There are famous oligarchs, protagonists of clashes with the Kremlin, with criminal convictions behind them, and forced to leave Russia to save life and property, such as Roman Abramovic, Oleg Deripaska, Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others[1] – men famous for the luxury in which they live
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There are names of huge, powerful multinational companies that hardly anyone has ever heard of – like Trafigura. There are sprawling hydras, made up of hundreds of companies in tax havens, whose real owners may not be known, but are estimated to be the 700 managers who
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The Israeli-Palestinian question has tragically returned to the center of the international debate. From May 10 to 20, 256 Palestinians (including 66 children) and 13 Israelis were killed, more than a thousand injured were killed and 156 buildings razed to the ground[1] in the war between the
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This is the sad and disturbing story of a small country, which has been forgotten by progress, and in which few families have used the implosion of the Warsaw Pact to adopt democratic and capitalist systems to become the masters of the country with an autocratic and
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Amsterdam, December 1942. Despite the harsh winter conditions and the continuing war, this one is a celebration day. SS officer Pieter Schelte Heerema gets married, only happy faces around him. He does a good job: he compiles the lists of the Dutch who are deported to Eastern
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This is a science fiction drawing. But how far is reality from these invented images? Little. Underwater military bases, from which we can control what happens on land, was an idea of writers who have become real projects since World War II (in the United States, the
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The World Gold Council[1] said on July 14, 2020 in the midst of the Covid outbreak: “Investors have adopted gold as a key strategy to hedge portfolios in 2020. The pandemic is likely to have a lasting effect (…) and values too much the strengthening of gold
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Four months (June 29, 2020) have passed since the murder of the most famous Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa[1]. He was only 34 years old, he was the “voice of the Oromo people“[2], the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, but subjugated by the Abyssinians and therefore exploited and
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It all started with a small local scandal, in a country, Zambia, which is one of the poorest and least known in the world and which has only experienced economic growth in the last twenty years thanks to the mining industry[1]. However, the country has remained what
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On August 4, 2020, shortly after 6 p.m., in the port area of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, which was confiscated (because of its dangerousness) from a Russian ship[1] in 2013[2], and, due to the bankruptcy of its owner[3], have remained in
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