That mass turnover could make an already inefficient judicial system worse, he warned. “It takes time to build consistency and regularity in conflict resolution."
All goods that enter Russia, whether through official distribution channels or as parallel imports, must be declared to customs, which records information including the name of the shipper, the consignee and the quantity of the shipment.While customs data does not formally distinguish between imports based on whether they were authorised by the manufacturer, importing companies that have no official relationship with the manufacturer are an indication of parallel imports.
In the weeks after the invasion, shipments of iPhones to Russia virtually ceased.Only about 200kg (440 pounds) of the devices - the equivalent of about 400 iPhones - were imported into Russia in the first three months after the invasion, according to Russian import data provided by Import Genius, compared with about 200 tonnes in January 2022 alone.By summer, shipments began to slowly recover. But imports never returned to pre-invasion levels, peaking at about one-third of that amount at the end of 2022, before declining again over the following six months.
“Apple stopped selling products in Russia in March 2022 and there’s been no change since then”, Apple told Al Jazeera in a statement, declining to comment on unofficial distribution channels.Products produced by Apple’s competitor, Samsung, which also announced a suspension of exports after the invasion, followed a similar pattern, with shipments effectively stopping in April before recovering significantly by the end of 2022.
In January 2022, about 351 tonnes of Samsung devices were imported into Russia, according to customs data, compared with only 19kg (41 pounds) in April.
By October, shipments rebounded to about 135 tonnes, before again going into decline during 2023.PBS was joined as a plaintiff by one of its stations, Lakeland PBS, which serves rural areas in northern and central Minnesota. Trump’s order is an “existential threat” to the station, the lawsuit said.
A PBS spokesman said that “after careful deliberation, PBS reached the conclusion that it was necessary to take legal action to safeguard public television’s editorial independence, and to protect the autonomy of PBS member stations”.executive order earlier this month
, Trump told the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and federal agencies to stop funding the two systems. Through the corporation alone, PBS is receiving $325m this year, most of which goes directly to individual stations.The White House deputy press secretary, Harrison Fields, said the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is creating media to support a particular political party on the taxpayers’ dime.