Dreams of direct flights to Miami, Los Angeles and New York by July. Hopes that Western brands will soon reopen their stores. Speculation that companies like Visa and Mastercard are on their way back to process payments. While none of that has yet come to pass, Russians are hoping that a return to normalcy in…
He blocked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. He signed a censorship law that led TikTok to disable its functions. President Vladimir V. Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is taking aim at the last Western tech platform barely standing in wartime Russia: YouTube….
On today’s show of Crossfire we tell you how scores of Russian soldiers died, not at the hands of Ukraine, but their own allies-the North Korean troops. A catastrophic error on the battlefield, triggered by a language barrier. This incident unfolded in the Kursk region where Moscow is trying to reclaim territory but it lays…