Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing Wednesday for two days of meetings with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Putin’s second trip to China in six months will focus on military and financial assistance....
TLDR: RBI, the largest Western bank in Russia, has been warned by the U.S. Treasury about financial system access in a letter voicing concerns over its Russian business. Concerns remain even though RBI dropped plans to sell its Russia-business to sanctioned billionaire Deripaska. Austrian finance ministry says it assumes RBI...
Zhang Zhan, 40, a lawyer turned citizen journalist, was detained in May 2020 after she travelled to Wuhan to report on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her videos and social media posts drew attention to the government’s stifling of information about the spread of the disease and the harsh lockdowns that were being...
Timber smuggling, estimated to be worth $23m (£18m) a year, from Mozambique’s ancient forests to China is helping to fund a brutal Islamist insurgency as well as a large criminal network in the north of the southern African country....
Three lesbian women have died and one more is in critical condition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a man threw a Molotov cocktail into their boarding house room on May 6, setting them all on fire. One woman, Pamela Fabiana Cobas, was severely burned and died almost immediately. Her partner, Mercedes Roxana Figueroa, died of...
Hungarian Member of Parliament Tompos Marton, who is the vice president of the opposition Momentum Party, made the remarks in an interview with the Central News Agency on Sunday....
The authors introduce and evaluate an open-source software package and methodological framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media, namely the Coordination Network Toolkit, utilising weighted, directed multigraphs to capture intricate coordination dynamics....
China's anger grows as Myanmar has chosen Russia for the construction of a strategic seaport, despite Beijing's interest in the project (swarajyamag.com)
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Putin in China seeking support for Ukraine war effort (www.dw.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing Wednesday for two days of meetings with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Putin’s second trip to China in six months will focus on military and financial assistance....
U.S. warned Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) access to dollar system could be curbed over Russia (www.reuters.com)
TLDR: RBI, the largest Western bank in Russia, has been warned by the U.S. Treasury about financial system access in a letter voicing concerns over its Russian business. Concerns remain even though RBI dropped plans to sell its Russia-business to sanctioned billionaire Deripaska. Austrian finance ministry says it assumes RBI...
Concerns grow about the wellbeing of Chinese journalists Zhang Zhan after supposed jail release as she failed to make contact with the outside world (www.theguardian.com)
Zhang Zhan, 40, a lawyer turned citizen journalist, was detained in May 2020 after she travelled to Wuhan to report on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her videos and social media posts drew attention to the government’s stifling of information about the spread of the disease and the harsh lockdowns that were being...
The illicit trade with China fuelling Mozambique's insurgency (www.bbc.com)
Timber smuggling, estimated to be worth $23m (£18m) a year, from Mozambique’s ancient forests to China is helping to fund a brutal Islamist insurgency as well as a large criminal network in the north of the southern African country....
How Chinese AI turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian (www.bbc.com)
"I don’t want anyone to think that I ever said these horrible things in my life. Using a Ukrainian girl for a face promoting Russia. It’s crazy.”...
Disinformation campaigns on Chinese-language media in Taiwan exploiting Russia invasion in Ukraine, spreading false anti-western arratives while fueling tensions with China (tfc-taiwan.org.tw)
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Lesbian Women Set on Fire in Argentina (www.hrw.org)
Three lesbian women have died and one more is in critical condition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a man threw a Molotov cocktail into their boarding house room on May 6, setting them all on fire. One woman, Pamela Fabiana Cobas, was severely burned and died almost immediately. Her partner, Mercedes Roxana Figueroa, died of...
Hungarian MP says Taiwan is a better alternative to China as a strategic partner (www.taipeitimes.com)
Hungarian Member of Parliament Tompos Marton, who is the vice president of the opposition Momentum Party, made the remarks in an interview with the Central News Agency on Sunday....
The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media (link.springer.com)
The authors introduce and evaluate an open-source software package and methodological framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media, namely the Coordination Network Toolkit, utilising weighted, directed multigraphs to capture intricate coordination dynamics....