Aleksandr Volodarsky, 35 years old, recently fled Ukraine while running Lemon.io, an online platform for developers he launched in 2015. After years abroad, Volodarsky came back to Ukraine in 2017, which at the time had...
RUSSIA IN CRISIS The European Union has widened the sanctions against Russia and Belarus in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and assistance of Belarus. The sanctions include restrictions of SWIFT services...
RUSSIA: ESCALATING CRISIS Alphabet Inc.’s Google blocked sales of advertising through its Google Adsense service in the Russian-language Internet. The company said it will be “temporarily pausing” Google ads from...
SANCTIONS UNLEASHED U.S. imposed sanctions against Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), a sovereign wealth fund, and its CEO Kirill Dmitriev. The fund was set up to invest in promising Russian startups. In recent...