Updated on 03/14/2022 07:52 am The fourth round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine began Monday morning via videoconference, said Mykhailo Podoliak, a negotiator and adviser to Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky. “Communication (with Moscow) is still established although it is complicated,” Podoliak wrote on Twitter, stating that “both parties would express their concrete positions”. “The […]
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Searching for and Seizing Virtual Evidence of War Crimes in Ukraine
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has begun collecting incriminating evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine. Virtual detectives join in putting evidence from social networks in a safe place to help guarantee that accountability. as it happens in Syria since 2011, the Rohingya genocide since 2016, or even […]
Intense investor withdrawal hits global debt market
Updated on 03/14/2022 05:38 am Investors are getting out of debt as they try to weather wild market swings triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the prospect of multiple rate hikes. Speculative-grade and investment-grade bond funds have suffered nine consecutive weeks of sizeable capital outflows, totaling $12.8 billion and $2.8 billion, respectively, according […]
Russian television, or the alternative reality of the “special military operation” in Ukraine
Two mainstays of Russia’s independent press in recent years, Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio and Dozhd (Rain) television, have suspended their broadcasts, and access to pro-opposition news sites and major social networks has been blocked. The best-known independent newspaper in Russia, Novaya Gazeta –whose editor-in-chief won last year the Nobel Peace Prize— will delete […]
Living under occupation in Ukraine between Russian propaganda and protests
The cancellation of the payment of the credits and a drop in the rates of public services. These are some of the promises spread by the Russians to the residents of the Ukrainian populations that they manage to control militarily, in which, despite the occupation and propaganda, protests against the invasion continue to take place. […]
Invasion in Ukraine: withdrawal of foreign companies greatly affects Russia
In 1990 McDonald’s opened its first store in Puhkin Square in Moscow; However, after 32 years, the franchise announced this week that it will temporarily close its 847 restaurants in Russia, due to the invasion of Ukraine initiated by Vladimir Putin on February 24. Before this new announcement, McDonald’s joins hundreds of companies that have […]
Ukraine: Russian bombing turns Irpin, on the outskirts of Kiev, into a ghost town
Irpin was a wealthy suburb of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, but most of its inhabitants have fled Russian bombing and it is now a ghost town. The streets are littered with debris from Grad missiles that blew up both high-rise apartment buildings and modest brick and wood bungalows. Sometimes the empty streets are so quiet […]
The war in Ukraine confirms the emancipation of the Gulf countries from the US.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine illustrates the once unthinkable divisions between the United States and its main Gulf allies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), oil giants increasingly independent on the international stage. The two member countries of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)who for decades have been on the side of […]
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is in Ukraine encouraging his troops to fight the Russians
Updated on 03/13/2022 02:12 pm The Chechen leader, the controversial Ramzan Kadirov, is in Ukraine encouraging his men in support of the Russian offensive, according to Russian and Ukrainian sources, and has assured that the Chechen units are “very close” to Kiev. Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel that units of the Chechen forces continue […]
WHO raises attacks on Ukraine’s health network to 30, with 12 dead
Updated on 03/13/2022 10:51 am Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine On February 24 there have been at least 30 attacks on the health network in that country, in which there have been 12 deaths and 34 injuries, the World Health Organization (WHO)which considers these actions a violation of international law. Of these […]