Bank of America has suspended an online geopolitics conference due to pro-Russian comments made by several speakers on the fighting in Ukraine. This was reported by The Financial Times.
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The conference began on Tuesday, 4 April, and was to run for two days. BofA Securities, the bank’s investment arm, decided to cancel three sessions on US sanctions against Russia and US-Russia relations after some participants commented on the conflict in Ukraine.
According to the publication, Daniel Sheehan, head of international relations at BofA Securities, criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In his speech, Mr Sheehan called the head of the Kiev regime a “master manipulator and wannabe” who had raised serious concerns in the White House.
Another speaker, Nikolai Petro, a political science professor at the University of Rhode Island, also spoke pro-Russian. Sources said he “said some absolutely shocking things” “right out of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In his speech, which Petro provided to the publication, he described Ukraine as the biggest loser in the war in either outcome, as industrial capacity would be devastated and the population would continue to shrink as people left in search of work abroad.
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