Russian banks are switching to the Chinese card system UnionPay after Visa and Mastercard announce their exit from the Russian market.
โSeveral major Russian banks said on Sunday they would soon start issuing cards using the Chinese UnionPay card operator's system coupled with Russia's own Mir network.โ (Reuters)
UnionPay is the second-largest and fastest-growing global credit card network that is widely accepted in most parts of the world.
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โSeveral major Russian banks said on Sunday they would soon start issuing cards using the Chinese UnionPay card operator's system coupled with Russia's own Mir network.โ (Reuters)
UnionPay is the second-largest and fastest-growing global credit card network that is widely accepted in most parts of the world.
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โ๏ธIn his conversations with Macron and Erdogan on Sunday, Putin once again reiterated that Kiev must fulfill all Russian demands in order for lasting peace and meaningful dialogue to be possible. (Kremlin readouts)
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โ๏ธBlinken says NATO countries have "green light" to send fighter jets to Ukraine. (CBS News)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on Sunday that the U.S. is working with Warsaw on plans to supply Ukraine with Russian-made fighter jets.
The consequence of this decision will likely result in the bombing of Ukraineโs remaining airfields, particularly in the western part of the country.
And if these jets park, refuel and carry out their sorties from outside of Ukraine, no one should doubt that Russia will strike those locations as well, regardless of their NATO status.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on Sunday that the U.S. is working with Warsaw on plans to supply Ukraine with Russian-made fighter jets.
The consequence of this decision will likely result in the bombing of Ukraineโs remaining airfields, particularly in the western part of the country.
And if these jets park, refuel and carry out their sorties from outside of Ukraine, no one should doubt that Russia will strike those locations as well, regardless of their NATO status.
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Florida man stopped for speeding says Putinโs threat of nuclear war caused him to freak out and rush home.
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โ๏ธUkrainian militants have installed explosives at an experimental nuclear facility located at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology. Their aim is to destroy the facility, blaming Russia for the resulting environmental disaster and setting up a pretext for foreign intervention. (Russian MoD)
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An Australian student gets ejected from a live talk show for questioning the Western narrative on Ukraine.
Host of Australian Q&A show Stan Grant booted Sasha Gillies-Lekakis (University of Melbourne student) out of the studio after he politely raised an uncomfortable question about Ukraine.
Hereโs what Sasha said:
As someone who comes from the Russian community here in Australia, I've been pretty outraged by the narrative created by our media depicting the Ukraine as the good guy, and Russia as the bad guy.
Believe it or not, there are a lot of Russians here and around the world that support what Putin is doing in the Ukraine, myself included.
Since 2014, the Ukrainian government, together with Nazi groups like the Azov battalion, have besieged the Russian populations in the Donbas, killing an estimated 13,000 people, according to the United Nations.
My question is: where was your outpouring of grief and concern for those thousands of mostly Russians?
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Host of Australian Q&A show Stan Grant booted Sasha Gillies-Lekakis (University of Melbourne student) out of the studio after he politely raised an uncomfortable question about Ukraine.
Hereโs what Sasha said:
As someone who comes from the Russian community here in Australia, I've been pretty outraged by the narrative created by our media depicting the Ukraine as the good guy, and Russia as the bad guy.
Believe it or not, there are a lot of Russians here and around the world that support what Putin is doing in the Ukraine, myself included.
Since 2014, the Ukrainian government, together with Nazi groups like the Azov battalion, have besieged the Russian populations in the Donbas, killing an estimated 13,000 people, according to the United Nations.
My question is: where was your outpouring of grief and concern for those thousands of mostly Russians?
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โ๏ธHappening now: Third round of Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations in Belarus.
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In 1997, Joe Biden said that admitting the Baltic countries into NATO would jeopardize US-Russian relations and provoke a "vigorous and hostile reaction".
In 2008, 4 years after the Baltic States joined NATO, then-Ambassador to Russia William Burns (now Biden's CIA director) wrote in a confidential cable to Washington about Russia's concerns that Ukrainian accession to NATO could "lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war." Burns added "in that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face."
For decades, US officials have known what the eventual consequences of NATO's eastward expansion would be. To answer the burning question 'how did we get here', one can't ignore the role played by American and NATO Policy in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
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In 2008, 4 years after the Baltic States joined NATO, then-Ambassador to Russia William Burns (now Biden's CIA director) wrote in a confidential cable to Washington about Russia's concerns that Ukrainian accession to NATO could "lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war." Burns added "in that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face."
For decades, US officials have known what the eventual consequences of NATO's eastward expansion would be. To answer the burning question 'how did we get here', one can't ignore the role played by American and NATO Policy in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
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โ๏ธHappening now: Third round of Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations in Belarus. Subscribe to: @RussiaUSA
Negotiations have concluded without any breakthroughs but with possible progress on the issue of humanitarian corridors.
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Kyiv is preventing civilians from utilizing the agreed upon humanitarian corridors because it doesnโt want Ukrainians entering Russia and Belarus, says Moscowโs Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia.
Itโs worth noting that from the standpoint of geography, Russia and Belarus happen to be the closest and most easily accessible countries for people who are currently stuck in Ukraineโs northern and eastern cities.
Unfortunately, it appears that Ukraineโs leadership is more concerned with political optics rather than saving lives.
Note: the humanitarian routes are labeled in green on the map above. The accuracy of the map itself is unverified.
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Itโs worth noting that from the standpoint of geography, Russia and Belarus happen to be the closest and most easily accessible countries for people who are currently stuck in Ukraineโs northern and eastern cities.
Unfortunately, it appears that Ukraineโs leadership is more concerned with political optics rather than saving lives.
Note: the humanitarian routes are labeled in green on the map above. The accuracy of the map itself is unverified.
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A Russian community center in Vancouver, Canada was vandalized by a group of pro-Ukrainian activists.
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Remembering the few good old days in between the decades of U.S.-Russia animosity and cold/proxy wars.
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Russia is now the most sanctioned country in the world, with over 5,500 restrictive measures imposed against it.
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โ๏ธU.S. foreign policy elite call for limited no-fly zone over Ukraine.
In an open letter to the Biden administration, a group of 27 foreign policy leaders is urging the U.S. to impose a limited no-fly zone over Ukraine, citing the need to protect humanitarian corridors.
Their justification sounds strange, and hereโs why:
While both sides of the conflict have accused each other of obstructing the proper functioning of civilian evacuation routes, there have been absolutely no reports of humanitarian corridors coming under attack from the air.
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In an open letter to the Biden administration, a group of 27 foreign policy leaders is urging the U.S. to impose a limited no-fly zone over Ukraine, citing the need to protect humanitarian corridors.
Their justification sounds strange, and hereโs why:
While both sides of the conflict have accused each other of obstructing the proper functioning of civilian evacuation routes, there have been absolutely no reports of humanitarian corridors coming under attack from the air.
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio says he is working on legislation to sanction China if it uses its payments system to help Russia circumvent sanctions.
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โ๏ธUS President Joe Biden announces ban on all imports of Russian oil and gas.
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โ๏ธU.S. assesses between 2,000 and 4,000 Russian troops have been killed in the Ukraine conflict so far. (Pentagon)
This estimate is far lower than the 12,000 figure being propagated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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This estimate is far lower than the 12,000 figure being propagated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense has launched an English Telegram channel to share information about the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine, including photos, videos, official statements and briefings.
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