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Vladimir Putin has been invited to a summit in South Africa. Will he be arrested if he goes? Putin

Vladimir Putin has been invited to a summit in South Africa. Will he be arrested if he goes?

Russian President Vladimir Putin is quite well-travelled. Before the COVID-19 pandemic and his country’s invasion of Ukraine, he would regularly be on the move. In 2018, he made 21 overseas trips. In 2019, he made 23 trips. Last year, that number dwindled to nine — largely to countries close to…
bubmag
April 1, 2023
El Salvador removes all taxes related to tech innovation for economic growth Putin

El Salvador removes all taxes related to tech innovation for economic growth

Technology innovations such as software programming, coding, apps and AI development, and computing and communications hardware manufacturing will be exempted from taxes in El Salvador. 8879 Total views 406 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFT El Salvador, the first country to establish Bitcoin…
bubmag
April 1, 2023
WaPo’s Tumulty: Russia Detained WSJ Reporter Because Putin Thinks Griner Swap ‘Really Worked out in Their Favor’ Putin

WaPo’s Tumulty: Russia Detained WSJ Reporter Because Putin Thinks Griner Swap ‘Really Worked out in Their Favor’

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Washington Post columnist and Deputy Editorial Page Editor Karen Tumulty said that Russia’s “appalling” detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich earlier in the week took place because Vladimir Putin “made a calculation” that Russia’s detention of Brittney Griner “really worked out in their favor. They released her, and they…
bubmag
April 1, 2023
Belarus to restore Soviet launch sites for Putin’s nuclear missiles Putin

Belarus to restore Soviet launch sites for Putin’s nuclear missiles

Ukrainian soldiers on an armoured military vehicle in Chasiv Yar, near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine Credit: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Belarus will repair disused Soviet missile silos as part of the Vladimir Putin’s plan to deploy nuclear weapons in the country, its President has said. Alexander Lukashenko made…
bubmag
March 31, 2023
Microsoft’s cloud practices anti-competitive, says Alphabet’s Google Putin

Microsoft’s cloud practices anti-competitive, says Alphabet’s Google

There is intense rivalry between the two US tech giants in the fast-growing, multi-billion-dollar cloud computing business, where Google trails market leader Amazon and MicrosoftReuters Brussels Alphabet’s Google Cloud has accused Microsoft of anti-competitive Cloud computing practices and criticised imminent deals with several European cloud vendors, saying these do not…
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March 30, 2023
Russian troops facing ‘slaughter-fest’ in Bakhmut as Putin’s forces ‘hammered’ by Ukraine Putin

Russian troops facing ‘slaughter-fest’ in Bakhmut as Putin’s forces ‘hammered’ by Ukraine

Ukraine: 406th Artillery Brigade fires on Russian positionsRussian soldiers and mercenary fighters are falling victim to a “slaughter-fest” in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, a senior US official has claimed, as Putin’s hopes of securing the region appear to be coming to an unsuccessful end. After months of brutal fighting…
bubmag
March 30, 2023
Russia to STOP telling US about missile tests as Putin shows off nuclear strength Putin

Russia to STOP telling US about missile tests as Putin shows off nuclear strength

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington A rocket launches from a missile system in a intercontinental ballistic missile test from the Plesetsk facility in northwestern Russia (Image: AP) Russia today announced it will STOP informing the US about…
bubmag
March 29, 2023
Putin’s 10th Tank Regiment has lost ‘many’ vehicles after ‘tactically flawed’ assault Putin

Putin’s 10th Tank Regiment has lost ‘many’ vehicles after ‘tactically flawed’ assault

Russian forces have made only marginal progress around Avdiivka (Image: Getty) Putin's 10th Tank Regiment has likely lost "many" of its armoured vehicles in a series of disastrous setbacks. Russia has been focusing on a mission to surround Avdiivka, a town in the Donetsk Oblast according to the latest Ministry…
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March 28, 2023