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☆ American VCs Still Have a Lot at Stake in China
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Solar Startup GlassPoint Lands $8 Million After a Reboot
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Silicon Valley Bank Gets Back to Lending, Albeit at Slower Pace
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Silicon Valley Bank, which was recently acquired by First Citizens BancShares, has resumed lending to the startup and venture market, though less aggressively than in the past. SVB’s slowdown in lending is contributing to a sharply decelerating venture-debt market, which means there are fewer sources of financing at the very time more startups are struggling.

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☆ More Startups Throw in the Towel, Unable to Raise Money for Their Ideas
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Russians Relearn Black-Market Tricks to Get Their Money Out
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | Chelsey Dulaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Russia to Curb Draft-Dodging as It Denies Fresh Mobilization Plans
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Matthew Luxmoore | Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Laid-Off Tech Workers Launch ‘Revenge Startups’ Just as Money Dries Up
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Venture-capital investors, as recently as last year, used to seek out founders who were quitting their tech jobs to launch their own businesses. Now that mass layoffs are pushing many people down the entrepreneurial path, venture investors have grown stingier. More than 330,000 people have lost their jobs at tech companies since early 2022, with some 168,000 job losses this year, according to data tracker Layoffs.fyi.

☆ Russian Official Accused of Deporting Ukrainian Children Addresses U.N.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Russian official accused by the International Criminal Court of overseeing the forced deportation of Ukrainian children from Russian-held territory spoke at the United Nations over the protests of more than 50 countries on Wednesday. The remarks by Maria Lvova-Belova , commissioner for children’s rights in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s office, at an informal meeting of the U.N. Security Council, were denounced by the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, Germany and dozens of other countries, which said Russia was abusing its privileges as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council. The U.S. and U.K. blocked Ms. Lvova-Belova’s remarks from running on the U.N. webcast.

The Russian media landscape in which Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich worked is far different and more dangerous than the one in which he and other Western journalists operated before last year’s invasion of Ukraine. Mr. Gershkovich has been detained since Wednesday by Russian authorities, who accuse him of espionage. His arrest, while on a reporting trip in the city of Yekaterinburg, around 800 miles east of Moscow, marks the first detention of an American journalist for allegations of spying since the Cold War. The Journal denied the allegations, and the Biden administration condemned the detention.

☆ Silicon Valley Bridge Bank to Ease Deposit Rules, Some Customers Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Startups and investors say the newly created entity that took over from Silicon Valley Bank is offering some flexibility when it comes to deposit requirements for borrowers. Silicon Valley Bridge Bank NA in individual instances is easing a provision that startups must keep all of their capital with the bank as part of their loan agreements, borrowers and investors say. The bank is also moving to forgo penalties for borrowers who moved money out of the bank in recent days, in technical violation of their borrowing covenants.

☆ Fintechs Saw Demand Surge as SVB Implosion Left Clients Scrambling
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A has left startups and venture firms scrambling, but one group of startups has benefited in recent days. Banking startups saw a surge of demand from SVB Financial Group customers who were seeking new places to park their money until the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced early Friday that it had taken control of SVB via a new bank it created called the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara. Venture-backed...

Silicon Valley Bank, which collapsed Friday, had grown over four decades to become a linchpin of tech investing. Startup investors scrambled over the weekend to help their portfolio companies meet immediate expenses and to shore up their own access to cash after Friday’s federal seizure of Silicon Valley Bank made some money inaccessible. Venture-capital giant Andreessen Horowitz said it was helping founders of startups it has invested in find new banks and identify financing alternatives. Other venture leaders also said they were funding payroll for now at their portfolio companies that didn’t move cash out of SVB before it was taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Friday morning.

☆ Russia Finds a New Target: Maps That Still Mark Crimea as Ukraine’s
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

MOSCOW—It could soon be an offense here to print any maps that don’t label Crimea and other parts of Ukraine as Russian territory. After waves of clampdowns and arrests, the Kremlin is again tightening the screws on any opposition to the war by backing a legislative amendment that would make it illegal to publish any maps that fail to mark as Russian land the peninsula and four other Ukrainian territories that Moscow says it annexed. Anyone who does could be fined up to 1 million rubles, or around $14,500, or spend 15 days in jail under proposals that have already received preliminary approval. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday that although there are many questions about how to go about it, “it’s clear that all maps must be changed.”

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried’s Supersized Bet: $1 Billion for a Bitcoin Miner on the Kazakh Steppe
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Eliot Brown | Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Just before crypto markets plunged last year, Sam Bankman-Fried ’s hedge fund made a $1 billion bet on Genesis Digital Assets, a Cyprus-registered bitcoin miner rigged to consume a small city’s worth of electricity in Kazakhstan. The cash injection from Mr. Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research LLC was supersized even for the red-hot crypto startup world, and it dwarfed the FTX founder’s other investments in private companies.

After a string of battlefield losses in Ukraine in recent months, President Vladimir Putin faces a big test at home: mobilizing Russia’s economy to feed the war effort. Russian officials have crisscrossed the country to increase production and replenish dwindling stockpiles of missiles and other munitions. State budget data from the Russian Ministry of Finance shows defense expenditures rising this year by around 30% compared with 2021 to around $78 billion and increasing further next year to around $82.5 billion.

☆ FTX Collapse Pushes VCs to Rethink Oversight of Crypto Startups
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | Angus Loten | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The bankruptcy of FTX, one of the highest-valued startups in the cryptocurrency market, is bringing new attention to the corporate governance of these blockchain companies. But venture investors say cultural norms in the crypto market and other obstacles will make oversight difficult to implement. “Many crypto entrepreneurs look at governance with disdain,” said Salil Deshpande, general partner at Uncorrelated Ventures, an early-stage investment firm that sometimes invests in the crypto sector.

☆ Departure of Tech Workers Weighs on Russian Economy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A second exodus of Russian tech workers, spurred by the September military mobilization, is emerging as a drag on an economy already struggling with lower energy prices. President Vladimir Putin‘s order to mobilize 300,000 men made businesses and consumers cautious about spending, at least temporarily, as they watched employees leave for the military or to the borders to escape the draft.

☆ Russian State Media Amplify Kremlin’s ‘Dirty Bomb’ Accusations About Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of supplying Ukraine with weapons while ignoring its plan to use a dirty bomb. MOSCOW—Russian state media are amplifying the Kremlin’s accusation that Ukraine plans to detonate a so-called dirty bomb and blame Moscow for it, in what analysts say is an effort to rally domestic support for the Kremlin’s military campaign in Ukraine. In a series of recent calls with U.S., European and Turkish counterparts, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Ukraine may deploy a dirty bomb, which could combine conventional explosives with radioactive materials.

☆ Russia’s Top Ukraine Commander Sees Invasion Faltering in South, but Missile Strikes Take Toll on Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Thomas Grove | Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia’s top military commander in Ukraine signaled Moscow’s hold on the southern city of Kherson was weakening, and Ukraine said Russian strikes since last week had knocked out some 30% of its power-plant infrastructure, raising concerns of countrywide blackouts. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the recently appointed commander of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, gave a rare pessimistic take of his invading forces’ position, telling state television Tuesday that the situation in Kherson “is not at all easy right now” and that the priority in the south was preserving civilians and military personnel.

☆ Russia’s Top Ukraine Commander Sees Invasion Faltering in South
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Thomas Grove | Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia’s top military commander in Ukraine gave a rare pessimistic take of his invading forces’ position, suggesting their hold on the southern city of Kherson was weakening. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the recently appointed commander of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, told state television Tuesday that the situation in Kherson “is not at all easy right now” and that the priority in the south was preserving civilians and military personnel.

☆ Russia’s Putin Seeks to Escalate With Ukraine Strikes as Pressure Builds at Home
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Alan Cullison | Yuliya Chernova | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

President Vladimir Putin’s missile strikes on cities throughout Ukraine Monday drew condemnation from the West but praise from a growing chorus in Russia—critics who say that Moscow, despite the brutality of its invasion, hasn’t shown enough toughness. Speaking hours after one of the broadest and most intense barrages of the war, Mr. Putin said Russia responded to a weekend attack on a key bridge that links Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow illegally seized in 2014, to Russia. Mr. Putin warned of a harsh response if Kyiv were to conduct further “terrorist attacks.”

A costly troop mobilization, plunging energy prices and a new round of Western sanctions threaten to bear down on Russia’s already embattled economy and undermine the financial underpinnings of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. The economic storm clouds come as Mr. Putin orders more financial resources directed at the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin’s decision to call up more than 300,000 soldiers will require new funds to equip, train and pay the new reinforcements, analysts said. It has also spread disruption among Russia’s private businesses, which face a fresh challenge as workers report for duty or flee the country.

MOSCOW—Russians began reporting to military collection points in the thousands while others tried to flee the country as it emerged that the call-up for troops to fight in President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine could be wider than initially thought. Road traffic surged at border points leading out of Russia on Thursday, according to local media reports, and airline tickets are now sold out for days after Mr. Putin announced the call-up on Wednesday. At least four Russian regions announced that they had barred exit for men without the approval of their local military recruitment offices.

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