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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Altai Announces Senior Management Addition
TORONTO, May 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Altai Resources Inc. (TSXV: ATI) ('Altai' or the 'Company') announced today that the Company has added Yana Silina to the senior management team, in the role of Chief Financial Officer (the 'CFO'). Ms. Silina is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 15 years of experience in financial reporting, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance, primarily within the venture capital and resource sectors. Ms. Silina holds a Diploma in Management Studies from Thompson Rivers University and is currently a Senior Accountant at Da Costa Management Corp., where she provides financial consulting and outsourced CFO services to both public and private companies. Ms. Silina also serves as the CFO of StimCell Energetics Inc., Stuhini Exploration Ltd., Tocvan Ventures Corp, and Cascade Copper Corp. In addition, she is a Director of Kesselrun Resources Ltd. ABOUT ALTAIAltai Resources Inc. is a Toronto, Ontario based resource company with a producing oil property in Alberta, an exploration gold property in Quebec, and a Canadian investment portfolio comprised of cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. Additional information about Altai is available on SEDAR+ at and on Altai's website at For further information, please contact:Kursat Kacira, Chairman & CEO/PresidentT: (647) 282-8324, E: kursatkacira@
Euronews
19-03-2025
- Politics
- Euronews
Baltics and Poland announce planned withdrawal from landmine treaty
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland agreed to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, an international treaty banning anti-personnel mines, in response to growing concerns over Russia's growing military threat to its bordering NATO member states. It comes shortly after defence ministers of the Baltic states and Poland unanimously recommended withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention. In a joint statement released on Tuesday, the defence ministers said they "believe that in the current security environment it is paramount to provide our defence forces flexibility and freedom of choice to potentially use new weapons systems and solutions to bolster the defence of the alliance's vulnerable eastern flank." Latvia's Prime Minister Evika Silina said a draft would be submitted to the parliament, who have to make the final decision, by next week. "This decision will give our National Armed Forces additional capabilities, when they can buy and what," Silina said. The Prime Minister added that "Latvia has also considered the possibility that we could produce, as this also correlates with our military industrial strategy adopted today." Latvia's Minister of Defence, Andris Spruds, said the move would be a crucial step towards building the "Baltic defence line together." "We must be given the opportunity to strengthen our security defence capabilities by withdrawing from this Convention," he added. Also Lithaunia emphasised its willingness to step up its production of the explosives. "Talks and discussions have been going on since the very beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine—about having the means, especially for the production of explosives, at home," Chief of Defence Raimundas Vaiksnoras said. Lithuania's defence minister Dovile Sakaliene said the joint decision sent a strong signal to others indicating that the states "are serious about deterrence and border defence." The decision could result in a ripple effect, with more countries following suit. "We will not be the first or the last country to leave the Convention," Latvia's Prime Minister said. Finland could be the next to withdraw from the treaty, having previously said they were also considering leaving the treaty due to Russia's use of anti-personnel mines in Ukraine. More than 160 countries and territories are signatories to the Ottawa Convention, including Ukraine, but excluding Russia and the US. The 1997 treaty prohibits the production, possession, and transfer of anti-personnel mines, which are designed to be hidden under the ground and have killed or maimed thousands of civilians globally, often long after a conflict has come to an end. US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed during their call Tuesday to seek a limited ceasefire against energy and infrastructure targets in Russia's war in Ukraine, according to the White House and the Kremlin. Both sides published written statements shortly after the lengthy phone call, with the White House describing it as the first step in a 'movement to peace' that it hopes will eventually include a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea and a full and lasting end to the fighting. The White House said negotiations would 'begin immediately' on those steps. It was not immediately clear whether Ukraine is on board with the phased ceasefire plan. US Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared the readout in a post on X. Putin also called on Trump to end foreign military and intelligence assistance to Ukraine as the US looks to bring an end to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to the Kremlin. The Kremlin's statement included a long list of conditions and demands from Putin's side, including Moscow's "key condition" to 'completely cease' foreign military aid and intelligence sharing for Ukraine, in a demand it claims is to prevent further escalation of the conflict, which has reached its fourth year. Trump and Putin's phone call lasted more than one hour, with a White House source saying during the conversation that the conversation was "going well." The US president said a day earlier on Monday that "many elements of a final agreement have been agreed to, but much remains" to be agreed upon with Putin during their conversation. Earlier on Monday, the US president said that Washington and Moscow had discussed land, power plants and "dividing up certain assets" between Russia and Ukraine as part of a deal. US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Karoline Leavitt suggested that US and Russian officials have discussed the fate of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which was seized by Russian forces in the early weeks of the war. "There's a power plant that is on the border of Russia and Ukraine that was up for discussion with the Ukrainians and he will address it in his call with Putin tomorrow," Leavitt said on Monday. The power plant has been caught in the centre of the crossfire since Moscow invaded and seized the facility shortly afterwards — sparking alarm from international bodies that fighting around Europe's largest nuclear power plant could lead to a potential nuclear catastrophe. In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Putin of deliberately prolonging the war. "The implementation of this proposal could have begun long ago. Every day in wartime is a matter of human lives," Zelenskyy said. This is a developing story and our journalists are working on further updates.
