Following the departure of the final two Allegro high-speed trains from St. Petersburg to Helsinki, one of the last remaining passenger rail lines from Russia into the European Union has been halted. On Friday, Finland’s state-owned railway company VR, announced that services between Helsinki and Moscow, Russia’s second-largest city, will be suspended on Sunday, thereby […]
Roskomnadzor, the Russian communications and media regulator, announced on Sunday that it had blocked Bild’s website at the request of prosecutors. After Roskomnadzor claimed that Instagram and Facebook were being used to incite violence against the Russian military, they were blocked in Russia. Foreign media websites like the BBC, Euronews, the US government-funded Voice of
On Sunday, Pope Francis addressed the crowd in St. Peter’s Square, stating that “this horrible and pointless conflict was still going on after more than a month, and that it represents a failure for everybody.” He lamented that parents are burying their children, the powerful decide, and the poor perish. Pope Francis added that war
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Swiss authorities confiscated a beautiful mountain residence allegedly owned by a Russian oligarch, as bankers and politicians laboured around the clock to track down the assets of Russian oligarchs in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine. Petr Aven, a close confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a key stakeholder in the Alfa Group, which
It was reported that Gennady Timchenko, a long-time supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had resigned from the board of directors of gas producer Novatek on Monday. Last month, Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko and other billionaires with ties to President Putin were sanctioned by the European Union and the United Kingdom for Russia’s military operation
David Beckham, a retired soccer player, has handed over his Instagram account with over 70 million followers to a Ukrainian doctor who cares for pregnant women and babies. The doctor, identified as Irina Kondratova, shared that she was the head of Kharkiv’s regional prenatal facility in an effort to raise cash for families and children
The International Court of Justice ordered Russia to halt military operations in Ukraine, issuing a preliminary but likely unenforceable order in Kyiv’s lawsuit alleging that Russia justified its invasion under the false pretext of stopping a purported genocide in Ukraine’s Russian-speaking Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The world court, which is based in the Hague and
The United States House of Representatives voted 424-8 to cease normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, the latest attempt to destroy Russia’s economy. Andy Biggs, Dan Bishop, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Glenn Grothman, Thomas Massie, and Chip Roy were the eight Republicans who voted against the bill. The bill deprives Russia
While the International Court of Justice considers disputes between governments, the International Criminal Court has the power to prosecute people who are found to be the most responsible for atrocities. Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, visited western Ukraine and Poland on Wednesday, holding a virtual discussion with Mr. Zelensky and visiting a refugee shelter. Karim
So many countries in the world have been invaded by advanced countries in the world. Most of these countries are still fighting wars, with no one knowing when they will end. Children, mothers, the elderly, and others are being killed in huge numbers. Now Russia, for whatever reason or agreement they might have had in
