Day: June 27, 2022
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Russian Missile Hits Crowded Ukrainian Shopping Center, Kyiv Says
A Russian missile has struck a busy shopping mall in central Ukraine, officials in Kyiv said Monday, with at least two deaths and 20 injuries among the more than 1,000 civilians said to have been inside. Video footage shows plumes of black smoke rising from the burning shopping center in the industrial city of Kremenchuk…
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In Photos: The End of the School Year in Russia and Ukraine
As students around the world celebrate their graduation from high school, this year’s graduation season looks markedly different in Russia than it does in neighboring Ukraine. While graduates in Russia’s two largest cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, enjoyed lavish celebrations, many graduates in Ukraine have seen their schools destroyed in Russia’s four-month invasion of their…
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Zelensky Urges G7 To Help End Ukraine War by Winter
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday urged world powers to do their utmost to help end Russia’s invasion by the end of the year, as G7 leaders planned new sanctions and vowed to support Kyiv “as long as it takes.” U.S. President Joe Biden and his peers from the Group of Seven rich nations, meeting…
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Ukraine’s Richest Oligarch Sues Russia Over ‘Stolen’ Grain and Steel Assets
Ukraine’s richest oligarch has filed a lawsuit against Russia in Europe’s top human rights court, citing “grievous violations” in Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian property and resources since the start of Moscow’s invasion in late February. Rinat Akhmetov, a steel tycoon who owns Ukraine’s largest steel manufacturer Metainvest, filed the lawsuit in the European Court of…
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Russia Denies Defaulting on Foreign Debt
Updated at 5:24 p.m. on June 27 to add Russia’s denial. Russia shot down reports that it defaulted on its external debt Monday, after a deadline on $100 million in interest payments passed. Bloomberg had earlier reported that Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt after the expiration of the grace period on about $100 million in interest…
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Russia To Put WNBA Star Griner on Trial in July
U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who is in detention in Russia on drug charges, will go on trial in Russia on July 1, a court said on Monday. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA champion, was detained at a Moscow airport in February after she was found carrying vape cartridges with cannabis oil…
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Pay Raises, More News and Tighter Control: Staff at Russian State TV Work Overtime Amid Ukraine War
“No war” and “They are lying to you” were not messages Russian viewers expected to see during a news bulletin on state-run television. But that was exactly what happened when producer Marina Ovsyannikova stormed a live broadcast waving an anti-war poster shortly after Russia’s attack on Ukraine. “The atmosphere was terrible at Channel One at…
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Core cather for Akkuyu NPP unit 3 installed in the design position on the construction site
June 25, 2022, Buyukeceli, Mersin Province, Turkey. – A melt localization device, or core catcher, one of the main elements of Unit 3 supplementary (passive) safety system, was delivered and installed at the Akkuyu NPP construction site. After unloading the vessel which delivered the catcher to the Eastern cargo terminal, the equipment was transported to…
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Russian Demand Spikes for Pirated Microsoft Windows – Kommersant
Russia-based web searches for pirated Microsoft products including the Windows operating system have skyrocketed after the company halted sales in the country over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kommersant daily reported Monday. The U.S. tech giant behind the software that runs on over 1 billion devices worldwide announced the suspension of new sales in Russia…
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Russian Student Sapega Seeks Pardon for 6-Year Belarus Sentence – BBC
Russian student Sofia Sapega has sought a pardon from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a month after being sentenced to six years in prison on extremism charges, the BBC’s Russian service reported Monday. Sapega and her then-boyfriend, Belarusian dissident Roman Protasevich, were detained in May 2021 when Minsk authorities forcibly diverted their international flight as it flew…
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Zelensky to Press G7 for More Help as War Rages
President Volodymyr Zelensky will urge world powers to step up their support for Ukraine when he addresses the G7 summit on Monday, as Kyiv reels from the first Russian strikes on the capital in weeks. U.S. President Joe Biden and his counterparts from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies, meeting in the Bavarian Alps, have…