Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday apologized to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s claims earlier this week that Nazi leader Adolf H...
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Russian Aggression Highlights Need To Bolster P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Force
Ten weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most of the war coverage remains about what is happening on the ground in the beleaguered country. However, the willingness of Russian leader Vladimir Puti...
Ukraine Targeted And Killed Russian Generals With The Help Of U.S. Intelligence, Report Says
Topline Intelligence shared by the U.S. helped Ukrainian forces target and kill several of the Russian generals who have been killed in action in the ongoing war in Ukraine, the New York Times reporte...
Bankoff Crypto Cards Suspended Amid High Volume of Russian Transactions – Finance Bitcoin News
Bankoff, a platform offering virtual cards that could be topped up with cryptocurrency, has told customers its cards are no longer supported by payment systems Visa and Stripe. They allowed Russians t...
EU Bans Russian Oil — Sort Of — And What That Will Achieve.
Oil storage tanks in Siberia. Getty Images When the Russian army left behind their raping and pillaging communities around Kyiv, but continued the complete demolition of cities like Mariupol, and the ...
Most Russian Troops Have Left Mariupol, U.S. Believes
Topline Most of the Russian force assigned to take over Mariupol has left the Ukrainian port city, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters in a briefing Wednesday, as Russia pushes to seize much...
Russian payment service Qiwi hacked?
The anonymous collective NB65 (Network Battalion 65′) has announced that it has hacked the Russian payment service Qiwi (qiwi.ru). Hi Qiwi (they have a twitter account lol lets see how long it takes)...
How the EU ban on Russian oil could benefit Russia — Quartz
The European Union will halt all imports of crude and refined oil from Russia by the end of 2022, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on May 4. Europe as a whole currently gets one...
Oil jumps 4% amid EU plans to ban Russian oil
Oil prices are up on Wednesday morning as the market reacts to the European Union (EU)’s latest plans on Russian oil. Since the start of the Ukraine-Russia war, one of the main uncertainties (amid tou...
Anonymous Hackers Claim to Have Breached Russian Payment Service Provider Qiwi – Bitcoin News
A hacking group linked to the Anonymous collective has allegedly hit the popular Russian payment processor Qiwi. Network Battalion 65 announced on social media it had managed to gain access to the pla...
Fiji Judge Rules That U.S. Can Seize Superyacht Linked To Russian Oligarch Kerimov, But Not Before Friday
Topline A judge in Fiji provisionally ruled in favor of U.S. officials seeking to seize a superyacht docked in the country that they suspect is owned by sanctioned Russian billionaire and politician S...
Russian Oligarch Oleg Tinkov, Who Lost Billions After Russian Invasion, Calls War On Ukraine ‘Evil’
Topline Oleg Tinkov, the former billionaire who is one of the few prominent Russian business figures to speak out against his country’s war on Ukraine, made his sharpest attack on the Kremlin yet in a...
‘Closing Time’ For Gazprom’s Eurozone Cash Flows
The U.S. national flag and Poland’s national flag fly as liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker Oak … [+] Spirit, operated by Teekay Corp., sits docked with Poland’s first import of U.S....
Pope Seeks Putin Meeting And Compares Russian ‘Brutality’ To Rwandan Genocide
Topline Pope Francis said he’s offered to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in an interview published Tuesday that included his firmest condemnation yet of Putin, comparing the viol...
Can Brazil Help Fill The Supply Gap Left By The U.S. Ban On Russian Oil?
Since President Joe Biden floated the idea of banning oil imports from Russia in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine there has been considerable speculation as to which countrie...
Ukraine’s Drones Are Peeling Back Russian Defenses On Infamous Snake Island
A Ukrainian TB-2 strikes a Russian Strela-10 air-defense system on Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture Ukraine’s Snake Island was one of Russia’s first conquests in the wider war between ...
Crypto Sector Lobbies Against Bills Aiming Russian Oligarchs Averting Sanctions
Cryptocurrency sector is lobbying United States regulators against a couple of bills targeting at preventing Russian oligarchs from utilizing crypto assets. The United States and several other nations...
Russian Foreign Ministry Hits Back At Israel’s Criticism Of Lavrov, Accuses It Of Supporting ‘Neo-Nazis’ In Ukraine
Topline The Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday accused the Israeli government of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine marking a major escalation in a diplomatic row between the two countries after Israel ...
Cryptos Seem To Be Definitely To Be Used To Avoid Russian Punishments As Per ECB Chief
They are undoubtedly being used to try to get around the sanctions imposed on Russia by a number of countries across the world. Obviously, a certain number of players, whether individuals or corporati...
Crypto Industry Lobbies Against Bills Targeting Russian Oligarchs Evading Sanctions Using Cryptocurrency – Regulation Bitcoin News
The crypto industry is lobbying U.S. lawmakers against two bills aimed at preventing Russian oligarchs from using cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions. The U.S. and many other countries placed sanctions ...
Russian Victory Day Parade Cut By 35%, Emphasizing Ukraine’s Battlefield Prowess
TOS-1A Solntsepyok (Blazing Sun) multiple thermobaric rocket launchers are one of the many systems … [+] that won’t be present for Russia’s sadly diminished 2022 Victory Day Parade H...
Ex-NYPD Officer Found Guilty Of Assaulting Cop During Jan. 6 Riot
Topline A retired member of the New York Police Department was convicted Monday of attacking a D.C. police officer with a flagpole during the January 6 riot, closing out the first jury trial for assau...
Mitsui & Co. Profit Hits Record, to Stay Involved in Russian Gas
(Bloomberg) — Japanese trading giant Mitsui & Co. nearly tripled its full-year profit to an all-time high on soaring energy and commodity prices, and said the company will keep its involveme...
Russian Tycoon Tinkov Says He Was Forced To Sell His Stake In Russian Bank After Criticizing Invasion Of Ukraine
Topline Russian tycoon Oleg Tinkov said he was forced by the Kremlin to sell his stake in Russia’s second-largest bank without any opportunity to negotiate, the New York Times reported on Sunday, afte...
Germany Speeds Up Time Frame For Ending Russian Oil Dependence
Topline Germany could end its reliance on Russian oil by the close of summer, the country’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology reportedly announced Sunday, stepping up its previous timeline ...
China Calls Out U.S. Dollar Dominance As It Buys Russian Coal With Yuan
The first shipments of Russian coal and crude oil, paid for in yuan, will arrive in China in April and May, respectively. Chinese state media used the opportunity to denigrate the United States, claim...
Ukraine’s Citizen-Soldiers Are Shooting 60-Year-Old Artillery At Russian Tanks
Ukrainian troops train with an MT-12 in 2019. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Ukraine’s territorial troops are true citizen-soldiers. Volunteers all, they enlist with local brigades and fight in their hom...
Several Women And Children Evacuated From Besieged Mariupol Steel Plant, Ukrainian And Russian Officials Say
Topline Dozens of women and children have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plan in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol—that Russia now claims is under its control—a move that comes amid...
Cryptocurrency group lobbies Congress against bills that target Russian oligarchs
The Blockchain Association has been campaigning against two bills intended to reduce the utilization of cryptographic money as a method for avoiding sanctions Experts opine that digital currencies sho...
Binance closes accounts of individuals with links to Russian government
Binance announced on Thursday that it has closed several accounts associated with relatives of Russian officials since the beginning of the war with Ukraine, following last week’s announcement t...