China now hosts three cities with the greatest number of billionaires in the world, data from Global Rich List, an annual ranking prepared by the Shanghai-based research firm Hurun Report, shows. The greatest number of billionaires – 144 – live in Beijing, followed by Shanghai with 121. New York used …
Read More »Former Goldman Sachs banker who financed ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ found guilty
Former Goldman Sachs head of investment banking for Malaysia Roger Ng has been convicted of bribery and corruption related to the theft of $4.5 billion from the state investment fund 1MDB. The banker was found guilty on Friday following a two-month trial in Brooklyn federal court. Despite the participation of …
Read More »Former Russian president reveals what ‘sanctions’ would mean for the world
Sanctions that the western nations have been continuously imposing against Russia since the start of its military operation in Ukraine only further erode the existing system of international institutions and the authority of the UN, Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has said in a Telegram post on Friday. Initially, the word …
Read More »Former Russian presidential candidate seeks Israeli citizenship – media
One of Russia’s wealthiest people, Mikhail Prokhorov, has applied for Israeli citizenship, the country’s media reported on Monday. Several days ago, Prokhorov, who is listed by Bloomberg as Russia’s 14th richest individual with a net worth of $11.4 billion, arrived on a private jet from Switzerland, and has since filed …
Read More »Post-Cold War world order is over, former Russian president says (FULL INTERVIEW)
Though relations between Russia and the West are at their worst since the Cold War, the unipolar world dominated by the US and its allies is now over, former Russian president and current head of the National Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told RT and RIA Novosti in an interview on …
Read More »‘The unipolar world has come to an end,’ Russia’s former president says
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev explained why “the unipolar world has come to an end” and weighed the odds of Europe abandoning the Russian gas. In a wide-ranging interview with Sputnik and RT, the former president assessed the actions of the West amid the Ukrainian conflict …
Read More »Former Czech president refuses to return Russian award
Vaclav Klaus, who served as the President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013, has refused to return a Russian state decoration amid Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine. Back in 2007, Russia’s then-ambassador to the Central European country, Aleksey Fedotov, bestowed the Medal of Pushkin on the Czech politician …
Read More »Space companies invited to set up in ‘valley of satellites’ located in former Covid hot zone
The Chinese government is offering companies involved in the manufacture of spacecraft, rockets and satellites a hefty financial incentive to relocate to Wuhan, seeking to reinvent the city as a “valley of satellites” by 2025. Wuhan announced the official launch of its plans to turn the city into a $15.7 …
Read More »Russia’s former president explains Moscow’s conflict with the West
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused the West of waging hybrid warfare against his country due to the long-standing tradition of Russophobia. He believes that despite enormous pressure, Moscow will defend its vision of the world order. “The frenzied Russophobia of the West, apparently, will never reach the bottom. …
Read More »Former Austrian chancellor quits Russian oil giant over Ukraine
Former Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel has become the latest Western figure to distance himself from Russia over the war in Ukraine. He announced on Friday that he had quit his post on the supervisory board of the energy giant Lukoil. “For me, someone who always advocated constructive ties between the …
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