Regional authorities should support businesses willing to fill the void left by Western firms, the president has urged Western pressure on Russia intended to strangle the country’s economy has in reality turned out to be a powerful incentive for the development of domestic industries, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
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Solomon Islands leader Manasseh Sogavare has explained that he had more important things to do than attend a White House meeting Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has defended his decision to skip this week’s White House summit with the Pacific region’s leaders, saying he didn’t want to spend time hearing a “lecture” from President…
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Moscow’s eventual victory in Ukraine will lead to profound changes in the global order, but not in the ways most commentators currently predict When the explorer Vasco da Gama set out to find a water route to India in 1497, King Manuel of Portugal ordered him to gain an audience with the powerful overseas rulers,…
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