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Bloomberg reports that the default is largely symbolic and Russia is simply defaulting since Western financial institutions won't accept Russia payments. Is ...
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What did Putin do to ensure that he doesn't get overthrown by a military coup or to reduce the likelihood of it?
https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-05-25/new-punishments-await-...
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In a recent answer, user kandi made this statement:
the war probably could have been ended by now if the West wasn't passionatly supporting the bloodshed by provided just as much arms as to keep ...
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Supreme Court justices are often chosen not solely based on their professional skills and reputation, but also based on their political orientation in order to advance certain ideology. One example is ...
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This relates to an item legislated by the Texas republican party recently. Overlooking the more regressive and dangerous items, and the frivolous and inconsequential items, they are also throwing the ...
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According to US law they can arrest people for money laundering even if the money was laundered outside of the US.
Here's Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's old statement:
The West plays ...
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In easy-to-understand terms, how would this ruling affect the different States? Supreme Court to Hear Case on State Legislatures’ Power Over Elections
From what I see, in North Carolina the Senate and ...
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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The best known monarchy is no doubt the various Commonwealth realms ruled over by Queen Elizabeth. However, she is generally seen as mostly a figurehead, with elected officials being the ones that do ...
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Here is a preliminary image from The Guardian showing the individual counties during the 2016 election in the United States:
There appears to be a line of counties in blue, curving from Maine in the ...
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US President Biden concluded his March 27, 2022 speech in Poland with the words
For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.
(e.g. CBS News's video Biden says Putin "cannot remain in power&...
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So it's time to file taxes in the United States and it occurred to me that I am required to provide a lot of information that the government already knows. For instance, I have to provide the contents ...
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In this question, I do not raise questions about the conflicts themselves. The question is different - how is the fact that the United States recognizes these problems as its own justified from a ...
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Any European cities I have ever visited had homeless or beggars on the street. Or these people may not necessarily be homeless but it is clear enough that they are extremely poor and need help from ...
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The US Presidential election uses an "electoral college" system, where each state gets a certain number of "electors" (votes), and those electors cast the official votes for President. Each state's ...
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According to an Amnesty press release from April:
On 8 April, the Russian Ministry of Justice delisted Amnesty International’s Moscow Office from the register of the representative offices of the ...
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I'm kind of an election nerd looking for a place to view different ballot designs from around the world.
For instance, I'm happy to have found this video from International IDEA analysing ballot ...
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Two or even three US Senators have said that [future] justices that ultimately overturned Roe had essentially lied to them, or at least seriously misled them in the Senate hearings on their ...
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