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Russia invaded Ukraine and began a war on Thursday, the biggest nightmare for boxer Viktor Postol. The super lightweight contender is slated to fight Gary Antuanne Russell Saturday (10 p.m. ET, Showtime) at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Postol is from Ukraine and left his wife, Olga, and twin sons Timothey and Lukyam, at their home in Brovary, near Kyiv. He had told Yahoo Sports earlier in the week that he’d been trying to avoid the news so he could focus on his fight, while also hoping… Source link

Shares in Russia’s largest tech company Yandex are down 71 percent compared to February 16. They dropped 54.4 percent directly after the invasion of Ukraine on February 23. The dramatic fall comes as part of a wider collapse of Russian stocks as investors fear growing turmoil and state sanctions. Yandex launched a public cloud service in 2018, initially for its home… Source link

President Joe Biden and U.S. officials including Secretary of State Antony Blinken are sounding the alarm on a potential impending Russia invasion of Ukraine. That’s adding to pressure on equity markets, as one prominent economist warns of the stagflationary risks if there is indeed military conflict. “If it were to get worse — which is a big if — a very strong stagflationary wind would blow through the global economy,” Mohamed El-Erian, president of Queens College at Cambridge… Source link

The Jacksonville Jaguars‘ final game of the season is on track to be, well, a clown show. One sponsor would rather not be involved. RoofClaim.com, a roofing company located in Georgia with business in Florida, has sued to avoid being emphasized as the primary sponsor of Sunday’s finale against the Indianapolis Colts, according to Mark Long of the Associated Press. Why would a company go to such measures to not receive the lucrative exposure of an NFL sponsorship it paid for? The answer is… Source link