Russia apos;s Novaya Gazeta Cuts Ukraine War Reporting Under Censorship
On a call with investors after the writedown decision was made public, the company's executives said it was not yet clear how the conflict in Ukraine will affect its Russian classified business Avito, Russia's largest online marketplace.
But prosecutors said Garrett used the donated money to eat out, pay off credit cards and pay rent and taxes. The enterprise purported to provide housing, education, food and other needs to displaced or homeless children.
This week, Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, whose brief includes football, told Parliament, ‘we have tolerated the investment of Russian kleptocrats for far too long', as MPs discussed potential sanctions against oligarchs.
James Patrick Garrett, a 65-year-old best known for his John Denver tribute, also was ordered to pay $82,000 in restitution when he was sentenced Friday for wire fraud, the Springfield News-Leader reported.
He entered a guilty plea last year.
AMSTERDAM, March 7 (Reuters) - Dutch technology investor Prosus will write off its entire 25.9% stake in Moscow-headquartered online platform VK Group, which it says was valued on its books at $700 million.
"Military censorship in Russia has quickly moved into a new phase: from the threat of blocking and closing publications (almost fully implemented) it has moved to the threat of criminal prosecution of both journalists and citizens who spread information about military hostilities that is different from the press releases of the Ministry of Defense," the paper said in a message to readers.
MOSCOW, March 4 (Reuters) - Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, whose editor Dmitry Muratov was a co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, said on Friday it would remove material on Russia's military actions in Ukraine from its website because of censorship.
After some research, it was determined that roughly $52,000 of the restitution money would be paid to FosterAdopt Connect, an organization that works in Missouri and Kansas to help kids and families navigate the foster care system.
‘We are looking at the next steps and whether more tests need to be added, whether we need to be more transparent about those decisions and whether independent scrutiny really needs to be on top of this,' the Premier League chief said.
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Rather than send out reassuring messages to investors - from whom they have made handsome profits over the years - they become tongue tied. Most disappear into their Mayfair offices and wait for the tide to turn.
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Garrett was initially supposed to be sentenced in January, but Judge Roseann Ketchmark asked for a continuance to allow the government to explore whether or not some of the money Garrett owed could be donated to a charity.
Meanwhile, Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich, who has not been sanctioned by the Government, is selling off his UK assets, including Chelsea Football Club and is seeking a deal he hopes will raise £3BN.
LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) - Vladimir Lisin, a Russian billionaire, told employees at steelmaker NLMK that lost lives in Ukraine were a tragedy that was hard to justify, and called for a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the conflict.
Refusing to give up its editorial independence, Ekho Moskvy's board of directors voted to close the station after the prosecutor general's office demanded restrictions on access to it because of what it called false reporting on Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine.
(AP) - A performer in the Missouri tourist town of Branson who convinced his audiences to donate thousands of dollars to a fake charity for foster children has been sentenced to five years of probation.
Lisin, NLMK's chairman and main shareholder, said in a letter to staff that was posted on social networks by an employee that the company and its board of directors hoped that the conflict was resolved soon.
Asked whether the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund (PIF) would have been allowed to take over Newcastle United with a tougher test in place, Tracey Crouch told the Financial Times Summit: ‘It is difficult to say because I don't know all the details of the takeover bid.
"We continue to report on the consequences that Russia is facing: the developing economic crisis, the rapid decline in living standards, problems with access to foreign medicines and technologies, and the persecution of dissidents, including for anti-war statements," it said.
The Government's Fan-Led Review of Football, led by Conservative MP Tracey Crouch, put forward proposals for a new owners' and directors' test, which would be split into two parts, one looking at disqualification criteria and another at integrity.