🔒 FT – Pretoria’s support underscores Moscow’s propaganda success
SA’s foreign minister was all smiles as she hosted Russian counterpart for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine.
SA’s foreign minister was all smiles as she hosted Russian counterpart for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The global squeeze on Russia’s economy is running its course. Sanctions stiffen, disinvestment hikes and Russia’s brain drain amplifies.
About 740,000 barrels a day of that total was shipped to European countries, a market that will mostly disappear by the end of November. A month later Russia will also lose outlets for another 650,000 barrels a day piped to Poland and Germany through the Druzhba system. So Moscow needs to find new markets for almost 1.4 million barrels a day of crude. That won’t be easy.
It’s hardly sacrilegious to notice that politics has parallels in capitals as different as Washington and Moscow and even sometimes unites them in common interest.
Donald Trump’s election was warmly welcomed in Moscow, with Vladimir Putin dispatching a “beautiful” letter to his fellow billionaire.
Lewis Pugh has worked tirelessly for half a decade to get the final signature onto an agreement that forever protects Antarctica’s Ross Sea.
Lewis Pugh’s most recent adventure took him to Mumbai to help 33 year old lawyer Afroz Shah, who has embarked on the biggest beach cleanup in history. Here is his blog account.
With the new year just hours away, the cream of the Financial Times’s 600 journalists have been persuaded to offer the rest of us an insight into what they think 2016 will bring.
Apple on Thursday sent out invitations to a Sept. 9 media event, hinting that Siri virtual assistant software in its mobile devices will play a role.
Zuma is the feature of an in-depth article in today’s FT which asks: With a faltering economy and a revitalised opposition, can he survive a second term ?