内容摘要：Tea plays a meaningful role in many societies. From Tibetan po cha to a good old English breakfast brew, tea is considered a unifying and hospitable beverage.

Tea plays a meaningful role in many societies. From Tibetan po cha to a good old English breakfast brew, tea is considered a unifying and hospitable beverage.

In Russian supermarkets, popular food brands such as Coca-Cola, Lipton, Lindt, Geisha, Tchibo and Pringles are still displayed on shelves despite officially exiting the country.Russian shoppers can still clean their toilets with Bref and wash their clothes with Persil detergent.

L’Occitane cosmetics are being sold under a new Cyrillic name at the French brand’s former stores in Russia, which were sold to a local buyer after the invasion.Other popular beauty brands such as Syoss, Schwarzkopf and Chanel - all of which officially pulled out of Russia - are sold openly in major cosmetics chain stores.Some categories of goods appear to have been affected by the brand exodus more than others.

After car brands including Mercedes, BMW, Rolls Royce, Nisan, Kia and Ford exited Russia, auto sales in the country fell by 59 percent in 2022, according to the Association of European Businesses.While sales began to recover in 2023, Chinese manufacturers’ share of the market rose to about 50 percent, compared with less than 10 percent before the invasion.

Meanwhile, the average price of a new car rose by 17 percent in 2023, according to the online marketplace and analytics provider Auto.ru.

Major brands such as Audi, Mercedes and BMW continue to be on sale at large auto dealers like Rolf, albeit sometimes at inflated prices.The Trump family is now deeply invested in crypto, with ventures like First Lady Melania Trump’s coin and a stake in World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency firm founded in 2024.

While government officials have financial disclosure requirements, and regulatory agencies can monitor the goings-on of officials, critics have warned of conflicts of interest, as Trump backs crypto after once opposing it, potentially using policy to boost his own gains.By offering security and counterterrorism courses to students from repressive regimes without appropriate checks, British institutions risk complicity in torture.

Across the UK, pro-Palestinian protests in reaction to the war in Gaza have placed universities’ response to human rights concerns under the spotlight. But concerns about links between Britain’s higher education institutions and human rights abuses are not limited to one area.A new investigation by Freedom from Torture has found that UK universities are offering postgraduate security and counterterrorism education to members of foreign security forces, including those serving some of the world’s most repressive regimes. These institutions are offering training to state agents without scrutinising their human rights records, or pausing to consider how British expertise might end up being exploited to silence, surveil or torture.