Law enforcement and judicial authorities from Russia and Turkey are joining forces in the fight against cybercrime, including the use of cryptocurrencies for illegal purposes. The collaboration has be...
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Another Nail In The Coffin Of The Russian Economy
Hammer Hitting A Nail On The Head getty The U.S. Department of Commerce decided today that Russia should be reclassified as a “nonmarket economy.” This is yet another nail in the coffin for the Russia...
As Bombs Rained Down, Ukrainian Troops Set A Trap For Russia’s Pilots
Russian air force Sukhoi Su-25s. Via Flickr The air war over Ukraine could have gone either way in the first few weeks of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of the country starting in late February. The Rus...
Climate Booster And Foreign Policy Tool
EVERETT, MA – October 31: Everett LNG Marine Terminal on October 31, 2022 in Everett, … [+] Massachusetts. (Photo by Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images) MediaNews Gr...
Biden Says The U.S. Should Review Elon Musk’s Relationships With Foreign Governments
President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on Wednesday, November 9. The White House via YouTube U.S. President Joe Biden suggested that his administration may look into Elon Musk’s business and technica...
Biggest Defeat For Russia In A Generation As Starving Troops Flee Across A Key Ukrainian River
Ukrainian forces in Kherson Oblast. Czech T.V. capture The Kremlin has ordered its forces to withdraw from the city of Kherson on the Black Sea coast in southern Ukraine. The order comes eight months ...
Bumble, Rivian, Dutch Bros, FICO and more
The display outside the Nasdaq MarketSite is pictured as the dating app operator Bumble Inc. (BMBL) made its debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange during the company’s IPO in New York City, New Yor...
Brittney Griner Moves To Russian Penal Colony As Her Lawyers Warn They Don’t Know Her Precise Location
Topline WNBA star Brittney Griner is being transferred to a Russian penal colony after being convicted in August of possessing and smuggling drugs, her legal team said on Wednesday, bleak news for the...
Bank of Russia Suggests Tax Cuts for Long-Term Digital Asset Holders – Taxes Bitcoin News
The Central Bank of Russia is proposing to introduce tax incentives for long-term holders of digital financial assets. The idea has been circulated with a consultation paper published for public discu...
Russia’s MiG-31 Crews Are Shooting At Ukrainian Pilots From A Hundred Miles Away—And The Ukrainians Can’t Shoot Back
A MiG-31 pilot. Russian state media It’s no secret the Russian air force has failed to achieve air superiority in the sky over Ukraine. Hamstrung by inflexible procedures, desperately short of precisi...
Bank of Russia Suggests NFT, Smart Contract Regulation
The bank of Russia also suggested including digital assets trading into the traditional stock market infrastructure. Rules of access to the digital assets market should be harmonized with the ones for...
Sanctions on Russia Opened Domestic Markets for Foreign Crypto Issuers: Report
Cryptocurrencies remained among the burning topics during the Russia–Ukraine war. It had played a role from both the sides where war affected Ukraine received funds and aid from all over the world in ...
The Russians Have Lost Nearly 300 Aircraft Over Ukraine—Mostly Drones
A Russian fighter burns after being shot down over Ukraine in March 2022. Via social media Ukrainian troops have brought down 278 Russian aircraft in the eight months since Russia widened its war on U...
South Korea Has Quietly Become One Of The World’s Biggest Weapons Suppliers
A South Korean K-2 battle tank, developed by Hyundai Rotem Co., during a live-fire exercise at the Defense Expo Korea 2022 at a military base in Pocheon, South Korea, on Sept. 20. © 2022 Bloomberg Fin...
Russia’s Central Bank promotes crypto as means of internationalizing embattled economy
The Central Bank of Russia is working on integrating crypto assets into the local financial system. The CBR released a report on digital assets, focusing on integrating them into financial systems. Ma...
Russian Marines Are Getting Killed And Wounded By The Hundreds In Ukraine
The 40th Naval Infantry Brigade in happier times. Russian defense ministry photo. In April 2021 the Russian navy’s 40th Naval Infantry Brigade, based on the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia,...
The Russian Marine Corps’ Dire Choice As Its Troops Die In Record Numbers
155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade troopers in 2021. Russian defense ministry photo A Russian marine brigade reportedly lost 63 troops in a doomed, two-day assault on Ukrainian positions in eastern U...
Two Easy Wins, Three Challenges And A US$65 Trillion Bill
Prakash Sharma, Vice President, Multi-Commodity Research at Wood Mackenzie This year’s climate event comes at a time of uncertainty like no other. The pillars of the energy trilemma – affordability, s...
Republican Wave Promises Shift In America’s Energy Policy
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell R-KY speaks to the media after a Republican policy luncheon … [+] at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/A...
Three Countries Team Up To Send A Whole Brigade Of T-72s To Ukraine
T-72s. Czech defense ministry photo The United States, The Netherlands and the Czech Republic are teaming up to deliver to Ukraine 90 upgraded T-72B tanks. It’s a complex arrangement involving America...
The Russian Army Appears To Be Pulling Out Of Kherson
Ukrainian troops with M-113 personnel carriers. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A city bus, rolling unimpeded past a military checkpoint in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson on or before Thursday,...
Elon Musk’s New Tool To Shape Public Opinion
Like media moguls before him, the world’s wealthiest person now owns a personal mouthpiece with Twitter. It may prove more potent at influencing public opinion than traditional news outlets. As long a...
Crypto Exchanges Must Comply With Russia Sanctions, Singapore Central Bank Says – Exchanges Bitcoin News
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has reiterated that cryptocurrency exchanges need to conform to restrictions on Russian users imposed over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The reminder comes af...
Four Days After A Ukrainian Drone Assault, Russia’s Black Sea Flagship Is Still Afloat
‘Admiral Makarov’ in 2018. Russian defense ministry photo The Ukrainian drone assault on Sevastopol, the home port of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, may have damaged one of the fleet’s two best...
Russia Plans to Allow Mining of Any Cryptocurrency, Lawmaker Unveils – Mining Bitcoin News
Newly proposed legislation aims to permit the minting of any cryptocurrency in Russia, a prominent lawmaker has revealed. While the draft law states that the circulation of the minted coins should tak...
Iran Upping Ante By Prepping More Middle East Attacks And Unprecedented Missile Shipment To Russia
Concurrent reports that Iran will launch new attacks against Saudi Arabia and Iraqi Kurdistan while simultaneously preparing missile shipments to Russia for use against Ukraine demonstrate Tehran̵...
Can Russia Circumvent EU Sanctions Through Cryptocurrency?
Russia has seemingly turned to cryptocurrency since the West decided to ‘punish’ the nation for its invasion of Ukraine. A list of sanctions had been imposed upon the country by the United States and ...
Ukraine Is Restoring More Old Su-24s Than Russia Can Shoot Down
A Ukrainian air force Su-24. Wikimedia Commons For supporters of Ukraine’s war-weary air force, it was a beautiful sight: four of the air force’s swing-wing Su-24 bombers flying in formation over Ukra...
Ukraine First Lady Olena Zelenska Asks Tech Community For Help In Surprise Web Summit Appearance
Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska speaking at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. Sportsfile In a surprise appearance at Web Summit, a major tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Ukraine’s first lady Ole...
The Most Promising Weapons Are All Non-Kinetic.
The current pattern of conflict in Ukraine suggests that the age of drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. Army, which leads joint efforts to counter the threat posed by unmanned air systems, anticipated...