Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina says Russia holds enough yuan and gold in its reserves to limit the impact of Western sanctions – even after Washington and its allies froze half the country’s holdings in dollars and other currencies. The regulator cut the share of dollars in reserves to …
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The New York State Department of Health appeared to announce this week that non-white New Yorkers would receive priority over whites in receiving “extremely limited” Covid-19 therapies for people at risk. In a document dated December 27, the Department of Health announced that two antiviral oral therapies – Paxlovid and …
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The Uighur Forced Labor Prevention Act accuses China of keeping “as many as 1.8 million” Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups “in a system of extrajudicial mass internment camps” in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Once the legislation comes into force, all goods that can be …
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US citizens, legal permanent residents and their children “should consider travelling to Hamid Karzai International Airport,” the US Embassy in Afghanistan – currently operating out of makeshift offices at the airport – said in a security alert posted on its website on Wednesday. The embassy provided instructions as to how …
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Speaking at a press conference on Monday for the first time since his election victory last week, President-elect Ebrahim Raisi talked of his plans to implement an assertive foreign policy. Striking a forceful tone, Raisi said that the country’s ballistic missile program was not up for negotiation and demanded that …
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“We are very close to much more severe – temporary, but severe – decisions on restrictions,” Sergey Sobyanin said on Thursday. He noted that 600 Covid-19 patients have been hospitalized over the past 48 hours, and that Moscow has about 17,000 beds dedicated to coronavirus patients to date. Soon that number …
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The new federal guidelines issued on Monday allow people who are at least two weeks past being fully vaccinated – meaning two jabs with the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or one shot of the newly approved Johnson & Johnson inoculation – to visit indoors sans masks with others who meet …
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Aware of huge importance to the question of whether to award the literary prize of the name of Eduard Uspensky, I’m not going to touch it. And affect better question that Russia, using the expression of another classic recent literature, is still fighting in Libya, somewhere. Although what is really …
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The state Duma has limited the travel abroad of the former employees of the FSB because of the interest of the Ukrainian and Georgian security services. State Duma deputies approved on Thursday in the first reading a bill restricting travel abroad for ex-employees of FSB within five years after termination …
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Each instance of the Shelby GT-S will be painted in the corporate colors of Sixt. The company Shelby American has introduced a limited edition “Mustang”, built for the company car rental Sixt. Novelty called Shelby GT-S was the first rental car with a compressor engine, available to clients of the …
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