Issued on: 31/05/2022 – 00:58 The leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia on Monday scrapped plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia which his predecessor had scheduled for July 17. South Ossetia was at the centre of the Russian-Georgian war in 2008 after which the Kremlin recognised the territory as an independent
LONDON – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reconfigured the global oil market, with African suppliers stepping in to meet European demand and Moscow, stung by Western sanctions, increasingly tapping risky ship-to-ship transfers to get its crude to Asia. The reroutings mark the biggest supply-side shakeup of the global oil trade since the U.S. shale revolution
Issued on: 30/05/2022 – 19:00 A French journalist was killed Monday during a Russian bombardment that struck a vehicle evacuating civilians from eastern Ukraine, French and Ukrainian officials said. “Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was in Ukraine to show the reality of war,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter. He “was in Ukraine to show the reality
The European Union proposed banning seaborne oil from Russia while delaying restrictions on imports from a key pipeline in an effort to satisfy Hungarian objections and clinch an agreement on a stalled sanctions package that would target Moscow for its war in Ukraine. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, sent a revised proposal to
Tra “segnali discordanti” per l’economia “rincari e scarsità colpiscono l’industria, i minori contagi aiutano i servizi. Intanto salgono i tassi”. Con “più occupati”. L’analisi ‘congiuntura flash’ del centro studi di Confindustria evidenzia che “nel secondo trimestre 2022 lo scenario per l’Italia resta complicato (dopo il -0,2% del Pil nel primo) per il proseguire del
ISTANBUL/BRUSSELS – Russian businessman Andrey Melnichenko ceded ownership of two of the world’s largest coal and fertilizers companies to his wife the day before he was sanctioned by the European Union, according to three people familiar with the matter. Melnichenko, who built his fortune in the years following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union,
Apple and Alphabet-owned Google operate the two largest app stores in the world — App Store and Play Store respectively. Responding to Moscow’s actions against Ukraine, these two app stores have limited access for Russian users. In reply, Russian internet group VK has recently launched a homemade app store. VK has launched this domestic app
Russia is advancing a new law that will allow it to take control of local businesses operated by western companies leaving in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, raising the stakes for multinationals trying to exit. The law, which could be in place within weeks, will give Russia sweeping powers to intervene where there
Issued on: 27/05/2022 – 00:40 China and Russia on Thursday vetoed tougher United Nations sanctions against North Korea, rejecting a US effort to punish Pyongyang for testing an intercontinental ballistic missile. The resolution enjoyed the support of the 13 other members of the Security Council, although some US allies quietly wondered why Washington went ahead
Issued on: 27/05/2022 – 00:40 China and Russia on Thursday vetoed tougher United Nations sanctions against North Korea, rejecting a US effort to punish Pyongyang for testing an intercontinental ballistic missile. The resolution enjoyed the support of the 13 other members of the Security Council, although some US allies quietly wondered why Washington went ahead
