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Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, the global capital markets had experienced the initial plunge on February 24, and then stabilized and rebounded in the second trading day on February 25. The three major U.S. stock indexes closed up collectively, with the Dow Jones industrial average, the …

Giancarlo Elia Valori What is quantum computing? Why do we need quantum computing? According to Moore’s law (“The complexity of a microcircuit, measured for example by the number of transistors per chip, doubles every 18 months and hence quadruples every 3 years”), the density of transistors per area …

Akhmad Hanan and Mayora Bunga Swastika There is no denying that all countries in the world should use clean energy in the future. Based on the agreement at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasglow and several other important international meetings, several countries …

Deloitte Global in collaboration with The 30% Club today released the seventh edition of Women in the boardroom: A global perspective.  The latest edition of the report finds that women hold just 19.7% of board seats globally, a 2.8% increase from the report’s last edition, published in 2019. …

On February 27, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada issued a joint statement banning some Russian banks from using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system, touted as the “financial nuclear weapon”. SWIFT was established in May 1973 and is headquartered …

Alan Cunningham Covert action (CA) is a very sensitive and controversial area, partly due to the fact that historically, there have been many oversteps and misuses, including domestic spying, illegal paramilitary action, and taking actions that were largely counterproductive. With the Russia-Ukraine conflict well underway, some in the …

Ekaterina Blinova “On the eve of the start of the operation, the Western media pushed the narrative of the Russian Army’s allegedly unreasonable concentration on the border [with Ukraine]. Meanwhile, in previous years, NATO, under the pretext of exercises, sent a large number of troops to the Russian …

Tim Korso The Russian president announced a special operation in Ukraine on 24 February citing the continuing shelling of Donbass by Kiev’s forces, and the need to… 05.03.2022, Sputnik International Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the decision to start the special operation in Ukraine was not …

Naseh Shaker “Assisting guerrillas to maim and kill Russian soldiers might well create an irreparable breach between Russia and the West” In February 1989, the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan where the US-backed ‘Islamists’ were confronting the Soviet Union between 1979-89. However, after the defeat of western-backed terrorists …