Topline Russian authorities extended the pre-trial detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner for 30 days during a Friday court hearing in Moscow, according to ESPN and the Associated Press, in what’s the...
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Russia Curbs Gas Supplies to Germany in Warning for Europe
(Bloomberg) — Germany said Russia is using energy as a “weapon” after Moscow reduced natural gas supplies in retaliation for Europe’s penalties over the war in Ukraine. Most Read from Bloomberg ...
Europe Cheers As Finnish Leaders Back Joining NATO—As Russia Threatens Retaliation
Topline Finland’s president and prime minister on Thursday announced their support for the country to apply for NATO membership “without delay,” leading to a strong, celebratory show of support from E...
Gasoline, diesel prices rise to another record amid rampant inflation
A gas station is seen as the average price of gasoline reach all-time high at $4.37 per gallon (about 3.8 liters) in Virginia, USA on May 10, 2022. It’s claimed that gasoline prices vary by regi...
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Broken Russia’s Siege Of Kharkiv
Russian infantry mobility vehicles GAZ Tigr destroyed as a result of fight in Kharkiv, located some … [+] 50 km from Ukrainian-Russian border, on February 28, 2022. – (Photo by SERGEY BOBO...
The Russians Lost Nearly An Entire Battalion Trying To Cross A River In Eastern Ukraine
The aftermath of the Russian attempt to cross the Siverskyi Donets River. Ukrainian army capture The better part of a Russian army battalion—50 or so vehicles and up to a thousand troops—in recent day...
US Losing Lead in Web3 Development to Russia and India
The United States is losing overall market share in terms of Web3 developers, according to data from crypto venture capital firm Electric Capital. Since 2017, the absolute number of Web3 developers in...
U.K. Strikes Security Pact With Sweden And Finland
Topline British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday the U.K. reached deals with Sweden and Finland as Sweden and Finland race to find new means of protection following Russia’s invasion of Ukr...
Putin Obliges Election Candidates to Report Crypto Holdings Outside Russia – Regulation Bitcoin News
President Vladimir Putin has approved amendments to his own decree requiring Russian citizens running for office to declare their property abroad. The updated regulation lists cryptocurrencies among t...
Ukrainian Troops Appear To Have Fought All The Way To The Russian Border
Ex-Russian T-80 tanks now belonging to the Ukrainian army’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian forces around Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, appear to have pus...
Russia Claims Ukraine’s Anti-Tank Missiles Are Duds. So Why Are Russian Tanks Burning?
A Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with U.S. Javelin missiles during military exercises in Donetsk … [+] region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. (Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service via...
Defense Committee Calls It Best Option For Security
Topline The Finnish Parliament’s Defense Committee said on Tuesday joining NATO is the best option for the country’s national security, bringing the country’s highly anticipated decision a step closer...
Emirates CEO defends continued Russia flights, says no ban from UAE
Emirates Airline has defended its decision to continue its flights to Russia even as other international carriers have halted service, saying that people and government decisions should not be conflat...
Binance, Huobi And OKX May Face Fresh Sanctions Against Russia
Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange by marketcap, might trigger regulatory officials to issue yet another sanction. Seychelles based exchange OKX, and Singapore based Huobi, might also on a g...
A Journalist Just Spotted Russia’s ‘Admiral Makarov’ Frigate, Intact And At Sea
‘Admiral Makarov’ before the war. Photo via Wikimedia Commons H.I. Sutton, an independent journalist focusing on naval warfare, has spotted more than a dozen of the Russian Black Sea Fleet...
Purged! Nervous Putin Cuts Russian Air Force From 2022 Victory Day Parade
Security surrounds Russian President Vladimir Putin after the 2022 Victory Day Parade AFP via Getty Images In a surprise admission of unreliability, Moscow cut Russia’s Air Force from several 2022 Vic...
China’s Covid Policy Will “Exact A Very High Cost On The Economy”
A health worker in personal protective equipment administers a booster shot to an international … [+] resident at a hospital during a lockdown due to Covid-19 in Shanghai, China on Saturday, May...
Coinbase could block accounts in Russia
The CEO of Coinbase has warned its Russian users in recent days about the possibility of their accounts being blocked. CEO of Coinbase against users in Russia Coinbase’s Russian accounts may be blocke...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Started The War With Eight ‘Raptor’ Patrol Boats. It Might Have Three Left.
A ‘Raptor’ patrol boat. Photo via Wikipedia In 10 weeks of fighting, Ukraine’s TB-2 drones and anti-tank missile teams have wreaked havoc on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s patrol boat floti...
Russia admits it faces economic collapse over Putin’s war
Russia economy war Ukraine sanctions oil energy Kremlin Putin – REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov Russia is facing its deepest economic decline in almost three decades as it grapples with the fallout from...
U.S. Targets Bank Execs And G7 Pledges To Cut Off Russian Oil
Topline Members of the Group of Seven committed Sunday to banning or phasing out Russian oil imports, and the United States will sanction three of Russia’s biggest TV channels and 35 Russian banking e...
Russia’s Oil Revenues Are Soaring
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the situation in the oil and gas sector at the … [+] Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, on April 14, 2022. – Putin called fo...
Contra Simpleton Pundits, ‘the Fed’ Didn’t Cause the Stock-Market Correction
Every stock-market rally is top heavy. In other words, every stock-market rally is led upwards by the very few. The 80/20 Pareto Principle that defines so much of life is 95/5 when it comes to equitie...
Nearly 60 Feared Dead After Russia Bombs School Building Sheltering Civilians, Ukrainian Governor Says
Topline Nearly 60 people are feared dead after a Russian bomb struck a school building in the eastern Ukrainian village of Bilohorivka, the Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region said on Sunday, as ...
Ukraine’s Best Fighter Jets Just Bombed The Hell Out Of The Russian Troops On Snake Island
Su-27s strike Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture The Ukrainian air force’s best fighter jets just staged a daring raid on the Russian force occupying Ukraine’s strategic Snake Island. Th...
Ukraine’s Air Force Is Back! But Who Knows For How Long.
A Ukrainian Su-25 over Donbas on May 7, 2022. TikTok capture Ten weeks into Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, Kyiv’s tiny, aging air force is in much better shape than anyone should have expected prior t...
Russia Can’t Shake Default Risk After Last-Minute Bond Payment
(Bloomberg) — Most Read from Bloomberg Russia narrowly avoided a debt default last week, but markets are still priced like it’s on the brink. Bonds are stuck at distressed levels and five-year c...
Russia Is Likely to Default on Its Debt Soon. What That Means for Markets.
Text size Spires of St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square. Cameron Spencer/Getty Images About the author: David Beers is a senior fellow at the Center for Financial Stability, a NY-b...