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On being un-British: safety through solidarity after the Manchester attack Britishness will never protect us.

“From the moment the news of the attack in Manchester broke out, home secretary Shabana Mahmood pounced on the opportunity to reinstate her patriotism”, writes Max Hammer.

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Hatte mit der @redaktionzack.bsky.social einen kurzen Austausch zum Thema Raiffeisen/Russland.

Freut mich sehr, dass ZackZack dazu berichtet. Die Tatsache, dass russische Gasexporte in die EU mittlerweile größtenteils an der RBI hängen, findet leider in Ö-Medien noch immer zu wenig Niederschlag

The Israeli government will only stop its campaign of genocide & engineered starvation if our governments, and governments around the world, move from empty condemnations to real pressure.

Join us on Monday outside the Foreign Office at 5:30pm to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel.

Haha wow it's so funny and epic that the president sicced a psychotic billionaire Afrikaner on the country to destroy global health systems and kill thousands of kids in Sudan and is now planning to give him the Ernst Röhm treatment. Real entertaining stuff

this government's entire craven, amoral, cruel approach to politics summed up in a single word.

not just happy, but actively frothing at the mouth, to throw vulnerable people under the bus at the earliest opportunity based on a delusional, self-serving image of the "median voter"

We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party

this is 100% true but no one in the UK is allowed to claim victory on this either. grocery store vegetables here taste like they've had a silencer attached to their flavour profile and go bad within 45 seconds of purchase

Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.

Very proud to have been part of this initiative

🚨HAPPENING NOW:

Protestors led by attac, BankTrack, and B4Ukraine are outside Raiffeisen Bank International's Annual General Meeting in Vienna with a clear message:

Raiffeisen, get out of Russia!

@b4ukraine.org @attac.at

We're out. A final question from me about whether the bank could respond to questions about its investment in sanctioned Russian government bonds was left unanswered.

A Ukrainian shareholder directs further questions about RBI's plans for an exit from Russia to Andrii Stepanenko, Raiffeisen's only Ukrainian board member.

Internationale Proteste fordern heute Russland-Rückzug von #Raiffeisen.

Aktivist*innen unterbrachen am Vormittag die RBI-Hauptversammlung. Weitere Proteste finden vor der Landesbank NÖ/Wien am Donaukanal sowie vor dem Hauptsitz der RBI beim Stadtpark statt.
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More shareholder questions about RBI's Russian business:

Can RBI specifically respond to the claims set out by recent investigative reports?

What exactly was RBI's original plan to leave Russia? What went wrong?

Now that seeking the bank is impossible, what is RBI's plan B?

While investors continue to ask questions, additional protestors assemble — this time just outside the assembly hall.

Response echoes RBI's generalist responses to journalist queries: It references to compliance policies, but no insight as to how RBI ensures their implementation.

I note insufficient transparency — RBI deleted a website w/ documents showing it has invested in sanctioned Russian entities. No comment

My question to the RBI board:

"Given recent reports on RBI's activities in Russia and the lack of transparency over RBI's Russian operations, how can shareholders be confident that RBI's risk management strategies and human rights policies are being implemented effectively in Russia?"

Another shareholder has stood up to demand an end to RBI's activities in Russia. This time, security immediately evicts them.

Extra security seems to now have been called into the assembly hall.

While the protestor lists RBI's contentious investments, there are shouts from the investors:

"Nobody cares!

We don't care!

We know, it doesn't matter!"

While the protestor lists RBI's contentious investments, there are shouts from the investors:

"Nobody cares!

We don't care!

We know, it doesn't matter!"

A protestor interrupts the AGM, standing up and demanding answers for the bank's continued investments in Lukoil, Gazprom and Sberbank.

After about five minutes, he is forced out of the assembly hall.

Shareholder question to the board:

"Does Raiffeisen Bank International still have effective control over its Russian subsidiary? And if so, how?"

Interesting statement of the RBI-CEO given recent revelations about Raiffeisen Bank Internationals's business in 🇷🇺 @derstandard.at @occrp.org @papertrailmedia.de www.derstandard.de/story/300000...

Strobl on the ongoing legal battle between Raiffeisen Russia and Rasperia Trading:

"Once again, there are a lot of rumours coursing through the media which do not correspond to the facts of the matter"

The second time in ten minutes that RBI casts doubt on media coverage

CEO Johann Strobl:

Russian operations "take up too much space in the public eye" and "distract from the strength of the bank's overall operations."

Hameseder: Recent media coverage "scandalized RBI's Russian operations without any factual basis for doing so."

He emphasizes that the bank has extensive compliance mechanisms in Russia.

He does not offer any evidence to doubt the recent media coverage of RBI's Russian operations.

Hameseder: Recent media coverage "scandalized RBI's Russian operations without any factual basis for doing so."

He emphasizes that the bank has extensive compliance mechanisms in Russia.

He does not offer any evidence to doubt the recent media coverage of RBI's Russian operations.

Hameseder: JSC Raiffeisenbank Ukraine stays "solid as a rock during stormy times."

Hameseder emphasizes, as the bank has done repeatedly, that a full deconsolidation of the bank's Russian unit could be completely cushioned by the bank's current capital reserves.

It raises the question why the bank still refuses to consider fully winding down its Russian operations.

Board Chairman Erwin Hameseder on recent RBI results:

"Raiffeisen Bank International has been caught up in the happenings of geopolitics"