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Russia conducts searches at shuttered human rights group -protest monitor

4 Mar 2022

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian law enforcement officers carried out searches on Friday at the Moscow office of human rights group Memorial International as well as Civic Assistance, an organisation that helps migrants and refugees, the OVD-Info protest monitor said. It was not immediately clear what the searches were about and there was no comment from …

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U.N. Libya adviser seeks joint committee on constitution

4 Mar 2022

TUNIS (Reuters) -The United Nations Libya adviser Stephanie Williams said on Friday she had invited the parliament and High State Council to each nominate six members for a joint committee on Libya’s constitutional arrangements. Libya’s political process fell apart in December with the collapse of a scheduled election, with major factions and political bodies pushing …

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Belarus strengthens air defences along border, Minsk says

4 Mar 2022

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarus has strengthened its air defences along the perimeter of its border in line with an order from President Alexander Lukashenko, a senior military official said on Friday. (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

U.S. takes aim at Russian oligarchs in fresh sanctions

4 Mar 2022

By Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions against Russian oligarchs as it targeted Russia’s super-rich and others close to President Vladimir Putin, further ratcheting up financial pressure over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The United States imposed full blocking sanctions on eight oligarchs and officials, …

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Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

4 Mar 2022

(Reuters) – Russian forces seized Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine after fierce fighting which set an adjacent training facility on fire, a local authority said. * No sign of radiation leak Essential equipment at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was unaffected after the fire, with no change in radiation levels, the International …

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Pro-Europe western Ukraine provides both sanctuary and strength to fight Russia

3 Mar 2022

By Andrew R.C. Marshall LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – In his grandparents’ time, said Maksym Kozytsky, there was a saying: In every cellar you should hide a gun to fight the Russians. Today, Kozytsky, 41, sits in a semi-fortified building in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, where as regional governor he is preparing his country’s …

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Yacht seized as U.S. ramps up oligarch sanctions so Putin ‘feels the squeeze’

3 Mar 2022

By Tassilo Hummel, Alasdair Pal and Steve Holland PARIS (Reuters) – French authorities seized four cargo vessels and one luxury yacht linked to oligarchs as the United States and other governments ramped up sanctions on Russia’s super-rich on Thursday over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Customs officials seized the yacht of Rosneft boss Igor Sechin, who …

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Arctic Council in upheaval over Russia as climate change transforms region

3 Mar 2022

By Gloria Dickie and Timothy Gardner LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Countries of the Arctic Council said on Thursday they would boycott future talks in Russia over its Ukraine invasion, throwing international cooperation in the region into upheaval at a time when climate change is opening it up to resource exploitation. The Arctic Council brings together countries …

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Nike, IKEA close Russian stores as sanctions, trade restrictions bite

3 Mar 2022

By Anna Ringstrom, Gwladys Fouche and Eric M. Johnson (Reuters) – Sneaker maker Nike and home furnishings firm IKEA shut down stores in Russia on Thursday, as trade restrictions and supply shutdowns added to political pressure for companies to stop business in Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine. French bank Societe Generale said it …

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ICC prosecutor: Team leaves to investigate war crimes in Ukraine

3 Mar 2022

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Investigators from the International Criminal Court set off for “the Ukraine region” on Thursday to start looking into possible war crimes, the tribunal’s top prosecutor said in an interview. Karim Khan told Reuters his office would see if there was evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide …

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