Coinbase, Binance resist calls to kick Russians off crypto platforms By Reuters CNN 15 hours ago
(Reuters) — Two of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase Global Inc and Binance, rejected calls on Friday for a blanket ban on all Russian users to stop their platforms from being used as a way round Western sanctions.By staying put in Russia despite the invasion of…Patrick Irishcharm 9h ago Coinbase and Binance if their not willing to block Russia then they are looking at potentially benefitting from the killings in Ukraine ! Putin’s war must not continue, and everyone knows they are trying to convert to crypto currency to avoid sanctions ! Shame on these companies ! Reply(1) Timmy Weed 5h ago The world’s governments will eventually deem all crypto to be threats to national security and make them all illegal to buy, sell, and trade.Watch.Reply ADAMantiumBomb 11h ago Many civilians and influencers in Russia do not agree with what is happening right now, just as I do not agree with how our incompetent and decrepit president has handled anything! Don’t punish the innocent civilians of Russia just because a bunch of mouth-breathing Lib-tards demand that you walk in lock-step with them.Good on you Binance! 👍 Reply(2) The Russian elite daughters of Putin’s inner circle are using Instagram to slam his invasion of Ukraine Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.Young Russian elites are advocating for peace in Ukraine on social media, highlighting the generational divide that threatens Putin’s power in Russia.Russian elites publicly protesting the…
Anonymous claims it has shut down Russia’s space agency – so Putin ‘no longer has control over spy satellites’ ANONYMOUS has claimed that it has shut down Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos.The hacking team has said that Russian officials have “no more control over their spy satellites.” However, the Director General of Roscosmos, Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin, denied the claim and called the group “petty swindlers.” In a social media…
Meet Russia’s richest man who just transferred $1 billion of his empire to his wife Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.The hits are coming in fast and heavy for Russia’s oligarchs, and some of them might be coming up with creative ways to hold on to their wealth.
Another blow for Putin as TWO MORE top commanders are killed as they make deadly mistakes in stalled Ukraine invasion TWO more of Vladimir Putin’s top military chiefs have been killed after personally charging to the battlefield to rescue their stalled invasion.As well as sniping General Andrei Sukhovetsky, it was tonight revealed Ukrainian soldiers have also picked off a Kremlin regional and a divisional commander.Western officials believe Russian…How cheap Chinese tires might explain Russia’s ‘stalled’ 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine As the eighth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began Thursday morning, Russian forces appeared to have gained tactical control of their first city, the southern port city of Kherson, but Ukraine is still holding out in Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv, despite heavy shelling.Deaths are mounting on both sides.Russian oligarch with ties to Trump says a new ‘Iron Curtain’ has fallen, dooming Putin’s country to years of economic crisis Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Oleg Deripaska, a Russian industrialist, has called for an end to the war in Ukraine, joining a handful of oligarchs who have dared to speak out against the invasion.Russia and China announce a bid to make the world safe for dictatorship There was potent symbolism in the warm meeting between President Xi Jinping of China and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as the Winter Olympics opened in Beijing.
At a time when other countries are troubled by the actions of these Eurasian giants — from Russia’s threatened invasion of Ukraine to China’s genocide against the Uyghur people — the two dictators took center stage to support one another.Share Fox News US doesn’t stand ‘a fighting chance’ if Russia and China combine cyber tech, former Pentagon official says China may already be sharing data with Russia, and America wouldn’t stand “a fighting chance” if the two superpowers combined their cyberwarfare capabilities, the U.S.Air Force’s former chief software officer told Fox News.”Not many nations would be able to push back,” Nicolas Chaillan told Fox News.
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‘Putin won’t know who to hit back’: Sean Hannity wants Nato to secretly bomb Russian convoy heading to Kyiv Fox News commentator Sean Hannity wants Nato countries to bomb a 40-mile-long convoy of Russian troops that is rapidly approaching the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, even though experts — and Vladimir Putin — warn that such a strike could cause a dramatic escalation and even touch off nuclear war.“If we can see on satellite imagery where the convoy is, I don’t know, maybe some smart country, maybe Nato might take some of their fighter jets, or maybe they can use some drone strikes, and take out the whole damn convoy,” Hannity said.“Then nobody takes credit for it, then…Biden has yet to wield one of his biggest weapons in the war on Russia’s economy In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden made it sound as though the US had fired every gun on deck at Russia, at least when it comes to economic sanctions.The reality is more complicated.It’s true that the Biden administration has levied some harsh sanctions against Russia, while maintaining a united front with European allies who have closer ties to Russia’s economy.That’s no small achievement.America and its allies have frozen assets held by Russia’s central banks, curtailed their global financial transactions, banned Russian flights from European and US airspace, and levied sanctions against assets owned by hundreds of individuals and companies associated with Vladimir Putin’s government, including Putin himself and members of his inner circle.
A new Justice Department unit called Task Force KleptoCapture is digging into economic crimes committed by Russian oligarchs, including attempts to evade the new sanctions.And after years of serving as a haven for the oligarchs, the US is finally moving to crack down on the Delaware and Nevada shell companies they use to hide their billions.”Future historians may look at the Russian invasion as the turning point in the broader anti-kleptocracy fight,” says Casey Michel, the author of “American Kleptocracy.” .
