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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed decrees recognizing the independence of the DPR and LPR. The West condemned the decision. (confirmed by 4 sources; translated from ru) [1]

TOKYO -- Sony Music has withdrawn from all operations in Russia as Western sanctions on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine make it difficult to continue business there. [3]

TOKYO/WASHINGTON -- Even as much of Russia's military is tied up in the invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is demonstrating that it can still operate in the Far East with shows of force in Japan's neighborhood. [4]

Your Thoughts … ရုရှဒုံးများကြောင့် ထိခိုက်ပျက်စီးနေသော ယူကရိန်းမြို့တော် ကိယက်ဖ်တနေရာ/ AFP Your Thoughts … No Result View All Result Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy is a leading source of ... [5]

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[1] FI yle.fi · 2022-02-22 · 38% match translated from ru

Новости

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed decrees recognizing the independence of the DPR and LPR. The West condemned the decision.

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[2] FI yle.fi · 2023-07-19 · 35% match

News

The Finnish government has announced that the country will withdraw consent on 1 October for Russia to operate its Consulate General office in the southwestern city of Turku.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-09-12 · 33% match

Sony Music exits Russia operations in deal with local company

TOKYO -- Sony Music has withdrawn from all operations in Russia as Western sanctions on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine make it difficult to continue business there.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-03-19 · 31% match

Russia flexes muscle near Japan in show of two-front capability

TOKYO/WASHINGTON -- Even as much of Russia's military is tied up in the invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is demonstrating that it can still operate in the Far East with shows of force in Japan's neighborhood.

[5] MM burma.irrawaddy.com · 2022-03-14 · 30% match

UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CONFLICT

Your Thoughts … ရုရှဒုံးများကြောင့် ထိခိုက်ပျက်စီးနေသော ယူကရိန်းမြို့တော် ကိယက်ဖ်တနေရာ/ AFP Your Thoughts … No Result View All Result Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy is a leading source of

[6] MM www2.irrawaddy.com · 34% match

Shwe Mann Heads to Moscow

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