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This collection of articles explores the fallout of the war in Ukraine on Western companies operating in Russia
...The number of tankers shipping Russian oil without western insurance has risen since the introduction of the cap....
...“It’s something that domestic television companies are unable to touch but only foreign networks can,” said Cheng, an office worker in Chengdu who did not want his full name published....
...Regulatory scrutiny of the special risks presented by private equity ownership of life insurance companies has climbed, after Italy’s Eurovita — another life insurer majority owned through Cinven funds —...
...Private capital investors have acquired more than $900bn in life and annuity assets in western Europe and North America, according to McKinsey & Company....
...Israel has begun preparations to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of a long-expected assault on the city in southern Gaza where the bulk of Hamas’s remaining forces and more than 1mn displaced people...
...Mentioned in this podcast: Leaked Russian military files reveal criteria for nuclear strike Macron says sending western troops to Ukraine cannot be ruled out Germany rebuffs Emmanuel Macron on troops...
...Put a horse and the odd patch of grass in a film and critics will confidently declare that it is really a Western....
...Offering trips in Rwanda and Transylvania, Turkey and the Peloponnese, the company provides e-bike, slack-pack adventures high on charm and off-map experiences, and low on effort and injury....
...Yuan Lixia, a 45-year-old migrant worker in the southern Hunan province, decided this year to withdraw from the main health insurance policy, which covered less than 40 per cent of a Rmb20,000 ($2,800) back...
...The fastest-growing sectors include life sciences, automotive, and media and entertainment, she reports....
...China’s southern technology hub Shenzhen has rolled out plans for a big expansion of car exports, a plan that is likely to fuel western fears about rising Chinese competition for domestic manufacturers....
...These include institutional assets such as Russian state bonds as well as private securities and profits that western companies generated in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago....
...The west’s bedrock objective should be to hold on to the distinctive way of life that characterises constitutional democracy....
...In the Hassaniya Arabic of the south-western Maghreb — including the singer-songwriter’s homeland of the Western Sahara — the word means wave....
...Context: Serbia, an EU candidate country, has rarely seen eye to eye with western allies, maintaining close ties with Russia and China and refusing to join western sanctions following Moscow’s full-scale...
...Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had set a date for an assault on Rafah, after far-right allies warned that his premiership would not be tenable if he did not launch an attack on the town in southern Gaza....
...Insurance group Zurich has accused financier Lex Greensill, steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta and certain of their companies of a “conspiracy” to deceive its underwriters and create sham debts....
...first International Atomic Energy Agency summit in Brussels on Thursday, originally planned to close its two newest reactors in 2025 but signed a deal in December with the operator Engie to extend their life...
...(Four of the last eight presidents have been governors in the southern half of the contiguous US.)...
...But an assault on the southern Gaza city was not necessary in the effort to “crush Hamas”, he added....
...Like countless Ukrainians, Tymoshenko (no relation to former premier Yulia Tymoshenko) has been trying to process the relentless flow of grim news from the front, where Ukraine’s army is running low on western-supplied...
...It is a fight over ways of life, where Moscow offers only a neo-Soviet restoration and the sort of society-eradicating occupation imposed on eastern Europe in the late 1940s....
...The widely reported corporate exodus of major western brands in the immediate aftermath of the full-scale invasion was quickly replaced by the “stay and wait” approach of over 2,000 international companies...
...Two years into the war, those western companies still clinging on to their Russian assets have been counting on war fatigue in their home markets to ride out the initial wave of public outrage....
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