Alain Pellet, the lawyer that represented Russia before ICJ, has resigned. He wrote: I have enjoyed working with you to defend the interests of your country, which I love dearly. I appreciated that while defending them together, we could exchange freely on the limits not to be crossed. I have seen the scruples of some of you and understood the unwavering commitment of others. But enough is enough. Yesterday I sent my letter of resignation to the competent authorities: lawyers can defend more or less questionable causes. But it has become impossible to represent in forums dedicated to the application of the law a country that so cynically despises it.
The United States stopped the Russian government on Monday from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600 million from reserves held at U.S. banks, in a move meant to ratchet up pressure on Moscow and eat into its holdings of dollars. Under sanctions put in place after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, foreign currency reserves held by the Russian central bank at U.S. financial institutions were frozen. But the Treasury Department had been allowing the Russian government to use those funds to make coupon payments on dollar-denominated sovereign debt on a case-by-case basis.
expel the fuckers and tell them if they want fuel they can go get it in Bucha where their comrades are murdering Ukrainians....wtf does Ireland need a russian embassy anymore...tell em bye bye
The Irish government refused planning permission to allow them expand their already grossly overstaffed embassy making what certainly appeared to be an underground datacenter and operation center for intelligence espionage. https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2022/0310/1285699-russian-embassy-orwell-road-irish-government/
"The Defense Ministry was forced to walk back its statements and acknowledge that some conscripts were sent to Ukraine “by mistake” and were taken prisoner while serving with a supply unit away from the front." War in Ukraine fuels fears among draft-age Russian youths https://apnews.com/article/russia-u...-draft-fears-0553c8ac5981758826f973e2103348e0