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Two Estonian firms have been granted the tender to repoint Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) tracked armored vehicles for several different purposes, in the largest defense contract to be awarded to an Estonian firm by the Estonian state itself.
AS Ühenenud Depood and Scania Eesti AS have won the €29.8-million contract, BNS reports, awarded by the Center for Defense Investment (RKK).
Thirty-seven Swedish-made Combat Vehicle 90 (CV90) tracked military vehicles are to be reconfigured to tasks focusing on combat engineer roles, anti-tank roles and several other uses, and will fit out the EDF s 1st Infantry Brigade s Scouts Battalion (Scoutspataljon). The development also brings to a close a process which has gone on for several years, BNS reports.
Ahead of his 13th feature film,
Saint Narcisse, the cult film director speaks with Michael Bullock about the importance of self-love and self-exposure
Michael Bullock Your work often explores queer subcultures and pornography as tools of political dissent. In your films, explicit queer sex is deployed as a means of empowerment and liberation. When did you begin to think about sex and sexuality that way?
Bruce LaBruce In 1985, I started
J.D.s, a queer-punk fanzine, with lesbian artist G.B. Jones. It was the era just after gay liberation, the engine of which was a very aggressive, militant sexuality. In Toronto, the leather bars were always packed, and there would be lines at the saunas even on weekdays. I was partly caught up in all that but also disillusioned with the mainstream gay movement because it was sexist, misogynistic, racist and classist. So I turned to punk. But punk was kind of homophobic and misogynistic as well, so my friends and I made our fanzines and Super-
Finland and Latvia will start manufacturing armored personnel carriers for both countries armed forces this year. Estonia joined the initiative last spring but pulled out in the development phase in October because of mounting costs.
Estonia has been using Finnish Pasi armored vehicles for the past 15 years that will now undergo modernization to remain in service until 2048.
Patria, a joint venture of the Finnish state and the Norwegian Kongsberg Gruppen, is establishing joint ventures with Latvian companies that manufacture sheet metal and service and repair heavy trucks. This cooperation will produce an armored personnel carrier and command and control vehicle for Latvian and Finnish armed forces.
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