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[이데일리 김지완 기자] According to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 1,000 foreign brands withdrew their business in Russia.
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According to the Yale Graduate School of Business on the 21st, nearly 1,000 foreign brands have withdrawn or reduced their business in Russia following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Food and beverages and daily necessities such as McDonald’s, Zara, and Mother Care, as well as software and IT services such as Adobe, Instagram, and Facebook, were suspended. In addition, imports of bakery manufacturing facilities, automobiles, ink, and paper were blocked, and A/S was not available even in case of breakdown. There are even sarcasm regarding this that Russia has returned to the days of the Soviet Union.
The British Guardian reported on the 20th (local time) that Russians are suffering a lot in their daily life due to Western sanctions on Russia.
The Elysée Palace announced on Friday the composition of the new government four days following the Head of State Emmanuel Macron appointed Elisabeth Borne as Prime Minister.
The new team, which includes 13 women and 14 men, was unveiled by Elysee Secretary General Alexis Kohler nearly a month following Emmanuel Macron was re-elected for a second term.
It includes new faces while other outgoing ministers have been kept in their posts such as those of Economy and Finance Bruno le Maire, Interior Gérald Darmanin and Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, as well as the secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune.
Other members of the former government changed ministerial portfolios. Thus, Marc Fesneau, hitherto Minister of Relations with Parliament, inherited Agriculture.
Olivia Grégoire leaves the Social, Solidarity and Responsible Economy to take over as government spokesperson, the Minister previously in charge of Industry, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, has been appointed to Energy Transition, while Amélie de Montchalin, until he then Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, saw herself propelled to the head of the new Ministry of Ecological Planning and Territories.
Gabriel Attal, spokesperson for the outgoing executive, was promoted to the Ministry of Public Accounts. In Foreign Affairs, one of the key ministers, Catherine Colonna, current French ambassador to London and former minister for European affairs and government spokesperson under the mandates of Jacques Chirac, succeeded Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Among the new figures on the government team, mention is made in particular of Pap Ndiaye, a specialist in American history, who has been appointed Minister of National Education, Rima Abdul Malak, adviser to the President of the Republic, took the reins of the Ministry of Culture. Stanislas Guerini, General Delegate of Renaissance, inherits the Civil Service.
Sébastien Lecornu inherited the Ministry of the Armed Forces, replacing Florence Parly. The first Council of Ministers will be held on Monday around President Macron, also indicated the secretary general of the Elysée. The new executive will face a difficult national and international agenda with the war in Ukraine, galloping inflation and sluggish growth.
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Yesterday, it was officially announced the death of the Iraqi poet Muzaffar Al-Nawab in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Cultural and political circles mourned the deputies, while Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi directed the transfer of the body of the deputies on the presidential plane from the UAE to be buried in Iraq.
In addition to his classical poems, the deputies became famous for his poems in the Iraqi dialect, and his most famous poems in the spoken dialect were transformed into songs, such as “Al-Rayl and Hamad,” “My Soul,” “The Night of Violet” and “Han and Wan Wan.”
Al-Nawab was born in 1934 in Baghdad, where he completed his university studies. Then he was appointed as an Arabic language teacher, but was later dismissed for his political activities, and then he was arrested in the famous Nuqarat al-Salman prison.
After the Baathists seized power in 1963, the deputies were forced to flee to Iran, but he was arrested and returned to Iraq, where he was held in Hilla prison.
He managed to escape with a group of prisoners following they succeeded in digging a tunnel under the prison. Then he returned to Iraq in 1969 for a short period, and was forced to leave once more, to spend more than half his life in exile, in several Arab countries. He settled for a period in Lebanon, Syria, Libya, and some European countries.
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After the Russian armed forces took full control of all the facilities of the “Azovstal” plant in Mariupel, Russian media are talking regarding the surrender of the most prominent leaders in “Azovstal”.
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The surrender of the most prominent leaders of the Ukrainian armed and military personnel in “Azovestal” in Mariupol
After the spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, confirmed yesterday, Friday, Full control of the Russian armed forces over all the facilities of the Azovstal plant In Mariupel, where the militants of the extremist “Azov” battalion are entrenched, the media reported the surrender of other prominent leaders as well.
These two commanders are Svyatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of “Azov”, and Sergey Volynsky, acting commander of the 36th Brigade of the Ukrainian Marines, and they are known for publishing many videos from the cellars of “Azovstal” during the siege of the factory.
And the media published a video of Volynsky talking to journalists upon his surrender, while a number of Russian war correspondents reported that Ballamer also surrendered on Friday evening, and handed over his personal weapons – a pistol and an automatic rifle, according to “Channel One” correspondent Irina Koksenkova, without confirmation. Official for this news so far.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated yesterday that “the so-called commander of the “Azov” Nazis was removed from the factory’s territory in a special armored car, due to the desire of the residents of Mariupel to punish him for many crimes.”
The ministry confirmed that the Russian forces had taken full control of all “Azovestal” facilities in Mariupel.
The Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, also informed the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin, the completion of the process of complete liberation of the factory, and the city of Mariupl, from Ukrainian militants.
Prior to that, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the Russian army And troops from Donetsk and Luhansk expand control over the Donbass lands, stressing that “the liberation of Luhansk is nearing its end.”
The Russian forces were postponed Dozens of civilians from the “Azovestal” plantthis month, under the supervision of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.