From No Green Pass to Yes Putin is a moment, in Italy, in times of Russia’s war against Ukraine and while the news from Kiev becomes more dramatic by the hour. «No, Putin is not Hitler. I don’t even think he’s crazy. He simply is in the interest of Russia …
Read More »The first consequences of the sanctions
On Monday in some stations of the Moscow Metro, long queues of people used to pay for tickets at the access turnstiles with Apple Pay, or other forms of electronic payment, formed. Their transactions were denied due to the blockade of the bank that usually manages them, which ended up …
Read More »Australia, 40,000 people evacuated due to floods – Corriere.it
Of Foreign editorial staff A year after the devastating bushfires that burned tens of millions of acres in Australia, the country struggling with one of its worst floods The Australian authorities have ordered theevacuation of about 40,000 people because of floods on the east coast, responsible for the deaths of …
Read More »SWITZERLAND AND SANCTIONS / “Our neutrality has changed only in Italian fake news”
It is since the early 90s of the last century that Switzerland, taking note of the great geopolitical upheavals resulting from the implosion of the Soviet Union, has readjusted the concept and practice of its neutrality. Indeed, as had happened at every significant historical turning point since the seventeenth century, …
Read More »Russia, the article on the victory in Ukraine (published by mistake) that reveals Putin’s plans – Corriere.it
Of Marco Imarisio The text, which appeared on February 26 in the Ria Novosti news agency, reads: “Ukraine is back in Russia, the era of the Russian world’s diaspora is coming to an end”. And again: “Western domination is over” FROM OUR SENDMOSCOW – The time is far from uncertain. …
Read More »Moscow, long queues at metro stops. Payments with digital systems blocked: Vtb bank manages them, hit by sanctions
Long code of travelers have formed today at the checkouts of many subway stations in fly because of block payments with digital systems Apple Pay And PayPal normally used by many travelers. Users found themselves unable to use these systems, blocked because they are managed by the bank Vtbwhich is …
Read More »Beijing’s self-interested balancing act. Defense of business and an eye on Taiwan
A Russian attack on Ukraine had been in the air for weeks, if not months. However, many expected a limited Russian attack on the secessionist Donbass, a region that the Russians would wrest from Ukraine as they did in 2014 with Crimea. The pincer attack unleashed by Vladimir Putin against …
Read More »Ukraine, missiles over Kharkiv. Kherson surrounded. Russian military vehicles to Kiev
It is a truce, but the siege continues. Kharkiv is under attack again this morning. Russian forces have arrived at the gates of Kherson in the south of the country, says the mayor of the city. The sirens sound in these hours in various Ukrainian cities: writes the Kyiv Independent, …
Read More »missiles on the capital and on the town of Kharkiv
The Kremlin dictated the agenda. The Russian tanks, at the gates of Kiev, are also an effective weapon in a diplomatic key to try to impose one’s will. And so, in the six-hour conversation between the two delegations in Gomel, a Belarusian city on the border with Ukraine, there was …
Read More »“Zelensky drug addict and neo-Nazis, do you know who his relatives were?” – Free Daily
“I have heard someone say that Putin’s concerns must be understood. No, this is aggression.” Alan Friedman, guest of Massimo Giletti a It is not the Arena on La7, he harshly condemned the tsar’s action in Ukraine. Then he pointed out that the Russian president made fun of everyone a …
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