Russian E-scooter firm Whoosh’s plans for an initial public offering (IPO) this week — the first since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — will be a test of the country’s battered capital markets after nearly 10 months of Western sanctions, analysts said. If successful, Whoosh is due to begin trading on the Moscow Exchange on Wednesday.…
Russia’s FSB security service on Tuesday confirmed that it had arrested and charged a Russian citizen who attempted to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces earlier this year, according to state-run news agency TASS. “The detainee decided to switch to the side of the enemy and join the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to…
Turkey said Tuesday it has cleared up a dispute linked to a Western price cap on Russian crude that had stalled the passage of tankers through the Bosphorus and Dardanelle straits. A queue of around 20 oil ships had been waiting to sail through the straits for much of the past week in a spat…
An independent Kazakh media outlet said it has refused to follow a demand by Russian authorities to take down its reporting on the war in Ukraine. Russia’s state media regulator, Roskomnadzor, rarely orders media based outside Russia to delete content. The Vlast.kz news website in Russia’s southern neighbor Kazakhstan said Tuesday that Roskomnadzor ordered the…
A Russian priest who opposes the war in Ukraine has fled the country and is now seeking asylum in the United States, according to reports. Archpriest Theodore Shumskikh traveled to the U.S. with his wife and six children, said Alexei Gorbachev, a journalist with the Voice of America broadcaster’s (VOA) Russian service. “He opposes the…
The Belarusian military announced snap combat readiness drills on Tuesday, with orders to move troops to designated areas and set up bridge crossings over two major rivers. The drills were launched “at the instruction of the President of the Republic of Belarus,” the Belarusian Defense Ministry wrote on its Telegram channel. The ministry did not reveal…
President Volodymyr Zelensky urged G7 nations on Monday to provide extra gas and weapons to help Ukraine survive a brutal winter that threatens to bring further suffering to millions in the war-torn country. With snow on the ground and Ukraine’s energy grid battered by Russian strikes, many are facing freezing temperatures without power or heating.…