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Is the armed uprising of the Wagner militia against Russian power on Saturday, June 24 a turning point in the war in Ukraine? For 48 hours, the front lines have made little progress in either direction.

According to Ukrainian soldiers who met on Saturday, June 24, the Wagner-led uprising in Russia may well change the situation. In fact, the Prigoyine militia plays an important role in the Russian offensive in Ukraine. “It will cut the supply chain between Wagner and the Russian army,” explains a Ukrainian soldier. “Only a change of power in Moscow will bring us peace, I hope for the overthrow of Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship,” says another soldier.

A village near Donetsk recaptured from the Russians

At the front, positions have changed little in 48 hours, except for a village near Donetsk (Ukraine) that was captured by the Kiev army. After Wagner’s uprising, Volodymyr Zelenskyi made a direct connection between the crisis in Russia and the war in Ukraine. “The longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and trouble there will be,” the Ukrainian president said.

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Between January and May this year, over 2 million tourists came to Piedmont for 5 million overnight stays. In the last two months alone, between April and May, there were over 1,080,000 arrivals and 2,760,000 overnight stays, a year-on-year increase of 14 and 11 percent, respectively. If only arrivals from abroad are taken into account, the increase is 37 percent.

These are the figures published by the Region of Piedmont and VisitPiemonte for the first five months of 2023.

“These are figures that confirm the excellent growth in tourism performance in Piedmont,” comments Alberto Cirio, President of the Piedmont Region, after growth in 2022, when 5.5 million arrivals and almost 15 million attendances were reached, an increase of 3.3 percent corresponds compared to 2019 and 56 percent compared to 2021. While Italy as a whole achieved results in 2022, with a balance of visitors of -8 percent, still below pre-Covid levels, Piedmont has exceeded these figures and keeps growing.”

The positive results come on the eve of the return of advertising for Piedmont on the Rai, Mediaset and La7 networks.

“Piedmont is once again a protagonist on TV channels this year. In fact, the commercials will be broadcast from Sunday on the Mediaset networks during the weather services, explains the Councilor for Tourism Vittoria Poggio. On Rai, on the other hand, we will be present with various services on Camper and on the Linea Verde Estate. This television program will allow us to attract new visitors or make those who already know discover new corners of our territory thanks to the punctual content of the programs and spread the message widely thanks to the commercials. Last year, as evidenced by the data, we benefited greatly from the number of viewers thanks to television communication, so we are confident that we are on the right track.”

Confirming the spring results, the trends for the next summer months are also positive: for the first weekend in July, for example, on the online platforms (online travel agency, Ota), which offer around 40 percent of the available rooms in Piedmont, only one in four rooms is bookable, while around 40 percent of the rooms that are still bookable are in Turin, where the online offer accounts for 63 percent of the total rooms.

“Following the excellent tourist results of the spring months, we are expecting another season of great satisfaction thanks to the intensive promotional activities abroad at trade fairs, workshops and conferences, as well as the promotional investments planned for the 2023 summer campaign on the key themes of taste.” , Unesco, Art and Culture, Nature – explains Beppe Carlevaris, CEO of VisitPiemonte – commercials and television programs in collaboration with the main Italian channels: “Linea Verde Sentieri” and “Camper” by Rai; weather forecast postcards and branded videos on Mediaset networks; Spot campaigns on La7 and special programs with “L’Italia Che Miace…in viaggio con Raspelli” on Alma TV, Canale Europa, TV Plus, Amazon Fire TV and Roku. Montecarlo, Radio Deejay and Radio Capital. And also publications in La Stampa, Repubblica, Il Friday and D di Repubblica, National Geographic Travel, Il Gusto, Corriere della Sera, Bell’Italia and others. For the international markets we have digital, programmatic and digital campaigns explores social media engagement in DACH (German-speaking), France, UK, Scandinavian countries and Spain, and the creation of ad-hoc content on the touristic specificities of the Piedmont Territories.

Coming back to the spring data and the strong growth in outbound tourism after two years of the pandemic, the figures show that Germany is the top foreign-origin market, followed by Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, all of which saw their arrivals and visitor numbers soar compared to the same period in 2022 by more than 20 percent. The United States of America is in sixth place with an increase of about 50 percent.

Based on the elaboration of the Tourism Observatory of the Piedmont Region, it is highlighted that all tourism products are growing:

• The Lake District recorded a 19 percent increase in arrivals and 28 percent in overnight stays in spring 2023 compared to the same period last year;

• The mountains recorded a positive evolution in arrivals and an increase in overnight stays: +5 percent in arrivals and +8 percent in overnight stays compared to the same period in 2022;

• The performance of the Piedmont hills was also positive, where there was a 9 percent increase in arrivals and an 11 percent increase in overnight stays compared to the same period last year;

• Torino and the First Belt saw a 17 percent increase in arrivals and a slight decrease in overnight stays.

Again based on the data processed by the Observatory of Tourism of the Piedmont Region, it should be noted that the monitoring of online reviews in the period April-May 2023 confirms the increase in the number of visitors to Piedmont: the number of reviews directly related to the arrival of tourists stands, in these two months it has increased by 10 percent compared to the same period of 2022. In particular, those affecting the sea area grew by 6.7 percent, those for the mountains by 8 percent, and those for the mountains by 10.2 percent for the hill area and 11.8 percent for Turin and the first belt. In the vast majority of cases, these are positive reviews. Sentiment for the overall “Piedmont product” – accommodation, food and attractions – scores 87.2 out of 100, higher than Italy (86.7/100). In the accommodation sector, Piedmont scores 85.1 points out of 100 compared to Italy’s 84.5.

The military spokesman added that the aim of the coup had been achieved. In addition, Russian forces destroyed an Assault Shadow cruise missile depot in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region in response to an attack by Ukrainian troops on the bridge over the Chongar Strait.

Konashenkov further reported that Russian units successfully repelled nine attacks by Ukrainian forces on the Donetsk sector of the front in the past 24 hours.

“In the Donetsk region, the Southern Group of Troops successfully repelled nine enemy raids on the Vesioloye, Artiomovsk, Avdeyevka, Pervomaiskoye and Marinka Oblasts of the Donetsk People’s Republic with their active actions over the last day,” he said.

The spokesman said more than 245 Ukrainian soldiers, an infantry fighting vehicle, seven vans and D-20 and D-30 howitzers were killed in the fighting.

In the Artiomovsk tactical zone, air and artillery strikes hit groups of personnel and military equipment of the 35th and 36th Naval Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Two ammunition depots of the 45th Artillery Brigade and the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed near the settlements of Seversk and Sukhaya Balka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Konashenkov added.

In the area south of Donetsk and in the Zaporozhye region, the Ukrainian army lost more than 170 soldiers, three tanks, three infantry vehicles, twelve armored fighting vehicles and three vehicles, the representative of the military unit said.

A Grad multiple rocket launcher, a French-made Caesar artillery unit, a US-made M777 artillery system, two Msta-B howitzers and a D-20 were also destroyed, sources said.

While in the Krasny Liman region, Russian troops repelled four attacks by Ukrainian forces, killing more than 100 soldiers and destroying an infantry fighting vehicle, two armored vehicles, three pickup trucks, an “Akatsiya” self-propelled artillery unit and a D- Howitzer. 30, he specified.

He added that Russian forces suppressed the activities of three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in Yampolovka and Tórskoye oblasts in Donetsk and Chervonaya Dibrova in Lugansk.

In the Kherson region “during the day up to 45 Ukrainian soldiers, two vehicles, one Grad multiple rocket launcher, two self-propelled artillery units of the Akatsiya type and two self-propelled howitzers of the Gvozdika type were eliminated,” said the representative of the military unit.

Since February 24, 2022, Russia has been conducting a special military operation in eastern Ukraine which, according to President Vladimir Putin, aims to demilitarize and denazify the neighboring country and prevent attacks by the Kiev government on the republics’ civilian populations. People of Lugansk and Donetsk.

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The care package aims to make the care profession more attractive. This also applies to the status of physicians on the panel. Health and Social Affairs Minister Johannes Rauch explains how this should be done and what other plans he has for improving the health and care system.

AUSTRIA. 76,000 nurses missing by 2030, fewer panel doctors: the health system is faltering. Social Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) explains in an interview with Meinbezirk.at what reforms he is planning in Austria.

RegionalMedien Austria: The amendment to the Health and Nursing Act was recently introduced in an initiative motion in the plenary session of the National Council. This measure of the second part of the care reform includes, among other things, that qualified nursing staff who are employed can, in the future, independently prescribe medical devices. Why shouldn’t this also apply to self-employed caregivers?
Johannes Rauch: Of course, the new regulation also applies to all qualified nursing staff, including the self-employed. Our goal is to give well-trained people more nursing skills. This also affects, for example, the ranking on the Care Grant application or activities for which there were initial reservations. We’re not done yet. There will also be a next step in the Health and Nursing Act. We want to have more faith in people who have a good education. This applies to all areas. When it comes to care, the following applies more than anywhere else: the more outpatient, the better. After all, people want to be taken care of at home as long as possible!

Does this mean there will also be these improvements for self-employed caregivers?
Yes of course. The bill makes no distinction whether qualified nursing staff are self-employed or employed. We invested a billion euros with Care Package One and have already contributed to better working conditions. We also invest a lot in training. It’s working. The demand for these internships is increasing. In the second package, powers were extended, and in the next five years it is also a question of safeguarding the measures that have been decided upon. We will need an additional 76,000 nurses by 2030, which poses major challenges for us.

So we come to the next point. The relief organization demands that skilled workers be brought in from abroad as soon as possible. Austria has brought only 130 skilled workers from third countries since 2017, while Germany has around 20,000. What are other countries doing better? What stumbling blocks are still in the way? What is the role of the Red-White-Red Card in this context?
For too long in Austria we have maintained a policy of defense against everything that comes from outside. They didn’t want anyone in the country. It was said that foreigners were dangerous. There, everything was mixed up: asylum policy, foreign policy, immigration. We now feel a competitive disadvantage compared to Germany and many other European member states. In plain language: Anyone who says we don’t need skilled recruitment from abroad is lying to the people and is responsible for the fact that we have a nursing shortage. We need foreign nurses, we have to actively recruit them.

And how is that supposed to work now? What are the concrete plans. or stumbling blocks?
We will facilitate the recognition of professional training abroad. Currently, this is bureaucratic and very difficult. We want to look at how we can better manage the active recruitment of personnel from abroad through a federal institution, as is the case in Germany. Because, in my opinion, it doesn’t make sense if each nursing home or each federal state does its own search. In other words, we want to offer active nursing staff recruitment, training and language acquisition abroad, and let people know that they can also get further training in Austria and will find good working conditions here. We have to make ourselves more attractive, otherwise we won’t get the skilled workers.

Assistance for the Disabled: Last year, you announced that, based on needs assessments in the federal states, your ministry would work on the keys to a one-stop shop for personal assistance by 2023 at the latest. Has the pilot project started yet? Is there a single point of contact for support offers?
Personal assistance is now being normalized in work and leisure, namely in salaried work and not in precarious work, ie part-time work or marginal work. That’s a milestone. We are starting in the three federal states of Tyrol, Salzburg and Vorarlberg and this will be rolled out across Austria. In addition – and this is also part of the financial equalization negotiations – we are considering how we can improve conditions for people with disabilities in general. For example, it is wages rather than allowances for people with disabilities who work in institutions, so that they are not tricked out of a few euros, but protected in terms of social security and pension rights.

In order to improve medical care across Austria, the expansion of primary care facilities (PVE) must be accelerated. That means: tripling to 127 centers by 2025. And as part of the health system reform, an additional 100 places are planned for panel physicians. The president of the Medical Association of Upper Austria, Peter Niedermoser, views this critically because it is not the centers that are lacking, but the doctors.
Even the representatives of medical associations already consider the PVE a model for the future, also due to the extended opening hours, because they can be reached quickly by everyone and the range of services for patients is very wide. We already have 40 PVEs, 33 more are currently planned, five of them for children. This simply means better service to the population, even in rural areas. And that’s what it’s about. It is no longer so easy to find a country doctor who will take care of everything himself. In the future, different professional groups will exchange ideas and offer the best possible service in the shortest possible time. That’s why we invest a lot of energy and money here.

But where are we to get the doctors from? We don’t want to create any “ghost centers”.
The fact that we have few doctors in Austria is misinformation. We are really among the best in the EU. We have always trained the same number of doctors in Austria over the last 15 years. However, there is a trend to no longer go to the health plan’s office, but to the alternative doctor’s office, because there are better opportunities to earn money because you can set your own office hours there. That’s why we now want to improve working conditions for resident physicians. We want to invest more money in this area. In return, the supply will increase.

Can you imagine general practitioners also being recognized as specialists?
That’s exactly what we’re working on right now. The specialization for general practitioners is an essential step that is in its final phase. That will come too. This is an old wish of doctors and the medical association.

ÖGK President Andreas Huss is considering abolishing the elective medical system because “this non-transparent mixing of the two systems – public and private health” does not exist across Europe, as he said at the RegionalMedien discussion round on care. Will the ban on sideline cash register jobs be lifted?
Part-time work is particularly a problem when doctors work in state hospitals and run a private practice at the same time. Regulation is the responsibility of the federal states. I don’t believe in prohibition, I believe in improving working conditions. Therefore, it should become more attractive to obtain health insurance contracts. On the other hand, opening a private practice should become less attractive. The chosen physicians will also be connected to ELGA in the future.

Few Austrians pass the medical entrance exams, mainly because German colleagues enroll here. At the same time, they return to their homeland and leave a hole. Specifically: 35 percent of the approximately 15,380 medical students in Austria are foreigners. More than three-quarters of German medical students leave Austria after completing their studies, as shown by a new study commissioned by the state government of Lower Austria. Are you in favor of restricting access to study for German students, as is currently required in Lower Austria?
We have to move forward on the basis of European legislation. There is a freedom to study or settle down. Therefore, the ban on coming to Austria and studying here is problematic. We are struggling with the problem of foreign students leaving because working conditions in Switzerland, England and Germany are better. Our job is to make working conditions so attractive that people stay in Austria. A second point concerns admission regulations for medical studies. These should be more practical. In addition to memorizing, soft skills should play a more important role here. This is a matter for the Ministry of Education now. The most important point is that we must be able to ensure that people who complete a medical course also enter the private sector, that is, accept health insurance contracts, and not all go into private practice.

According to the ÖGK, 97% of the more than 8,000 checkout counters in Austria are already occupied. So we’re actually talking about just three percent, which is lacking here, particularly in rural areas. How can such a small number of vacancies lead to a shortage of statutory health doctors with – in some disciplines – months of waiting for appointments and the number of elective doctors (currently 11,000) has been steadily increasing for years because there is obviously a market for them ?
Firstly, there are regional differences, also at the subject level. We have a huge shortage of pediatricians. In the future, two pediatricians could join forces with a representative of another health profession and form a basic child health unit. In principle, we have to establish a new logic for patients: the first point of contact must be digital, then outpatient, then inpatient. This means that digital and outpatient services are to be expanded, for example, so that you can get in-depth help via digital services or telephone (1450) and the path through the Austrian healthcare system is shown. So that, if you have certain symptoms to report, you can make an appointment with a doctor residing within a radius of 20 kilometers to clarify the cause there. In other countries, like Finland and Israel, this works fine. You don’t need to go to the hospital right away if you have symptoms.

Is it an option that physicians can only practice privately if they are employed full time?
Yes, it would be an option. But the employers in state hospitals are the federal states. I think it takes a little courage to do that. It is also a matter of working conditions and pay. Nursing staff and the medical profession are often heavily overloaded and also covered by bureaucratic obligations. A lot needs to be digitized so that these professional groups can be there for what they should be, namely working directly with patients and not on the computer or on paper.

Is this also another step in the direction of telemedicine? Because in Austria we are still relatively far away.
There is huge potential there. And there is a lot of rapid development all over the world. We discussed this at the WHO conference in Geneva with European health ministers. This has the potential for patients to obtain accurate clarification much more quickly, including the possibility to compare findings in Austria with international databases. For example, dubious cancer findings can be analyzed with artificial intelligence with an accuracy of over 90%, rather than just over 80%, as is currently the case. And I think it also has the potential to get help quickly, easily and easily rather than having to go to the hospital.

Are there concrete plans for Austria?
On the issue of digitalization, there is a plan in conjunction with Secretary of State Tursky to make the ELGA system suitable for this. Because with ELGA we have a system that works very well and therefore an advantage. It doesn’t matter if it’s an X-ray, medicine or findings: these things must be collected for patients throughout their lives in a place where they can always be accessed in a secure system, available at all times. That is the goal.

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This is nothing new since the beginning war in Ukraine, In February last year, the world’s attention turned to the region Russia. The world’s major countries are closely following the movements of both sides of the conflict which has become a topic of discussion at meetings of heads of state and government.

And the Wagner Group uprising against the Russian government was no different. When mercenary troops advanced towards the Russian capital Moscow, Western authorities protested.

US President Joe Biden held an extraordinary meeting with allied European leaders over the phone, according to a White House statement. French President Emmanuel Macron took part in the conversation; Chancellor Olaf Scholz; and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

In a note, Biden and European authorities reiterated their “unwavering support” for Ukraine.

European Union countries bordering Russian territories have issued notices banning the entry of Russian citizens.

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On the other end, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, a Russia ally, spoke to Vladimir Putin and urged the Russian to act with “common sense.”

president @RTErdogan spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone.

The call dealt with the latest developments in Russia.

President Erdoğan stressed the importance of acting with common sense.

During the call, it was emphasized that no one should get involved …

— Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye (@trpresidency) June 24, 2023

Belarus, in turn, brokered an agreement between Russia and the Wagner Group to temporarily suspend the conflict.

‼️ Tonight at 9 p.m. the Presidents 🇧🇾🇷🇺 spoke again by phone.

The President of #Belarus #Lukashenko informed the President about it #Russia about the results of negotiations with the head of the Wagner group.

The 🇷🇺 President #Putin thanked his 🇧🇾 counterpart for the work done pic.twitter.com/2Uz92jYcBm

— Belarus MFA 🇧🇾 (@BelarusMFA) June 24, 2023

See more statements on the conflict between Putin and the Wagner group:

Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated his support for the Ukrainian people, saying he was “monitoring the situation closely”:

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I was informed about the events in Russia. The Incident Response Group will meet today to review the latest developments. We are in contact with our allies and will continue to monitor the situation closely.

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) June 24, 2023

Latvia

Latvia, a country bordering Russia, has stopped movements at the borders between the territories. President Edgard Rinkevics said that “security has been strengthened” and that “information sharing with allies” will continue.

Latvia is closely following the development of the situation in Russia and exchanges information with allies

Border security has been strengthened, visas or border entry for Russians leaving Russia due to the current events are not taken into account

There is currently no direct threat to Latvia

— Edgars Rinkēvičs (@edgarsrinkevics) June 24, 2023

What about Brazil?

Brazil has taken a neutral position in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. President Lula avoided commenting on the Wagner Group uprising against the Russian government at a press conference in Paris on Saturday (24).

“I don’t know the extent of the rebellion. I’m just asking you this: who knows when I’ll be back in Brazil, the next day I’ll already have all sorts of information because I’ll be talking to a lot of people about ‘this socalled rebellion,'” the Brazilian president said.

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In a statement through official channels, the Brazilian embassy in Moscow recommended that Brazilians living in the region of conflict between Wagner and the Russian government avoid “gathering and unnecessary resettlement.”

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Ukraine is also manifesting itself

As the internal conflict between Russian paramilitary group Wagner and Vladimir Putin escalated, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared that “Russia’s weakness is evident”.

“They in the Kremlin are capable of any terror and any stupidity, but they cannot guarantee even one percent of the necessary control,” Zelenskyy said in a video published on social media. Cash:

We all remember how the Russian leader threatened the world in 2021. He had some ultimatums, he was trying to show some kind of strength…

The year 2022 showed that he was confused confused by his illusions and the lies that fed him power. You in the Kremlin are able to… pic.twitter.com/rwOhLvQJAF

— Volodimir Zelensky (@ZelenskyyUa) June 24, 2023

Finally, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry declared on social media that “Russian soldiers should leave Ukraine and save their homes from the war that the Kremlin has unleashed in Russia”:

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Russian soldiers must leave Ukraine and save their homes from the war unleashed in Russia by the Kremlin. The enemies of the Russian soldiers and the Russian people are not in Ukraine. You are in Moscow. pic.twitter.com/bJ1Nm6tCfh

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) June 24, 2023

*With information from Portal, CNN, NBC News, G1 and Estadão