Sun 27 March 2022: With technology and digitalization playing an ever-greater role in the humanities, new frontiers are opening for historians to shine light on the past. This includes Turkiye, where such technology has been instrumental in ongoing digitalization efforts of numerous archives and libraries, giving researchers and students of Ottoman/Turkish studies from all over […]
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Sun 27 March 2022: More than 450 companies have pulled out from Russia since it launched a war on Ukraine, while some have continued business as usual, according to real time report on Saturday. In a list of companies, the Yale School of Management has revealed those withdrawing from Russia. Airbnb, Deloitte, eBay, Netflix, Shell, […]
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Oksana Baulina, Oleksandra Kuvshynova, Pierre Zakrzewski and Yevhenii Sakun. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sun 27 March 2022: Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Iryna Venediktova revealed, on Saturday, that 12 journalists had been killed in the Russian war, and another 10 had been injured. “To reveal the truth about Putin’s aggression to the world is deadly – 12 journalists have already been […]
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Sat 26 March 2022: US President Joe Biden on Saturday portrayed Ukraine’s resistance against Russian forces as part of a “great battle for freedom” and said the world should prepare for a “long fight ahead”. Speaking at Warsaw’s Royal Castle in Warsaw, Biden said Russia “has strangled democracy and sought to do so elsewhere” and […]
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Sat 26 March 2022: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons was “increasingly real”, while welcoming a visit by the United States ambassador to Hiroshima, the first city to suffer a nuclear attack. Japan, the only country attacked by atomic weapons, has regularly spoken out against nuclear armaments. Kishida, […]
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Sat 26 March 2022: A total of 136 children have so far been killed in Russia’s month-long war on Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said Saturday. Nearly 200 children have also been injured in the conflict since it began on Feb. 24, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Telegram. Russian shelling has also damaged 570 educational institutions, […]
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Sat 26 March 2022: Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a “butcher” while meeting Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw. Asked what he thought of Putin after meeting refugees, Biden said: “He’s a butcher.” Biden also said he was not sure that Russia had changed its strategy in its invasion of Ukraine, after Moscow said its […]
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Sat 26 March 2022: Official data shows that 3.5 million people in England were infected with Covid last week, the second highest level ever, and No10’s scientific advisers are now calling for stronger restrictions. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that 3.48 million persons were infected with the virus at any given time in […]
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Sat 26 March 2022: While increasingly isolated, analysts say the Russian leader is unlikely to be removed from power by a mass uprising or coup. Despite ongoing peace talks, an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine appears nowhere in sight. And as Ukrainian cities are being attacked, a quieter pressure is growing in Russia, which is […]
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Sat 26 March 2022: Ukraine’s president made a surprise video appearance at Qatar’s Doha Forum, calling on energy producing countries to increase output so that Russia cannot use its oil and gas wealth to “blackmail” other nations. Volodymyr Zelenskyy compared Russia’s destruction of the port city of Mariupol to the Syrian and Russian destruction wrought […]
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