Section: Business Insider (USA)
After praise and death threats, Ukraine’s central bank governor quits
Ukraine’s central bank governor, Valeria Gontareva, resigned on Monday, at a time when the economy is just recovering from a steep recession. …read more Source: Business...
Russia: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is headed to Moscow
AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State RexTillerson will discuss global security, including the Syria, North Korea and Ukraine situations, during the latter’s visit to Moscow, the ministry said on Wednesday. Tillerson is to visit Russia on April 11-12, and Russia’s foreign...
‘Poisoned’ Russian dissident: Trump echoed ‘one of the Kremlin’s oldest propaganda tools’
Manuel Balce Ceneta/APWASHINGTON — Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza told Congress last week that there is no equivalence between the US’ political system and Putin’s Russia, as President Donald Trump implied in a recent interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. In the February interview, Trump acknowledged...
Baltic states think Russia is laying the groundwork for looming ‘kinetic operations’
Officials in Lithuania are sounding the alarm about suspected Russian information campaigns that are reminiscent of the lead up to the Crimean annexation. …read more Source: Business...
After much speculation, Tillerson declares US will keep sanctions on Russia over Ukraine
Tillerson said Friday that “the United States sanctions will remain until Moscow reverses the actions that triggered our sanctions.” …read more Source: Business...
In separatist eastern Ukraine, entrepreneurs are turning abandoned McDonald’s into ‘DonMak’
When the McDonald’s in Donetsk shuttered due to war and Western sanctions, local entrepreneurs opened a nearly-identical fast food restaurant named DonMak. …read more Source: Business...
These are the key names that keep coming up in the Trump-Russia investigation
REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueWith news of business deals, undisclosed phone calls, and secret meetings coming to light daily, keeping up with the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election has been difficult. The Senate and House Intelligence Committees are conducting investigations (the latter of which has been called into...
Russia’s largest bank just pulled out of Ukraine
Ukrainian activists have viewed Sberbank as a symbol of Russia’s unwelcome presence in the country. …read more Source: Business...
Jared Kushner will be questioned by the Senate Intel Committee as part of its Trump-Russia probe
Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe 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 and whether any collusion occurred between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. “Mr. Kushner has volunteered to be interviewed as part...
A trio of key Trump associates have taken a big step forward in the Russia investigation
Trump associates Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Carter Page all sent letters to the House Intelligence Committee on Friday volunteering to be interviewed as part of the committee’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. While Stone, Manafort, and Page — Trump’s former campaign adviser, chairman, and...
