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BP abandons Russian oil company stake, Shell pulls out of Nord Stream 2

Enlarge / A low-temperature isomerization unit at the Novokuibyshevsk Refinery, a subsidiary of Rosneft Oil Company, in the Russian city of Novokuibyshevsk. (credit: Yegor Aleyev / TASS) Shell announced today that it would be pulling out of the stalled Nord Stream 2 pipeline and seeking to sell its stakes in various oil and gas projects […]

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After Ukraine recruits an “IT Army,” dozens of Russian sites go dark

Enlarge Cyberspace is feeling the strain of Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine: multiple sites tied to the Kremlin and its allies in Belarus have been unavailable to all or at least major parts of the Internet in recent days. The outages began last week with the defacement of Russian websites and picked up steam over […]