WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on Feb. 5, 2026: * * * How Crypto Funds Russia's War Russia's use of cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions has exposed a gap in the international community's attempts to throttle Moscow's war machine. By Sergiy Makogon The emergence of the A7A5 stablecoin represents a transformative shift in global financial evasion. Until now, the international community has relied on the dominance of the US dollar more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (TNSrep) -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on Feb. 5, 2026: * * * Meeting Europe's Data Challenge For Europe to catch up to the US and China, it needs to ease access to data. By Pedro Tavares and Gustavo Magalhaes While the US scaled digital platforms and China industrialized data, the European Union focused on an alphabet soup of regulations. The General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Governance Act, the Data Act, the Open  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on Feb. 5, 2026: * * * Russia-Azerbaijan: Relations Back on the Rocks The Kremlin's idea of a rapprochement is very different to Baku's. By Emil Avdaliani Tensions between Azerbaijan and Russia persist, and this despite the tacit rapprochement that materialized as a result of the meeting between the presidents of the two countries in October in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. During the talks, held on the  more PR

HONG KONG, Feb. 5 -- The University of Hong Kong issued the following news release: * * * HKUMed reveals end-of-life communication gaps, urges enhanced communication training alongside Hong Kong's new 'Advance Medical Directives' legislation * As Hong Kong moves towards implementing landmark legislation to protect people's end-of-life care wishes, a research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has developed and tested a pioneering tool to improve cruci more PR

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Feb. 5 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Taft, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Munur to Present at Ohio State Business Law Journal 2026 Symposium * Taft Columbus partner Mehmet Munur will present "AI Governance: Contracts, Compliance, and Risk Controls" at the Ohio State Business Law Journal 2026 Symposium on Feb. 13. Throughout the presentation, Munur and his co-presenter will explore the frameworks and regulations moderating AI development and use, along with more PR

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, Feb. 5 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * New paper urges caution as FDA plans to phase out animal testing in drug development * CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Replacing animal testing with alternate methodologies in preclinical drug trials holds potential for the development of cheaper, safer pharmaceuticals as well as alleviating animal suffering. But according to a new paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign  more PR