The Brink of War?

[Moses]

McDonalds is leaving Russia.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/16/b...xit/index.html

It already left Donetsk Republic few years ago. Here is result:

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ДонМак = DonMac

[Moses]

Today Reebok announced what it sold Russian network of branded shops (over 100 shops) to Turkish company with 70% discount. Loss is around $1 bln.

Turkish company already announced what it will keep shops and continue sales: because it is... Reebok's distributor. Russians lost nothing, Turkey got business. Reebok lost $1bln. Sanctions...

[dab69]

For your information: in Russia black market on body parts doesn't exists. Here is the same law as in Switzerland: doctors may use body parts from died bodies if it suits, and nobody need agreement with relatives, unless person before death declared restrictions. We haven't here long waiting for donors of any kind of body parts. My brother got 2 kidneys twice in year just after waiting 1 week for results of tests.

exorcisms not working-
need more "deer antler blood" baths...

[Dodger]

It already left Donetsk Republic few years ago. Here is result:

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ДонМак = DonMac

As long as they change the name and remove the golden arches I don't think McDonald's cares.

Maybe they can rename it "McPutins".

[Moses]

As long as they change the name and remove the golden arches I don't think McDonald's cares.

Nobody cares about the cares of McDonalds anymore here: all brands what left Russia lost rights for trademark protection and protection of "grey" import: any their foreign distributor may start business here. And many already started - only 39 countries joined sanctions. Distributors from other 81% of countries are lined up for to take place of exiting under pressure own govts brands.

Premiere of iPhone SE here was just 1 day late than in rest of world and it is on the market already despite Apple left Russian market before world premiere of SE.

[Dragonman]

Nobody cares about the cares of McDonalds anymore here: all brands what left Russia lost rights for trademark protection and protection of "grey" import: any their foreign distributor may start business here. And many already started - only 39 countries joined sanctions. Distributors from other 81% of countries are lined up for to take place of exiting under pressure own govts brands.

Premiere of iPhone SE here was just 1 day late than in rest of world and it is on the market already despite Apple left Russian market before world premiere of SE.

Has the Russian Federation formally withdrawn from the following treaties, particularly the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, of which it is a signatory and which provide international protection for trademark matters?

the Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks 1891–1967;
the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks of 1989;
the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Union) 1957–1977;
the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property;
the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 1994 (the TRIPS Agreement);
the Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol 1981;
the Trademark Law Treaty 1994; and
the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks 2006.

Has it also withdrawn from the "Treaty on Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin of Goods of the EEU," which the Russian Federation signed in November 2020. If firms have registered trademarks in any of the Eurasian Economic Area countries (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan are the other members along with the Russian Federation), they are protected in the Russian Federation.

If the Russian Federation has withdrawn from these treaties, then Russian Federation trademarks are no longer protected internationally.

[dab69]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...71d4ceb2485d02

The children's camp that became an execution ground

Since Russian forces were pushed back from Kyiv at the end of March, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the Bucha region - many hastily buried in shallow graves. The BBC's Sarah Rainsford has been investigating what happened at a children's summer camp - now being treated as a crime scene.

It is easy to miss the killing spot at first in the gloom. But in a cold, damp basement on the edge of the woods that made Bucha a popular get-away spot before the war, five Ukrainian men were forced to their knees and shot in the head.

To the right of the entrance, there are stones coated in blood that has turned dark red. Lying among that is a blue woollen hat with an exit hole in one side and its rim soaked in blood. In the wall, I counted at least a dozen bullet holes.

A couple of steps away are the remains of a Russian military ration pack - an open can of rice porridge with beef and an empty packet of crackers. A name daubed in graffiti on a wall is a reminder that the scene is a children's camp. But when Russian troops moved into Bucha, just outside the capital, in early March, Camp Radiant became an execution ground.

The story of the summer camp killings is chilling but so is this detail: more than 1,000 civilians were killed in the Bucha region during a month under Russian occupation, but most did not die from shrapnel or shelling. More than 650 were shot dead by Russian soldiers.

Now Ukraine is searching for their killers.

Volodymyr Boichenko lived in Hostemel, just up the road from Bucha and near the airfield where the first Russian forces landed to try to overthrow Ukraine's government. When his sister Aliona Mykytiuk decided to flee before the fighting reached her, she pleaded with Volodymyr to join her. He was a civilian, not a soldier, but he wanted to stay and help. So he spent the days searching Hostemel for food and water to bring to neighbours, including children, who were trapped in their cellars by the constant shelling and Russian airstrikes.

A chatty 34 year old, who had travelled the world in the merchant navy, Volodymyr phoned his family from Hostemel most days to reassure them he was safe. Aliona would wait nervously for his brief calls: she knew he had to move to higher ground to get a connection and if the shelling was heavy it was impossible to leave the bomb shelter. As supplies ran low, she urged her brother to try to escape but by then the roads were blocked.

The last time Aliona heard from him was on 8 March. Volodymyr wasn't the demonstrative type, but that day he told his sister not to worry about him. "He said 'I really love you,' and that was so painful to hear," Aliona sobs, rubbing her eyes hard but unable to stop the tears. "There was fear in his voice."

Four days later, Volodymyr was spotted by neighbours close to Promenystyi, as it's known here, or Camp Radiant. Then he disappeared.

In March, the fighting around Kyiv was intense and the small town of Bucha was at the epicentre. The withdrawal of Russian troops in early April revealed scenes that shocked the world: the bodies of residents slumped in the streets where they'd been shot.

Moscow tells anyone who will listen that the killings were staged, an idea that is as twisted as it is patently false. Determined to hold those responsible to account, Ukrainian investigators are busy collecting the hard evidence on territory now back under their control.

"We don't know what Putin's plans are, so we are working as quickly as possible in case he drops a bomb and destroys all the proof," says Kyiv regional police chief, Andrii Niebytov.

That evidence includes a field full of civilian cars pierced with multiple bullet holes, now piled up on the edge of Bucha. They are vehicles that were shot at when families tried to flee. One still has a length of white cloth at the window, hung to show the soldiers that its occupants were no threat. Step too close, and you catch the sickly smell of death.



When the bodies beneath Camp Radiant were discovered on 4 April, Volodymyr Boichenko was among them. Aliona had spent weeks frantically calling hospitals and morgues. That day she was sent a photograph to identify. She knew it was her brother before it had even downloaded.

"I hate them with every cell of my being," Aliona cries, about Volodymyr's killers. "I know that's wrong to say about people, but they are not human. There was not one patch on those men's bodies that was not beaten."

The five men had been found crouching on their knees, heads down and hands bound behind their backs.

"We know they had been tortured," the police chief told the BBC. "The Russian army has crossed the line of how war is conducted. They were not fighting the military in Ukraine, they were kidnapping and torturing the civilian population."

Neither the Prosecutor's Office nor the SBU security service will disclose details of ongoing investigations, but some Russian military were so careless at covering their that tracks there are likely to be considerable clues to work with. Ukrainian territorial defence units have even discovered lists of soldiers at some abandoned positions. One appears to be part of a rota for litter duty, another includes passport details and mobile phone numbers.

[Moses]

If the Russian Federation has withdrawn from these treaties, then Russian Federation trademarks are no longer protected internationally.

Since "Russian Federation trademarks" are under sanctions - who cares?

West froze and steal half of Russian gold reserve and you still have hopes what Russia will protect Western properties? Wrong. But Russia still has bilateral agreements in countries where it is interested in mutual protection.

[Moses]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...71d4ceb2485d02

The children's camp that became an execution ground

Since Russian forces were pushed back from Kyiv at the end of March, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the Bucha region - many hastily buried in shallow graves. The BBC's Sarah Rainsford has been investigating what happened at a children's summer camp - now being treated as a crime scene.

Results will be the same as British "investigations" about Novichok: nobody knows but "highly likely", almost 5 years already left, but still no one court made decision. "Bucha case" is forged by Nazi scene.

[dab69]

Results will be the same as British "investigations" about Novichok: nobody knows but "highly likely", almost 5 years already left, but still no one court made decision. "Bucha case" is forged by Nazi scene.

Welcome to Camp Putin
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("work will set you free" =Auschwitz)