Since the war in ukrane began, roughly a thousand international firms have curtailed their russian operations to some extent. Mac donalds announced that closing its restaurants in russia cost the company a hundred 27 million just in the first quarter of this year. But there might actually be some hope, because it turns out that shutting vladimir puddin is playing out surprisingly well in the stock market. So on this at least, the stock market seems to prefer the moral high ground.
The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expelled our correspondent. Abiy’s proxies at home and abroad are helping a propaganda push that is silencing criticism. California’s legal-marijuana market is enormous, but its growers are floundering under taxes and regulations; the industry is getting stubbed out. And a look at how companies that have withdrawn from Russia are faring.
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