Friday Briefing: Putin’s Re-Election
Russians begin voting for president today, but there is no suspense about the result: Vladimir Putin, 71, is certain to be declared the overwhelming victor.
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Russians begin voting for president today, but there is no suspense about the result: Vladimir Putin, 71, is certain to be declared the overwhelming victor.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said some staffers at his software company have exited due to his public support for Israel. And he expects to see more walk out the door.
There have been times when a dialogue among civilizations was seen as imperative. At the end of the First and Second World Wars, it appeared that the world was coming out of a long dark tunnel and the League of Nations and the United Nations were set up to facilitate such dialogue.
At least two Indian men have been killed on the Ukrainian front lines, revealing the desperation caused by widespread joblessness back home.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp skewered short sellers — investors who bet on the decline in a company's stock price — in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a wide-ranging interview to the Russian press a few days ahead of the presidential election, which will see Putin elected to another six years in power — short of a miraculous change in the immediate course of Russian politics.
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who holds an Australian passport, said at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday that a diplomatic approach would be a “far better way” of addressing Beijing’s “authoritarianism towards its own people” than buying nuclear-powered submarines, which would only force “China’s political class to close ranks around an authoritarian core”.