The parliament in Kiev is pushing a bill that would let it outlaw the 1,000-year-old institution The Ukrainian legislature on Thursday approved in the first reading a bill aimed at banning organizations associated with Russia. Bill 8371 is widely understood to be targeting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church without saying so directly, so as to…

Yandex has risen to become a top-five search engine among the bloc’s Android users The EU’s anti-trust regulations against global tech majors – particularly Google – have contributed to the growth in popularity of Russian search engine Yandex across the bloc, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

The amount of US stocks and bonds sold by Chinese investors hit a four-year high in August, according to the latest data released by the US Treasury Department on Thursday. Sales of equities totaled about $5.1 billion, marking a record for monthly sales of US stocks by investors from the Asian nation, while they also…