Pepsi, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Starbucks announced their move to suspend business in Russia today following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Some of the iconic American brands have been operating in Russia since it was part of the Soviet Union. Th...
The chairs of governing bodies of sports from 37 countries, including the United States, have stated Russia and Belarus must not be allowed to host, bid for, or be awarded any international sporting events in response to the country’s invasion of Ukr...
The foreign nationals who will arrive in Ukraine to fight with Russia will receive Ukrainian citizenship, the Ukrainian government says. “Foreigners who are and will come to Ukraine to fight against the Russian invasion will be given the opportunit...
Ekaterine Tikaradze, Georgia’s former health minister who resigned last year, has been appointed deputy rector of Kutaisi International University in western Georgia. The university reports that Tikaradze will take over the medical projects, in p...
The European Commission has prepared a new package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine that will hit additional Russian oligarchs and politicians and three Belarusian banks, Reuters has said in its exclusive news, cit...
Russian troops have bombed the embassies of Greece, Slovenia, Azerbaijan and Albania in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has stated. “The Russian army’s missile strikes in Mariupol damaged the building housing the Greek Consulate General...
The Georgian State Security service says that hundreds of Russian and Belarus citizens who have entered Georgia over recent days ‘pose no threats’ to the state security, responding to the dissatisfaction in the public over the influx. A big numb...
Georgia has reserves sufficient for a month or a bit more and needs to find new importers as major providers, Russia and Ukraine, are at war, Levan Silagava, Executive Director of the Georgian Wheat and Flour Producers Association says. Silagava...
Georgia has reported 2,783 new cases of coronavirus out of the 17,693 tests in the past 24 hours, while active cases stand at 44,545 in the country. 5,450 individuals have recovered and 32 have died from the virus in the past 24 hours across the cou...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the international community has failed to learn the lessons of Russian aggression. “For too long, we have turned the other cheek. No one can say we were not warned: We saw what Russia did in Georgia in 2...
