In May 2023, GUR director General Kyrylo Budanov famously declared “we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine” (Yahoo!News, May 5, 2023). However, if Ukraine was involved in any way in the cla...
The Guardian recently suggested the government was considering hiking taxes on "higher harm" products such as online casino games. The newspaper claimed the 15% general betting duty, levied on high-street bookmakers' profits, could be doubled, while remote gaming duty could g...
Among those banned are about 20 defense personnel, and 29 journalists and members of media organizations such as BBC, the Guardian and Times newspapers, the report said. “The British journalists included in the list are involved in the deliberate dissemination of false and one-sided information a...
Koch Industries' glass manufacturer Guardian Industries, which has two facilities in Russia, will remain fully active despite the Kremlin's war with Ukraine, Koch Industries President and Chief Operating Officer Dave Robertsonsaid in a statement last week. — Brian Schwartz Tue, Mar 22 20224:31 PM...
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To follow the war, you might go tothe Guardian, which tells me this is Day 596 of Putin’s invasion. Again, it’s implied that what came before Putin’s decision to invade simply doesn’t matter.NATO expansionto Russia’s borders, for example, is dismissed as irrelevant. Russia shouldn...
Is it time for a little energy realism from the Biden people? Here are the remarks from Climate Envoy John Kerry a couple of days ago as Russia’s Ukraine invasion got underway: “But it could have a profound negative impact on the climate obviously. You have a war and obviously you’re...
Natalia Shalashnaya, 52, pours water into the grave of the late Ukrainian serviceman of the Azov battalion killed in action in Bakhmut, 28-year-old orphan Oleksandr Korovniy, of whom she was the legal guardian, at a cemetery in Sloviansk on January 30, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of...
" Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer, told the Guardian. "What's happening in Ukraine is a major violent event. And so we've used that policy to take unprecedented action." YouTube, which reportedly has an estimated 90 million users in Russia, has alsosuspended advertising in ...
Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online. ...