Geostat said growth was observed in construction, manufacturing, transportation and storage, financial and insurance activities as well as trade, hotels and restaurants.
A decline was registered in real estate activities, professional, scientific and technical activities, electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply.
Meanwhile, the estimated real GDP growth amounted to 10.1 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year.Source: Geostat
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH AND ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE DID NOT EFFECTIVELY MONITOR AWARDS AND SUBAWARDS, RESULTING IN MISSED OPPORTUNITIES TO OVERSEE RESEARCH AND OTHER DEFICIENCIES.Catchy title, as you would expect from the Inspector General's office. They have a flair for the dramatic.
In a news release, the State Department said sanctions against the Wagner Group will include its key infrastructure and associated front companies, the company's battlefield operations in Ukraine, those producing weapons for Russia and those administering Russia-occupied areas of Ukraine.See also:"This action supports our goal to degrade Moscow's capacity to wage war against Ukraine, to promote accountability for those responsible for Russia's war of aggression and associated abuses, and to place further pressure on Russia's defense sector."The State Department also said that it plans to designate five entities and one individual linked to the Wagner Group and Prigozhin, targeting a range of the company's key infrastructure including an aviation firm used by the company, a Wagner-based propaganda organization, and Wagner front companies.
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated the Wagner Group as a significant transnational criminal organization pursuant to executive order 13581. It cited the group's pattern of serious criminal behavior that includes:"Violent harassment of journalists, aid workers, and members of minority groups and harassment, obstruction, and intimidation of UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR), as well as rape and killings in Mali.The moves come after a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday introduced the Holding Accountable Russian Mercenaries (HARM) Act, a proposed bill that would designate the Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
"These actions also advance President Biden's plan to promote accountability for conflict-related sexual violence, which calls for federal agencies to leverage existing sanctions authorities to pursue its perpetrators."
HARM Act would require the State Department to designate the Wagner Group as an FTO within a 90-day period of becoming law.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) said in a statement:"Where the Wagner Group operates, atrocities follow. The HARM Act will identify Putin's private mercenary group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and let the world know that its activities are both malign and illegal."
Comment: No wonder native Irish have been protesting daily since last November. Migrants/refugees are winning court cases in which they plead their 'right' to be housed. Meanwhile the natives have no such right and the homeless population is increasing.