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On April 29, Georgia’s IDIS Borjomi announced the closure of two of its mineral water bottling plants. The fact is that the company is owned by Russia’s Alfa Group, whose owners have come under Western sanctions. According to IDIS Borjomi Georgia, the company is in a difficult situation amid active hostilities in Ukraine. Some countries […]
Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, the Yale School of Management has been monitoring the applications of more than 1,000 companies. Of these, 750 companies have already publicly stated that they are voluntarily reducing their activities in Russia to some extent above the minimum required by law in accordance with international sanctions. There […]
SAP, which has been operating in Russia for more than 30 years, has announced its closure and closure of cloud services. The developer of automated control systems will stop supporting and servicing its products in Russia and Belarus, but current customers will still be able to use the purchased products. Closing cloud services is a […]
Russia’s ultrarich have found themselves in a difficult situation. After Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and his invasion of Ukraine in February, 34 current and former Russian billionaires came under US, British or European Union sanctions. Authorities froze their business, tracked down their super yachts and stopped their planes. So, it’s no surprise […]
Ukrposhta continues to negotiate with the world’s post offices to provide preferential terms for delivery to Ukraine during the war – currently 14 postal operators from other countries have introduced free delivery of items to Ukraine, according to the press service of the national postal operator. We are talking about delivery from abroad to specific […]
Vladislav Chechotkin, owner of Rozetka, Ukraine’s largest marketplace, told Forbes that he had received an offer to sell the business. He calls unknown persons “hyenas” because of the amount they offered. The Rozetka online store found itself in a difficult situation due to the Russian invasion. The company’s warehouses located around Kyiv have become inaccessible, […]
Complaints of employees of the Rozetka online store about a 20% reduction in salaries are appearing on social networks. Such a move could be attributed to a full-scale Russian invasion, but a letter about the reduction in wages received a few days before February 24. First, it affected the company’s designers and marketers. Rozetka web […]
On March 31, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) presented a special website “Financial Defense of Ukraine”, which collected all the necessary information on the peculiarities of the provision of financial services by banks and non-bank financial institutions during the war. The site also collects the main questions that now arise in consumers of financial […]
The Japanese government will ask Japanese companies to refuse to pay Russia in rubles, especially in the energy sector. This was announced by Secretary General of the Government of Japan Hirokazu Matsuno, writes Nikkei Asia. According to him, according to the agreements of the G7 countries, the Japanese authorities urge businesses not to agree to […]
Some foreign pharmaceutical companies have decided to stay and work in Russia. Thus, these companies pay taxes to the Russian treasury, which finances the war against Ukraine. The Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has identified at least 64 pharmaceutical companies that remain to do business in Russia. […]