“We cannot stay in the camps,” Shamtan maintained, even though “the village is all destroyed … and life is non-existent,” lacking fundamental services and infrastructure.
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Apple products are by no means an exception.In Russian supermarkets, popular food brands such as Coca-Cola, Lipton, Lindt, Geisha, Tchibo and Pringles are still displayed on shelves despite officially exiting the country.Russian shoppers can still clean their toilets with Bref and wash their clothes with Persil detergent.
L’Occitane cosmetics are being sold under a new Cyrillic name at the French brand’s former stores in Russia, which were sold to a local buyer after the invasion.Other popular beauty brands such as Syoss, Schwarzkopf and Chanel - all of which officially pulled out of Russia - are sold openly in major cosmetics chain stores.
Some categories of goods appear to have been affected by the brand exodus more than others.
After car brands including Mercedes, BMW, Rolls Royce, Nisan, Kia and Ford exited Russia, auto sales in the country fell by 59 percent in 2022, according to the Association of European Businesses.Indeed, due process means that there is a process, and it should be followed. I filed a compelling 76,000 word clemency petition in the case of
before Christmas, which Biden dismissed on January 20 without addressing any of the grounds – her innocence, the CIA’s abduction of his children, the fact that she had been tortured in US custody, and the sexual abuse she faces in prison today.Then, this week, my octogenarian former death row client, Clarence Smith, passed away in federal prison. He had been denied compassionate release even though he was terminally ill, was again patently innocent and had proved himself to be a model prisoner: He had, in his forty-one years in the penitentiary, only been given one disciplinary punishment, for the heinous offence of making his prison bed before being told to do so.
Let us therefore keep an eye on how the president’s immense power is used (or abused), and perhaps consider imposing some rules of transparency upon him.The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.