# Russia’s central bank says the pandemic has accelerated regulators’ interest in CBDCs

# Russia’s central bank says the pandemic has accelerated regulators’ interest in CBDCs

“# Russia’s central bank says the pandemic has accelerated regulators’ interest in CBDCs ” The COVID-19 pandemic has served both as an x-ray onto existing vulnerabilities in the global financial system, and as an accelerator for destabilizing tendencies, including higher sovereign and consumer debt in emerging markets. At an online meeting of the Central Bank…

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#The powder keg that is Armenia versus Azerbaijan

#The powder keg that is Armenia versus Azerbaijan

“#The powder keg that is Armenia versus Azerbaijan” Image of the Week: The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh was a bomb waiting to go off. It’s been that way for centuries. If you wanted to explain the current Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict, where would you begin? Would you start with the election held this spring by the self-declared (and…

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