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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has furloughed its Russian staff for at least one month after suspending new orders as Beijing faces potential secondary sanctions for doing business with Moscow, Forbes Russia has reported.

The United States has warned China not to help Russia evade sanctions, threatening to expand its toolbox of secondary penalties

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Ukrainian forces are preparing for a "last battle" to control the southern port of Mariupol, besieged by Russians since the invasion, marines in the city said Monday.

"Today will probably be the last battle, as the ammunition is running out," the 36th marine brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces said on Facebook.

"It's death for some of us, and

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 12 April 2022

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French bank Societe Generale (SocGen) will cease its banking and insurance activities in Russia, it announced in a statement Monday.

The move makes SocGen the first large European financial group to leave the Russian market following Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. Reuters reported that the move equals an income hit of 3 billion euros ($3.3 b

Details: Category: Russia; Published: 12 April 2022

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German newspaper Die Welt said Monday it has hired Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who protested against Moscow's military action in Ukraine during a prime-time news broadcast on state TV.

Ovsyannikova, 43, "is now a freelance correspondent for Die Welt, reporting from Ukraine and Russia, among other places," the newspaper said in a

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When Konstantin Goldman visited Moscow’s Red Square on Sunday, he took with him a book: Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” He held the novel as he was photographed next to a World War II memorial — in particular, a stone marked in honor of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

The effect was immediate. Goldman was detained for “violating protest laws” and esc