The U.S. lifted sanctions on Belavia, raising fears spare parts could reach Russia’s airlines. Washington bans flights to Russia, but enforcement is doubtful due to Belarus-Russia’s open borders. The move risks a rift with the EU, which still blocks parts and services.

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How can you summarise your research for a wider audience? I think it's a no-brainer to present your work in a way that's accessible to those outside academia. Having edited over 500 @voxdev.bsky.social articles, I've put what I've learned into this blog: voxdev.org/topic/commun...

A more integrated capital market in #Europe could strengthen investment and boost GDP by 1.5% by reducing the cost of capital and encouraging the entry of investors more inclined to finance innovative projects. F Venditti, M Caivano, P Cova, K Pallara, M Pisani cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

The first batch of military equipment under the PURL program, an agreement between the US and NATO, has arrived in Ukraine, with more shipments on the way. Funded by allies, the initiative revives U.S. arms transfers to Kyiv from NATO stockpiles. Incoming aid includes Patriot and HIMARS missiles.

My favorite conversations are when people invoke market failures and it turns out that it's true, except that the failure was created by government policy.

Russian Z-propagandist Maksim Kalashnikov publicly admits that Putin’s so-called "liberation" army has brought nothing but destruction to the residents of Donbas and other occupied territories of Ukraine. "We came to 'liberate' Russian regions, but we’ve turned them into ruins.

Conservative and Liberal Americans demand a health policy driven by science, not loyalty to a cabal, because our lives depend on it.

King Charles III: “Today, as tyranny once again threatens Europe, we and our allies stand united in support of Ukraine to deter aggression.” Meanwhile, Trump gives a token nod but keeps pressuring Zelensky to give up land instead of backing Ukraine’s sovereignty.

After Ukraine, Moscow may turn its attention south. Africa Corps is already paving the way.

Great example of revenue from the EU's carbon price used to stimulate transition ✈️ At €75 per tonne, the following ten airlines will receive annual subsidies of between €3 and €20 million to support the purchase of sustainable aviation fuel 💰Total subsidy package of €1.5 billion

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

Q]: Kharkiv was targeted today. You announced 17 Patriots to Ukraine two months ago. Will they come and do you know when they will come? President Trump: Where are you from? [Q]: Ukraine. Trump: Look, let me tell you. I love Ukraine, I love the people of #Ukraine.

Important new paper with two key messages: 1. New wind turbines reduce preferences for green electricity by 24% and vote shares of the green party by 10% among nearby residents 2. This backlash is significantly mitigated in municipalities that receive meaningful tax revenues from wind power profits

To my knowledge, this paper is the first to provide ex-post empirical evidence that financial participation may help increase local support for renewable energies. 🔌💡

Demand for human-generated, trust-certified internet content is skyrocketing. There is a major business opportunity, in *every* country, for media firms to meet this rising demand with innovation. Fascinating new experiment by @filipecampante.bsky.social et al.—> filipecampante.org/wp-content/u...

President Stubb: There is this imperialist DNA& undertone in Russia,which doesn't seem to go away.Russia is built on empire.That's why Putin talks about the Russkiy Mir(the Russian world),the great Russia borders to the 1800s,which has,u know,one language,one Russia,one religion,one leader himself

President Stubb: Power politics is back, spheres of interest is back, Russian imperialism is not gone, so start adjusting. Right now we're living in a 1918, 1945, or 1989 moment in world history. And now we're in a similar situation. We just don't know where the world is going to go.

Senator Lindsey “Bla Bla” Graham says sanctions haven’t stopped Putin, “he just sidesteps them.” The next U.S. sanctions package, he noted, will target not Russia directly, but countries like China, India, and Brazil that help the Kremlin by buying its discounted oil and gas. Lots of bla bla again.

A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, undermining the Fed. Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign. If merit still matters, he should be fired.

“I want to strongly warn against Russian disinformation claiming that the drones which entered Polish airspace were Ukrainian in order to drag Poland into the war. This is a lie,” Karol Nawrocki, President of Poland stated.

Ukraine answered our call for help after the 9/11 attacks and deployed 5,000 soldiers despite not being in NATO. 18 Ukrainian soldiers perished. Russia paid bounties to the Taliban for every US soldier they killed. Let's not ever mistake who our friends and enemies are.

And it is very dangerous, above all for European countries. The truth is that Putin has turned Russia into a war machine that is very difficult to stop. And he does not want to stop it because the current regime survives only thanks to war.

Foreign Minister of Poland Radosław Sikorski: I think it's high time that President Trump should see that Putin is mocking him Instead of a ceasefire that was supposed to happen before the Alaska Summit& serious peace talks, Putin is sending more and more drones, first at Ukraine and now at NATO

Check out our new paper on virality - both large scale observational text-as-data work as well as novel experiments on persuasiveness of narratives. There has been basically no systematic work on virality in economics, so we believe this yields really novel insights on such a key narrative feature

In my opinion bad practice by RESTUD to only mention co-authors as "and others" in their emails. There should be enough space to mention all authors (at least up to a reasonable number like 4 or 5). @reveconstudies.bsky.social

Die erste zerstörte polnische Wohnung.

In Polen wurde ein Wohnhaus infolge des russischen Angriffs getroffen. Das Gebäude und ein daneben stehendes Auto wurden beschädigt. Was nun? Weiter ignorieren und als Missverständnis abtun? Die Reaktion heute, wird bestimmen was morgen passiert! ☝️

The problem is, the Democrat leadership needs me and millions of other patriotic voters to immediately rally behind the, after having surrendered in abject public humiliation. I won’t do it. I won’t go along to get along. There must be values, there must be principles. The opposition must oppose.

It's just been a brutal several years for German GDP growth—they're the only EU member state whose economy is still smaller than before the pandemic

New Paper Alert!📢 "Virality: What Makes Narratives Go Viral, and Does it Matter" by @kaigehring.bsky.social ‬& Matteo Grigoletto This paper finds that political narratives are consistently more viral than neutral messages. Check out the whole paper here: 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Kramatorsk Der russische Abschaum hat wieder gezielt die Feuerwehr angegriffen, die einen Brand in einem Wohnhaus bekämpften. 🤬 Durch den Treffer einer Drohne wurde ein aus Deutschland geliefertes Feuerwehrfahrzeug beschädigt. Glücklicherweise wurde keiner der Feuerwehrleute verletzt. 🙏 /2

Check out our new paper on virality - both large scale observational text-as-data work as well as novel experiments on persuasiveness of narratives. There has been basically no systematic work on virality in economics, so we believe this yields really novel insights on such a key narrative feature

During the overnight attack, Russian forces targeted a horse club in Kyiv region with three Shahed drones. No people were injured, but seven horses were killed in the strike.

Genuinely interested in how many of these prominent have switched their views to support Trump despite their original assessment being obviously correct. The vast majority I would assume.

Many German universities have a so-called “civil clause” which forbids research benefiting the military. The author of the article arguing for an end of this practice is president of a Munich university. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

“The exploitation of the dual-use potential of new technologies, i.e. both civilian and military use, has so far been considered taboo at German universities - as if neutrality in security-critical issues were a moral value.” www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

The moment a Russian drone hit a residential area in #Kyiv. This is not an accident. This is a deliberate war crime.

#Ukraine needs to strengthen its air defense

Auch Odesa wurde von den russischen Nazis massiv angegriffen. Es kam zu Bränden in Wohnhäuser, einem Lagerhaus und einem Auto, der Sportpalast wurde beschädigt. Die Brände wurden gelöscht. Die Rettungsarbeiten wurde durch wiederholte Luftalarme erschwert. 3 Menschen wurden verletzt. DSNS

Over ten buildings damaged in #Kyiv, several of them sustained direct hits of Russian drones. A mom and her three-months old son killed by Russia, the dad is badly injured. Search and rescue operations continue at all locations hit by Russian war crimes.

Während die Kulturnation (Kultur = Tod, Leid, Grausamkeiten, Ruinen, Kriegsverbrechen) russland die Zivilbevölkerung terrorisiert, sorgt dafür dass diese Nation von Mörder bald zu Fuss geht. Am Morgen griffen ukrainische UAVs die Ilsky-Raffinerie im Krasnodar-Gebiet an.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

I think about this a lot. I’m 60 years old, part of the last Cold War generation. I grew up with the baseline assumption that the US was a force for Good in the world, vs the Soviets and their allies, who were Evil. It was reflected in pop culture, political rhetoric, even consumer marketing.

The US looks more and more like 1980s Brazil, and believe me: I was there, it was not a good place… www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"Last year Mr Draghi unveiled a host of recommendations designed to boost Europe’s economy, including integrating the continent’s financial markets and many ways to cut red tape. Those proposals have gone precisely nowhere."

Dieses Ding mit den englischsprachigen Infos zum Bürgergeld schon wieder so eine Sache, wo Rechts und Links gleichermaßen irritieren: Einerseits kein Skandal, dass es Behördenseiten auf englisch gibt, andererseits kein Skandal, keine Einwanderer anlocken zu wollen, die nicht arbeiten

Serious recommendation to all gentlebeings with an interest in European #security and #defence: read Carlo Masala's (‬ @carlomasala1.bsky.social ) "If Russia Wins: A Scenario." READ IT NOW. ACTION TODAY. The scenario is frighteningly possible and very dangerous. I'll do a longer thread later.

“we’re introducing AlphaEarth Foundations, an (AI) model that functions like a virtual satellite. It accurately and efficiently characterizes the planet’s entire terrestrial land and coastal waters by integrating huge amounts of Earth observation data” deepmind.google/discover/blo...