After flights between Russia and Georgia become possible again, Tbilisi should become a hub between the two regions - without coordinated flight schedules
Raiffeisen Bank International is delaying plans to leave Russia, three people familiar with its position said, as Austria steps up its defence of long-standing ties with Moscow. Raiffeisen (RBI), the largest of the Western banks in Russia, had intended to spin off its Russian business, which provides a payments lifeline to hundreds of companies there, by September after coming under pressure from European regulators. Austria and RBI, which is also at the centre of a U.S. inquiry over its Russian links, are resisting this in the hope that the war in Ukraine will end soon, the people told Reuters.
russian business, political and cultural leaders. if anyone is going to affect change in russia, it is those people, not ordinary russians. it remains to be seen, i think, exactly what the targets were. if you look at the map of these drones as they flew into moscow, the ones that were shot down where albert the more northern northwestern part of the city and the ones that hit residential buildings where in the southwest. so it s possible that these drones weren t necessarily to hit the residential buildings that you mentioned there of the political and business elite. if they were, it is absolutely a stark wake up call, and i think there is a psychological here as well that the message may be to some of these elites that we know where you live, we know where you are, and you are not safe either. ukraine denies any involvement, strenuously denies any involvement. so clearly there are questions about who or what is behind this. of