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Exclusives “A warning to companies that remain”: Russia takes control of Nestlé and Auchan’s assets – companies that stayed in Russia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The companies had been warned that remaining in Russia could expose their investments to seizure as the Kremlin increasingly uses foreign-owned businesses asContinue Reading

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In the years following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, much of the world treated the region as strategically peripheral – unstable, exhausted, and largely disconnected from the future of global security. Policymakers assumed the consequences of state collapse and civil war would remain regionally contained. They did not. The vacuumContinue Reading