Russia’s sporting freeze grows over Ukraine invasion

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 04:33:00 +0000

PARIS (AFP) – Russia continued to pay a heavy sporting price for its invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday, frozen out by a snowballing list of sports with perhaps the most painful blows coming from ice skating and athletics. Russian and Belarusian tennis players will be allowed to continue competing on the WTA and ATP Tours […]

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Fight Back Against the Fossil Fuels Autocrats: Electrify & Decarbonize!

Credit to Author: Joe Wachunas| Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:55:34 +0000

For too long, I think, we’ve seen that one of the many downsides to our reliance on fossil fuels is that it empowers autocrats in petrostates to spread chaos at home and across the world. It’s time to Electrify & Decarbonize. From Venezuela to Nigeria to Saudi Arabia to most recently (and blatantly!) Russia, we’ve […]

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How Tech Companies Are Responding To Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:25:27 +0000

To the shock of most Ukrainians as well as most Russians, Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine in recent days and topple its democratically elected government. Following years of propaganda and blatant gaslighting, the military operation recently shifted from being a “peacekeeping” force in a couple of eastern regions of Ukraine where fighting has been […]

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World Taekwondo revokes Putin’s honorary black belt

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 07:09:56 +0000

HONG KONG (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin had his honorary black belt in taekwondo revoked by the sport’s international governing body on Tuesday, over his country’s invasion of Ukraine. As Russian troops amass outside Kyiv, and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees flee into neighbouring countries, world leaders have heaped punishing economic sanctions on […]

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Telus and Shaw reverse decision and ban state-owned Russia Today TV for airing 'propaganda'

Credit to Author: Susan Lazaruk| Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:46:45 +0000

Telus and Shaw TV reversed their positions of allowing RT TV in their lineups after the country’s other major telecom companies, Bell and Rogers, announced they were dropping the station.

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