Section: Africa&ME
Sberbank: Russia’s largest bank pulls out of Ukraine
Ukrainian activists have viewed Sberbank as a symbol of Russia's unwelcome presence in the country. Russia’s Sberbank, the largest in the country, on Tuesday announced it had sold its Ukraine division, where operations have been complicated since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.Sberbank, whose controlling stake is owned by the...
EU top court upholds sanctions against Russia’s Rosneft
Europe’s top court Tuesday upheld European Union sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, including on its largest oil group Rosneft, in a ruling that asserts the court’s jurisdiction over the bloc’s foreign policy …read more Source: The Daily...
Passed over by Nazis and Communists, remnants of Ukraine’s last shtetl prepare to celebrate
Although only numbering 50 today, the Jews of Bershad managed to protect their 200-year-old clay synagogue through successive despotic regimes …read more Source: The Times of...
Trump son-in-law met executives of sanctioned Russian bank; will testify
A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia’s incursion into Ukraine disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner. …read more Source: Eyewitness...
Holocaust memorial vandalized in western Ukraine
Swastika and SS logo found spray-painted on Hebrew inscription in Ukrainian town of Ternopil …read more Source: The Times of...
Politics: DICK CHENEY: ‘No question’ Russia meddled in the US election, and it could be ‘an act of war’
"There's no question that there was a very serious effort made by Mr. Putin… to interfere in major ways with our basic fundamental democratic processes." In a wide-ranging speech at the Economic Times’ Global Business Summit, former US Vice President Dick Cheney spoke unequivocally about Russia’s meddling in the...
Holocaust memorial vandalized in western Ukraine
…read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Politics: Jared Kushner had a previously undisclosed meeting with the CEO of ‘the bank that financed Vladimir Putin’s grandest ambitions’
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, met with the CEO of Russia's state-owned Vnesheconombank in December. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, met with the CEO of Russia’s state-owned Vnesheconombank in December 2016, The New York Times reported on Monday. The...
Holocaust memorial vandalized in western Ukraine
Nazi symbols spray-painted on a monument to Holocaust victims in Ukraine that was erected near their mass graves. …read more Source: Arutz...
Politics: Jared Kushner will be questioned by the Senate Intel Committee about his Russia ties
The Senate Intelligence Committee will question President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as part of its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election. The Senate Intelligence Committee will question President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as part of its investigation into Russia’s...
