Section: Business Insider (USA)
Russian Rebels Involved In Shooting Down MH17 Were From As Far Away As Possible
Yuras Karmanau and Peter Leonard of the Associated Press have published a detailed report describing what happened in eastern Ukraine on the day pro-Russian rebels shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, killing all 298 people on board. One reported detail stands out above all. AP journalists saw the Buk surface-to-air missile system being taken...
Putin’s MH17 Lies Have Grave Consequences For Russia And The Whole World
IN 1991, when Soviet Communism collapsed, it seemed as if the Russian people might at last have the chance to become citizens of a normal Western democracy. Vladimir Putin’s disastrous contribution to Russia’s history has been to set his country on a different path. And yet many around the world, through self-interest or...
MH17 Black Box Data Shows Evidence Of Missile Strike
As Russia continues to deny culpability for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, European officials say that black box data shows the doomed airplane was hit by a missile explosion, according to CBS News. Data from the black box points to a “massive explosive decompression,” with the plane’s fuselage...
Epidemiologists Believe They Can Completely End The AIDS Epidemic
Targets, students of management agree, help achieve goals. The best are demanding but realistic. And that is something those in charge of the fight against AIDS have come to realise. Their latest target, by far their most ambitious, is to end the epidemic by 2030. “End” is an elastic term, since there is no cure for HIV infection, nor...
Putin’s Tyranny Is Costing Russian Citizens $7,000 Each
One trillion dollars. That may be the cost to Russian investors of Vladimir Putin’s rule. It is the equivalent of about $7,000 for every Russian citizen. The calculation stems from the fact that investors regard Russian assets with suspicion. As a result, Russian stocks trade on a huge discount to much of the rest of the world, with an...
As Scary As The World Is Right Now, Here’s Why It’s Different From The Outbreak Of WWI
With the world caught in a series of potential proxy wars from Ukraine to the Middle East and tensions ratcheting in East Asia and elsewhere, many have compared the present to 1914, when a trigger event in Sarajevo activated military alliances and led to a devastating global war. Especially on the 100-year anniversary of the start of World War I,...
The Stock Market Has Been Predicting Russian Crises Since 1857
Winston Churchill once said that Russia “is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside and enigma”. But not everyone is so baffled by the world’s biggest country. The Socionomics Institute released a two part study that examines Russia’s past in order to foreshadow to Russia’s future. In the first part of the study, they...
Haunting Photos From The Site Of The Malaysian Airlines Crash 8 Days Later
After the literal and figurative dust from the downed Malaysian flight MH17 has settled, officials and crews are left to make sense of it all. In a field outside the town of Hrabove, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, workers are still sifting through the wreckage, searching for more bodies and clues as to what happened. The photos from...
Putin’s Elite Counter-Terror Troops Have An Insane Training Regimen
A recent video from retired Special Operations veteran Larry Vickers highlights three of the most strenuous counter-terrorism drills that Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) operators have to go through in the course of their training. They provide a look at how some of Vladimir Putin’s most elite soldiers are made — a potentially...
German Business Confidence Continues To Fall
BERLIN (AP) — German business confidence is down for a third month in a row amid ongoing concerns about the economic impact of the crises in Ukraine and Iraq. The closely-watched Ifo Institute survey fell to 108 points in July from 109.7 points in June. Economists had widely been expecting a slight rise over June’s figure. The...
