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Life expectancy in Southeastern Europe in 2023, based on data from the World Bank.

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—🇽🇰 NEW: Dua Lipa is now officially a Kosovar.

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani has issued a presidential decree granting Lipa Kosovar citizenship.

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The Ćevapi empire is probably crazy enough of an idea to work

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🇲🇩❌🏳️‍🌈-According to HotNews Romania, Transnistria has passed seven new “laws” targeting LGBTQ+ “propaganda,” promoting child-free lifestyles, and what it deems “disrespect” toward parents.

➡️The legislation includes fines of up to €470 and jail time of up to 15 days. The bans apply to media, advertisements, education, books, and films.

🇧🇾🇷🇴🇲🇩 Romanian border guards stopped 10 trucks carrying fibreglass in September and October 2024 headed for the Moldavizolit Plant in Transnistria.

The fibreglass was coming from Belarus and was directed through a Czech shell company who organised the transports. The transports were stopped at the Albița border crossing with Moldova when the Romanian side noticed that the transport papers’ were fishy.

Fibreglass is an useful industrial material with civilian and military purposes. Fibreglass is commonly used to reinforce hulls for boats, automobiles and more importantly for our story: drones.

Fibreglass can act as a bullet-resistant armour, although it is quite uncommon with carbon fibres and ceramics being the norm.

The Moldavizolit Plant in Tiraspol, Transnistria, the receiver of the fibreglass, does not manufacture drones. They do make plastics and integrated circuits, two key components of drone manufacturing. Moldavizolit, before Moldova blocked its export licence, used to export and supply other Russian defense companies and helped Russia manufacture cruise missiles. With its export licence removed however, the Plant had financial difficulties and its activity dropped to a minimum.

In November 2023, the so-called “president” of Transnistria, Vadym Krasnoselsky, signed a decree ordering the creation of a drone fleet for the separatist militia.

The trucks were supposed to deliver the fibreglass to the Moldavizolit Plant in September 2024 with the last truck being stopped by Romanian border guards on October 2nd 2024. Three days later, the Moldavizolit Plant closed its doors as it was unable to give work to its workers.

The Romanian Customs Authority made a criminal complaint for perjury accusing the Czech company of falsifying documents to hide the intended use of the fibreglass shipments. The company’s lawyers denied any intention of making military related products, claiming that the fibreglass was meant to build a number of elevators.

The trucks have since been sealed. The cargo has not been confiscated yet.

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—🇷🇺/🇺🇦/🇷🇴 WATCH: Massive Russian assault near Romania's border.

🔗 Brave Romania, footage published on August 6th.

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—🇦🇱 NEW: Albania government plans to push a new law punishing "offense" to state institutions, including the prime minister and president, with 3 years in prison.

Critics call it Erdogan-inspired and a threat to free speech.

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