Moscow has ensured that local buyers get massive discounts when foreign companies sell their assets Efforts by Ukraine and its Western backers to convince, shame, and sanction companies into leaving the Russian market have backfired, placing lucrative enterprises in Russian hands at discount prices and pumping more than a billion dollars’ worth of exit taxes…

Helsinki has not had any “trouble” with Moscow for years but now it will, the Russian president has said Russia will create a new military district to reinforce its positions near Finland in response to the latter’s decision to join NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced.

Afghanistan’s poppy supply on the global market has plummeted 95% since last year’s cultivation ban, data shows Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, once the world’s top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban outlawed cultivation of the crop last year, a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report has shown.