Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA More Russian companies are issuing bonds in the Chinese currency as yuan-denominated trade with China grows in the shadow of Western sanctions imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES The U.S. military industrial complex is set to grant Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky a personal audience as the Keynote Speaker to an upcoming crucial industry conference. The move may set the stage for a forthcoming escalation of a key geopolitical inflection point that has fallen off most people’s radar: the ongoing war […]
Backlink: NIKKEI ASIA Sony Music has withdrawn from all operations in Russia as Western sanctions on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine make it difficult to continue business there. The Sony Group affiliate transferred control of its Russian unit, as well as its entire roster of local musicians, to a separate Russia-based firm. The name of […]
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Backlink: REUTERS Moscow abandoned its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday, in a sudden collapse of one of the war’s principal front lines after Ukrainian forces made a rapid advance. […]
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Backlink: REUTERS A nuclear power plant on the front line of the Ukraine war again lost external power, U.N. inspectors said on Saturday, fuelling fears of disaster while Moscow kept its main gas pipeline to Germany shut to hurt economies of Kyiv’s friends in the West. The Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest, had its last […]
Backlink: NEWS WEEK Russian state-owned firm Gazprom has halted gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to western Europe for three days as Moscow faces accusations that it is weaponizing energy. Russia’s energy giant announced that maintenance work required a halt to natural gas flows to Germany from Wednesday to Saturday. Germany has […]
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Backlink: REUTERS France accused Moscow on Tuesday of using energy supplies as “a weapon of war” after Russia’s Gazprom (GAZP.MM) cut deliveries to a major French customer and said it would shut its main gas pipeline to Germany for three days this week. European governments are trying to coordinate a response to soaring energy costs for […]
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Backlink: NDTV Ukraine’s capital renamed 95 streets on Thursday as part of a drive to purge Russian and Soviet place names, Kyiv’s mayor announced a day after Ukraine marked 31 years of independence. Since Russia invaded in February, Ukraine has accelerated what it calls “derussification”, a campaign to shed the legacy of hundreds of […]
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Link: NEWS WEEK Russia forcibly resettled more than 1,000 Ukrainian children from the occupied Mariupol region to be adopted by Russian families—a move that amounts to genocide, a U.S. think tank said Wednesday. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) cited a now-deleted Russian government post that showed that Russia is bringing Ukrainian […]
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Backlink: VISIONTIMES Following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, nation’s across the globe unleashed a barrage of sanctions aimed at crippling Russia’s invasion effort and economy. The United States has joined its European allies in dramatically escalating financial penalties after initial sanctions did little to deter Putin’s plans for Ukraine. […]
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