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A view of a destroyed bridge in the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 8, 2022.Sergei Supinsky鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesBy Jasmine AguileraMarch 9, 2022 9:00 AM ESTAs world leaders attempt to isolate and punish Russia with sanctions and trade bans for its invasion of Ukraine, a handful of American academics are pushing a more unconventional idea: the United States and Europe should offer refuge to Russian soldiers who defect and surrender.Peter Schuck, a former Yale Law School professor, and Ilya Somin, a George Mason Universit stanley cup y Anontin Scalia Law School, each published op-eds on the subjectmdash;in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, respectivelymdash;and Timur Kuran, an economist at Duke University tweeted the idea on Feb. 26. Donrsquo;t assume Russian soldiers and officers like what they are doing, he wrote. Some 8230;must be willing to break ranks, if only they have options. Let [European Union] and NATO countries offer asylum to Russian military defectors.Michelle Mittelstadt, director of communications at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research institution, says it an idea countries should consider. Countries should certainly offer safe harbor to Russians who run afoul of the Russian government and have protection needs, she says.How exactly it would work is another question.Offering this type of stanley cup protection would most likely have to happen in Europe, not the U.S., stanley cup Mittelstadt says. T Ywej Pakistan Factory Collapse Kills at Least 16
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla, waves while departing court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Del. on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.Al Drago鈥揃loomberg/Getty ImagesBy Anders Melin/Bloombe adidas campus rgNovember 10, 2021 8:16 PM ESTTesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk unloaded stock in the electric car-maker, shortly after holding a poll on Twitter over whether he should sell 10% of his jordan massive stake in the company.The worldrsquo richest person on Nov. 8 exercised 2.15 million options at a price of $6.24 per contract, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. He subsequently sold 934,000 shares to collect about $1.1 billion.The shares were sold ldquo olely to satisfy the reporting personrsquo tax withholding obligations related to the exercise of stock options, the filing said. It also showed that the transactions were made based on a pre-arranged trading plan adopted in mid-September.The contracts, which came from a stock option award Musk received in nike dunk 2012, were set to expire in August of next year, meaning he would have had to exercise them before then. Exercises of such contracts trigger income taxes, which usually are covered by immediately disposing of some of the newly acquired shares.At companies with a loyal following, like Tesla, executive share sales tend to draw scrutiny by fans and critics alike. Musk, who earlier this year had said he would likely exercise the options in the near future, may have avoided potential criticism by launching the pol
A view of a destroyed bridge in the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 8, 2022.Sergei Supinsky鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesBy Jasmine AguileraMarch 9, 2022 9:00 AM ESTAs world leaders attempt to isolate and punish Russia with sanctions and trade bans for its invasion of Ukraine, a handful of American academics are pushing a more unconventional idea: the United States and Europe should offer refuge to Russian soldiers who defect and surrender.Peter Schuck, a former Yale Law School professor, and Ilya Somin, a George Mason Universit stanley cup y Anontin Scalia Law School, each published op-eds on the subjectmdash;in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, respectivelymdash;and Timur Kuran, an economist at Duke University tweeted the idea on Feb. 26. Donrsquo;t assume Russian soldiers and officers like what they are doing, he wrote. Some 8230;must be willing to break ranks, if only they have options. Let [European Union] and NATO countries offer asylum to Russian military defectors.Michelle Mittelstadt, director of communications at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research institution, says it an idea countries should consider. Countries should certainly offer safe harbor to Russians who run afoul of the Russian government and have protection needs, she says.How exactly it would work is another question.Offering this type of stanley cup protection would most likely have to happen in Europe, not the U.S., stanley cup Mittelstadt says. T Ywej Pakistan Factory Collapse Kills at Least 16
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla, waves while departing court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Del. on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.Al Drago鈥揃loomberg/Getty ImagesBy Anders Melin/Bloombe adidas campus rgNovember 10, 2021 8:16 PM ESTTesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk unloaded stock in the electric car-maker, shortly after holding a poll on Twitter over whether he should sell 10% of his jordan massive stake in the company.The worldrsquo richest person on Nov. 8 exercised 2.15 million options at a price of $6.24 per contract, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. He subsequently sold 934,000 shares to collect about $1.1 billion.The shares were sold ldquo olely to satisfy the reporting personrsquo tax withholding obligations related to the exercise of stock options, the filing said. It also showed that the transactions were made based on a pre-arranged trading plan adopted in mid-September.The contracts, which came from a stock option award Musk received in nike dunk 2012, were set to expire in August of next year, meaning he would have had to exercise them before then. Exercises of such contracts trigger income taxes, which usually are covered by immediately disposing of some of the newly acquired shares.At companies with a loyal following, like Tesla, executive share sales tend to draw scrutiny by fans and critics alike. Musk, who earlier this year had said he would likely exercise the options in the near future, may have avoided potential criticism by launching the pol