Shipping giants halt travel amid attacks

At least eight ships have been assaulted in recent weeks in the key waterway linking the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea Two global shipping majors, Denmark’s Maersk and Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd, halted their vessels’ passage through the Red Sea on Friday, citing security risks.

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The face of a different Russia: Who was Yegor Letov and why did he become a symbol of perestroika and the post-Soviet era?

The Grazhdanskaya Oborona bandleader, who died 15 years ago, is regarded as an iconic figure in his homeland Yegor Letov holds a unique place in Russian culture. He was the founder and only permanent member of the band Grazhdanskaya Oborona [Russian for “Civil Defense,” often abbreviated as GrOb, Russian for “coffin”], one of the most…

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US attempts to ban TikTok are not about ‘security’

Washington lawmakers have an aversion to anything coming out of China and attaining global success By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst  TikTok is the most successful social media app to emerge in the past decade.

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