Hard to Believe: Music giant which worked with Slayer and Björk will keep operating in Russia, and advises artists how to get around ban March 15, 2022 A French music giant has vowed to continue its operations in Russia, and even advised its partners how to work around sanctions. The ‘Believe’ group, which has worked with acts including Björk and Slayer, also has a UK arm, reportedly sent a newsletter last week to its partners in Russia, according to The Guardian, which [...]
‘They are lying to you’: Watch as millions of Russian jaws drop after woman interrupts live news broadcast in Moscow March 15, 2022 There was outrage, confusion and disbelief across Russia last night as a woman interrupted the main news program on state broadcaster Channel One with an anti-war banner. Tens of millions of ordinary Russians who had tuned in for the daily news broadcast saw how a woman appeared on their screens with a sign that said [...]
Israel will not be a ‘route to bypass sanctions imposed on Russia’ March 14, 2022 Israel’s foreign minister has insisted the country will not be a “route to bypass sanctions imposed on Russia”. Centrist politician Yair Lapid made his comments in Bratislava with his Slovakian counterpart, amid growing concerns that some Russian-Jewish oligarchs could use Israel to get around harsh sanctions. This come after the UK, US and European Union [...]
Angry activists storm villa of Putin’s youngest daughter, plant Ukrainian flag and plan to house refugees March 14, 2022 French activists in the city of Biarritz, in the south of the country, have taken over the luxury villa of the daughter of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, Catherine Tikhonova. The mansion, locally known as the Alta Mira villa, was seized by local activists on Sunday evening and will be made available for a number of [...]
Isolated Kremlin in overdrive as Russia pounds Kyiv while Putin arrests own security chiefs and begs China for new weapons March 14, 2022 Russia’s military forces have kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine’s capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv’s suburbs. It comes after an air strike on a military base near the Polish border brought the war close to Nato’s doorstep overnight. It raised the possibility that the alliance could be drawn into the [...]
Russian economy to lose nearly third of its value March 14, 2022 Russia’s economy will be plunged into turmoil this year as a result of the country being frozen out of the global economy in retaliation to Moscow invading Ukraine. The country’s output will tumble around 30 per cent this year, far worse than the amount it lost during the financial crisis, according to forecasts by the [...]
Oligarchs’ London mansions are ‘gold bricks to launder money’ says Sadiq Khan as Mayor labels UK refugee response ’embarrassing’ March 14, 2022 London Mayor Sadiq Khan described properties owned by Russian oligarchs in London as “gold bricks used to launder money”. Repeating his call for some to be used to house refugees from Ukraine, he said it would be a form of “poetic justice”. He told Times Radio: “I, for some time, with others, have been complaining [...]
Chaos at the Kremlin: Isolated Putin detains senior FSB security chiefs while third Russian general is killed in Ukraine March 13, 2022 Two senior officers in the Russian security service, the FSB, have been put under house arrest by President Vladimir Putin, according to a report this weekend. Andrei Soldatov, of the investigative website Agentura, reported that Sergei Beseda, the head of the Fifth Service – the FSB’s foreign intelligence branch – and his deputy have been [...]
Seizing companies’ assets would take Russia back to Bolshevik revolution, Putin ally says March 12, 2022 Russian mining billionaire Vladimir Potanin has warned Putin against seizing control of assets owned by the foreign firms that have exited Russia, after arguing that doing so would drag Russia back to the time of the Bolshevik revolution. Multi-billionaire mining magnate Potanin, who in 2018 appeared on the US Treasury’s list of 210 individuals with [...]
Russia to block Instagram on Monday after branding Meta an ‘extremist organisation’ March 12, 2022 The Kremlin has told Russian Instagram users they have until the end of the weekend to transfer any photos or videos they have saved on the social platform, onto their own computers, after confirming Instagram will be “definitively blocked” from midnight on Monday. The comments come after Russia’s media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said it will be [...]