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Estonian PPP GoSwift wins global Transport Award for smart border crossing point service; traffic queue management

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Designated waiting areas provide secure parking, as well as restaurants, toilets, showers and free Wi-Fi. The environment has benefitted both locally in terms of less waste, reduced noise and fewer exhaust fumes, as well as globally through less CO 2 emissions from idling vehicles.

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Ukraine Scrubbing Nuclear Agencies of Russian Influence

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Also of short-term concern is that Ukraine still relies heavily on Russian suppliers of nuclear fuel, waste handling, and parts. They could still attack the Rivne nuclear plant, the largest under Ukraine’s control, which is just 60 kilometers from the Belarus border. You can’t build those into the design.

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