"Not just in the armed forces where the generals have been openly criticising Putin and the Kremlin for its support for the war - which is unheard of - but more generally the idea of the trajectory of Russia now: led by a president who's been indicted for war crimes, w...
Geopolitics events have a significant impact on financial markets in the process of global economic integration and financial liberalization. Focusing on the 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict, this paper utilizes the TVP-VAR network connectedness approach to
The necessity of trade has long driven the desire to connect the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. During the Age of Exploration, maritime trade routes were established from Europe to India and Asia that required a long and dangerous journey around the continent of Africa. The need to find...
The war in Ukraine has increased sanctions against paying ransom demands to cybercriminal groups and cryptocurrency intermediaries based in Russia.
The exorbitant cost has impacted negatively on Kenya’s exports to that region, a move that has seen the demand for the commodity wane. The volumes of tea exported to Russia and other neighbouring countries such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan have significantly dwindled. ...
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the analysis of the impact of those events on specific types of households has not. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of COVID, the post-pandemic recovery and the war in Ukraine on energy poverty through an analysis of their effects on different types of households and dwelling...
Roskomnadzor,Russia's federal media agency and regulator, has sent a wave of VPN takedown requests to Google in an apparent effort to wage war against VPN use in the country. VPNs have formally been deemed a "key challenge" to investigative work and law enforcement agencies by the EU's ...
I reached out to the Ministry of Defence (for information regarding the Ukraine-Russia war) and they just didn’t answer at all. … It’s information that will be really strategic, they just don’t want us to write about. The way they do this is just not providing comments. Someti...
Examples include consumer discretionary (clothing, electronics, cars, etc.), financial services, basic materials and real estate, where demand grows as the economy gets stronger. Some sectors are considered defensive, where the company’s business is less impacted by the economic cycle. Examples incl...