A Russian court fined Facebook and Instagram parent firm Meta on Tuesday for refusing to remove LBGT material. According to news agency Interfax, a Moscow district court ordered the US tech firm to pay four million rubles (about $53,000/50,000 euros) for failing to erase content with LGBT “propaganda.” Russia often punishes Meta and other digital … Read more
LONDON: Britain claimed it had reduced duties on all Ukrainian goods while prohibiting specific technology shipments to Moscow in order to assist Kyiv in its battle against the Russian invasion. Responding directly to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request, the UK’s foreign trade department said Monday that it has dropped “all taxes on commodities imported from … Read more
Following strong Western sanctions over Moscow’s military action in Ukraine, Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot recorded a 20% drop in passenger traffic in March compared to the same month last year. Passenger traffic on international and domestic flights fell to 2.2 million in March, the first full month after the conflict began, from 2.77 million last … Read more
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens India’s nearby protection, the European Union chief said Monday at some point of a ride to New Delhi aimed at fostering deeper strategic ties. Ursula von der Leyen is the state-of-the-art touring Western diplomat to press India, which receives most of its palms from Russia, over its impartial stance at the war. … Read more
Moscow announced on Monday that it was expelling 40 German diplomats in reaction for Berlin’s “unfriendly decision” to expel Russian diplomats over the Ukraine conflict. Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement it summoned Germany’s ambassador in Moscow and handed him a note “declaring persona non grata forty employees of German diplomatic institutions in Russia”.
Greenpeace activists in Norway blocked a Russian oil tanker from unloading its cargo near Oslo Monday, pronouncing the shipment changed into helping to finance Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “warfare”. The Hong Kong-registered Ust Luga, leased via Russian oil company Novatek, is carrying 95,000 tonnes of fuel bound for Esso’s terminal in southeast Norway, Greenpeace stated in an … Read more
Moscow said Monday it had arrested members of a “neo-Nazi terrorist” institution in Russia who allegedly planned to assassinate pro Kremlin TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov on orders from Ukraine. “The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation detained a collection of participants of the neo-Nazi terrorist agency National Socialism/White Power, that’s banned in Russia,” Russia’s FSB … Read more
Moscow: A regional governor reported that the Russian military shot down two Ukrainian drones near the border overnight. According to Kursk area governor Roman Starovoyt on Telegram, “Today at 4:15 am, Russian air defence crews shot down two Ukrainian drones” in the Rylsky district on the Ukrainian border. “There are no casualties, injuries or damage. … Read more
A large fuel depot in a Russian town near the Ukrainian border caught fire Monday, according to Russian news agencies. “A fire has been reported at the Transneft Bryansk-Druzhba fuel depot in Bryansk,” the ministry said, citing media reports. “According to preliminary information, there are no injuries,” the ministry added. The fire’s origin is unknown. … Read more
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday will visit Turkey, a vital mediator looking for a quit to Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, earlier than heading to Moscow and Kyiv, the UN stated in an assertion. “The Secretary-General will visit Ankara, Turkey, where, on 25 April, he will be received by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,” the UN … Read more
“Close the window, smoke is getting in,” a policeman yells. Vyacheslav Pavlov and his aged mother stay on the 9th floor in Ukraine’s 2d town Kharkiv and the next-door flat is ablaze after a Russian rocket assault. The city has not come underneath huge bombardment however is the target of random strikes at any hour, … Read more
Ukraine announced on Saturday that there were humanitarian evacuation corridors opened in Mariupol. It warned about Moscow trying to run parallel routes headed for Russia. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereschuk warned on Facebook, “Just received information that the occupiers may try to organize their corridor in parallel with us for evacuation to Russia.” Adding that … Read more
The Russian offensive in Ukraine is just the start, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday, calling on nations to unite against the Kremlin’s expansionist ambitions. As the war enters its second month, Moscow has revealed that it wants to capture not only the east but also the south. With no sign of a truce, … Read more
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. On Thursday, two days after visiting Moscow, Guterres will meet with Zelensky and Ukraine’s foreign minister. The Kremlin confirmed Putin’s Tuesday meeting with Guterres. This week, Guterres requested these in-person meetings … Read more
Russian authorities on Friday declared opposition baby-kisser Vladimir Kara-Murza a “foreign agent” and ordered his pre-trial detention for allegedly spreading false facts about the Russian army. Moscow’s Basmanny district courtroom ordered that the forty-year-antique Kremlin opponent be held in jail till June 12, his legal professional Vadim Prokhorov stated on Facebook. Prokhorov said in advance … Read more
Tokyo: For the first time in nearly two decades, Japan said Russia had “illegally occupied” four disputed islands on Friday as relations soured over the Ukraine conflict. The two nations have long sought a post-war settlement, but the issue of the islands held by Moscow and claimed by Tokyo remains. The term was last used … Read more
According to a top official, no civilians would be evacuated from war-torn Ukraine on Friday due to hazardous road conditions. “Because of the insecurity along the routes, there will be no humanitarian corridors today, April 22,” Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister, posted on the Telegram messaging app. “To all those who are waiting for an … Read more
Russian-aligned security services Kyrgyzstan advised citizens on Thursday that wearing the “Z” symbol, which denotes support for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, might result in prosecution. Kyrgyzstan’s national security committee told organisations renting out parade uniforms ahead of a holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II not to include the “Z” symbol, … Read more
The International Energy Agency and the European Commission said Thursday that adjusting the temperature and working more from home are only two of the “small actions” that might help Europe lessen its reliance on Russia. The European Union is scrambling to find alternatives to Russian energy after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine since Russia currently supplies … Read more
A Russian court on Thursday slapped a sequence of small fines on Google for failing to take down contentious YouTube movies approximately the Kremlin’s army operation in Ukraine. The Moscow court ordered the USA tech behemoth to pay a complete of eleven million rubles ($135,000) for ignoring the country media regulator’s orders to cast off … Read more
On Wednesday, the family of a British soldier abducted in Ukraine accused Russia of violating the Geneva Convention by broadcasting a “distressing” footage of him. On Monday, Russian state television broadcast a video showing Aiden Aslin and another detained British fighter identified as Shaun Pinner pleading for their release in exchange for Viktor Medvedchuk, a … Read more
Netflix stocks plunged extra than 35 percent early Wednesday following disappointing consequences, while the Dow drove higher in a mixed open for US shares. The streaming massive stuck Wall Street off guard for the second sector in a row, reporting a drop in subscribers for the first time in a decade. The company blamed the … Read more
Following a two-month siege, Mariupol could fall into Russian hands in “hours,” according to a Ukrainian official, as the adversaries agreed on a humanitarian passage for civilians to evacuate the destroyed port city. As fighting raged in the country’s east and south, the president of the European Council Charles Michel arrived in Kyiv, in the … Read more
Since Russia launched its disastrous invasion at the end of February, over a million Ukrainians have returned home, according to a spokesman for Kyiv’s border force. “From that period of time, 1.1 million of our citizens entered Ukraine,” border official Andriy Demchenko said at a press conference. He added that “almost five million people” crossed … Read more
Georgia’s jailed former president Mikheil Saakashvili has been subjected to “torture” via being denied good enough medical remedy after staging an extended hunger strike, his attorneys informed a court on Wednesday. The seasoned-Western opposition chief, who headed the small Caucasus country from 2004 to 2013, become jailed in October, days after secretly getting back from … Read more
Russia’s defense minister on Tuesday said Moscow become seeking to “unencumber” east Ukraine, but accused the West of dragging out the navy operation with the aid of offering Kyiv fingers. “We are steadily enforcing our plan to disencumber the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics,” Sergei Shoigu stated in reference to Japanese Ukraine’s rebel regions, which … Read more
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday denounced Russia’s clean offensive in eastern Ukraine and referred to it as a four-day truce to mark Orthodox Holy Week. Russia released dozens of airstrikes throughout eastern Ukraine overnight, as a new phase of the bloody battle opened with preventing raging inside the Donbas area. “Instead of a party … Read more
A lengthy-awaited courtroom installation to prosecute suspected battle criminals inside the Central African Republic postponed the start of its first trial on Tuesday as defense lawyers failed to reveal up, an AFP reporter saw. The Special Criminal Court, a hybrid frame of the neighborhood and foreign magistrates installation in 2015 with UN backing, has been … Read more
