court takes his position into account and rejects the prosecutor's testimony the court read out the testimonies of three witnesses is the mother of 30-year-old Sergey Nikityuk She stated that he joined the Aidar battalion in September 2021 and served as an artilleryman her son decided to go to the battalion because he had owed a significant amount of money to his acquaintances She last spoke to him in late February 2022 told the court that he did not discuss his life with his mother: "I had no debts the partner of 49-year-old Vyacheslav Bayduyk an alleged “assistant to the grenade launcher” according to the accusation She said she met the defendant in November 2015 when he assisted her with repairing her vehicle Then “he was called up for military service and sent to Volnovakha,” she explained he worked as a delivery person at a store in town then he started helping Kamyshenko cultivate mushrooms at home he was offered a military contract opportunity Bayduyk attempted to engage in business again He went on vacation in May 2021 and then obtained his military ID in the Lviv Oblast,” the presiding officer read out he was no longer in a military nor in a territorial defense unit after that Kamyshenko provided investigators from the DNR with copies of his contract with Aidar is signed on “Lypen 23” or July 23 one of the lawyers from the front row asks and even someone from the audience replies The last testimony read in court were given by Nikolay Zagrebaev presented as a “medic” in the case file he couldn't attend the court because he was "in the zone of a special military operation." Zagrebaev stated that his mother signed a military contract at the end of 2015 He didn't know much about his mother's life and he said he learned about her joining the Aidar battalion only through social media: “She posted a photo in uniform on Facebook.” He couldn’t provide any of her documents people in civilian clothing took away her military ID and two folders with documents,” Zagrebaev told the investigators Prutyan stated that her son got the dates wrong She said she signed her first contract in February 2017 and firstly worked as an accountant She became a combat medic in Aidar only in July 2020: “Yes There is no weapon or anything like that,” she told the court The next hearing in the case will take place on October 5 where the prosecution will continue presenting evidence Over the past year, I’ve built a few different custom GPTs using the ChatGPT platform from OpenAI. My goal with each Generative AI tool is to help you understand the intricacies of US government regulations This is especially needed by smaller international development firms and local organizations without large compliance teams I firmly believe that GenAI tools performing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using factual external resources can generate accurate human-readable responses from dense legal texts. Even when my chatbots fail Here are the GenAI tools I’ve created using the ChatGPT platform and available on the GPT Store: Please be sure to share your feedback on using these chatbots with me I am still learning how to optimize these tools OpenAI has just announced that the custom GPTs that I created on the OpenAI Store are now free to all ChatGPT users You no longer need to create a paid account to enjoy these GPTs You can also use OpenAI’s newest flagship model please be sure to double check the results to ensure accuracy We are all at the mercy of OpenAI with ChatGPT which is trained on the full glory of the Internet – the good or appropriate regulation expert for their input before making any decisions based on these chatbots There will always be nuance and context that no computer will know I am humbled to have to understand this Ai tools I am yet to learn and put them to productive use Kindly guide me on the process of learning and grants It is great that OpenAI finally made these custom GPTs free to non-subscribers and I must admit that it struggled with what I thought was a pretty softball question I asked it what expenses under $75 require a receipt and it missed completely that receipts are required for taxis in the US regardless of cost It also kept talking about how telephone calls over $75 require a receipt which is the opposite of what I was asking but it shows the limitations of ChatGPT’s comprehension of some types of text We are all at the mercy of OpenAI when using chatbots developed on ChatGPT This is why I built a custom LLM for my previous employer – for greater control and accuracy It was more accurate than Google Search for the Federal Acquisition Regulation faster than the State Department’s own search engine for the Foreign Affairs Manual and more comprehensive than either on IRS’ Internal Revenue Manuals This is such a great contribution to the development community I’m eager to check out some of the others you’ve built the ADS bot really botched answers with respect to ADS205 (gender) yet did so with great confidence as always This is dangerous since others less familiar with gender-related compliance might not be able to discern the inaccuracies I just popped in and asked the same questions and the improvement is amazing–the answers were factually accurate It’s my understanding that custom GPTs don’t get upgraded to 4o… Would love to hear more on what tinkering you did OpenAI says that GPTs now use the newest flagship model That probably explains its better understanding of gender in the ADS OpenAI cautioned that behavioral changes with the new model should have me review and test these GPTs to ensure they continue to perform as intended I did a few tests but didn’t find much change ICTworks™ is the premier resource for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development Enter your e-mail to get ICTworks 3x a week!: Our team gladly accepts outside contributors for ICTworks articles. If you would like to publish an article on our website, please see our Guest Post Guidelines to develop and validate the company’s Aidar COVID-19 decompensation index (AIDI) a new early warning system that uses MouthLab Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared device to enable timely intervention in COVID-19 patients at risk for severe illness and rapid deterioration Integrated devices and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies like AIDI have the potential to provide early and actionable health status information to empower individuals and health care providers Identifying early signs of COVID-19 disease progression or deterioration (such as difficulty breathing fainting and sudden dizziness or weakness) is crucial to ensuring successful patient outcomes Delays in accurately detecting these warning signs may worsen prognosis and impact the quality of life of patients While clinicians can evaluate hospitalized patients more closely intervening early can be difficult when their patients are being clinically surveilled from home Robust early warning tools such as MouthLab can effectively monitor a large number of individual subjects’ physiological parameters in real-time and detect early signs of deteriorations This will enable the managing physicians to provide timely intervention and ultimately help avoid an Emergency Department visit/hospitalization AIDI is designed as a multi-sensor-based machine learning technology for real-time automated detection of decompensation MouthLab and the AIDI are being evaluated for accurate detection of physiological changes early enough to allow timely intervention for COVID-19 patients at risk of deterioration thereby reducing the likelihood of hospitalization AIDI is based on multiple physiological trends including combination of temperature which can be useful for the monitoring of not only infections but also cardiovascular diseases BARDA is partnering with Aidar to develop and validate the AIDI using Mouthlab (an FDA 510k cleared and CE marked device that measures over 10 vital health parameters) in a cohort of COVID-19 patients in collaboration with several health systems across the U.S By leveraging a demographically diverse user cohort the study can also increase the understanding of how COVID-19 infections specifically impact different population groups MouthLab has the potential to be a commercially available remote monitoring device for daily health assessment can convey vital health information in real time to individuals and their care providers enabling enhanced patient care monitoring and management This week’s topics include a consensus on the Pandemic Treaty legislation to increase stockpile readiness for anthrax bioterrorism Get the latest news on pathogens and preparedness News on pathogens and preparedness for public health emergencies Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker I am so excited to announce my verbal commitment to further my athletic and academic careers at Virginia Tech! and coaches for their endless support throughout my journey I cannot wait to join such an amazing program Aidar Health has developed a portable hand-held device that allows patients to measure and track vital signs in a matter of seconds MouthLab consists of a hand unit and a mouthpiece that fits between the teeth and lips The mouthpiece uses special sensors to gather information from breathing patterns saliva and blood vessels in the lips and hands Users inhale and exhale into the mouthpiece and MouthLab measures 10 different parameters of their health: temperature a credit report or FICO score,” said Sathya Elumalai but if something is wrong and there’s a negative effect Those scores are not determined based on your credit card performance there’s a variety of factors responsible for somebody’s health We are collecting only a tiny percentage … but everything adds value.” The information is securely stored in the cloud and sent in real time to patients caregivers and health care providers using technology to connect directly to a 4G network MouthLab aims to help patients manage ongoing diseases specifically heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but Elumalai said he plans to add more sensing capabilities to the device in the future to read other biological indicators of health making it a useful monitoring device for everyone “The ultimate goal is to measure all the different parameters,” Elumalai said we want every single individual in the world to use it It is not just a device for helping patients but we wanted to have this device as a daily monitoring tool.” Aidar Health, which participated under its previous name in the TMC Innovation Institute’s TMCx accelerator program is currently conducting clinical studies at Johns Hopkins University and plans to submit its application for U.S Food and Drug Administration approval early next year (713)-791-8800 | info@tmc.edu MouthLab is the first-of-a-kind comprehensive remote monitoring device that measures multiple vital health parameters in just 60 seconds and creates a unique 'biosignature' that intelligently reflects an individual's true health and remote monitoring device that measures 10 vital health parameters in 60 seconds paired with telemedicine can drastically reduce the burden on the healthcare system by effectively screening individuals at home and at other healthcare facilities diverting traffic from emergency departments and providing data for clinicians to prudently allocate resources By combining the insights from all the vital health parameters MouthLab can create a new kind of personalized people-centric experience that empowers individuals to make sustainable behavior and lifestyle changes and improve health outcomes The FDA Clearance is an important milestone for Aidar Health as this application required rigorous regulatory review against high clinical and safety standards "I'm extremely proud of our team's achievement overcoming all the challenges posed by the pandemic to receive this clearance especially considering the fact that this clearance covers 10 vital medical parameters in a single 510(k) application." "The COVID-19 pandemic has helped accelerate the proliferation of remote monitoring technologies including devices that are directed at non-regulated consumer-oriented applications Our focused approach and commitment to developing medical-grade devices that are clinically-validated and cleared by the FDA is a key pillar of the company's long-term vision and pivotal to secure the trust of not only the users and caregivers but also our partners including healthcare providers co-founder and Chief Nursing Officer at Aidar Health The ability to measure multiple health parameters quickly has the potential to transform remote and in-home care This is an opportunity both for the ongoing COVID pandemic and beyond in terms of care management and prioritization Remote monitoring and associated cost reductions can extend resources more broadly to the geographically underserved who live further from medical care This 510(k) clearance of the MouthLab Vital Signs Monitoring System is the first in a series of regulatory clearances that Aidar Health is seeking to expand its growing portfolio of innovative breath- and saliva-based sensors and proprietary analytics capabilities Director of Finance & Strategy at Aidar Health "By combining a single device with connected technology and innovative data science with genuine care and deliver quantifiable and sustainable health outcomes compared to the status quo," said Sathya Elumalai high touch care delivery solution that extends beyond the hospital to radically enhance the monitoring and treatment options for patients with chronic conditions Aidar Health (fka Multisensor Diagnostics) is a fast-growing healthcare technology and digital medicine company with the mission to enhance the quality of life of patients with chronic conditions and deliver clinically-validated breath- and saliva-based sensors and evidence-based therapeutic interventions for various chronic conditions Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic kidney disease among many others Aidar Health seeks to provide improved health outcomes for users through precision medicine smarter engagement and tracking tools for providers and caregivers drug and treatment validation tools for biopharmaceuticals Aidar has built a revolutionary medical device which leverages proprietary AI and machine learning algorithms to create a new paradigm for precision medicine For more information, visit: http://www.aidar.com Sathya Elumalai, Aidar Health Inc., +1 (443) 875-6456, [email protected] Twitter, Facebook http://www.aidar.com Do not sell or share my personal information: MouthLab is the world's first rapid health assessment device that measures more than 10 vital health parameters in just 60 seconds daily health monitoring tool for users and a real-time surveillance system for physicians BALTIMORE, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aidar Health, Inc., healthcare technology and digital medicine company today announced it has received CE Mark approval for its revolutionary health assessment and remote monitoring device By leveraging the capabilities of MouthLab Aidar Health aims to create a new kind of personalized healthcare experience for people with chronic conditions and enable positive health outcomes Designed by biomedical industry experts in partnership with clinicians, MouthLab is a single remote monitoring device that measures 10+ vital health parameters including oral temperature The device consists of in-built Bluetooth and cellular network capability to seamlessly transmit data to a secure HIPAA-compliant cloud where the data is processed to provide real-time health insights to patients and caregivers through a mobile application The CE Mark approval is a significant accomplishment for Aidar Health as this application required rigorous regulatory review against high clinical and safety standards "MouthLab is one of the first Star Trek-style Medical Tricorder with comprehensive real-time health monitoring capabilities to receive CE Mark approval This approval is a great testament and a true validation of the technology and allows us to significantly expand the commercial applications of the device for decentralized and hybrid clinical trials and digital therapeutic initiatives through our partnerships with global biopharmaceuticals and contract research organizations," says Sathya Elumalai The current ability of MouthLab to measure all these approved vital health parameters are only the beginning Because the device is placed in the mouth for data collection which in turn provides access to many other biochemical and biophysical indicators of health "We are actively working on building new breath- and saliva-based sensors to make MouthLab as one of the most comprehensive tools for early detection and improved management of chronic health conditions" "We believe the MouthLab device and our enterprise platform are more relevant than ever to serve the needs of pharmaceutical companies We are excited to have received this certification as it now enables Aidar's entry into the European market We look forward to working with our biopharmaceutical and health system partners in the region" adds Sathya Elumalai Aidar Health is pioneering the design and application of the MouthLab device as a platform that can be continuously enhanced through the addition of multiple capabilities by leveraging reliable medical-grade sensors thereby broadening the pertinence of the device in diverse settings across the healthcare value chain Aidar Health (fka Multisensor Diagnostics) is a fast-growing healthcare technology and digital medicine company with the mission to enhance the quality of life of patients with chronic conditions For more information, visit: http://www.aidar.com Sathya Elumalai, Aidar Health Inc., +1 (443) 875-6456, [email protected] Twitter, Facebook Carlson has the potential to impact UIC in the 200 free where last season’s top times were held by graduate students Bexon Harrison recently focused full time on swimming after doing that and water polo for much of his high school career Breaststroke specialist Landry Liston has announced her commitment to continue both her academic and athletic careers at George Mason University Lennox is a six-time 4A CHSAA State Champion Texas sophomore Brayden Taivassalo has announced that he is transferring to Arizona State University for the next season September 15th, 2023 ACC, College, College Recruiting, News Fitter and Faster Swim Camps is the proud sponsor of SwimSwam’s College Recruiting Channel and all commitment news swimming in college is a lifelong dream that is pursued with dedication and determination Fitter and Faster is proud to honor these athletes and those who supported them on their journey Amanda Aidar has announced that she will be joining the Virginia Tech Hokies next fall to further her education and swimming career and swims year-round with Pittsburgh Elite Aquatics “I am so excited to announce my verbal commitment to further my athletic and academic careers at Virginia Tech! Aidar most recently competed at the 2023 Eastern Zone Senior Championships in early August where she dropped over a second to take 13th with a 2:27.36 She also cracked the top-20 in the 100m fly (1:06.04) and 200m fly (2:27.61) Aidar represented her high school at the Pennsylvania High School State meet (3A) where she contributed to team points in the 100 fly then clocked a 57.14 in finals for 11th overall Aidar’s personal best in the event stands at 56.58 which she recorded at the high school state meet in 2022 The Hokies finished 6th out of 12 teams at the 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Championships. The team is led by head coach Sergio Lopez who was named the Director of Virginia Tech Swimming & Diving in May of 2018 This group will have turned over by the time Aidar arrives in Blacksburg while Park joins Aidar in being from Pennsylvania If you have a commitment to report, please send an email with a photo (landscape, or horizontal, looks best) and a quote to [email protected] Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" More from Sidney ZachariasSee All Subscribe to our newsletter and receive our latest updates OpenAI recently allowed paying ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise subscribers to create their own custom chatbots known as GPTs utilizing GPT 4 the latest Generative AI version from OpenAI I took advantage of this opportunity to move beyond the standard general-purpose ChatGPT model by creating two specialized chatbots for international development practitioners using my own time and personal resources Each of these chatbots analyze the full ADS & AIDAR regulations They are free to use by anyone and should improve over time as the GenAI “learns” from its interactions Please engage with both of these custom chatbots at your leisure and let me know their benefits, limitations, and how I can improve them in the comments section For those wanting to go deep into GenAI technology, these GPTs are using Retrieval Augmented Generation The documents are being dissected into shorter passages and then turned into vector embeddings – number strings representing the text the GPT is using that vector database to find the number strings most relevant to your query It then converts the number strings back into a text answer As anyone who has interacted with Generative AI should know by now public solutions like these can have inaccuracies and misinterpretations often politely described as “hallucinations.” you should not rely solely on either chatbot for conclusive interpretations of US government regulations These tools are not to replace detailed reviews of the underlying regulations or the expertise of USAID Mission Executive Officers (EXOs) In addition, these are public chatbots running on a private company’s servers OpenAI claims they will not use input or responses from custom GPTs to inform their work please do not to put any private or confidential information into any public GenAI solution My aim in creating these chatbots is to reduce confusion and repetitive questions that tire us all I want chatbots like these to free up EXOs and implementing partners to focus on the complex regulation questions and issues that make our work interesting You may be wondering about creating a custom GPT to explore the Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) and associated Handbooks (FAHs) – the authoritative source for structures and procedures that govern the operations of the State Department on the size of files that could be used for source documentation The FAM alone is over 150 MB and 10,300 pages when saved as a PDF Please see the ChatGPT vs Claude post to find the best publicly available FAM/FAH analysis tool for you The image above is what ChatGPT 4 thinks is USAID staff interpreting the ADS and AIDAR – a curious visualization that totally breaks the USAID logo style guide one could argue that whoever puts a tool live should actually verify with OpenAI whether or not they actually walk the talk and do not use the data for further processing Hi Vincent. Thanks for your questions around these LLM AI systems. I feel they probably warrant their own post since these are questions larger than me or my efforts. Maybe you can write a guest post to bring them to our 25,000 email subscribers Thanks for sharing the results of your interesting work I’m a little unclear about the objective You say that the AI Chatbots will ‘analyze’ the AIDAR etc You also say “My aim in creating these chatbots is to reduce confusion and repetitive questions that tire us all and implementing partners to focus on the complex regulation questions…” I’m not sure what these points mean in practical terms Perhaps you can share a couple of examples showing input (e.g the type of repetitive questions you refer to) versus output I am not privy to the specific questions asked of EXOs and USAID staff and I doubt I could share them publicly if I did know I’ve had plenty of regulation-related questions swirl around me over my 20-year career in implementing partner organizations Most of them relate to procurement and are covered by the FAR or AIDAR Others are process related and can be in the ADS or FAM/FAH A majority of questions are only asked once – see the ChatGPT vs Claude post for examples – but multiply a dozen only-ask-once questions by the dozens of people hired into international development every day and you have thousands of similar questions occupying hundreds of contract compliance officers time every month Would be interested in this but it looks like it’s only available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers So it’s not quite “free” Just gonna second what Alex said…and I myself was not aware of this until now Apparently you can only interact with custom GPT’s of you’re a Plus subscriber I thought a subscription was only required for making the custom bots but apparently I was wrong I too thought that a subscription was only required for making the custom bots however OpenAI changed its rules to say you needed a Plus subscription and then stopped accepting new subscribers This is another reason to move solutions like this in-house so you’re not at the whim of a third party’s business decisions Perhaps it can be posted here or elsewhere like “Work with USAID” social media when accessible Has anyone here signed up to try ChatGPT Plus and they have also put a hold on new chat+ subs as of the past few weeks so we’ll have to wait even of we want to pony up how can the Chat GPT update the AIDAR and other files How does one guarantee that the files ChatGPT is accessing are in fact accurate I am sure that there would be interest in my agency for finding FAM/FAH information that is better than a word search the FAMs and FAHs get added to almost every month I also have to ask about the cost of maintaining such a specialized database as government agencies are notoriously slow to adopt new tech if there is a new budget line needed to do that hence my note in the post that these are the public rules that I could find one could have the relevant regulations ingested at whatever interval (daily monthly) deemed necessary and time stamped so users would know how recently the LLM updated its regulations files we developed a FAM/FAH Bot that was demonstrability better than the State’s keyword search I wasn’t privy to the pricing strategy they wanted to use with LLM chatbots tuned to regulations but the costs were marginal when compared with other software services and therefore could be (and often where) incorporated into existing contracts either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content Ukraine's military shared dramatic footage of its fighters targeting a Russian tank convoy close to the Donetsk city of Bakhmut as it continues with its counteroffensive against Russian troops who are positioned across the south and east of the country "Another [R]uscist attempt at attack south of Bakhmut has failed," Ukraine's Defense Ministry wrote in a post accompanying the clip on Monday that was posted to X, formerly Twitter using a derogatory term to refer to Moscow's forces Russian forces captured the city in May as Wagner Group mercenary forces prepared to withdraw from Donetsk with the current front line falling just to the west of Bakhmut Another ruscist attempt at an attack south of Bakhmut has failed.🎥 24th "Aidar" Assault Battalion pic.twitter.com/0BqJ9G9dUI However, Ukraine has maintained its forces are battling around the settlement, and Western assessments suggest the war-torn country has retaken territory to the north and south of the city since its counteroffensive started in early June In the clip posted by Ukraine's government and attributed to Ukraine's 24th "Aidar" Assault Battalion, a convoy of Russian military vehicles makes its way through the countryside tracked by what appears to be a Ukrainian drone plumes of smoke can be seen as the tanks are targeted by strikes Newsweek cannot independently verify when or where this footage was filmed and has reached out to Russia's Defense Ministry for comment via email wrote in a post to Telegram on Monday that Moscow's troops were attempting to retake positions to the north of Bakhmut with fighting continuing to the south of the city Ukrainian fighters had retaken an additional three square kilometers of territory around the southern flank of Bakhmut we can talk about the liberation of 43 square kilometers of our land in this direction," she wrote Ukrainian forces carried out "limited counteroffensive operations" in the area around Bakhmut on Sunday adding Kyiv's fighters may have advanced over the weekend Russian forces may also have gained ground marginally around the city citing geolocated footage from Friday showing minor advances west of Yahidne a village just to the northwest of Bakhmut The Russian-backed head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic told Russian state news agency Tass on Monday that Ukraine had been attempting to advance Bakhmut's flanks with the nearby village of Klishchiivka being a "hotbed" of clashes "Fighting continues in the central part of Klishchiivka," Maliar also wrote in her Telegram post on Monday Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsletters in your inbox See all Russia jailed a dual Ukrainian and Russian national for 16 years on Tuesday on terrorism-linked charges for fighting alongside Kyiv's forces in Ukraine A judge in a military court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don handed down the ruling to a man named Denis Muryga accusing him of fighting as part of Ukraine's Aidar battalion a persistent hotspot of fighting in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region which the Kremlin claimed to have annexed last year State prosecutors had requested a sentence of 18 years The news agency also reported the defendant was a dual Russian and Ukrainian national who was taken into custody in 2022 while attempting to cross the border into Russia The Aidar battalion was formed in 2014 during fighting with Kremlin-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine and was folded into the regular Ukrainian army later as the 28th battalion Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has designated The Moscow Times as an "undesirable" organization criminalizing our work and putting our staff at risk of prosecution This follows our earlier unjust labeling as a "foreign agent." 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But to continue our work, we need your help please support us monthly starting from just $2 and every contribution makes a significant impact independent journalism in the face of repression Which language would you like to use this site in (Kyiv) In a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk today Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty urged the Ukrainian government to stop abuses and war crimes by volunteer battalions operating alongside regular Ukrainian armed forces “The Ukrainian authorities must not replicate the lawlessness and abuses that have prevailed in areas previously held by separatists,” said Salil Shetty Amnesty International Secretary General from Kyiv “The failure to stop abuses and possible war crimes by volunteer battalions risks significantly aggravating tensions in the east of the country and undermining the proclaimed intentions of the new Ukrainian authorities to strengthen and uphold the rule of law more broadly.” The call came as Amnesty International published fresh research collected on the ground in the northern Luhansk region, Abuses and war crimes by the Aidar Volunteer Battalion in the north Luhansk region documenting a growing range of abuses by the Aidar Volunteer battalion Aidar is one of more than thirty so-called volunteer battalions to have emerged in the wake of the conflict which have been loosely integrated into Ukrainian security structures as they seek to retake separatist held areas Amnesty International has documented a growing spate of abuses and possible executions committed by the Aidar battalion The organization is calling on the Ukrainian authorities to bring all volunteer battalions under effective lines of command and control to promptly investigate all allegations of abuses and to hold those responsible to account The Ukrainian Prime Minister expressed the government’s commitment to bringing all perpetrators of conflict related abuses to account “Amnesty International welcomes the Ukrainian government’s commitment to restore and ensure justice in the conflict affected areas We will hold them to this promise,” said Salil Shetty Together we can fight for human rights everywhere Your donation can transform the lives of millions If you are talented and passionate about human rights then Amnesty International wants to hear from you one of the most respected law firms in Brazil and Latin America has announced the hiring of two new partners – Marina Aidar and Virginia Mesquita – for the Infrastructure and Project Finance practice area This is a strategic hire to boost the firm’s business and comes at a time when the third edition of Brazil’s Growth Acceleration Program (Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento – PAC) is expected to generate BRL 1.7 trillion in public and private investments over the next four years through programs divided into nine segments Marina Aidar has extensive experience in Project Finance and advises banks (commercial and development) and companies (Brazilian and international) on structured operations within the infrastructure sector She holds a master’s degree in International Financial Law from King’s College London a postgraduate degree in Administrative Law from FGV-SP an Executive MBA in Electricity Sector Business from FGV and a bachelor’s degree in Law from PUC-SP She has been recognized by leading legal publications – such as Chambers Brazil Análise Advocacia and Análise Advocacia Mulher Also joining Demarest’s infrastructure team is Virginia Mesquita a master’s degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a bachelor’s degree in Law from USP Virginia has worked in the development team of several infrastructure projects acted as a consultant to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and participated in the development of major projects such as the new highway concessions in the state of Paraná the northern stretch of the São Paulo Rodoanel beltway and the concession of Lines 8 and 9 of the São Paulo State Metropolitan Trains – the largest urban mobility concession in Latin America – as well as municipal projects in the public lighting sector In addition to being a member of the Electoral and Infrastructure and Development Committees of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB-SP) a member of the Dispute Boards of the Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA) and the Brazilian Institute of Administrative Law (IBDA) Virginia is the sector leader at Infra Women for the area of project finance Virginia has also been recognized by important legal publications three other professionals will bolster the team a senior lawyer specialized in project finance transactions including the issuance of debentures and credit notes in capital markets long-term loans with development banks (such as BNDES and BNB) as well as advising on regulatory inquiries and structuring projects in the renewable energy sector She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University (USA) a master’s degree in Financial and Capital Markets Law from Insper and a bachelor’s degree in Law from USP “The infrastructure sector is strategic for the sustainable growth of Brazil and is key to Demarest’s expansion due to its potential to attract investment and its ability to interact with numerous other practice areas in the firm will reinforce our firm’s work in the Project Finance sector thanks to the expertise of these renowned professionals in the financing of infrastructure projects with the financial sector and large companies,” says Paulo Coelho da Rocha “Hiring this team of five women for the infrastructure area also demonstrates and reinforces our commitment to diversity and inclusion in our firm,” he adds Marina Aidar highlights the opportunities in infrastructure and its positive impact of this sector on the economy “Our team will seek to advise clients on structuring projects across all segments of the industry with dedication and commitment from all of us,” she says “Being able to work in the infrastructure area for a major law firm like Demarest at a time when all eyes are turned to this sector challenges us even further to develop innovative financing projects that can help improve concession and PPP mechanisms,” says Virginia From left to right: Luana Komatsu Falkenburger (lawyer) Virginia Mesquita and Marina Aidar (partners) vmesquita@demarest.com.br mfaidar@demarest.com.br We use cookies on our website to provide the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. 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"There is a significant decrease in any active actions of the enemy with an increase in the number of strikes from heavy weapons mainly from artillery and mortars," Syrskyi added Spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Cherevaty said that the activity of Russian troops in Bakhmut direction decreased four combat engagements took place over the past day The Ukrainian troops eliminated 59 invaders While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 NEW COMMIT: Virginia Tech has received a new verbal commitment for the 2024-25 season and beyond from Amanda Aidar of Pittsburgh She will join Delaney Bookstein as a member of the Hokies’ Class of 2028 “I am so excited to announce my verbal commitment to further my athletic and academic careers at Virginia Tech! Aidar does her club swimming with Pittsburgh Elite Aquatics (PEAQ) and finaled in three events at Christiansburg Sectionals back in March where her highest finish was a 10th-place showing in the 200 IM She most recently competed at the Holtrey Summer Classic Welcome to our community. We invite you to join our discussion. Our community guidelines are simple: be respectful and constructive, keep on topic, and support your fellow commenters. Commenting signifies that you agree to our Terms of Use ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " a 34-year-old lieutenant and mortar battery commander from the 24th Separate Assault Battalion (Aidar) speaks with the Kyiv Independent about his mortarmen's tasks at a dugout-turned-command center on the Bakhmut front in Donetsk Oblast on May 31 (Asami Terajima/The Kyiv Independent)Editor’s note: The Kyiv Independent interviewed a few dozen soldiers deployed near Bakhmut and visited their positions in late May and early June The soldiers are identified by their first names or call signs for security reasons amid the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine Donetsk Oblast – Thuds of incoming artillery were loud as four senior servicemen from Ukraine’s 24th Assault Battalion (Aidar) walked through the mud to their dugout “Everything is being watched,” one of them said Russia’s reconnaissance drones are closely monitoring movements across the Bakhmut front trying to locate Ukrainian positions like this dugout-turned-command center Ukraine responds by using drones of its own to spot Russian forces passing coordinates to mortarmen a few kilometers away “We watch streams provided by the drones and control our artillery a 34-year-old lieutenant and mortar battery commander from Kyiv with the call sign “Lighthouse,” said once he entered the dugout Denys’ mortarmen are covering several defense lines of infantry deployed in front of them with the furthest standing as close as 50 to 100 meters from the Russian forces Ukrainian forces are taking the initiative and conducting localized counterattacks on the flanks near Bakhmut who leads a team of up to 50 mortarmen deployed near Bakhmut since October 2022 where more villages like the southwestern Ivanivske are located rather than in the north – an open field where every movement is easily detected Though Bakhmut had fallen to Russia in May Ukrainian soldiers believe the city served its goal – grinding down Russia’s offensive capability that it could otherwise use elsewhere They say that Russia concentrated its troop and equipment deployment to Bakhmut which may have helped the Ukrainians launch a counteroffensive in the country’s southeast But the cost Ukraine paid to defend Bakhmut for so long was high several hundred Ukrainian soldiers were killed on the toughest days of the battle usually numbering between 400 to 1,000 soldiers Ukraine has not officially reported its casualties in the battle for Bakhmut but it is expected to be staggeringly high According to the testimonies of soldiers from various brigades thousands have lost their lives fighting for the city – with infantry taking the heaviest losses His unit has been fighting here for eight months For Aidar Battalion Senior Sergeant Maksym Russia’s destruction of Bakhmut is too familiar which for months remained the last Ukrainian holdouts in Luhansk Oblast suffered a similar fate before Russia captured them in July 2022 After capturing Bakhmut using the same brutal siege tactic the Ukrainians say the Russian forces are not attempting a major push in the area thus far Ukraine has for months strengthened its defense around Bakhmut anticipating Russia’s eventual capture of the city was also built during winter in anticipation of a retreat from the city The Aidar Battalion’s soldiers are deployed near Ivanivske which sits on the road between Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar The Russians must capture Ivanivske to advance toward Chasiv Yar – a hilly town that holds high grounds which is advantageous for Ukrainian troops on the defensive Russian forces have been heavily bombarding Ivanivske and Chasiv Yar from high-rise buildings in southwestern Bakhmut and they are already beating it very seriously methodically razing it to the ground,” he said But no matter how hard the Russians are firing at them Maksym said it is scary because if anything happens to them the infantry would be left without fire support “The guys in front of us won’t survive long without us and we know we will not live long without them,” Maksym said and mortars don’t always hit the target because they are subjected to weather conditions Picking the right angle and coordinates is crucial Maksym said the “black and scary” humor with his comrades somehow keeps them going despite the hardships everyone has their own civilian profession and we never wanted to fight,” Maksym said “It’s not that we are brave; it’s just that someone broke into your house Both Maksym and Oleksandr said they are fighting for their hometowns Oleksandr from occupied Sievierodonetsk said “My goal in joining the army was so that I would end up in Sievierodonetsk.” The battle for Bakhmut has been the longest and the bloodiest phase of Russia’s war in Ukraine While the Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed it yet Russia captured Bakhmut on May 20 when the Russian Defense Ministry and Wagner mercenaries claimed victory over the ruined city according to Ukrainian soldiers and their commanders deployed in the area A 42-year-old Odesa-born mortar battery commander from the 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade with a call sign “Lesnik,” also named Denys believes holding on to Bakhmut was part of the counteroffensive Russia has likely become “less flexible in reacting to operational changes” after deploying its elite troops to Bakhmut, such as its airborne forces, according to the U.K Defense Ministry’s June 3 intelligence report But all of it came at a significantly high cost Of the roughly 1,000 soldiers from his battalion deployed in Bakhmut since January only about 100 were still active when they left in May to recover from the losses The 93rd is among the brigades that fought in the southwestern part of Bakhmut near the now-destroyed MiG-17 aircraft monument where rows of single-family houses lined up turned into a bloody battlefield because there were no tall buildings that could be used as hideouts according to mortar battery commander Denys it’s very good,” the mortar commander said only received a week of training after being drafted on March 29 the only effective training can be done on the battlefield by more experienced soldiers Barely flinching at the thundering incoming and outgoing artillery shells over his head Mykola said that the two months of fighting in and around Bakhmut were extremely brutal only eight out of the original 71 soldiers in his company remain in action A soldier from the western city of Chernivtsi who is deployed as a squad commander of an infantry unit based near Bakhmut said he drank “water with blood” from a puddle as there was no other option Shocked at how many of his comrades were killed in the battle after returning from the front line he said he worries if his superiors knew the extent of the brutality of the battle for the now destroyed and occupied city Not everyone can handle the stress on the front line silence – which is rare on the front line – is uncomfortable because it usually meant that Russian forces were preparing for a major attack a 28-year-old mortarman from the 93rd brigade whose call sign is "Tarzan," struggles to sleep after his first combat mission near Bakhmut in May that heavy artillery will kill him in his sleep But no matter how horrifying their experience on the front line the soldiers always say they were more worried about their comrades than themselves Some of the strongest bonds are born in extremely harsh conditions In addition to all the stress the soldiers face to protect their comrades they are each going through their own personal battles that they try to keep to themselves it’s talking with his mother as if he isn’t serving in the military but he thinks it would be more painful to watch her nervously worry about him in western Volyn Oblast who takes care of Vitaly and other young soldiers in his platoon fighting near Kreminna – another hotspot of Russia’s war the Dnipro-native soldier whose callsign is “Borman,” said a 43-year-old soldier from Chasiv Yar who lives with Anatoly and Vitaly is worried he might never see his family again He said it’s extremely painful to watch his hometown and Bakhmut 10% you will make it (till the end of the war)," Serhiy who is eagerly waiting for his first combat mission so he can help end the war faster "We can be alive today and not tomorrow." ______________________________________________________ Asami Terajima is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent covering Ukrainian military issues She is the co-author of the weekly War Notes newsletter She previously worked as a business reporter for the Kyiv Post focusing on international trade Terajima moved to Ukraine during childhood and completed her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in the U.S She is the winner of the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism 2023 (Local Reporter category) and the George Weidenfeld Prize awarded as part of Germany's Axel Springer Prize 2023 She was also featured in the Media Development Foundation’s “25 under 25: Young and Bold” 2023 list of emerging media makers in Ukraine You don't have permissions to access this page a liquor distilled from fermented sugarcane juice is more than just a Brazilian alcoholic drink – it’s a way of life From its humble origins more than 400 years ago among the slave fields it has become the country’s most popular tipple and a cultural icon in the process That’s something that Guilherme Müller Filho understood in 1959 when he first produced Cachaça 51 in Pirassununga in the state of São Paulo, marking the start of Companhia Müller de Bebidas Now the product is beloved by Brazilians and cachaça lovers worldwide with the company exporting its growing range of beverages to more than 50 countries around the globe So when José Aidar Neto took on the CEO role at Brazilian drinks giant Companhia Müller de Bebidas in 2018 he knew it was the opportunity of a lifetime But he also recognized that the position came with huge responsibilities along with a number of challenges “It had already been performing for some years well below expectations even declining,” he tells The CEO Magazine “Although the company is very solid financially one of his first realizations was that although the company was determined to turn things around there was little “clarity” on how exactly to do it At this point José decided to “strategically redefine” the business basing the new approach on real data which revealed its strengths and opportunities the nature of the competition and areas worth investing in “Stage two was a general alignment so the board completely understood the direction we wanted to move in and gave us all their support,” he explains “Then we did the same within the organization.” implementation of new processes and integration between different departments “We’ve been working on the implementation of all this for the past three years,” José says “We still have opportunities in the strategic paths that were identified and defined We’re continuing our growth agenda with acceleration in two main pillars: Cachaça 51 and our ready-to-drink offerings such as 51 Ice which generate our growth vector within the category.” Companhia Müller de Bebidas will continue focusing on these two key pillars to give continuity to the growth of the company for the next three years That includes finding a way around difficulties such as the maturity of the category as well as the fact that Cachaça 51 already has a very strong market presence That for me is almost a new way of working – analyze and choose For now that means resuming the growth of the 51 family as a market leader and then consolidating the leadership of the product new packaging and extensive marketing efforts.” He also underlines the importance of increasingly adopting “commercial aggressiveness” which means ensuring marketing is aligned with sales – but it also requires a mental shift in the way the company works as a whole it also means learning the machinations of an entirely new world It is very different from what we traditionally work with,” José admits Meanwhile José is incredibly proud of the work the company is doing in the area of environmental “I’m not just looking at the three years since I have been here but rather looking at the entire 62 years of the company,” he stresses “It’s incredible how the owners and the former managers really worked very well in all these areas of governance So the company is doing very well in this area and is increasingly focused on sustainability.” Among its initiatives are solid programs for water re-use “We also generate our own energy for the distillery we have tree production programs and mainly the entire bottle re-use program – we are talking about more or less three million bottles per month that are re-used,” he says Companhia Müller de Bebidas has become more than a mere beverage producer – it has become a custodian of a national treasure And it’s a responsibility that José is taking very seriously The CEO Magazine is more than a business title; it’s a source of information inspiration and motivation for the world’s most successful leaders Learn all about The CEO Magazine at TheCEO.com The reporters talk about the “horrors that happened in the Aidar concentration camp” they only show footage of an abandoned factory location without any additional evidence The reader does indeed see an abandoned base or even torture devices – nothing that can be associated with a concentration camp The space doesn’t even look like a training base some burned metal beds are the only thing suggesting that the space may have been something other than industrial These stories are yet another example of staged productions intended to make the viewer believe in the myth of “Ukrainian Nazis,” who torment the Donbas population We explain why the stories about the “concentration camp” in Polovinkino cannot be true the Ukrainian Aidar battalion had its own “concentration camp” was allegedly equipped in the village of Polovinkino of the Luhansk region But what propagandists unequivocally call a concentration camp is actually the battalion’s training base which has been occupied by its members since the battalion’s founding in 2014 Ukrainian film crews went to the village of Polovinkino This also confirms that the training base is indeed located there Zamok and Buddy belonged deceased fighters of Aidar In total the battalion lost 13 of its volunteers in the battle.” The fact that Russian propagandists are filming stories at the Aidar base after Russian troops occupied Polovinkino is indicated by a number of visual matches with news stories filmed on the base earlier by Ukrainian media. Firstly, the main entrance gate to the training camp was shown by Hromadske TV in 2014. With slight changes, it is also featured in RT propagandist stories and thev  so-called People’s Militia of the Luhansk People’s Republic “The territory was equipped for torture chambers. Literally every meter here is steeped in cold, dampness and fear,” says Anton Mikuzhis the LPR’s People’s Militia Department so-called press officer But the premises shown in the propaganda stories partly served as living quarters for Aidar fighters and are not parts of some “secret prison” This can be seen from the similarity of one of the premises from the propaganda stories with the barracks of the fighters shown in the Ukrainian report Judging by the fact that now this room has been completely cleared two conclusions can be drawn: either Aidar fighters intentionally cleared the base during their retreat or the RT journalists themselves removed everything unrelated from the frame in order to stage the supposedly “concentration camp premises” The unlikelihood of any concentration camps existing in the village of Polovinkino is also indicated by the fact that the village is located close to the demarcation zone – it is only 65 km from there to the checkpoint in the town of Shchastya Following the logic of World War II concentration camp placement they should be located in hard-to-reach places away from the front and key transport interchanges The village of Polovinkino is quite the opposite it is located on the way to the occupied territories and in case of a successful offensive by Luhansk People’s Republic Russian gangs The Luhansk People’s Republic militia and the RIA Novosti stories feature several people who allegedly were “prisoners of the Aidar concentration camp” None of them show any disability or injury that could have been inflicted on them during their time at the alleged camp The video shows dirty basements with no signs of any human presence Russian propagandist stories claiming to show the viewer an abandoned concentration camp show nothing that actually can be  associated with a concentration the narrator constantly focuses on mutilations allegedly were committed by members of the battalion there “Prisoners were beaten and tortured, after which many did not survive. Presumably, they were buried next to the prison,” the RIA Novosti video claims But there are no graves and no specific data on any of the victims All the  alleged Aidar concentration camp prisoners free and free to comment in front of the camera A man named “Nikolai” says “Aidar members” stabbed him in the joint of his left arm.” Rather than describe his experience “concentration camp prisoner” Aleksey talks about “a girl who was dragged out by drunken Aidar members talks about how “an Aidar member” stole a tractor and a mower from him it would appear these are the things that happen in the concentration camp and secret prisons Presented as a forensic expert from the Starobilsk city hospital Dmitry Romanchuk reads for the video from a sheet of paper the list of “atrocities” committed by “Aidar” within the walls of his “concentration camp” How these alleged murders were carried out in the “secret concentration camp” and then documented by the Starobilsk branch of the Luhansk Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination is not clear the Izvestia newspaper published a document claiming to confirm the large number of deaths that allegedly occurred within the walls of the “Aidar” concentration camp But this document has little resemblance to a forensic conclusion – it does not contain a description of the cause of death and the wording format “killed by the Aidar battalion” is not the kind of language normally used in forensic reports In another story a man named Ivan Maslov talks about the time he spent in the “concentration camp” Maslov says he was forcibly kept in the basement of one of the buildings his hands were chafed by the ties until bleeding” he talks excitedly about how other prisoners were tortured in the torture chamber and “beaten to death” How he managed to get out of such a “secret prison” remains unclear He does not provide any photo or video or any other evidence confirming his captivity pointss to the basement and says that is where “they beat people with rifle butts.” He says that “he sat in this hole for a month.” His release is also not explained in the story traces of writing “Glory to Ukraine” are visible on a wall it is unlikely that would have been written by a prisoner In another video report, Maria Finoshina of RT states that “many witnesses still prefer to remain silent.” Seemingly that is why the RT film crew was able to elicit a comment from only one local resident who says that her neighbor “systematically insulted her Such “atrocities” clearly don’t seem to be on the level of a concentration camp Additional commentary for the story was provided by Anna Soroka the so-called “Foreign Minister of the LPR” She talks about “foreign curators” who allegedly trained Aidar fighters The rest of the story is told by Maria Finoshina herself where every other word in her running commentary is “Nazis” and “murderers” You can read the magazine in one of the following languages You can read the global content or the content from your region That’s something that Guilherme Müller Filho understood in 1959 when he first produced Cachaça 51 in Pirassununga in the state of São Paulo marking the start of Companhia Müller de Bebidas Members get unlimited access to all our most valuable content long before the masses Exclusive access to newly released gear and tech and entrepreneur secrets delivered to your inbox monthly Fatherly Magazine Fatherly advice for the modern Canadian dad Female Fitness Magazine Canadian Female fitness and healthy living magazine Black Incorporated Magazine Empowering and Inspiring Canadian Black Executives and Entrepreneurs Another proud moment for Aidar was being named a Distinguished Kazakhstani Figure by President Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2013 for his professional achievements and contribution to classical music across the world This highest of awards in Kazakhstan is given to people who possess exceptional talent in their field The President noted Aidar’s priceless contribution to bringing millions of people to the classics and popularising symphonic music among the younger generations he has been the conductor at the Astana Opera State Opera and Ballet Theatre Aidar Abzhakhanov has put on a number of performances including the Nutcracker and Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky); Giselle and Korsar (Adan) Polovtsian Dances (from the opera Prince Igor La Bayadere and Don Quixote (Minkus) and others Many connoisseurs of symphonic music look forward to Aidar Abzhakhanov’s performances Listeners feel an amazing talent combined with professionalism from the very first wave of the conductor’s baton taste and musical feeling can add new shades of music to even the most complex of classical pieces I have a goal – to bring emotion to the listener Collaborative content by SWAGGER's in-house editorial team Get the latest Swagger Scoop right in your inbox Input your search keywords and press Enter the path from an idea to a viable startup is long and expensive The more so is the path from a startup to a successfully functioning company it is possible to take a shortcut and enter the global market directly - all it takes is the right strategy Aidar is the author and co-author of IT solutions which automate the processes of big data analysis and monitoring to ensure transparent activity of government agencies involves implementation of the Horizontal Monitoring Platform IT program It helps to make tax regulation and tax administration in Kazakhstan more transparent Another project is Center for Procurement Monitoring and Analysis which currently analyzes procurement activities worth more than $15 billion tell us how did you choose to go with such a complex IT domain - I think my experience and the challenges that I personally faced in my work helped me a lot I realized that dealing with figures and documents manually is not my thing I received an offer from a Kazakhstani IT company where I worked as Business Development Manager and was subsequently invited to Ernst&Young IT strategies development for large companies At that time PricewaterhouseCoopers noticed our achievements and headhunted the whole team By that time I was already heading my own team in IT-consulting as I saw a tremendous potential in this sphere not keeping up with the demand for expertise there was a lack of knowledge and specialists My mission was to provide the startups and IT companies with an Action Plan to guide and foster their development both in Kazakhstan and beyond How did you pave the way to big contracts as an entrepreneur I realized that it was time to create my own startup I founded a company that focused on creating its own IT products It was my first experience in entrepreneurship I became a freelance consultant helping to improve business processes in large organizations Having gained a good experience over 10 years in IT consulting in all aspects: as a businessman We developed Enterprise Service Buses (EBS) for billing systems and had contracts with ATM providers Kassa24 for utilities through an ATM and had to wait a long time to receive confirmation of crediting; now and the information was immediately recorded in the system for both the client and the service provider So you create products that automate the processes Technowize has grown from a small business into a holding company that has four projects under its umbrella and probably the most significant one for the country is OHML - a unique project in Kazakhstan to implement horizontal monitoring the company helps to make the system of tax deductions in the country more transparent Often people make mistakes in calculations while our system eliminates the human factor and the risk of huge fines gets reduced Another project of our holding is the Center for Procurement Monitoring and Analysis This is a cloud-based solution for employees of the Internal State Audit Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan who identify violations in the public procurement system but now it is the system that performs this time-consuming process for them This is how it works: a hospital in Kostanay announced a tender for wall painting The procurement was made from a single source not through the competitive bidding process and the winner only presented a copyright certificate while the painting works are not subject to copyright in principle It means that the supplier wanted to cheat and bypass the competitive bidding procedures This is a violation and a reason to cancel the results of the procurement If the Committee's employees identify a corruption component the information is sent to the law enforcement authorities our holding includes a company that automates the processes in the logistics sector as well as an online programming school without a teacher The school also operates under the MDDIAI government grants program which plans to train 20K IT specialists by 2025 You suggested that Kazakhstani startups can follow not only the classical path of development within Kazakhstan a Kazakhstani project has every chance to not just grow into a successful company very quickly This is exactly what I plan to do in the near future: to enter the US market and help my compatriots do the same I plan to establish a special management company which will have two venture funds in its portfolio – one in Kazakhstan and one in the USA The first fund will help Kazakhstani startups develop in Silicon Valley as well as attract foreign investments in Kazakhstan projects which need to be channeled in the right direction and to properly plan further steps And the second fund will operate in the USA and will be engaged in investments in international and American startups © 2025 Forbes.com LLC™ All Rights Reserved We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on the website. The purposes of using cookies are defined in the Privacy Policy of RAPSI October 4 (RAPSI) – Investigators in the Donetsk People’s Republic have completed probe into 18 members of the nationalist battalion Aidar banned by the region’s Supreme Court as terrorist The criminal case has been forwarded to court for hearing according to the press service of the DPR Prosecutor General’s Office All the defendants have committed actions aimed at the violent upheaval and dismantlement of the DPR constitutional order Four people are charged with the organization of a terrorist community 14 others are accused of participation in the activities of such a community.