PUTIN WILL NOT ATTEND THE FUNERAL FOR GORBACHEV - HIS FINAL INSULT TO A GREAT MAN!!

 Putin's final snub for Gorbachev: Vladimir WON'T attend Soviet leader's funeral on Saturday because he is 'too busy'

• Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian President could not come due to work schedule
• It comes after Putin was filmed laying a bouquet of red roses near Gorbachev's open casket at hospital
• Despite huge outpouring of tributes from West after Gorbachev's death, reaction much more muted in Russia
• Gorbachev, 91, who was in power between 1985 and 1991, triggered the demise of the Soviet Union 
• FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11169237/Vladimir-WONT-attend-Soviet-leaders-funeral-Saturday-busy.html

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Taxi for Putin! Hackers bring gridlock to Moscow by sending hundreds of cabs to fake pick-up in Russian capital (but was it revenge for Ukraine invasion?)

• Hackers targeted Yandex Taxi, a taxi-hailing app similar to the likes of Uber
• They sent hundreds of drivers to the same pick-up point on Kutuzovsky Prospekt 
• The huge 10-lane road into the centre of the Russian capital was gridlocked
• No one has taken credit for the hack, but comes as Russia wages war on Ukraine
• The two countries have engaged in cyberwarfare, even before invasion began
• FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11172489/Taxi-Putin-Hackers-bring-gridlock-Moscow-sending-hundreds-cabs-fake-pick-point.html

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Turkey may yet prove to be the big winner of the Ukraine war. Erdogan has already helped avert a global famine, and he may yet exploit Europe's looming energy winter crisis to redraw the world order in his interests. 

It is often said that there are no winners in war. But the old cliché fails to take into account non-combatants who find their international position has strengthened through the conflict.

China, for example, might well secure advantageous oil and gas contracts from Moscow in return for the invasion of Ukraine.

But the most significant winner could yet to prove to be Turkey, which has already proved its status as a regional powerbroker by securing a deal with the Kremlin to allow the export of millions of tons of Ukrainian grain - thus averting a major global food crisis.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11170281/Turkey-prove-big-winner-Ukraine-war-writes-ERBIL-GUNASTI.html