Last summer, Irish exporters thought they were on the tail end of supply chain challenges. A year on, not much has changed and they're still navigating freight delays and shipping headaches – with inflation added on.
Oleh Derevianko has been at the frontier of Russia's cyber warfare against Ukraine for years. His company's defences are holding off Russia's hackers for now, but the major concern is what malware could already have been planted and is waiting to strike in this hybrid war.
Germans retain a vivid idea of what Total War actually means and the remnants of this occasionally re-appear. But are the country's conversations about Russia's war against Ukraine leading to a clarity absent in Ireland?
In March, Russian jets bombed a residential block in the town of Borodyanka 40km northwest of Kyiv. Two of them collapsed and the survivors have yet to discover what lies beneath as Johnny O'Reilly reports.
As multinationals flee Moscow in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, the Irish food giant argues it still has unspecified “legal obligations” in Russia and Belarus.
Johnny O'Reilly reports from Kyiv and from Irpin, the town just outside Ukraine's capital which was the scene of some of the most harrowing images from the war as Ukrainians consider what comes next.
As a partner in the law firm which acted for the Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz in their action against the Russian state corporation, Yulia knew the risks if she stayed in her homeland.
Johnny O'Reilly reports from Odessa on the increasing desperation of Vladimir Putin as the Russian propaganda campaign continues on all fronts.
The food insecurity triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine will cause deep problems in Africa, where nearly half of the continent depends on Russia and Ukraine for food staples. Africa is already a new front in a new Cold War.
Commodity prices are rising and they are going to continue to rise over the coming months. Forward-looking Western governments should secure whatever critical supplies they need sooner rather than later – in this situation, it is better to panic early than to panic when it is too late.
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