Wed 09 March 2022: US Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Poland on Wednesday to discuss how to provide “military assistance” for Ukraine, White House officials said, hours after Washington rejected Warsaw’s offer of Soviet-era fighter jets. She will also head to Romania on Friday to meet with President Klaus Iohannis. The trip was […]
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Wed 09 March 2022: The daily life of ordinary Russians – not just the country’s political elite or super rich oligarchs – is already being impacted by economic measures imposed by the international community in response to the invasion of Ukraine. As a scholar of Russia’s political economy, I was surprised by the speed and severity of the […]
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Wed 09 March 2022: McDonald’s, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Starbucks stopped sales of their best-known products in Russia on Tuesday, offering a united rebuke of the war on Ukraine by companies that define America for much of the world. Pepsi and McDonald’s were corporate pioneers whose work with the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian state […]
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Chairman Zeljko Komsic ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wed 09 March 2022: Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Chairman Zeljko Komsic has sent an official request to the European Union leaders, asking them to consider granting the country the candidate status. Komsic said in a note he sent to Brussels that this would be “another confirmation of […]
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Wed 09 March 2022: The world is waiting for a high-level tripartite meeting between Turkiye, Russia, and Ukraine, which will take place on Thursday in southern Antalya province as part of Turkiye’s efforts to mediate between the warring countries. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced the meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his […]
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US State Department official Victoria Nuland. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Wed 09 March 2022: The United States said Tuesday it was working with Ukraine to prevent invading Russian forces from seizing biological research material amid concern governments or unscrupulous actors might try to use such items to create bioweapons. “Ukraine has biological research facilities, which in fact we […]
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Tue 08 March 2022: The United States is banning all imports of oil and gas from Russia, US President Joe Biden has announced, in a move that aims to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Speaking at the White House on Tuesday morning, Biden said the move targets “the main artery […]
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Tue 08 March 2022: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he and US officials agreed on a framework for future talks after meeting with a delegation from Washington over the weekend, the first high-level meetings between the two countries in years. “Last Saturday night a delegation from the government of the United States of America arrived […]
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Tue 08 March 2022: Due to Russia’s ongoing assault on its neighbor, FIFA says foreign footballers and coaches working at Russian and Ukrainian clubs would be allowed to temporarily break their contracts and transfer abroad. Football’s world governing body said in a statement on Monday that clubs in other countries will be allowed to sign […]
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Tue 08 March 2022: Russian hackers who are well-known to law enforcement have been conducting phishing operations, espionage, and other assaults against Ukraine and its European allies in recent weeks, according to Alphabet Inc’s Google. FancyBear is one of these hackers. Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which focuses on disrupting computer hackers and notifying people about […]
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