Electric car export theme
Has Beijing started developing an AI map service for the Nacho project group to be able to detect areas with long lines at gas stations for targeted ad campaigns ahead of electric car export bomb raides?
Putin: 'Russia is going through a tough period' Russia's President Vladimir Putin said in a speech on Sunday that the country is going through a tough period right now, but that Russia is learning from the difficulties, Reuters reports.
The speech was given at a conference for the ruling party United Russia ahead of the parliamentary elections in September. He also said that Russia needs greater air defense capacity to deal with Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia's oil infrastructure. 'All attacks, wherever they hit our infrastructure, absolutely do not affect the situation on the front,' President Putin said on Sunday. See the article on SVT Nyheter.
No export ban on Russian diesel. Ukraine’s repeated attacks on Russian oil refineries have led to an acute shortage of gasoline and diesel in Russia. On June 23, Reuters reported that Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak was considering a diesel export ban to stabilize the fuel market. However, on Sunday, he told the Russian news agency Interfax that it "won’t be necessary.”
He told the news agency that Russia is instead lowering the mandatory gasoline quota that producers need to sell from 15 to 10 percent – this is to ease price fluctuations. See the article on SVT News.
Russia: Military sites blurred on map services. SVT Verifierar, together with DR, NRK, and Delfi, has mapped out what lies behind 119 blurred areas in Russia. Almost all locations are related to the military or the defense industry.
The downside of the method is that it risks creating a "Streisand effect" – where the censorship attempts actually draw more attention to the locations. "In my opinion, the censorship attempts aren’t worth the effort. Analysts can get around it by turning to other image providers, and opponents can use their own military satellites for surveillance," says American nuclear weapons expert Matt Korda. Watch the segment on SVT Nyheter and the segment on SVT Rapport.